‘THIS IS THE TIME TO HIT THEM’ –striking postal workers tell News Line
LONDON postal workers taking strike action again yesterday at offices across the capital were angered by the offer of their union leaders to Royal...
POLICE GUNMAN EXONERATED – Scotland Yard arrests the victim
yesterday the capitalist state exonerated the police gunman who shot and wounded Muhammad Abdul Kahar during the dawn police raid in Forest Gate last...
Corbyn won’t back ‘illegal’ striking workers!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday refused to back or oppose the Tory plan for a two-year transition period after the March 2019 withdrawal from...
Visa Rules Will Drive Doctors Out Of NHS!
THE BMA has warned that the Tory government’s recommendations on new visa rules from the Migrations Advisory Committee could lead to UK-trained doctors leaving...
Israeli air strikes kill 24
ISRAELI air strikes killed at least 24 Palestinians between dawn and noon on Wednesday, with one of the biggest strikes targeting a school in...
‘WE WANT THE TRUTH’ – say Menezes family lawyers
Lawyers for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday said they wanted the truth, and answers to ‘lies that have been told’ about...
‘END ALL FEES’ –demands YS National Secretary
‘IT is not enough for tuition fees to be reduced they must be abolished in their entirety!’ said Joshua Ogunleye, national secretary of the...
‘We won’t pay £39bn divorce bill’ says Brexit Sec Raab
IN A Sunday Telegraph interview, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab threatened to withhold the £39 billion ($51 billion) divorce fee from the EU,...
Saudi’s Aim Is To Buy Nukes From Pakistan
SAUDI officials are trying to strike a deal with Pakistani Prime Minister Pervez Ashraf to buy nuclear weapons from Pakistan. The recent meeting between King...
National Gallery staff battle privatisation
WORKERS at the National Gallery struck for five days from yesterday over plans to hand all visitor services to a private company, the Public...
‘Unsafe for patients’ – Junior doctors confront Hunt
‘DOCTORS working unsocial hours must not have their pay cut,’ was the demand in a letter to Tory health secretary Hunt signed by...
Scottish Schools Re-0Pening Failure
DESPITE the Scottish experiment of opening schools in August proving to be a total failure, the Tories proceeded with the re-opening of schools in...
Grenfell Tower management sacked – after meeting between survivors and May
THE Tenant Management Organisation which manages Grenfell Tower is to be stripped of its responsibilities for the west London estate, Tory Prime Minister Theresa...
Rail fares rising three times faster than wages! – 26.6% between 2008 and 2012
RAIL fares have risen three times faster than wages since the slump began in 2008, according to a new analysis published yesterday by the...
‘US jobs haemorrhaging’ 26m now unemployed
‘THE US economy is haemorrhaging jobs at a pace and scale never before recorded,’ Scott Anderson, chief economist at the Bank of the West...
41 Heathrow Airport Limited strikes
UNITE has called ‘targeted’ strike action at Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) from Friday 2nd April to Sunday 25th April, with 41 strikes over the...
Lebanese village ‘massacre’
With the encouragement of Bush and Blair, Israel continued its murderous air, land and sea bombardments on Lebanon yesterday, striking central Beirut for the...
Sheffield students & lecturers mass rally
ONE thousand striking lecturers, students and community supporters marched from Sheffield University to the City Hall yesterday to mark the end of four further...
2,000 Out In Newham Unison Strike
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...
Raab Refuses To Give End Of Lockdown Date
FOREIGN Secretary Dominic Raab rebuked the Covid Recovery Group (CRG) of rebel Tory MPs yesterday, insisting that the government won’t be held to an...
RCN: ‘Not a single unoccupied bed!’
‘ON EVERY day except Friday last week, several hospitals across England didn’t have a single unoccupied bed,’ Donna Kinnair, Director of Nursing, Policy and...
MAGNA – NO COMMITMENT TO VAUXHALL WORKERS – Mandelson talks are a failure
Business Secretary Mandelson yesterday admitted that he was unable to get any commitment from GM Europe’s preferred bidder Magna on saving jobs at the...
Prevention rather than cure! – Tories unveil 10-year plan to smash NHS
‘THE NHS long term plan is as much about prevention, and early diagnosis, as treatment and recovery,’ PM May said speaking on The Andrew...
SPECIALIST NURSES FEAR FOR THEIR JOBS – as the NHS heads for a £1.8...
VACANCY freezes and fears of redundancy and downgrading are continuing to plague the NHS as it heads for a £1.8bn surplus, a Royal College...
‘IT WAS MURDER!’ – says Sophie Hurndall after Israeli soldier guilty of manslaug
‘It should have been a murder case’, said Sophie Hurndall, the sister of Tom Hurndall yesterday. She was speaking to reporters just after her brother’s...
Nursing Staff Levels Dangerously Low!
‘My department is running at VERY UNSAFE levels due to inadequate staffing,’ said one of almost 3,000 nurses from across the UK who took...
‘I WILL NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE’ – Glenn Close says she’ll boycott Oscars
ON STRIKE writers of US daytime TV dramas, short stories and online serials are set to host a special picket event, Daytime United, in...
DEFEND TOWER HAMLETS NHS – GPs & residents to protest at St Paul’s Medical...
THERE is an anti-privatisation protest to defend the NHS taking place outside St Paul’s Way Medical Centre tomorrow from 2pm to 3pm. GPs and...
Tuc-Nus Joint Campaign Against Privatisation!
THE TUC and the NUS signed an agreement yesterday for joint campaigning by the trade union and student movements for the coming year. The partnership...
Doctors at risk from fatigue!
LACK of sleep resulting from long hours and excessive workloads is jeopardising patient safety and doctors’ health, the BMA has warned, while reports...
300 GP surgeries are facing closure
ALMOST 300 GP practices are facing closure, a new BMA survey released today has warned. The crisis in general practice is set to worsen according...
London FBU Strike Actions!
London firefighters have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over changes to shift patterns, and have decided to begin their campaign with...
27,000 NHS Jobs To Go
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that nearly 27,000 NHS jobs have been earmarked to be cut in the UK, 18,000 of...
‘CHARGES UNDERMINE THE NHS’ – urges consultant surgeon
Trade unions yesterday slammed Labour’s privatisation policy in response to MPs’ criticism of the system of NHS charges. MPs on the House of Commons...
TAKE ACTION – to defend the Public Sector
OVER 1,000 trade unionists from all the public services joined a TUC rally at Westminster yesterday, where they demanded that their leaders call action...
NPOWER HUGE PRICE RISES – gas up 12.7% – electricity up by 17.2%
Britain’s fourth largest supplier of gas and electricity, Npower, yesterday announced huge new energy price hikes for its four million domestic customers. The average increases...
NO NHS CUTS! – says UNISON Conference
THE UNISON National Delegate Conference voted unanimously yesterday to oppose cuts to the National Health Service and against privatisation by the Labour government. The main...
Cameron-Heseltine-Tuc Unholy Alliance
The TUC has welcomed the government’s announcement that it will adopt most of Tory former deputy prime minister Heseltine’s plans for the privatisation...
PROSECUTE P&O FERRIES – RMT condemns Tories for refusal to act
SEAFARERS union RMT has written to the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, to demand a meeting to discuss the government’s failure to...
Port Talbot steelworks – Unite to defend every job
PORT Talbot’s steelworks will be given up to £500m by the UK government in a bid to keep the plant open and produce steel...
NORTH LONDON COLLEGES ON THE MARCH – to defend ESOL
Staff and students from North London colleges are today marching to demonstrate their opposition to plans to restrict access to free English for Speakers...
Only 2 junior doctors in charge of 436 patients!
ONLY two junior doctors were left in charge to care for for 436 patients on a night shift which they have said was...
Fight NHS Savage Cuts And Privatisation!
‘THE TUC must take action including a general strike and be prepared to call out workers to defend our NHS. ‘It is...
Israel escalating massacres of civilians – warns Hamas
A SENIOR official from Hamas, Basem Naim, said in a statement yesterday that Hamas is open to any initiative to end the war. ‘We affirm...
Lu Strikers Standing Firm
TRANSPORT union RMT said that its members are standing firm as pickets were out in force yesterday at all key locations in the fight...
















