170 Refugees Feared Drowned
AS MANY as 170 people are feared to have died in two separate Mediterranean shipwrecks, the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR said. The Italian navy reports...
May appeals to Corbyn ‘join the talks!’
‘FOLLOWING last week’s vote, it is clear that the government’s approach had to change, and it has,’ Tory PM Theresa May insisted, coming back...
RECORD NUMBER OF HOMELESS ATTENDING AT A&Es
THE NUMBER of visits to hospital accident and emergency departments by homeless people has more than trebled under Tory governments since 2011, the BMA...
‘A Leave Population And A Remain Parliament!’
TORY International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has accused pro-Remain MPs of trying to ‘in effect steal Brexit’. He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show...
‘We are the opposition!’ – Greek teachers storm parliament
GREEK striking teachers along with students staged yet another magnificent march of over 6,000 last Thursday against the hated government Education Bill. Once...
‘ELITE CONSPIRACY’ Johnson warning
FORMER foreign secretary Boris Johnson said yesterday that changing the date of leaving the EU from 29 March would be ‘shameful’, and the public...
Plug pulled on £16bn Welsh power station Hitachi suspends all work
‘IT IS foolish to rely on foreign companies and foreign governments to keep Britain’s lights on and our economy powered when we could easily...
May Survives No Confidence Vote
PRIME Minister May survived a no confidence vote by 325 to 306 votes after a vitriolic attack on the opposition parties especially the Labour...
Corbyn tables motion of no confidence
PM MAY’S EU deal was rejected by the House of Commons yesterday evening by 432 to 202 votes. The PM in a statement after the...
4,000 Striking Greek Teachers March Through Athens!
OVER 4,000 striking teachers and students marched through Athens city centre last Monday afternoon in a joyful mood sensing that they were winning the...
‘UK will leave EU on March 29’ – insists PM May
IN A House of Commons statement yesterday PM May insisted that her deal is the best that she can get and that even...
JUNIOR DOCTORS DOG-TIRED 63,000 contract breaches
TENS of thousands of junior doctors are working beyond contracted hours without a break, making them extremely tired which, in turn, puts patients’...
Corbyn Not Pledging To Deliver Brexit!
LABOUR leader Corbyn gave himself room for more manoeuvres when he told The Andrew Marr Show yesterday: ‘We will table a motion of no...
5,000 Greek teachers in insurrectionary march
OVER 5,000 striking state schools teachers marched through the Athens city centre last Friday and attempted to storm into the Vouli building (Greek parliament)...
RMT Demanding No Slave Labour On Brexit Ferries
AS the RMT protested at the Department for Transport yesterday, the Shipping Minister Nusrat Ghani has refused to agree that UK employment legislation such...
143 UK Universities Being Balloted For Strike Action
AROUND 70,000 members of the University and College Union (UCU) in 143 UK universities are being balloted for strike action in a row over...
Jaguar to axe 5,000 jobs
JAGUAR Land Rover (JLR) announced yesterday it is cutting up to an eighth of its 40,000 strong UK workforce with up to 5,000 car...
‘People’s vote remains an option’ – Corbyn
‘WE HAVE called for a new customs union, with a say in future trade deals, a strong single market relationship and a guarantee to...
May Put On 3 Days Notice
THE LABOUR, Tory, LibDem, SNP alliance of pro-EU MPs yesterday afternoon delivered another blow on behalf of the European Union against the 2016 referendum...
Israeli Forces Severely Beat Palestinian
ISRAELI forces transferred a Palestinian man to a hospital after severely beating him in his house in Abu Shkheidim village, northwest of Ramallah,...
Power to shut Parliament approved if No-Deal Brexit
LABOUR Party MPs, supported by other opposition parties and some Tory MPs, pushed through an amendment to the Finance Bill last night which gives...
GPs’ anger at May’s ‘money for diverts’ scheme
UNDER PM May’s long-term NHS plan, a new scheme is set out in which GPs are offered ‘shared savings’ for the amount of...
Parliament erupts over Brexit on 1st day back
PARLIAMENT erupted yesterday on the burning issue of Brexit, on the first day back after the Xmas break. Moving an Urgent Question Labour Leader...
GMB denounces May’s NHS plan
‘How does the government expect to deliver everything promised in the plan without the staff to deliver the services,’ asked GMB union yesterday in...
Prevention rather than cure! – Tories unveil 10-year plan to smash NHS
‘THE NHS long term plan is as much about prevention, and early diagnosis, as treatment and recovery,’ PM May said speaking on The Andrew...
MAYHEM THIS WEEKEND Winter flu epidemic creating hospital chaos–SAM
AS TEMPERATURES plummet the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) anticipates ‘mayhem this weekend’ with the winter flu epidemic kicking in, affecting hundreds of hospitals...
Kent blood services not for sale!–Unite
THE PRIVATISATION of the NHS blood samples service in Kent will put patients’ lives at risk, Unite warned yesterday, adding: ‘It must be stopped!’ A...
Eurozone may break apart this year! warns CEBR
THE EUROZONE risks breaking up this year, the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR) warned in its annual predictions for 2019. The...
CUT FARES NOT STAFF! – demand protesters outside stations across UK
PASSENGERS protesting against rail fare increases of 3.5 per cent, many of whom were also demanding the urgent renationalisation of the railways, were joined...
Nationwide protests against rail fare hikes today
A WAVE of protests are taking place outside train stations across the country this morning as millions of commuters see their ticket fare...
Gaza Hospital Superbug Epidemic
AN EPIDEMIC of an antibiotic-resistant superbug is spreading throughout the hospital system in Palestine’s Gaza City, with doctors warning of a ‘global health security...
2019 Is The Year For Socialist Revolutions
NEW YEAR STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2019 to all our readers, to the...
Ashrawi Denounces New Israeli Settlements Move
HANAN ASHRAWI, a Member of the PLO Executive Committee, has strongly condemned the so-called Israeli Civil Administration’s decision to grant the approval for the...
50% rise in lorry driver deaths – exposed by Unite research
UNITE has called for urgent reforms into how the deaths of workers and members of the public killed and injured in road accidents...
PROSECUTE ISRAEL! – Erekat urges International Criminal Court
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has slammed Israel’s new land grab plans, urging the International Criminal Court (ICC) to speed up its investigation into...
‘TODAY I START A REVOLUTION!’ ‘for those who have no means of subsistence’
CLASHES have erupted between protesters and security forces in Kasserine city in Tunisia following the funeral of a journalist who had set himself on...
‘LABOUR WILL CONTINUE WITH BREXIT!’ –‘If we win snap election’ says Corbyn
ANTI-BREXIT Labour MPs have responded with fury to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s insistence on Saturday that it is Labour Party policy to leave the...
‘We Will Liberate Palestine!’
THE HAMAS resistance movement says it will not agree to the creation of a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip, warning that US President...
FBU Pensions Victory!
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) has won a landmark ruling in its dispute with the government over changes made to firefighters’ pensions in 2015....
Fire safety checks cut by 42%!
IN THE WAKE of the Grenfell Tower fire, you would assume that fire safety checks would have increased. However, over the last seven years,...
Multiple Israeli raids on the West Bank – as UN announces food cuts
ISRAELI forces on Wednesday conducted multiple overnight raids across the West Bank and detained at least 28 Palestinians, said the Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS)....
Major police surveillance op – on tens of thousands of Xmas shoppers
POLICE are using cameras to scan the faces of tens of thousands of London Christmas shoppers, testing facial recognition technology, in a move that...
Brexit vote on January 14 says May
TORY PM May would not commit to a vote on her Brexit deal yesterday before Parliament breaks up for Christmas and instead said: ‘I...
Ban zero -hours!
‘THIS REPORT does not call for zero-hours contracts to be banned! Zero-hours workers are amongst the most exploited in this country, and the most...
NHS HANDS OVER £26m TO PRIVATEERS
A NEW investigation carried out by the BMA has discovered that private consultancy firms have been paid at least £26m by the NHS as...