RENATIONALISE! – ‘end privatisation chaos once and for all’ says Crow
‘RENATIONALISE West Coast and all the other franchises under one single umbrella, and end the profiteering and chaos of rail privatisation once and for...
Brighton & Hove Schools Are Staying Closed Says Council
BRIGHTON and Hove primary schools in Sussex are staying closed today after the city council held an emergency meeting and ordered all primaries to...
Crucial Tsipras-Merkel talks
GREEK Prime Minister Tsipras is meeting German Chancellor Merkel in Berlin today, with officials in Brussels, Berlin and the ECB now openly acknowledging the...
Corbyn announces ‘free vote’ on Syria
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn announced yesterday that he will give Labour MPs a ‘free vote’ on the crucial issue of whether the UK joins...
‘Hostile environment’ remains! – as a new deportation scandal erupts
THE MAY government is caught up in another deportation scandal! This time it is accused of wrongly using a section of the Immigration...
WRP candidate excluded
GABRIEL Polley, WRP candidate for Norwich South was prevented from speaking at the Election hustings at the University of East Anglia last Thursday. Gabriel...
‘Organise and fight!’ – education must be free!
STUDENT Unions (SU) across the country have slammed the National Union of Students (NUS) President Toni Pearce’s decision to pull out of today’s national...
‘Coalition making life hell for workers & youth’
YOUTH unemployment increased by 15,000 during the three months to June, reaching 973,000. ‘The coalition is making life hell for youth and it must be...
Government Refusing To Disclose Torture Evidence
A BRITISH Court yesterday ordered an expedited hearing on whether the British government can ignore the plea by London man Binyam Mohamed for evidence...
Hezbollah defending Lebanon against Israeli genocide
‘WE have the right to attack anywhere in Israel, since Israel has attacked anywhere in Lebanon,’ Hezbollah Deputy Leader Naim Qassem said in a...
Rail & Busworkers Support Call For A General Strike
RAIL and bus workers are supporting the call for the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories. On the picket line...
‘WE’LL OPPOSE ATTACKS ON RIGHTS’ –pledges TUC
‘Unions stand ready to oppose the attacks on workplace rights contained in the Beecroft Report,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line yesterday. ‘Attacking workers’ rights...
Qatar Arming Libyan ‘rebels’
Officials in Doha have confirmed that Qatar is secretly supplying French-made ‘Milan’ anti-tank missiles to Libyan counter-revolutionaries in Benghazi, as part of the western...
Strike Action Sweeping Heathrow
HUNDREDS of Border Force workers at Heathrow Airport began four days of strike action yesterday against Tory attacks on their working conditions. The more than...
RMT, FBU Battling For Jobs And Pensions
FIREFIGHTERS were on strike again yesterday between 10am and 3pm over government attacks on their pensions, while Tube workers are due to strike for...
Hunt ‘misrepresented’ weekend deaths
FIONA GODLEE, editor of The BMJ, has written to Health Secretary Hunt, accusing him of misrepresenting an academic article on deaths of patients admitted...
A BLOODBATH ON EVERY CORNER’ – Iraq puppets had licence to murder
THERE was a ‘bloodbath on every corner’ in Iraq, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a press conference in London on Saturday. Website Wikileaks has revealed...
PM HELD ILLEGAL DRINKS PARTY – while millions were under lockdown
PM JOHNSON yesterday apologised for attending an illegal drinks party in the Downing Street garden while millions of people were under lockdown, and making...
‘When we win power, it will be to give it to you’ – McDonnell...
SPEAKING at a press conference on the ‘first hundred days’ of a Labour government, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell, pledged: ‘So let...
Racists driven off the streets!
IN A powerful display of unity and solidarity on Wednesday, thousands of youth and workers gathered across the UK to form human shields to...
LABOUR POLICY TO BANKRUPT NHS TRUSTS say UNISON delegates
Delegates at the UNISON National Delegate Conference in Glasgow yesterday said it was ‘government policy’ to drive NHS trusts into the red. Delegates slammed Labour...
Forty universities infected by Covid
AS MANY as 40 different universities around the UK have now reported corona cases as the virus sweeps through the education system. After the University...
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...
LABOUR COULD VOTE WITH MAY SAYS THORNBERRY – who helped draw up Universal Credit
LABOUR’S Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry confirmed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning that Labour could vote along with PM May on...
Corbyn launches election: ‘Remain in EU an option’
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in launching his party’s election campaign yesterday, reiterated Labour’s plan for Brexit which means renegotiating another deal with the European...
Plans to double ambulance times condemned!
DOCTORS’, nurses’, ambulance staff leaders and Labour yesterday slammed plans to more than double target times for ambulances to reach some seriously ill patients. A...
High Court move to ban UK arms sales to Israel!
LAWYERS seeking an order to prevent the United Kingdom government from continuing to grant arms export licences to UK companies selling arms to Israel...
DVLA staff four-day strike begins today – Another Covid-19 outbreak feared!
STAFF at the DVLA office in Swansea begin their four-day strike today after fears of a fresh Covid-19 outbreak as more than 2,000 people...
Royal Mail ‘Hedge Fund’
ROYAL Mail workers – whose jobs and pensions have been under sustained attack and are now threatened with privatisation – yesterday reacted with fury...
MERKEL DEMANDS POLITICAL UNION! –as the price for Spanish bailout
THE Bank of England yesterday left UK interest rates unchanged at 0.5 per cent and announced no expansion to its quantitative easing (QE-printing money)...
ILLEGAL! – Milford Haven oil terminal strike banned by judge
UNITE, the transport workers’ union, yesterday said it was calling a 12-hour strike at the Milford Haven oil terminal next Tuesday, after...
‘No choice but to fight BT sackings!’ – Allan Eldred CWU National Officer
THE DEVASTATING ramifications for BT employees of the brutal new management approach sweeping across BT is not just illustrated by the scores of compulsory...
NHS – 15% Rise Now!
PROTESTS took place outside hospitals yesterday morning after the call by unions to turn April 1st into a day of action for NHS staff...
DEFUSE CONFRONTATION WITH IRAN – urges Baradei
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief inspector Mohamed El Baradei yesterday warned that the ‘brewing confrontation’ with Iran over its nuclear ambitions ‘must be...
£550m PRE-PAY TAKEN FROM POOR
The GMB trade union yesterday condemned the huge profits being made out of the poorest customers by gas and electricity companies. New watchdog Consumer Focus,...
‘DOING THE DIRTY WORK FOR DICTATORS’ – Blair and Clarke accused
‘Is it our intention to do the dirty work for dictatorships all over the world?’ Labour MP John Denham challenged Home Secretary Clarke yesterday. Denham...
Anti-racist protesters who deface statues could get 10 years under Tory legislation!
ANTI-RACISM protesters who tear down, ‘deface’ or graffiti statues and monuments to imperialism face jail sentences of up to 10 years under a forthcoming...
No confidence in Sussex fire bosses – FBU votes unanimously
THE FIREFIGHTERS’ East Sussex union branch has unanimously passed a vote of no confidence in the senior leadership team of East Sussex Fire and...
Mortgage Crisis Grips!
UNISON yesterday called on the government to build more council houses as First Direct became the first major bank to stop lending to house...
3 Years Of Guards Strikes
HUNDREDS of train workers rallied in Euston yesterday to mark three years of the guards strike, the longest in modern history, which has begun...
Labour Budget Hits Out At The Low Paid
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced National Insurance (NI) and income tax thresholds will be frozen for an extra three years beyond 2028 in her...
Sack Serco demand Ealing Unite strikers
EALING Council Parking Services workers are striking again today and tomorrow demanding that Ealing Council sacks the Serco public services privateer and takes their...
Flooding – Call For Five Year Reconstruction Plan
THE flood-hit South West of England needs a joined up, five year reconstruction and development plan to rebuild the economic, transport and social fabric,...
MPs hear BHS ‘death threat’ allegations over £1.5m
FORMER owner of BHS Dominic Chappell was accused yesterday of being ‘a liar’ with his ‘fingers in the till’ who ‘threatened to kill’ the...
‘All bus workers must strike together’ – Renationalise now! – demands Harrow picket
THERE was a strong picket line at Harrow bus garage yesterday morning despite the pouring rain. London Sovereign drivers were on their third day of...