Jean Charles de Menezes – HELD DOWN AND SHOT SEVEN TIMES!
Harrowing video clips of Jean Charles de Menezes’ body in a pool of blood, after being shot seven times in the head at point...
Heathrow security guards OK 33 strike dates over 3 months!
OVER 2,000 security guards at Heathrow Airport are holding a further 33 days of strike action throughout the summer. The 33 days of strike action...
Barts To Cut Nurses!
Barts and London NHS Trust is planning to reduce the proportion of qualified nurses on its wards as part of a two-year programme of...
Chase Farm closure anger!
THE NORTH EAST London Council of Action won big support yesterday at the picket of Chase Farm Hospital with its demand that the hospital...
KERRY THREATENS RUSSIA says ‘you must disarm Separatists’
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on Russia to show ‘within hours’ that it is ‘working to disarm separatist militants’ in eastern...
Gaza Youth Trials Picket
‘MY BROTHER is a political prisoner. He was due to go to university this year, but instead he’s been jailed for protesting outside the...
BROWN – ‘We’re going to change the way we govern’
Prime Minister Brown, flanked by Chancellor Darling, told a press conference yesterday that, ‘the changes I have announced in the cabinet and in the...
‘we Have To Keep Chase Farm Open’
‘WE are having a good response to our picket today,’ North-East London Council of Action Secretary Bill Rogers told News Line at Chase...
Unions unite to defend the NHS
‘I would support a Day of Action to defend the NHS. That’s what I’ll be recommending to my executive,’ GMB National Officer for Health,...
‘MURDOCH IS UNFINISHED BUSINESS’ – Simon Dubbins tells printers strike rally
OVER 200 workers and youth took part in a powerful 25th anniversary meeting of the heroic 1986-87 printers strike at St Bride’s Institute yesterday. A...
Abbas welcomes 81 UK MPs condemnation of mass evictions
JERUSALEM – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement has welcomed the letter by 81 British parliamentarians to the UK’s Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, calling...
Balham PCS Strike Ballot Is Called!
STAFF at Balham benefit centre are being balloted for strike action having been told that their office is due to close on 31 December. This...
Ingram misled parliament over Baha Mousa hooding
ADAM Ingram – Armed Forces Minister during the British occupation of southern Iraq in 2003 – has admitted wrongly informing MPs that Baha Mousa...
Johnson relies on Labour support to get tougher tier system agreed!
TORY Prime Minister Johnson is expected to require Labour votes to get his new tougher tier system passed by the House of Commons next...
Women denied treatment
MIDWIVES, doctors and patients alike are up in arms over moves to deny pregnant women NHS treatment. St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south west...
Hard-Pressed Schools Face Savage Cuts
‘THE government plans the biggest real-term cuts in school funding since at least the late 1970s,’ warns the National Union of Teachers. The NUT has...
Large scale assault on northern West Bank
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued a large-scale assault on the Tubas governorate in the northern West Bank for the third consecutive day on Friday,...
NUT to strike on July 5
THE NUT has announced that members in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action to protect pay and working conditions. In the...
Airport workers support Sunday’s march
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday got great support for their march this Sunday for reinstatement for all sacked workers on their original terms...
BBC strike action by Xmas!
BECTU and the NUJ yesterday warned that BBC plans to cut 2,000 jobs would provoke strikes by Xmas. The BBC intends to reshape its TV...
PFI DAMAGES THE NHS – Private investors are draining away NHS funds say BMA
Private investors are benefiting from Private Finance Initiative debts which are damaging the NHS, said the British Medical Association this morning. The BMA was responding...
Youth Pay Price For Occupation
ON the eve of International Youth Day, the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a statistical review on the status of Palestinian youth,...
Nurses Vote To Strike In A Majority Of NHS Employers Across UK
NURSING staff have voted to strike in the majority of NHS employers across the UK. Nursing staff at the majority of NHS employers across the...
Queen’s Speech delayed – as Tory crisis worsens
SUCH is the developing crisis facing the Tory Party that the Queen’s Speech has now been delayed. It was due to be delivered on Monday...
Disarm French Riot Police – Cgt
YELLOW Vests and trade unionists are seeking to deliver a crushing blow to France’s president Emmanuel Macron. The CGT union federation has called a...
WALL STREET DIVES! – as Congress argues over Bush plan
THE Treasury yesterday confirmed that Bradford & Bingley’s (B&B) £50bn mortgages and loans will be nationalised. The mortgage bank’s £20bn savings unit and branches...
Brixton Public Meeting: Quit EU on October 31! – October 16th, 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...
Time for US workers to dump Trump now!
AMERICANS voted yesterday in midterm elections deciding control of both houses of Congress, with President Donald Trump’s approval rating near a record low and...
Worst US unemployment since Great Depression – 3.3 million Americans jobless
FIGURES released yesterday show that 3.3 million Americans have filed for unemployment, the worst jobless figures since the Great Depression of the 1930s after...
Greek 2-day general strike!
WORKERS in Greece staged a militant two-day general strike last Friday and Saturday against the government’s Pensions and Tax Reforms Bill that crushes the...
Victory To Ambulance Strikers!
STRIKING Paramedics, Emergency Care Assistants, call handlers and other ambulance staff across the country who are on strike again in England and Wales today,...
‘We’re fighting a land grab of our conditions’ says Mick Whelan
‘THE people behind me haven’t had a pay rise for half a decade,’ ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan said yesterday, speaking on the picket...
Olympics order of battle!
Royal Air Force Typhoon jets based at RAF Northolt will be roaring across London and the home counties tomorrow and Saturday as part of...
Ealing Trade Unions Back Gate Gourmet March
A DELEGATION of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers leafletted at Ealing Hospital in west London yesterday and won more support for their demonstration through Hounslow...
‘A PRIVATISATION TOO FAR’ – UNISON leader Prentis urges suspend NHS Logistics sell-off
UNISON members at four NHS Logistics depots began a second 24 hour strike, last night at 10pm. Runcorn depot stopped at 11pm. The workers are...
Egypt Parliament: Put Under Seige!
Tens of thousands of anti-Mubarak protesters gathered outside Egypt’s parliament yesterday, bringing business to a halt, just several hundred yards from the continuing mass...
Railworkers fighting for safety!
ON THE second day of the ScotRail strike, the RMT revealed that the Dutch-state parent company and top bosses are raking it in at...
Johnson & Davis Quit Cabinet
BORIS Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary, the third minister to walk out of the May government rather than back Theresa May’s plans...
Iran declares ‘historic & crushing defeat’ for USA
IRAN yesterday declared a ‘historic and crushing defeat’ of the United States and the Israeli regime after 40 days of war. It announced that Washington...
Cwu Marches To Defend Royal Mail
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) are hosting a march and rally in Corby, Northamptonshire, today against the privatisation of Royal Mail. The March will begin...
SOCIAL CARE ‘COLLAPSE’! – warning to Chancellor Osborne and Hunt
NURSING homes will close and support for elderly and disabled people will be withdrawn due to the massive social care funding crisis, leaders in...
Firefighters For NHS Front Line!
FIREFIGHTERS are to fit face masks and deliver vital PPE and medical supplies to NHS and care staff. Fire and Rescue personnel have volunteered to...
Britain Wants To Legalise ‘indefinite Internment’
GOVERNMENTS around the world will be watching the House of Lords proceedings on 29-31 October which will determine whether they can...
Hundreds Of ‘Failing’ Schools Face Closure
Hundreds of so-called ‘failing’ schools are to be told to ‘improve’ within three years or face closure. Alternatively they may be merged or turned into...
‘The Gaza Strip Has Turned Into A Huge Prison!’
AMID Palestinian ‘deep frustration’ with Israel’s ‘refusal to coordinate in good faith’, an EU delegation arrived on Saturday in Rafah to station security cameras...