‘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...
Eu-Ukrainian Deal!
EU leaders yesterday signed an Association Agreement with the Ukrainian coupist government. It is a watered-down version of the agreement that the overthrown President...
‘THE MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS A LIAR’ says Saddam Hussein
At his continuing show trial in Baghdad yesterday, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused Bush of lying about Iraq’s non-existent stockpiles of chemical weapons as...
Greek dockers fight privatisation
DOCKWORKERS of the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki have completed one month of strike action against privatisation and consequent dramatic change...
Half a million on London march for Palestine!
HALF A MILLION workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through London on Saturday, assembling in Hyde Park and marching to the American Embassy...
Thatcher Used Riots To Boost The State!
Margaret Thatcher considered arming the police during the riots of 1981, whilst a section of her government counselled that Liverpool should be abandoned to...
‘Israeli army carrying out field executions!’ – says Palestinian spokesman
THE official Palestinian presidential spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, yesterday condemned what he described as ‘the dangerous Israeli escalation against our people’, which resulted in...
‘IN A QUEUE TO DIE!’ – South Africa’s nurses work in fear and exhaustion
NTHABELENG, a 28-year-old nurse on the front line of South Africa’s Covid-19 pandemic, is exhausted and afraid. Each day, she begins her shift haunted by...
UN warns ‘Israel has produced a famine and displacement!’
THE UNITED Nations has issued its starkest warning yet that Israel’s campaign in Gaza has created an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe marked by famine and...
Fourteen Palestinian factions sign national unity agreement
FOURTEEN Palestinian factions have signed a ‘national unity’ agreement aimed at maintaining Palestinian control over Gaza once Israel’s war on the enclave is ended. The...
Abolish NHS prescription charges! say GPs
THE NHS prescription charge is ‘iniquitous’ and ‘outdated’ and should be scrapped, urge GPs in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB), edited...
US privateer in charge of NHS England
THE GLOBAL president of US private health giant United Health, Simon Stevens, has been appointed to head NHS England. Stevens will be employed by the...
Get out of the EU now! – RMT’s Cash tells May Day rally
‘GET OUT of the EU now,’ RMT general secretary Mick Cash told the May Day rally in Trafalgar Square at the end of the...
MAY DAY MANIFESTO – ‘Permanent state of Revolution!’ says Greek dockers’ leader
THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers of the world at a time of the greatest ever...
Agency staff costing NHS £2.5bn a year!
A FAILURE to train enough staff in the NHS is leading to an over-reliance on agency staff, locums and overseas recruitment which is wasteful...
Bring down the Coalition! – the only way to defend the NHS
Health Secretary Hunt’s attempt to turn the report on the ‘breakdown in healthcare’ at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust into an attack on the NHS...
Hamas Prepares For Israeli Invasion
HAMAS yesterday vowed to avenge the deaths of its fighters and civilians in the Gaza Strip as Israel launched a full-scale attack on Gaza,...
Greek bosses stop wages!
HUNDREDS of workers and youth demonstrated in front of the Greek Business Association (SEV) building in Athens on Wednesday afternoon demanding that firms pay...
‘A SIGNIFICANT VICTORY!’ – Health unions hail subsidiaries ‘pause’
‘A SIGNIFICANT victory’ for health workers is how Unite described the decision by NHS Improvement to ‘pause’ the setting up of wholly owned subsidiary...
Massive doctors picket lines –answer the Cameron-Hunt threats
THE TUC must organise a national day of action in support of the junior doctors’ dispute and our NHS, the Public and Commercial Services...
One million Gaza City residents are refusing to move!
WHILE the Israeli regime escalated its ground invasion of Gaza City yesterday, around one million Palestinians are resisting the occupying force’s attempts to forcibly...
Horton quits – now renationalise says RMT leader Cash
THE boss of rail privateer, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is to resign after the company’s new timetables brought the railway to a near halt....
Nurses sleep on wards – as hospitals hit 100% capacity
HOSPITAL staff are sleeping on hospital wards during this extreme weather to ensure that patients get treated. They are working in extremely...
Israel strikes Lebanon during Palestinian General Strike
DOZENS of air strikes pounded Gaza yesterday while a new front in the conflict opened up as the Israeli military also shelled Lebanon in...
‘Health And Care Is At Breaking Point!’ – Says Rcn Director Marquis
‘WITH more than 13,000 patients a day stuck in hospitals because the community and social care they need to be safely discharged is unavailable,...
‘There’s something rotten at the heart of the Conservative Party’ – Miliband accuses Cameron
LABOUR PARTY leader Miliband clashed with Prime Minister Cameron over political donors who held Swiss bank accounts with HSBC, during questions in the House...
Teachers mount SATs challenge
THOUSANDS of head teachers boycotted SATs tests yesterday on the grounds that the tests damage children’s education. Head teachers in the National Association of...
‘stop This Chase Farm Eviction!’
A nurse working at Chase Farm hospital is facing an eviction notice that would leave her homeless by the new year. Gloria Ankrah is being...
Hamas Rejects Presence Of Any Israeli Forces In The Gaza Strip Area!
SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan has welcomed the general ceasefire plan proposed by US president Joe Biden, saying it contained ‘positive ideas’. Hamdan reiterated his...
Workers block South Korea coup!
‘NO to martial law! Strike down the dictatorship! Open the gate!’ demonstrators shouted outside South Korea’s Parliament last night after President Yoon Suk Yeol...
Chagos Fury – Over Cable Betrayal!
THE Chagossian community in Crawley have reacted with fury after an offer from the coalition government and Vince Cable to allow the islanders...
HALTING ISRAELI AGGRESSION OUR TOP PRIORITY – Palestinian Presidency
IN RESPONSE to reports of Israeli plans regarding post-war Gaza, the Presidency of the State of Palestine firmly reiterated yesterday its clear stance, emphasising...
NHS 50,000 Doctors Short!
THE NHS is 50,000 doctors short new British Medical Association (BMA) re-search released yesterday has found. The number of doctors in England has fallen even...
GPs reject privatisation
AT THE BMA Local Medical Committees (England) conference yesterday, GPs voted against a proposal to allow privatised GP services in England. The motion stated:...
Balham PCS Strike Ballot Is Called!
STAFF at Balham benefit centre are being balloted for strike action having been told that their office is due to close on 31 December. This...
‘KEEP YOUR PROMISES’ – US unions tell Obama
American trade unions who campaigned for Barack Obama’s landslide election victory, yesterday told the new US president to keep his promises to working families. Service...
‘Hospitals a thing of the past’ – vicious Tory attack on NHS
HOSPITALS as we know them will become a thing of the past ‘over the course of the next decade’, with patients being treated...
2021 – Year For World Revolution!
New Year statement by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2021 to all our readers, and to...
AN ‘OUTRAGEOUS PAY CUT’! – UNISON & RCN reject pay board threats
Trade unions representing nurses, midwives and health workers covered by the ‘independent’ Pay Review Body (PRB), yesterday reacted angrily to a government-proposed huge ‘pay...
Hospitals running out of vital equipment!
HOSPITALS are ‘running out of vital equipment’ while at the same time GP surgeries are running out of flu vaccines, it emerged yesterday...
Health workers fight local pay-cutting plan!
HEALTH trade union members in Bristol will be protesting outside the Bristol Royal Infirmary on Tuesday, 30 October against plans by the South West...
The back of the Zionist regime will be broken – Iran
IRAN will ‘break the back’ of the Israeli regime and continue with its retaliatory military operations against the Zionist aggressors, its defence ministry vowed...
LEBANESE REVOLUTION! – masses opposed to all sectarianism
HUNDREDS of people have been wounded in Beirut after security forces used tear gas and water cannon to disperse crowds of anti-government protesters trying...
STOP UK’s ARMS SALES TO ISRAEL DEMAND 100+ MPS
OVER ONE hundred British MPs have demanded an immediate cessation of the UK’s arms sales to Israel amidst the ongoing conflict in Gaza. This request...