Rail fares rising three times faster than wages! – 26.6% between 2008 and 2012
RAIL fares have risen three times faster than wages since the slump began in 2008, according to a new analysis published yesterday by the...
Glenton – Five Further Charges
Corporal Joe Glenton, the soldier who faces desertion charges for refusing to return to Afghanistan, has been arrested, imprisoned and charged with five further...
‘NO REGRETS’ SAYS GOLDSMITH – over halting Fraud Office inquiry
Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith yesterday called on the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) not to re-open its corruption probe into the 1986 so-called ‘Al-Yamamah’...
Maudsley CEO joins strikers on the picket line!
STRIKING catering, cleaning and other support staff working for South London & Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM) were joined on their picket line at Maudsley...
Hand over redacted UK torture material! – MPs committee tells US administration
THE House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee is to request that the US hands over any material documenting the UK’s role in the...
‘NHS at breaking point’ – Says BMA deputy chair Dr David Wrigley
‘FROM HEALTH to social care, everything is at breaking point,’ deputy chair of the British Medical Association Council (BMA), Dr David Wrigley warned yesterday. ‘I...
Government failing NHS – says BMA leader Mark Porter
THE BMA doctors’ union and the RCN nurses’ union joined hands in denouncing the Tory government’s onslaught on the NHS yesterday, after the...
GG– great support in Southall
LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers were out campaigning at the weekend for their mass picket next Sunday and their conference in London on Sunday January...
END OCCUPATION – demands the Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtay-yeh yesterday called for a serious track to end the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and establish the Palestinian...
Second day of Ealing Hospital strike
EALING Hospital porters, domestic, catering and help desk workers held their second 12-hour strike yesterday. More than 100 GMB members employed by the privateer Medirest...
DOUBLE TROOP NUMBERS IN HELMAND – demands British commander
THE commander of British forces in Afghanistan yesterday said he needs double the number of soldiers in Helmand Province to cope with the increasingly...
Families going without food!
Families with disabled children are going without essentials such as food and heating. This is the norm, not a temporary crisis brought on by the...
Gp Crisis Deepens
GP leaders yesterday warned the government that its plans to recruit 5,000 new GPs and introduce seven-day opening are undeliverable, as new figures show...
Lgv Drivers Halt Oxford Mini
PRODUCTION of the MINI at Oxford could be severely disrupted after drivers delivering components voted to go on strike for six days in a...
Artificial heart saves 13-year-old – Royal Brompton must not close!
THIRTEEN-year-old Chloe Narbonne would have died if it wasn’t for a revolutionary pioneering operation that gave her a new artificial heart, all thanks to...
‘WE REJECT WAGE CUTS!’ – say UNISON & GMB spokeswomen
‘We reject public sector pay cuts,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday. She was responding to remarks by chancellor Darling yesterday, where...
STUDENTS’ ROBBERY! – to repay twice their fees and loans
The University and College union (UCU) yesterday welcomed findings by the BBC, which it said shone a light on the real level of debt...
Blair Opposes Right To Strike!
The Blair government has intervened in a European Court of Justice (EJC) test case to insist that the right to strike is not a...
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...
FULL SUPPORT! – pledge the TUC and trade union leaders
‘NO to redundancies!’ ‘We want our jobs!’ ‘We want justice!’ shouted over 300 locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday inside the TUC Congress in...
US & ISRAEL STOKING GAZA CLASHES says Hamas call for national unity
THE political leader the Hamas Palest-inian liberation movement has said that the US and Israel are responsible for last week’s clashes between Hamas...
Bombardier Mass Sackings
BOMBARDIER announced the sack for over 1,000 Belfast workers yesterday, as a portion of 7,000 sackings they are planning worldwide over the next two...
Palestine coalition condemns false claims of riot & disorder
TODAY’S guilty verdicts in the case of Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal and Stop The War Campaign vice chair Chris Nineham are extraordinary...
Cambridge to remain in NUS
THE National Union of Students has welcomed the decision by Cambridge University students to remain in the NUS after they rejected a motion to...
WALL STREET DIVES! – as Congress argues over Bush plan
THE Treasury yesterday confirmed that Bradford & Bingley’s (B&B) £50bn mortgages and loans will be nationalised. The mortgage bank’s £20bn savings unit and branches...
BMA Council votes to call special conference
The following motion was passed by a large majority at the BMA (British Medical Association) Council meeting in London yesterday. ‘This meeting recognises that legislation...
UK troops to Russia’s borders while Tories threaten more bombings of Yemen
On the day that Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak addressed parliament – to justify bombing Yemen last Friday without bothering to consult MPs –...
Corbyn Still On Both Sides
JEREMY Corbyn hemmed and hawed yesterday over whether Labour may back Tory PM May’s EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill which she intends to put before...
Wages Fell In Year To June
WAGES fell by 0.2% in the year to June was the shock news released by the ONS yesterday. Britain is now a nation of the...
RBS & May knifed Carillion!
‘IT’S A BROKEN system. As the ruins of Carillion lie around us, will the prime minister act to end the costly racket of the...
Labour’s Winter Fuel cut has plunged pensioners into poverty
WORK and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall openly admitted on Tuesday that the Labour government cut the £300 Winter Fuel Payment to 10 million pensioners...
London Picturehouses strike solid!
NOT a single film was on show at the Hackney Picturehouse on Saturday as the cinema workers escalated their strike action for a living...
NHS strike solid!
ANGRY NHS workers were on picket lines outside hospitals and ambulance stations around the country yesterday as around half-a-million members of ten health...
End Eurozone Austerity!
UNEMPLOYMENT in the eurozone will rise by another 4.5 million in the next four years under the current austerity programme, the International Labour Organization...
Tens of thousands forced into private ‘healthcare’ as Tories set out to torpedo the...
GOVERNMENT’S refusal to properly finance the NHS has led to desperate people paying thousands of pounds for private treatment. There were 69,000 self-funded treatments in...
Cwu Strike Notice
Communication Workers Union (CWU) leaders Billy Hayes and Dave Ward have written to every member of the union informing them that the leadership is...
‘CALL OFF BRITISH ARMY PARADE THROUGH BELFAST’ by John Coulter
Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún and MLA for West Belfast Jennifer McCann were joined by family members, who have lost loved ones at...
Warwickshire Blood Donors NHS supports march
Day 6 – As the Young Socialists march from London to Liverpool, made its way into Rugby on Sunday afternoon, Warwickshire Blood Donors NHS...
Police Raid Climate Camp
POLICE raided the Climate Change camp on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport on Tuesday evening, with the aim of intimidating protesters, News Line was...
Israel bombs Beirut suburb – kills 5, injures dozens
THE Israeli occupation army assassinated a senior Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb yesterday, killing and injuring about two dozen civilians...
Grenfell residents give evidence to the Inquiry – ‘We were treated as sub citizens’...
THE GRENFELL Tower fire Inquiry heard from the residents themselves yesterday including Lee Chapman the secretary of the leaseholders association who had repeatedly raised...
Assange High Court decision today!
THE HIGH Court is going to announce its decision on whether Julian Assange is going to be allowed to appeal against his extradition to...
CWU defiant and fighting Royal Mail asset-stripping
ROYAL MAIL is to seek a High Court injunction on Tuesday to stop a postal strike. The company said it woulmake a formal application on...
May’s ‘Insulting’ Pay Offer!
TWO million out of five million public sector workers are set to get a £2bn ‘below-inflation pay rise’ as one of PM May’s final...
Vaccines for 12-15s – boosters for 50+ says Johnson
‘I WANT to set out our plan for Covid this winter and in many ways the situation we face is even more challenging than...