Corbyn reprimands Chief of Staff
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday called for disciplinary action to be taken against Britain’s top military commander, General Sir Nicholas Houghton, over political interference. Corbyn...
Southall Public Meeting: Quit EU on October 31! – October 24th, 2019
News Line & Workers Revolutionary Party Public meetings: Trade unions must act to make sure we quit EU on October 31st!
For a workers government and...
HAMAS OFFERS AMNESTY – while Abbas decides to rule by decree
HAMAS yesterday released dozens of Fatah security commanders and Fatah officials detained during the past week in Gaza, and offered an amnesty to other...
250,000 IN NEGATIVE EQUITY! – as Ryanair announce 10% fleet cut
CITIGROUP bank has warned the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) against upping interest rates when it meets this week. It noted that already...
‘Scrap Universal Credit’ says GMB union
THE DISASTROUS Universal Credit scheme was rolled out in Hammersmith and Fulham yesterday, prompting the GMB union to demand that it ‘should be withdrawn’...
STOP FIRE STATION AND A&E CLOSURES! – defend emergency services
‘WE will be telling the management and the Mayor of London tomorrow that the cuts are totally unacceptable,’ London Fire Brigades Union (FBU) South...
£250 A SECOND – £1 million more unemployed will cost taxpayers £8.1billion
ON THE eve of today’s Budget, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber warned that if the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) claimants increases...
National Gallery staff battle privatisation
WORKERS at the National Gallery struck for five days from yesterday over plans to hand all visitor services to a private company, the Public...
Private Sharks Circling The NHS!
LANSLEY’S Health Bill is a disaster of ‘Titanic proportions’ warned Unison, the UK’s largest union, yesterday. The union is calling on the government to...
UCU STRIKE BALLOT – to defend lecturers jobs
The University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned that higher education could be brought to a standstill as the union announced that it is...
‘We need mass industrial action!’ says McCluskey
OVER 10,000 workers, trades unionists and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square yesterday on May Day. There were banners from trades unions, trades...
Dozens injured as Israelis storm Al-Aqsa
Dozens of Palestinians were injured as Israeli forces entered East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following Friday prayers yesterday, firing tear gas, rubber-coated bullets and...
Balham PCS Strike Ballot Is Called!
STAFF at Balham benefit centre are being balloted for strike action having been told that their office is due to close on 31 December. This...
Closure Threat To ‘failing’ NHS Trusts!
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed concern over the threat of closure hanging over a number of NHS hospitals. This followed data published yesterday...
Enfield Residents Will Stop Chase Farm Closure
ENFIELD residents yesterday made it clear that they are more determined than ever to keep Chase Farm Hospital and all its departments open. They were...
No Safety Cuts Says RMT-Tssa
RMT and TSSA members staged their latest 24-hour strike against mass sackings on London Underground yesterday. At Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station, Simon Feldman, a striking signal...
PROSECUTE P&O FERRIES – RMT condemns Tories for refusal to act
SEAFARERS union RMT has written to the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, to demand a meeting to discuss the government’s failure to...
‘HALT SACKINGS AND CUTS!’ – demand RCN leaders as 20,000 NHS posts are axed
Royal College of Nursing leaders yesterday warned that over 20,000 nurses face the sack, ahead of handing in a petition to Downing Street today. The...
Russia & China Use Veto Over Syria
RUSSIA and China yesterday vetoed a UK-US UN Security Council resolution threatening the Syrian government with sanctions and regime change. The vote came a...
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...
£18m wage cut for mid-Yorkshire NHS Trust
Up to 1,100 NHS jobs are to be axed at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS trust, in a bid to cut the pay bill by...
Cabin Crew Determined To Win
STRIKING British Airways cabin crew made it clear yesterday that they are determined to win their struggle in defence of jobs, wages and conditions,...
Ecb Plan Sets Off Germany’s Alarm Bells!
THE euro strengthened to a two-month high against the US dollar yesterday, as investors’ euphoria overflowed at the ECB’s plan to purchase bonds from...
ILLEGAL! – Milford Haven oil terminal strike banned by judge
UNITE, the transport workers’ union, yesterday said it was calling a 12-hour strike at the Milford Haven oil terminal next Tuesday, after...
Branson ‘Sweetheart’ Deal Denied By Brown
THE Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, was yesterday forced to deny that he was directly negotiating a ‘sweetheart’ deal with Virgin’s Richard Branson to allow...
Clashes In Athens
Clashes broke out yesterday between police and demonstrators across Greece as marchers commemorated the first anniversary of the fatal police shooting of 15-year-old Alexis...
Don’t Extradite Babar Ahmad
‘FREE Babar Ahmad,’ Babar’s father Ashfaq Ahmad told supporters outside the High Court in central London yesterday, ‘if Babar is extradited to America then...
‘work Experience’ On A Hospital Ward!
MOVES by a Midlands hospital trust to recruit unpaid ‘jobseekers’ to clean wards and ‘support patients through their hospital experience’ were condemned by a...
‘Strike until we win!’ – Junior Doctors strike solid
THOUSANDS of junior doctors, NHS workers, trade unionists and supporters took to picket lines across the country yesterday, as the junior doctors took their...
NHS JOBLESS GROWS – as Department of health sees no crisis
THREE-QUARTERS of newly-qualified nurses are unable to find jobs because trusts are freezing recruitment, the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) said yesterday. The (RCM) Royal...
Police Spies – Met’s Unreserved Apology!
THE Metropolitan Police has made an ‘unreserved apology’ and paid an undisclosed amount in compensation to seven women who were tricked into long-term relationships...
PCS SLAMS £15bn CUTS PLAN
THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) warned that further spending cuts will damage services and jeopardise the delivery of government policies as it...
Greek coach drivers strike ruled illegal
A Greek single judge court on Sunday ruled ‘illegal’ a four-day national strike declared by the coach drivers’ federation of trades unions to demand...
Hezbollah Uses Longer Range Missile!
Hezbollah fighters yesterday repulsed sporadic attempts by Israeli forces to control the town of Bint Jubayl two miles inside south Lebanon. A number of Israeli...
DON’T LET PUBLIC SECTOR PAY FOR GREEDY BANKERS – Prentis warns PM Brown
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis has warned politicians against making ‘selfless’ public service workers pay the price for the economic slump. In his New Year...
Blair Gang Turn On Each Other
LEADING people at the centre of the three Blair governments have published their memoirs for big cash payments, knowing full well that...
Tankers Strike Troops Stand By
Formal talks between Unite trade union officials and Shell suppliers are due to resume today, as hundreds of petrol stations have begun closing. Informal talks...
Slave Labour Out!
THE Tory-LibDem Coalition stepped up its mass youth slave labour drive yesterday, with Deputy Prime Minister Clegg launching his payment-by-results ‘Neets’ campaign. ‘Neets’ is the...
BA Merger–Jobs To Go!
There will be more job losses at British Airways as a result of the airline’s agreed merger with Iberia, BA chief executive Willie Walsh...
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...
£50-£300 Fines For ‘Preventable Errors’
The PCS union and Citizens Advice yesterday slammed government plans to claw back £60m from hundreds of thousands of benefit claimants who are expected...
BA Talks Breakdown!
British Airways has asked ACAS to mediate after failing to get the unions to agree to plans to cut thousands of jobs and freeze...
BROWN PRIVATISING GPs! – BMA leaders condemn policy
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday repeated its concerns that the government is out to privatise GP surgeries. A spokeswoman told News Line: ‘The BMA...
Nearly 100 Palestinians Killed In Israeli Air Raids
‘ISRAEL is the one who started this when they assassinated (commander of Hamas’ military wing) Ahmed Jabari. Hamas didn’t start the issue,’ Hamas political...