REJECT CWU SELL-OUT – call angry CWU members
THE CWU (Communications Workers Union) yesterday accepted the Royal Mail offer on pay along with plans to modernise the company and reform the...
BANK BAIL-OUT! – as shares crash by £79 billion
At 7am yesterday morning, Chancellor Alistair Darling issued a statement to the London Stock Exchange. He outlined plans to convert the £25bn of taxpayers’ money...
‘SKATING ON THIN ICE!’ – RCN warns Blair on NHS while UNISON will back...
Yesterday the two biggest health unions warned prime minister Blair about the state of the health service. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr...
Israeli jets target children in UNRWA shelters
An Israeli raid on the Attar area on the western outskirts of Khan Younis killed at least 13 people and injured 26 yesterday, Gaza’s...
Blair pledges ‘exclusion’ and incitement’ powers
Prime Minister Blair yesterday announced the government’s intention to introduce new laws against ‘incitement and the instigation of terrorism’, for which he had the...
Gate Gourmet Workers Angry At Tgwu Officials
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers spoke out angrily yesterday over TGWU officers who are putting pressure on those the company has selected for compulsory...
DEFEAT HEALTH BILL SAY ‘BEVAN’S RUN’ GPs
‘Thank you everybody! Let’s save the NHS and kill this Bill!’ declared consultant Clive Peedell as he an David Wilson arrived to cheers outside...
UCL Condemned For Going To The Law Courts!
‘UCL Stand for Justice’ has condemned the north London university for going to the courts and smearing its campaign in support of Palestine and...
Come to our conference on January 29TH
THERE was a determined picket of locked out Gate Gourmet workers on the Beacon Hill near Heathrow Airport yesterday. It is now nearly five months...
Police spy inquest: mass walkout in protest
‘NO justice, No peace’ and ‘Sack Judge Mitting now,’ were the cries from campaigners and victims of political policing as they blocked the main...
Cameron ‘Bounty Hunters’ Condemned!
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) yesterday condemned the coalition government’s decision to use ‘bounty hunters’ to tackle alleged benefit fraud. The charity was commenting...
John Breen 1938-2010
We are very sad to announce the sudden death of John Breen on Monday 15 February. He was a lifelong member of what became, SOGAT,...
PROBLEMS WITH SAFETY! – CQC warns on private ambulance providers
THE Care Quality Commission has warned all private ambulance providers that, during its inspections, it found ‘problems with the safety’ of the care they...
No compulsory redundancies say Gourmet workers
ON the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday Gate Gourmet workers told News Line that they were not going to accept compulsory redundancy. Mr Gurbaksish...
Hands Off Libyan Oil!
Libyan government forces stopped the pro-imperialist assault on Muammar Gadaffi’s home town of Sirte and drove back the counter-revolutionary forces yesterday. A Pentagon spokesman in...
STRIKE WAVE! – Firefighters, hospital workers and postal workers take action
Firefighters, hospital and postal workers were manning picket lines yesterday as the working class stepped up action to defend jobs, wages and conditions. Over 1,100...
RCN Demands A 5% Above Inflation Pay Rise
FOLLOWING the ONS (Office of National Statistics) announcement yesterday that inflation in the 12 months to May soared to 11.7%, the RCN (Royal College...
TUC to discuss general strike – At April 24 meeting
THERE was consternation yesterday when a leaked Unite document revealed that a union report going before the TUC General Council on April 24 is...
Defeat Tory onslaught on rail workers!
‘DEFEAT this Tory onslaught by calling national strike action,’ Chigwell Aslef Chairman Bill Rogers said yesterday in response to the Tory government’s threat to...
Gaza air raid was response to jail break – Hamas
PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas yesterday denounced the latest Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip, describing them as a desperate attempt by the regime to cover...
110,000 Single Parents To Be Forced Into Work!
‘Welfare changes starting today will see up to 111,000 single parents set up to fail as they are forced to seek work – or...
‘GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER’ – Private security firms in Iraq condemned
War on Want has condemned the UK private military and security companies (PMSCs), ‘operating with impunity in Iraq’. The charity issued a briefing paper...
Eastern Ukraine refuses to vote!
THERE were big demonstrations in Donetsk and other eastern Ukrainian cities yesterday in opposition to the presidential election that was called by the unelected...
DEFEND 4,000 REMPLOY JOBS! GMB demonstration in Sheffield today
The GMB trade union is holding a demonstration in Sheffield and a rally in Wakefield today, to defend 4,000 Remploy jobs. The GMB warned...
‘Thousands will back tanker drivers!’
PEOPLE'S fuel lobby leader Andrew Spence yesterday said: ‘Thousands will back a Unite tanker driver members strike’. He told News Line: ‘It’s not just truck...
Strike At NHS Logistics
TWO 24-hour national strikes by staff at NHS Logistics were announced yesterday, after the workers voted 3-1 for action against the government’s plans to...
EU-UK post-Brexit deal deadlock!
TALKS between the UK and EU broke up yesterday, as the two sides remained at loggerheads over a post-Brexit trade deal. Another deadline passed, but...
£9,250 tuition fees at Exeter – rise for current & future students
EXETER University has been condemned both by its students’ guild and lecturers’ union after announcing yesterday that tuition fees are to increase to £9,250...
UNISON TO BALLOT – over 3-year NHS wage-cutting deal
DELEGATES at the UNISON Health Conference in Manchester yesterday voted to ballot over the government’s staged three-year pay deal. The UNISON leaders had previously accepted...
‘police Refused To Listen!’
THE people of Tottenham were yesterday considering the implications of the explosive uprising that took place on Saturday night. The reverend Nims Obunge said: ‘I...
News Line Anniversary Rally
Sunday November 29th
Mother and child face eviction!
HEYGATE Estate tenant Evelyn Amahian is facing eviction this Wednesday, putting her on the street with her young daughter! The Heygate Estate in south London...
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...
All tax advice centres to close!
PCS members held a lively protest outside HM Revenue and Customs Whitehall headquarters yesterday opposing the closure of 281 tax advice centres. Chris Baugh, PCS...
Leon Briggs’ family furious! – no action against police after his death
NO ACTION is to be taken against the police after the death of Leon Briggs, who died after being restrained by police in 2013,...
Rapidly rising support for ‘no deal!’
WITH a ComRes poll revealing yesterday that public support for a no-deal Brexit is rapidly rising, up 6% since January and now standing at...
‘Strike action rock solid’
‘I CAN report that the strike action this morning is rock solid across the Southern Rail network as we fight to put rail safety...
Medvedev Meets Merkel To Back The Magna Bid
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Black Sea town of Sochi yesterday to discuss carmaker Opel and other industrial...
17 More Universities Vote For Strike Action!
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at 17 more UK universities have voted to strike over pay and working conditions, meaning that...
‘Corridor care seems to have become the norm’ says the RCN’s Patricia Marquis
‘NEXT week’s strikes are in protest at unsafe care,’ said Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Director for England, Patricia Marquis yesterday, in response to...
Israel approves 22 new illegal settlements in West Bank
Israel has approved the establishment of 22 new illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision was reportedly taken in a closed-door vote by...
£15bn PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS, PLEDGES DARLING – as unemployment leaps by 177,000
Chancellor Alistair Darling announced £15bn public sector ‘efficiency savings’ and slave labour schemes for youth in yesterday’s Budget. This came as the latest figures showed...
Babar Ahmad was subjected to violent assaults and religious taunts by police
The Metropolitan Police has agreed to pay £60,000 damages to IT analyst Babar Ahmad during a civil action hearing at the High Court which...
9,000 Gm Jobs To Go!
GM Europe will keep all four of its German Opel plants open, interim chief executive Nick Reilly revealed yesterday. GM issued the following statement: ‘Opel/Vauxhall...
Public support for nurses rising!
PUBLIC support for a nurses strike has risen six months after first industrial action. A new poll by YouGov for the Royal College of Nursing...