‘We won’t let Chase Farm close’
ENFIELD residents told News Line yesterday: we won’t let Chase Farm close! Stuart Hasler, a young Enfield resident, who joined in the campaigning and gave...
THE RETREAT FROM SANGIN! – British army suffers major defeat
BRITISH forces in Afghanistan have handed over responsibility for security in Sangin to US forces, marking the defeat of their four-year mission in...
129 Million Americans Face Losing Health Coverage
Without the Affordable Care Act, up to 129 million non-elderly Americans who have some type of pre-existing health condition, like heart disease, high blood...
Pensions Battle Ahead!
THE NUT and ATL teachers unions announced overwhelming votes for strike action yesterday, against the coalition government’s massive attacks on their pensions. In the...
US sends warships to Egypt
The US is sending warships, including one with 800 troops, and other military assets to Egypt as the revolution in the North African country...
LABOUR ‘NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE’ – NUJ leader Jeremy Dear tells Defend Public Services...
OPENING the ‘Public Services Not Private Profit’ rally yesterday, John McDonnell MP said: ‘Today is the largest and broadest lobby of parliament for decades....
£900m PFI COLLAPSE!
‘WE absolutely call for pfi to be abandoned, it is a failed system which is costing the nhs billions,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told ...
BBC strikes ‘suspended’ but mass sackings to continue
IN a major climbdown the BBC trade union leaders have suspended, ie cancelled, next week’s 48-hour BBC strike and will be holding a meeting...
‘We will not be blackmailed’–Athens workers
SOME 10,000 workers and their families gathered outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) last Thursday evening in Athens in protest against the European Central Bank’s...
Israeli Missile Attack On Gaza
Yesterday afternoon, Israeli military forces attacked Gaza from the land, sea and air. Aircraft launched two missile strikes against the Palestinian presidential headquarters in Gaza...
BA Pensions Ballot!
Details emerged yesterday of a deal, yet to be agreed by workers, which means the end of final salary pensions at British Airways. The TGWU...
‘Scrap NHS Hit Squads’
Health campaigners, the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday accused the government of wasting millions of pounds of...
Asylum System ‘Shame On UK’
The most comprehensive examination of the UK’s asylum system ever conducted has found it ‘marred by inhumanity’ and ‘not yet fit for purpose’. An interim...
London’s Postal Workers Out Tomorrow
More than ten thousand postal workers in all areas of deliveries, collections and processing across London will take industrial action for 24 hours starting...
BA pilots strike!
BALPA (British Airline Pilots Association) yesterday gave notice to British Airways that it calls on its members to strike on 9th, 10th and 27th...
Mass Picket At Gate Gourmet
There was a big picket of over 200 locked out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow airport yesterday. Locked out worker Ramesh told News Line:...
Stop Sidcup NHS Closing
THERE was uproar in south-east London yesterday, after the announcement of plans to shut the Accident and Emergency and maternity departments at Queen Mary’s,...
‘A SLAP IN THE FACE FOR SENIOR DOCTORS’ – awarded just 1% ‘wage rise’...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday said it was astonished at the vindictive and petty treatment of consultants by the government awarding them a...
TEACHERS STRIKE ‘A NOBLE PURPOSE’ – says NEU leader Courtney
HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers, university workers, civil servants and transport workers are striking in the biggest strike day in more than a decade...
Gate Gourmet Conference Campaign Going Well
GATE Gourmet workers held a successful campaign yesterday for the News Line/Gate Gourmet-Locked-Out Workers Conference on the 29th January. They visited Greenford Council depot and...
UNIVERSITIES GOING BUST! – UCU condemns barbaric plans
More universities risk going bust under the government’s proposals to axe teaching budgets and replace the money with higher student fees, according to a...
No Jobs For 80% Of Nurse Graduates!
‘Student nurses are frustrated, angry and disillusioned because of the difficulties they face finding jobs as deficits bite,’ said UNISON, the UK’s largest health...
GMB exposes venture capitalist
The GMB trade union yesterday launched a campaign outside Holy Trinity Church, Clapham Common, south London, to stop venture capitalists asset-stripping the AA. The...
France Paralysed!
France was brought to a halt yesterday as over a million state employees went on strike, joining a week-long stoppage by transport workers. Teachers,...
Hands Off Child Benefits!
TEACHERS’ unions and children’s charities yesterday condemned government plans to raid the Child Benefits of families whose children have unauthorised absences from school. Tory-LibDem coalition...
GM CRISIS – Mandelson rules out Luton nationalisation
BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson emerged from his meeting with union officials and the top General Motors management in Luton yesterday unable to guarantee the...
6,000 youth march against Golden Dawn
OVER 6,000 youth and workers demonstrated last Saturday evening throughout the Athens city centre against a rally organised by the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party....
N Ireland health workers strike!
NURSES in the RCN union came out on strike for the first time in the union’s 103-year history in the north of Ireland yesterday,...
Wrp Election Office Opens
WALTHAMSTOW’S WRP election premises were opened on Thursday evening to a loud cheer from campaigners and supporters who had gathered outside the shop. Workers Revolutionary...
REINSTATE OUR STRIKES! – CWU members tell leaders
THE Communication Workers Union (CWU) sent out a letter to its branches yesterday, declaring that Royal Mail was prepared to impose ‘change’ on the...
Stop NHS Cuts And Closures
Public sector union Unison yesterday slammed a demand from foundation trust (FT) regulator, Monitor, that NHS hospitals make at least 50 per cent bigger...
Over Five Years In The Black Hole Of Bagram
‘These two men have been held in appalling conditions for five years, and for all that time the British government chose to do nothing,’...
Tottenham Public Meeting: Quit EU on October 31! – October 23rd, 2019
News Line & Workers Revolutionary Party Public meetings: Trade unions must act to make sure we quit EU on October 31st!
For a workers government and...
Medical Student Fees Could Reach £57,000 – Bma
New medical students are likely to graduate with debts of £37,000 warns a new British Medical Association (BMA) report published today. The BMA says this...
Sylvester Killing – No Action Against Police
THE family of Roger Sylvester are disappointed but not surprised by the decision of the Independent Police Complaints Commission that the police officers involved...
‘NO-ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW’ – Blair-Goldsmith indicted by judgement
‘We believe that no-one should be above the law, not arms dealers, not Saudi princes, not government ministers’, said Symon Hill of Campaign Against...
STOP BskyB TAKEOVER!
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been forced to delay any decision on the BSkyB takeover by News International until September, it emerged yesterday. This was...
IRISH WORKERS SIT-IN – Fighting 90 redundancies
WORKERS are occupying the Calcast car parts factory in Campsie, just outside Derry in the north of Ireland. The plant, a subsidiary of the...
£23bn PROFIT FROM NHS – being made by PFI companies
Banks and developers will make £23 billion in profits and interest over the next 30 years by building NHS hospitals under the government’s Private...
‘I WOULD DO THE SAME AGAIN’ says Flt Lt Kendall-Smith
An RAF doctor found guilty yesterday of disobeying orders at a court martial after he refused to serve in Iraq, is to appeal against...
REJECT PENSIONS SELL-OUT call at UNISON Conference
UNISON leaders came under fire from angry delegates at the union’s National Delegate Conference yesterday, over their decision to call off the local government...
Gaza Protest Youth Being Jailed
THE whole trade union movement must demand the immediate release of young protesters jailed over the Gaza demonstrations last year – and the dropping...
Gate Gourmet Pickets Join Terminal 5 Strikers
WHILST out campaigning yesterday, Gate Gourmet workers, now locked out for almost six months, spoke out very angrily about the unsigned letter just received...
Crisis Pre-Budget
Britain has had to face ‘the toughest and most challenging year for the economy’ in which it has seen predicted economic growth halved to...
Tribunal Fees A Denial Of Justice!
GMB members will hold a protest outside the Central London Employment Tribunals to coincide with the introduction of Employment Tribunal fees on Monday, 29th...