Striking London firefighters demonstrated on Monday night outside the Southwark fire station where a number of attacks were made on them

‘SHOCKING VIOLENCE’ – against firefighters

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THREE members of the Fire Brigades Union were hit and hurt by speeding vehicles driven by strikebreakers on Monday. A statement by the FBU said...

Ucl Rent Strike

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OVER 150 UCL students went on rent strike yesterday against what is one of the most expensive student accommodations in the country. They are...

Amnesty Condemns Bush

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Human rights organisation Amnesty International has hit back at US president George W Bush’s criticism of its annual report which said the USA was...
Nurses and other NHS workers on the 50,000-strong London march during the pensions strike last month

Industrial action not ruled out – over pensions says Scottish BMA leader

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A group of seven leading public health specialists, past presidents of the UK Faculty of Public Health, have called for the Health and Social...
Radiographers on strike at St Thomas’ Hospital on October 20 – Pathology staff at the hospital are out today

Pathology Staff Strike

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PATHOLOGY staff at King’s College and Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals are today striking against privatisation at all three hospitals between 9am and 5pm. Pathology...

Scrap Hinkley Point deal!

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THE City of London and the government were shaken yesterday after PM May postponed a decision to go ahead with the Hinkley Point nuclear...

Over two million Palestinians face relentless bombardment

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THE humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza continues to escalate, with over two million Palestinians – half of whom are children – facing relentless bombardment by...
Palestinians supporting their hunger strikers picketed the Israeli embassy on Saturday

MAY DAY MANIFESTO – Russian Revolution Centenary – Forward to world-wide October!

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the youth of the world. This year’s May Day is...
Domestic workers demanding a living wage on this year’s May Day march through London

Sacked workers win £964,537 – offered 40% wage cuts by Excelcare

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More than 100 care staff have received £964,537, after Excelcare sacked them and offered them new contracts with a 40 per cent pay cut,...
Striking BA cabin crew with  their families on the Heathrow picket line on Tuesday

BRING OUT BA GROUND STAFF! – demand BA cabin crew

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UNITE cabin crew members at British Airways yesterday called on their union to ballot BA ground staff on strike action. They also said BA’s ‘bullying’...
A section of the 200-strong Libyan lobby of the Lancaster House conference in London yesterday

Hands Off Libyan Oil!

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Libyan government forces stopped the pro-imperialist assault on Muammar Gadaffi’s home town of Sirte and drove back the counter-revolutionary forces yesterday. A Pentagon spokesman in...

Israeli forces intensify their bombardment!

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ISRAELI forces have intensified their military operations across the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, leaving a devastating toll in their wake. In the past...
Palestinians demonstrate in Jerusalem against President Trump’s decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

Three Killed And Hundreds Injured In Palestine

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AT least two Palestinians have been killed and almost 300 others have sustained injuries when clashes broke out between Palestinians demonstrating in protest against...
BA cabin crew strikers are fighting for the whole trade union movement

Bring The Whole Of BA Out!

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‘BRITISH Airways cabin crew are fighting for the whole trade union movement,’ striking Unite member ‘George’ told News Line yesterday. Using a pseudonym to avoid...

STOP NHS PRIVATISATION! – NHS Logistics strike today

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UNISON members at five NHS Logistics sites – supplying 43,000 items from beds to surgical supplies to hospitals and GPs across England – will...
The marchers were given a great reception by Unison and GMB members as they arrived in Harrow

Workers support march to TUC!

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ON THE first day of the Young Socialists March for Jobs from London to Liverpool, as the marchers made their way through Harrow, on...
Part of the rally outside the EU Offices in Athens on Tuesday evening

‘US-Eu Stop Supporting Nazi Coup!’

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SOME 300 members of the Athens Ukrainian community, including relatives of the Greek-Pontus minorities in the Ukraine and the Crimea, along with contingents of...
Over 1,000 postal workers rallied at the Central Hall in Westminster yesterday mid-day to fight the plan to privatise Royal Mail which threatens 30,000 jobs

SHOCK JOBLESS RISE TO 2.5m

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The latest official unemployment figures published yesterday show an unexpected increase of 35,000 in the three months to October. The number of young people...

BAME PPE crisis is continuing!

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BLACK, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) nursing staff are still more likely to have problems accessing protective equipment, according to latest UK-wide member survey...

Egypt Parliament: Put Under Seige!

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Tens of thousands of anti-Mubarak protesters gathered outside Egypt’s parliament yesterday, bringing business to a halt, just several hundred yards from the continuing mass...

Appalling Rough Sleeping Rise Says Crisis

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ROUGH sleeping is rising at ‘an appalling rate,’ said the homelessness charity Crisis yesterday, as it emerged that more than 4,000 people a night...

‘End the criminal Israeli occupation’ – Palestinian Foreign Minister al-Maliki addresses the UN

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THE international community has a responsibility ‘to put an end to Israel’s aggression on our homeland, and to enable our people to establish our...

DE MENEZES FURY! – over police attempt to link Jean Charles to rape case

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Jean Charles de Menezes’ cousins yesterday said the family is furious at a Metropolitan Police attempt to connect their late relative with a rape...
This year’s huge February 24th anti-war march setting off from Hyde Park

MPs QUESTION ROLE OF UK FORCES IN BASRA

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‘If there is still a role for UK Forces in Iraq, those Forces must be capable of doing more than just protecting themselves at...

Lansley sacked – Hunt in charge of NHS

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ARCHITECT of the hated Health and Social Care Act, Andrew Lansley was sacked as Health Secretary and replaced by Murdoch acolyte and former Arts...
STEPHEN POUND MP (centre) speaking at yesterday’s fourth anniversary rally, with sacked Gate Gourmet workers also on the platform

‘we Want Leaders Who Fight For The Workers’

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‘OUR trade union leaders did nothing for us,’ sacked Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told a 200-strong fourth anniversary rally for the sacked workers...

Fire cuts hampering flood response

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FIRE and rescue services currently responding to the floods in northern England are hampered by the unprecedented cuts they have suffered over the...

Labour split over Scottish Referendum!

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SCOTTISH Labour may hold a special conference in the spring to decide whether to change its stance on supporting a second Scottish independence referendum. The...
Midwives campaigning outside the House of Commons last month insisting that thousands more midwives are needed to provide a proper service

North London will suffer if Chase Farm closes

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IT IS being made even clearer that North Londoners will suffer if the projected closure of Chase Farm A&E goes ahead. The number of people...

Answer Walsh’s War On Unite With A General Strike!

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BA BOSS Walsh’s war on the Unite trade union was stepped up yesterday when he turned down a Unite offer to suspend the strike...

New GP contract doesn’t address 8,000 GP shortage

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A NEW 2015/16 contract was signed by NHS Employers and the BMA’s GP committee on 30th September. However, there is nothing in next...
Doncaster care workers battling to stop the sale of the NHS to private profiteers

Social Care in ruins after £4.6bn cuts over 5 years

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THE Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, Andrea Sutcliffe, has warned that huge cuts in funding in recent years have left the social care...
Workers wanting an end to Tory austerity voted to leave the EU – Labour is prepared to hold a second referendum

Corbyn OKs second referendum vote

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YESTERDAY morning, both in the capitalist press and on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said that if the Labour Party...
Exiled Chagos Islanders began a five-day sit-in at Trafalgar Square yesterday morning, demanding the right to return to their homeland

Chagos Islanders occupy Trafalgar Square

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OVER 50 exiled Chagossians living in the UK camped out in Trafalgar Square yesterday, the first day of a five-day occupation. ‘Help us to go...

NHS Strike Ballot!

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MANY thousands of health workers have a chance from today to send a strong message of protest to health secretary Jeremy Hunt over...
In April 2012 Kenyans took their case to the High Court demanding compensation for the massive slaughter of up to 90,000 Kenyans by the British colonial  administration in the 1950s and 60s

90,000 Kenyans executed – £19.9m compensation

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UK Foreign Secretary Hague yesterday expressed ‘sincere regret’ and announced compensation totalling £19.9m for Kenyans who were tortured during the Mau Mau uprising in...

Jobless rate up to 7.2%

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THE rate of unemployment in the UK has risen from 7.1% to 7.2% the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed yesterday. The ONS figures...

Unions at No 10 appeal to May

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‘WHAT I did is to appeal to the Prime Minister,’ Dave Prentis, leader of Unison said as he came out of number 10 Downing...

Horton quits – now renationalise says RMT leader Cash

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THE boss of rail privateer, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is to resign after the company’s new timetables brought the railway to a near halt....

Sse 18% Gas Price Rise!

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PUBLIC sector union Unison yesterday reiterated its call for the government to take action to tackle fuel poverty. It was responding to Scottish and Southern...
Postal workers demonstrating outside the Royal Mail headquarters in Old Street on Friday July 13th

CWU STRIKES SUSPENDED! – secret talks till September 4th

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FOLLOWING a meeting held yesterday between Royal Mail and the CWU, a Joint Statement was agreed that means detailed discussions will take place on...

‘We won’t sign rotten deal’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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YESTERDAY was the deadline for locked out Gate Gourmet workers facing compulsory redundancy to sign the ‘Compromise Agreement’, surrendering their claim for unfair dismissal...

NIGERIA SHUT DOWN! on Fourth Day Of General Strike

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THE GENERAL strike in Nigeria over the removal of gasoline subsidies, now in its third day, has shut down most shops and businesses, cut oil...

de Menezes Report Delayed!

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The Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign has responded with anger at claims that the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) report into the Jean Charles’...

45 Police To Have Anonymity At de Menezes Inquest

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ALL 45 police officers’ applications for anonymity at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes have been approved, it was announced...