Demonstration outside St Helier Hospital against the closure of the maternity unit at the Epsom Hospital, the A&E and the cuts due to take place in surgery

Save Epsom Maternity!

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Over 60 people protested outside St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, Surrey, yesterday morning, against the ‘downgrading’ of its sister Epsom Hospital. The protest was called...

Coulson Leave To Appeal

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PRIME minister Cameron’s former press secretary Andy Coulson yesterday won a ruling that he can appeal against News International’s refusal to pay his legal...

‘Heathrow sits on mountain of cash while sacking 4,000’ says Unite as strike ballot...

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‘HEATHROW’S cash mountain should be used to help low paid staff threatened by “fire and rehire”,’ Unite said yesterday. Heathrow workers are currently being...

New Politics Equals Dictatorship!

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THE new Tory coalition government is facing an angry response to its plans to install itself for five years, and stay in power even...

Labour Mounts Attack On Disabled

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Disability charities yesterday expressed concerns over Labour’s plans to introduce harsh work tests and force almost two million people off incapacity benefit. In his Budget...

Lift lockdown now and our members will refuse to work

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‘THE GOVERNMENT is trying to say: “You take the risk to the staff, and you take the risk to the passengers, it is on...

FREEDOM FOR PALESTINE! – Zionists seen off in Amsterdam

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SUPPORTERS of Palestine confronted Israelis in Amsterdam who tore down the Palestinian flag. The scene began with chants of ‘Death to Arabs’ and ended with...

SLEEPING ON THE STREETS! – treatment of asylum seekers condemned

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REFUSED asylum-seekers are eating out of bins and sleeping in parks, public toilets and phone-boxes because of government policy New reports show government...
Police surround Stockwell tube station after armed officers brutally executed Jean Charles de Menezes on July 22, 2005

BLAIR SACKED! – in the second week of the de Menezes inquest

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Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair, who presided over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes and supported the right of police to shoot to...
Don't Let Junior Doctors Strike Be Defeated!

Don’t Let Junior Doctors Strike Be Defeated!

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THE decision to postpone the 48 hour strike action by junior doctors from 26 January without any attempt by the government to meet the...
ALEX PEREIRA, cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes

‘SHOCK AND DISBELIEF’ – of de Menezes family at new police killing

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The family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday expressed ‘shock and disbelief at the news that officers involved in the killing of Jean Charles...
Young Socialists banner on the July 1st march to kick the Tories out demanding the TUC call a general strike

£490bn GOES MISSING! – as bosses move to crash UK economy

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REVISED figures from Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) ‘Blue Book’, which measures economic activity in the UK, show that Britain’s global investments have collapsed...

Still no justice for Grenfell!!

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AHEAD of today’s fourth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire of 14th June 2017, survivors and bereaved relatives have condemned the lack of progress...
Remploy workers and supporters campaigning in Brixton yesterday

HORRIFIC INJUSTICE! – Alder family will not give up

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LIBERTY this week asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to determine if Christopher Alder’s death in police custody has been properly investigated...

Nut Strike In Week Of June 23

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) voted overwhelmingly yesterday in favour of holding a one-day strike in England and Wales in the week...
CWU Pickets at the Wood Green delivery office last Friday

Rolling Post Strikes Called

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After days of indecision, the Communication Workers Union leadership yesterday announced a series of rolling strikes over two weeks, instead of the indefinite national...
‘Save Chase Farm’ councillors KEIRAN McGREGOR and KATE WILKINSON (wearing T-shirts) with fellow campaigners lobbying Parliament yesterday

STOP NHS CLOSURES – say lobbying NHS hospital groups

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HEALTH workers and campaigners descended on Parliament from many parts of the country yesterday, to defend their hospitals. ‘My hospital is under threat. It’s a...

‘We have to keep our rights’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet workers are opposing a ‘compromise agreement’, which the company and leaders of the Transport and General Workers’ Union are negotiating and which...

‘Make May Day a day of struggle for Palestine’ – Hamas

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HAMAS has called on human rights and humanitarian organisations around the world to fulfill their responsibilities in exposing the escalating Israeli crimes and violations...

MASS GRAVES AT GAZA HOSPITALS – EU & UN call for war crimes inquiry

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THE EU and the UN called for an official probe into mass graves at hospitals in Gaza, where hundreds of bodies have been discovered,...
Lively mass Xmas picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning demanding that the STP closure plans are thrown out

Throw STP plans out!

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‘THROW the STP plans out!’ said Roseline Nwangwu an Ealing Hospital worker yesterday morning. Unite union member Roseline added: ‘If they close Ealing Hospital...

‘NO SPARE CAPACITY IN HOSPITALS’ warns BMA

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PATIENTS are suffering as pressure on the NHS reaches a historic high, the BMA warned yesterday. Tthe publication of NHS England’s ‘winter health check’...

NATIONALISE! – to save jobs says ATUA national secretary

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‘Industries must be nationalised under workers control and with no compensation to the failed former owners,’ said All Trades Unions Alliance national secretary Dave...
Local NUT members came to support CWU pickets at the Greenford Mail Centre in West London yesterday morning

‘we All Need To Strike Together’

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THE second series of strikes in the national postal dispute commenced yesterday morning, with Mail Centres walking out at the start of three days...

Parliamentary Democracy RIP! – Stewart wants a ‘Citizens Assembly’

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BORIS Johnson came under fire yesterday for boycotting last night’s Channel 4 debate between the candidates for the Tory party leadership and the position...

People facing choice between heating or eating!

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‘There’s a growing cohort of people facing a choice between eating or heating who might not have even considered having to access our inadequate...
Greek youth, part of the massive demonstration that marched to the US and Israeli embassies in support of the Palestinian people

50,000 Greek Workers March For Palestine

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OVER 50,000 students, youth and workers marched through the Athens city centre last Saturday to the American Embassy and then to the Israeli Embassy. They...

Burnham Gets Support To Replace Starmer

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GREATER Manchester mayor Andy Burnham received a public endorsement on Friday from ex-Health Secretary Wes Streeting to contest the Makerfield byelection, in his fresh...

‘Nationalise Land Rover & Jaguar’ – call at TGWU Conference

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THE Transport and General Workers Union Biennial Delegate Conference in Brighton yesterday heard a call for the nationalisation of Jaguar and Land Rover to...
Fenland Foods workers picketing Marks & Spencer in the struggle to keep their jobs

BANK OF ENGLAND FEELS ‘ECONOMIC CHILL’ – Governor King forecasts ‘painful’ years ahead

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‘There is a feeling of economic chill in the air,’ Bank of England governor Mervyn King said yesterday. Introducing the Bank’s latest monthly inflation report,...

Trump threat to invade Cuba!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has threatened Cuba, warning on Sunday: ‘THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I...
Palestinians supporting their hunger strikers picketed the Israeli embassy on Saturday

MAY DAY MANIFESTO – Russian Revolution Centenary – Forward to world-wide October!

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the youth of the world. This year’s May Day is...

TAKE GOVIA INTO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP demands RMT

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A NEW RMT hotline exposes 33 examples of Govia Thameslink cancelling trains due to ‘staff shortage’ or other excuses when a full crew of...

Firefighters March With Grenfell Families & Supporters

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HUNDREDS of firefighters from fire brigades across the UK marked the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell disaster yesterday by participating in the silent walk...
Midwives on the picket line at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on November 24 – they will be joining other health unions striking on January 29th

NHS A&E Crisis

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HEALTH unions responded angrily to figures released yesterday showing the worst NHS waiting times in decades. This unprecedented crisis, the unions said, is a result of...

US takeover of GP surgeries subject to Judicial Review

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THE takeover of GP practices in London by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation will be subject of a judicial review in early 2022...

Daily Israeli ceasefire violations!

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HAMAS says that since the ceasefire agreement came into effect last month, Israel ‘has not ceased its daily and continuous’ violations. According to the statement...

Newham ambulance staff fighting to win!

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Ambulance staff demonstrated outside Newham Hospital in East London yesterday against the imposition of grossly inferior un-negotiated new contracts, and demanding that they be...
CGT members marching in defence of jobs. French unions have called for a massive turnout next Tuesday in defence of pensions

FRANCE PENSIONS STRIKE SEPTEMBER 7th

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French trade unions met yesterday to finalise arrangements for ‘a day of strikes and demonstrations’ across France on September 7th. There is enormous anger over...

Defend Heathrow jobs rally today!

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HUNDREDS of British Airways workers are demonstrating outside the airline’s Heathrow HQ today against the outsourcing and offshoring of their jobs to Tata Consultancy...
Patients, GPs and staff marching through Tower Hamlets to defend 21 east London GP surgeries threatened with closure

Cameron’s 7-day GPs & NHS provokes strike threat

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HEALTH unions have threatened to strike over Cameron’s plans to create a seven-day-a-week health service, if it means cuts to the existing payments for...

Draconian New Laws Are Rushed In By The Tories!

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‘DRACONIAN’ new laws have been rushed in by the Tories ahead of Saturday’s coronation and a letter described by lawyers as ‘intimidatory’, has been...

Johnson-Sunak Sought To Avoid Self-Isolation

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PM JOHNSON and Chancellor Sunak were forced into a humiliating u-turn yesterday morning, having initially sought to avoid self-isolating after having been ‘pinged’ following...

Doctors reject Streeting attacks

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RESIDENT doctors in England have overwhelmingly voted that the government’s proposed offer on jobs is not good enough for them to call off proposed...

VACCINE TO BE TESTED ON OVER 80s

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NO DECISION has been made on how people under 50 should be offered a Covid vaccine, UK officials said yesterday. The UK’s Joint Committee on...