£1.9bn black hole pensions raid –as Corbyn ready to force vote on disabled cuts
A PENSIONS black hole has been identified in the Tory Chancellor’s budget plan with figures emerging yesterday showing that the...
BA Pensions Ballot!
Details emerged yesterday of a deal, yet to be agreed by workers, which means the end of final salary pensions at British Airways. The TGWU...
‘HUNT MUST GO!’ – ‘No confidence’ petition reaches 284,244
A PETITION calling for a vote of no confidence in Tory Health Minister Jeremy Hunt reached 284,244 signatures by yesterday afternoon, after his decision...
BA SUSPENSIONS ‘TEST OF THE UNION’ say Gate Gourmet workers
THE GATE Gourmet mass picket at Heathrow airport was visited by Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley and the union’s General...
SUPPORT GROWING FOR GATE GOURMET LOCKED-OUT WORKERS – as Gate Gourmet Australia forced...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers are campaigning for their monthly mass picket next Sunday from 11am to 1pm at the Beacon roundabout, Beacon Road, near...
TUC must call – GENERAL STRIKE NOW!
TODAY’S meeting of the General Council of the TUC must go beyond considering the practicalities of a general strike and actually call one, Dave...
No New Anti-Union Laws!
Trade unions yesterday condemned Tory threats to ban strikes after Downing Street dropped a bombshell, confirming that Tory leader Cameron is ‘considering’ just that. London...
NEW ECONOMIC CRASH WILL DWARF 2008! – warn 58 economists
A GROUP of economists issued an open letter yesterday warning that Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s planned financial deregulation bill will lead to an economic...
DON’T SCRAP TUBE SAFETY RULES – say rail unions
THE largest rail union, the RMT, has written to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) to demand the withdrawal of plans to...
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...
May Day 2014 greetings – BRING DOWN THE TORIES! – Forward with the World...
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world at a time when the world capitalist...
Brown Beats Law And Order Drum!
After boasting that the number of crimes was falling by six million each year, PM Brown announced an even bigger...
Forward to a workers government in Greece
THE workers’ occupation of the Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) has led to the collapse of the Greek tripartite government. Foris Kouvelis, the...
Universal Credit– Claimants Suffering
THE PUBLIC and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday accused the government of being ‘complicit in the suffering’ of Universal Credit claimants, labelling the system...
‘AS POPULAR AS THE POLL TAX!’ – UCU denounces further increases in student fees
‘Any further increase in university fees will be about as popular as the poll tax,’ says University and College Union (UCU) general secretary Sally...
4,000 Tube station staff to strike on Monday 6th June!
THE RMT transport union is holding a network-wide strike of 4,000 station staff members on London Underground on Monday 6th June, bringing the Tube...
Israeli terrorism widely condemned!
HEZBOLLAH stressed yesterday that it will go ahead with its pro-Gaza strikes against the Israeli enemy, describing Tuesday’s deadly pager attacks as ‘another reckoning...
Tories knew NHS couldn’t cope with pandemic
THE TORY government hid the outcome of an exercise it conducted on how the NHS would cope with a pandemic because it considered the...
Nursery heads march on Downing Street!
NURSERY heads marched on Downing Street yesterday, furious at the desperate lack of funding which is now so bad that nurseries are threatened with...
Disabled condemn ‘pre-conference spin’
‘THIS is just pre-conference spin to try to improve the Tories toxic reputation on their shabby treatment of disabled people,’ said Disabled People Against...
Assange sent back to Belmarsh!
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has been sent back to Belmarsh high security prison after a judge refused him bail yesterday, despite a decision to...
Firefighters Responding To Medical Emergencies!
CALL an ambulance and a fire engine turns up! Firefighters with just six days basic first aid training are being sent to medical emergencies instead...
FIRE SALE! Serco takes Carillion NHS contracts
IN THE WAKE of the collapse of Carillion, another outsourcing giant, Serco has taken over 15 healthcare contracts at a bargain basement price in...
Graduating With £25,000 Debt
The University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned against further increases to the cost of a university degree after a new survey revealed that...
UN warns ‘Israel has produced a famine and displacement!’
THE UNITED Nations has issued its starkest warning yet that Israel’s campaign in Gaza has created an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe marked by famine and...
CALL HEATHROW OUT ON STRIKE! – demand defiant Alpha workers
A DEFIANT meeting of Alpha catering workers was held yesterday midday at Cranford Park, Heathrow. The workers unanimously dismissed Alpha Catering’s plan to cut the...
‘We’re fighting all the way!’ –RMT members tell News Line
''WE''RE rock solid and we’re going to fight the closures and sackings all the way,’ RMT rep Sean told News Line at King’s Cross...
US privateer in charge of NHS England
THE GLOBAL president of US private health giant United Health, Simon Stevens, has been appointed to head NHS England. Stevens will be employed by the...
EU invites Syria’s Tahrir al-Sham
THE European Commission has invited representatives of Syria’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), currently ruling Syria, to attend an official donor conference despite the group’s...
Down With Privatisation!
OVER 10,000 workers from the Greek state corporations and organisations (power and electricity, telecommunications, post-office, water authorities etc) took part in a militant and...
Government Of National Unity ‘Not Serious’ Says Hamas
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei said Tuesday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has ‘no objection to the creation of a temporary government of...
‘Lift Cap On Pay And Bring Back Student Funding’
THE LEADER of the Royal College of Nursing yesterday poured scorn on Tory government claims to be increasing the NHS workforce by 10,000 nurses...
Half A Million More Rely On Housing Benefits
THE UK’s failure to build affordable homes has led to a soaring housing-benefit bill – with half a million more people now relying on...
‘Greece Will Come To The Boil’ – Varoufakis
GREECE’S new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has urged Germany not to humiliate the country over its debts. Varoufakis compared Greece’s plight with that of inter-war...
JOHNSON ACCUSED OF LYING! – ‘has questions to answer’ – Corbyn
TORY Foreign Secretary Johnson was yesterday accused of having ‘lied’ and of ‘misleading the British public’ by claiming that Porton Down had identified Russia...
Ford’s Bridgend closure ‘a hammer blow’– GMB
‘WE’RE HUGELY shocked by today’s announcement. It’s a real hammer blow for the Welsh economy and the community in Bridgend,’ GMB’s Regional Organiser Jeff...
Youth Being Treated Like Slaves
POURING rain made the Young Socialist marchers even more determined and their chants of ‘Youth demand a future, Youth demand jobs’ even louder on...
Mass Picket At The National Gallery
THE opening of the long-awaited Velázquez exhibition was disrupted yesterday, as 140 non-shift attendants walked out for the first one-day strike in the 200-year...
‘Resist and you’ll be sacked!’ – anti-academy heads are being told
EDUCATION Secretary Gove is ‘irrepairably damaging children’s education’ says Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL). Speaking at the...
‘The ANC is in a mess’ – Zingiswa Losi COSATU President
‘THE ANC NEC lekgotla was the opportunity to address and correct the existential crises facing the nation, the state and the movement. The question...
BA Pilots Ready To Strike
The British Airlines Pilots Association (Balpa) has advised its members at British Airways (BA) to set aside £25,000 each to prepare for a long...
Fury At No Inquiry Into Orgreave
‘I HAVE concluded that there is no case for either a statutory inquiry or an independent review,’ into the battle of Orgreave, home secretary...
Tube Jobs Strike!
London Tube workers began walking out at 6.30pm last night at the start of a 24-hour strike in protest at plans to cut ticket...
Palestinian leaders condemn Trump-Netanyahu Gaza plan!
HAMAS is studying the 20-point plan for Gaza which US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu published on Monday evening. Trump claimed yesterday that...
Police clash with refugees in Greece & Calais
REFUGEES broke down the barbed wire fence on the Greek border with Macedonia yesterday, using a steel pole as a battering ram. The protesters shouted:...