March through north London to stop the closure of Whittington hospital A&E – leaked STPs reveal that is exactly what is on the agenda

Secret plans to destroy NHS

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PLANS to close A&Es, maternity services, children’s departments and entire hospitals up and down the country have begun to emerge as the Tory government’s...
MAZIN YOUNIS of the Iraqi League (left) with PHIL SHINER of Public Interest Lawyers outside the High Court yesterday

Taken Alive And Murdered Allege Iraqis

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Defence Secretary Ainsworth yesterday conceded in High Court proceedings that there must be an investigation into whether UK soldiers murdered a number of...
There were a number of lobbies of parliament on Wednesday demanding the end to attacks on the NHS and the Welfare State. Workers are demanding that the trade unions take action to rid the country of the coalition government. Photo credit: Beta Luciano

Miliband attacks unions! – after McCluskey warns of ‘dustbin of history’

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UNITE general secretary Len McCluskey has been denounced as ‘reprehensible’ and ‘divisive’ by Labour leader Ed Miliband and his shadow cabinet. McCluskey’s crime was to...
Demonstration in London to defend the capital’s A&Es – workers are determined that the NHS must remain a service providing the necessary quality care for all who need it

Monitor wants NHS ‘production line’ to cut costs!

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THE NHS watchdog, Monitor, has proposed to import ‘production line’ surgery techniques from other countries to plug ‘gaps’ in NHS funding. Monitor’s chief executive David...

2,000 Cultural Workers against Genocide march on Downing St

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MORE than 2,000 actors, dancers and other artists marched from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden central London to 10 Downing Street on...
Athens University administration workers and their children marching on Saturday

7th week on strike for Greek admin workers

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ADMINISTRATION workers at eight Greek universities are continuing their strike for the seventh consecutive week against the government’s plan to sack some 1,500 of...

Corbyn, McDonnell on their knees

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LABOUR leaders Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell yesterday delivered abject apologies for the party’s defeat in last Thursday’s election, which saw them lose 59...

2,000 Out In Newham Unison Strike

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Two thousand members of Newham UNISON held a one-day strike yesterday in defence of their sacked Branch Chair, Michael Gavan. Gavan told News Line: ‘I...

FRESH JUNIOR DOCTORS STRIKES ARE LOOMING! – as Tories exclude them from ‘pay award’

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THE BMA is to survey junior doctors on possible action to take following massive anger over their exclusion from the NHS ‘pay award’. The BMA...

TORY MPs BOYCOTT CORBYN MEETING

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn convened a meeting yesterday with opposition MPs from the Liberal Democrats, Scottish Nationalists, Greens, Plaid Cymru and Change UK ‘independents’...
Over 150 RMT members demonstrated for train safety and the ending of Driver Only Operation outside Parliament yesterday

Keep Guards On Trains

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‘DOO Has to Go!’ chanted over 150 RMT members and their supporters from around the country outside parliament yesterday. On the national demonstration to mark...
Striking British Airways workers at Heathrow yesterday defiant against Walsh’ and BA’s attempt to cut their working conditions

‘No To A Race To The Bottom’

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‘Walsh isn’t interested in compromise. This is our eighth day on strike and it has gone on to a different level’. British Airway’s cabin...

May forced to accept all amendments

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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...

HOTEL QUARANTINE – Pay £1,750 for ten days or fined £10,000 – Lie on...

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ANYONE who has visited one of the red list countries and who fails to quarantine in a government-designated hotel faces a fine of up...

Universal Credit– McVey apologises!

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey has apologised to Parliament for making ‘inadvertently misleading’ statements about Universal Credit. She said she had ‘mistakenly’ told...
All over the country actions are being taken to stop the NHS from being shut down.  Picture shows demonstrators last Saturday in West London at the beginning of a convoy throughout the area against the closure of Ealing, Central Middlesex, Hammersmith and

Doctors Angry Over Lung Care Sabotage

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OVER 1,000 doctors involved in the care of people with lung disease have written to the new NHS Commissioning Board in England, expressing ‘grave...
Marchers with busworkers Unite union official John Hughes just before the march began on October 30 in Manchester

‘Smash Fees Restore Free State Education!’

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education set off early yesterday for the latest leg from Stoke to Stafford. Hitting the road...

Welsh NHS Cuts!

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‘We are very concerned for our members and our communities,’ Wales UNISON head of health Dave Gallaghan told News Line yesterday. He was responding to...
Libyan students demonstrate against the NATO bombing of Tripoli during US President Obama’s visit to Buckingham Palace in May

A SHATTERING BLOW TO NATO – Crowds cheer Saif al-Islam

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BRITISH soldiers are set to be sent to Libya it has emerged, with Downing Street repeatedly refusing to rule out deploying ground troops...
Libyans demonstrating in London to condemn the NATO bombing of Tripoli and NATO support for the counter-revolutionary ‘rebels’

Battle For Tripoli!

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HEAVY fighting continues in many areas of Tripoli today, especially around the compound of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gadaffi, as soldiers and armed civilians...
AMANI DEGHAYES

‘I’M EXCITED BUT CAUTIOUS!’ –sister of Omar Deghayes tells News Line

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‘I’m excited but cautious,’ Amani Deghayes, the sister of Libyan-born Guantánamo detainee Omar Deghayes, told News Line yesterday. She was responding to news that UK...

Police demand mass stop & search powers

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HOME Secretary Sajid Javid has met police chiefs from seven forces most affected by the violent crime wave produced by the government’s decade of...

Challenge To Labour’s Torture Policies

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TODAY Reprieve will begin legal proceedings to challenge the British government’s infamous series of ‘torture policies’: official guidance for agents interviewing prisoners held abroad. Under...
PCS delegates at TUC last month warn Brown ‘No Cuts’

BROWN SELL-OFF CONDEMNED! – ‘paying for the failures of the city’

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday accused the government of privatising and ‘selling off the family silver at a knock down price’...
Single parents outside the High Court protesting against the savage cuts in benefits

Huge Welfare cuts –Duncan Smith proposals condemned

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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...
Police chief Blair must resign says Maria Otone de Menezes

NHS Staff Face Privatisation!

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The coming clash between the trade unions and the Labour government over plans to step up the privatisation of the NHS was yesterday...

‘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...

Trump Blasts G7 Summit

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AFTER departing early from the G7 summit in Quebec for Singapore, President Donald Trump called on US representatives not to endorse the joint communique...
Over 4,000 marched through central London last week against the coalition’s privatising Health and Social Care Bill

MILLIONS WASTED ON PRIVATEERS –it will be worse if Health Bill is enacted warns...

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‘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...

Al Shifa hospital runs out of fuel today!

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THE al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s biggest hospital, will run out of fuel today, or tomorrow at the latest, with 35,000 men, women and children crammed...

Goldsmiths Lockout!

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CALUM Bradley, Anti Casualisation Officer Goldsmiths University College Union (UCU), spoke to News Line from the picket line outside the university in New Cross...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers at their last mass picket at Heathrow, supported by Hounslow UNISON members

‘Join Our Mass Picket This Sunday’

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are calling on all their supporters to join them at their monthly mass picket on the hill at the Beacon...

Unprecedented Carnage In Vanni

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TAMILNET reports ‘mad shelling’ yesterday morning by the Sri Lanka Army into civilian areas in Mu’l’livaaykkaal north, forcing everyone into the bunkers. Several...

Families Are Being Uprooted!

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FAMILIES are being uprooted from their council flats or housing association flats and ‘decanted’ hundreds of miles from their homes as areas of London...

Israel Guilty Of Apartheid Crime!

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ISRAEL is carrying out ‘the crime of apartheid against Palestinians’ and must be held accountable for treating them as ‘an inferior racial group’, Amnesty...

3.1% rise in state pension but inflation is now rising twice as fast!

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A 3.1% RISE in the state pension and various benefits has now taken effect but charities have warned it fails to tackle an even...
Teachers marching in London on the October 20 TUC demonstration against the Coalition’s austerity cuts

1.2 million miss out on daily school meal!

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THE Children’s Society is warning that 1.2 million children living below the poverty line in England miss out on a school meal each day. Some...

NHS staff ‘exhausted & on the brink!’ – BMA

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A YEAR of unparalleled pressure has left staff exhausted and on the brink, a just-released BMA survey shows. Thousands of doctors have revealed the impact...
Riot police attacking workers in Athens – the Greek state is very much bodies of armed men

Riot Police Put Down Migrant Uprising

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RIOT police put down an uprising by immigrants imprisoned at Amygdaleza detention centre, near Athens, who rose up at around 10.00pm on Saturday night. They...

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...
TUC unions marching in central London last Tuesday demanding the ending of the 1 per cent public sector pay cap

Public Sector Pay Slump!

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THE GMB trade union has exposed a shocking Treasury report which Chancellor Philip Hammond tried to hide showing public sector wages are now below...

Israeli police beat up murdered boy’s US cousin

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AFTER the 15-year-old American cousin of murdered Palestinan teenager Mohammed Abu Khedair was beaten up by Israeli security forces last week, the US State...
Rock solid picket line outside Victoria station yesterday morning on the first day of the three-day Southern guards strike

Aslef Driver Only Strike Ballot

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TRAIN drivers in the ASLEF union are to join their RMT colleagues in an escalating struggle against Driver Only Operated (DOO) on Southern...
Over 1,000 people marched through Norwich last month against the Arts Council cuts

MASSACRE OF THE ARTS! – Arts Council withdraws grants from 184 organisations

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A total of 184 arts organisations have had 100 per cent of their funding withdrawn, Arts Council England announced yesterday. While it said that 17...

THE NHS IS IN DANGER! – warns BMA Council Chair Nagpaul

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THE NHS is in danger of being overwhelmed by a surge of both Covid-19 and non-Covid cases, a new British Medical Association (BMA) survey...