‘Nationalise Land Rover & Jaguar’ – call at TGWU Conference
THE Transport and General Workers Union Biennial Delegate Conference in Brighton yesterday heard a call for the nationalisation of Jaguar and Land Rover to...
British Soldier Killed In Basra Attack!
A British soldier has been killed and another injured during an attack at a UK base in Basra, southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence...
Rail Guards Strike
RAIL UNION RMT is taking strike action today in defence of Guards’ jobs on West Midlands Trains. The union has called on the government to...
‘Charge sheet against Hancock grows by the hour!’ says Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth
HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock was forced to resign on Saturday afternoon despite repeated public statements from PM Boris Johnson that he retained his full...
A FRENZY OF BENEFIT CUTTING! – Coalition goes for the poor
THE Coalition and its supporters are engaged in a frenzy of benefit cutting which is victimising and pauperising the working class and many sections...
‘Europe will pay the bill for the US supplying Ukraine with weapons!’
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has called on the United States to continue supplying Ukraine with weapons in its war against Russia, assuring that...
‘We will save Egypt from military rule!’
CROWDS marched to Cairo’s Tahrir Square again yesterday after the April 6 movement called for a protest starting at 5.00pm (1500 GMT) ‘against the...
US-UK War Talk Over The Ukraine!
LEADERS of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France will meet in Belarus’ capital Minsk on Wednesday to discuss a peace plan for eastern Ukraine,...
Tories to hike up National Insurance – Youth will be hit hardest says Intergeneration...
THE TORIES are pushing for a rise in the National Insurance rate, affecting over 25 million workers to pay for social care. For someone on...
BUILD COUNCIL HOUSING – workers reject Brown package
In a bid to prop up the banks and construction industry, prime minister Brown and chancellor Darling yesterday promoted a £1.6bn housing rescue package. This...
‘SAVE OUR SHUTTLE’ say Crawley residents
ANGRY residents, health campaigners and NHS trade unionists demonstrated outside Crawley hospital yesterday, next to the shuttle bus that takes patients and workers to...
RMT Pickets Call For A General Strike To Win Their Pay Dispute!
RMT pickets yesterday morning called for a general strike to win their dispute by bringing down the government. Wale Agunbiade, RMT Branch Secretary at Liverpool...
Time To Get Rid Of Capitalism
MAY DAY STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers of the...
Ashrawi Denounces New Israeli Settlements Move
HANAN ASHRAWI, a Member of the PLO Executive Committee, has strongly condemned the so-called Israeli Civil Administration’s decision to grant the approval for the...
DON’T GAG CONFERENCE! – UNISON delegates demand debate on coordinated strike action
UNISON’s national delegate conference yesterday opened with a row over the refusal of the Standing Orders Committee to allow a debate on emergency motions...
‘Down With The Pasok Junta’ Shout Greek Workers
50,000 Greek civil servants and public sector workers on Wednesday staged a successful 24-hour national strike and a big march through Athens against the...
2.7m people frightened of Universal Credit
A PAYMENT COUNCIL survey shows that more than 2.7 million people who are currently receiving benefits fear they will struggle when Universal Credit replaces...
‘Victory to Palestine!’ demand hundreds of thousands on huge London march
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, students and youth marched on Saturday through central London, calling for victory to Palestine and an end to Israel’s...
RESTORE PUBLICLY PROVIDED NHS! – reverse all privatising legislation
MEMBERS of Parliament are to debate a demand that the government restores England’s publicly provided NHS by reversing all privatising legislation, including ending private...
Children’s doctors face burnout
EXTREMELY sick children will not receive the treatment they need if Scotland does not recruit over 100 extra consultants, the Royal College of Paediatrics...
‘GET RID OF THE PRIVATEERS’ – say Tube strikers
‘Privatisation has been a disaster, we want the complete renationalisation of the railway network in Britain,’ RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said yesterday. Crow was...
GAZA BUFFER ZONE – Israelis threaten to shoot-on-sight
Israeli planes yesterday dropped leaflets in northern Gaza to warn Palestinians that they will be shot dead on sight if they enter a newly...
Much More Funding Of Gp Services Needed
NHS England’s announcement of short-term help for a limited number of under-threat GP practices in London needs to be followed by a national, long-term...
MAY RIPS UP MANIFESTO! After workers reject attack on pensioners
IN A DRAMATIC forced retreat prime minister Theresa May yesterday dumped her key policy on social care in the Tory election manifesto. The anger of...
Escalate the action – bus workers call for National Strike now!
‘ESCALATE the action – national strike now!’ bus workers told News Line yesterday on the first day of another two days of strike action...
Tories throw down gauntlet to junior doctors
THE Tories have ruled out any fresh talks with the junior doctors and in doing so have thrown down the gauntlet for a fight...
‘We desperately need more midwives’ says RCM
THE UK has one of the highest rates of death for children under five in Western Europe, according to new research published in The...
Tory Civil War Rages!
THE TORIES’ civil war over Brexit continued to rage yesterday after PM May received a letter from 30 Tory MPs. The letter...
Court finds against Labour Party democracy
THE Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Labour Party right wing and against Labour Party democracy yesterday afternoon, when it banned...
CHARITIES AND WAGE CUTS! – Civil Service strike likely says PCS leader Serwotka
In his tenth Pre Budget Report yesterday Chancellor Brown spoke about the threat to British capitalism from India and China. He said: ‘Once...
Uproar After Uni Pensions Referendum Rejected
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...
6,000 March In Leeds To Defend The NHS!
MORE than 6,000 trade unionists and NHS supporters marched through Leeds last Saturday afternoon against Tory government cuts and the privatisation of the NHS...
Bbc Vetos National Appeal For Gaza
THE BBC has blocked the nationwide broadcast of a fundraising appeal for Gaza by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) this weekend. The DEC comprises the...
130,000 homeless children this Xmas
MORE than 130,000 homeless children will be living in temporary accommodation this Christmas in Britain, according to estimates by the homeless charity Shelter. In...
25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE – This Sunday 2.00-6.00pm
St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)
Gadaffi – fighting alongside his soldiers – says Juburi
MISH'AN al-Juburi, director of the Al-Ra’y Satellite Channel, has said that Libyan leader Muammar al-Gadaffi is still in Libya fighting side by side...
Police state attack on the press!
UK NEWSPAPERS have warned that if a government bill authorising police to seize journalists’ notebooks, photos and digital files is passed today, it could...
‘ELITE CONSPIRACY’ Johnson warning
FORMER foreign secretary Boris Johnson said yesterday that changing the date of leaving the EU from 29 March would be ‘shameful’, and the public...
McCluskey slams Blairite coupists – but calls on unions to broker a deal
Unite leader Len McCluskey said yesterday that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been the victim of a ‘political lynching’ orchestrated by ‘sinister forces’,...
‘We are the opposition!’ – Greek teachers storm parliament
GREEK striking teachers along with students staged yet another magnificent march of over 6,000 last Thursday against the hated government Education Bill. Once...
TOYOTA 10% WAGE CUT – praised by Unite trade union
Car manufacturer Toyota yesterday announced that production at its UK plants would be cut by ten per cent, with an associated cut in wages...
‘NHS PRIVATISATION BY STEALTH’ – GP practice operator taken over
ONE of the UK’s biggest GP practice operators has been taken over by the US health insurance group Centene Corporation. This has been condemned by...
Coordinated strike action motion for TUC
TRANSPORT union RMT has tabled a motion for the TUC Congress in Manchester next week which sets out a blueprint for a coordinated trade...
Gaza’s Children Going Back To School
EDUCATION is resuming for 300,000 Palestinian students in the Gaza Strip after two years of the Israeli genocide war, with 8,000 teachers coming back...
200 steelworkers march on Parliament! – fighting to defend their jobs
OVER 200 steelworkers from all over the country marched from Trafalgar Square to a rally in Parliament Square yesterday morning. They are fighting against the...