TORIES PREPARE SUMMER WAR – Organising tens of thousands of strike breakers
Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has been overseeing ‘war games’ in preparation for a General Strike this summer. Following orders from the Cabinet...
Police attempt to silence journalists
THE NATIONAL Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland yesterday condemned an attempt by the Police Service of Northern Ireland and Durham...
PLO slams US-sponsored Bahrain conference
THE PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) issued a statement slamming the US-sponsored conference in Bahrain on its second and final day yesterday: ‘The PLO Executive Committee...
Labour Party staff vote 75% for strike – if redundancies go ahead
STAFF that work for the Labour Party have voted in favour of striking if Labour carry out their threat of redundancies, GMB and Unite...
200,000 Tamils Rally Today
‘TWO of our brothers are on a hunger strike to death,’ Janani Paramsothy of the British Tamil students told News Line at Parliament Square...
Hunt ‘misrepresented’ weekend deaths
FIONA GODLEE, editor of The BMJ, has written to Health Secretary Hunt, accusing him of misrepresenting an academic article on deaths of patients admitted...
Blair jeered at Inquiry
Tony Blair yesterday claimed at the Chilcot Inquiry that he ‘regrets deeply and profoundly the loss of life’ in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. His...
Enfield Residents Will Stop Chase Farm Closure
ENFIELD residents yesterday made it clear that they are more determined than ever to keep Chase Farm Hospital and all its departments open. They were...
‘THROW COALITION OUT!’ – YS leader says angry workers will rise up
JOSHUA Ogunleye, National Secretary of the Young Socialists, told News Line yesterday: ‘The huge rise in youth unemployment to over the one million mark...
Murder of Sarah Everard: PC Couzens pleads guilty – Commissioner Dick refuses questions
METROPOLITAN Police officer Wayne Couzens yesterday pleaded guilty to murdering Sarah Everard. The 33-year-old vanished while walking home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south...
SHARES DIVE – as HBOS reports £10.8 billion loss
Tens of billions more pounds were wiped off the London Stock Exchange yesterday, in the wake of Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) reporting its HBOS...
‘There must be national action to prevent nhs privatisation’ say NHS Logistics pickets
THE first national strike in the National Health Service in 18 years began on Thursday night at 10pm as dedicated health workers and supporters...
Sunak Extends Furlough
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed that he will extend the furlough scheme across the UK until the end of March. Sunak said the scheme...
£9,250 tuition fees at Exeter – rise for current & future students
EXETER University has been condemned both by its students’ guild and lecturers’ union after announcing yesterday that tuition fees are to increase to £9,250...
PROTECT PALESTINIAN PEOPLE! – urges Palestinian Mission to the UK
THE Palestinian Mission to the UK yesterday urged the UK government to protect the Palestinian people following the killing of Palestinian leader Abu Ein. In...
Keep Ealing Children’s Ward Open!
‘CHILDREN can get meningitis. If they have to take a child all the way to Northwick Park Hospital they could die on the way!’...
50 Killed In Gaza City!
ON the 13th day of the ongoing military offensive against the Gaza Strip, residents say invading Israeli forces committed ‘a new massacre’ in the...
Bank admits undercover EU exit probe
THE Bank of England was yesterday exposed as planning to deceive the public over research it is carrying out into the financial risks of...
Support growing for National Gallery strikers
OVER 30 National Gallery strikers and their supporters were in a determined mood on Day 9 of their indefinite strike against privatisation and the...
‘SCANDALOUS’ 10.4% NPOWER HIKE – unions slam energy price rises
UNISON yesterday slammed Npower’s ‘scandalous’ 10.4% energy hike that will ‘bring misery to millions of households this winter’. While the TUC said that energy prices...
Parliament taking control from government!
‘THE APPROACH to today’s business sets an extremely concerning precedent for our democracy,’ Tory leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom said yesterday,...
‘DON’T SIGN NEW CONTRACTS! say Unite Groundstaff
THE GMB has accused BA of bad faith. Claims of ‘significant progress’ in a leaked letter from British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz mask...
Clarke To Introduce Internment
HUMAN rights organisations yesterday furiously condemned the government for planning the introduction of internment in Britain, by giving police the powers to detain suspects...
Tories refuse to ban Grenfell cladding on 468 buildings!
FLAMMABLE cladding is not going to be banned from existing buildings, Tory Housing Secretary James Brokenshire announced yesterday at the Conservative Party conference. This...
PCS Universal Credit strike ballot
PUBLIC and Commercial Services (PCS) union members working in Universal Credit are voting on whether to take strike action over workloads and staff recruitment. The...
Darzi Is Rejected!
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday angrily rejected health minister Lord Darzi’s claims that they are ‘lagging behind’ and resistant to innovation to...
Teachers fear schools still unsafe as millions return
‘TEACHERS are concerned that the government have not taken the safety measures that they should have done,’ Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of...
‘GREECE WILL NOT BECOME THE EU’s LEBANON’
GREECE has recalled its ambassador to Austria amid sharp divisions among EU states over the migrant crisis. The move came after Austria hosted a meeting...
Large scale assault on northern West Bank
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued a large-scale assault on the Tubas governorate in the northern West Bank for the third consecutive day on Friday,...
TORY ATTACK ON DISABLED – UN to launch inquiry
The United Nations is to launch an inquiry into whether Tory attacks on the disabled have led to ‘grave or systematic violations’ of their...
STOP TRIDENT! – RMT condemns Blair-Brown government
THE TENS of billions of pounds the government intends to spend on new weapons of mass destruction should be spent on public services, said...
Fire Talks Breakdown!
‘The strikes on November 1st and November 5th will go ahead,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) London Region Official Paul Embery told News Line yesterday. He...
DEFEND 4,000 REMPLOY JOBS! GMB demonstration in Sheffield today
The GMB trade union is holding a demonstration in Sheffield and a rally in Wakefield today, to defend 4,000 Remploy jobs. The GMB warned...
EU-UK post-Brexit deal deadlock!
TALKS between the UK and EU broke up yesterday, as the two sides remained at loggerheads over a post-Brexit trade deal. Another deadline passed, but...
HANDS OFF OUR HOMES! – Aylesbury and Heygate tenants to march
TENANTS on demolition-threatened Aylesbury and Heygate council estates in Southwark, south-east London, are to march through the estates on Saturday April 5 to defend...
Answer Class War Budget With A General Strike
CHANCELLOR Osborne’s class war budget yesterday introduced massive tax cuts for the rich and launched huge new attacks on the working class, the old,...
ASLEF pickets out at Waterloo
YESTERDAY’S 24-hour strike by 200 Aslef members working out of London’s Waterloo Station was 100 per cent solid and will be repeated tomorrow, Aslef...
Blackburn College Sacking Staff But Boosting Bosses’ Pensions!
LECTURERS are furious after Blackburn College announced plans to sack staff but boost bosses’ pensions. 29 jobs are at risk in the fifth round of...
DE MENEZES KILLING! – Second Anniversay
RELATIVES and friends of young Brazilian man Jean Charles de Menezes went to Stockwell Tube station yesterday, to hold a vigil at the scene...
‘We are stronger than ever and united like never before’ UCU leader Grady...
THE UCU (University and College Union) lecturers union held a national rally at the front of Kings Cross Station yesterday, completely taking over the...
Greek Marchers Defy Eu & Imf
TENS of thousands of workers and youth held strong anti-government marches and rallies in all Greek cities and towns on May Day. Seafarers, railway,...
£23bn PROFIT FROM NHS – being made by PFI companies
Banks and developers will make £23 billion in profits and interest over the next 30 years by building NHS hospitals under the government’s Private...
Hamas protecting aid convoys
GAZA’S Government Media Office (GMO) has denounced Israel’s allegations of Hamas looting an aid truck in southern Gaza, as ‘entirely false and fabricated’. ‘This accusation...
Over two million Palestinians face relentless bombardment
THE humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza continues to escalate, with over two million Palestinians – half of whom are children – facing relentless bombardment by...
NORTHERN ROCK CRASHES – as gold reaches $726 an ounce and oil $82 a...
SHARES in Northern Rock slumped yesterday leaving the Brown government contemplating the £28 billion guarantee it has given to secure its deposits. Financial markets around...






















