Palestinians battle on!
FIVE Palestinians were killed on Friday, including two who died from injuries sustained in earlier Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza...
Royal Mail ‘Scare Tactic’ Condemned
The Communic-ation Workers Union yesterday said its members would not be impressed by remarks from Royal Mail directors that bosses are ready for a...
‘March all over the world to condemn Israeli massacres in Gaza!’ says Hamas...
THE HAMAS movement has called for organising angry marches all over the world to condemn Israel’s massacres and genocide in the Gaza Strip. In a...
One Demonstrator Dead – Girls Taken Away In Handcuffs
Around 200 G20 protesters yesterday lunchtime mounted a vigil-assembly at the Bank of England demanding an independent public inquiry into the death of a...
1,000 CLASH WITH POLICE IN SAMAWA – Iraqis angry over no water or electricity
At least one person was killed and sixty others were wounded yesterday when over 1,000 angry Iraqis clashed with police in Samawa, south of...
Safe staffing levels now! demands RCN
NURSES at their annual RCN (Royal College of Nursing) conference in Liverpool yesterday demanded that NHSEngland finally adopts a Safe Staffing Level, requiring by...
Hezbollah steps up attacks on Israeli troop positions
AN Israeli soldier was killed and four others wounded after a guided missile struck a Merkava tank in southern Lebanon, as Hezbollah stepped up...
LABOUR WILL VICTIMISE LOW PAID – insists Hutton
Business Secretary John Hutton yesterday ruled out a rethink on the decision to scrap the lowest tax band, amid claims that the Brown government...
Resume BA strike action–urge cabin crew
‘WE WANT the strike action reinstated immediately and extended, so that we can defeat Walsh’s union-busting operation once and for all,’ British Airways Stewards...
2010 – year for revolutions! NEW YEAR MANIFESTO by News Line Editorial Board
NEWS LINE sends its revolutionary greetings for 2010 to the working class and the poor of the planet. We especially greet the insurgent masses...
A ‘BEYOND SUBSTANTIAL’ PAY RISE FOR NHS IN 2021-22! – demand health trade unions
THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic reinforces – not diminishes – the strong case for the NHS workforce to receive a ‘beyond substantial’ pay rise for 2021-22,...
Ferguson Calls For A ‘Communist Revolution’
‘WE need a communist revolution,’ shouted crowds of angry protesters outside Ferguson, St Louis, police station on Friday night. Hundreds of people gathered in the...
Labour Government votes for disability cuts!
THE WELFARE Bill, slashing benefits from the disabled and mentally ill, was passed by 335 votes to 260 in the House of Commons yesterday...
‘Part-time low-wage economy’
THE UK unemployment rate fell to 7.4%, from 7.6% for the three months to September, according to figures released by the Office for National...
NO PAY CUTS! –take strike action for at least 5% for all
COALITION ministers have announced a basic 1% pay rise for the public sector, in reality a wage cut with CPI inflation running at 2%. However,...
Heathrow Conflict Is Set To Widen
New British Airways Chief Executive Willie Walsh, who takes up his post this weekend, plans to sack 6,000 out of BA’s 46,000-strong workforce, starting...
‘Gate Gourmet Can’t Get Away With This!’
Yesterday was the beginning of the third month since the more than 700 Gate Gourmet workers were locked out at Heathrow Airport. Speaking on the...
Greek seafarers strike action
GREEK seafarers went on a 48-hour strike on Wednesday and Thursday, demanding the signing of a new national collective agreement with pay rises of...
Anger Over Housing Scandal!
‘MINISTERS are colluding in a growing scandal. Their promises about Grenfell, about new council homes, and action on safety are proving hollow,’ said Eileen...
China-Arab states condemn Israel’s aggression against Palestine!
A joint statement issued at the 10th Ministerial Conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum in Beijing has condemned the ongoing Israeli aggression against...
GMB members £20,000 back pay – as UK Express settles
THE GMB has claimed ‘another groundbreaking victory for members who have bogus self-employment claims in driving and logistics sectors’ against national logistics company UK...
16-24 jobless rate 22.3% – get rid of coalition says ATUA’s Dave Wiltshire
unemployment rose 118,000 in the three months to November to 2.685 million, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported yesterday. The unemployment rate rose from...
NHS BEDS NOT SACRED! – says Managers NHS Confederation
Health unions yesterday condemned NHS bosses’ plans to slash thousands of hospital beds to concentrate on care in the community. The proposition...
WE WILL STRIKE TO STOP JOB CUTS – BECTU Assistant General Secretary
‘If the job cuts are still on, the strikes will be reinstated,’ BECTU assistant general secretary Gerry Morrissey told News Line yesterday. Speaking after the...
Israeli attacks disable Gaza Eye Hospital
GAZA’S Eye Hospital warned yesterday that it is now unable to provide full services amid ongoing war and shortages. Dr Hussam Dawoud, director of Gaza’s...
US committed war crimes! says Iran
IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for pursuing legal action through competent international organisations over damage to Iran’s transport infrastructure, describing US attacks on...
50 Italian Doctors Dead!
THE DEATHS of more than 50 doctors from Covid-19 in Italy must serve as an ‘urgent warning’ to British government on PPE supply. The BMA...
‘We have to join with other unions’ say the firefighters
THE Fire Brigades Union has welcomed an offer from the government in Northern Ireland that would allow firefighters to retire at 55 without financial...
BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION! – Save Chase Farm Hospital meeting urged
A packed 400-strong Save Chase Farm meeting in Enfield last Saturday heard calls for Councils of Action to organise occupations to stop the closure...
SHAME ON RATCLIFFEE!’ – shout Grangemouth refinery workers
Workers on the second day of their two-day strike over pensions at the giant Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland yesterday remained defiant and determined...
Bow Bus Strikers Walk Out!
BUS drivers from Bow bus garage walked out on strike from 5am yesterday over exhausting schedules, inadequate rest breaks, and systematic disregard for their...
‘No Quick Fix In The Ukraine’–War Must Go On Says Johnson!
PM JOHNSON said yesterday in Blackpool: ‘Today we are living in the aftermath of the worst pandemic for a century, and once again we...
GMB ‘Coach and horses’ victory
THE GMB trade union yesterday won its first victory in the battle over trade union rights at Asda, on the eve of a five-day...
Paddy Hill condemned British & Irish governments!
ONE of the Birmingham Six, wrongly convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings in 1975, branded the British legal system as unable ‘to spell the...
Israel breaks ceasefire agreement
ISRAELI forces carried out fresh strikes in southern Lebanon, even as US President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of Israel’s conduct and Washington and...
‘SERIOUS DANGER TO PATIENT SAFETY’ –from Ambulance Service privatisation
Public service union, Unison has warned of the serious dangers to patient safety if the Ambulance Services are privatised. This comes after the East of...
‘CUTS WITHOUT THOUGHT’ – condemned by RCN nurses
‘THIS report highlights yet another case of cuts without thought for the impact on staff and patients,’ said Stephanie Aiken, RCN Deputy Director of...
Rcn Warns Tories
TORY changes to immigration rules, will mean thousands of NHS nurses being driven out of the UK ‘causing chaos’, the RCN nurses’ union...
TUC leaders refuse to call for resignation of Tory government!
TRADE union leaders were united yesterday in their refusal to call for the resignation of the crisis-ridden Tory government. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:...
‘Trump Wants Coup’– Maduro
PRESIDENT Nicolas Maduro has ordered the closure of Venezuela’s embassy and consulates in the US after Washington threw its weight behind opposition leader...
TUC MUST CALL GENERAL STRIKE! – bring down Tories – bring in a workers...
THE railways will be shut down for 3 days on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, when workers from Network Rail and 13 train operating companies...
Join Our Picket Lines Urge Junior Doctors!
MORE than 100 demonstrators were outside 10 Downing Street on Tuesday night to protest against Osborne’s Autumn Statement of £20bn more cuts...
Huckabee OKs Israeli expansion from the Nile to the Euphrates!
The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s claim that Israel has biblical rights over the Arab region and his...
150 IRISH HOTELS TO CLOSE – as Bank of Scotland (Ireland) shuts down down
The Irish Hotel Federation (IHF) has claimed 150 hotels will be forced to close after the announcement that Bank of Scotland (Ireland) is to...
Firefighter Heroes
East Sussex Chief Fire Officer Des Pritchard yesterday paid a moving tribute to the two fire crew who died, and the nine firefighters, one...














