‘Our policy for the TUC is to call a general strike’ says RMT’s Lynch
‘OUR policy at the TUC is to call a general strike,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch told News Line on the picket line at...
Child heart surgery closures are threatened!
CONSULTATION has begun into the closures of children’s heart surgeries in England after a review last year. There was a huge public outcry against the...
1,000 CLASH WITH POLICE IN SAMAWA – Iraqis angry over no water or electricity
At least one person was killed and sixty others were wounded yesterday when over 1,000 angry Iraqis clashed with police in Samawa, south of...
BMA opposes Health Bill!
The British Medical Association (BMA) Council on Thursday decided to oppose the whole Health and Social Care Bill, the BMA announced yesterday. The BMA Council...
GM – ‘No repeat of Vauxhall closure
There is growing anger amongst workers over the future of the GMM Luton plant, at the same time as a decision is imminent...
Brooks Arrested! – ‘Timing Stinks’ Says Dowler Family Lawyer
FORMER News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was yesterday arrested ‘on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications’ and on ‘suspicion of corruption allegations’. In a...
US-EU on collision course!
THE EU has officially adopted measures to protect European companies working in Iran when the US reimposes sanctions against Tehran. The EU will...
Ealing Maternity must not close – demand Greenford bus drivers
‘THEY HAVE abolished capital punishment in this country, but closing Ealing maternity is a sentence of death for mothers and babies,’ Greenford Bus Garage...
Mail Centres Take Strike Action Today
Postal workers at five mail centres – Bolton, Coventry, Crewe, Oxford and Stockport – are striking today against plans to close them and to...
‘There’ll be an uprising in the working class’ – says CWU’s Peter Francis
‘THERE’LL BE AN UPRISING IN THE WORKING CLASS’, CWU telecom executive member Peter Francis told News Line yesterday, speaking at the picket line outside...
Syriza Submits To Troika
THE Greek government decided on Saturday to accept all terms laid down in a statement agreed at last Friday’s Eurogroup Finance Ministers’ meeting that...
HEARTBREAKING! – ‘This report expresses the determination of the families’
REPEATED catastrophic failures at an NHS trust meant that more than 200 babies may have died and that many others were left with life-changing...
GP referrals to Redditch hospital stopped
REDDITCH GPs have been asked by commissioners not to refer to a local acute trust for at least three months to allow the hospital...
US Defends Israeli Gaza Onslaught
The United States has blocked a UN Security Council statement aimed at putting pressure on Israel to stop its daily murderous military strikes on...
Kensington Election Campaign
CAMPAIGNERS for WRP Kensington parliamentary candidate Scott Dore took to the streets yesterday. Ayan gave her support to the candidate. She said, ‘I think that...
‘Citizens Being Treated As Toxic Waste’
RIGHTS groups yesterday slammed government plans for new laws to stop British nationals, who have been suspected of travelling to Syria and Iraq to...
Putin Stabs Libya In The Back Again
RUSSIA has recognised the counter-revolutionary Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) as the only legitimate power in the country, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Ahead of...
Israel bombs 2nd UN school in two days
ISRAELI forces bombed another United Nations-run school in southern Gaza yesterday, killing at least 20 displaced Palestinians sheltering in the building. More than 60 people...
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Monday September 11th, Brighton
US ORDERED BINYAM TORTURE –accepted by Washington District Court
‘THIS puts another nail in the coffin of the British government’s attempts to cover up its role’ in Binyam Mohamed’s treatment, Clive Stafford Smith,...
COUNCILS CRISIS – government refuses to guarantee funds
The Brown government has pledged to do all it can to help recover public money held in failed Icelandic banks but has refused to...
Coronavirus ripping through Belmarsh!
BELMARSH High Security prison is suffering from an outbreak of coronavirus to such an extent that it is ‘barely functioning’, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has...
Stop Hunt Closing Hospitals!
OVER 150 people lobbied the Houses of Parliament yesterday in an angry demonstration against clause 119, which if passed gives Tory Health Secretary Hunt...
NO CAP ON GPs PAY – Insist BMA doctors and RCN nurses
Doctors and nurses yesterday hit back at health secretary Patricia Hewitt’s complaint that the government should have capped GP’s pay. Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of...
Banks ‘racing to the bottom!’ – says Labour’s John McDonnell
THE BANK of England has revealed that banks extended new mortgage commitments to borrowers worth £69.6bn in the three months to the end of...
Unfree Commonwealth Meets In Perth
MORE than a quarter of countries represented at the ongoing Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth this week have failed to allow...
Savage Cuts Risk ‘death Spiral’
THE new allegedly independent fiscal watchdog has downgraded the economic growth projections for the UK economy, and also cut its debt projection as a...
Royal Mail Wants To Sell Mail Centres
ROYAL Mail is about to break its truce with the CWU that has lasted since before Christmas through January and February. Latest reports suggest that...
Gate Gourmet Loses BA Short-Haul Contract
Northern Foods has won the British Airways contract to supply meals and sandwiches for short-haul flights from Heathrow airport, replacing Gate Gourmet. Northern, the food...
Occupiers won’t quit ERT
‘COME and get it if you dare!’ was the defiant reply of the ERT (Greek state TV and Radio network) workers’ union POSPERT to...
‘brown Must Act To End Slaughter’
‘Stop killing Tamils! Brown wake up! Rajapakse – terrorist!’ shouted tens of thousands of Tamils holding a sit-down protest in the road opposite Parliament...
Cwu Resumes Strikes!
THE Communic-ation Workers Union announced yesterday that there will be further strike action in response to Royal Mail’s draconian and destructive proposals...
MPs CALL TO REJECT ID CARDS BILL
MPs yesterday raised questions about the ID card Bill which was introduced in the House of Commons by Home Secretary Charles Clarke. Clarke said he...
Israel To Expand Offensive!
Israel is to expand its offensive against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, Amir Peretz, the Israeli defence minister, has said, less than a day after its attack...
LINDSEY VICTORY! – all 647 sacked men to return to work‘It’s a good deal,’...
‘It’s a good deal,’ sacked Lindsey oil refinery worker Dave Pritchard told News Line yesterday. He was responding to the agreement reached on Thursday night...
‘Unite, Rise Up And Resist The Invaders’
President Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis to ‘unite, rise up and resist the invaders’, at his show trial yesterday. This prompted chief judge Rauf Abdel...
Council services to close en masse!
LIBRARIES, children’s centres, leisure centres and other vital services such as refuse collection and road maintenance will be axed as a result of ...
CORUS INDUSTRIAL ACTION POSSIBLE say steel union leaders
‘WE don’t rule out industrial action,’ Michael J Leahy, General Secretary of Community, the steelworkers’ union said yesterday. This was after the Tata...
Parliament recalled: over war on Syria
PARLIAMENT is being recalled tomorrow with prime minister Cameron demanding Labour support for his ‘clear motion’ for military action against Syria. Downing Street released a...
Nurses Work For Free!
‘Nurses should not work for free,’ insisted Dr Peter Carter, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing yesterday. He was commenting on newly qualified...
SA government says that ‘austerity is a necessary pain for the good of SA’s...
IN THE much-anticipated medium term budget policy statement (MTBPS), the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, will, like his counterparts at the South African Reserve...
LONGEST PAY FREEZE SINCE QUEEN VICTORIA says Unite
WAGE growth is lagging behind inflation for the first time since mid-2014, official figures show. Average weekly earnings excluding bonuses increased by 2.1% in the...
FISCAL CRISIS STATEMENT DELAYED! – as UK government consults with bankers
CHANCELLOR Hunt has announced that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed by...
‘WE HAVE PUNISHED THE AGGRESSOR’ – Medvedev tells Sarkozy
PRESIDENT Dmitry Medvedev said in Moscow yesterday that he had ordered an end to the ‘peace enforcement’ operation in Georgia, after five days of...
‘No two-tier workforce!’ 2,000 6th Form College lecturers strike
AROUND 2,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) began another three days of strike action at 32 non-academised sixth form colleges yesterday, against...