‘If other workers want to come out with us they are very welcome!’
THE RMT strike action went ahead yesterday after talks on Wednesday broke down without agreement. John Gutteridge, RMT Learning Rep spoke to News Line on...
Brutal pay and job cuts at Heathrow! – Unite leaders on their knees! Replace...
HEATHROW has threatened unions that unless they accept brutal pay cuts, they will start enforcing job cuts! The ultimatum delivered by the bosses proposes cutting...
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...
BA SUSPENSIONS ‘TEST OF THE UNION’ say Gate Gourmet workers
THE GATE Gourmet mass picket at Heathrow airport was visited by Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley and the union’s General...
Student loans privatised! – Birmingham University occupied!
BIRMINGHAM students have occupied their university, pre-empting yesterday’s announcement that Student Loans are to be sold off by the Tory coalition government...
PCS-Budget Day Strike!
UP to a quarter of a million civil and public servants from across the UK will be taking part in a one day strike...
Beaten To Death
A leaked US Army Criminal Investigation Command report has revealed a catalogue of prisoner abuses, including two deaths, by the US military at Bagram...
London Met Mass Picket
BOSSES of London Met University were yesterday accused of acting like ‘19th century mill owners’ at a rally outside the Holloway Road campus in...
Tanks and commandos storm al-Shifa Hospital
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) stormed Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City at dawn yesterday, kidnapping dozens of injured, displaced people, forcing them outside undressed, blindfolded...
‘No Forced Academies’
THE Tories published an Education and Adoption Bill yesterday, setting out plans to academise a further 1,000 schools by 2020. Education Secretary Nicky Morgan warned...
NURSES TAKE LABOUR TO COURT! –to stop the privatisation of NHS Primary Care Services
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday began a legal challenge to government plans to privatise the NHS by abolishing the role of Primary...
BRITISH ARMY ‘WRONG IN IRELAND, IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN’ – Gerry Kelly tells Sinn Féin...
BY JOHN COULTER, IRISH POLITICAL JOURNALIST Sinn Féin and families of the victims of British state violence, yesterday held their rally in opposition to...
50 people an hour at risk of losing home!
ALARMING new figures from housing charity Shelter have revealed more than 8,300 people in England were put at risk of losing their home every...
‘We Will Win This Battle’ Say Serco Strikers
THERE was a very lively picket at the Royal London Hospital of Serco workers yesterday, on the third day of their current 14-day strike. They...
May postpones vote on Brexit!
‘ON ONE issue on the Northern Ireland backstop there remains widespread and deep concern. As a result, if we went ahead and held...
Branson ‘Sweetheart’ Deal Denied By Brown
THE Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was yesterday forced to deny that he was directly negotiating a ‘sweetheart’ deal with Virgin’s Richard Branson to allow...
Drownings–Greece Accused!
THE shocking truth is slowly emerging of last Monday’s ‘several’ drownings of refugees off the Aegean island of Farmakonisi, close to the Turkish coast. The...
Reverse Winter Fuel Allowance cut!
A MOTION is set to be put to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this afternoon to oppose PM Starmer’s scrapping of the Winter...
We Want Permanent Ceasefire
‘I’M THE best friend of Parameswaran Subramaniyan,’ 22-year-old Tharmini Tharmaraja told News Line on the edge of Westminster Green yesterday. Hundreds were demonstrating opposite the...
98 GP PRACTICES FACING CLOSURE! – says BMA
AT LEAST 98 GP practices are threatened with closure as a direct result of Tory coalition funding cuts, doctors union the BMA warned yesterday. The...
University Of Arts London Occupied!
STUDENTS at University of Arts London (UAL) are in indefinite occupation of London College of Communications (LCC) in Southwark to oppose Elephant & Castle...
DEFEND DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS – decides NHS Consultants conference
The British Medical Association consultants conference yesterday voted overwhelmingly to ‘mount the strongest defence of integrated District General Hospitals’. In his keynote speech to the...
Three More US Marines Killed
Three more US marines were killed in western Iraq on Monday, the US military confirmed yesterday. All three, from the 2nd Marine Division, were taking...
Police Attack Sparks –As 10,000 Students March
Over 10,000 students and a number of trade unionists marched through central London yesterday against £9,000 fees, education cuts and privatisation. The protest was organised...
Voters Reject Tories And Warn Labour
THURSDAY’S by-elections saw voters completely rejecting the Tories, destroying the LibDems and giving the Labour Party a very stiff warning. UKIP gained its first elected...
Magna To Send Business Plans To Mandelson
Business Secretary Mandelson has signalled that the government may provide a bridging loan or loan guarantees to help finance the sale of GM...
‘SHOCKING ABUSE!’ – at the hands of the state
PEOPLE who have fled to Britain, seeking help and refuge, are suffering horrifying violence at the hands of the British state, it was alleged...
Balls to means-test pensioners!
LABOUR Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls, yesterday made it crystal clear that if elected, Labour would continue Tory policy to to make pensioners, workers,...
LABOUR ‘NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE’ – NUJ leader Jeremy Dear tells Defend Public Services...
OPENING the ‘Public Services Not Private Profit’ rally yesterday, John McDonnell MP said: ‘Today is the largest and broadest lobby of parliament for decades....
29 Palestinians killed, 3,000 wounded in Gaza – ‘There are no innocent people in...
TWENTY-NINE Palestinian civilians have been killed and 3,000 wounded by Israeli snipers and tanks firing at unarmed demonstrators near the Gaza border over the...
BETRAYAL! – Palestinian resistance slams UAE over receiving Israeli PM Bennett
THE PALESTINIAN Islamic Jihad resistance movement strongly condemned the United Arab Emirates (UAE) officials yesterday for receiving Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett, stressing that any...
Climate change activists block central London
THOUSANDS of ‘Extinction Rebellion’ protesters blocked key areas of central London yesterday demanding action from the government on the ‘climate and ecological emergency’. Traffic was...
HOTEL QUARANTINE – Pay £1,750 for ten days or fined £10,000 – Lie on...
ANYONE who has visited one of the red list countries and who fails to quarantine in a government-designated hotel faces a fine of up...
Strike now across Britain and globally to defeat Netanyahu’s Gaza plan!
MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched through London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday on the 29th National March for Palestine...
Greece In Revolution!
TENS of thousands of Greek workers, youth and unemployed took part in a general strike rally yesterday in front of the occupied ERT (Greek...
‘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...
Greek Students March Against Privatisation
TENS of thousands of students have been participating in a series of rallies and demonstrations all last week throughout Greece, protesting against the right-wing...
UK economy collapsing – destitution on the rise
BUSINESS activity in Britain fell for the third consecutive month last month, with economists warning of recession. The S&P Global/CIPS flash services business activity index...
Council executives in luxury while: WORKERS STRUGGLE!
PLAID Cymru Assembly Members have accused the Labour-led Welsh government of supporting the huge salaries of council chief executives. The chief executive of Wales’s biggest...
Occupation turning regime troops into animals says Kotler
AN ISRAELI news anchor Oshrat Kotler has blamed the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands for turning regime troops into ‘animals’. She has defended her...
Corona spreading through England’s school system!
DESPITE warnings from unions the Tories re-opened schools last week, and now coronavirus has begun spreading through the school system across England. Five teachers at...
‘CHARGES UNDERMINE THE NHS’ – urges consultant surgeon
Trade unions yesterday slammed Labour’s privatisation policy in response to MPs’ criticism of the system of NHS charges. MPs on the House of Commons...
Hunt Reveals A Bankrupt Britain
CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt has warned it is ‘unlikely’ that there will be room for any ‘significant’ tax cuts in the Budget. But Hunt said that...
STOP THE AIRPORTS! – smash the strikebreaking bosses
YESTERDAY the Gate Gourmet picket lines were buzzing with the latest revelations concerning the way that the bosses had provoked a strike in order...
Nurses voting begins in indicative strike ballot – 160,000-strong petition handed to No 10
A DELEGATION from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) representing members from across the country handed in a 160,000-strong petition to 10 Downing Street...