‘We Are Staying Till Our Demands Are Met’
‘It was a really good march on Saturday,’ occupying Vestas worker Chris Ash told News Line yesterday. Workers have been occupying to stop the closure...
‘NATIONALISATION IS NOT APPROPRIATE’ – for GM plants says national officer Osborne
NINE Vauxhall cars and vans from the 1960s to the present day came to London yesterday for a ‘drive-by’ of parliament ‘to showcase the...
DEFEND HINCHINBROOKE HOSPITAL – 1,300 doctors, nurses, and health workers’ jobs at stake
Doctors, nurses and health workers will take to the streets with local people today, Saturday 4 October, to defend the future of Hinchingbrooke Hospital,...
‘WE’RE SUFFERING BUT WE WILL WIN’ say Gate Gourmet workers
THE Gate Gourmet locked-out workers May Day campaign team got great support from fellow Transport and General Workers Union members in west London bus...
EU says NO! to May’s Brexit re-negotiations
EUROPEAN Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker yesterday ruled out re-opening the Withdrawal Agreement after meeting with Tory PM May, making it crystal clear that legally-binding...
Wrp Election Office Opens
WALTHAMSTOW’S WRP election premises were opened on Thursday evening to a loud cheer from campaigners and supporters who had gathered outside the shop. Workers Revolutionary...
Savage Cuts To ‘Reset’ NHS Trusts
A REGIME of ‘financial special measures’ has been announced for trusts and clinical commissioning groups to ensure the NHS lives within its means by...
CORBYN VISITS DUNKIRK – as Brit haulage boss urges ‘send in troops’
CONDEMNING the ‘dreadful conditions’ in Grande-Synthe refugee camp near Dunkirk, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Sky News that up to 3,000 people waiting...
COVID IS BEING USED TO SACK TENS OF THOUSANDS says RMT leader Mick Lynch
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has accused the Johnson government and the privately-run train operating companies of ‘using Covid as a smokescreen’ to rip...
Chase Farm Closure ‘On Hold’
THE 10th picket by the North East London Council of Action outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday heard that the closure of the hospital has...
Labour MPs barred from entering West Bank
TWO Labour MPs barred from entering West BanTWO Labour MPs were ‘astounded’ to be denied entry to Israel to visit the occupied West Bank...
Social housing landlords deny homeless access to properties
HOMELESS people are being routinely ‘screened out’ and denied access to social housing by social landlords because they are deemed ‘too poor or vulnerable...
Railworkers fighting for safety!
ON THE second day of the ScotRail strike, the RMT revealed that the Dutch-state parent company and top bosses are raking it in at...
Hague Sued Over US Drone Attacks
Foreign Secretary Hague is being sued over the alleged UK policy of handing over GCHQ-sourced intelligence to the CIA to aid US drone...
‘We’re tired of annual pay cuts!’
TWO million public sector workers took one-day strike action yesterday, against pay cuts and government attacks on pensions. There were rallies, and protests all...
Eu Jackboot Over Greece
THE Greek government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou won the confidence vote in the Vouli (Greek parliament) with a margin of just three last...
Polar storm rips through Gaza
A POLAR low-pressure storm poses a serious danger to displaced families and residents amid the massive destruction caused by the Israeli genocide that has...
Infection out of control – ‘Isolation exemptions will spread Covid-19’ – BMA stark warning!
STAFF isolation exemptions are absolutely the wrong answer to the government’s failure to control spiralling infection rates, says doctors’ union the BMA. Responding to news...
Troika dictates its terms to Cyprus
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has set out the ultra-harsh terms of the ‘bailout deal’ that the Cypriot government has agreed. In order to receive...
Unite’s Grangemouth Surrender
UNITE general secretary Len McCluskey yesterday said the union had decided to ‘embrace’ a survival plan at Grangemouth put forward by owner Ineos, ‘warts...
220,000 disabled to win back payments
DISABLED people were thrown off benefits in their hundreds of thousands by private assessors Atos and then Capita, and left penniless to face eviction...
STRIKES GOING AHEAD! says London District Chairman
‘Unless there is a substantial breakthrough the strikes are going ahead on Thursday, Friday and Saturday,’ CWU London District Chairman John Denton told News...
Gate Gourmet hardship payments – ‘No way will people be allowed to go without’...
MORE than 20 locked out Gate Gourmet workers were picketing yesterday at Heathrow Airport determined to win their fight. Their lobby of the TGWU ...
Over Half Of All London Nurses Want To Leave The City!
OVER half of London’s nurses want to leave the city as the cost of living devours their income. The majority of nursing staff blame the...
‘TONY BLAIR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MY SON’S DEATH’–says Rose Gentle
‘TONY Blair’s responsible for Gordon’s death,’ said Rose Gentle as the inquest opened yesterday into the June 2004 death in Iraq of her son,...
Met Commissioner Dick given 2-year extension – ‘Kick Dick out! Disband the police!’
THE TORY government have offered the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, a two-year extension to her term in office with campaigners for justice furious...
‘DITCH THE PRIVATEERS’ – if you really love the NHS say BMA to Labour
Political leaders should ‘abandon pro-market policies’ and not just ‘love the NHS’, but look after it, said doctors’ leaders yesterday. The Chairman of the British...
FIRST NHS TAKE-OVER – Heart of England Foundation Hospital swallows up Hood Hope NHS...
This Sunday April 8th will mark the first takeover by a foundation trust hospital of a ‘bankrupt’ NHS hospital. Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust...
Devolving Manchester is wrecking NHS
‘THESE plans for the devolution of the health budget to a Greater Manchester regional government truly lob a wrecking ball at the National Health...
Answer World Crisis With The World Revolution
MAY DAY MANIFESTO By the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE editorial Board sends its May Day greetings for the year 2008 to the workers...
Greek Medicines Crisis
The Greek Chemist shops Association staged a 24-hour national strike yesterday demanding the payment by the Health Ministry of some 500 million euros owed...
Thousands denied benefits now driven to food banks!
THOUSANDS deemed ineligible to receive Universal Credit have been driven to food banks to survive. The new study published yesterday by the Economic and Social...
No Wage Growth In 2018 Says Resolution Foundation!
THE just-published Resolution Foundation report says that real wage growth will be flat in 2018 and that many households are already pessimistic about...
‘If you can work you must work’ – Kendall
‘UNDER this Labour government, if you can work you must work,’ Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the House of Commons yesterday. Launching the...
TUC leaders refuse to call to bring down the coalition
DELEGATES to the TUC Conference in Manchester on Monday voted almost unanimously – with just one dissenting voice from BALPA pilots’ union leader Jim...
STRIKE BALLOT – by Scottish doctors
SCOTLAND'S hospital doctors began balloting for strike action yesterday, against the Scottish government’s attacks on the NHS pension scheme. If the ballot gives the go-ahead,...
AN EPIDEMIC OF THE GREATEST EVIL – Fallujah bombings condemned
‘It’s not only in Fallujah, but all over Iraq that there are child deformities. ‘I’ve been in the medical profession for 30 years, I’ve...
Uni staff all out today
STAFF in UK universities are out on strike today for a full day in opposition to an ‘insulting’ 1% pay rise offer. The UCU, Unison,...
NO BALLOT ON INDUSTRIAL ACTION – BMA leaders decide
THE GENERAL Practitioners Committee has abandoned balloting GPs for industrial action despite being mandated by their own conference to do so. A motion at the...
Police demand mass stop & search powers
HOME Secretary Sajid Javid has met police chiefs from seven forces most affected by the violent crime wave produced by the government’s decade of...
Greek May Day Strike
Greek workers, youth and students in their thousands demonstrated in every city on May Day celebrating historic past struggles and showing their determination to...
CIA Torture Centres In Lithuania!
The CIA had at least two ‘black sites’ in Lithuania where they tortured illegally held victims of ‘extraordinary rendition’, a Lithuanian parliamentary inquiry has...
Bectu ‘No’ To Bnp Broadcast
MEDIA and entertainment union, BECTU, has today insisted that the BNP should not be given airtime to promote its racist politics. The union’s statement...
Half a million on London march for Palestine!
HALF A MILLION workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through London on Saturday, assembling in Hyde Park and marching to the American Embassy...
Rolling Post Strikes Called
After days of indecision, the Communication Workers Union leadership yesterday announced a series of rolling strikes over two weeks, instead of the indefinite national...