French youth rise up against Sarkozy, now the right-wing Presidential candidate

REVOLUTIONARY MAY DAY! – News Line Editorial Board Statement

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THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings on this May Day to the insurgent workers of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. The Iraqi insurgency...

Massive 97% NO vote! – 400 Birmingham binmen reject pay cuts

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STRIKING Birmingham bin workers have overwhelmingly rejected, by 97%, the council’s ‘totally inadequate’ offer, with hundreds of members of the Unite union voting against...

Blair Threatens To ‘Close The Book’ On Ulster Power Sharing

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The British and Irish governments yesterday set a November 24 deadline for north of Ireland politicians to agree to work together in a restored...

PALESTINIANS PAYING THE ULTIMATE PRICE! – seeing their children die of hunger

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UN EXPERTS have expressed deep concern over the operations of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the so-called relief organisation created by Israel and backed by the...

Universal Credit to hit the poorest!

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THE Tory-led coalition is deliberately using Universal Credit to worsen the plight of poor families. A new report shows that millions of lower income working...

A STEP TOWARDS POLICE STATE! – Tory move against anti-war movement condemned

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The Stop the War Coalition yesterday condemned amendments tabled by Monmouth Tory MP David Davies to the Policing and Crime Bill, currently going through...
Women social security workers. Banner reads ‘We continue our struggle’

‘We Will Continue Our Struggle’ Say Greek Workers

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TENS of thousands of public sector workers demonstrated in all the Greek major cities last Thursday as part of a 24-hour national strike called...
Campaigners fighting against cuts to the Herts fire service outside Radlett fire station in Ocober

Bovingdon Battle!

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HERTFORDSHIRE fire crews are appalled at the way two community action groups in Bovingdon and Radlett are being treated by local politicians over the...

KREMLIN ATTACK WAS ON WASHINGTON’S ORDERS – says Peskov

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RUSSIA is considering various options to respond to Kiev’s attempted drone attack on the Kremlin, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters yesterday. Moscow is well...
Morale was high on the  picket line at Kings Cross

RMT action supported by Londoners

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‘ROCK SOLID,’ said RMT leader Bob Crow about yesterday’s and today’s 48-hour strike by London Underground RMT and TSSA members. Thousands of Tube drivers and...
BEN GRIFFIN, an SAS trooper who refused to serve in Iraq addresses rally on the third anniversary of the attack on Iraq

Combat Troops For Afghanistan

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Britain is considering sending more troops to Afghanistan ‘as a matter of urgency’ Defence Secretary Des Browne told MPs yesterday. In a statement to the...

Youth Rise Up Against Capitalism

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A THOUSAND school youth walked out of classes yesterday to join the mass protest in Parliament Square, furious at how capitalism is destroying the...
ANNA ATHOW with students at the Enfield College picket line yesterday, a number pledged they would vote WRP

Vote Wrp – Keep The Tories Out

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Thousands of lecturers, supported by tens of thousands of students, were yesterday taking strike action against Labour government cuts and sackings at 11 colleges...
A section of the Tamil demonstration in Parliament Square yesterday afternoon

‘WE WERE ATTACKED BY SEVERAL HUNDRED POLICE’ say Tamil protesters

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ONE THOUSAND Tamil protesters congregated in Westminster Square yesterday afternoon, in defiance of Monday night’s violent Metropolitan Police attack on them in which at...

GAZA’S CROSSINGS CLOSED – ‘An act of collective punishment’

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THE Gaza Centre for Human Rights has condemned Israel’s decision to close Gaza’s crossings, including Kerem Shalom and Rafah, amid the military escalation between...
Over 100 turned out to join the picket of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital during last Wednesday’s strike – public support has grown exponentially as Hunt has stepped up his attacks on junior doctors

‘How Dare You Hunt!’

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‘JEREMY Hunt. How dare you!’ wrote Julie Lovell, a woman whose 33-year-old daughter Karen, died after the end of the two-day junior doctor strike....

Mortgage holders and public sector workers to be hit and hit again – say...

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PRIME Minister Sunak made clear in his interview on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme yesterday morning that mortgage holders and public sector...

TUC’s Nowak condemns Israeli genocide of Palestinians!

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‘IN Gaza there’s a humanitarian crisis that shames the world. Thousands of starving civilians – women and children killed while queuing for food, hospitals,...
Enormous numbers of workers demonstrating in Athens on Sunday against the austerity cuts

GREECE ERUPTS – against austerity cuts

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Hundreds of thousands of workers, youth and self-employed people staged a colossal rally last Sunday night in Athens outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) against...
Statue erected in Tripoli of a giant Libyan fist crushing an American warplane, following the  US-UK bombing of Libya in 1986

‘Halt Nato Barbarism’ Libyan Government Calls For Ceasefire!

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LIBYAN government spokesman Dr Moussa Ibrahim told the world’s press yesterday: ‘We are here to sincerely, as always, appeal for an immediate ceasefire, an...

VENEZUELA – MILITARY INTERVENTION IMMINENT – China-Russia warn USA

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CHINA and Russia are rallying behind Venezuela, warning against an imminent military intervention into the Latin American country. It is facing a showdown today...

EURO CRISIS DEEPENS! – as Germany refuses joint ‘E-Bond’

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The euro fell sharply in morning trading yesterday, as bond yields on the debt of eurozone periphery countries began to push higher. This came after...

Top-Up Fees Threat To The NHS

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An admission by director of policy and strategy for the Department of Health, Una O’Brien, has stirred up concerns that ‘co-payments’ or top-up fees...

5 WARDS AND 300 STAFF FACE THE AXE – in Lincolnshire hospitals

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Staff at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust have been shocked by the sudden announcement on Monday of plans to close five hospital wards and...
The Blackpool Health branch of Unison marching against job cuts on the TUC demonstration on March 26

890 Ambulance Jobs To Go

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THE London Ambulance Service (LAS) announced yesterday that it plans to cut 890 jobs over the next five years. The LAS, which is making £53...

Britain Trains Saudi Snipers

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It emerged yesterday that the UK is training Saudi Army troops who are being used to suppress demonstrators against the feudal ...
Sacked Stead McAlpin and Birtwistle workers outside John Lewis offices in London yesterday

‘WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK!’ – McAlpin sacked workers tell John Lewis

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A COACHLOAD of sacked workers from Stead McAlpin and J H Birtwistle factories, formerly owned by John Lewis, yesterday lobbied the John Lewis Partnership...

‘GET READY FOR WAR!’ –Trump demands UK & NATO support

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IN A SPEECH to a military audience on Monday night, US President Donald Trump outlined his change of strategy on Afghanistan. He said: ‘A hasty...
The platform at yesterday’s press conference given by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, including his cousins Patricia da Silva Armani (second from left) and VIvian Figueiredo (third from left)

Hold The Police To Account Demands de Menezes Family

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THERE will always be doubts in the minds of Jean Charles de Menezes’ relatives about why there is no CCTV evidence of when armed...
Rolls Royce workers marching to Parliament to defend their jobs

RATES KEPT AT 5% – TUC warns its rates cut or slump

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The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday kept interest rates on hold at 5% as the central bank struggles to deal with...
Striking Swindon hospital workers about to board the coach to take them to Wolverhampton to tell the bosses of Carillion exactly what they think of them

Swindon Hospital Workers Lobby Carillion

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OVER 50 striking Swindon hospital workers travelled by coach yesterday to Wolverhampton to lobby their employer, privateer Carillion, demanding an end to...
MARK WALSH Branch Secretary CWU Merseyside and ANGELA PEELING Assistant Regional Secretary NW CWU welcome the marchers to Merseyside and sponsored a pizza meal for the marchers

CWU welcomes Marchers to Merseyside!

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WHILE the marchers stopped to get their picture by the statue of the leader of the English Revolution, Oliver Cromwell, yesterday morning, the local...

Labour Is Planning Big Welfare Cuts!

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning to initiate a new regime of widespread welfare cuts, throwing thousands of sick, disabled and mentally ill off...

British Gas – 500% Profits Rise

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‘This greed has got to be stopped and the government should step in now and levy a windfall tax on the company,’ said UNISON...

Chancellor Reeves in crisis as government borrowing soars!

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CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves is facing mounting pressure as government borrowing soars far beyond expectations, alongside new signs of economic decline. In the year to March,...
The picket line at Bush House. Howard Zhang (centre) told News Line ‘They are forcing people out who don’t want to go.’

Nuj Defends Bbc Jobs!

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The National Union of Journalists held their second 24-hour strike yesterday against compulsory redundancies at the BBC. The action received massive support from...
London Region FBU banner on the picket line outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. Most workers agreed that hospital and fire station closures should be stopped with occupations and a general strike

Stop hospital closures with occupations and a general strike!

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THE London Fire Brigades Union banner will be on today’s mass march to stop the closure of Lewisham Hospital. Yesterday it was outside Ealing...

NO TUBE AND RAIL CUTS! – ‘Franchising system in its death throes’

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ENDING damaging staff cuts, bringing all of London’s Tube back into the public sector and getting the network’s upgrade back on track are more...

RCN warns ‘Patients are suffering!

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PATIENTS are suffering as the prime minister fails to tackle the waiting list crisis, RCN warns, as new analysis reveals decade of misery. The prime...
Young Socialists lobby of last September’s TUC Congress in Brighton demanding no zero-hours contracts

Accept Zero Hours Or No Benefits!

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UNEMPLOYED workers are to be thrown off benefits if they refuse to go on slave labour zero-hours contracts, the government announced yesterday. Employment Minister Esther...

FINANCIAL CRASH! – bankers warning over ‘risky loans’

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Risky loans are leading to a financial crash, leading bankers warned yesterday. William Rhodes, senior vice chairman of Citigroup warned: ‘Lenders all too often, are...

John Roan resists! – No Academisation!

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‘JOHN Roan Resists!’ is the battle cry of 1,200 pupils, their parents and 60 teachers who are in an escalating struggle to stop their...

Disabled Must Not Be Penalised!

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CHARITIES expressed concerns yesterday after Tory plans to force a million more sick and disabled people into work were floated by Work and Pensions...

£1.90 AN HOUR ON CELTIC FERRIES – major unions lead protest

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LEADERS and officials of Britain and Ireland’s transport unions will today expose the poverty-pay shame of a ferry company operating in UK and Irish...

PATIENTS CHOICE = HOSPITAL CLOSURES say UNISON

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Public sector union UNISON yesterday condemned the government’s extension of Patient Choice as a policy that will lead to the closure of good local...