Cable Prepares To Privatise!
DATES for the planned privatisation of Royal Mail before Christmas are expected to be announced in the House of Commons by Business Secretary Cable...
Big Support for WRP Candidates
WRP PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE for Kensington, Scott Dore campaigning outside the busy Ladbroke Grove tube station yesterday gained the support of local residents. Kathleen Jones who...
‘All military families have the right to hear Blair give evidence’ –Reg Keys...
TONY BLAIR is to give evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War in the second half of this month, or early February,...
MI5 WORKED WITH TORTURERS! – Binyam Mohamed exposes complicity
MPs yesterday demanded a judicial inquiry into a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner’s claims that MI5 was complicit in his torture. In a ‘Mail on...
UK servicing Saudi jets in Yemen – admits Tory MP
BRITAIN is providing ‘engineering support’ for UK-supplied aircraft operated by the Royal Saudi Air Force, responsible for killing innocent people in Yemen, a British...
July deficit alarms City!
THE UK government borrowed £600 million in July to cover the gap between spending and revenue, the ONS reported yesterday. The city is aghast...
Greenford Bus Workers To Join Mass Picket
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are holding their monthly mass picket at the Beacon Roundabout, Beacon Road, near Heathrow Airport, Terminal Four from 11am to...
Super-exploitation in Covid-infected meat factories!
THE LINK between outbreaks of Covid-19 at meat processing plants and the sector’s widespread exploitation of migrant workers on low pay and insecure contracts...
Unite won’t tolerate illegal Doncaster strikebreaking!
THE UNITE union has warned that it will leave ‘no stone unturned’ if Doncaster refuse contractor Suez presses ahead with strike breaking during...
‘We are the opposition!’ – Greek teachers storm parliament
GREEK striking teachers along with students staged yet another magnificent march of over 6,000 last Thursday against the hated government Education Bill. Once...
BERNANKE READY TO ACT – to print hundreds of billions more dollars
US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday that he is ‘ready to act’ on the US economy, hinting that the US is about...
‘We are striking because people are dying!’ – says RCN’s Cullen!
‘PEOPLE aren’t dying because nurses are striking, nurses are striking because people are dying,’ RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said yesterday. ‘Today’s record number...
5,500 Schools Face Years Of Financial Misery!
THE TORY government has admitted that 5,500 schools face years of financial misery and that they are on the ‘funding floor.’ The Education Select Committee...
PROBLEMS WITH SAFETY! – CQC warns on private ambulance providers
THE Care Quality Commission has warned all private ambulance providers that, during its inspections, it found ‘problems with the safety’ of the care they...
GPs referring more patients to Food Banks!
THE number of GPs having to refer patients to food banks is increasing, with more than one in five having to take drastic action...
British Warplanes Bomb Nw Iraq
British warplanes yesterday bombed vehicles and buildings in the northwestern Iraqi town of Karabila, close to the Syrian border. In what was considered a rare...
SHOCK JOBLESS RISE TO 2.5m
The latest official unemployment figures published yesterday show an unexpected increase of 35,000 in the three months to October. The number of young people...
NORTHERN ROCK JOBS SHOCK! – Unite pleges to fight compulsory redundancies
The Unite trade union yesterday told Northern Rock that they will oppose any plans for compulsory redundancies at the publicly owned bank. Following the announcement...
Huge sussex education cuts!
HEAD teachers from all 250 primary schools in West Sussex have written to Theresa May to demand an extra £20 million as they face...
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...
‘CRADLE OF DISEASE’ – 4,000 packed into ASOS warehouse
JAM-PACKED ASOS clothing warehouse is a ‘cradle of disease’, terrified workers in the GMB union warned yesterday, calling for their entire operation to be...
POA condemns ‘reserve force’
THE Prison Officers Association (POA) have condemned a government scheme to form a reserve force for England and Wales to help it respond to...
SUNAK’S FLEXIBLE FURLOUGH! – to bring in wage and job cuts & part-time working
‘THE FURLOUGH scheme can not continue indefinitely,’ Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday at the Downing Street daily briefing, announcing that by September, the employer...
Nuj Stops Bbc Over Sackings
‘WE will be balloting for further action, this issue is not going to go away,’ NUJ General Secretary Michelle Stanistreet told News Line yesterday. Speaking...
Homeless Families Driven Out Of London
15,795 HOMELESS Londoners have been forced into temporary accommodation outside their borough, a Freedom of Information request revealed yesterday. Representing a third of the 47,137...
Locked-Out Gg Workers To March At Tolpuddle
‘THE Tolpuddle Martyrs were called troublemakers and were transported to Australia. ‘We were called troublemakers and sacked,’ Parmjeet Sidhu said at the Gate Gourmet locked-out...
‘Treated appallingly by Home Office’ – had passport taken and threatened with forcible removal
A MAN who had lived legally in the UK since 1962 had his passport confiscated and was threatened with forcible removal from the UK,...
‘OUR LIVES ARE NOT VALUED BY THIS SYSTEM’ – Chris Kaba family
‘TODAY, we are devastated. The not guilty verdict leaves us with the deep pain of injustice, adding to the unbearable sorrow we have felt...
UNISON to call national demonstration on pensions
‘THE threat we made to the government still stands – revoke the order or there will be a strike on pensions,’ UNISON NEC member...
Porter Driven Out By Student Anger
National Union of Students President Aaron Porter has quit, driven out by the fury of his members after he accused them of violence during...
Greece – 10% Tax On Workers And The Poor
FOLLOWING meetings on Thursday with the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank), the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos...
RAISE STAFF PAY OR WE STRIKE! – UCU tells six college administrators
THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) yesterday told the bosses of six colleges in the North West to urgently raise staff pay if they...
NHS IS BUCKLING BEFORE OUR EYES says RCN leader Patricia Marquis
‘AS WE begin a new year, the NHS is buckling before our eyes. The pressures are immense with flu cases surging while staff absences...
UK Martial Law plan
A REPORT published in error on National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) website and quickly taken down, has revealed a secret plan for the deployment...
From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!
‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!’ rang out as 200,000 workers, students and youth marched from Whitehall in central London...
Tuc Delegates Support General Strike Call
ON the opening day of the TUC conference in Manchester yesterday a lively 50 strong lobby of Workers Revolutionary Party and Young socialists members...
Quit the EU! Forward to a workers government! – WRP MAY DAY MANIFESTO
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the poor of the world. We send our revolutionary greetings...
Coordinated strike action motion for TUC
TRANSPORT union RMT has tabled a motion for the TUC Congress in Manchester next week which sets out a blueprint for a coordinated trade...
Nurses driven out of the profession
NURSES are working in ‘intolerable situations’ and feel ‘unsupported and undervalued’, with many thinking about leaving the profession, according to new RCN research published...
Social housing landlords deny homeless access to properties
HOMELESS people are being routinely ‘screened out’ and denied access to social housing by social landlords because they are deemed ‘too poor or vulnerable...
Cameron Is Facing A ‘Bare-Knuckle Fight’ – Over Privatisation Plan
Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to prime minister Cameron’s declaration of war on the public sector. Writing in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Cameron said the...
Russia for negotiated ceasefire! – ‘There will be no joining NATO!’
THE RUSSIAN Ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, held a press conference in New York yesterday during which he made it clear that...
Millions fear eviction!
OVER three million people fear missing rent or mortgage payments this January because of ‘sky high housing costs’, putting them at risk of...
Bid To Prevent EU Withdrawal Voting Fails!
SCOTLAND’S highest civil court on Friday dismissed a legal bid to stop the UK government from seeking to pass its proposed EU withdrawal agreement...
SEVERE FUNDING CUTS CLOSED NEARLY 50% OF MATERNITY UNITS – during 2016
NEARLY half of England’s maternity units were forced to close to new mothers at some point during 2016 because of severe funding cuts, the...