‘We need properly funded GP services!’ – says BMA’s petition to government

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MORE than 10,000 people have signed the BMA’s petition calling for the Westminster government to properly fund general practice and source more desperately-needed GPs. The...

Alive! Rescue By Xmas

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‘ALL 33 of us are fine in the shelter’. This was the message read out by the President of Chile, Sebastian Pinera, on...

Supreme Court rejects Julian Assange extradition appeal!

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THE UK Supreme Court yesterday rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s appeal of the decision to extradite him to the US, where the WikiLeaks co-founder...

Chronic NHS Staff Shortages At Guy’s And St Thomas’

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CHRONIC staff shortages, concerns about patient safety and plunging morale at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust are the key findings of a...
Local government workers on the May Day march in Athens organised by the Coalition of the Radical Left

‘Peoples Of Europe Rise Up!’

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GREEK workers in the public and private sectors are preparing for today’s 24-hour general strike which is certain to be one of the biggest...

Brown Rejects Withdrawal Timetable

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Gordon Brown has ruled out setting a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, saying they still have ‘an important job to...

Airlines ‘Staring Bankruptcy In The Face’ – Balpa

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BALPA the pilots trade union yesterday called on the government to rescue the air industry with the ‘same approach that kept the banks afloat’....
Passenger protest against rail fare hikes outside King’s Cross station on January 1st 2016

3.4% Rail Hike ‘Kick In Teeth’

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TRAIN fares in Britain will go up by an average of 3.4% from 2nd January, the biggest rise since 2013, and described by rail...
Callum Hurley and Katy Moore and supporters challenging the government over tuition fee rises yesterday at the High Court

Tuition Fees Challenged In High Court

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TWO students began a high court battle against the government yesterday challenging the rise in tuition fees as unlawful as it breaches the equality...
A strong early morning picket adds the Christmas spirit to its determination that Chase Farm Hospital must not be allowed to close

OCCUPY CHASE FARM say Enfield residents, patients and workers

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THE North East London Council of Action organised a mass Xmas Picket outside the Chase Farm Hospital yesterday to step up the fight to...
ASW workers who have lost their pensions after the company went bankrupt outside the High Court on Monday

CWU SHOCKED AND ANGRY – over withdrawal of final salary pension to new Royal...

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday reacted angrily to Royal Mail’s plan to end its final salary pension scheme for new employees....

Ruling class moves to try to restore order

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THE Labour government is pushing through the Houses of Parliament a bill that will make desertion and refusal to serve in an occupied country...

ISRAEL STEPS UP RAFAH BOMBING! – ahead of ground invasion

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AT LEAST 20 people were killed in Israeli strikes on homes in Rafah overnight yesterday, including nine members of the Abu Taha family. It was...

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE! – Charities condemn Bush aid offer

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Charities Oxfam, Action Aid and Christian Aid said yesterday that Bush’s pledge to double US aid to Africa was too little, too late. Action Aid...

‘Trump is behind drive to extradite Assange’ – says US lawyer alleging Trump wants...

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US PRESIDENT Trump is behind the politically motivated prosecution of Julian Assange who he said should receive the death penalty, it was alleged by...
ALEX ALVES PEREIRA (centre, foreground), grieving and angry cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, accus

Parliament Cleaners Strike Today!

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Houses of Parliament cleaners will be on the picket line outside the House of Commons at 10am this morning. They will be joined by Labour’s...

Labour landslide victory in Oldham West

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PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour’s win in the Oldham West and Royton by-election shows its ‘strength and the appeal of its anti-austerity...
CWU pickets outside the delivery office in Acton during the August 3rd strike – they were due to be out today

Cwu Members Oppose Secret Talks!

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Communication Workers Union members have been telling News Line what they think of the ending of their strike actions in order to...
PCS pickets during their recent strike action at at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square

Civil Servants Fury Over Job Cuts

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OVER 200,000 civil servants from over 200 government departments, agencies and public bodies are taking part in one-day national strike action today. The strike...

Corbyn Pledges Another 1945

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Jeremy Corbyn, speaking at a children’s centre in Corby, Northamptonshire yesterday, announced that ‘we will do everything necessary’ to stop a No Deal Brexit...

‘A WAR OF EXTERMINATION!’ – Doha Summit condemns Israel’s war on Gaza

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‘ISRAEL'S war on Gaza has turned into a war of extermination’, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said as he welcomed leaders...
Unison members demonstrating against government plans for local pay on the TUC march last October 2012. Such protests could be criminalised under the Lobbying Bill

The Lobbying Bill is a ‘massive attack on trade union rights!’

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THE government’s Lobbying Bill is an ‘outrageous attack on freedom of speech worthy of an authoritarian dictatorship’, the TUC said yesterday. The TUC is seeking...

Secret court & secret trial rejected by judiciary

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AN unprecedented attempt to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the UK has been blocked by the Court of Appeal. However the...

‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University’ say UCU strikers

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‘WE ARE STRONG, united and determined to win,’ and ‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University,’ University and College Union (UCU) strikers declared...
Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists marching on May Day to kick out the Brown government and go forward to socialism

‘DON’T BANK WORKERS’ JOBS MATTER!’ – Accord condemns Brown and Darling

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‘IT seems to me that bank workers are treated as second-class citizens as though their jobs don’t matter.’ This is what Ged Nichols, general secretary...

‘FRESH BLOW TO CAR INDUSTRY’! – over 10% job losses at JLR Halewood

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THE UNITE union has described the announcement that there will be further job losses at JaguarLandRover’s (JLR’s) Halewood plant in Merseyside as a ‘fresh...
DES WARREN (front second from right) with RICKY TOMLINSON  (next to him holding poster) – both men were jailed as a result of the frame-up trial

Secret Shrewsbury papers to be revealed this week

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DOCUMENTS kept secret by the Cabinet Office that implicate former prime minister Edward Heath in a concerted attempt to influence the jury in the...

Shocking Tuc Betrayal Condemned

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THE RMT has reacted furiously to the TUC/Southern Rail betrayal of safety and the conductor grade. General Secretary Mick Cash said: ‘This so-called agreement is...

Not guilty verdict in secret state trial

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LAW student Erol Incedal has been cleared at the Old Bailey of planning a terrorist attack in a secret prosecution, closed to the public. Turkish-born...
London lecturers marching against savage cuts in jobs and attacks on their terms and conditions in May this year

Uproar After Uni Pensions Referendum Rejected

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THERE was uproar throughout the Universities and College Union (UCU) yesterday, after the employers threw out the union’s proposal that huge pensions changes should...
A section of the 20,000-strong march in London on Saturday demanding that the UK apologise for the Balfour Declaration and recognise the state of Palestine

‘WE HAVE INTENSE SECURITY COOPERATION’ – says PM Netanyahu

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‘ISRAEL stands out as a beacon of democracy,’ Israel’s PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, arrogantly claimed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday. This came when Marr challenged...
A section of the Young Socialists lobby of the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday

Youth demand a future–no zero hours contracts

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‘YOUTH demand a future! No Zero hour contracts!’ shouted the fifty-strong Young Socialists and Workers Revolutionary Party lobby of the Trades Union Congress in...

Labour Health Sec Streeting launches new attack on NHS

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LABOUR Health Secretary Wes Streeting yesterday launched a new attack on the NHS. While he noted the King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust survey reveals the...

70,000 Car Jobs Threatened Says Unite’s Woodley

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THE Unite trade union has renewed its call on the government to bail out UK car industry bosses, warning that 70,000 car jobs are...
Union leaders heading the March 26th 500,000-strong TUC march against coalition cuts

‘WE WANT THE HEALTH BILL SCRAPPED’ – Prentis tells Lansley

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Unison general secretary, Dave Prentis, yesterday pledged the union will ‘fight and fight’ until the Health and Social Care Bill is defeated and the...

‘Shut Down Inquiry! It’s A Disgrace!’

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‘SHUT down the inquiry, it’s a disgrace!’ protesters shouted outside the Grenfell inquiry yesterday, on the first day it resumed after the Attorney General...

Emergency debate on Parliamentary sleaze

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‘LAST WEEK was a very dark week for Parliament,’ speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle said in an extraordinary interview with...

‘Obscenely inflated prices paid for unusable PPE’ by the Tories

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£4 BILLION of unusable PPE bought in the first year of pandemic will be burnt ‘to generate power’. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) also voices...

Israel kills dozens in Gaza Strip shelling!

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DOZENS of civilians were killed yesterday and others sustained various injuries, in the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip, which entered its...

Tories Selling Off NHS Land!

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LABOUR has accused the May government of a ‘blanket sell-off’ of NHS land to raise billions to try to plug the hole in savagely...

GG– great support in Southall

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LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers were out campaigning at the weekend for their mass picket next Sunday and their conference in London on Sunday January...
Southern rail pickets standing up for safety during recent strike action at London’s Victoria Station

Guards strike is on! – as Southern says it will sack every guard!

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THE BATTLE is on! RMT confirmed yesterday that the Southern guards’ strike is going ahead. Meanwhile Southern Rail confirmed it will carry...
Young Socialists banner on the July 1st march to kick the Tories out demanding the TUC call a general strike

£490bn GOES MISSING! – as bosses move to crash UK economy

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REVISED figures from Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) ‘Blue Book’, which measures economic activity in the UK, show that Britain’s global investments have collapsed...
TONY WOODLEY (centre) enjoying a joke with bosses’ leader Lord DIGBY JONES who wants to see workers on a two-day week

‘MOTOR INDUSTRY FACING ARMAGEDDON’ states Tony Woodley –Vauxhall could be gone by end of...

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THE car industry in Britain is facing ‘Armageddon’, with GM Vauxhall set to close by the end of April unless it gets immediate financial...
West London Council of Action picket of Ealing hospital determined to prevent the hospital from closing

‘We must stop the A&E closures’ – Doctors reply to Nicholson

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‘IT can’t be done’ Southwest London hospital consultant Dr Philip Howard told News Line yesterday in response to a call for more A&E closures...