US, Japan & France to hold military drill to ‘send message’ to China
JAPAN, France, and the United States are reportedly set to hold joint military drills for the first time in May next year, as part...
Cut emergency admissions or face elderly care cuts! – GPs told
GPs have been told by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) they will have to hit targets for cutting emergency admission rates. If they do not they...
Emergency powers used against Greek Metro workers
AT lunchtime yesterday the Greek Development Minister K Khatzidakis announced that the three-party coalition government has decided to place the striking Athens Metro workers...
Rolling Strikes To Continue Say Cwu Leaders
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) Postal Executive announced yesterday afternoon it has agreed a further round of rolling strike action. A CWU statement ...
Gaza Children Die From Severe Cold
JUMA AL-BATAN, a 20-day-old baby, died from ‘severe cold’ yesterday, while his twin brother remains in the intensive care unit at a local hospital,...
Brooks, Coulson & others to face 19 charges
REBEKAH Brooks and Andy Coulson, plus six others, face a total of 19 charges relating to phone hacking, the Crown Prosecution Service announced yesterday. The...
Tories step up war on poor
THE TORY government has launched an all-out assault on the poorest and most vulnerable sections of society, slashing disabled people’s money, cutting child tax...
‘I WILL NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE’ – Glenn Close says she’ll boycott Oscars
ON STRIKE writers of US daytime TV dramas, short stories and online serials are set to host a special picket event, Daytime United, in...
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...
KEEP ALL DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS OPEN! – unions must take strike action
NO TO PRIVATISATION! SAVE OUR DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS! BLAIR AND BROWN OUT! THE Blair government is gunning for District General Hospitals – David Nicholson, the Chief Executive...
GATE GOURMET SACKINGS ‘PREMEDITATED’ – union pfficial confirms
APPEARING at the Gate Gourmet sacked workers employment tribunal yesterday was Brendan Gold, TGWU national secretary for civil aviation transport. He was also responsible at...
RENT IS 41% OF INCOME –young people face ‘unaffordable housing costs’
YOUNG people across the UK have told the TUC and Generation Rent that they face unaffordable housing costs, insecurity of tenure and exploitation by...
Israel systematically violating ceasefire! – resume bombing Gaza now, orders Netanyahu
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday afternoon that he had ordered ‘immediate powerful strikes on Gaza,’ claiming that the corpse that Hamas had...
The Tuc Must Call A General Strike Now To Boot The Tories Out!
STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class, the youth and the...
Cameron beats the Nationalist drum
PM Cameron yesterday beat the nationalist drum for all he was worth in an attempt to win back the right wing vote that is...
Police Kept Quiet Over Mobile Phone Hacking
The Metropolitan Police yesterday were investigating why the police had not told high-profile figures that their mobile phones were being hacked into, and why...
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...
Gaza patients: fist- sized bullet wounds
WORKING in Gaza on patients hit by Israeli fire, medical teams noted ‘the injuries include an extreme level of destruction to bones and soft...
Syriza Victory!
SYRIZA swept to power yesterday in the Greek elections winning 149 seats, just two short of an absolute majority. After the final results came in...
‘WE ARE READY TO OCCUPY CHASE FARM’ says Bill Rogers – Secretary of the...
The North East London Council of Action is holding a picket of Chase Farm Hospital today as news emerged that huge cuts...
SHAME ON RATCLIFFEE!’ – shout Grangemouth refinery workers
Workers on the second day of their two-day strike over pensions at the giant Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland yesterday remained defiant and determined...
BA Cabin Crews Vote For A 12-Day Strike
British Airways cabin crew have voted by a massive 92.5 per cent, in an over 80 per cent turnout, in favour of strike action...
UNIS WILL BE FORCED TO AXE THOUSANDS – warns Universities UK President
Thirty per cent funding cuts will force universities to axe thousands of courses, lecturers and students, university bosses’ most senior representative has warned. In...
People have come out against the fascists and the racists!
‘REFUGEES are welcome here!’ chanted thousands of workers, students and youth as they joined hundreds of anti-racism demonstrations in towns and cities across the...
Reforms Threaten NHS – Bma
BMA Council Chairman, Dr Hamish Meldrum, yesterday wrote to all MPs warning them that the government’s health reforms still present an ‘unacceptably high risk...
Egypt Masses Defiant
Tens of thousands of defiant Egyptian workers and youth yesterday remained in control of the centre of Cairo, during a sixth day of protests...
TORY CRISIS DEEPENS AS SUNAK SET TO BORROW £598bn MORE
CHANCELLOR Sunak began his Budget speech by drawing attention to the £280 billion already spent on Covid-19 rescue measures saying, ‘I said I would...
No Punishment! Quit Eu Now!
WARRING TORY Cabinet Ministers are set to deliver a series of speeches on the ‘road to Brexit’ culminating with one by PM May within...
Revolution In France
IT is Tuesday, 3.00pm in Paris and people are still pouring into Place D’Italie for the start of the latest massive anti-government demonstration by...
Blunkett Quits The Cabinet
Announcing Blunkett’s resignation as Work and Pensions Secretary to MPs yesterday, Prime Minister Blair made it clear he had been ready to defy...
Stop Maudsley Closing!
OVER 50 people picketed a meeting of Lambeth Primary Care Trust (PCT) yesterday, in opposition to the closure of the renowned Emergency Clinic at...
Hunt did act ‘illegally’ – in seeking to close Lewisham A&E and Maternity
THE Court of Appeal yesterday upheld the decision of a Judicial Review not to proceed with the reconfiguration of Lewisham hospital, meaning that the...
Energy Bills Are To Rise By 54%!
THE AVERAGE household’s energy bill will rise by £693 annually after a 54% increase to the price cap announced yesterday which will undoubtedly plunge...
‘Southern Cross-Style Threat’ To NHS
Circle Health, the privateer which was handed control of Hinchingbrooke District General Hospital in Cambridgeshire last week, has admitted that patient care could suffer...
Gg Locked Out Workers Punished For Tribunals
TWO Gate Gourmet locked-out workers went to the TGWU London South East and East Anglia Regional Office in north London yesterday, to ask for...
HOSPITALS WILL CLOSE AFTER 2015 ELECTION! – warns King’s Fund charity
THE NHS will face an unprecedented financial crisis in 2015-16,, just after the general election, the King’s Fund charity warned yesterday. In its quarterly...
SCRAP THE BEDROOM TAX! – a third of all tenants in rent arrears
SINCE the bedroom tax came into force this year, one in three council tenants have fallen behind in their rent, the TUC’s False Economy...
NORTHERN ROCK CRASHES – as gold reaches $726 an ounce and oil $82 a...
SHARES in Northern Rock slumped yesterday leaving the Brown government contemplating the £28 billion guarantee it has given to secure its deposits. Financial markets around...
‘Don’t cut our bursaries!’ say student nurses
‘BURSARIES or bust! Jeremy bite the dust!’ chanted over a thousand student nurses as they marched to Downing Street on Saturday in their campaign...
Royal Colleges dump Cameron
Royal Colleges which attended last week’s Downing Street ‘Health Bill War Summit’ are reversing their positions and coming out in opposition to the Bill. Members...
‘WE WANT THE TRUTH’ – say Menezes family lawyers
Lawyers for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday said they wanted the truth, and answers to ‘lies that have been told’ about...
Airport workers support Sunday’s march
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday got great support for their march this Sunday for reinstatement for all sacked workers on their original terms...
Police Commissioner takeover of Cumbria fire services! – Three fire stations are now at...
THREE Cumbria fire stations risk closure as the entire service is under threat of being taken over by the Police and Crime Commissioner, the...
‘Reforms’ Will Destroy The NHS
REGIONAL NHS ‘risk assessments’ have been published showing the fears that NHS managers have of the consequences of the government’s Health and Social Care...
US Lawyers Launch Bid To Have Assange Extradited From The UK
US LAWYERS yesterday launched a fresh attempt to have Julian Assange extradited from Britain, arguing that concerns about the WikiLeaks founder’s mental health should...