Assange Must Be Freed Now!
ON DAY three of the case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, at the Old Bailey in central London, yesterday morning the court went straight...
Airport Crisis – ‘This Chaos Is One Of Their Own Making’
AS the crisis across UK airports deepens, the leading aviation union, Unite, is blaming businesses for taking public money but then slashing jobs during...
‘THIS IS THE TIME TO HIT THEM’ –striking postal workers tell News Line
LONDON postal workers taking strike action again yesterday at offices across the capital were angered by the offer of their union leaders to Royal...
‘Debt must be paid in full!’ – German bankers threaten Greece
GERMANY has issued warnings to the new Greek government that it must ‘live up to its commitments to its creditors’, and ‘take measures so...
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...
TAKE ON ANTI-UNION LAWS – Rob Williams tells TGWU conference
THE leadership of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was shaken at the union’s biennial delegate conference in Brighton yesterday, when a substantial...
‘Only one in forty new jobs is full time’ – says TUC
ONLY one in every forty new jobs since the onset of the crash in 2008 is full-time, with the other 39 either part-time...
HOSPITALS USING MORE UNREGISTERED NURSES says Royal College of Nursing
MORE than nine in ten of England’s 50 largest NHS hospital trusts are not staffed with nurses to the level planned by their own...
‘Greetings to this fantastic show of strength’ says Mark Serwotka
THERE were more than 40,000 teachers and other striking workers on the NEU demonstration on Wednesday 1st February – with the front of the...
Ward Closure Storm At Sidcup Hospital
HEALTH workers have angrily condemned the decision by administrators now running the bankrupt South London Healthcare Trust to close the gynaecology ward at...
Buses: Spring Offensive On Pay And Hours
Bus drivers have backed a call for a major cut in their driving hours. At a conference in Eastbourne organised by the Transport and General...
NHS STRIKE IN IRELAND! –while fury in England over NHS sell-out
AMBULANCE workers and other NHS staff are ‘determined’ and ‘out solid’ throughout Northern Ireland, the GMB regional officer, Michael Mulholland, said yesterday, during...
Black Lives Matter protester found not guilty by a unanimous jury!
AT SOUTHWARK Crown Court this week, a protester represented by Bindmans LLP has been found not guilty by a unanimous jury in a trial...
OCCUPATION PAYS! say Visteon workers
‘It’s a massive victory from the situation on March 31 when Visteon sacked us with nothing,’ Piers Hood, Unite deputy convenor at the...
‘WE REJECT WAGE CUTS!’ – say UNISON & GMB spokeswomen
‘We reject public sector pay cuts,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday. She was responding to remarks by chancellor Darling yesterday, where...
Tube Strike Brings London To A Standstill!
POWERFUL picket lines continue outside London rail depots this morning as the RMT Tube union completes this week’s first 24-hour strike at 12noon today,...
BAGHDAD REJECTS WALL! – as US and Iraqi puppets continue to build it
IRAQI opposition to the US plan to build a sectarian wall in a Baghdad district hardened yesterday, with street protests taking place in both...
GAZA CEASEFIRE NOW! – UN votes unanimously, only US abstains
‘THIS MUST signal the end of atrocities against our people,’ Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour said yesterday. He was speaking after the...
Turkish workers confront state forces
ANTI-GOVERNMENT protesters confronting riot police in Istanbul’s Taksim Square and its adjoining Gezi Park yesterday, issued a call for Turkish citizens to join them...
Flammable wooden cladding found on 20 blocks!
AN URGENT investigation has found that there are at least 20 housing blocks using the same wooden cladding and wooden structure as the block...
No date for next meeting – Merkel
TORY PM May was slapped down again yesterday as German Chancellor Merkel said that no progress was made on Brexit and that a date...
‘We won’t sign rotten deal’ say Gate Gourmet workers
YESTERDAY was the deadline for locked out Gate Gourmet workers facing compulsory redundancy to sign the ‘Compromise Agreement’, surrendering their claim for unfair dismissal...
A DATABASE FOR ALL – Blair plans ultra modern police state
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday urged support for ID cards, and a national database on everyone, for ‘less than £30’ above the cost of new...
3,000 Greek Doctors Fight Health Bill
Over 3,000 medical doctors and health workers demonstrated on Wednesday through the Athens city centre against the government’s Health Bill, shouting ‘Loverdo (Health Minister)...
Food Inflation – Highest For Fourteen Years!
SOARING milk, cheese and egg costs have pushed food inflation to its highest level for 14 years, with millions of UK families heading into...
3,439 firefighters dead after the 9/11 clean up – Thousands more dying of asbestos...
US FIREFIGHTERS are dying from asbestos-related diseases as a result of being sent in to clean up after the collapse of the Twin Towers...
POA demands General Strike
UP TO A thousand Prison Officers marched down Whitehall to a rally at Westminster on Budget Day yesterday. Prison Officer’s Association (POA) rep at HMP...
Royal Mail 97% YES for strike
OVER 97% of members of the CWU (Communication Workers Union) working for Royal Mail, voted ‘YES’ for strike action, it was announced yesterday. Hundreds of...
Short Shoots Down Blair
NORMAL government structures were shut down as Blair and his Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, lied and deceived in order to push the Cabinet into...
Eviction Reprieve – At Dale Farm
DALE Farm residents won an injunction late yesterday, restraining police and bailiffs from dismantling structures on the site until a hearing at the High...
Record Borrowing And Record Inflation Rate
INFLATION soared upwards last month, with the government’s preferred Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure rising to 4.4 per cent, up from 4 per cent...
No Deal And We’Ll Strike – Say Caretakers
‘Not a step back’, Bert Schouwenburg, GMB National Officer, told a meeting of up to 100 caretakers, working on the Council Estates run by...
AMNESTY! –We are all citizens says march of over 25,000 migrants and refugees
OVER 25,000 people took to the streets to demand citizenship for migrant workers and refugees fleeing persecution to seek asylum in Britain, in a...
RIOT POLICE ATTACK WORKERS – as Obama arrives in Athens
HUNDREDS of armed riot police (MAT) in full gear viciously attacked a militant march in Athens against the visit of US President Barack Obama...
Aamer Freed!
AFTER 13 long years languishing in Guantánamo Bay concentration camp without trial or charge, Shaker Aamer is finally free! A plane carrying Shaker Aamer touched...
Corbyn Condemns Pm Johnson Over Customs Union
IN THE House of Commons yesterday morning PM Johnson sought to persuade MPs to support his Brexit plan. He said: ‘This government has moved. Our...
‘US-Eu Stop Supporting Nazi Coup!’
SOME 300 members of the Athens Ukrainian community, including relatives of the Greek-Pontus minorities in the Ukraine and the Crimea, along with contingents of...
WITHDRAW CHASE FARM CLOSURE – Enfield Council legal challenge
Enfield Council has condemned health secretary Andrew Lansley’s authorisation of the closure of Chase Farm Hospital A&E, Maternity and Paediatrics departments. It has also declared...
Carry Out Pledges – Demand Greek Workers
THE Greek Finance Minister has sent a letter of capitulation to the EU’s diktats, dated Wednesday 18 February 2015. It was sent to Eurogroup President...
Don’t Let Junior Doctors Strike Be Defeated!
THE decision to postpone the 48 hour strike action by junior doctors from 26 January without any attempt by the government to meet the...
Sudan’s civil war escalates – RSF leader bids for power!
WHEN Sudan’s civil war broke out in April, conflict arose between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, leader...
‘Regime Change At Bbc’
THE BBC must undergo a radical overhaul said chairman of the BBC Trust Chris Patten yesterday. Speaking in the wake of Saturday evening’s resignation by...
Chinese Rover sends back Mars ‘selfie’!
LAST WEEK, US President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order to enhance and extend a Trump-era ban on investments with 59 Chinese companies, barring...
£12bn NI RISE MUST GO AHEAD! – say Johnson and Sunak
THE £12bn rise in National Insurance Contributions (NIC) from April is ‘the right plan’ and ‘must go ahead’, Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak...
Corbyn demands permanent Customs Union
‘ONE area that the leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn and I do not agree,’ Tory PM Theresa May said in the House of...















