NATO massacres Afghan civilians
TWELVE Afghan civilians – ten children and two women – and one NATO soldier have been killed in an operation carried out by US-led...
Death toll in Gaza continues to rise!
THE DEATH toll from Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip has reached 72,317, Gaza’s health ministry reported yesterday, as fresh attacks killed a 13-year-old...
UK ECONOMY NOSEDIVES! – biggest fall in modern times
THE UK economy nosedived by a record 9.9%, the biggest slump in modern times, with the contraction in 2020 ‘more than twice as much...
DEFEND GM JOBS! – JUNE 1st is bankruptcy day
Car parts maker Magna International was yesterday reported to have reached an agreement in principle with General Motors to take GM Europe off its...
WE WILL RETURN TO DIEGO GARCIA – say Chagos Islanders
A delegation from the Chagos Islands Community Association (CICA) travelled from Crawley yesterday to attend a ‘Let Them Return’ meeting in the House of...
Labour Failing Homeless
Homelessness charity Crisis yesterday called on the government to make public services more accessible to homeless people. Crisis said: ‘Public services are failing homeless people. ‘Public...
Amnesty condemns the Israeli genocide on the Gaza Strip!
ISRAEL'S treatment of Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, Amnesty International declared in a new report that shatters any pretence of...
15-Year-Old On Work Experience Lost In North Sea
‘We are all deeply shocked by this terrible tragedy,’ Amicus Regional Officer, Graham Tran, said yesterday. Tran was commenting on the deaths of seven men...
LABOUR-LIB DEM TALKS BREAK DOWN – Tories and Liberals get ready for coalition
A TORY-LIB DEM savage cuts coalition government was being assembled last night, after coalition talks between the Labour Party and the Lib Dems broke...
The More You Sack – The Bigger The Bonus
Media unions BECTU and the NUJ yesterday condemned ‘BBC fat-cat bonuses’ and called on BBC bosses to hand them back. They were responding to the...
Syria Goes To The Polls
SYRIANS were voting in parliamentary elections yesterday, with the ceasefire holding and the Syrian government gaining more ground against terrorists in the war-hit country. Over...
BUDGET DAY STRIKE! – by 270,000 PCS civil servants!
THE PCS civil service union yesterday announced that members across the UK will be walking out for a third day of strike action on...
US-UK spying scandal – Hague to make statement
FOREIGN Secretary Hague yesterday refused to confirm or deny that GCHQ ‘circumvented the law’ to gather data on British citizens, only describing such claims...
MAGNA JOBS TALKS TODAY! –but Mandelson is in Japan
talks today on the future of the Vauxhall Ellesmere Port and the GMM Luton plants, with thousands of jobs on the line, will not...
Greek Workers Reject Austerity Government
Workers and youth in Greece delivered an historic death blow to the present bourgeois parties and to the whole political two-party system in Sunday’s...
‘There will be no limits for this war’ says Israel
ISRAELI Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says security forces will have ‘full freedom’ to act after two Israelis were shot dead in an attack in...
Defend Unilever Pensions
Unilever workers from all over the country yesterday descended on the London headquarters, outraged at the company’s ending of their final salary pension scheme. They...
CALL HEATHROW OUT ON STRIKE! – demand defiant Alpha workers
A DEFIANT meeting of Alpha catering workers was held yesterday midday at Cranford Park, Heathrow. The workers unanimously dismissed Alpha Catering’s plan to cut the...
‘CUT THEIR BENEFITS!’ – Hutton threatens the unemployed
Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton yesterday declared war on the unemployed, saying Labour will cut off benefits from those who reject...
Downhills Strike Against Forced Academy Plan
TEACHERS taking strike action today against DfE plans to force Downhills Primary School in Haringey to become a sponsored academy will be supported by...
Chase Farm Daily Picket
MONDAY’S launch of the daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital, in preparation to occupy the departments threatened with closure, was a roaring success. The...
NHS workers slam Hunt’s attack
‘IF YOU want to talk about waste in the NHS, then stop outsourcing midwives and nurses to agency staff,’ Royal College of Midwives (RCM)...
Gadaffi Was Butchered!
EVIDENCE collected by Human Rights Watch indicts Misrata-based militias for the execution of dozens of detainees following the capture and murder of Muammar...
Bakers union demands £10 min wage – as Living Wage increase declared
‘£10 AN HOUR is the bare minimum that the trade union movement should demand as a minimum wage’, the Bakers Union said yesterday, as...
Police Attack Peaceful March
TENS of thousands of school, college and university students demonstrated against education cuts, tuition fees and the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)...
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...
Send Hospital ship to Gaza – 70,000 sign petition
SEVENTY thousand people have signed a petition calling for the UK government to send the hospital casualty ship RFA Argus, currently based in Falmouth,...
Resident doctors in England will strike for six days from April 7th
RESIDENT doctors in England will strike for six days from 7th April after rejecting a government pay offer that would spread already inadequate increases...
Bank cuts rate to 4.25% – its second cut this year
THE BANK of England has reduced interest rates to 4.25 per cent, marking its second cut this year, as it warned that escalating global...
Massive Irish Strike Action
‘We’re expecting a big turn out tomorrow for the nationwide demonstrations,’ an Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) spokesman told News Line yesterday. He added:...
Litany Of Safety Breaches Led To Grenfell
A LITANY of safety breaches which led to the horrific Grenfell Tower fire were revealed yesterday during the opening of the next stage...
Greece: Call For A ‘Political General Strike’
An enormous rally of youth and workers with their families at the Vouli (Greek parliament) square in Athens on Sunday demanded for the fifth...
£3billion more for Northern Rock – while 1,300 to be sacked and 3,700 have...
The government is to inject another £3bn into Northern Rock, Chancellor Darling said yesterday. As the nationalised bank announced a loss of £585.4m in the...
‘If the doctors strikes are banned the TUC must call a general strike and...
‘IF THEY ban the doctors strikes the British Medical Association must call on the other unions to come out with them. If doctors strikes...
HAMAS OFFERS AMNESTY – while Abbas decides to rule by decree
HAMAS yesterday released dozens of Fatah security commanders and Fatah officials detained during the past week in Gaza, and offered an amnesty to other...
Green light to privatise Haringey
THE HIGH Court has given the council the go-ahead to privatise Haringey’s housing, allowing huge private developers to embark on a £2bn private housing...
Braverman condemned for rabid attack on the right to asylum!
TORY Home Secretary Braverman came under fire for her rabid attack on refugees and asylum seekers yesterday, with charity ActionAid UK calling her comments...
No joint press conference in Luxembourg – ‘We’re ready for no-deal’ – Johnson
TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday travelled to Luxembourg to meet EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and the country’s PM Xavier Bettel. After the meeting, Johnson...
Hamas denounces silence over Israeli raid on al-Shifa hospital!
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced the international community over its ‘shameful silence’ on the Israeli military’s raid against Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital where...
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:...
‘We need properly funded GP services!’ – says BMA’s petition to government
MORE than 10,000 people have signed the BMA’s petition calling for the Westminster government to properly fund general practice and source more desperately-needed GPs. The...
Widespread winter blackouts! – nine power stations are to close
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’,...
EU says NO! to May’s Brexit re-negotiations
EUROPEAN Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker yesterday ruled out re-opening the Withdrawal Agreement after meeting with Tory PM May, making it crystal clear that legally-binding...
HEWITT CALL TO TREAT PATIENTS IN THE COMMUNITY – to cut NHS deficits
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned against any ‘quick fix’ plan to keep asthma and heart patients out of hospital ‘just to...
‘Come clean over tuition fees’ – UCU tells Labour
‘IT’S time for Labour to come clean on university fees,’ the University and College union (UCU) said on Friday, as it called for education...




















