Ys March For Jobs In Northampton
THE Young Socialists March for Jobs, now in the final week on its route from Manchester to London, left Rugby yesterday morning, heading for...
Junior doctors to vote ‘NO’!
JUNIOR doctors urged their colleagues yesterday to vote ‘NO’ and reject the so-called ‘deal’ struck by Tory health secretary Hunt and the...
PCS gearing up for massive jobs fight
Civil servants union, the PCS, is gearing up for action to fight over 300,000 public sector job cuts, planned by the Tories. PCS NEC...
Tesco confirms 9,000 job cuts!
TESCO confirmed yesterday that 9,000 jobs are to be axed, as the supermarket giant looks to scrap the fresh food counters, including the in-store...
‘Worst Kind Of Penny-Pinching’
‘It’s penny-pinching of the worst kind,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was commenting on the removal of every other light bulb...
Manchester SU supports YS March
‘MANCHESTER University Students Union (SU) supports the march because we support the fight for better opportunities for today’s youth,’ said Charlie Cook, the SU...
‘A MOMENTOUS BREAKTHROUGH!’ – ICC to investigate Israeli war crimes
AMNESTY International (AI) described yesterday’s decision by Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), to open a formal investigation into the situation...
‘Criminal Investigation’ –Into Death Of Ian Tomlinson
THE Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) yesterday afternoon announced a ‘criminal investigation’ into the death of Ian Tomlinson. Home Secretary Jaqui Smith had conceded earlier...
Pm May Sticks To Backstop!
TORY PM Theresa May pledged in a speech to business leaders in Belfast yesterday to confirm her commitment ‘to deliver a Brexit which ensures...
Corbyn Calls For Pm May’s Resignation!
LABOUR Party leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday called on Prime Minister Theresa May to resign for presiding over police cuts while Home Secretary. When asked if...
Scandalous Free School Expansion
TEACHERS unions yesterday opposed the ‘scandalous’ proposal to pour millions of pounds into hundreds of new privately run free schools. They were responding to PM...
Worthing NHS Cuts Opposed!
Two Worthing Hospital intensive care consultants have produced their own ‘Fit for whose Future?’ report, opposing plans to axe the hospital’s emergency services. Dr Richard...
Celebrate 70 years of the NHS! –by bringing down the Tories
70 YEARS of the NHS are being celebrated with a mass demonstration today in central London supported by the TUC and 11 other health...
JOBS AND PENSIONS UNDER THREAT – as Tata moves to take over Corus...
THE Transport and General Workers Union has reacted with caution to the news that Indian conglomerate Tata has bought steelmaker Corus, formerly British Steel,...
Labour PM reveals his class war Budget will cause ‘pain’!
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer will focus on growth and wealth creation, he told selected guests and media in the Downing Street rose garden...
Raid Police Broke Into Neighbour’s Home
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) issued an update yesterday on its investigation into the Forest Gate police shooting of 23-year-old Abdul Kahar. The IPCC...
Nottingham City goes bust while HSBC makes £24bn!
THE government has appointed commissioners to help run Nottingham City Council after the authority declared itself effectively bankrupt. The Labour-run authority issued a section 114...
Barber supports low pay! – Congress shaken by his ‘reservations’
BRENDAN Barber yesterday shook the TUC to its foundations when he told Congress that this was not the time to raise the minimum wage...
Youth Pay Price For Occupation
ON the eve of International Youth Day, the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) released a statistical review on the status of Palestinian youth,...
Starmer in National Government mode praises Johnson
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer sought to outbid the Tories in anti-Russian war rhetoric when he was interviewed on BBC TV yesterday morning. Claiming that...
BMA to strike on June 21!
DOCTORS will take strike action in defence of their NHS pension scheme on Thursday June 21st, the BMA confirmed yesterday, following an overwhelming YES...
Immigration squads target the homeless
WHILE helping identify homeless people at risk of freezing to death on the streets, homeless charity St Mungo’s has admitted to co-operating with ...
Inquiry Into Mi5 Death Squads In North Of Ireland
AN INVESTIGATION is being launched which will examine the activities of an MI5 agent known as ‘Stakeknife’ who has been linked to 50 murders...
Disabled ‘fit for work’ assessments failure!
THE privatised assessment tests which find sick and disabled people ‘fit for work’ are ‘failing claimants and taxpayers’ and must be ‘brought back in-house’,...
LECTURERS STRIKE – NATFHE and AUT to stop tomorrow
Universities and higher education colleges across the country will be brought to a halt tomorrow as a historic joint AUT/NATFHE pay strike hits home. Thousands...
ANTI-IMMIGRATION BILL DENOUNCED WORLDWIDE says former Syria ambassador Ford
THE passage of the British government’s anti-immigration bill shows that the authorities are desperate to show they have a strategy for limiting illegal migration...
Fresh Round Of College Strikes Begins
THE FIRST day of a five-day strike yesterday marked an escalation in the college lecturers’ struggle with eleven colleges out on strike. At the College...
CRIMINALS ARE TREATED BETTER! – than detainees at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre
‘I was a victim of the Ugandan authorities and this inquiry shows I became a victim of the UK authorities,’ said Enid Ruhango yesterday. She...
NHS Is Reeling As Staff Sickness Grows
THE NHS is reeling under the weight of staff absences, with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine warning that up to a quarter of...
PRIVATEERS OUT! – say BMA delegates in Belfast
THE British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting in Belfast yesterday rejected selling-off the NHS to private corporations. It did this when it voted for...
Dictator Hunt imposes NHS contract
HEALTH Secretary Hunt has decided that Junior Doctors are to have a new contract imposed on them from August next year. The imposition follows on...
Hezbollah banned
LEBANON’S Hezbollah has been banned by the UK in its entirety, Tory Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced yesterday. The Lebanon-based...
Summary Powers!
Civil rights groups yesterday slammed calls from police chiefs for summary powers to dish out ‘instant justice’. Surrey Police chiefs went on television and gave...
BRING DOWN BROWN – GO FORWARD TO SOCIALISM! – demands News Line-All Trades Unions...
Two hundred trade unionists and youth attended the News Line & All Trades Unions Alliance (ATUA) conference in central London, yesterday. They discussed a resolution...
5,000 A YEAR BEING MADE HOMELESS – as unsecured consumer debt reaches £160 bn
MORE than 5,000 people a year are being made ‘homeless’ as a household debt crisis deepens, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) warned yesterday. More...
Greek Workers Clash With Riot Police
WORKERS in Greece staged the biggest march of recent years in Athens on Wednesday, against the government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou which carries...
The Israeli Regime Has Escalated Its Genocide!
THE ISRAELI regime escalated its genocide in and around Khan Younis, the most densely populated area of the Gaza Strip, yesterday. Palestinian casualties mounted, bringing...
‘A DAMNING INDICTMENT’ – of Labour’s social care system
‘This is a damning indictment of a social care system that is failing older people’, Age Concern’s Director General, Gordon Lishman said yesterday. He was...
Bonus For Not Sending An Ambulance!
LONDON Ambulance Control Room workers are being offered bonuses of up to £250 if they can reduce by 30 per cent the number of...
Stormont Crisis – Sinn Fein, Robinson Clash
By John Coulter, Irish Political Journalist ANOTHER Stormont crisis looms in the North, but is this latest ‘storm’ merely clever sabre rattling or the warning...
UN Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide In The Gaza Strip!
A UNITED Nations investigation has found that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, systematically targeting reproductive healthcare facilities as part of...
MAY HAS UNDERMINED BREXIT says ex-Brexit Under Secretary Steve Baker
EX-BREXIT Under Secretary of State Steve Baker, who resigned along with Brexit Secretary David Davis, told The Sunday Telegraph that Prime Minister May had...
Syrians Support Assad
Around 100 Syrians and supporters held a vigil outside the Syrian embassy in London last Friday evening, to condemn last Thursday’s terrorist bombings in...
Defend Our Hospitals!
PUBLIC sector union Unison yesterday condemned former NHS Chief Executive from 2000-2006, Nigel Crisp’s call to close or merge hospitals. Now Lord Crisp, he told...
‘time For Apologies Over’ – Barclays Bank Boss Tells Mps
THE Tory-LibDem coalition has given the banks an assurance that they are at liberty to continue to pay unlimited bonuses, with no government regulation. The...