‘CHOOSE FRESH POLICIES AND LEADERS’ – TGWU message for LP conference
THE TGWU trade union yesterday warned Blair and Brown that they were ignoring Labour voters ‘at their peril’. ‘Choose fresh policies and leaders’ was the...
‘Time Is Running Out!’ – Unison Health Conference Warns Pm Brown
‘OUR time and patience is running out.’ This is the warning that Unison leader Dave Prentis is due to give to Prime Minister Gordon Brown...
CWU TO LOBBY UNITE – stop managers scabbing!
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London, on Thursday. The...
NHS STRIKE IN IRELAND! –while fury in England over NHS sell-out
AMBULANCE workers and other NHS staff are ‘determined’ and ‘out solid’ throughout Northern Ireland, the GMB regional officer, Michael Mulholland, said yesterday, during...
Cherry Groce Family Demand Legal Aid!
‘WE’RE here to hand in our petition with 130,000 signatures calling for legal aid to assist us and allow us to be active at...
STRIKE TO DEFEND PENSIONS! – FBU delegates demand
‘This union is not crushed, this union is not defeated, this union is united and it will be ready for a fight on pensions,’...
2,018 babies taken into care
A HUGE rise has taken place in the number of babies taken by social services from ‘Troubled Families’. Figures compiled by the University of Lancaster...
‘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,...
£1,000 a year pay cuts! – threat to Cambridgeshire FBU
CamBridgeshire Fire Brigades Union (FBU) warned yesterday that firefighters are ready to strike following a pay row which will see their wages being slashed...
ABSOLUTE CHAOS! – doctors training crisis continues
JUNIOR doctors went to the High Court yesterday in a bid to get the online Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) ruled ‘unlawful’, warning...
Ward Closure Storm At Sidcup Hospital
HEALTH workers have angrily condemned the decision by administrators now running the bankrupt South London Healthcare Trust to close the gynaecology ward at...
Hamas message to Riyadh Summit
THE Hamas Movement has called on the Arab and Muslim summit in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to form an international Arab-Islamic alliance to pressure...
Kingsbury Teachers Strike
STRIKING teachers at Kingsbury High School in north-west London were joined on the picket line by parents and students yesterday morning as they showed...
Embassy cuts Assange off!
ECUADOR has cut off WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s internet and stopped all visits after he tweeted about the arrest of Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont....
NO CHOICE BUT TO STRIKE! – teachers ready for national action
THE two largest teachers’ unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, yesterday announced two more regional strikes, rallies and...
‘Kill The Bill’ Demos Nationwide!
‘KILL the Bill’ mass demonstrations took place against the Tory government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in cities around the country on Friday...
LIBYAN DIPLOMATS EXPELLED – by terrorist government that’s bombing Tripoli
THE British government took petty revenge after its client ‘revolutionaries’ were driven out of Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawad by the Libyan armed forces...
66% Of Students Refused Grants
Two-thirds of university entrants in England and Wales who applied for maintenance grants – designed to assist poorer students – were turned down, according...
‘AN ACT OF WAR!’ – Olmert threatens the Lebanon
ISRAELI prime minister Ehud Olmert yesterday called the capture of two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border by Hezbollah an ‘act of war’. Olmert threatened...
Legal Aid freeze will hit children – lawyers rally today
The Howard League for Penal Reform has today condemned the changes to legal aid provision that will come into effect from April 1st...
STUDENT NURSES ANGRY – at Tory-imposed tuition fee debt
STUDENT nurses and midwives are furious that under new proposals to scrap bursaries, they could potentially be burdened with £65,000 worth of debt for...
10,000 Lobby Against The Cuts!
UP TO 10,000 workers and youth supported the TUC lobby of Parliament yesterday. Many told News Line that they want trade union action to put...
Unions To Fight The Bbc Cuts!
BBC WORKERS and unions and many artists and cultural figures, have condemned the massive cuts announced by BBC Director General Mark...
ISRAELI FORCES KILL SCORES IN GAZA AND JENIN! – including doctors and children
SEVEN Palestinians were killed and 13 others injured yesterday morning when the Israeli occupation forces stormed Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank and...
US Airstrikes Kill 9 Aleppo Civilians
US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria killed nine civilians in the east of the town of Mare, approximately 25 kilometres north of Aleppo yesterday. Meanwhile, the...
Tories ‘concealed building safety risks’ – Grenfell inquiry hears
THE GRENFELL Inquiry heard yesterday that the government ‘concealed the risks of building safety’ and that deregulation ‘should be regarded as one of the...
Massive Uni staff strike!
TUESDAY’S strikes by staff in colleges and universities closed institutions and key learning facilities with hundreds of classes cancelled, the UCU said yesterday. The action,...
AER LINGUS 48 HOUR STRIKE – to oppose wage-cutting at Belfast Airport
ALL Aer Lingus routes will be affected when 500 pilots strike for 48-hours next Tuesday and Wednesday. They are taking action against the airline’s...
DEATHS WILL RESULT – from attacks on ambulance service
‘TINKERING with ambulance response targets could lead to unnecessary deaths,’ the GMB union, which represents ambulance drivers, warned yesterday. The union added that the government’s...
‘Unions need to stand together to properly defend the NHS!’
THERE were three sets of NHS workers on strike at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday, the domestic and catering workers, the pathologists...
NATIONALISE TATA! –Occupy to defend jobs and stop the sackings
THE steel industry in the UK faces shut-down, as the capitalist crisis deepens. The demand that the trade unions must organise occupations to halt the...
Banks ‘In A State Of Fear And Loathing’
The exposure of the UK to the US sub-prime loans crisis will push up mortgage rates in the UK, a former Bank of England...
NHS unions claim 3.9% wage rise plus £800! – 14 unions write to chancellor
FOURTEEN NHS unions submitted a pay claim directly to the May government on behalf of more than one million NHS workers...
TORTURE NOT OK! Law Lords defend Iraqis’ human rights
BRITISH troops were told to hood Iraqis and use banned ‘stressing’ techniques when interrogating them, human rights lawyer Phil Shiner claimed yesterday at...
‘WOODLEY SHOULD RESIGN OVER GATE GOURMET’ says RMT member
A team of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers campaigned on Southall High Street yesterday. They spoke to Warish Singh an RMT member from Earls Court tube...
EIGHT UNIONS SUPPORT VESTAS OCCUPATION! – as police crack down
Workers staging the third day of a sit-in protest at the Vestas Wind Systems wind turbine factory in Newport Isle of Wight, yesterday said...
Mass Picket At Gate Gourmet
There was a big picket of over 200 locked out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow airport yesterday. Locked out worker Ramesh told News Line:...
209,000 Miss Out On University
Lecturers and students unions yesterday warned that increased fees will see even more youth denied higher education, as new figures confirmed that a record...
NO CONFIDENCE IN MELDRUM! – London BMA demands huge campaign to smash Health Bill
BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum has been rocked by a ‘no confidence’ vote at last week’s meeting of the London Region of the BMA. ...
Palestine solidarity hunger strike
A BRITISH national of Palestinian origin, Aysar Shamallakh, who is an active and co-founder member of the ‘17 April Group’, has started an awareness...
Braverman condemned for rabid attack on the right to asylum!
TORY Home Secretary Braverman came under fire for her rabid attack on refugees and asylum seekers yesterday, with charity ActionAid UK calling her comments...
Six-year-old Hind Rajab and two paramedics are still missing!
THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported yesterday that more than 89 hours have passed, and the fate of its ambulance crew, consisting of paramedics...
EU Extension Decision Due Today!
PM Boris Johnson pulled out of a scheduled appearance before a panel of senior MPs yesterday morning, saying he has to ‘focus on delivering...
Israeli Occupation Forces Carry Out Four Massacres
ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over 24 hours yesterday, resulting in the tragic killing of 40 Palestinians...
‘Strike action rock solid’
‘I CAN report that the strike action this morning is rock solid across the Southern Rail network as we fight to put rail safety...