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Corbyn urges reject May and embrace EU

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‘PARLIAMENT should do its job today and say No to the Prime Minister,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said during yesterday’s debate and vote on...

UK Industrial Production & The Euro Both Falling!

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UK industrial output fell by 0.1% in January compared with a month earlier, official figures have shown. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) also reported...
March around Sussex University Campus during the occupation on 25th March 2013 – they have now resumed their occupation

Birmingham Occupation Spreads To Sussex

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THE occupation by University of Birmingham students of the Aston Webb building is continuing in defiance of the High Court Injunction secured by the...

Al Sweedy witchhunt!

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DEFENCE Minister Fallon yesterday announced that there would be an investigation into solicitors who represented Iraqi complainants at the Al Sweedy inquiry. He made...
Police brutally arrest a demonstrator during last Saturday’s march against the Israeli  atrocities in Gaza

‘DAZED CHILDREN NEXT TO DEAD MOTHERS’ – UNRWA suspends Gaza operation

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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) yesterday accused Israel of failing to assist wounded Palestinians after finding four small children next to...
Friends and families of those who have died in police custody marching last October –  co-chair of the campaign, Stephanie Lightfoot-Bennett said the new police tactics will lead to more innocent citizens’ deaths

Police will shoot to kill drivers – ‘carte blanche to kill innocents’ says United...

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ARMED police have adopted a new shoot-to-kill tactic: fire sub-automatic assault rifles at moving vehicles to ‘neutralise’ the driver, sparking fears that many more...

Ealing Children’s Ward Must Be Re-Opened Urges Xmas Picket

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THE WEST London Council of Action got a huge response at their Xmas picket at Ealing Hospital, yesterday morning. Shaihin, a paediatric nurse at Ealing...

Starmer-Streeting declare war on NHS – and pledge to ignore the vote to reverse...

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DELEGATES at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool overwhelmingly voted to overturn the Labour government’s abolition of the Winter Fuel Allowance yesterday. Moving the motion,...
Greek workers remain absolutely defiant while the Syriza leadership is desperate to achieve a non-existent compromise with the EU

Tsipras Pleads With Eu Bankers

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THE Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke at the European Parliament on Wednesday morning stating that he was seeking an ‘honourable compromise’ with the...

Mexican forces attack caravan

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CHILDREN went missing yesterday as a US-bound caravan of refugees clashed with Mexican forces under instruction from President Trump to block them from entering...

BA Pensions Ballot!

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Details emerged yesterday of a deal, yet to be agreed by workers, which means the end of final salary pensions at British Airways. The TGWU...

674,000 Residents Go Hungry In Los Angeles County

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HUNDREDS of thousands of people are going hungry in Los Angeles County, California, in the richest state in the richest country in the world. Demand...
Campaigners celebrate winning a judical review against Lewisham closure in July. Health Secretary Hunt has now lost his appeal against the judges’ decision

Hunt did act ‘illegally’ – in seeking to close Lewisham A&E and Maternity

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THE Court of Appeal yesterday upheld the decision of a Judicial Review not to proceed with the reconfiguration of Lewisham hospital, meaning that the...
Up to a hundred patients and supporters marched in Enfield on Thursday night to demand the immediate reopening of the Bush Hill Park Medical Practice which had been arbitrarily closed by Enfield PCT with only one day’s notice

Tories want GPs to do their cuts dirty work!

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The coalition government is pressing ahead with plans to make GP practices responsible for purchasing health care in England, replacing Primary Care Trusts and...

Greek farmers are staging mass motorway blockades – as well as blocking customs entry

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GREEK farmers staged mass tractor motorway blockades on Thursday and Friday, while also blocking customs entry points into Greece from neighbouring Balkan countries, as...

3 Years After Grenfell Fire!

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'IT'S been an absolute outrage that three years later and the Grenfell families still have no justice, and homes are still unsafe,’ Joe Delaney,...

Tackle Poverty Urges Bma!

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BMA DOCTORS want urgent action to tackle poverty and improve public health services after an official report found a strong connection between deprivation and...
Sacked Visteon workers on the picket line yesterday – they remain in good spirits and confident of victory

Ready To Picket Bridgend!

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‘WE WILL be picketing Ford Bridgend once we get the go-ahead from Tony Woodley,’ Visteon Enfield Unite Convenor Kevin Nolan told News Line yesterday. Speaking...
Unite members were at the lobby in force

10,000 Lobby Against The Cuts!

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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...
Unison healthworkers from St Georges Hospital on a TUC demonstration – they demand more staff or patients will die

Nursing Staff Levels Dangerously Low!

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‘My department is running at VERY UNSAFE levels due to inadequate staffing,’ said one of almost 3,000 nurses from across the UK who took...

UK’s Shrinking Economy!

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THE UK economy shrank by 0.2% in the last three months of last year, according to figures released by the Office of National Statistics...

Iraq’s Deputy Oil Minister Kidnapped

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The top American commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus has said he is preparing recommendations on troop reductions before he returns to Washington next...

TOYOTA 10% WAGE CUT – praised by Unite trade union

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Car manufacturer Toyota yesterday announced that production at its UK plants would be cut by ten per cent, with an associated cut in wages...

Tories, Labour Unite To Beat The Unemployed

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The Brown government and the Tories yesterday joined forces to cane the unemployed. After Work and Pensions Secretary Purnell announced his ‘workfare’ Welfare Reform White...

‘It is illegal to leave home and travel abroad for leisure purposes!’

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‘WE MUST take additional steps to strengthen our borders,’ said Tory PM Johnson in Parliament yesterday, outlining the new Hotel Quarantine system. The system means...

VOTE WRP DECEMBER 12th

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WRP parliamentary candidate for Camberwell and Peckham Joshua Ogunleye had a warm welcome for his socialist policies at the London College of Arts Camberwell...

Special Forces Back In North

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Northern Ireland Assembly Deputy First Minister and Sinn Fein MP Martin McGuinness yesterday slammed the redeployment of British Army Special Forces in the North...
Marching to defendt the NHS on March 3rd

DOCTORS ON THE MARCH – scrap the MMC and MTAS now!

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AROUND 15,000 junior doctors are about to find themselves without training posts if Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and the new Medical Training Application Service...

Theatre Nurses Picket St Thomas’ Hospital!

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THEATRE nurses, members of Unite, were yesterday picketing on the second day of their current strike action at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge. Some of...

13 schools with RAAC had funding to rebuild – ruled out by Tories!

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At least 13 schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) had funding to rebuild approved under a Labour scheme which was later...
MARIA OTONE DE MENEZES (centre) holds a picture of her son Jean Charles De Menezes on a march to parliament

‘I THOUGHT POLICE WERE FANATICS’ – tube driver tells Menezes inquest

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A Tube driver risked getting electrocuted and fled into a tunnel at Stockwell station because he was terrified that ‘fanatics’ had shot dead Jean...
The special relationship between Murdoch and the Metroplitan Police began with the organisation of strikebreaking at Wapping

YATES REFUSES TO RESIGN! Murdoch and Brooks to appear!

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EVIDENCE from Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates to the Parliamentary Home Affairs Select Committee was scorned as ‘unconvincing’ by its chairman Keith Vaz...
Junior doctors mass leaflet Liverpool Street Station during last month’s strike – they are now escalating their struggle

Full support for junior doctors! – –Hunt threatens to illegalise strikes

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THIS MORNING for the first time in history, junior doctors launch their full walk-out, taking the government head on. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded yesterday...

Crow Slams Hunt On NHS

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‘THIS government can’t wait to destroy the NHS,’ RMT general secretary Bob Crow told News Line yesterday. The rail union leader was responding to a...
Locked -out gate Gourmet workers during their successful lobby of the TGWU Executive meeting earlier this month

‘WE ARE STRONG AND WE WILL WIN’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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‘NOW that Eric Born (managing director Gate Gourmet UK and Ireland) has admitted that only 137 have signed the Compromise Agreement, it shows that...

Assange wins High Court ruling

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THE HIGH Court in London yesterday ruled in favour of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s right to appeal against the UK court ruling approving his...
A massive demonstration in September makes it very clear that all refugees are welcome in the UK and that British workers are opposed to the bombing of Syria

2016–Year For Revolution!

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NEW YEAR’S MANIFESTO by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2016 to...
Marchers are taking place all over the country to defend the NHS!

STOP MATERNITY CLOSURE! – say Save Eastbourne Hospital Campaign

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Campaigners in Sussex yesterday said they will continue their fight to keep fully functioning district general hospitals in both Eastbourne and Hastings. This followed the...

Doctors condemn £55 ‘bounty’

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DOCTORS have condemned a ‘bounty’ scheme launched by NHS England at the beginning of this month under which GPs receive a payment of £55...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ campaign team with Ealing Town Hall UNISON Branch officer STEVE BARTON and Branch Secretary CHRIS MOREY

Workers buy tickets for GG locked-out workers rally

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‘GATE Gourmet are not going to get away with what they did, sacking us for no reason,’ said Raj Sahdev yesterday on the locked-out...

GREEK WORKERS MARCH ON MINISTRY

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HUNDREDS of local government workers entered a Finance Ministry building in Athens on Thursday demanding that there will be no cut to their dangerous...

IRAN FREES SAILORS – as a gift to the British people

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‘Although Iran has the right to prosecute them by following the model of the Prophet, the fifteen people are pardoned and their freedom given...

Bank cuts rate to 4.25% – its second cut this year

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THE BANK of England has reduced interest rates to 4.25 per cent, marking its second cut this year, as it warned that escalating global...

Three Britons killed in Israel’s targeted attack on aid convoy

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SEVEN aid workers from the relief group World Central Kitchen (WCK), including three Britons, were killed in a ‘targeted attack’ by the genocidal Israeli...

CUT PAY & PENSIONS! – demand BCC bosses

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Ahead of the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Report on Wednesday, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has called for cuts across the board in public services,...