Police to use plastic bullets, firearms and water cannon
A report published yesterday says that police will be allowed to use water cannons, baton rounds and even firearms to combat any repeat of...
‘ONE YEAR TO SAVE THE NHS’ – says the BMA
‘WE HAVE one year to save the National Health Service (NHS). An awful lot of Trusts are in a dire financial state.’ This was a...
STRIKE ON–‘NO REAL PROGRESS’ says the TUC
the TUC declared yesterday that there has been no ‘real progress’ in pensions talks with the government and the ‘unions remain firmly committed...
JOBS CRISIS – WORSE TO COME – says TUC
CLAIMS by Chancellor Osborne and Prime Minister Cameron that Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures showing 0.5 per cent growth is ‘good news’ were...
HEALTH PRIVATEERS MOVING IN ON GPs!
NHS London has signed a £7 million contract with a group of multi-national privateers to provide business training for GPs – even before the...
Scrap The Bill!
Public sector union Unison said yesterday that the NHS Future Forum’s report shows a Health Bill beyond repair and that it should be scrapped. The...
Joint strike action agreed – at the TUC Congress
THE TUC Congress yesterday instructed the TUC General Council to support and coordinate joint strike action against attacks on jobs, pensions, pay and public...
BA Strike Ballot Proceeds!
British Airways will face strike action by cabin crew and flight attendants at Christmas if it does not ‘pull back from the brink’, from...
Visteon Fun Day Success In Belfast
‘The Visteon sit-in at Belfast is continuing,’ Unite regional industrial organiser Davy McMurray told News Line yesterday. He added: ‘The convenor John McGuire and six...
DEFEND DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS – decides NHS Consultants conference
The British Medical Association consultants conference yesterday voted overwhelmingly to ‘mount the strongest defence of integrated District General Hospitals’. In his keynote speech to the...
US & UK Won’t Condemn Israeli Terrorism
The US and UK has blocked an emergency UN resolution condemning Israel and demanding it end its savage bombardment of Gaza. The UN Security Council...
BANK SHARES COLLAPSE! – Brown and bankers meet at 10 Downing Street
Billions more pounds were wiped off UK bank shares, yesterday, in the wake of Monday’s falls which saw £93bn wiped off the London Stock...
Left seeks to form Greek government
The leader of the Greek conservatives Antonis Samaras, whose New Democracy party came top in last Sunday’s general election, winning just below 19 per...
‘our March Must Be A Big Success’
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are calling on all trade unionists to join them on their march through Hounslow on Saturday the 25th of March. Speaking...
DEFEND LECTURERS JOBS – mass picket of Hackney Community College
students are being invited to join striking workers in a mass picket at Hackney Community College in east London today, to stop 25 lecturers...
STOP HINCHINGBROOKE PRIVATE TAKE-OVER – defend NHS demands Unison
UNISON, the biggest health service trade union, yesterday called for Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire to remain in the public sector. The union condemned plans to...
MoD LIED OVER TORTURE
THE High Court has today heard, in the case of R (Serdar Mohammed) v Secretary of State for Defence, that British forces passed hundreds...
DEFEND ENGLISH CLASSES! – says UCU and students
TEACHERS and students from across London went to Downing Street yesterday, to present a mass petition against the attack on the right to learn...
Bma Slams Profits Before Patients
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday slammed pressures being put on GPs by private companies running out of hours services to cut down on...
‘WE’RE LOBBYING TUC TODAY’ say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
‘WE want to know if the TUC agrees with what the T&G has done to us,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Sharanjit Grewal said...
REMOVE THESE LEADERS! Postal – workers react to ‘Interim Agreement’
Postal workers yesterday reacted angrily when details of the ‘interim agreement’ reached between the Communication Workers Union (CWU ) leadership and the Royal Mail...
Directors Declare War On Workers
TRADE unions and children’s charities have denounced calls from the Taxpayers Alliance and the Institute of Directors for the abolition of child benefit. The right-wing...
Dangerous Clinicenta brought back into NHS
THE Clinicenta private treatment centre at the Lister hospital, Stevenage, is to be brought back into the local NHS trust because of dangerous care...
Decide on action to defeat Tory NHS Bill – urges BMA London Regional Assembly
London doctors have made it clear they are opposed to the government’s plan to slash and privatise the NHS – and want action to...
Eight Days To Greek Default!
GREECE was put in an ‘eight days to default’ situation by the ECB and the EU yesterday. A default by Greece was technically avoided when...
Students Erupt Again In Quebec
Quebec students and their supporters took to the streets of Montreal last Saturday and promised a summer full of demonstrations unless the dispute over...
National Gallery strike today!
NATIONAL Gallery staff are taking their 24th day of strike action today against the privatisation of the gallery. Today begins eleven more days of...
GAMBLING WITH PEOPLE’S LIVES – 700 Blood Service job cuts condemned
Health unions yesterday accused the government of a ‘reckless gamble that could risk people’s lives’ over plans to close centres and axe 700 Blood...
ESCALATE ACTION – as Oxford walk out
‘WE ARE going to escalate the strike action,’ a Communication Workers Union spokeswoman told News Line yesterday evening. However, she added that after a long...
‘Terrible things were done in our name in Iraq!’ – UK faces War Crimes...
A COMPLAINT has been launched to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court regarding the responsibility of UK officials...
‘DANGEROUSLY OUT OF CONTROL’ – US Congress condemns Blackwater’s 200 shootings
Private security firm Blackwater USA, which sent its mercenaries to Iraq, has been condemned as being ‘dangerously out of control’ after nearly 200 shootings...
MARCH FOR JUSTICE – called by TUC for May 1
‘Speakers from around the world will join the May Day March for Workplace Justice,’ said the TUC yesterday. Top trade unionists from South Africa...
US refused to prosecute HSBC money launderers
US officials refused to prosecute UK-based HSBC bank for money laundering in 2012 because of fears that it would cause a ‘global financial...
KEELE BOYCOTT! – unless 38 academic sackings are withdrawn
Keele University has one week to avoid the ignominy of becoming the first university to receive an academic boycott from the University and College...
Royal Mail ‘Hedge Fund’
ROYAL Mail workers – whose jobs and pensions have been under sustained attack and are now threatened with privatisation – yesterday reacted with fury...
‘RESTORE OUR HARDSHIP PAY!’ – Gate Gourmet locked-out workers urge TGWU executive
‘WE are lobbying the TGWU national executive today to demand that it immediately restore our hardship pay, which has been stopped by Tony Woodley,...
Brighton City College strike action!
STAFF at City College Brighton took one-day strike action yesterday against threatened job losses and cuts to courses and support staff. The UCU members voted...
No To West Hendon Evictions!
TENANTS and leaseholders are protesting in Tyrrel Way, West Hendon, north London from 7am today, against the eviction threat to 250 families...
New Expenses Crisis!
THE Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Sir John Lyons, has opened an inquiry into expense claims by the Culture Secretary Maria Miller. This follows a complaint...
Trade unionists to join junior doctors picket lines
TRADE unionists are flocking to the junior doctors picket lines this morning. Matt Wrack, general secretary at the Fire Brigades Union, said: ‘Our people...
TGWU register 735 tribunal cases
THERE was a mass picket of over 200 locked out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow airport yesterday. Senior shop steward Mr Dhillon told News...
‘A MILLION TO MARCH TODAY’ – as Suleiman appeals for 200 days of calm
EGYPTIAN anti-government protesters yesterday fought the regime to a standstill and pushed the supporters of President Hosni Mubarak out of the streets near...
UNARMED VICTIMS SHOT DEAD ON BLOODY SUNDAY – finds Saville
‘The immediate responsibility for the deaths and injuries on Bloody Sunday lies with those members of Support Company whose unjustifiable firing was the cause...
Labour Right Wing Ready For Breakaway!
150 LABOUR MPs are plotting to form a breakaway party codenamed ‘Continuity Labour’ when Jeremy Corbyn wins the leadership battle. Pontypridd Labour MP Stephen Kinnock...
‘Save Chase Farm March’ – June 6
‘WE will not let Chase Farm Hospital close, and we are calling a massive march though Enfield on Saturday June 6 to keep...