Junior Doctors ‘Won’t Be Slaves!’

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IN just three days last week, 1,644 doctors applied to work abroad, the General Medical Council confirmed yesterday. The surge in applications began last week...

‘What gives Israel rights to annex these lands?’ – Abbas addresses UNSC

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‘WHAT GIVES you the right to annex these lands?’ Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas demanded, referring to Israel’s plan to seize even more of Palestine...

MURDER AT STOCKWELL – Police shoot to death unarmed Asian youth

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YESTERDAY plain clothes police shot dead an unarmed Asian youth with five bullets to the head at Stockwell Underground station. He was shot at close...
Youth demanding justice for the Grenfell inferno victims on last Tuesday’s silent march through North Kensington

71 died in Grenfell inferno! says Police Commander Cundy

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THE POLICE have claimed that the final death toll for Grenfell Tower is seventy one and have for the first time admitted that CCTV...

NURSES DRIVEN OUT – Low pay & axing bursary has caused 37,821 vacancies

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THERE are now 37,821 nurse vacancies in the NHS, NHS England confirmed yesterday, releasing the latest data. This is a rise of 1,738 from the...
Young workers at the front of last Saturday’s NHSTogether march in Trafalgar Square. Youth will not submit to forced labour

No Forced Labour For Youth!

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Education Secretary Ed Balls yesterday announced plans to compel all 16-18 youth to take part in full-time education or training by 2013. The government plans...

49 Labour MPs call for a Gaza ceasefire now!

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NEARLY a quarter of Labour MPs have called fora ceasefire in Gaza. Forty-nine of the party’s 199 MPs have either said they want a ceasefire...

89 Prison Suicides In 2015

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EIGHTY-NINE people took their own lives in prisons during 2015 as the suicide rate behind bars remained at an alarmingly high level, figures...

OIC condemns Israel for rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state!

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THE Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval of a bill rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state, viewing...
BMA GPs committee member BETH McCARRON-NASH, GPs committee chairman Dr LAURENCE BUCKMAN, GPs committee member Dr PRIT BUTTAR, and BMA Patient Liason Group member NATALIE TEICH before handing in a 1,236,085-signature petition to Downing Street

DARZAI MUST RESIGN! – says the GPs conference!

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FAMILY doctors yesterday expressed their furious opposition to privately-run polyclinics and voted to take ‘unprecedented action’ in response to ‘unprecedented political threats to general...
Athens University students marching on the May Day demonstration

Greek Decree For Mass Sackings & Wage Cuts

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The Greek government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou has unveiled the contents of a Presidential Decree which would allow for mass sackings, at half...

INJUSTICE! – Clarke orders Babar Ahmad extradition

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Babar Ahmad has called ‘for this injustice to be avenged’ after Home Secretary Charles Clarke ordered his extradition to America to face trumped up...

YOU DID IT! – BMA congratulates resident doctors on 90% strike vote

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‘YOU did It!’ the British Medical Association said in a message to resident doctor members yesterday. ‘A resounding majority of you voted in favour...
The huge enthusiastic crowds that turned out to demonstrate and vote ‘NO’ shook the centrist Syriza leadership to its foundations

Tsipras Turning ‘No’ Vote Into ‘Yes’!

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GREEK Prime Minister and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras initiated a meeting of all the political parties’ leaders in Athens on Monday. A ‘joint statement’, issued...

Tory Crisis Deepens As Parliament Returns

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LIZ TRUSS returns to Parliament for the first time as Prime Minister today, amidst a bubbling rebellion of MPs and economists who are aghast...

Labour Health Sec Streeting launches new attack on NHS

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LABOUR Health Secretary Wes Streeting yesterday launched a new attack on the NHS. While he noted the King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust survey reveals the...

HOME OFFICE CAN’T STARVE REFUGEES – Law Lords reject Blunkett’s law

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Homeless charity Shelter and the Refugee Council yesterday both welcomed the Law Lords’ unanimous rejection of the controversial law pushed through by former Home...

Doctors defy Starmer’s ‘48 hours to call off strike’ threat

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THE British Medical Association has responded defiantly to Labour PM Starmer’s threat to break his pledge to train 1,000 new doctors unless the union...

NUS gives full support for university strikes!

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THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) threw its weight behind the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses yesterday. The NUS pledged its solid...
Relatives who lost loved ones at the hands of the British army and Sinn Fein MEP, Bairbre de Brun, and West Belfast Assembly member Jennifer McCann at the press conference

‘CALL OFF BRITISH ARMY PARADE THROUGH BELFAST’ by John Coulter

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Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún and MLA for West Belfast Jennifer McCann were joined by family members, who have lost loved ones at...

Corbyn ‘sorry’ for big losses

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BOTH Labour and Tory parties have faced rejection at the ballot box in the English council elections over their Brexit betrayal, with smaller parties...

TUC must act to free Assange says father

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JOHN SHIPTON yesterday called for the TUC to take up the fight for the release of his son, Julian Assange, and prevent his extradition...
Doctors on the NHS 70th Anniversary march rightly insist they will refuse to check the immigration status of their patients

Stop charging non-UK citizens for NHS – demands new report from Maternity Action

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‘THE GOVERNMENT should immediately suspend charging for NHS maternity care,’ for non-UK residents, concludes a new report released yesterday from Maternity Action. The report, called...
Disabled protest against private company Maximus taking over disability assessment testing

Disabled condemn ‘pre-conference spin’

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‘THIS is just pre-conference spin to try to improve the Tories toxic reputation on their shabby treatment of disabled people,’ said Disabled People Against...
Students marching for a future show they understand what has to be cut

Buy A University Place Fury!

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THERE was massive anger yesterday after the Tory-led coalition announced its plan to enable the rich to purchase a university place for...

TASERS FOR ALL OFFICERS! says East Midlands Chief Constable

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EVERY frontline police officer in Northamptonshire is to be armed with a Taser gun, the East Midlands county’s Chief Constable Nick Adderley announced yesterday. Adderley...

Starmer beats war drums at Scottish Labour Party Conference!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer beat the war drums at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Glasgow yesterday. He said that ‘we can’t cling...

Passengers ‘lives at risk’ without guards

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A DERAILMENT in Lewisham south London is a case in point about why guards must be kept on the trains, transport union RMT said...

Widespread winter blackouts! – nine power stations are to close

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WITH nine power stations closing, the GMB warned yesterday about government ‘complacency’ and potential ‘widespread power blackouts’. The government’s secret plans, called ‘Operation Black Start’,...

Obama OKs murder of US citizens by drones

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A JUST-LEAKED United States Justice Department memo gives details of the ‘legal basis’ for authorising unmanned drone strikes to kill American citizens abroad. The document,...

Right-Wing Mobs Take To Arms In Ukraine

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As well as Lviv, the occupation of government buildings by anti-government activists and confrontations with police were reported yesterday in the western cities of...
North Est London Council of Action picket of Chase farm Hospital yesterday morning

‘we Won’t Let Chase Farm Close!’

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‘WE’RE not going to let Chase Farm close,’ Bill Rogers, North East London Council of Action Secretary told News Line yesterday at a lively...
Morale was high on the  picket line at Kings Cross

RMT action supported by Londoners

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‘ROCK SOLID,’ said RMT leader Bob Crow about yesterday’s and today’s 48-hour strike by London Underground RMT and TSSA members. Thousands of Tube drivers and...

DID YOU APPROVE A CHANGE TO SHOOT TO KILL? – Blair dodges reporter’s question

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‘Did you ever discuss or approve a change in the rules of engagement for British police to shoot to kill, shoot in the head...

UBS fined for mortgage mis-selling

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UBS is paying a 700 million Swiss francs ($745 million) fine to settle a case over its mis-selling of mortgage-backed securities to Fannie Mae...

TORTURE! – Iraqi puppet police are accused of killings at secret detention centr

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The British Foreign Office said yesterday it was ‘aware of and deeply concerned’ by reports that Iraqi police commandos, the allies of British forces...

Death toll from Israel’s genocidal war has now reached 48,329!

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DURING the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 14 martyrs, who had been reported missing during the war,...

Benefit cutter ATOS faces strike action

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ATOS, an Olympics sponsor at the centre of the government’s controversial cuts to disability benefits, faces industrial action during the Games by Public...

Banks ‘In A State Of Fear And Loathing’

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The exposure of the UK to the US sub-prime loans crisis will push up mortgage rates in the UK, a former Bank of England...
Junior doctors are determined to proceed with their five-day strikes

Bma Votes To Proceed With Five-Day Strikes!

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DESPITE enormous pressure being piled onto the junior doctors to capitulate and either shorten their strikes or call them off altogether, the BMA has...
London Overground Travel Safe officers in the RMT are fighting for sick pay, job security and proper contracts

RMT Names Overground Strike Dates!

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RAIL union RMT confirmed yesterday that London Overground guards will take strike action, together with an overtime ban, for 48 hours over the coming...

Call Off The Talks!

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‘Our union executive should immediately call off the talks with Royal Mail until the threats of redundancy, total flexibility, and attacks on our pension...
Teachers, pupils and parents taking part in last Friday’s ‘Fair Funding for All Schools’ national mobilsation

Teaching Assistants face sack!

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THE GMB union will consult members in Brighton schools as to what action to take as 51 Teaching Assistant redundancies loom with many facing...

‘National action to defend university jobs’ demand London Met strikers

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LONDON Metropolitan University lecturers are back on their picket lines today and tomorrow, having picketed yesterday to emphasise they are stepping up the fight...
Section of the rally in central Athens during the recent public sector national strike

MAY DAY MANIFESTO – ‘Permanent state of Revolution!’ says Greek dockers’ leader

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THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers of the world at a time of the greatest ever...