Greek Workers To Stand Trial

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The Athens State Prosecutor ordered that 13 trade unionists, a pensioner and an unemployed worker who were arrested by riot police last Thursday morning...

‘We will fight NHS sackings’

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‘We are going to fight the compulsory redundancies,’ West Midlands UNISON regional officer Opinder Tiwana told News Line yesterday, in the wake of University...

Government rides roughshod! – Cameron excludes health professionals

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‘DON’T you dare lie to me!’ angry pensioner June Hautot shouted at Health Secretary Lansley as she confronted him at the entrance to Downing...
This  Sunday – EALING CONFERENCE – No more cuts and closures!

This Sunday – EALING CONFERENCE – No more cuts and closures!

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EALING CONFERENCE GOES AHEAD: On the eve of the West London Council of Action Conference to defend Ealing Hospital, due to take place on...
CWU members marching in Kingston in January last year against Royal Mail privatisation

Royal Mail Pensions Robbery

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GOVERNMENT plans to ‘asset-strip’ the £28 billion Royal Mail pension scheme and plough the money into cutting the budget deficit were yesterday condemned by...

Labour PM reveals his class war Budget will cause ‘pain’!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer will focus on growth and wealth creation, he told selected guests and media in the Downing Street rose garden...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the factory at Heathrow yesterday

Revolutionary Mass Action Defeats Chirac And Villepin

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FRENCH Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was yesterday forced to make a dramatic climbdown by withdrawing the hated CPE (Contrat Premiere Embauche) for youth. The...
Campaigning on Saturday afternoon in Southall Broadway to stop the closure of the Ealing Hospital Maternity Department

Keep Ealing Maternity open!

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A CAMPAIGN team was out on Southall Broadway yesterday fighting for this Wednesday’s march and occupation to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity...

One million to strike

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OVER a million council workers and school support staff are to strike on 14 October over the government’s 1% pay ‘offer’. Unions representing over a...
RMT demonstration yesterday morning at Waterloo Station demanding South West Trains keeps their guards on trains in the interest of passenger safety

‘Keep guards on trains’ demands RMT

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AS CHINESE state-owned MTR takes over the South West Trains (SWT) contract, the RMT rail union has called on the new owner to honour...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow yesterday were demanding union leaders fight for every job

Bosses keeping Gourmet locked-out workers waiting

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‘IF I’m told I’m to be made compulsorily redundant I will not accept. I’m fighting for reinstatement and will not give up my claim...
ISMAIL HANIYEH in Tehran where he attended the inaugauration of Iranian president MASOUD PEZESHKIAN (right)

Israeli terror regime assassinates Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh

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MASS demonstrations were held across Palestine and throughout the Arab world yesterday after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by Israel in the Iranian...
Tony Hall at work in his studio

TONY HALL 12th November 1936 – 21st February 2008

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WE are very sad to have to announce the death from lung cancer of Tony Hall, a very good friend of the News Line,...

Tube pickets call for a general strike to bring down the Tories

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‘I HOPE this action is the beginning of a wider movement of the working class standing together in solidarity and working towards a general...

GRENFELL – ‘PROSECUTE THE GUILTY!’ – Survivors still demanding justice

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JUSTICE for Grenfell yesterday branded as ‘outrageous’ and ‘atrocious’ the demand by company officials called before the Grenfell Inquiry for immunity from prosecution. The Grenfell...

Putin urges ‘Defend Arctic’

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his military leadership they should build up their forces in the Arctic as a priority. Commending the recent restoration...

How the US government murdered Soleimani!

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NBC News has revealed details of Washington’s assassination of Iranian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, saying the terrorist operation used Israeli intelligence and was...

Get out of the EU now! – RMT’s Cash tells May Day rally

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‘GET OUT of the EU now,’ RMT general secretary Mick Cash told the May Day rally in Trafalgar Square at the end of the...

Over 100,000 March On The US Embassy!

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MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched from Parliament Square from Downing Street in Whitehall to the American Embassy in Battersea on Saturday...

400 nurses and other NHS workers strike over safety and pay!

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DAY surgery operating theatre nurses at St Thomas’ Hospital opposite Parliament are striking again today against having their shift times forcibly extended again! The 50...

‘Blatant act of annexation’ – Ashrawi slams Israeli ‘nature reserve’ land grab

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ISRAEL is creating ‘nature reserves’ in the occupied West Bank and this is ‘a blatant act of annexation and land theft that violates international...
Celebrations outside the ERT station after the Greek High Court ordered the ending of the closure

‘A Victory at ERT’ – workers determined to bring down Samaras

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THE leaders of the eleven TV, Radio and newspaper media trade unions issued a ‘Victory at ERT’ (Greek State TV and Radio network) statement...
Postal workers and their supporters rallying against the privatisation of Royal Mail  in January – now a new wave of post office closures is planned

9,000 Post Offices To Close!

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Government plans to sell Royal Mail, ending the inter-business agreement with the Post Office, would lead to over 9,000 post office closures, a poll...

House price inflation reaches 8.4%

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RETAIL Price Index (RPI) inflation, which includes housing costs, grew by 2.8% in the year ending January 2014, up from 2.7% in December 2013. This...

McCAIN TO TAKE BROWN TO TASK – over UK troops withdrawal

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US Republican presidential candidate John McCain, due in London next week to meet premier Gordon Brown, has said in advance of the visit that...
Greek workers battle with riot police

Greece under Franco- German occupation!

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THE European Commission has formed an enlarged Task Force of over 100 German and French technocrats to oversee the implementation of the conditions attached...
Angry junior doctors lobbying Parliament on Tuesday against the government’s NHS ‘reforms’

RESIGN NOW HEWITT! – demand junior doctors

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‘The appropriate thing for Patricia Hewitt to do, would be to resign now,’ said furious junior doctors yesterday after their personal details were made...
After massive protests NHS England has decided that child heart surgery will continue at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust

NHS CRISIS–‘LISTEN TO DOCTORS WARNINGS’ urges BMA

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JUNIOR doctors at Portsmouth Hospital were used to interpret tens of thousands of X-rays without proper training and as a result cases of...

Grenfell Tower Fire Has Left Deep Scars!

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THE Grenfell Tower Inquiry on Wednesday published its final report. Responding to the report, Matt Wrack, Fire Brigades Union general secretary, said: ‘Today is a...

Remain permanently in customs union – says Corbyn

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‘LABOUR’S plan is for Britain and the European Union (EU) to negotiate a permanent customs union to protect jobs and manufacturing,’ Labour leader Jeremy...

‘WE WANT ACTION FOR JOBS’ says YS leader ’

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OFFICIAL unemployment figures released by the Office for National Statistics yesterday, revealed that nearly two-and-a-half million people remain unemployed, one million of them youth. The...

Bring us back ‘in-house’ – demand Barts SERCO strikers

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BARTS Hospital Trust workers organised a march from the hospital to a meeting at Altab Ali Park on the final Friday of their two-week...

‘We will not leave the patients alone: We will live and die together’ –...

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HUNDREDS of Israeli soldiers are continuing their raid in all sections of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, with bulldozers destroying buildings in the southern section...

15-Year-Old On Work Experience Lost In North Sea

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‘We are all deeply shocked by this terrible tragedy,’ Amicus Regional Officer, Graham Tran, said yesterday. Tran was commenting on the deaths of seven men...

Mark Duggan Inquest Opens

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‘WE HAVE been provided with nothing but lies, misinformation and delay,’ Pam Duggan, the mother of Mark Duggan said yesterday, on the opening day...

370,000 Council Homes To Be Sold Off!

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370,000 council and housing association homes will be sold off in England by 2020, the head of the Chartered Institute of Housing has warned. Terrie...
Marchers on the 5,000-strong Nottingham demonstration against NHS cuts determined to keep their A&E services

DEFEND DISTRICT HOSPITALS! – NHS report says treat life-threatening conditions at home

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The GMB trade union yesterday condemned as ‘dubious’ a leaked NHS report recommendation that patients with life-threatening complaints be kept out of hospital and...
Greek workers remain completely opposed to the austerity measures and the betrayal of the Syriza government which has now resigned

Greek Election Crisis!

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SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras announced on Thursday evening that he was resigning as Prime Minister and has called an early Greek election. Tsipras, who was...

de Menezes Inquest ‘a Whitewash’

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THE FAMILY of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday vowed to continue their struggle for justice, and while denouncing the conduct of the coroner at...

CWU BT Group to ballot all members for action!

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THE Telecoms & Financial Services Conference voted yesterday to serve legal notice to BT Group of the union’s intention to ballot all appropriate members...
A section of last Friday’s 10,000-strong demonstration outside the Israeli embassy in London demanding an end to the Israeli onslaught on Gaza

Rafah school shelled!

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TEN Palestinians were killed on Sunday after Israeli shells hit a UN school in Rafah where thousands of people were sheltering from the ongoing...
Evelyn with her daughter and supporters who came with the South-East London Council of Action to stop the eviction yesterday

Bailiffs Turned Away On Heygate Estate

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THE eviction of Heygate Estate tenant Evelyn Amahian and her two-year-old daughter was halted yesterday morning, when 40 tenants, trade unionists and youth arrived...

Brexit Turncoats Rally Behind May

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ONE-TIME leading Brexiteers in the cabinet, now ‘turncoats’, have rallied behind Theresa May amid attempts to unseat her by Tory MPs. Michael Gove said...
EARLY Thursday morning a large group of police escorting over a dozen bailiffs, arrived at the council estate on Benhill road, Camberwell south London to make a second, surprise attempt to evict Aminata Sellu and her three children.

42,728 evictions in 2015!

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42,728 evictions in 2015 are ‘clear proof of the devastating impact that welfare cuts and the chronic shortage of affordable homes are having on...

UK Refuses To Apologise For Balfour Declaration!

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PALESTINIAN ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, said yesterday that Britain has officially refused to apologise for the infamous Balfour Declaration, and instead has...