Gate Gourmet workers say: WE WANT VICTORY! – while TGWU leaders discuss compulsory redundancies...
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers spoke to News Line on the picket line yesterday. Mrs L Saran said: ‘We are becoming impatient. Last Monday we...
BROWN SELL-OFF CONDEMNED! – ‘paying for the failures of the city’
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday accused the government of privatising and ‘selling off the family silver at a knock down price’...
Great Response To Ys March In Birmingham
The Young Socialists March for Jobs for Youth and Free State Education leaves the Bullring in central Birmingham at 9am this morning. It is setting...
Bma Opposes NHS Cuts!
DOCTORS at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Harrogate yesterday voted overwhelmingly in opposition to NHS privatisation and...
‘Hostile environment’ alive and kicking!
LAST week the National Audit Office launched an investigation into the Home Office’s decision in 2014, when Theresa May was Home Secretary, to accuse...
French Rail Strike Action Continues
French transport unions yesterday extended their nationwide strike for another 24 hours, after bringing the train, bus and metro services to a halt on...
TWO-TIER GPs CONDEMNED
THE BMA warned yesterday that the Health and Social Care Bill will lead to more ‘conflicts of interest’, after it emerged yesterday that a...
Cameron’s war on youth!
PRIME Minister Cameron stepped up his war against youth yesterday by launching the new Tory ‘Community Work Programme’. The programme forces youth to carry...
Hamas won’t agree to Israeli maps!
HAMAS has not approved ‘insufficient’ new maps presented by the Israeli side as part of efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza...
There are 10,000 medical vacancies
THE BMA doctors trade union has responded to data on NHS vacancies, GP workforce and GP appointments. Responding to the latest quarterly NHS vacancy data,...
Gchq Was Listening To Omagh Bombers
THE Cheltenham-based electronic spying agency, GCHQ, recorded mobile phone exchanges between the Omagh bombers on the day of the attack in 1998. The...
May’s Grammar School Move Is Slammed
‘SELECTION belongs in the dustbin of history and has no place in modern society. There must be no going back,’ Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary...
Court case against Johnson dismissed!
YESTERDAY the judge of the Court of Session, Scotland’s highest court, ruled that Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson had no case to answer and...
The ‘Elite’ Russell Group Is Super-Exploiting Lecturers
THE UK’s so-called ‘elite Russell Group’ universities are the worst offenders when it comes to employing academics on precarious contracts, reveals a just released...
SA miners continue with strike action! –ANC & Zuma are condemned
SOUTH African platinum miners were yesterday continuing their strike, and their wives are occupying the entrance to the British-owned Lonmin Marikana mine. Lonmin has given...
MARCH WITH THE LOCKED-OUT GATE GOURMET WORKERS – through Southall on August 20
THE Transport and General Workers Union yesterday issued a warning that one year after 800 workers were sacked at Gate Gourmet the ‘dispute could...
Israeli Air Strikes Kill Seven
ISRAEL hit Gaza with air strikes yesterday afternoon. Palestinian medical sources said at least seven Palestinians were killed. This includes a 5-year-old girl. 44 others were...
College lecturers – ten more days of strike!
NEW RESEARCH by ActionAid, Public Services International, and Education International warns that the International Monetary Fund’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermine...
Palestinian teen severely beaten!
A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Palestinian minor has told his lawyer that he was severely beaten while detained by Israeli occupation soldiers last week and that he...
Grenfell fire ‘could have been put out with an extinguisher’ – Outrageous claim by...
CLADDING which burst into flames up the side of Grenfell Tower ‘could have been put out with a simple extinguisher’, cladding company Arconic has...
Sri Lankan Troops Caught In Tiger Booby Traps
COLOMBO – TamilNet reports that last weekend more than sixteen Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops lost their legs after being caught in...
Half Acute Hospitals In London Under Threat!
THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the requirement for all the remaining 113 hospital trusts to achieve foundation business status...
‘REVERSE GP CUTS!’ – Dr Gerada warns coalition
PATIENTS are bearing the brunt of savage cuts to GP surgeries, said the Royal College of GPs yesterday. The RCGP said: ‘GPs are facing a...
Inflation Leap Slashes Wages & Pensions
‘DAVID Cameron and George Osborne’s political cowardice means they are presiding over an economic catastrophe’ said Unite leader Len McCluskey yesterday, commenting on the...
‘Close down the Island if they try to evict us’ say Vestas occupiers
‘I’M not leaving,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith told News Line yesterday. He was speaking in the wake of a hearing at Newport Court where...
Brexit crisis continues
‘THE goverment’s priority at every stage following the European Union referendum has been to respect the outcome of that referendum and to ensure it...
Special forces attack Athens seafarers
HUNDREDS of Greek Coast Guards’ special forces and riot police raided striking seafarers’ pickets at the port of Piraeus at 3.30 Wednesday morning. During the...
‘Smokescreen for NHS privatisation’ – Scrap the Health and Care Bill!
THE government has been accused of using the pandemic as ‘a smokescreen’ to push through the Health and Care Bill which will open the...
NHS SPENDING FREEZE! – decreed by Finance Director
An email sent last month from chief medical officer Sir Ian Donaldson’s chief of staff to DoH officials orders a freeze on NHS spending...
RCN Announces A New Strike Ballot
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced a new strike ballot which will ask members employed by the NHS in England if they’re...
Secret Two-Tier NHS Plan Exposed!
NHS SCOTLAND has secret plans to introduce a two-tier health service in which the wealthy can pay for their treatment and the poor are...
Workers Revolution in Ukraine worries Putin
PRESIDENT Putin said yesterday at a Moscow press conference that an unconstitutional coup and an armed takeover of power had taken place in Kiev. He...
Straw Rejects Ban On Rendition!
THE government has rejected demands for new laws against ‘extraordinary rendition’: the practice of kidnapping and flying detainees to secret sites around the world,...
National Gallery strike against privatisation!
‘PRIVATISATION No Way!’ a lively picket of at least 40 strikers, chanted outside The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square yesterday, on the second day...
DVLA staff four-day strike begins today – Another Covid-19 outbreak feared!
STAFF at the DVLA office in Swansea begin their four-day strike today after fears of a fresh Covid-19 outbreak as more than 2,000 people...
Steel Closure Is Devastating
THE TORIES ‘must bring British Steel into public ownership’, Unite said after the devastating announcement that the industry fell into liquidation yesterday morning. Unite assistant...
Duma Forms Guard To Beat Back Settlers!
RESIDENTS of the Palestinian village of Duma in the occupied West Bank are forming voluntary groups to guard against attacks by Israeli settlers. This is...
XAVIER GOURMET LOCKS OUT 200 WORKERS – says workers must claim their money from...
A GATE Gourmet supplier locked out 200 workers in Heston, one mile from Heathrow Airport, yesterday. Xavier Gourmet, which was trading up until seven months...
TORIES PREPARE SUMMER WAR – Organising tens of thousands of strike breakers
Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has been overseeing ‘war games’ in preparation for a General Strike this summer. Following orders from the Cabinet...
DEFEND TOWER HAMLETS NHS – GPs & residents to protest at St Paul’s Medical...
THERE is an anti-privatisation protest to defend the NHS taking place outside St Paul’s Way Medical Centre tomorrow from 2pm to 3pm. GPs and...
A SHATTERING BLOW TO NATO – Crowds cheer Saif al-Islam
BRITISH soldiers are set to be sent to Libya it has emerged, with Downing Street repeatedly refusing to rule out deploying ground troops...
Tories Split Over Eu
PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday defended his renegotiation of Britain’s terms of EU membership, as a number of his cabinet ministers lined up to call...
PUT AN END TO CAPITALISM! – Only way to defend jobs, wages and the...
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings on this 2013 May Day to the workers and the oppressed nations fighting imperialism throughout...
‘HALT ALL CUTS AND OUTSOURCING!’ – unions confront Academies Enterprise Trust
SEVEN UNIONS have warned about their dispute with the UK’s largest academy trust over staff cuts, low pay and outsourcing. The unions have now registered...
MAY DAY MANIFESTO: BUSH AND BLAIR IN CRISIS – as workers throughout the world...
MAY DAY 2006 is historic. It is taking place in a period of an enormous crisis of world capitalism and rapidly developing world revolution. This crisis...