Royal Mail ‘Scare Tactic’ Condemned
The Communic-ation Workers Union yesterday said its members would not be impressed by remarks from Royal Mail directors that bosses are ready for a...
Miliband pledges £8 minimum wage
ADDRESSING the party’s annual conference in Manchester yesterday, Labour leader Miliband pledged to increase the National Minimum Wage to £8 an hour over the...
100 TORY MPs READY TO REBEL
THE TORY civil war is continuing with reports yesterday that as many as 100 Tory MPs are preparing to rebel against PM...
PCS privatisation warning!
CABINET Office minister Francis Maude’s continuing claims that his attempt at mutualising (privatising) a government body enjoys staff support is completely undermined by figures...
Ingram misled parliament over Baha Mousa hooding
ADAM Ingram – Armed Forces Minister during the British occupation of southern Iraq in 2003 – has admitted wrongly informing MPs that Baha Mousa...
Officer who shot Chris Kaba ‘standing to front of vehicle’
THE AUDI car that Chris Kaba was driving was brought to a halt through ‘contact’ with marked police vehicles, after which: ‘An officer standing...
ANOTHER LOCKDOWN IS POSSIBLE! – says Professor Peter Horby
IN A statement to Parliament today Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce a new three-tier lockdown system where each region in...
Captured Israeli Soldier Killed In Raid
The Israeli military yesterday bombed one of its own troops who Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, had kidnapped and taken to a safe...
Three Raf Airmen Killed In Iraq
Three RAF servicemen were killed on Thursday in one of the daily mortar attacks on their base in Basra, southern Iraq, spokesman Major Matthew...
Hammond’s Stp Attack!
CHANCELLOR Hammond announced an extra £325 million in yesterday’s budget to fast-track some of the 44 hated STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) of Tory...
FREE, FREE PALESTINE! chant protesters at High Court
‘FREE, Free Palestine’ chanted over 1,000 protesters waving Palestine flags outside the High Court yesterday. The court was holding an emergency hearing seeking a judicial...
RENATIONALISE STEEL – demand workers as 1,050 jobs go
‘OCCUPY the Port Talbot plant and demand that the government renationalise the steel industry immediately,’ Robbie Wheatley, Community union Branch Secretary at Lackenby...
Barclays Sacking 1145!
UNITE has expressed its alarm at the announcement yesterday that Barclays bank is closing a major processing centre in Leeds with nearly 800 jobs...
Kurds raided by counter-terrorism police – ‘an unjust & heavy handed operation’
THE Kurdish Community in London have written a statement ahead of a march in central London tomorrow against the arrest of Kurdish demonstrators in...
Brixton Public Meeting: Quit EU on October 31! – October 16th, 2019
News Line & Workers Revolutionary Party Public meetings: Trade unions must act to make sure we quit EU on October 31st!
For a workers government and...
‘PENSIONS DEBACLE’ IS CONDEMNED – NASUWT refuses to sign deal
The National Executive of the teacher’s union NASUWT, yesterday refused to sign up to the government’s ‘Heads of Agreement’ pensions plan. The NEC had met...
The prince and the oligarch
AN investment bank, led by an oligarch who collaborated with Prince Charles on charity work, managed a network of offshore companies moving billions out...
Labour Launches Anti-NHS Plan For Change!
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the Labour government’s ‘Plan for Change’ attack on the NHS which it is unveiling today. Professor Phil Banfield,...
World Revolution In 2022!
New Year’s statement by the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2022 to all our readers and to...
Doctors at risk from fatigue!
LACK of sleep resulting from long hours and excessive workloads is jeopardising patient safety and doctors’ health, the BMA has warned, while reports...
‘NHS IN DANGER’ – Buckman rejects ‘Hunt rubbish’
THE Chair of the BMA’s GP committee, Dr Laurence Buckman, told the Conference of Local Medical Committees yesterday: ‘A signal has been passed at...
Huge Welfare cuts –Duncan Smith proposals condemned
Unions and children’s charities yesterday condemned Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith’s offer to raid the Welfare Budget by another £3 billion a year...
DISGRACEFUL! Cornwall council to continue fire service cuts
THE Fire Brigades Union yesterday condemned as ‘disgraceful’ Cornwall Council’s proposals to downgrade Falmouth and Camborne fire stations, just one week after the Newquay...
Fury At Gourmet Sell-Out Deal!
TGWU leader Tony Woodley told the mass meeting of locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday afternoon that the sell out deal he has negotiated...
Haringey Binmen Fight Strikebreaking
STRIKING Haringey bin men are into the second week of their action against private contractors, Haringey Accord, which plans to cut two dust crews,...
Barristers strike against legal aid cuts!
‘THOSE who cannot afford to pay for a solicitor, and those who are denied legal aid, are suffering at the hands of the government’,...
Benefit Cuts Revolt!
A TORY disability campaigner has handed in his party membership and sabotaged a Tory Party website in protest over brutal disability benefit cuts. Graeme Ellis,...
Industrial action not ruled out – over pensions says Scottish BMA leader
A group of seven leading public health specialists, past presidents of the UK Faculty of Public Health, have called for the Health and Social...
NO CONFIDENCE IN MELDRUM! – London BMA demands huge campaign to smash Health Bill
BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum has been rocked by a ‘no confidence’ vote at last week’s meeting of the London Region of the BMA. ...
Police take action against Oxford students occupation
SIXTEEN protesters were arrested when police intervened to take action against an occupation on Thursday in support of Palestine by ‘Oxford Action for Palestine...
Tories scrap Leeds leg of HS2 – trade unions must take action
THE TUC, Unite, RMT, GMB, Aslef and TSSA all said yesterday that the Tories scrapping of the Leeds leg of the HS2 was a...
‘A FIGHT TO THE FINISH’ – Nigerian General Strike is launched
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday called on workers and the rural poor to be ‘prepared for a fight to the finish’. This came as...
Trump Supporter Shot Dead In Portland
A MAN was shot dead in Portland, Oregon as a large demonstration of supporters of President Trump clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters. The city...
Assad gives orders for a peaceful transition in Syria
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad left office in Syria yesterday after giving orders for a peaceful transfer of power, as ISIS terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al...
Fifth of PPE contracts were ‘red flagged for corruption’!
A DAMNING report published yesterday entitled ‘Track and Trace’ by Transparency International has shone a light on the Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) scandal, where...
Gg Dusseldorf Strikers In London Today
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers, at Heathrow Airport, are welcoming Gate Gourmet striking workers, from Dusseldorf Airport in Germany, to London today. The British Gate Gourmet...
Reverse Tube staffing cuts! – after a fire under London Bridge escalator
THE RMT has re-iterated its call for a reversal to Tube station staffing cuts in the light of a major fire-related incident at London...
Johnson Hands Power To Decide To Bosses
‘WE ARE going to give employers more discretion, and ask them to make decisions about how their staff can work safely,’ Tory PM Johnson...
Israel decides to widen ground assault
Four Israeli soldiers were killed and a number wounded yesterday in a rocket attack at a southern Lebanese village, as fighting continued to rage along...
Sheffield hails March for Jobs
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...
Tube Strike Action Tonight
ON the eve of tonight’s tube strike action the RMT announced that it is calling for an immediate and indefinite suspension of the Mayor’s...
‘A bonanza for unscrupulous landlords’ – MPs indict the Immigration Bill
MPs have blasted the Tory coalition government’s proposal to force landlords to do immigration checks on their tenants, warning that it will lead to...
Dramatic Slump In GP Numbers!
DOCTORS union the BMA yesterday responded to the shocking latest England GP workforce data and Health Foundation forecasts, showing a dramatic slump in the...
RBS £344bn available! – and 20,000 workers to be sacked
The Unite trade union yesterday slammed former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) boss, 50-year-old Sir Fred Goodwin’s £650,000- a-year pension as the bank...
THIS CASE THREATENS PRESS FREEDOM says Julian Assange’s fiancée
‘THIS CASE is a grave threat to press freedom, not just for Julian Assange, but for all British journalists,’ lawyer Stella Morris, Julian Assange’s...















