Ealing strikers fight ‘disgraceful’ Labour union-busting
STRIKING Ealing civil enforcement officers are protesting outside parliament today against union-busting by the West London Labour Council, furious at the ‘disgraceful’ lack of...
Reject ‘John Lewis’ NHS!
‘The GMB is opposed to a John Lewis partnership running the NHS, and so would the 1.4 million staff employed by the service,’ GMB...
Angry Nurses Force Re-Call Over Wages!
NURSES’ anger over the NHS pay sell-out has forced the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to call an Emergency General Meeting in ‘late September’,...
‘There’s something rotten at the heart of the Conservative Party’ – Miliband accuses Cameron
LABOUR PARTY leader Miliband clashed with Prime Minister Cameron over political donors who held Swiss bank accounts with HSBC, during questions in the House...
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...
‘KEEP ROYAL MAIL IN PUBLIC SECTOR’ – but unions refuse to strike against privatisation
‘Today’s positive results are more compelling evidence of why Royal Mail should be kept in the public sector,’ CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward,...
12,349 children’s operations were cancelled last year
THOUSANDS of hospital operations for children are being cancelled every year owing to a lack of beds, staff and equipment in the NHS. NHS figures,...
Labour Right Wing Ready For Breakaway!
150 LABOUR MPs are plotting to form a breakaway party codenamed ‘Continuity Labour’ when Jeremy Corbyn wins the leadership battle. Pontypridd Labour MP Stephen Kinnock...
48hr junior doctors strike begins today
JUNIOR doctors will walk out on their fourth strike at 8am this morning and form picket lines outside every hospital in the country, as...
Burnham threatens legal action over HS2 rail link
LABOUR’s Andy Burnham has said he will consider taking legal action if the government abandons plans for building the HS2 rail link in northern...
A monumental victory! – Palestine Action High Court win
THE HIGH Court has ruled that the government’s decision to ban the pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a ‘terrorist organisation’ was unlawful. In a...
STOP UNIVERSAL CREDIT CUT! – Labour insists maintain £20 uplift
‘REDUCING Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit would be fundamentally the wrong decision. It would be a profound mistake and put millions of families...
Israel using sniper drones in al-Shifa
‘WE WERE forced to bury them in a mass grave,’ al-Shifa Hospital Director Mohammad Abu Salmiya reported yesterday as he announced that 179 people,...
News Line-Atua Conference: Sunday June 19
The News Line-All Trades Union Alliance is organising this conference this Sunday, 19 June, to build a leadership to lead a struggle inside the...
Avatar Therapy ‘Positive Results!’
A REVOLUTIONARY new therapy in which patients suffering from schizophrenia create an ‘avatar’ of their other self and confront it, has had positive results...
Police and private security failed to apprehend Manchester bomber
MANCHESTER Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi should have been identified as a threat on the night of the atrocity by those in charge of...
TUC appeals to the bosses to avoid issuing ‘Work Notices!’ – will not call...
‘UNIONS are not going to lie down’, assured TUC Assistant General Secretary Kate Bell yesterday. She was addressing a press conference at Congress House ahead...
Assad requests Russia’s assistance –anti-IS air strikes begin
THE Russian Federation Council has unanimously granted permission to President Putin to use the nation’s military force in Syria, Kremlin chief of...
‘THE GLOVES ARE OFF’ School staff support body is abolished
‘THE gloves are off on deregulation of staff pay and conditions,’ said teachers union NASUWT yesterday. NASUWT General Secretary Chris Keates slammed the announcement by...
‘Don’t witch-hunt teachers!’
Teachers’ union leader Chris Keates yesterday slammed a BBC Breakfast programme claim that there are an estimated 15,000 incompetent teachers in schools. The NASUWT general...
Big Workers Protest As Netanyahu & Tories Meet
ON FRIDAY, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street in central London to protest the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was...
100,000 Demand Smash Fees!
OVER 100,000 students, lecturers and college youth filled the streets of Westminster yesterday, in a massive demonstration against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s announcement of...
‘PAIN-INDUCING TECHNIQUES’ –used against young offenders
A REPORT on ‘behaviour management and restraint of children in custody’ reveals that ‘pain-inducing techniques’ are in frequent use in young offender...
Students unite with staff in pension battle
THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with the University and College Union (UCU) in the fight for fair pay and...
Greenspan – ‘Greece will have to leave eurozone’
THE former head of the US central bank, Alan Greenspan, has predicted that Greece will have to leave the eurozone. Greenspan, chairman of the US...
Children’s lives in danger!
‘CHILDREN’S lives are in danger!’ Surinder Grewal warned on the mass picket of Ealing Hospital in west London yesterday to stop the closure of...
CATALAN ‘REBELLION’ CHARGE! – as Puigdemont visits Brussels seeking support
SPAIN’s chief prosecutor has brought back the Franco dictatorship by calling for charges including rebellion to be laid against Catalan leaders following the...
DEFEAT UNION BUSTING! says Unite
Cabin crew resumed their determined strike against British Airways’ attempted union-busting at Heathrow, Gatwick and the other airports at midnight last night. They are taking...
TORTURE EXPOSED! – Binyam Mohamed case sent to Attorney General
Lawyers for Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed yesterday welcomed news that the UK government has referred his case to the Attorney General. The Home Office is...
BRING ARMY INTO SCHOOLS! – urges Chief of Defence Staff Guthrie
Chief of Defence Staff Lord Guthrie yesterday gave his backing to a call from right wing think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, for ex-servicemen...
TRIBUNAL FEES RULED ILLEGAL – Unison court victory
EMPLOYMENT tribunal fees will be scrapped after Unison won a landmark court victory against a government policy yesterday morning that was found to be...
Ukraine compromise offer – as right wing gunmen mass in Kiev
UKRAINIAN President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday announced early presidential elections and a compromise agreement with the pro US-EU ‘opposition’. He said that the constitution of 2004,...
BRING DOWN COALITION! –to defend jobs, benefits, the NHS & rights
‘The coalition has got it wrong. By only having a strategy for cuts, it has no plans for growth and recovery.’ So warned Unison general...
US jets bomb Syria hospital
WARPLANES of the US-led international coalition shelled a hospital and perpetrated a new massacre in Syria on Saturday, claiming the lives of six civilians...
Tories Split Over Eu
PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday defended his renegotiation of Britain’s terms of EU membership, as a number of his cabinet ministers lined up to call...
HALT ATTACK ON LIBYA – demands unite
Unite, the biggest union in the UK and Ireland, yesterday called upon the governments of the UK, France and the US to halt the...
Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital Under Siege!
AT LEAST 20 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza yesterday morning, with the houses of...
Battle For Marjayoun!
Hezbollah fighters yesterday took out two Israeli tanks, killing and wounding their crews, as they fought off an enemy attempt to take Marjayoun just...
4.8m WORKERS EARN LESS THAN LIVING WAGE
THERE are 4.8 million workers earning below the so-called living wage, according to new research from the Resolution Foundation. The figure, equivalent to 20% of...
The BMA has never been as strong as today for full pay restoration!
OVER 1,000 striking junior doctors rallied in Whitehall outside Downing Street on Friday afternoon, at the beginning of another four-day strike to defend the...
UNLAWFUL! Law lords condemn Clarke’s terror plans
Home Secretary Clarke’s plans to give police powers to hold people for 90 days without charge has been condemned as ‘unlawful’ by Law Lord,...
We need strike action to save Ealing Hospital
‘THE PEOPLE will be very badly harmed by the closures of Southall JobCentre and Ealing Hospital,’ Raj Anton told News Line outside the closure-threatened...
MAY’S WAR ON MIGRANTS! – condemned by Institute of Directors
‘WE MUST work to control immigration and put Britian first,’ Tory Home Secretary Theresa May said yesterday, stepping up her war on refugees. The economic...
DISTRICT NURSES CRISIS – RCN warns 10,000 are needed
DISTRICT nurses face ‘extinction’ by 2025 unless the Tory coalition government launches a mass recruitment campaign and funds an extra 10,000 nurses, warned the...
AITKEN ‘WHITEWASH’ – condemned by Daoud Mousa lawyers
The report by Brigadier Aitken on British Army abuses of Iraqi civilians is ‘a complete red herring and a whitewash’, said lawyers Phil Shiner...














