‘Get rid of all privatised companies’ urge the striking Junior Doctors
Junior doctors manned a lively and determined picket outside the Maudsley Hospital in south London yesterday, determined to defend their patients and the NHS. Laith...
RCN calls 48-hour national strike
THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) has announced a round-the-clock 48-hour strike from 8pm on Sunday 30th April to 8pm on Tuesday 2nd May,...
Sadr Aide Arrest
‘We are angry. This is a kind of revenge’, the spokesman for anti-occupation Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said yesterday after US troops and Iraqi...
The Mujahideen Will Win Says Carroll
US authorities were still guarding freed hostage Jill Carroll in Iraq on Friday, after insurgents released her from nearly three months of captivity and...
Israeli forces target Khan Younis school for onslaught
Israeli forces targeted a school in Khan Younis that was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians, critically injuring at least eight people yesterday. ‘We heard from...
No Army Strikebreaking!
Army drivers are being trained as strikebreakers in the event of a national tanker drivers strike which is expected to be called...
Parents remortgage to pay uni fees
PARENTS are being forced to remortgage their homes in order to pay for their sons’ and daughters’ tuition fees. ‘My Home Move’ analysed figures which...
Food Prices To Double!
Oxfam UK warned yesterday that the average prices of staple crops will more than double in the next 20 years leaving billions of people...
Ryanair Pilots Down Tools!
RYANAIR pilots have downed tools today causing huge cost to the company after Ryanair managers again refused to enter talks to end the long...
‘Get Out Of Iraq’ – US Abandons Citizens After Its Terror Attack
THE US Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has urged all American citizens to run for it and get out of Iraq. This is after...
GETTING RID OF MUBARAK IS ONLY THE BEGINNING – Wasseem Wagdi tells rally
Over 2,000 celebrated the ousting of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at a rally in Trafalgar Square, central London, on Saturday organised by Amnesty International...
RAIL STRIKE IS ON! – to defend safety
Four days of national strike action against job cuts and in defence of safety were announced by the RMT and TSSA rail unions yesterday,...
Allies warn Russia to stop bombing ISIS
TURKEY, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have called on Russia to stop its air strikes in Syria,...
£150bn MORE FOR BANKS – as B 0f E starts printing money
The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee yesterday cut interest rates from one per cent to a record low of 0.5 per cent. Interest rates...
Farage Won’t Stand Against Tories
THE Brexit Party, led by Nigel Farage, announced on Monday that it will not be standing candidates in the 317 seats won by the...
Assange Ecuador Protests
ECUADORIANS have taken to the streets in the capital Quito against the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the country’s embassy in London. The...
Corbyn makes May an offer
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in his speech to the party conference yesterday, made Tory PM May an offer: he said that Labour would give...
SA miners continue with strike action! –ANC & Zuma are condemned
SOUTH African platinum miners were yesterday continuing their strike, and their wives are occupying the entrance to the British-owned Lonmin Marikana mine. Lonmin has given...
Stop NHS privatisation! Stop bed cuts! Unions must act!
THE GMB has demanded answers over a plan to privatise services at Barnsley Hospital in a desperate bid to save cash. The trust which runs...
Israeli Forces Severely Beat Palestinian
ISRAELI forces transferred a Palestinian man to a hospital after severely beating him in his house in Abu Shkheidim village, northwest of Ramallah,...
NO ZERO HOURS CONTRACTS AT McDonald’s
RENT payments aren’t flexible and neither are gas bills or the weekly shopping bill, so flexible wages are not much use to anyone except...
Greek Riot Police Attack Demonstrators
SACKED Finance Ministry cleaners demanding re-employment, occupied the Athens district tax office in Kallithea yesterday morning. At the same time, state teachers on the ‘mobility...
Greek police fire teargas at 200,000 workers
Greek police fired teargas and attacked 200,000 workers and youth outside parliament yesterday who were seeking to prevent MPs entering parliament to vote on...
Cwu Members Oppose Secret Talks!
Communication Workers Union members have been telling News Line what they think of the ending of their strike actions in order to...
KEEP LEWISHAM HOSPITAL OPEN! – march today
HEALTH workers, trade unionists, pensioners and residents from the SE London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley are marching today against plans to...
BILLIONS WIPED OFF SHARES – after Japan stock market collapse
Billions of dollars, pounds and euros were wiped off worldwide share prices yesterday as investors took fright at the abrupt collapse and closure of...
BLAIR AT BAY: ‘NO REGRETS’ – over the imperialist slaughter
TONY Blair was unrepentant about invading Iraq when he appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry into the 2003 war yesterday, and said repeatedly that he...
Oil $146 A Barrel – Gm Is Going Broke
The price of oil continued to soar yesterday, with Brent crude rising above $146 per barrel (p.b.) for the first time ever. Brent crude...
Half a million on London march for Palestine!
HALF A MILLION workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through London on Saturday, assembling in Hyde Park and marching to the American Embassy...
Cameron Plans Youth Slave Labour
CAMERON closed the crisis-dominated Tory Party Conference in Birmingham yesterday by announcing that if the Tories are elected next May they will cut taxes,...
Williamson & Jenrick Sacked
GAVIN Williamson was the first to go in Tory PM Johnson’s reshuffle yesterday as he was sacked from his post as education secretary. Then...
Starmer Trashes Labour Renationalisation Policy
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves trashed the party’s renationalisation policy yesterday. In a speech in Liverpool, with a back-drop bedecked...
Greek Students March Against Education Cuts
Greek university students staged a militant march last Thursday in Athens against a government Bill that will impose huge spending cuts in education. Over 4,000...
‘Cold War mentality’ – China slams UK, US & Australia’s new imperialist alliance
THE UK, US and Australia have announced a security pact in the Asia-Pacific, to step up their war against China. China’s embassy in Washington...
Trade unions must take action to restore the whip to Corbyn
TWENTY seven Labour MPs have signed a statement from the Socialist Campaign Group describing Labour leader Keir Starmer’s decision not to readmit Jeremy Corbyn...
‘NHS Being privatised!’
NEW research produced by the NHS Support Federation shows a dramatic rise in the contracts won by private firms to deliver NHS care. Over the...
Opportunist SNP! –would not vote against NHS privatisation in England
THE SNP would not vote against privatisation in the English health service provided it has no impact on Scottish spending, Scottish Health Secretary Shona...
Tuc Condemns Attack On Single Parents
The TUC and single parent charity Gingerbread yesterday condemned the Work and Pensions Secretary Purnell’s decision to press ahead with ‘welfare to work’ plans...
‘the Unions Must Act To Win This Struggle’
‘WHEN we went to the TUC in Brighton last month, they voted unanimously to support our struggle now we need that support to be...
50 Killed In Gaza City!
ON the 13th day of the ongoing military offensive against the Gaza Strip, residents say invading Israeli forces committed ‘a new massacre’ in the...
96-hour walkout by the junior doctors!
THE BMA yesterday announced dates for a new 96-hour walkout by junior doctors in England after the government’s failure to make any credible offer...
Met Police accused of ‘institutional corruption’ – over murder of Daniel Morgan
AN independent panel has accused the Metropolitan Police of ‘a form of institutional corruption’ for concealing or denying failings over the unsolved murder of...
BANK’S XMAS BOMBSHELL! – 5% interest rates are on the way
Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Paul Fisher dropped a Christmas bombshell yesterday. He revealed that the Bank’s policymakers would like to see...
‘Britain must provide war planes for Ukraine’ says Truss
BRITAIN and other Western powers should provide warplanes to the Ukraine, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said last night at the Mansion House banquet, as...
‘A GREAT VICTORY’ says Hamas leader
Confirming the extent of the Israeli rout, Hamas’ armed wing said yesterday it lost only 48 fighters during the 22-day bombardment of Gaza and...