Half a million on London Nakba march for Palestine
MORE than half a million workers, students and youth joined London’s Nakba 77 march on Downing Street in support of Palestine on Saturday. As it...
We Did Nothing Wrong – Says Death Squad Commander Dick
The family and friends of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday condemned Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick for her insistance that police ‘did...
Treasury ‘stole’ £3bn from NHS – while hospitals close and services are slashed
THE British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday angrily condemned the news that the Treasury has clawed back nearly...
San Antonio Symphony Orchestra Strike
SAN ANTONIO Symphony Orchestra musicians have called a strike after management imposed a binding new contract on them from September 13. The Texan San Antonio...
‘Troops to pull out of Syria’ – Putin’s orders
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has ordered the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria. He gave the command during a surprise visit to Khmeimim Airbase...
‘I MADE MY CHOICE . . . AND FULLY ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITIES’ says Straw...
JUST before Jack Straw appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday, he released a 25-page memorandum which explained that his decision to support the Iraq...
LEBANON ERUPTS! – on the anniversary of port explosion
HUNDREDS of Lebanese marched to mark the first anniversary of the Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people. Lebanese police clashed with angry...
750,000 Homes At Risk! – From Housing Benefit Cuts
More than 750,000 people are at risk of losing their homes in London and the south east because of caps being introduced on housing...
‘TAKE US BACK IN-HOUSE!’ – demand British Museum workers
BRITISH Museum cleaners, porters and security staff, who used to be employed by collapsed contractor Carillion, are demanding that they are brought back in-house...
‘THIS DISPUTE IS OFFICIAL!’ – GMBs Kenny tells 2000 workers
‘FROM the moment Total and their contractors dismissed our members at Lindsey, this became an official dispute.’ So said GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny, addressing...
Corbyn must pledge that theChagos Islanders will return home under a Labour government!
A UN COURT has ruled the UK must return Diego Garcia and the Chagos Islands, which it found were under illegal UK occupation and...
Two British soldiers killed in Sangin Valley
Two British soldiers were killed in action in Afghanistan on Monday night, the Ministry of Defence confirmed yesterday. A third soldier is in a critical...
Nationwide protests against rail fare hikes today
A WAVE of protests are taking place outside train stations across the country this morning as millions of commuters see their ticket fare...
‘Get rid of all privatised companies’ urge the striking Junior Doctors
Junior doctors manned a lively and determined picket outside the Maudsley Hospital in south London yesterday, determined to defend their patients and the NHS. Laith...
YS March for Jobs – Zero-hours contracts condemned
DAY 15 of the 248-mile Young Socialists March for Jobs from London to Liverpool saw the marchers leaving Stockport Labour Club for Manchester. They had...
Serco Evictions!
THREE hundred asylum seekers are threatened with eviction by private company Serco. It has already begun to change the locks, throwing them onto...
‘We won’t sign rotten deal’ say Gate Gourmet workers
YESTERDAY was the deadline for locked out Gate Gourmet workers facing compulsory redundancy to sign the ‘Compromise Agreement’, surrendering their claim for unfair dismissal...
‘FREE ASSANGE’ – demands demo outside Westminster Magistrates Court hearing yesterday
‘FREE Julian Assange!’ demanded a mass protest outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning while inside, the head of WikiLeaks won the right for extra...
KERRY THREATENS RUSSIA says ‘you must disarm Separatists’
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on Russia to show ‘within hours’ that it is ‘working to disarm separatist militants’ in eastern...
Blair & Straw ‘must have known’ about Aamer torture – claims SNP’s Alex Salmond
EX-LABOUR Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and ex-Labour Foreign Secretary Jack Straw ‘must have known’ about the torture of British prisoner Shaker Aamer by the...
Scrap the 1% cap! – 30 nurses” protests nationwide
‘SCRAP the cap! Fair pay for nurses! Now!’ chanted over fifty nurses and Royal College of Nursing (RCN) officials outside the Department of...
All Out For Gate Gourmet Demonstration
‘WE want all trade unionists and everyone who supports the working class to come to our march next Saturday,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Raksha...
GOVE ADMITS DRUG LAW-BREAKING! – as do six Tory leadership contenders
TORY leadership candidate Michael Gove admitted on BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he had acted illegally in relation to using cocaine. The former Justice...
‘HE’S SHIFTED DEFICIT ONTO THE POOREST!’ – McDonnell condemns Hammond
TORY chancellor Philip Hammond promised in his Spring Statement to MPs yesterday in Parliament to spend a £26.6bn Brexit war chest to boost the...
97.3% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION! –at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital
porters, theatre technicians, catering, cleaning and other NHS support workers, employed by private contractor Carillion at Great Western Hospital in Swindon, have voted by...
Gambians March On Downing Street
OVER 200 Gambians and supporters marched from Parliament to the Commonwealth Headquarters in Pall Mall calling for the ousting of President Alhaji JJJ Jerehmeh...
‘YOU CAN’T THROW KIDS ONTO THE STREETS’ – say Heygate Estate tenants
MORE tenants and residents of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle yesterday expressed their anger at the news that Evelyn Amahian and her...
2008 – The Year For Revolution!
BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends its revolutionary New Year’s greetings for the year 2008 to the workers and...
‘Israeli army carrying out field executions!’ – says Palestinian spokesman
THE official Palestinian presidential spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, yesterday condemned what he described as ‘the dangerous Israeli escalation against our people’, which resulted in...
ANGRY STEAD McALPIN WORKERS RALLY
OVER 50 sacked workers launched a 24-hour picket and demonstration yesterday morning outside the Stead McAlpin factory in Cummersdale, near Carlisle. Workers are angry that...
Iran closes in on Hormuz deal
Washington and Tehran are close to signing a one-page memorandum to end the armed conflict. The US leadership’s decision to suspend Operation Project Freedom in...
British Steel – placing 2,700 Scunthorpe jobs at risk!
BRITISH Steel has announced the start of a formal consultation that could lead to the closure of its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, placing...
McDonnell courts nationalists – and vows to defend Corbyn
LABOUR shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has thrown a political bomb into the middle of the Labour Party with his pledge to the Scottish Nationalists...
Welsh NHS Cuts!
‘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...
Miliband turns Tory!
IN A savage attack on workers, youth and disabled people, Labour party leader Ed Miliband yesterday indicated that if Labour wins the next election...
87,000 More Jobs To Go – Gmb
The GMB union’s up to date list shows that a total of 87,374 posts are being made redundant at 107 councils across Britain. In...
Burston marchers call for a general strike!
LABOUR Party leader Jeremy Corbyn welcomed the contribution of refugees and overseas workers in the NHS when he addressed a 1,500-strong Burston Strike...
Nuj Demands Open Debate On Spooks
THE NUJ has voiced its concerns at the erosion of civil liberties and attacks on press freedom, in a motion to the TUC Congress...
Israeli forces execute health workers in Al-Shifa Hospital!
ISRAELI forces executed many health workers and other civilians at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza during their two-week occupation which ended overnight yesterday morning. Many departments...
NATIONAL DEMO! – called by Unison to defend NHS
The Unison national delegate conference in Manchester yesterday voted to step up the fight to save the NHS and to call a national demonstration. Delegates...
Scunthorpe scaffolders step up strike
SCUNTHORPE scaffolders have stepped up strike action at a British Steel site. The British Steel plant in Scunthorpe faces further disruption this month as scaffolders...
MASSACRE! – Inquiry into 15 civilian deaths in Haditha
The United States military is investigating whether US Marines who killed 15 civilians, including women and children, near the western Iraqi town of Haditha...
May Day march!
TUC call general strike to support junior doctors!
Academies Out!
‘Academies are about Blair’s obsession with privatisation’, said NUT president Baljeet Ghale yesterday during a visit to the anti-academy occupation at the sports ground...