Public Sector Pay Slump!
THE GMB trade union has exposed a shocking Treasury report which Chancellor Philip Hammond tried to hide showing public sector wages are now below...
FORD PLANNING CLOSURES – in Belgium, Germany and the UK
FORD is planning to close its plant in Southampton which makes the Transit van and employs 500 workers. A meeting between Ford’s management and unions...
UK economy collapsing – destitution on the rise
BUSINESS activity in Britain fell for the third consecutive month last month, with economists warning of recession. The S&P Global/CIPS flash services business activity index...
MPs’ 11% pay rise scandal
THE MPs’ pay rise plan shows a political class ‘wildly out of touch’, said Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday. Commenting...
52 Palestinians killed!
ON THURSDAY alone, at least 52 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza. Eighteen were massacred in Jabalia when a residential home sheltering displaced...
‘WE WILL STRIKE TO DEFEND PENSIONS’ – UNISON leader Prentis pledges
‘WE will take strike action, across all our sectors, to defend our pensions,’ UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis pledged at the union’s National Delegate...
Gadaffi Will Never Quit Libya
LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi issued a defiant audio message which was aired by the Syrian Arrai television channel yesterday. Colonel Gadaffi said: ‘Youth are ready...
Rice Visit To Blackburn Cancelled
Fears of massive anti-war protests forced the cancellation of yesterday’s planned visit to Blackburn by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice had planned to...
‘Ministers keen on kicking struggling youngsters when they are down!’
THE TUC said yesterday that young people not in full-time education are now less likely to be in work than people of other ages...
BROWN PLAYS CHINA CARD – as delegates warn they will strike against pay cuts
GORDON Brown gave his first speech as prime minister to the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday. He told delegates: ‘All of us must prepare for...
Israel bombards areas west of Gaza City – 40,334 killed so far
SEVERAL civilians were killed and injured yesterday in an Israeli shelling targeting areas west of Gaza City. Eyewitnesses said the occupation warplanes bombarded a residential...
Israel decides to widen ground assault
Four Israeli soldiers were killed and a number wounded yesterday in a rocket attack at a southern Lebanese village, as fighting continued to rage along...
Brown Beefs Up Secret State
Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced to MPs that ‘the security service is to double in size to 4,000 personnel’. In a statement to the House...
NO IMPOSED CONTRACT! – Hunt must resign
TODAY junior doctors meet at their conference in central London to decide the next step in their battle against Tory health secretary Hunt’s imposed...
2006 – A Great Year For World Revolution
THE Editorial Board of the News Line, the daily paper of the Workers Revolutionary Party, sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of...
Nurses Cost Of Living Crisis
EIGHT nurses every day seek urgent help from a support line to cope with the cost of living, new figures released by the RCN...
Darroch quits – ‘thrown under a bus by Johnson’ say ‘Remainers’
SIR Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, amid the row over leaked emails that lampooned President Trump’s administration, and threatened...
NATIONALISE BP NOW! – ‘stop tinkering at the edges’ demands Unite’s Graham
‘NATIONALISE all the energy giants,’ the Unite union demanded yesterday after BP announced enormous July-September profits of £7.1 billion, more than double the profit...
‘Close down the Island if they try to evict us’ say Vestas occupiers
‘I’M not leaving,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith told News Line yesterday. He was speaking in the wake of a hearing at Newport Court where...
Inquiry into police spying on unions – union heads demand transparency
LEADERS of many of the largest and most prominent trade unions in the UK, have jointly signed a letter demanding that immediate action is...
Workers hit by global gas hike – Unison warns of big shocks to come
An unprecedented rise in the price of gas has sent shock waves through the UK energy market, forcing energy suppliers out of business, threatening...
‘LEAVE WON’T BE ON ANY BALLOT’ says John McDonnell
SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell spelt out yesterday that Labour wants to form a ‘caretaker government’ with the other opposition parties which would organise a...
Youth demand a future–no zero hours contracts
‘YOUTH demand a future! No Zero hour contracts!’ shouted the fifty-strong Young Socialists and Workers Revolutionary Party lobby of the Trades Union Congress in...
Starmer announces militarisation of UK economy
‘BOOTS on the ground, planes in the air,’ Labour Prime Minister Starmer declared in the House of Commons yesterday. In a speech to a packed...
Cameron’s Police State
PM CAMERON addressed the House of Commons yesterday on the crisis with Russia, the IS movement in Iraq and security in the UK. On the...
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,...
5% pay rise and £1,000 bonus offer to NHS – will not be recommended...
A FINAL pay offer for NHS staff in England, including nurses and ambulance workers, was made yesterday. Unite leader Sharon Graham said that Unite...
Five US Troops Killed In West Iraq
A force of up to 2,500 US troops, supported by puppet Iraqi troops, moved into Iraq’s western Al Anbar province yesterday in the biggest offensive...
NORTH LONDON COLLEGES ON THE MARCH – to defend ESOL
Staff and students from North London colleges are today marching to demonstrate their opposition to plans to restrict access to free English for Speakers...
UK accused of drone war crimes
THE UK could well be ‘complicit’ in US War Crimes committed using drones, and could face prosecution, a new report released yesterday after...
CRISIS BIGGER THAN 1931! – BofE Governor King opts for inflation
BANK of England Governor Mervyn King has warned that the UK financial crisis is possibly the greatest ever crisis in the history of capitalism. He...
Israel Plans Expulsion Of One Million Gazans
ISRAEL has established a ‘Population Relocation Unit’ to systematically map, surveil, and forcibly expel Palestinians from Gaza City through a campaign of leaflets, text...
Seven Mothers Are On Hunger Strike!
Seven mothers on hunger strike in the family unit in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), near Bedford, yesterday managed to get a message...
‘Hit squads’ being sent into seven NHS Trusts!
‘HIT SQUADS’ are being sent by the government into hospitals to identify and implement savage cuts, ‘savings’ and closures so that spiralling PFI debts...
‘We’re fighting all the way!’ –RMT members tell News Line
''WE''RE rock solid and we’re going to fight the closures and sackings all the way,’ RMT rep Sean told News Line at King’s Cross...
£15bn PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS, PLEDGES DARLING – as unemployment leaps by 177,000
Chancellor Alistair Darling announced £15bn public sector ‘efficiency savings’ and slave labour schemes for youth in yesterday’s Budget. This came as the latest figures showed...
Strike Action To Defend Uni Jobs
STRIKE action took place yesterday across the three campuses of Middlesex University with lecturers and staff picketing every entrance against the threat of 300...
NO HOME FOR UNEMPLOYED! says Hastings council
UNEMPLOYED workers will not be offered homes under a new council ‘re-generation’ scheme, sparking outrage and allegations that the move stinks of ‘social cleansing’. Hastings...
UNARMED MAN SHOT IN CHEST – after 300 police raid east London home
‘They shot an unarmed man who was trying to protect his family at four o-clock in the morning.’ This is how friends of the 23-year-old...
202 Palestinians killed & 5,588 are injured by Israeli aggression
THE Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) announced on Sunday afternoon that a total of 202 Palestinians have been killed and 5,588 others injured by...
BMA BOOSTS BROWN’S PLAN FOR ‘INDEPENDENT’ NHS – before BMA conference even discusses it
THE BMA yesterday, on the eve of its Annual Representative Meeting in Torquay, sought to impose Gordon Brown’s plan for an ‘independent board to...
Pressure Mounts On May To Resign
Home Secretary Theresa May came under renewed pressure to resign yesterday, after former head of the UK Border Force Brodie Clark rebutted her claim...
100th Aniversary of the Russian Revolution – This Sunday
Sunday November 12, 2-8pm The Camden Centre, Bidborough Street,WC1H 9AU Rally • Films • theatre • art exhibition FOR MORE DETAILS SEE 100th ANNIVERSARY IN LEFT HAND...
‘We are on the brink of making history’ says New York’s first socialist mayor
ZOHRAM MAMDANI, a self-proclaimed ‘democratic socialist’, was elected the 111th mayor of New York yesterday. He is the first person of South Asian descent and...