Students and youth are struggling!
ONE in five students is living in vermin-infested homes, a new study published by the National Union of Students revealed yesterday. The shocking new research...
JOBS AND PENSIONS UNDER THREAT – as Tata moves to take over Corus...
THE Transport and General Workers Union has reacted with caution to the news that Indian conglomerate Tata has bought steelmaker Corus, formerly British Steel,...
PROTECT OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS – demand unions
Workers who lost their pensions when their firm went bust gave a cautious welcome to a second High Court victory yesterday. The court rejected an...
‘Hold The Blacklisters To Account!’
DELEGATES at the TUC conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 16, Blacklisting and Undercover Surveillance of Trade Unionists. The motion calls on...
Blair-Brown War On Single Parents
Prime Minister Blair and Gordon Brown, together with Work and Pensions Secretary Hutton, will today announce a new, savage attack on lone parents and...
EU to throw 1.26 trillion euros at the banks
EUROPEAN Central Bank chief Mario Draghi yesterday launched the bank’s ‘expanded asset purchase programme’, to buy bonds from banks to try...
Jobs Protest At Uskmouth
Unemployed construction workers were joined by young apprentices unable to complete their training because of a lack of work, in a mass protest at...
PLAYING FIELDS SELL-OFF! – an absolute disgrace say GMB
WANDSWORTH Council’s plan to sell off four acres of playing fields at Elliot Secondary School in Putney is an absolute scandal, said the GMB...
Labour-Tory Pro-Eu Front Forming!
LABOUR is ready to vote with Tory rebels to force PM Theresa May to agree a customs union with the EU, shadow Brexit Keir...
FBU issued cladding warning eight years before the Grenfell Inferno!
THE government did not act on advice from the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to issue ‘a warning to housing providers’ about the danger of...
Nationalise Tata Steel now! –demands ATUA after ‘dirty’ union deal
STEELWORKERS’ union leaders are urging members to make a ‘huge sacrifice’ and accept both a pay cut and a pensions cut in order to...
National Gallery indefinite strike
NATIONAL Gallery workers were out in force on the first day of their indefinite strike against privatisation and victimisation yesterday. On the picket line outside...
Bank Fears For Pound!
THE pound continued to fall yesterday as the Bank of England called a crisis meeting for next Tuesday to discuss its ‘Quantitative Easing’ (QE)...
Corona spreading through England’s school system!
DESPITE warnings from unions the Tories re-opened schools last week, and now coronavirus has begun spreading through the school system across England. Five teachers at...
Take to the streets to defend Gaza! urges Hamas
‘TAKE to the streets in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Jerusalem, and in defence of Aqsa Mosque this Friday, Saturday and Sunday,’...
London Met Job Cuts Battle
UNISON members at London Metropolitan University took strike action yesterday in the latest round of their struggle against job cuts, as the...
Stock Market Falls Continue
FRIDAY saw stock markets around the world collapse further, following on from the dramatic slump in shares on Thursday, triggered by fears that the...
7th week on strike for Greek admin workers
ADMINISTRATION workers at eight Greek universities are continuing their strike for the seventh consecutive week against the government’s plan to sack some 1,500 of...
Tories have taken no action to stop another Grenfell
NEARLY two years since the Grenfell fire, in which 72 people lost their lives, the government has done nothing to adequately prepare fire and...
TOTAL SHUTDOWN! – Tube strike solid
‘LONDON is on an almost total shutdown,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said yesterday during the 24-hour tube strike. Pickets were out in force at...
‘I want to transform Capitalism’ says John McDonnell as he disowns Marx
LABOUR will not raise taxes for the vast majority of workers but will increase rates for those earning over £80,000, John McDonnell said yesterday. He...
Disabled People Remember The Dead At Atos Hq
DISABLED people, benefit claimants and supporters held a vigil and remembrance event yesterday for those who have died because of the actions of Paralympic...
Johnson Hopes That ‘EU Friends Will Compromise’
A WEAKER than usual Boris Johnson broke with the pre-speech propaganda that he would take a very defiant ‘do or die’ stance on leaving...
Palestine erupts! As Pence says US embassy to open in Jerusalem next year!
THE US ‘will open its embassy in Jerusalem next year’, US Vice-President Mike Pence said addressing the Israeli parliament (Knesset) yesterday. His announcement...
‘GENERAL STRIKE TO DEFEND POSTAL SERVICE’ – ‘We must win this struggle’ say postal...
STRIKING postal workers fighting Royal Mail’s diktat yesterday called for a general strike. On a lively picket line outside Camden Delivery Office, London NW1, Communication...
‘Syrians Alone Have The Right To Choose The Government’
‘SEATED amongst us today in this room, are representatives of countries that have the blood of Syrians on their hands, countries that have exported...
‘Time to overthrow capitalist system’ May Day greetings to workers of the world
THE EDITORIAL Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the working class of the world. We salute in particular the heroic struggle...
Vote Wrp – Says Scott Dore Campaign
NEW young members joined the Vote Scott Dore WRP campaign team in West Ealing on Saturday afternoon. Atef Azeb, aged 17, said: ‘I don’t like...
‘Only come in if you’re dying’ – Suffolk A&E
NHS Suffolk warned patients not to visit A&E over the Bank Holiday weekend unless they are dying. The primary care trust said it stood...
‘No end to austerity’ – Hammond
NEW Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond made it absolutely crystal clear yesterday that there would be no end to austerity under his watch. Speaking to the...
FBU condemns Tories for ignoring Grenfell findings
THE Fire Brigades Union has written to the government to demand it rethinks its decision to reject a key Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendation, on...
Government Is Wasting Money On Free Schools – Say Teachers
TEACHING unions yesterday condemned the Tory-led coalition government’s free-school policy, as more than half a million families were discovering which primary schools their children...
Nissan Opens!
NISSAN is piloting new safety measures which will see around 50 staff return to work at Britain’s biggest car plant today, with the support...
‘A FAILURE OF DUTY’ – Surgeons president Ribeiro quits junior doctors talks
Bernard Ribeiro, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, has announced his withdrawal from the crisis talks about the selection of junior doctors for...
IT WAS MURDER! – Chris Kaba killing condemned
‘IT WAS Murder’, leading campaigner for justice for Chris Kaba, Tye Davis, said – speaking outside Brixton Police Station on Thursday evening. More than 100...
‘we Won’t Let Chase Farm Close!’
‘WE’RE not going to let Chase Farm close,’ Bill Rogers, North East London Council of Action Secretary told News Line yesterday at a lively...
Eu Appoints The Italian Government!
FACING calls for his impeachment, Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella yesterday appointed former International Monetary Fund official Carlo Cottarelli as interim Prime Minister. Known as...
Striking Consultants On BMA Picket Lines!
STRIKING consultants were out in force on the BMA picket line at University College Hospital, Euston, central London yesterday morning on the first of...
RIFKIND VOWS TO BRING DOWN JOHNSON – admits he has no powers over China
FORMER Tory Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind spoke out in support of bringing down the Johnson government to prevent a no-deal Brexit yesterday. Appearing on the...
Tories are driven back over schools opening!
THE PLAN for all primary school years in England to go back to school before the end of term has been dropped by the...
‘SAFE PASSAGE TO THE UK!’ – demand 30 top trade union leaders
REFUGEE support campaign group Care4Calais published an open letter yesterday, signed by 30 top trade union leaders, demanding Safe Passage to the UK. Tory plans...
Australian doctors demand ‘humane stance’
IN THE British Medical Journal today, a leading doctor is calling on the Australian government to stop constraining doctors in the care of asylum...
Greece In Revolution!
TENS of thousands of Greek workers, youth and unemployed took part in a general strike rally yesterday in front of the occupied ERT (Greek...
Gm Hits Luton With 354 Job Losses
General Motors (GM) yesterday announced 354 job cuts at Vauxhall’s UK plant in Luton and none in Ellesmere Port. On Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer (CEO)...
End PFI at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, is ‘costing £18 million a year too much’ and is due to cost more than £800 million...