Don’t sign the rotten ‘compromise’ deal
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers are angry that TGWU officers are putting pressure on those who have been selected by the company for compulsory...
FOODBANK USE ROCKETS! – huge demand for emergency food supplies
THE number of emergency food supplies given out by Farnborough Foodbank has risen by 5.27% in the last year. Farnborough Foodbank is part of The...
NHS Direct 24 Closures
UNISON said yesterday that it was truly shocked by the scale of job losses and call centre closures announced by NHS Direct, warning that...
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...
Don’t implement contract urges BMA
DO NOT implement the new junior doctors contracts, the BMA urged NHS Trusts yesterday, the day the new contracts were due to be rolled...
Hundreds of students join lecturers’ struggle at Goldsmiths!
HUNDREDS of students have joined their lecturers at Goldsmiths University fighting the cuts to education and the introduction of casual labour. The students and lecturers...
Labour supporting ‘Free Schools’ and benefit cuts!
LABOUR yesterday delivered another stab in the back to workers, when two of its newly promoted shadow ministers hit out at the working class. Shadow...
PATIENT CARE AT RISK! – BMA slams ‘rushed-through reforms’
‘Rushed through reforms’ to doctors’ training will see ‘risks to patient care’, warns the British Medical Association. The BMA said that under the government’s ‘Modernising...
Don’t stop our hardship payments demand locked-out GG workers
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers were on the picket line in the open air at Heathrow Airport yesterday. They were angry that the leaders of...
Countdown to March 29th
PRIME Minister Theresa May has written to the European Union to ask for a three-month delay to Brexit. The UK is leaving the EU next...
Universal Credit Cancels Christmas
‘PREMEDITATED cruelty,’ is how Norfolk campaigners have described Universal Credit, which they call to be immediately scrapped. They have organised a meeting at City...
Merger of Fire Service and Police rejected by FBU!
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has said a new report that calls for Staffordshire Fire and Rescue to be merged with the police is...
‘WE ARE NOT THE AGGRESSORS’ – Putin condemns US support for Georgia
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin yesterday accused the US of trying to disrupt the Russian military operation in South Ossetia by transporting Georgian troops...
Union Leaders Warn King
BANK of England Governor King’s insistence that nothing must be done to prevent the squeeze in living standards down to 1920s levels, has...
Corbyn will fight any bid to keep him off ballot paper!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn told the BBC yesterday that he was ‘disappointed’ Angela Eagle had chosen to run against him and would fight any...
BLAIR SACKED! – in the second week of the de Menezes inquest
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair, who presided over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes and supported the right of police to shoot to...
RIOT POLICE ATTACK WORKERS – as Obama arrives in Athens
HUNDREDS of armed riot police (MAT) in full gear viciously attacked a militant march in Athens against the visit of US President Barack Obama...
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...
UNIONS MUST JOIN ACTION! say Defend Chase Farm NHS fighters
‘SAY “No’’ to this sham consultation!’, shouted dozens of angry local residents fighting to save Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, as they demonstrated outside...
Chagos Islander denied his right to UK citizenship
CHAGOS Islanders demonstrated outside the High Court in London’s Strand yesterday, in support of Dominique Elysse, who is seeking to establish British citizenship. The...
POA CONDEMNS INJUNCTION! – as Trade Union Act becomes law
The POA (Prison Officers Association) has condemned an injunction secured by the Tory government from judges banning its industrial action planned for yesterday. ‘The POA...
Tories Big Council Losses!
LABOUR PARTY leader Starmer said yesterday the Labour Party is on track to win the next general election, after taking control of key councils...
‘A despicable act of bad faith’ – PCS condemns government
THE Public and Commercial Services union has described the government’s imposition of further cuts to redundancy terms as a ‘despicable act of bad faith’...
Defend Heathrow jobs rally today!
HUNDREDS of British Airways workers are demonstrating outside the airline’s Heathrow HQ today against the outsourcing and offshoring of their jobs to Tata Consultancy...
Hague plans ‘English Veto’
PROPOSALS for English Laws for an English parliament were set out yesterday by Tory cabinet member William Hague, Leader of the House of...
MET POLICE SPYING BREACHED HUMAN RIGHTS! – says Investigatory Powers Tribunal
AN activist who was deceived into a relationship with an undercover, spying police officer has won a tribunal case for breaches of her human...
‘This Government Wants To Take Ms Nurses Away’
‘This despicable government wants to take Multiple Sclerosis nurses away,’ wheelchair-bound retiree George Goodger told News Line yesterday after handing in a petition to...
‘A MOMENTOUS VOTE!’ says Palestinian Ambassador Hassassian
‘A MOMENTOUS vote that is a stepping stone towards rectifying the historic injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people,’ Palestinian Ambassador Manuel Hassassian said...
‘Strike until we win!’ – Junior Doctors strike solid
THOUSANDS of junior doctors, NHS workers, trade unionists and supporters took to picket lines across the country yesterday, as the junior doctors took their...
MUBARAK GO NOW! – –Millions of Egyptians pour onto the streets
MASSES of Egyptians flooded into Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday, responding to the calls for a million-strong march to demand the removal of President Mubarak. Simultaneously,...
VISTEON ADJOURNMENT – as Belfast occupation continues
A legal attempt to remove workers from the Visteon plant in west Belfast was yesterday adjourned at the High Court for the second time...
‘WE NEED ACTION NOT WORDS’ – at Chase Farm
Staff and patients at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, yesterday showed their support for an occupation to stop the closure of its accident and emergency,...
Junior Doctors industrial action – reject proposed new contract in full
JUNIOR doctors are set to renew their strike action in a ‘rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September’. The new chair of...
Welfare and spending cuts are leading to more food banks!
THE expansion of food banks across the United Kingdom is associated with cuts in spending on local services, welfare benefits and higher unemployment rates,...
Brown Attacks The Public Sector
Prime Minister Brown yesterday outlined plans to slash government employees’ jobs and pay. He said public sector workers earning an ‘over-generous’ salary would be ‘named...
Bosses Come First Says Brown
Prime Minister Gordon Brown attacked the RMT trade union yesterday, saying whatever its reason, the Tube strike is ‘unjustifiable’. Answering questions at his second monthy...
MI5 WORKED WITH TORTURERS! – Binyam Mohamed exposes complicity
MPs yesterday demanded a judicial inquiry into a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner’s claims that MI5 was complicit in his torture. In a ‘Mail on...
Students March Against Fees And Cuts
OVER a thousand students marched from University of London Union in Malet Street, central London, to the Business, Innovation and Science Department in Victoria...
Dover shutdown threatens supplies – Johnson at loggerheads with Macron to ‘unblock the ports’
‘I WANT to update everyone on one thing and that is what has been happening at our borders in Dover,’ Tory PM Johnson said...
‘Government is in chaos’ – says Corbyn
‘THE GOVERNMENT is in chaos,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Parliament yesterday, responding to Tory PM May’s speech attempting to defend her Brexit capitulation...
CWU defiant and fighting Royal Mail asset-stripping
ROYAL MAIL is to seek a High Court injunction on Tuesday to stop a postal strike. The company said it woulmake a formal application on...
‘Special measures’ against NHS
ELEVEN NHS hospitals are being placed under special measures because of major failings, Health Secretary Hunt announced yesterday. Hunt said the trusts,...
Grenfell United will continue to fight for truth!
EIGHTEEN months after the Grenfell Inferno over 600 people turned out on the Silent March for the Grenfell victims and survivors. A delegation...
‘WE REJECT WAGE CUTS!’ – say UNISON & GMB spokeswomen
‘We reject public sector pay cuts,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday. She was responding to remarks by chancellor Darling yesterday, where...
BRITISH SOLDIERS LED THE ‘REBEL’ ADVANCE ON TRIPOLI – says Labour MP Gardiner
A LABOUR MP said yesterday that British soldiers led the counter-revolutionary ‘rebel’ advance on Tripoli last week. In an interview with the Russia Today...