Teachers ready for more action!
HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers, members of the NUT, took strike action yesterday in defence of jobs, pay and their pensions. In London more...
Grenfell families rehoused in ‘high fire-risk’ building
KENSINGTON and Chelsea council have re-housed Grenfell survivors and their families in a block found to have a ‘high risk’ of fire! A fire risk...
GREECE ERUPTS – against austerity cuts
Hundreds of thousands of workers, youth and self-employed people staged a colossal rally last Sunday night in Athens outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) against...
Hospital penalised for fast treatment
UNISON Eastern regional head of health Geoff Reason yesterday condemned Labour over £2.5m in penalties imposed on Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust for treating patients...
‘WAR ON LOW PAY!’ – launched at Unite conference
‘WE are launching a war against low wages’ Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner announced yesterday on the second day of their annual conference. Unite...
Families are struggling with cost of living admits Reeves
FOOD, clothing, footwear, fuel, non-alcoholic drinks, alcohol, tobacco, and gig & play tickets all rose at a faster pace last month, leading to another...
Athens Cleaners Defiant!
SOME 1,500 workers marched through the Athens city centre on Thursday evening, in a militant demonstration of solidarity with the nine-month-old fight of the...
Workhouse Master Duncan Smith Attacks Poor
PCS civil servants union general secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday slammed Work and Pensions secretary Duncan Smith’s speech attacking youth, families and the unemployed. Serwotka said:...
Israel plans ‘unprecedented massacre’ in Rafah
‘ANY military operations in Rafah – with its limited space and crowding with over 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the Israeli army – would...
DISTRICT NURSES CRISIS – RCN warns 10,000 are needed
DISTRICT nurses face ‘extinction’ by 2025 unless the Tory coalition government launches a mass recruitment campaign and funds an extra 10,000 nurses, warned the...
20 Nations demand that Israel scraps West Bank occupation plans!
ISRAEL’S approval of the E1 settlement scheme in the occupied West Bank has provoked condemnation from more than 20 countries, including several members of...
Imposed Contract Stresses Junior Doctors!
ANXIETY, stress and depression were to blame for nearly half the sick days taken by doctors in central Bristol last year, according to new...
Two Pumas Down – Two Dead, 15 Injured
Two UK servicemen were killed yesterday when two British helicopters crashed in northern Iraq in the early hours, Defence Secretary Des Browne...
‘THE STRIKES MUST GO AHEAD’ – CWU members tell News Line
Communication Workers Union (CWU) branch officials yesterday warned CWU general secretary Billy Hayes and deputy general secretary Dave Ward against selling out postal workers...
Belfast Cwu – Still Out!
Striking Belfast postal workers yesterday told union representatives that they are not going back to work. Communications Workers Union spokesman, Owen Davey, said after...
HEALTH BILL DISMANTLING THE NHS – warn GPs
The Tory-LibDem Health and Social Care Bill risks ‘unravelling and dismantling’ the NHS, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) warned yesterday. The competition running...
No Low-Pay Zone In South West
The South West TUC has today launched a campaign to stop the West Country being declared a low-pay zone. Chancellor Osborne’s plan to end national...
AN EPIDEMIC OF THE GREATEST EVIL – Fallujah bombings condemned
‘It’s not only in Fallujah, but all over Iraq that there are child deformities. ‘I’ve been in the medical profession for 30 years, I’ve...
Fallon Wants Lawless Army!
UK DEFENCE Secretary Michael Fallon yesterday called for withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph he...
RAIL CHAOS AFTER NEW TIMETABLE IMPOSED – TSSA calls for renationalisation
RAIL CHAOS rapidly spread across the length and breadth of the UK as new train timetables coming into force yesterday hit serious problems, leaving...
WE WILL WIN IN NEW YEAR! – say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to support their conference in London on January 29th. On the picket line...
14 Marines Killed In Al-Anbar
Fourteen US Marines and their civilian translator were killed by a roadside bomb blast in north-western Iraq early yesterday. The Marines were killed...
More than 30 Labour MPs oppose Starmer’s assault on benefits – 4.5 million...
KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...
NO TO CITY ACADEMIES! – TUC rejects Blair ‘flagship’ policy
THE TUC yesterday voted unanimously to oppose city academies. The National Union of Teachers President Hilary Bills urged the TUC to step up a campaign...
Miliband ‘Rent Cap’
LABOUR Party leader Miliband yesterday pledged that the next Labour government will introduce legislation to cap rents so they cannot rise by more than...
SETTLERS MURDER CHILD! – ‘International Criminal Court must act’–Abbas
‘WE hold the Israeli government fully responsible for the brutal assassination of the toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha,’ PLO official Saeb Erekat said in a...
Belfast Hosptals Closure Crisis!
HOSPITAL workers in Northern Ireland are prepared to take industrial action against hospital closures, Unison said yesterday, after a ‘major incident’ occurred at the...
Ni Rise – Experienced Nurses Are £935 A Year Worse Off
THE National Insurance (NI) rise is leaving experienced nurses worse off, even with the proposed pay increase, says the Royal College of Nursing. Responding to...
G20 Policeman To Face Manslaughter Charge
‘We welcome today’s decision to bring a charge of manslaughter against the officer,’ said newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson’s stepson Paul King on behalf of...
‘Single Status Used To Cut Wages’
PUBLIC sector union UNISON finds itself in conflict with employers using equal opportunity legislation supposed to protect the most vulnerable workers, to oppress them...
‘BMA playing with fire’ over 7-day working
THE BMA yesterday published a paper on seven-day services which supports calls for more NHS services to be available for patients throughout the week. Commenting...
5,500 petrol stations run dry! Bad pay & conditions force truckers to quit!
THE SPIRALLING cost of energy, combined with a lorry driver shortage and now panic buying, has resulted in 5,500 petrol stations across the country...
11 Kenyans were beaten to death in Hola prison camp
FOREIGN Office documents made public by the National Archives after more than 50 years give the fullest account yet of a massacre which took...
Smash the Tory Anti-Strike Bill!
THE TUC warned yesterday that the right to strike of 1-in-5 workers in Britain is at risk because of the Tory government’s Strikes (Minimum...
‘No Way Is This Industry Going To Be Privatised’
THE Communication Workers Union Policy Forum of over 500 CWU reps in central London yesterday voted unanimously for a national strike ballot of Royal...
Military Testing In Three Towns!
THREE UK towns are to have hundreds of British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force military personnel mobilised onto their streets organising mass...
GREECE–Government days are numbered
ATHENS riot police were firing rubber bullets and tear gas at workers and youth near to the Athens parliament building during yesterday’s general strike....
Health Act Opens Door To Privateers
the Health and Social Care Act, which came into force yesterday, ‘is the privatisation of the National Health Service and must be defeated through...
MAY DAY MANIFESTO – ‘Permanent state of Revolution!’ says Greek dockers’ leader
THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers of the world at a time of the greatest ever...
Rashford forces Tory U-turn over free school meals
OVER a million children suffering in dire poverty in the UK will now get free school meal vouchers during the holidays, after a successful...
Labour Party Conference sings ‘God save the King’
THE LABOUR Party Conference in Liverpool opened yesterday with a minute’s silence, followed by leader Sir Keir Starmer leading the hall in singing God...
DON’T LET PUBLIC SECTOR PAY FOR GREEDY BANKERS – Prentis warns PM Brown
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis has warned politicians against making ‘selfless’ public service workers pay the price for the economic slump. In his New Year...
Three weeks of Goldsmiths University strike underway
THREE weeks of strikes at Goldsmith’s University in south London began yesterday morning and continue today by members of the University and College Union...
CORBYN WINS INQUIRY INTO UK’s ROLE IN ISRAEL’S GAZA GENOCIDE
THE FIRST Reading of a Bill calling for ‘an independent public inquiry into the UK co-operation with Israel since October 2023’ was passed unopposed...
MOODY’s WARNS – UK WILL LOSE CREDIT RATING
BRITAIN’S credit-worthiness has a ‘negative outlook’ Moody’s ratings agency declared late on Monday night, shortly after the markets closed in the US. In the first...