Gaza’s ‘man-made’ famine escalating at extraordinary speed
SENIOR UN officials have warned that Israel’s genocide and blockade of Gaza have created a man-made famine that is escalating at terrifying speed, with...
Hunt was Murdoch’s ‘cheerleader’
RUPERT Murdoch is to be questioned by the Leveson Inquiry today and tomorrow over the ‘appropriateness’ of his relationship with prime minister Cameron and...
BROWN ‘ON COLLISION COURSE WITH UNIONS’ – warns UNISON
Prime Minister Brown is ‘on a collision course with the trade unions’, warned UNISON yesterday. A UNISON spokeswoman told News Line: ‘We want to make...
DEFEND ROYAL MAIL! – against Tory-Lib Dem rush to privatisation
‘THIS IS a match-fix for privatisation,’ the leader of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday, after the Tory-Lib Dem coalition announced it was...
‘THE EXISTENCE OF THE CWU IS AT STAKE’ – CWU calls national ballot for...
CWU leaders Billy Hayes and Dave Ward announced the timetable for a national postal strike ballot to a meeting of 500 Communication Workers Union...
Labour Attacks Youth, Workers, Sick And Immigrants
Yesterday the government launched major attacks on workers and immigrants. Ministers announced plans to strip unemployed people of their benefits, force long term sick and...
‘No option but to escalate!’ says Doctor Malawana
THOUSANDS of junior doctors joined more than 140 picket lines across England yesterday to protest against the imposition of a new contract. Junior doctors took...
Tata Union Reps To Meet Monday
‘I DO not believe that nationalisation is the right answer,’ Tory PM Cameron said yesterday, putting two fingers up to the 15,000 steel workers...
800,000 fire-risk dryers in UK homes – Whirlpool admits to Parliamentary committee
WHIRLPOOL admitted, when grilled by a Parliamentary committee yesterday, that as many as 800,000 recalled dryers known to be prone to sparking potentially lethal...
Angry firefighters call for much bigger action!
FIREFIGHTERS throughout England and Wales walked out of their fire stations at noon yesterday at the beginning of the Fire Brigades Union National Pensions...
Syrian government absolutely rejects allegations
THE SYRIAN government absolutely rejects the allegations ‘that the army used in the past or uses now or will use in the future any...
Pandemic 2018 simulation warnings totally ignored!
AN EXERCISE simulating a coronavirus outbreak in Scotland, which was shared with a UK government advisory group in 2018, showed a ‘clear gap’ in...
Universal Credit– McVey apologises!
WORK and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey has apologised to Parliament for making ‘inadvertently misleading’ statements about Universal Credit. She said she had ‘mistakenly’ told...
80,000 Civil Servants Out!
Up to 80,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), today begin a...
Hamas condemns the ongoing Israeli massacres in Gaza! Strip
THE Hamas Movement has condemned the ongoing Israeli massacres on the Gaza Strip, saying: ‘The Nazi Zionist enemy continues to brutally target civilians in...
GET READY TO STOP THE AIRPORTS – Walsh mobilises 6000 strikebreakers
British Airways boss Walsh boasted at a meeting of selected staff at BA headquarters yesterday that he has 6,000 staff signed up to break...
Gate Gourmet mass picket Sunday
‘WE are all very strong and standing firm in the wind and all weathers on our picket line on the hill and won’t give...
Foreign Secretary Lammy warned by Russia – don’t fire Storm Shadows!
LABOUR’S Foreign Secretary David Lammy has shrugged off as ‘bluster’ warnings by Russia that if Ukraine fires its British-provided long-range Storm Shadow missiles into...
‘£31,000 For All Bus Drivers!’
‘WE are rock solid!’ Unite leader Len McCluskey declared yesterday during the 24-hour London-wide bus strike that brought the capital to a standstill. He was...
5,000 Greek teachers in insurrectionary march
OVER 5,000 striking state schools teachers marched through the Athens city centre last Friday and attempted to storm into the Vouli building (Greek parliament)...
‘Defeat Trump’s international banditry’
US ‘INTERNATIONAL banditry’ was condemned by Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian delegate, speaking at the United Nations Security Council in New York yesterday afternoon. He went...
Jobless Shock!
TRADE unions slammed the government’s mass sackings and cuts to services as being directly responsible for the shocking unemployment figures released yesterday. These showed that...
National Gallery indefinite strike
NATIONAL Gallery workers were out in force on the first day of their indefinite strike against privatisation and victimisation yesterday. On the picket line outside...
Child benefit savage cuts
STRUGGLING families are losing out on hundreds of pounds a year as a result of changes to child benefit over the past decade, said...
2016–Year For Revolution!
NEW YEAR’S MANIFESTO by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2016 to...
Ecb Plan Sets Off Germany’s Alarm Bells!
THE euro strengthened to a two-month high against the US dollar yesterday, as investors’ euphoria overflowed at the ECB’s plan to purchase bonds from...
UK Troops For The Ukraine Says Shapps
TORY Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that UK troops are to be sent to the Ukraine ‘to train Zelensky’s military on the ground’...
Mass strike in northern Ireland
TENS of thousands of public service workers will strike across Northern Ireland tomorrow. Unison said yesterday that Health & social services, education boards, schools, bus...
ICC seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Yoav Gallant
THE United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and dozens of organisations and countries are striving to block or delay an arrest warrant by the...
‘OUR MEMBERS ARE STRONG’ – say T&G at Enfied Iceland depot
‘Our members are solid’, Iceland distribution depot, Enfield, TGWU convenor Dave Brace told News Line on the morning picket line yesterday. The strikers are fighting...
‘Free Schools’=Chaos
‘The Government’s commitment to “free schools” will create chaos at local level,’ National Union of Teachers (NUT) General Secretary Christine Blower warned yesterday. She continued:...
STOP THE UNION BUSTERS! – Irish Congress of Trade Unions calls Day of Protest!
The General President of Irish trade union SIPTU yesterday welcomed the decision by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) Executive to back his...
LUTON GM WAGE CUTS! – supported by Unite union leaders
WORKERS at the General Motors Truck and Van plant in Luton were yesterday voting on a management offer that cuts their hours and pay. The...
NHS Patient Care Is Under Threat
THE quality and safety of patient care in general practice in England is under threat from rising workload pressures according to a major new...
Dramatic Slump In GP Numbers!
DOCTORS union the BMA yesterday responded to the shocking latest England GP workforce data and Health Foundation forecasts, showing a dramatic slump in the...
Lecturers Take Strike Action!
AT 11.00am yesterday, University staff across the country walked out on strike in anger in the first of a series of two-hour strikes in...
UNISON to call national demonstration on pensions
‘THE threat we made to the government still stands – revoke the order or there will be a strike on pensions,’ UNISON NEC member...
Assange wins High Court ruling
THE HIGH Court in London yesterday ruled in favour of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s right to appeal against the UK court ruling approving his...
May Returns To ‘No Deal Is Better Than A Bad Deal!’
AFTER PM May’s Chequers deal was blown out of the water by the EU on Thursday evening, yesterday May ‘addressed the nation’ and said...
Renationalise Harland & Wolff!
AFTER the Scottish government announced they will nationalise Ferguson Marine shipyard, trade unions are calling on the UK government to safeguard jobs and skills...
33 INSURGENTS FREED – in daring raid near Baquba
Iraqi insurgents freed 33 of their comrades in a daring pre-dawn raid on a puppet authority jail north of Baghdad yesterday. At least 18 puppet...
Adams Praises Paisley As ‘Ceasar’
By John Coulter, Irish Political Journalist Retiring First Minister and hell fire fundamentalist preacher Rev Ian Paisley has been hailed as a political Caesar –...
Post Strikers Determined To Win!
‘The mood is defiant,’ said striking postal workers in Cambridge yesterday. This came as the Communication Workers Union branded Royal Mail’s business approach ‘chaos management’. Thousands...
54,000 Mothers A Year Lose Jobs
AHEAD of the House of Commons debate yesterday, the GMB Trade Union says an estimated 54,000 women lose their jobs every year due to...
‘The most draconian anti-refugee legislation yet’ – Unions must smash the Braverman Bill!
‘THIS is the most draconian anti-refugee legalisation yet, as Rishi Sunak bids to make the UK off-limits to any refugees other than those his...

















