Hands off Syria’ demonstration in London in 2013 when former PM Cameron’s vote for bombing was defeated in Parliament – PM May has bypassed Parliament to authorise military action

‘PM accountable to Parliament not U.S.’ says Labour leader Corbyn

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‘THIS STATEMENT serves as a reminder that this Prime Minister is accountable to this Parliament, not to the whims of the US President,’ Labour...
Locked-out US National Grid workers are due to lobby the AGM of the privatised UK parent company on Monday 30th July in Birmingham

US Steelworkers To Protest At National Grid Agm

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MEMBERS of the United Steelworkers union working for the British multinational utility company National Grid in the US state of Massachusetts will be flying...

Bromley Workers Defend Jobs

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COUNCIL workers in Bromley, south London, are engaged in ten days of strike action to halt the privatisation of their services which threatens thousands...
Tower Hamlets demonstration against the closure and sell-off of GP surgeries

Reject Devo Manc To Defend The NHS!

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GREATER Manchester Association of Trades Union Councils (GMATUC ) has called a mass NHS emergency protest rally for Sunday to protest against the plan...
Engineering construction workers demonstrating at the Lindsey power station site demanding their right to work

Jobs Protest At Uskmouth

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Unemployed construction workers were joined by young apprentices unable to complete their training because of a lack of work, in a mass protest at...
A section of the 4,000-strong ‘Not Fair Not Safe’ demonstration of Junior Doctors outside Leeds City Art Gallery on Wednesday

Mass support for doctors!

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OVER 4,000 junior doctors and their supporters staged a three-hour mass rally outside the City Art Gallery in the centre of Leeds on Wednesday...

Abusive MI5 agent’s identity cannot be revealed says judge

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THE BBC is to be prevented from naming a man it says exploited his status as an MI5 agent to abuse a partner and...
Junior doctors in Norwich taking strike action – many are looking to the TUC to take action with them on October 5th

Tories Busting NHS!

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NHS leaders in England say they have reached a ‘tipping point’ and cannot maintain standards for patients on the funding they are getting. Chris Hopson,...

Cambridge to remain in NUS

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THE National Union of Students has welcomed the decision by Cambridge University students to remain in the NUS after they rejected a motion to...
Southern rail workers during their strike to keep the guard on the train picketing outside Brighton station earlier this month

Rail Strikes Spread

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RAIL strikes are spreading with RMT announcing yesterday a 24 hour strike action on Virgin trains East Coast over the threat to nearly 200...

British Soldier Killed In Basra Attack!

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A British soldier has been killed and another injured during an attack at a UK base in Basra, southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence...

Israel escalating massacres of civilians – warns Hamas

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A SENIOR official from Hamas, Basem Naim, said in a statement yesterday that Hamas is open to any initiative to end the war. ‘We affirm...

UN condemns Egyptian military

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UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has called for an independent investigation into violence in Egypt and said she deplored the killing of protesters...

Crucial Ballot To Continue Night Tube Strike!

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THE BALLOT for a new mandate to continue the powerful RMT Night Tube strike on London Underground has reached a crucial point, with the...

Banbury Workers Battle ‘Fire & Rehire’

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WORKERS at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury are ramping up pressure in the ‘fire and rehire’ struggle with a protest on Saturday (1...
Trade unionists demand ‘Save the NHS’ and ‘More Midwives’ – but the Tory-led coalition is out to smash up the health service and hand services over to private businesses

Privatisation Threat To Midwives Jobs

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Pregnant women living in the borough of Wirral, northwest England, face being put under the care of a private healthcare company rather than the...

Russia for negotiated ceasefire! – ‘There will be no joining NATO!’

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THE RUSSIAN Ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, held a press conference in New York yesterday during which he made it clear that...

Gadaffi – fighting alongside his soldiers – says Juburi

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MISH'AN al-Juburi, director of the Al-Ra’y Satellite Channel, has said that Libyan leader Muammar al-Gadaffi is still in Libya fighting side by side...
Defiant Junior Doctors are ready to strike again

Junior doctors considering strike action

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JUNIOR doctors, furious at being offered only a 2 per cent pay rise last month, are considering strike action. The British Medical Association (BMA)...

27,100 REPOSSESSIONS IN 2007 – says Council of Mortgage Lenders

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The number of people in the UK whose homes were repossessed last year rose by 21 per cent, to 27,100, compared to 22,400 in...
ROSE GENTLE (centre) on the demonstration in March 2005 to mark the second anniversary on the launching of the war on Iraq

‘BLAIR SHOULD GO TO THE HAGUE’ – says Rose Gentle

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‘Tony Blair should be going to the Hague Tribunal after what he has said,’ Rose Gentle of Military families Against the War, whose son...

Coalition Split Widening

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THE split in the coalition government deepened yesterday, with Deputy Prime Minister Clegg absenting himself from the House of Commons as Prime Minister Cameron...

CROW CALLS FOR GENERAL STRIKE! – no mandate for coalition cuts!

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THE RMT’s Bob Crow yesterday called for ‘general coordinated strike action allied to community direct action’ to resist the ConDem coalition government’s...
BA cabin crew strikers march defiantly at Heathrow airport on the last day of their strike action, June 9

BA strike ballot cancelled – BASSA website is blacked out

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UNITE has cancelled its strike ballot of BA cabin crew stating that a new deal is now on the table, and the dispute could...
ALEX PEREIRA, cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes – who was murdered by the police at Stockwell tube on Friday 22nd July – addressing the News Line Anniversary Rally last Sunday

Gate Gourmet Workers Angry At Tgwu Officials

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers spoke out angrily yesterday over TGWU officers who are putting pressure on those the company has selected for compulsory...
Health professionals on the march in February demand the government grant overseas doctors visas to come and work in the NHS where they are desperately needed

A&E beds & doctors crisis – May blocks 100 Indian doctors’ visas

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A SEVERE shortfall of both A&E doctors and hospital beds must be tackled, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said in response...
Masses assembling on the Embankment before setting off on Saturday

500,000 March For Action To Bring Down The Coalition!

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500,000 angry workers, trade unionists and youth marched in London, Glasgow and Belfast against the Tory-LibDem Coalition government and its cuts and privatisation programme...

Gatwick Airport Faces Default!

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GATWICK Airport is in talks with bank lenders to try to avoid defaulting on multi-million pound loans, as Covid restrictions contribute to huge losses. The...

PM Johnson refuses to resign despite damning Gray report!

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TORY PRIME Minister Boris Johnson refused to resign yesterday despite calls to do so from MPs of all parties across the House of Commons,...
BA cabin crew celebrating their High Court victory in May condemned BA management ‘bullying’

Resume BA strike action–urge cabin crew

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‘WE WANT the strike action reinstated immediately and extended, so that we can defeat Walsh’s union-busting operation once and for all,’ British Airways Stewards...
PCS and NASUWT members marching in defence of their pensions on November 30 – they will not accept what they regard as a completely unfair tax

Another Unfair Tax!

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Trade unions yesterday condemned the Cameron government’s just-announced decision to press ahead with increasing the pension contributions of public service workers from April 2012. Teachers...

Food prices soar 80% in a year

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WHILE Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures claimed yesterday that ‘real pay’ has fallen by just 2.3% in the last three months, a Which?...

Hamas fighters in fierce battles with Israeli army in Jabalia!

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The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported yesterday that it has treated numerous Palestinians, including children, injured in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, even...

CORBYN WELCOMED – while right wing refuses to serve

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TRADE unions yesterday welcomed the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader. This was after the explosion of working class anger inside and around...
Greek riot police attack a young female demonstrator in Athens last Saturday. Photo credit: Left.gr

Greek riot police act as occupation army

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ARMED riot police unleashed a pre-planned pogrom of sheer violence against mass marches of mainly school and university students in all the main cities...

TIME TO DEFEND NHS! say UNISON and the GMB

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‘We need an end to the privatisation of the NHS,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was responding to government backing for the...

WORKING CLASS MUST TAKE POWER IN 2020! New Year’s Day Manifesto

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2020 to all our readers, and to the working class, youth and the poor who...
The marchers were given a great reception by Unison and GMB members as they arrived in Harrow

Workers support march to TUC!

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ON THE first day of the Young Socialists March for Jobs from London to Liverpool, as the marchers made their way through Harrow, on...

Heathrow – Unite steps up strike action

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WORKERS at Heathrow Airport will next week step up strike action in their increasingly bitter dispute over massive wage cuts that the company is...

Deputy leader Watson condemns Labour EU policy

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LABOUR members’ ‘hearts are Remain’ Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson claimed yesterday addressing the Centre for European Reform. He went on to insist that...

‘CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE’ – Gadaffi urges in his will

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THREE days after his death, a website has published the last will written by murdered Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi. In his will, the Libyan leader...
An earlier demonstration against the privatisation of GP surgeries in Tower Hamlets – now they are to be closed

17 SURGERIES UNDER THREAT! – in Hackney and Tower Hamlets

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SEVENTEEN GP surgeries in Hackney and Tower Hamlets are facing closure from Tory-led coalition cuts. Five GP practices in Tower Hamlets and 12 in Hackney...

‘Greetings to this fantastic show of strength’ says Mark Serwotka

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THERE were more than 40,000 teachers and other striking workers on the NEU demonstration on Wednesday 1st February – with the front of the...
Greek riot police squads and buses block the road to demonstrating teachers last Thursday

Greek Riot Police Attack Demonstrators

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SACKED Finance Ministry cleaners demanding re-employment, occupied the Athens district tax office in Kallithea yesterday morning. At the same time, state teachers on the ‘mobility...

£3bn of savage education cuts

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CHILDREN will pay a terrible price for £3 billion of savage Tory school budget cuts, education unions warned yesterday. State schools in England will have...