Biggest NHS strike in history! – bring down the Tories now

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THE BIGGEST strike in the history of the NHS takes place today with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) escalating its action, as members...

‘No depths to which P&O will not sink!’ says RMT’s Mick Lynch

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‘THERE are no depths to which P&O and their Dubai owners at DP World will not sink to extract the maximum profit from ferry...

Starmer aide McSweeney quits – who’s next?

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LABOUR leader and PM Keir Starmer’s position was further weakened yesterday as his Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney was forced to quit amidst the...
SOAS Samba Band and SOAS students support striking lecturers picketing the university over a derisory 1% pay offer

Lecturers Take Strike Action!

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AT 11.00am yesterday, University staff across the country walked out on strike in anger in the first of a series of two-hour strikes in...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing despite the cold weather

‘We fight on till we win’

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are furious that the TGWU’s head of civil aviation, Brendan Gold, has gone back on his promise to provide...

The More You Sack – The Bigger The Bonus

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Media unions BECTU and the NUJ yesterday condemned ‘BBC fat-cat bonuses’ and called on BBC bosses to hand them back. They were responding to the...
Greek youth on the march in Athens

‘YOUTH WILL TAKE UP ARMS’ – writes Greek pensioner in suicide note

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A 77-YEAR-old pensioner named as Dimitris Christoulas, an ex-owner of a chemist shop, shot himself in the head on Wednesday morning in Syntagma square...

‘Special Place In Hell’ For The Brexiteers!

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EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk dropped his mask of reasonableness yesterday in Brussels when he declared that there is a ‘special place in hell’...
Picket in May last year demanding the release of Babar Ahmad, faced with being extradited to the US

Action Needed To Defend NHS

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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS plans to axe 720 healthcare workers across three hospitals, out of a 4,500 workforce, in a bid to save £30...
RMT security workers lobbied the Mayor of London against the bullying of its members on Monday

Travel Safe workers take strike action

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‘The bullying and intimidation of our members’ representatives by STM Security, is utterly deplorable,’ said Bob Crow yesterday. He added: ‘It is the issue at...

Assault on Al-Aqsa is a ‘declaration of war’ on Palestinians!

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THE ASSAULT on the Al Aqsa Mosque is equal to a ‘Declaration of War on the Palestinians’, said the spokesman for the President of...

CATALAN ‘REBELLION’ CHARGE! – as Puigdemont visits Brussels seeking support

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SPAIN’s chief prosecutor has brought back the Franco dictatorship by calling for charges including rebellion to be laid against Catalan leaders following the...

‘LAST FRIDAY IT WAS LIKE WAR ON THE STREETS OF PARIS’ Yellow vests tell...

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TWO coachloads of French ‘Gilet Jaunes’ (Yellow Vests) joined the Committee to Defend Julian Assange ‘Bastille Day’ protest outside Belmarsh prison in south east...
The two young Tamil hunger strikers are determined to force the British government to stop the genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka or die in the attempt

200,000 Tamils Rally Today

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‘TWO of our brothers are on a hunger strike to death,’ Janani Paramsothy of the British Tamil students told News Line at Parliament Square...

Syrian Army launches fresh Idlib offensive!

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SYRIA yesterday began an offensive to take back its entire territory launching a new assault on Idlib, the last part of Syria still controlled...

INTERSERVE HANDED £660m MONTHS BEFORE COLLAPSE!

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INTERSERVE was handed £660 million worth of public contracts in the months before facing collapse, GMB Union has revealed. The company is set to go...

‘Stop Pandemic Profiteering!’

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‘PANDEMIC PROFITEERING has to stop’ says RMT as FirstGroup ann-ounces a £500 million shareholder payout and boasts that new National Rail Contracts will ‘support...

May and Corbyn capitulate to EU

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REFERRING to PM May’s letter sent to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Rory Stewart, the prisons minister, said yesterday: ‘Yes. I think she feels, as...
News Line-Atua Conference: Sunday June 19

News Line-Atua Conference: Sunday June 19

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The News Line-All Trades Union Alliance is organising this conference this Sunday, 19 June, to build a leadership to lead a struggle inside the...

‘Probe Johnson for corporate manslaughter’ – Labour MP – Care home incompetence led to...

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‘WHEN will the Prime Minister and others be investigated by the police for alleged corporate manslaughter and why did they not follow the example...
Students from all over the country lobbied parliament in February for the right to free English language courses

NORTH LONDON COLLEGES ON THE MARCH – to defend ESOL

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Staff and students from North London colleges are today marching to demonstrate their opposition to plans to restrict access to free English for Speakers...
JJB Sports striking GMB members lobbying the DTI in London yesterday with the ‘dog that did not bark’ to demand that the Employment Agencies Standards Inspectorate enforce the law in their dispute

‘Enforce the law’ against strikebreakers demand GMB

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STRIKING JJB Sports warehouse staff from Wigan went to London yesterday, to demand the government takes action to uphold the law against strike-breaking by...

STUDENT NURSES ANGRY – at Tory-imposed tuition fee debt

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STUDENT nurses and midwives are furious that under new proposals to scrap bursaries, they could potentially be burdened with £65,000 worth of debt for...

£15bn PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS, PLEDGES DARLING – as unemployment leaps by 177,000

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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...

Patient records now open to state

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FOR the first time, the Department for Work and Pensions will have access to patients personal GP records, including their ‘fit notes’...

Shell Tanker Drivers Out Solid!

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Pickets were out at twelve fuel depots from 6am yesterday as over 600 Shell tanker drivers empl-oyed by two companies, Hoyer UK and Suckling...

Trump – more Iran sanctions – urges NATO involvement!

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PRESIDENT TRUMP told a White House Press conference yesterday afternoon that while he was president of the USA, Iran would never be able to...

SUDDEN AND CATASTROPHIC – OILC leader Jake Malloy describes Morecambe Bay disaster

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‘Last night’s event appears to suggest that something sudden and catastrophic happened,’ offshore workers’ union, OILC leader Jake Malloy told News Line yesterday. Six bodies...
An enthusiastic picket outside the High Court yesterday morning. They are determined to continue the battle to stop the coalition destroying the NHS

Lewisham Hospital Cuts Judged Illegal!

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CHEERS went up outside the High Court when Justice Silber ruled yesterday that Jeremy Hunt’s decision to cut the Accident & Emergency and Maternity...

Sunak halved school rebuilding budget!

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cut the schools repair budget in half in 2021 when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, it emerged yesterday...
Young Socialists marchers welcomed at Sheffield GMB offices with a great fish and chips dinner

Sheffield hails March for Jobs

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The YS March for Jobs and Free State Education marched for 17 miles from Sheffield to Chesterfield yesterday. It is marching on to Mansfield and...
3,000 tenants march on London’s City Hall to demand an end to huge rent rises and evictions. There were two marches, one from north east London, the other from south east London

‘Social Housing Is Our Right’!

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‘SOCIAL housing is our right!’ chanted over three thousand protestors on the March to Defend Council Housing on Saturday. The march began at Shoreditch Church...

‘Don’t underestimate workers strength of feeling!’

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TUC leader O’Grady has cautioned new PM Truss not to underestimate the strength of feeling among workers who have endured pay stagnation and real...
Firefighters rallied last month to set out their campaign against station closures and downgrades

70 Fire Stations To Close

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seventy fire stations in England are threatened with closure and scores more face severe downgrading when the government presses ahead with its spending cuts,...

‘Close down the Island if they try to evict us’ say Vestas occupiers

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‘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...

Osborne bashes pensions & youth

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TORY Chancellor Osborne, in his Autumn Statement delivered to parliament yesterday, launched war on the unemployed, students, youth and the state pension. Rather than announcing...

Doctors’ strike out solid for pay and to save NHS

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Resident doctors and their supporters were on the picket line at St Thomas’ hospital on the first day of their five days of strike...

‘A CHILLING ATTACK ON THE PUBLIC SECTOR’ –Prentis condemns government cuts

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‘Prime Minister Cameron’s plans to slash public spending will hit the poor and the vulnerable,’ TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber warned yesterday. Commenting on ...

Johnson is risking a second spike – warns BMA – While Unite wants permanent...

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‘SO WE ARE at real risk, without any coherence without any safeguards, that the infection could have a second surge,’ warned Chaand Nagpaul, Chair...

Met Police take charge of regime change op!

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THE METROPOLITAN Police have thrown a spanner into the works of the rapidly developing crisis in the Tory government and party. There is now confusion...
Striking junior doctors say that the NHS is everyone’s fight

‘Crude, expensive and dangerous’ – scrap referral management centres

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‘CRUDE, expensive and dangerous’ warned doctors yesterday, describing the privately run ‘Referral Management Centres’. They further warned that the Referral Management Centres act as...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing the company at Heathrow yesterday, despite the bad weather and police threats to arrest them

Police Stop Gg Picket Outside Plant

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were stopped from picketing the Gate Gourmet plant yesterday by the Heathrow Airport police and by the British Airports...
The Workers Revolutionary Party-Young Socialists contingent marching on May Day for what workers want – a general strike to bring down the government and create conditions to bring in a workers government

Tories Plot ‘Regime Change!’

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CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday said he will take the Tories’ local elections disaster ‘on the chin’, as his own MPs were calling for his and...
Picket line at Pizza Express where low pay and management policy is an issue

SLAVE LABOUR UK – but TUC Congress has no solution

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Two million UK workers are ‘trapped in a continual round of low-paid and insecure work where mistreatment is the norm’ according to the findings...
Steelworkers from Port Talbot, Teesside, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire lobbied parliament on October 28th. Many of them called for occupations and a national strike to secure the nationalisation of the steel industry

NATIONALISE TATA! –Occupy to defend jobs and stop the sackings

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THE steel industry in the UK faces shut-down, as the capitalist crisis deepens. The demand that the trade unions must organise occupations to halt the...