REJECT JUNIOR DOCTORS CONTRACT! – says the Doctors’ Association
THE Doctors’ Association (DAUK) has refused to endorse the junior doctor contract deal agreed by the BMA and the government, warning that some members...
Cameron Wants An ‘English Parliament’!
THE SMITH Commission has announced recommendations that devolution be strengthened, with new powers for the Scottish Parliament to set income tax rates, benefits and...
Nato Murders Gadaffi
COLONEL Gadaffi was yesterday badly wounded by a NATO air attack on a convoy of vehicles outside the city of Sirte. It was...
General Strike To Bring Down Starmer Government
OVER 100 protesters gathered outside the Old Bailey yesterday in support of the Filton 18, activists from Palestine Action after initially being detained under...
MAYOR DETERMINED TO SHUT FIRE STATIONS – FBU will resist cuts and closures
ANY ‘Mayoral Directive’ issued by London mayor Johnson to force through savage cuts and closures in the London fire service will be fought ‘vigorously’,...
Home Office Wants To Send Rose To Her Death
HER local Yorkshire community is defending Roseline Akhalu, a Nigerian-born kidney-transplant patient, from deportation and death. The UK immigration authorities have hounded her, an ill...
‘OUR LEADERS MUST LEAD’ – demand London postal workers
LONDON postal workers took 24-hour strike action yesterday, with pickets across the capital demanding that the action is stepped up and that the union...
TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE – Corbyn slams pre-trial no jury courts
Government plans for secret no-jury ‘pre-trial’ trials before ‘security cleared’ judges are ‘totally unacceptable’ Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn told News Line yesterday. He added: ‘All...
Great Response In Hackney And Kensington
STUDENTS gave their full endorsement to WRP candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch Jonty Leff yesterday as a campaign team worked hard fighting for...
‘We will reballot after June 10’
DESPITE the pouring rain, cabin crew maintained three lively pickets at Heathrow Airport yesterday, in the final week of their current course of strike...
Grenfell Inferno–one year on!
‘WE FEEL tomorrow is about remembering and honouring the 72 that died,’ Justice4Grenfell campaign co-ordinator Yvette Williams told News Line yesterday ahead of today’s...
Syriza Discussing Keeping Austerity Memorandum
THE Greek government’s proposals for a new agreement over the terms of the bail-out loan of 240bn euros were discussed at this week’s Eurogroup...
France – 3 Million Take Action
Three and a half million took to the streets across France in the biggest anti-pensions law mobilisation yet on Tuesday, October 12 in 244...
Workers sign up for August 20th rally
TRADE unionists and Hounslow local people yesterday supported the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and bought tickets for their first anniversary march and rally in...
Gate Courmet Campaign
‘It’s shameful the way Gate Gourmet workers have been treated by both the company and the union,’ Hounslow local government UNISON assistant branch secretary...
‘WE WILL NOT BE MOVED!’ – New Era Estate tenants march to Downing Street
‘WE will not be moved!’ declared 600 furious residents of the New Era Estate in Hoxton, Hackney and their supporters at a mass lobby...
Tories scrap Leeds leg of HS2 – trade unions must take action
THE TUC, Unite, RMT, GMB, Aslef and TSSA all said yesterday that the Tories scrapping of the Leeds leg of the HS2 was a...
Tories Are Opening ‘Virtual Wards’ To Shut Down NHS!
THE TORIES are announcing new anti-NHS plans today, opening up ‘virtual wards’ in which patients will be monitored in their homes, with cameras at...
3-day week looms! JCB cuts 4,000 workers’ hours
DIGGER manufacturer JCB is cutting production and working hours in the UK as it faces a shortage of components from China due to the...
76% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION – CWU must give 7 days notice of strike...
‘If we don’t take a stand now, you will see the postal service in the UK destroyed for ever,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...
Six million waiting for NHS treatment – Highest since records began
ALMOST six million people are waiting to have hospital treatment in England, the latest NHS monthly performance statistics revealed yesterday. The number of patients on...
Iran calm restored – ready to rebuff US attack
THE Iranian foreign minister says calm has been restored across the country after recent unrest, which was fuelled by the incitement of terrorist elements...
Arrogant Osborne refuses to apologise – McDonnell calls for him to go!
‘LET me say to him (Tory chancellor Osborne) I certainly think for the sake of this country that it is time for him to...
143 UK Universities Being Balloted For Strike Action
AROUND 70,000 members of the University and College Union (UCU) in 143 UK universities are being balloted for strike action in a row over...
Trump Beats War Drums!
‘WE HAVE a lot of options militarily,’ US President Trump said yesterday banging the war drums against Syria, adding that a response would be...
May’s ‘sweetheart deal’ for Surrey council exposed
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday accused ministers of agreeing a ‘sweetheart deal’ to ensure a Conservative-controlled council dropped plans to raise council tax by...
Whipps Cross – More Action Planned
ON THE final day of their three-day strike, the Whipps Cross hospital workers were confident of beating the employer and getting the money they...
Blair pledges ‘exclusion’ and incitement’ powers
Prime Minister Blair yesterday announced the government’s intention to introduce new laws against ‘incitement and the instigation of terrorism’, for which he had the...
‘we All Need To Strike Together’
THE second series of strikes in the national postal dispute commenced yesterday morning, with Mail Centres walking out at the start of three days...
22% Youth Jobless!
unemployment soared by another 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December, the Office for National Statistics reported yesterday. The official unemployment rate...
4,000 Striking Greek Teachers March Through Athens!
OVER 4,000 striking teachers and students marched through Athens city centre last Monday afternoon in a joyful mood sensing that they were winning the...
STRIKE ON! – CWU Executive decides
At 5.20pm yesterday CWU leaders Dave Ward and Billy Hayes declared that the two days’ strike action today and tomorrow were going ahead and...
CHILCOT INQUIRY– ‘COME THE DAY YOU’LL BE THERE’ – Rumsfeld was sure that...
‘NO matter how many times you said to senior American officers, and indeed Mr Rumsfeld, that we were not committing our forces until we...
NHS AUSTERITY – planned by Department of Health
THE government is already drawing up crisis measures to privatise the NHS. A ‘long list of possibilities’ is contained in a leaked Department of Health...
Nurses Very Angry Over The Big Pay Sell-Out!
THE HEAD of the Royal College of Nursing has apologised after nurses in England complained of being ‘misled’ over the new pay deal. The union...
3,000 NHS Jobs At Risk
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that 3,000 NHS jobs, including 1,000 nurses’ jobs, are under threat. This was after the government announced...
Glenton – Five Further Charges
Corporal Joe Glenton, the soldier who faces desertion charges for refusing to return to Afghanistan, has been arrested, imprisoned and charged with five further...
14,350 children killed by Israel in Gaza over 6 months
Israeli occupation forces kill an average of four children every hour in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported yesterday, the...
Gm Crisis Meeting Today
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said yesterday that the Merkel government was seeking clarity from General Motors on plans for Opel. This came on the...
DEATHS WILL RESULT – from attacks on ambulance service
‘TINKERING with ambulance response targets could lead to unnecessary deaths,’ the GMB union, which represents ambulance drivers, warned yesterday. The union added that the government’s...
Bma Launches ‘Save Your Surgery Campaign’
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday announced a national ‘Support your Surgery’ campaign to defend and promote NHS GP services in England. The BMA warned:...
Teachers Vote For National Strike
‘NUT members have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the campaign to stop cuts in the real pay of teachers,’ Steve Sinnott, General Secretary of...
Heygate Tenants Eviction Warning!
TENANTS on the Heygate estate in south London’s Elephant and Castle are being sent ‘take it now or face eviction later’ letters, as part...





















