May Day March
Monday May 1st MAY DAY MARCH
Reject Plan To Close Hospitals!
Health minister Ara Darzi’s plans ‘are a massive attack on hospital care in London’, warned consultant surgeon Anna Athow yesterday. Darzi is conducting...
Grenfell survivors forced onto UC by Xmas!
SURVIVORS of the horrific Grenfell fire are to be forced onto Universal Credit just days before Christmas. Documents released ‘quietly on Budget Day’ show...
‘We’ll renationalise NHS!’ says Labour leader Corbyn
‘THE FIRST thing that we will do is repeal the Health and Social Care Act. It must be repealed and that will effectively renationalise...
Half Of Gaza Population Is Starving
THE United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that half the population is starving in Gaza. UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini,...
Darzai Private Nursing Plans
The GMB trade union yesterday expressed serious concerns over plans for a nurse-led privatised NHS contained in health minister Lord Darzi’s review, due to...
Save Our Babies!
‘Who will deliver our babies?’ asked an alarmed Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) yesterday. It issued three stark warnings: ‘Unless recruitment improves there...
BMA doctors demand a tangible and acceptable pay offer!
BMA resident doctors’ committee co-chairs Dr Ross Nieuwoudt and Dr Melissa Ryan yesterday called for a ‘tangible and acceptable’ pay offer. Commenting on new talks...
Essex’s Biggest Ever Cuts In Fire Service!
FIREFIGHTERS and the general public are outraged as Essex fire authority has voted through the biggest cuts in the county’s history, which will see...
CORBYN SUSPENDED! – He vows to fight this ‘political intervention’
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer has suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the party over his remarks yesterday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn was...
MILLIONS WASTED ON PRIVATEERS –it will be worse if Health Bill is enacted warns...
‘This is the danger of using the private sector to deliver our health services,’ a Unison spokeswoman told News Line. ‘We’ve always warned that the...
Time to disband scandal ridden Met police force
DAME Cressida Dick ‘felt intimidated’ into stepping down as Metropolitan Police Commissioner after an ultimatum from London Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, according to a...
‘Osborne & Cameron must quit’
TORY Chancellor Osborne refused to appear in parliament yesterday to answer an urgent question on the crisis surrounding last Wednesday’s budget, which cut disabled...
May forced to accept all amendments
THE TORY government confirmed that it will accept all four amendments put by the Tory pro-Brexit MPs to the Chequers sell-out White Paper. Prime Minister...
‘We are on the verge of a conflict involving the whole continent’ says...
‘WE ARE on the verge of conflict which would involve the whole continent,’ Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said yesterday at a joint press conference...
Nationwide University Strike Today!
UNIVERSITY and college workers are holding the most widespread strike action in Higher and Further Education (HE & FE) for years. Staff in universities have...
Vaccines for 12-15s – boosters for 50+ says Johnson
‘I WANT to set out our plan for Covid this winter and in many ways the situation we face is even more challenging than...
Health Cuts Continue
Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, Somerset, yesterday became the latest to announce cuts in the face of mounting NHS deficits. Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust...
A million people facing repossession!
‘ALMOST a million people could have their homes repossessed because they have no way of paying off their interest-only mortgages,’ Citizens Advice warned yesterday. New...
Students Angry Over Soaring Rents
STUDENTS are up in arms at the soaring cost of their accommodation on top of £9,000 a year tuition fees and government plans to...
Gas and grit rationing!
GAS for industry and grit for the roads were being rationed yesterday as British industry began to shut down. Vauxhall, Ellesmere Port, Jaguar Land Rover,...
Teachers no! to 6pm finish
TEACHER union leaders have condemned Education Secretary Gove’s plan to open schools until 6pm for 51 weeks of the year. Gove has made a submission...
Labour to restore 50% tax on rich – Balls pledges a budget surplus
LABOUR SHADOW chancellor Ed Balls yesterday rejected claims that his pledge that a Labour government will bring back the 50p top rate of income...
Inflation & House Prices Rise As Wages Fall!
INFLATION has risen to 1.8% for the first time in 10 months further cutting the value of wages, as transport prices soared over March...
POA call for general strike outside parliament
STRIKING civil servants clapped and cheered a call for a general strike at a rally outside parliament yesterday. A message of support and solidarity was...
2,500 refugees’ lifejackets placed outside parliament
OVER 2,500 lifejackets were placed on the lawn outside parliament, in Parliament Square yesterday, each representing the life of a refugee man, woman or...
‘We Need Our Hardship Pay’
‘THE TGWU leaders are doing everything they can to try to make us give up the fight and sign the Compromise Agreement but we...
Unite’s Grangemouth Surrender
UNITE general secretary Len McCluskey yesterday said the union had decided to ‘embrace’ a survival plan at Grangemouth put forward by owner Ineos, ‘warts...
The Hague rules UK must ‘relinquish Chagos ASAP’
THE INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice (ICJ) known as ‘the Hague’ ruled yesterday that Britain’s ‘decolonisation and displacement’ of the Chagos Islanders from the Indian...
Buses: Spring Offensive On Pay And Hours
Bus drivers have backed a call for a major cut in their driving hours. At a conference in Eastbourne organised by the Transport and General...
250,000 workers & youth march for Palestine!
MORE than 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through central London on Saturday. The march assembled outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place...
ORGREAVE – police conspiracy exposed
CHRIS KITCHEN, leader of the NUM, demanded an inquiry yesterday into South Yorkshire Police over their manipulation of evidence against miners charged following...
Tory-Dup Talks No Deal As Yet! – Major Warns Over Deal
PRIME Minister May finished a round of talks with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster yesterday afternoon without an agreement being reached. There was...
Palestine ‘Day Of Rage’
FIERCE clashes erupted across the West Bank in Palestine during Friday’s ‘Day of Rage’ protests which were attacked by Israeli forces. Protesters marched in solidarity...
Peckham Public Meeting: Quit EU in October! – October 24th, 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...
‘VICTORY TO THE DOCTORS AND THE RAIL WORKERS!’ – RMT’s Mick Lynch tells BMA...
ON SATURDAY, the BMA held a rally to launch its campaign for Pay Restoration. Balloting opened for strike action on 9th January and votes...
‘The TUC must call strike action and show solidarity with Palestine’
‘THE TUC must call strike action, show unity and solidarity with the people of Palestine and end the genocide,’ a Chartered Society of Physiotherapists...
Gmb Members Picket ‘Vulture Capitalists’
GMB members yesterday went to Germany to demonstrate outside a gathering of the European Venture Capitalists Association (EVCA), at the same time as Prime...
Syrian government absolutely rejects allegations
THE SYRIAN government absolutely rejects the allegations ‘that the army used in the past or uses now or will use in the future any...
Hundreds protest in Chicago against Israeli raids
HUNDREDS of protesters took part in a rally at Wells & South Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago in the United States yesterday, in protest...
Short Shoots Down Blair
NORMAL government structures were shut down as Blair and his Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, lied and deceived in order to push the Cabinet into...
Lewisham cuts will not save 100 lives – Hunt claim denounced
LEWISHAM Hospital consultant John O’Donohue has denounced Health Secretary Hunt’s claim last week that the closure plan for the Lewisham A&E and Maternity departments...
Nationwide Post Office strike
‘UNLESS we fight now, the future of the whole of the Post Office network is threatened. The high street Post Offices will no longer...
BROWN SELL-OFF CONDEMNED! – ‘paying for the failures of the city’
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday accused the government of privatising and ‘selling off the family silver at a knock down price’...
ENERGY PRICE RISE CONDEMNED – UNISON demands profits inquiry
Yet another energy supplier, E.On, yesterday announced huge increases in gas and electricity prices to domestic consumers. It is hiking gas prices by 15...














