BA profits £1.47bn–cabin crew outraged
STRIKING British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew were outraged yesterday by the announcement of £1.47 billion profits for BA for the last financial year,...
Massive Irish Strike Action
‘We’re expecting a big turn out tomorrow for the nationwide demonstrations,’ an Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) spokesman told News Line yesterday. He added:...
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...
Inflation to soar–King
‘INFLATION is likely to rise further in the near future,’ Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn King warned yesterday, describing it as ‘stubbornly above...
Black cabs challenge Uber
‘WE WILL not have a Wild West situation,’ for drivers, Steve Garelick, GMB branch secretary for professional drivers for London, said yesterday. He spoke to...
Coalition mounts low-pay offensive on NHS!
Public sector union Unison yesterday slammed Health Secretary Lansley’s backing for Chancellor Osborne’s plan for regional pay. This comes in evidence from the Department of...
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...
Brown To ‘Give Away’ NHS!
GORDON Brown yesterday confirmed that a government run by him would hand over the running of the public sector to an independent committee, which...
‘There could be a Lehmans moment!’ – World Bank warning
AS GREEK workers went to the polls yesterday, bourgeois commentators were warning of a ‘widespread contagion’ or even an ‘asteroid strike’ of an economic...
£14,000 per year fast-track degrees!
‘OUR universities must remain places of learning, not academic sweatshops,’ UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt warned yesterday. She was responding to the Tory plan to...
OCCUPY ELLESMERE PORT says ATUA National Secretary
Workers at the Vauxhall Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire are bracing themselves for today’s expected announcement by owners GM of 1,000 job cuts. Trade union...
Retail Collapse Hitting Youth
THE British Retail Consortium warned yesterday that after zero growth in 2011 and a disappointing Christmas, the new year is seeing a spate of...
Infectious diseases soaring in Gaza – rebuilding water & sanitation vital says Oxfam
OXFAM has reported an outbreak of waterborne and infectious diseases in the Gaza Strip amid the lack of safe water and untreated sewage overflowing...
Right to strike restored – for those waiting for ‘leave to remain’
IN LIGHT of the Windrush scandal the government has been forced to change the rules to ensure workers from other countries can participate...
No Compensation For A Wrongly Accused ‘Highjacker’
A pilot wrongly accused of training the 9/11 hijackers has lost his fight for compensation for his ordeal. Lotfi Raissi was detained for nearly...
Amersham Defeat Crisis Hits Tories
THE TORY government has been plunged into crisis by last Thursday’s Amersham by-election defeat. Around 100 Tory MPs have reportedly joined a WhatsApp group called...
SCRAP THE BILL! – and the Board says Unite
‘The NHS Commissioning Board and the Health Bill should be scrapped’, a Unite spokeswoman told News line yesterday. She was responding to the news that...
Chancellor ignores the crisis!
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday that the NHS will get ‘whatever resources it needs’ to cope with a coronavirus epidemic. He alleged to the...
Unions unite to defend RIGHT TO STRIKE!
OVER one hundred RMT members, along with members of the PCS, UCU and Unite rallied outside Parliament yesterday to defend the right to strike. This...
Demand TUC take action! – Anna Athow tells BMA’s Representative Meeting
BMA chair Dr Mark Porter told the union’s Special Representative Meeting yesterday that ‘Twenty-four years ago, it was the first reforms that established an...
1,000 British-Danish Troops Attack Basra
Five Iraqis were arrested yesterday after a massive pre-dawn assault on the city of Basra by a force of more than 1,000 UK and...
Bank of England raises rates to make workers pay for the crisis
THE Bank of England yesterday raised its interest rate from 4.5% to 5%, the highest level for 15 years, in a declaration of war...
‘WE ARE DEFENDING OUR JOBS!’ – PCS pickets the High Court
‘GORDON BROWN hear us say – our contracts are here to stay! shouted eighty Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members and officials outside...
Met Chief’s Call For Troops
‘This militarisation of the police will increase the risk that we run already, not just to our civil liberties but to our very safety,’...
Palestinian fury over Israeli flight to UAE!
PALESTINIAN political factions have reacted with fury to the first official visit by an Israeli delegation to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to finalise...
Overthrow Government keep hospitals open! say Greek medical workers
HUNDREDS of hospital workers staged a rally outside the Greek Health Ministry in Athens last Thursday morning against the planned closure by the coalition...
Royal Mail bosses threaten bankruptcy!
ROYAL MAIL bosses are threatening to declare the company bankrupt and place it into ‘a special form of administration,’ leading to the sack for...
Unions Win Round One Of ‘Night Tube War’
THE trade unions have won round one of the Night Tube war. London Underground announced yesterday that the launch date of London’s Night Tube is...
Thousands Of Parents, Pupils & Teachers To Defy Tories Today!
THOUSANDS of teachers, as well as the parents of hundreds of thousands pupils, are set to defy the government’s instructions for Reception, Year 1...
UK forced to appoint European Commissioner!
PM JOHNSON’S ‘do or die’ pledge is truly dead, as the EU has insisted as a condition of their ‘flextension’ that the UK will...
1,000 Days Of Gaza Seige
Protests against the crippling siege imposed on the Gaza Strip should spread across the world, said Palestinian lawmaker Jamalh Al-Khudari yesterday, as the blockade...
‘Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes against humanity!’– UN International Commission of Inquiry
ISRAELI authorities are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the military operations and attacks on Gaza since 7th October 2023,...
MPs REJECT ATTACK ON NO-DEAL BREXIT Starmer-Corbyn motion defeated
MPs yesterday voted by 309-298 against a Labour-moved motion that sought to prevent a no-deal Brexit on October 31! The Labour-led plan was to force...
Government Of National Unity ‘Not Serious’ Says Hamas
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei said Tuesday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has ‘no objection to the creation of a temporary government of...
‘The World Must Act Now Or Never For A Palestinian State’
FATAH issued a warning yesterday that the annexation issue is still a dangerously imminent issue on the table. In a statement, the movement cautioned that...
Youth In Poverty!
THE government’s new national minimum wage (NMW) rates risk leaving young people even further behind, the TUC warned yesterday. The new rates only apply to...
SAFETY RULES BROKEN says RMT leader Bob Crow
‘There was chaos on the Underground this morning,’ rail union RMT general secretary Bob Crow said yesterday. Commenting on the 24-hour strike by 4,000 RMT...
Israeli forces storm the Kamal Adwan Hospital!
ISRAELI forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza yesterday morning setting it alight. This was after airstrikes on a nearby building killed 53...
Cameron’s 7-day GPs & NHS provokes strike threat
HEALTH unions have threatened to strike over Cameron’s plans to create a seven-day-a-week health service, if it means cuts to the existing payments for...
Ireland, Norway and Spain formally recognise Palestine
IRELAND, Norway and Spain formally recognised the state of Palestine yesterday, infuriating leaders of the genocidal Israeli regime, while Hamas described it as ‘a...
Cabin Crew – 20 Days Of Strike Action
UNITE, Britain’s largest union, yesterday announced a new round of strikes over 20 days at British Airways. This follows the third overwhelming vote by Unite’s...
Powerful demo to stop ticket office closures
A POWERFUL demonstration against mass railway ticket office hours cuts and total closures was held outside London’s Kings Cross Station early yesterday morning, with...
UK £120bn banking shortfall!
THE Bank of England has warned that the biggest banks and building societies operating in Britain face a £120bn shortfall in their finances. In a...
Tory Health & Social Care Act Damaged The NHS!
TORY changes to the NHS were ‘opposed by patients, the public and NHS staff, but politicians pushed through the changes regardless’ Dr Mark Porter,...
Scottish court rules prorogation ‘unlawful’
WE ARE of the opinion that the advice given by the government to Her Majesty the Queen to prorogue Parliament was unlawful and that...