‘NHS being collapsed by coalition!’
THE very minimum number of nurses required for A&Es to function safely was published yesterday in an attempt to address the acute staff shortage...
UK, US, French Role In Invasion Of Libya Exposed By Wikileaks!
‘WIKILEAKS publication represents a great victory for freedom of expression in the face of government secrecy,’ said a statement by respected journalist Patrick Cockburn,...
Sunak Won’t Stop Selling Arms To Israel!
TORY PM Rishi Sunak said he won’t stop selling arms to Israel yesterday, declaring that exports to the genocidal Zionist entity will continue as...
Tamil Protests To Continue Until Permanent Ceasefire
‘Ceasefire Now! Stop the Genocide! Tamil Tigers – Freedom Fighters!’ shouted Tamils demonstrating in support of brave hunger striker Parameswaran Subramaniyan yesterday. Around 1,000 were...
CWU LEADERS REFUSE TO FIGHT – hoping for sell-out deal
THE Communication Workers Union yesterday shocked its members when it wrote to Royal Mail offering to cancel the 76 per cent vote of...
RMT National Strike Action
THE RMT national rail strike is back on. A 24-hour strike has been called for Thursday the 4th of June and a 48-hour strike for...
EU bankers plunder Greece!
USING fast-track procedures, the Greek government SYRIZA (Coalition of Radical Left) leader Alexis Tsipras is pushing through the Vouli (Greek parliament) today the...
Stevens intervention slammed!
NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens has intervened in the referendum debate to declare that leaving the EU could damage the NHS. Citing Bank of...
COALITION LOOKING FOR NOVEMBER 30th STRIKEBREAKERS – to write to 2.5 million workers
Treasury Secretary, Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander yesterday appealed for workers to scab on the November 30 public sector pensions strike. He told the Andrew Marr...
Chancellor Reeves in a crisis as pound plummits to 14-month low
CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves has come under intense scrutiny after a turbulent period in the financial markets sent the pound plummeting to a 14-month low...
New UCL rent strike –against rat and insect infestation
INSECTS and rats have infested UCL students’ halls of residence sparking a new rent strike against the terrible conditions students are expected to live...
Bank Alarm Over Inflation Rate – Prices Still Above Target
BANK of England Governor Mervyn King was rattled yesterday after the latest UK inflation figures showed that prices are still soaring. Although the figures for...
Hunt announces EU coalition to patrol Gulf
‘COBRA emergency meetings were held this morning and throughout the weekend. We must now take appropriate action to support the safe passage of vessels...
Police Attack Peaceful March
TENS of thousands of school, college and university students demonstrated against education cuts, tuition fees and the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)...
No money for food, heating or electric
OVER a third of low paid workers have had to skip meals, sitting at home in the dark and cold because they have no...
Heathrow Strike Action
CARS, lorries and buses hooted support along the busy Bath Road on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport in west London yesterday morning as 1,400...
Agency staff costing NHS £2.5bn a year!
A FAILURE to train enough staff in the NHS is leading to an over-reliance on agency staff, locums and overseas recruitment which is wasteful...
Greek Workers Voting ‘No!’
SOME 3,000 mostly young people marched to the European Commission offices in Athens on Thursday evening calling for a ‘NO’-‘OXI’ vote in Sunday’s referendum. A...
BATTLE BUS RALLIES SUPPORT – for striking cabin crew
A battle bus toured Heathrow Airport with megaphones, flags and banners yesterday. It was rallying support from other airport workers for the 13,000 striking BA...
‘The Met took my son’s life’
‘JERMAINE was dead before he got into the car on 11th December 2016,’ Jermaine Baker’s mother Margaret Smith said yesterday, She was speaking after an...
Corbyn Condemns Pm Johnson Over Customs Union
IN THE House of Commons yesterday morning PM Johnson sought to persuade MPs to support his Brexit plan. He said: ‘This government has moved. Our...
Sacked and smeared for standing up for postmasters
FORMER chairman of the Post Office Henry Staunton dropped a bombshell on the Tories when he appeared before the Business and Trade Select Committee...
Stop Clause 119 – Stop The Hospital Closures!
THE government faces a revolt over Clause 119 of the Care Bill today. This clause would give health secretary Hunt and appointed officials powers to...
Tribunal Charges Began Yesterday
WHAT the government is doing is depriving ordinary people of their legal rights,’ GMB member Ake Achi told News Line yesterday. He was speaking on...
McDonnell condemns the ‘Day One Rights’ sellout!
EDUCATION secretary Bridget Phillipson yesterday defended the decision over why the government had abandoned its promise to allow workers to claim protection from day...
NHS HUGE BEDS CRISIS! – as government readies for more savage cuts
ENGLAND’S hospitals have been dangerously full of patients during the month of January, the Labour Party warned yesterday. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: ‘Too...
GM CRISIS – Mandelson rules out Luton nationalisation
BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson emerged from his meeting with union officials and the top General Motors management in Luton yesterday unable to guarantee the...
Unions must defend NHS!
‘SAVE Chase Farm Occupy Now! Whose hospital? Our Hospital!’ More than 200 marchers chanted these slogans as they moved onto the Chase Farm Hospital site...
Hamas Approves New Ceasefire Deal
‘WE RESPONDED positively to a new proposal over Gaza,’ Hamas chief in Gaza Khalil al-Hayya said on Saturday, adding that his movement had approached...
JAIL THE BOSSES! – who cause the deaths of workers
‘I feel as though they killed my son and the government is covering up for them. It is one big cover up,’ Linda Whelan...
Uni staff all out today
STAFF in UK universities are out on strike today for a full day in opposition to an ‘insulting’ 1% pay rise offer. The UCU, Unison,...
FBU demands emergency funding – London Fire Brigade is facing £20m cuts
PM Johnson has been urged to deliver emergency funds to protect London from £20m of fire cuts. The London Fire Brigade faces £20m of cuts...
Starmer Refuses To Rule Out Public Sector Cuts!
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for Parliament to be recalled so MPs can abandon last week’s mini-budget ‘before any more damage is...
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...
‘I will continue asking nursing staff to take strike action!’ – RCN leader responds...
THE ROYAL College of Nursing has responded to the announcement of the new Prime Minister, Truss. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said:...
Hunt Accused Of ‘lying’
CULTURE Secretary Hunt was accused of ‘lying to Parliament’ in the House of Commons yesterday, during the debate demanding that Hunt’s conduct over the...
‘KEEP YOUR PROMISES’ – US unions tell Obama
American trade unions who campaigned for Barack Obama’s landslide election victory, yesterday told the new US president to keep his promises to working families. Service...
‘Special measures’ against NHS
ELEVEN NHS hospitals are being placed under special measures because of major failings, Health Secretary Hunt announced yesterday. Hunt said the trusts,...
Doctors vote for strike action – but BMA Council refuses to call strike
HOSPITAL doctors in Scotland have voted to take strike action against the government’s attacks on the Scottish NHS Pension Scheme. However, the BMA Council, met...
UK abusing terrorism laws! says Amnesty International Secretary General
IN A MAJOR police state move, 29 demonstrators were arrested in London at a protest in support of Palestine Action on Saturday, the day...
10% of Gaza’s population has been killed, injured or detained by Israel!
TEN per cent of Gaza’s population has been killed, injured, disappeared, or detained since Israel launched its genocidal war on 7 October 2023, according...
ISRAEL FORCED OUT OF KHAN YOUNIS! – leaving shattered landscape
KHAN YOUNIS residents returned home yesterday to a landscape of shattered multi-storey buildings, charred overturned vehicles and their Nasser Hospital in a shambles, after...
TORY DICTATORSHIP! – Banning and Disruption Orders on the way
PM Cameron said yesterday that his government will bring forward legislation under which ‘banning orders’ and ‘disruption orders’ will be used against ‘extremists’ and...
End The Cuts And Build Council Housing
‘We look forward to see what the government’s economic recovery strategy is,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line yesterday. ‘Any measures that ease the pressure...
Authorities Face Financial Collapse – Defend Jobs & Services!
‘MULTIPLE local authorities’ are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts, MPs on the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned. The...