Braverman Calls To Use Full Force Of The Law Against Hamas Supporters
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman called for the police to ‘use the full force of the law’ against displays of support for Hamas yesterday. Braverman...
May Survives No Confidence Vote
PRIME Minister May survived a no confidence vote by 325 to 306 votes after a vitriolic attack on the opposition parties especially the Labour...
‘DOCTORS WON’T TAKE IT ANYMORE’ – says BMA after 98% strike vote
JUNIOR doctors in England have voted by an overwhelming 98% for strike action in their fight for pay restoration. Almost every junior doctor who cast...
Israel Using Banned Weapons!
GAZA’S Health Ministry Spokesman Ashraf Al Qudra accused Israel of intentionally striking Palestinian hospitals to shut them down. He announced that at least 15,899 Palestinians...
Hoon & Hewitt Stab Labour In The Back
The House of Commons yesterday witnessed a Blairite revolt against Prime Minister Brown. Ex-cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt bolstered the Tories by calling...
Israel massacres Palestinians in Nablus – 3 killed, 40 wounded
A NEW massacre of Palestinians, which left three people dead and more than 40 wounded, was committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the...
Joint enterprise case quashed
THE FIRST person to have a joint enterprise murder conviction quashed was released from prison yesterday in a landmark ruling against the controversial...
BENEFITS BLITZ! – Tory coalition to make 33% cuts
Campaigners have slammed government plans to proceed with moving people off incapacity benefit and onto the dole. The government plans to move all incapacity benefit...
‘Real value’ of pay in freefall
THE ‘REAL VALUE’ of pay is in freefall, collapsing by 3% between April and June, according to the latest report from the Office for...
‘THEY ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THEIR LIES!’ – Menezes family hails Blair inquiry
‘This will be the start, they are going to pay for all their lies, all the shootings,’ Alex Pereira, the cousin of Jean Charles...
Unions Strike Ballots To Achieve Inflation-Busting Pay Rises!
UNIONS representing nurses, firefighters, teachers, council workers and every other section announced strike ballots and ‘calls to action’ to achieve inflation-busting pay rises in...
Assange Ecuador Protests
ECUADORIANS have taken to the streets in the capital Quito against the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the country’s embassy in London. The...
Infected blood scandal – 72 died from contaminated drug at single school
A PUBLIC inquiry yesterday heard from students and parents after more than 120 ex pupils at a school for disabled children were caught up...
British Gas to sack its entire workforce
BRITISH Gas is to sack its entire 10,000-strong workforce today, in a vicious attack which has been met with strike action over months by...
Google handed 1.6m NHS patients records!
GOOGLE has been given the confidential records including full names and patient histories of an estimated 1.6 million NHS patients in a data-sharing agreement. Under...
Action Needed To Defend The NHS!
‘The unions need to mobilise joint industrial action to defeat the Health and Social Care Bill and see off this Tory coalition government.’ This...
Over 250,000 workers and youth join the London Nakba march
OVER a quarter of a million workers, students and youth joined the Nakba 78 March from the museums in Kensington to Pall Mall in...
Russian Ambassador In Talks With Al-Sadr
The Russian ambassador to Iraq yesterday flew to Najaf and started talks with leading Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who led the uprising against US...
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...
Johnson ignores the crisis & praises USA!
‘IT WAS CAPITALISM that ensured we had vaccines in less than a year,’ Tory PM Johnson boasted in his closing speech at the Tory...
Myanmar Embassy in London – SEIZED BY MILITARY JUNTA
THE MYANMAR military authorities have seized control of the embassy, leaving the ambassador out in the street and forcing him to sleep in his...
PROSECUTE KILLER COMPANIES! – demands the GMB
The GMB trade union says companies who kill employees will face private prosecutions if the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) ‘continues to fail workers’. The High...
Tories slash another £250m from social care!
FRAIL and vulnerable people will go without the care they need, the union Unison warned yesterday, after the Tories slashed social care funding by...
LABOUR CRASHING NHS!– with its privatisation policies
‘Increased use of the private sector is skewing staffing levels in the NHS,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was responding to...
2019 Is The Year For Socialist Revolutions
NEW YEAR STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2019 to all our readers, to the...
Stop NHS privatisation! Stop bed cuts! Unions must act!
THE GMB has demanded answers over a plan to privatise services at Barnsley Hospital in a desperate bid to save cash. The trust which runs...
Israeli army turns Nasser Hospital into a military base!
ISRAELI occupation forces yesterday raided the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza and turned it into a military base. Medical sources reported that Israeli forces further...
Strike At NHS Logistics
TWO 24-hour national strikes by staff at NHS Logistics were announced yesterday, after the workers voted 3-1 for action against the government’s plans to...
‘WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS’ says Gate Gourmet Branch Secretary
‘THE union solicitor is filing our cases for employment tribunals. The cases must be filed before 90 days, we’ve waited for the company to...
YOUNGEST CHILD DEATH IN CUSTODY – end imprisonment of children urges report
AN end to the imprisonment of under-16 year olds ‘in all but the most exceptional circumstances’ was demanded yesterday, in an official report on...
TUC–call a general strike! – demands YS lobby
‘TUC get off your knees! Call a general strike!’ shouted an enthusiastic Young Socialists lobby of the first day of the TUC Congress in...
Bma–Industrial Action Over Pensions
The British Medical Association (BMA) has requested an urgent meeting with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in a further effort to re-start talks...
Secret trials go ahead!
THE ‘secret courts’ Justice and Security Bill places UK Security Services and Government Ministers ‘above the law,’ civil rights charities Reprieve and Liberty warned...
Benefit cap plunges families into poverty
‘CUTTING social security even further and plunging more families into poverty is simply cruel, punishing the poorest in our society for the Tories’ economic failure,’ Public...
PROTECT OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS – demand unions
Workers who lost their pensions when their firm went bust gave a cautious welcome to a second High Court victory yesterday. The court rejected an...
DELEGATES CHALLENGE TUC LEADERS – as POA demands action
THE TUC Congress in Brighton was divided yesterday over an amendment to Composite Motion 15: Public Sector Pay, which called on the General Council...
Balls Is Booed, Congress Votes For General Strike Resolution
LABOUR shadow chancellor Balls was booed at the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday when he made it clear that a Labour government would carry...
‘A desperate attempt to silence voices exposing Israeli crimes!’
GLOBAL outrage has followed Israel’s assassination of five Al Jazeera journalists in a targeted drone strike outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa...
Teachers & parents win at Alec Reed Academy
TEACHERS, parents and pupils have won a victory at the Alec Reed Academy in Northolt. ‘Management at Alec Reed Academy has agreed our terms for...
DON’T GAG CONFERENCE! – UNISON delegates demand debate on coordinated strike action
UNISON’s national delegate conference yesterday opened with a row over the refusal of the Standing Orders Committee to allow a debate on emergency motions...
‘PATIENTS TORTURED’ – at a charge of £3,500 a week
A STORM of anger has erupted following the broadcast of Tuesday night’s BBC Panorama programme, which revealed terrible abuse of vulnerable adults at a...
We’Re Marching To Save Chase Farm Hospital
HUNDREDS of angry workers, patients, trade unionists and youth joined the mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield yesterday. They all said they were...
‘NOT ONE STEP BACKWARDS!’ – Greek workers demand of Syriza
OVER 40,000 Greek workers, many with their families, shop-keepers, professional people and youth rallied at the central Athens Vouli (Greek parliament) square calling on...
BUSH WON’T MEET BROWN! – as banks scramble for B of E loans
Prime minister Brown met Wall Street fund managers yesterday, officially for talks on how best to protect savings and pensions during the current global...
‘Only come in if you’re dying’ – Suffolk A&E
NHS Suffolk warned patients not to visit A&E over the Bank Holiday weekend unless they are dying. The primary care trust said it stood...