SAVE EALING A&E – REOPEN MATERNITY says mass picket
‘IT is more important for them to save money than save lives!’ Halla Kim, RCN member and nurse at Ealing Hospital declared yesterday morning...
Strip Capita Of NHS Contract!
STRIP private outsourcing giant Capita of its NHS contract, doctors’ union the BMA demanded after the shocking news broke yesterday that more than 3,500...
British Steel on the Brink – 4,500 jobs threatened
BRITISH Steel is seeking a further loan off the taxpayer of a whopping £75m as it teeters on the brink of collapse, with the...
Gate Gourmet mass picket Sunday
‘WE are all very strong and standing firm in the wind and all weathers on our picket line on the hill and won’t give...
PCS & Care4Calais legal challenge against Patel – Border Force prepare to strike
BORDER staff were preparing yesterday to strike against Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel’s hated ‘pushback’ policy against migrant boats trying to reach the UK. Their...
Hancock ‘lying over PPE’ alleges GMB – Probed by committees over 127,000 deaths!
TORY Health Secretary Matt Hancock was ‘lying through his teeth to MPs when he claimed there was no Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) shortage during...
Amesbury and Salisbury – Russian involvement ludicrous
RUSSIA ‘categorically denied and continues to categorically deny the possibility of any kind of involvement’, in the attempt to assasinate Skripal and his daughter...
GET READY TO STOP THE AIRPORTS – Walsh mobilises 6000 strikebreakers
British Airways boss Walsh boasted at a meeting of selected staff at BA headquarters yesterday that he has 6,000 staff signed up to break...
Sla Killing Civilians
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said yesterday she was deeply concerned by reports of the rapidly deteriorating conditions facing a quarter...
‘WE NEED TO BRING EVERYBODY OUT IN A GENERAL STRIKE!’ – Message from Liverpool
A BIG demonstration of more than 5,000 teachers, UCU university lecturers, PCS members members marched through Liverpool on the TUC Day of Action yesterday. They...
No Return To 90-Hour Week For Doctors And Nurses!
‘A RETURN to the days where doctors and nurses work 90-hour weeks would be bad for patient safety, for staff and for the NHS,’...
5th day of Haitian protests rage
A fifth day of anti-government protests raged in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and other cities on Monday, paralysing much of the country amid rising...
Israel committing massacres in Gaza – 3,000 dead, 1,000 children, 1,000 still under rubble
ISRAEL headed towards an air, land and sea attack on Gaza yesterday, having killed more than 3,000 Gazans, including over 1,000 children, during the...
Royal Mail sell-off begins!
THE Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday slammed the government’s announcement that it plans to begin selling off Royal Mail in the next few...
THIRTY NURSES FACE THE SACK –UNISON threatens industrial action at North Devon NHS Trust
Sixty health workers including thirty nurses are to lose their jobs at North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple as the NHS Trust seeks to...
STRIKE ACTION WILL SPREAD – warns Dave Ward
‘No more cuts! Sack Adam Crozier!’ shouted angry postal workers outside Royal Mail’s London headquarters yesterday, as 10,000 members of the Communication Workers Union...
A ‘BEYOND SUBSTANTIAL’ PAY RISE FOR NHS IN 2021-22! – demand health trade unions
THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic reinforces – not diminishes – the strong case for the NHS workforce to receive a ‘beyond substantial’ pay rise for 2021-22,...
Tory Party Civil War Set To Continue
‘IT IS clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a...
£15bn PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS, PLEDGES DARLING – as unemployment leaps by 177,000
Chancellor Alistair Darling announced £15bn public sector ‘efficiency savings’ and slave labour schemes for youth in yesterday’s Budget. This came as the latest figures showed...
MPs REJECT ATTACK ON NO-DEAL BREXIT Starmer-Corbyn motion defeated
MPs yesterday voted by 309-298 against a Labour-moved motion that sought to prevent a no-deal Brexit on October 31! The Labour-led plan was to force...
Assange to be Extradited!
THE HIGH Court ruled yesterday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited from the UK to the US, where he faces a sentence...
2007 – The Year For Revolution!
THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2007 to the working class and youth of the world,...
Israeli Air Strikes Kill Seven
ISRAEL hit Gaza with air strikes yesterday afternoon. Palestinian medical sources said at least seven Palestinians were killed. This includes a 5-year-old girl. 44 others were...
PATIENTS’ SAFETY AT RISK! – warn consultants and junior doctors
Leading consultants and junior doctors have warned that the medical training crisis is risking patient safety as the NHS faces upheaval on August 1st...
76% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION – CWU must give 7 days notice of strike...
‘If we don’t take a stand now, you will see the postal service in the UK destroyed for ever,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...
COVER UP! 5 years after de Menezes killing – another policeman escapes trial
UPSET and angry relatives reacted bitterly to the news yesterday that there will be no charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson during the...
Unprecedented Carnage In Vanni
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...
Labour Shadow Ministers Prepared To Join Nurses On The Picket Line!
WITH THE Royal College of Nursing launching a £35 million strike fund to defeat the Tory government’s 1% NHS pay insult at the weekend,...
‘Labour a government in waiting’ – Corbyn responds to Queen’s Speech
‘MY GOVERNMENT’S priority is to secure the best possible deal as the country leaves the European Union,’ the Queen said yesterday, outlining the Tory...
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...
Labour is to immediately recognise Palestinian state
LABOUR’S Manifesto declares that it will ‘Immediately recognise the State of Palestine.’ It adds that Labour will ‘Introduce a War Powers Act to ensure that...
Johnson relies on Labour support to get tougher tier system agreed!
TORY Prime Minister Johnson is expected to require Labour votes to get his new tougher tier system passed by the House of Commons next...
School Strike Solidarity
ELEVEN school dinner ladies and men from Haggerston school in Hackney, east London, went on strike yesterday against poverty pay. They were joined by over...
CAMERON RECALLS PARLIAMENT – 16,000 police on London’s streets
Parliament is being recalled again tomorrow, to debate the youth uprising that is sweeping Britain. After he had chaired a Cabinet Office meeting of the...
Bankers’ Man Hunt Imposes Tens Of Billions In Tax Rises & Savage Cuts
CHANCELLOR HUNT yesterday announced tens of billions in tax rises and spending cuts in his Autumn Statement. Hunt acknowledged that the UK was in recession...
Nigeria–Oil Shutdown Starts
The general strike in Nigeria entered its fifth day yesterday, as talks between President Goodluck Jonathan and trade union leaders failed to end the...
Itv 24 Hr Strike!
BROADCASTING unions at ITV have voted to go on strike next Thursday after management failed to budge from an ‘insulting’ pay offer of 2...
Greek conservatives build ‘front against populism’
The Greek conservatives New Democracy party is building up a ‘pro-European front against populism’ with the aim of defeating the Coalition of the Radical...
Shares And £ Collapse
Share prices and the pound were battered yesterday after the publication of official figures showed that the UK economy shrank for...
860,000 jobseekers are sanctioned in 2013
A HIGHLY critical report, published by a committee of MPs yesterday, suggests that Jobcentre staff are given targets for kicking people off benefits. The...
VOLUNTARY REDUNDANCY IS REJECTED! – by Vauxhall workers
Vauxhall Ellesmere Port workers voted unanimously at a mass meeting yesterday morning to reject the voluntary redundancy package put forward by General Motors. They were...
Labour Is Planning Big Welfare Cuts!
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning to initiate a new regime of widespread welfare cuts, throwing thousands of sick, disabled and mentally ill off...
‘MY NIIn a statement al-Rawi, a businessman from south-west London, said: ‘I am delighted...
‘My nightmare is finally at an end,’ said British resident Bisher al-Rawi yesterday, just back in the UK after being held in Guantanamo Bay...
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,...