General Strike For Palestine!

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YESTERDAY, on Al- Quds Day, thousands of people took to the streets of London in a powerful march orchestrated by the Justice for Palestine...
Last December’s march in Enfield demanding that Chase Farm Hospital be kept open

‘No return to Poor Law!’ –now is the time to rise up says Ashton

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Professor John Ashton, who was threatened with discipline over raising concerns about the Health and Social Care Bill, has warned of a return to...

A&E closures putting lives at risk

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THE MASS closure of A&E’s at hospitals around the country has created a situation where many patients now live in A&E ‘black spots,’ where...

Israel still committing war crimes in Gaza

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HUMAN Rights Watch has accused Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, with US President Joe Biden’s administration criticised for...
Suspended North West London College UCU branch secretary INDRO SEN (centre) on the picket line outside the college with students and lecturers yesterday morning

Reinstate Indro Sen!

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‘REINSTATE Indro Sen,’ demanded striking lecturers yesterday, in defence of their UCU rep who was unfairly suspended from North West London College in...

Grenfell Tower survivors threatened with eviction

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MAHAD Egal, Jamie Murray and their two young children, who survived the Grenfell Tower fire, like so many others have still not been permanently...
Royal College of GPs Chair CLARE GERADA (centre in black with dog) arriving last month in Whitehall with the ‘Bevan’s Run’ consultants opposed to the Health Bill

SCRAP THE HEALTH BILL SAY GPs – No to a two-tier NHS

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The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), the UK’s largest medical Royal College, yesterday wrote to Prime Minister Cameron calling for the complete withdrawal...
One of the big picket lines out yesterday at Holloway Metroline bus garage

Metro – Hundreds Of Pickets Out

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THERE were over 100 pickets covering all the entrances to Willesden Bus Garage in north west London yesterday morning. Bus driver and TGWU member Christine...
Junior doctors on the picket line during their last strike

No Return To 90-Hour Week For Doctors And Nurses!

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‘A RETURN to the days where doctors and nurses work 90-hour weeks would be bad for patient safety, for staff and for the NHS,’...

Threat to sack firefighters!

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The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has condemned the commissioner of the London Fire Brigade after he threatened the entire workforce with the sack if...
Delegates at the Annual BMA Consultants Conference yesterday morning voting for action to defend their pensions

BMA to fight on pensions

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BMA Consultants at their Annual Conference yesterday made it clear they were determined to fight for their pensions. The tone was set by the Consultants...

CIVIL SERVANTS TO STRIKE – 250,000 to come out for 48 hours

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OVER quarter of a million civil and public servants will stage a 48-hour national strike on March 8-9. Up to 270,000 members of the PCS...
Rail unions demonstrating outside Euston station last October against the West Coast Mainline tendering scandal

Rail on brink of chaos! – RMT warns of rail franchising disaster

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RAIL union RMT warned yesterday that the chaotic rail franchising disaster has taken a further turn for the worse. The extension of the current First...
Part of the large contingent of midwives on Saturday’s TUC demonstration in London

Maternity Crisis

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‘THE UK’s health services are hopelessly underfunded in terms of resources and staff who are trained to deal with new mothers with mental health...

Many Families At Breaking Point!

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ONE in five UK households borrowed money or used savings to cover food costs in April, the latest Which? monthly insight tracker survey has...

£850 million to pay for NHS sackings

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The government will spend more than £850 million in redundancy payments to NHS managers and staff to pave the way for the privatisation of...

No to two-tier Maternity! – demand Charter Schools strikers

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‘NO TO TWO-TIER Maternity!’ declare striking teachers at the Charter Schools Multi-Academy Trust in Southwark, south-east London, who begin a further three-day strike this...

‘Europe will pay the bill for the US supplying Ukraine with weapons!’

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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has called on the United States to continue supplying Ukraine with weapons in its war against Russia, assuring that...

Court case against Johnson dismissed!

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YESTERDAY the judge of the Court of Session, Scotland’s highest court, ruled that Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson had no case to answer and...

Basra Tensions Flare!

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Basra governor Mohammed al-Waili yesterday warned the British occupiers he will break off all relations and called on Iraqis to demonstrate outside the...

Back to Work regulations are ruled illegal!

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IN A LANDMARK decision yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal ruling of last February that the Regulations governing the government’s ‘Back...

‘We Want Action To Win’ Say Gourmet Workers

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GATE GOURMET strikers were on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday in high spirits, after their successful intervention at the TUC in Brighton...
Ealing Hospital workers on their picket line yesterday made clear that they want negotiations for a living wage, sick pay and improved annual leave

Ealing Hospital strike action!

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MORE than 100 Ealing Hospital porters, domestic, catering and help desk workers took their first day of strike action from 6am-6pm yesterday and are...
The Royal College of Midwives taking strike action last year for the first time in their history

‘NO COMPROMISE ON SAFE STAFFING LEVELS’ says RCN

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HOSPITALS have been told by the Tory government’s regulator to only fill job vacancies that are ‘essential’, raising fears amongst midwives, doctors and nurses...

SNP 2nd Scottish Referendum

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‘I WILL now take the steps necessary to make sure that Scotland will have the choice at the end of this process,’ Scottish Nationalist...

£400 Energy Rise On Way!

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HUGE hikes in gas and electricity bills are coming this year, the energy privateers flagrantly announced yesterday. ‘Big Six’ energy bosses told MPs on the...
Young Tamils are leading the fight for a permanent ceasefire in Sri Lanka. PARAMESWARAN SUBRAMANIYAN (centre) is continuing his hunger strike

We Want Permanent Ceasefire

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‘I’M THE best friend of Parameswaran Subramaniyan,’ 22-year-old Tharmini Tharmaraja told News Line on the edge of Westminster Green yesterday. Hundreds were demonstrating opposite the...

‘A DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS SITUATION!’ – Brown pledges to work on the side of...

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‘THIS is a difficult and dangerous situation for the world economy,’ Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday in an interview for the ‘Observer’ newspaper. Brown...

Met chief Dick warns 43,000 officers over rot throughout force

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THE MET POLICE Commissioner Cressida Dick in light of scandal after scandal engulfing the police force has sent a letter to all 43,000 officers...

£105 profit a customer – energy companies on the make

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Almost 10p in every pound of a gas or electricity bill is now going directly into the coffers of the privatised energy companies. Gas and...

Dump NHS early discharge plan!

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FOLLOWING massive opposition from the public, patients and staff, Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has temporarily suspended plans to pilot a scheme to...

BRING OUT THE AIRPORT – urge Gate Gourmet workers

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‘We are calling for the whole airport to come out, not just to support us but to defend themselves,’ Jaswinder Phal told News Line...

May appeals to Corbyn ‘join the talks!’

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‘FOLLOWING last week’s vote, it is clear that the government’s approach had to change, and it has,’ Tory PM Theresa May insisted, coming back...
Road hauliers and their families across the road from Downing Street yesterday afternoon

Hauliers angry over fuel bills

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All along the A40, road hauliers and truckers, parked up their big machines and made their way to Marble Arch to warn Gordon...
Demonstrators in Athens on May 1st marching in support of immigrant workers

Greek Workers & Youth Will Fight New Bourgeois Regime Of Papandreou!

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The Greek working class and youth have delivered a deadly blow against the conservative government of Kostas Karamanlis and his neo-liberal policies in Sunday’s...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers 2nd Anniversary Benefit

Gate Gourmet sacked workers 2nd Anniversary Benefit

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Sunday 14 October, 2-8pm Southall Community Centre Merrick Road, Southall (nr Southall station) Beat Gate Gourmet & other cheap labour bosses! Support our cases for racial discrimination against...
Planned STP cuts mean maternity services at Horton Hospital in Banbury are due for closure, endangering mothers’ & babies’ lives

‘Slash, Trash and Privatise!’ STPs put patients’ lives at risk

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‘IT IS CLEAR that patients’ lives are being put at risk, but the solution is not to slash, trash and privatise through the NHS...

Private Sharks Circling The NHS!

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LANSLEY’S Health Bill is a disaster of ‘Titanic proportions’ warned Unison, the UK’s largest union, yesterday.   The union is calling on the government to...

£14,000 per year fast-track degrees!

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‘OUR universities must remain places of learning, not academic sweatshops,’ UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt warned yesterday. She was responding to the Tory plan to...
ScotRail RMT members on the picket line at Glasgow Central Station on the second day of their strike over safety

Railworkers fighting for safety!

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ON THE second day of the ScotRail strike, the RMT revealed that the Dutch-state parent company and top bosses are raking it in at...

‘We need to escalate the action’ say striking bin workers

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‘WE NEED to escalate the action,' striking Birmingham bin workers at their Perry Bar picket line told News Line early yesterday morning. The 370 striking...
Sacked BBC canteen workers demonstrating outside Bush House in Central London yesterday

Bbc World Service Workers Back Caterers

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‘THE BBC says it subscribes to “BBC values”, but it would appear BBC Values do not apply to contractors such as Aramark.’ BECTU General Secretary...
Nurses marching in defence of the NHS demanding the restoration of bursaries

‘Lift Cap On Pay And Bring Back Student Funding’

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THE LEADER of the Royal College of Nursing yesterday poured scorn on Tory government claims to be increasing the NHS workforce by 10,000 nurses...

Miliband condemns policy on Libya

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LABOUR leader Miliband yesterday indicted Cameron’s foreign policy in an attempt to win the support of the British bourgeoisie. He said of PM Cameron’s foreign...

NO TUBE AND RAIL CUTS! – ‘Franchising system in its death throes’

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ENDING damaging staff cuts, bringing all of London’s Tube back into the public sector and getting the network’s upgrade back on track are more...