PLYMOUTH HOUSING TRANSFER – ‘fraught with dangers’ warns Unite
‘We continue to believe that stock transfer is fraught with financial hazards,’ Unite said yesterday after it was announced that Plymouth council tenants have...
Field Joins The Tories!
Birkenhead MP Frank Field yesterday became the first Labour right winger to defect to the Tory-led coalition with the Liberal Democrats. Field, who is an...
Ealing Week-Long Strike!
150 workers began a week-long strike at closure-threatened Ealing Hospital in west London yesterday against the privateer Medirest. The porters, catering and domestic workers, all...
BMA ‘WHITE PAPER’ CRISIS! – ditches its unconditional support
THE mounting anger of GPs and consultants over the Lansley NHS White Paper has forced the British Medical Association (BMA) Council to retreat from...
‘WE’RE READY FOR THE NEXT ROUND’ say BA cabin crew
THOUSANDS of British Airways cabin crew marched around Heathrow Airport yesterday afternoon waving flags, chanting: ‘Willie, Willie, Willie! Out! Out! Out!’ They received enthusiastic...
MATERNITY ‘REFORMS’ CRISIS – as Ministers oppose policy
The crisis over government plans to axe A&Es and maternity units deepened yesterday as it emerged that at least a dozen Labour ministers are...
Willetts resign! Demand UEA students
Hundreds of students at University of East Anglia (UAE), Norwich held a mass protest against the visit of Universities Minister Willetts on Thursday. UAE Student...
Call Off The Talks!
‘Our union executive should immediately call off the talks with Royal Mail until the threats of redundancy, total flexibility, and attacks on our pension...
‘NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE!’ – GPs condemn the Care Quality Commission
THE Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection regime aimed at GP practices is damaging patient care by diverting resources and GP time away from treating...
DID YOU APPROVE A CHANGE TO SHOOT TO KILL? – Blair dodges reporter’s question
‘Did you ever discuss or approve a change in the rules of engagement for British police to shoot to kill, shoot in the head...
‘PENSIONS DEBACLE’ IS CONDEMNED – NASUWT refuses to sign deal
The National Executive of the teacher’s union NASUWT, yesterday refused to sign up to the government’s ‘Heads of Agreement’ pensions plan. The NEC had met...
NHS HUGE BEDS CRISIS! – as government readies for more savage cuts
ENGLAND’S hospitals have been dangerously full of patients during the month of January, the Labour Party warned yesterday. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: ‘Too...
MORGAN MUST GO! – Demand 10,000-strong petition & NUT
TORY Education Secretary ‘Nicky Morgan has failed and must resign!’ teachers union NUT demanded yesterday. Teachers, parents and school students are furious at the chaos...
‘WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK’ say Gate Gourmet workers
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers insisted to News Line yesterday they want their jobs back. On the picket line at Heathrow Airport Jarnail, said: ‘I...
Record 5.45m NHS waiting list – Nurses warn of staffing crisis
A RECORD number of people, more than 5.45 million, are waiting for NHS hospital treatment in England. Responding to the latest NHS England performance data,...
Iran’s retaliatory operation dispells Israeli invincibility myth
COMMANDER of the Iranian Army’s Ground Force, Brigadier General Kioumars Haydari, says Iran’s retaliatory operation against Israel has further dispelled the ‘threadbare myth that the...
Down With Privatisation!
OVER 10,000 workers from the Greek state corporations and organisations (power and electricity, telecommunications, post-office, water authorities etc) took part in a militant and...
Warsi expenses row
TORY party co-chair and Cabinet member, Baroness Warsi, has become involved in an expenses row. She has admitted failing to declare rental...
‘Biden must follow US law and immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel!’
THE Biden administration should follow US law and immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam said yesterday. The organisations on March...
TUC leaders refuse to call to bring down the coalition
DELEGATES to the TUC Conference in Manchester on Monday voted almost unanimously – with just one dissenting voice from BALPA pilots’ union leader Jim...
Basra Tensions Flare!
Basra governor Mohammed al-Waili yesterday warned the British occupiers he will break off all relations and called on Iraqis to demonstrate outside the...
Turkey Buys Isis Oil – Says Yaalon
ISRAEL''S defence minister has accused Turkey of buying oil from IS, thereby funding its activities. Speaking in Athens, Moshe Yaalon said IS had ‘enjoyed Turkish...
CIVIL SERVANTS STRIKE LOOMS! – London lecturers out on June 9
Delegates at this year’s Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) national conference yesterday voted overwhelmingly for a strike ballot of 280,000 members working across...
Downgraded! – A-Level Results Outrage
AS A-LEVEL results came in yesterday morning head teachers warned that lowered grades are ‘unfair and unfathomable’ while teachers said that the results were...
‘Sinister’ Gate Gourmet Dublin
Irish union SIPTU general president Jack O’Connor has expressed concern overplans by Gate Gourmet, Dublin, to carry out profiling of individual workers to ascertain...
‘We are all very angry with BP!’
OVER 150 people attended a public meeting organised by the Tar-Sands Network in east London on Tuesday night, in preparation for today’s lobby of...
NHS Staff Face Privatisation!
The coming clash between the trade unions and the Labour government over plans to step up the privatisation of the NHS was yesterday...
GREEK RADIO & TV HAS BEEN OCCUPIED – General strike called and Greek riot...
TENS of thousands of Greek workers and youth rushed to the state Greek TV and Radio corporation (ERT) building on Tuesday afternoon following the...
NO EXTENSION FOR EVACUATION! – Taliban tells US & UK
AN AFGHAN security forces member has been killed in a gunfight by ‘unknown assailants,’ as US and German troops joined the fighting at Kabul...
2,500 refugees’ lifejackets placed outside parliament
OVER 2,500 lifejackets were placed on the lawn outside parliament, in Parliament Square yesterday, each representing the life of a refugee man, woman or...
Tories Cynical ‘Pause’ Slammed
HEALTH unions Unison, Unite and the GMB have scornfully condemned the attempts of the Tory-LibDem coalition to involve the trade unions in new talks...
Syrian rebels reject Annan plan!
SYRIAN ‘rebels’ yesterday announced that they are no longer committed to the Annan plan. Major Sami al-Kurdi, for the rebel military council stated that...
1,000 MARCH FOR VICTORY Make dispute official demand Gate Gourmet workers
‘I congratulate all the sacked workers who are standing up and fighting for their rights,’ said locked out Gate Gourmet worker Harbinder Singh to...
UNIONS MUST TAKE BROWN ON – says News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance rally
All the public sector trade unions must unite for action to bring down the Brown government and replace it with a workers government and...
5,500 petrol stations run dry! Bad pay & conditions force truckers to quit!
THE SPIRALLING cost of energy, combined with a lorry driver shortage and now panic buying, has resulted in 5,500 petrol stations across the country...
GREEK GENERAL STRIKE – for workers’ rights against privatisation
A massive strike wave is taking place against the Greek right-wing government this week as workers are staging national strikes, including a general strike...
Greek Youth Tv Takeover
Throughout Greece last Tuesday school and university students continued with demonstrations and occupations against the right-wing government of Kostas Karamanlis. Virtually all schools and...
GREEK PUBLIC SECTOR 24hr STRIKE
GREEK public sector workers went on a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday against the so-called government ‘mobility scheme’ to bring in tens of thousands...
Sri Lankan Workers Determined To Continue The Revolution
SRI Lanka’s prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as acting president, while the country reels from the economic crisis and the developing...
Decide on action to defeat Tory NHS Bill – urges BMA London Regional Assembly
London doctors have made it clear they are opposed to the government’s plan to slash and privatise the NHS – and want action to...
£14.4bn BLACK HOLE THREAT TO 70,000 MORE JOBS!
A £14.4 billion funding black hole threatens to swallow public services, say the council leaders of the Local Government Association. A LGA statement said: ‘The...
British Troops In Syria!
THE UNITED States, Britain and France have been setting up new outposts in northeastern Syria, despite the opposition of the Damascus government to...