KIDNAP & TORTURE – British government knew say judges

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Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday lost an Appeal Court bid to stop the disclosure of secret information relating to the torture of UK resident...

‘No Medals, Badges Or Claps Just Pay Nurses 12.5% Rise!’

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‘NO MEDALS, badges or claps this time – just pay nursing fairly’, a nursing union leader told Boris Johnson yesterday. The leader of the UK’s...

Resist Academies & Free Schools – urge the NUT and the NASUWT

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THE NASUWT and NUT teachers’ unions’ annual conferences at the weekend voted to resist the spread of academies and free schools. Both conferences carried votes...

Israel Plans To Execute Palestinian Prisoners!

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THE Hamas Movement has denounced the Israeli Knesset’s (parliament) national security committee for approving a draft law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners. In a...

Inflation Leap!

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CONSUMER Prices Index inflation rose from 4.0 per cent to 4.5 per cent in April, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), reported yesterday. ‘It’s a...
Carillion workers demonstrating through Swindon in March won big support for their struggle for respect at work and decent holidays

‘Evidence Of Carillion Bribery’ Alleges Gmb

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The second Carillion investigation into complaints by 150 GMB members has found evidence of bribery and shakedowns on the PFI contract operated by the...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday

AIMING FOR VICTORY – say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are campaigning every day for delegations to attend their conference in London on Sunday January 29, whilst at the same...
The July 5th NHS Anniversary march showed the determination to defend the NHS by all means necessary

BMA opposes Health Bill!

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The British Medical Association (BMA) Council on Thursday decided to oppose the whole Health and Social Care Bill, the BMA announced yesterday. The BMA Council...

CORPORATE DEBT BUBBLE SET TO BURST

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THE CORPORATE debt mountain may trigger a devastating, self-feeding chain reaction of fire sales of junk bonds, threatening to collapse the entire financial system,...
Tunisian demonstration against mass poverty

‘TODAY I START A REVOLUTION!’ ‘for those who have no means of subsistence’

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CLASHES have erupted between protesters and security forces in Kasserine city in Tunisia following the funeral of a journalist who had set himself on...

Israeli tanks, copters and drones fire on thousands–21 killed 150 wounded

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AT least 21 starving Palestinians were killed after Israeli tanks, helicopters and drones opened fire on thousands of people waiting for aid in Gaza...

BLOOD MONEY! – Police offer £600,000 to Menezes family

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The Metropolitan Police confirmed yesterday that Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Yates arrived in Brazil on Sunday for talks with the family of young electrician...
William Westwell (fourth from left, with witch-hunt placard) demonstrating outside the school before the first hearing

Reinstate victimised steward –demand Camden Unison

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ON Thursday July 12, the Camden Unison Children, Schools and Families shop stewards committee passed the following motion unanimously condemning the victimisation of Haverstock...

MUBARAK GO NOW! – –Millions of Egyptians pour onto the streets

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MASSES of Egyptians flooded into Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday, responding to the calls for a million-strong march to demand the removal of President Mubarak. Simultaneously,...

Trump Pushes For UK Regime Change

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NIGEL Farage should be involved in the government’s Brexit negotiations and the UK should be prepared to leave the EU with no deal, Donald...

HALT RM PRIVATISATION! – industry making £900,000 a day profits

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‘We have to be bold and honest in our fight to stop Royal Mail privatisation,’ Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region Secretary Paul Moffat...
Students from ULU and their supporters marching to show their determination to defend their union

ULU students march

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AROUND 100 students from London universities and their supporters, marched from University of London Union (ULU) and lobbied a meeting of university management against...

‘Don’t underestimate workers strength of feeling!’

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TUC leader O’Grady has cautioned new PM Truss not to underestimate the strength of feeling among workers who have endured pay stagnation and real...

‘NO RIGHT TO STRIKE IN BRITAIN!’ – Brendan Barber of the TUC

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TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said yesterday that he was ‘desperately worried’ about the High Court decision to make the cabin crew strike at...
The front of last November’s 3,000-strong march through Enfield against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

‘We won’t let Chase Farm close’

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ENFIELD residents told News Line yesterday: we won’t let Chase Farm close! Stuart Hasler, a young Enfield resident, who joined in the campaigning and gave...

Powerful Night Tube Picket Lines In Place

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POWERFUL picket lines were in place on London Underground (LU) Central and Victoria lines across the weekend, as RMT members took strike action against...

Free School ‘Theft’ Continues – Atl

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ASSOCIATION of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) president Hank Roberts last night alleged that there is a widespread theft of tax-payers’ money by schools...
Junior doctors were out on strike time and time again, rightly insisting that the new contract imposed on them by Tory health secretary Hunt was making them work so many hours that they were extremely tired – a danger to patients and themselves

Doctors at risk from fatigue!

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LACK of sleep resulting from long hours and excessive workloads is jeopardising patient safety and doctors’ health, the BMA has warned, while reports...

Child benefit savage cuts

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STRUGGLING families are losing out on hundreds of pounds a year as a result of changes to child benefit over the past decade, said...
Tuesday morning outside Westminster Central Hall demonstrators urged the PCT meeting ‘don’t close our hospitals’ – the PCT board however agreed to do the dirty work for the Tories

Unions must stop A&E closures! – four North West London A&Es face shutdown

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‘WE’LL do whatever it takes to save our hospitals,’ GMB National Officer for the NHS Rehana Azam told News Line yesterday. She was responding to...

‘Sleepwalking towards another catastrophe’ – FBU statement marking 2 years since Grenfell fire

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‘WE RISK sleepwalking into another catastrophic loss of life. We demand urgent action from the government to ensure that the events of Grenfell Tower...
ROSE GENTLE (2nd from right) with other members of Military Families Against the War headed February’s march in London for troops out of Iraq and the rejection of a new Trident missile

‘TONY BLAIR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MY SON’S DEATH’–says Rose Gentle

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‘TONY Blair’s responsible for Gordon’s death,’ said Rose Gentle as the inquest opened yesterday into the June 2004 death in Iraq of her son,...

TEACHERS MASS STRIKE ACTI0N! – fighting for a 12% pay rise

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TEACHERS in the NEU (National Education Union) are taking mass strike action this week in their fight for a national 12% pay rise for...
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday morning are determined to be reinstated on their original terms and conditions

Young Socialists march in Birmingham

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MORE THAN 100 youth won enthusiastic support from shoppers as they marched with the Young Socialists through Birmingham city centre on Saturday afternoon, as...
Riot police attack workers and youth in Athens on Tuesday night. Photo credot: MARIOS LOLOS

RIOT POLICE ATTACK WORKERS – as Obama arrives in Athens

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HUNDREDS of armed riot police (MAT) in full gear viciously attacked a militant march in Athens against the visit of US President Barack Obama...

ALL OUT ON THE 27th

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AT Gatwick, on Sunday morning, pickets at the South Terminal roundabout got tremendous support from passing motorists, coaches and lorries, and fellow airport workers,...
Tata steel workers march through London in defence of their jobs

Tata Steel – pension cuts and no jobs guarantees!

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THE DEAL, struck between unions and Tata Steel, which guarantees no compulsory redundancies at Port Talbot for five years and accepts the end of...

BMA industrial action ballot agreed!

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‘THE government can’t afford another battle with doctors, so let’s put down a marker,’ Tower Hamlets GP Dr Jackie Applebee urged the BMA Local...

END OCCUPATION! – Resolution goes before Security Council

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THE PLO on Wednesday presented a draft UN resolution laying out terms for a final peace deal with Israel but sought to avoid a...

320,000 children face acute malnutrition

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ONLY 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, a figure drastically lower than the 600 truckloads the UN estimates are required daily to meet...

Carers must be paid travel time, rules EU

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IN A LANDMARK judgement the European Court of Justice has ruled that care workers in the UK must be paid for their travel...

‘WE WILL HAVE TO STRIKE’ – UNISON Conference is told

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UNISON members at their national delegate conference in Manchester yesterday voted unanimously to oppose the attack on their pensions with coordinated industrial action. Before debating...

NHS Winter Crisis

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THE NHS needs a long-term plan rather than a short-term fix, doctors’ leaders said yesterday. Fearing a winter crisis in the NHS in England, the...

Lift Gaza Blockade!

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ISRAEL must immediately lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip, allowing the delivery of fuel and other essential supplies into the territory without restrictions,...
Demonstrators make clear their opposition to NHS privatisation on a march organised by the BMA earlier this year

HINCHINBROOKE JOBS FREEZE! – Circle-run hospital deep in debt

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THE privately-run Hinchinbrooke Healthcare Trust in Cambridgeshire has imposed a jobs freeze after making a £2.3m loss in the three months to the end...

DON’T EXTRADITE JULIAN ASSANGE! – demands 2,000-strong Night Carnival

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OVER 2,000 campaigners fighting for the freedom of Julian Assange attended a Night Carnival in London on Saturday. The carnival organised by the Don’t Extradite...
Piraeus dockers and sacked cleaners demonstrating outside the Finance Ministry in November 2014 in central Athens – the  cleaners remain sacked depite the change of government

‘ECB STILL HOLDING ROPE AROUND OUR NECKS!’ says the Syriza leadership

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THE Eurogroup’s President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Tuesday that unless the Greek government implements immediately the promised ‘reforms’ – that is austerity measures –...
Demonstrators against Identity Cards outside parliament on February 13th this year

The Mujahideen Will Win Says Carroll

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US authorities were still guarding freed hostage Jill Carroll in Iraq on Friday, after insurgents released her from nearly three months of captivity and...

RML calls for Greek workers and small farmers government

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THE City Council of Acharnes, one the local councils of the Greater Athens area, with a population of over 100,000 voted on Thursday to...
DAVE PRENTIS, BMA Chair MARK PORTER and TUC leader FRANCES O’GRADY behind the cheque for £1.5bn unpaid overtime

Prentis pledges mass campaign against pay freeze

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DOCTORS’ leaders, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis and TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady joined paramedics, nurses, midwives and physiotherapists in a protest outside the...