Junior Doctors Still Being Left To Fight Alone
OVER 10,000 trade unionists and youth took part in the London May Day march yesterday from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. As well as trade...
‘SHAMEFUL COVER-UP!’ say Jean Charles de Menezes’ cousins
‘We waited a year and now they tell us this. It’s a shame,’ said Alex Pereira, the cousin of the young Brazilian, Jean...
£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...
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...
7,000 NURSING POSTS GONE! – in just two years of the coalition
‘ONE by one, David Cameron has broken all the promises he made on the NHS. It is now struggling with his toxic medicine of...
Radiographers on the March!
RADIOGRAPHERS across the UK were on strike yesterday for the first time in more than 30 years in an escalating struggle over the Tory...
Tax Hikes & Cuts Come In
TODAY, April 1, the first day of the new financial year, a barrage of vicious cuts and hikes come in attacking the living standards...
Strike Shuts Dover Port
Hundreds of Unite members working for the Dover Harbour Board began a 48-hour strike at 7am yesterday morning. Speaking from the picket line yesterday afternoon,...
Midwives Launch Action Ballot
THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched only its second ballot on industrial action in England and its first in Wales in its...
Labour Offers Nurses Three Years Of Wage Cutting
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday rejected an 8% over three years pay-cutting NHS Pay Review Body offer, which is backed by the...
‘WITHDRAW HEALTH BILL’ – urge Public Health Doctors
An emergency meeting of public health doctors has called for the withdrawal of the Health and Social Care Bill and for other medical Royal...
7 Treatment Centres Axed
Public sector union UNISON yesterday welcomed a government move to scrap six projected private treatment and diagnostic centres. As well, the Department of Health (DoH)...
UK unemployment soars to 5%
The UK unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to September, with the Bank of England (BoE) predicting it will stay that...
LEGISLATION IS ESSENTIAL – says Leveson
LORD JUSTICE Leveson yesterday called for tougher press self-regulation backed by legislation. Announcing the publication of his report at a news conference which took no...
JLR seeks £2bn government loan!
JAGUAR Land Rover (JLR) has been in talks with the government for weeks to secure a loan of £2bn, to prevent mass sackings following...
Clashes In Athens
Clashes broke out yesterday between police and demonstrators across Greece as marchers commemorated the first anniversary of the fatal police shooting of 15-year-old Alexis...
US takeover of GP surgeries subject to Judicial Review
THE takeover of GP practices in London by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation will be subject of a judicial review in early 2022...
Union solicitors urging members to sign deal
‘WE are asking all trade unions and all trade unionists to join our march and rally in Hounslow on Saturday 25th of March,’ Sharanjit...
‘Only one in forty new jobs is full time’ – says TUC
ONLY one in every forty new jobs since the onset of the crash in 2008 is full-time, with the other 39 either part-time...
‘End the criminal Israeli occupation’ – Palestinian Foreign Minister al-Maliki addresses the UN
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...
NO TO CITY ACADEMIES! – TUC rejects Blair ‘flagship’ policy
THE TUC yesterday voted unanimously to oppose city academies. The National Union of Teachers President Hilary Bills urged the TUC to step up a campaign...
Parliament – special Brexit sitting October 19th!
MPs have been called to Parliament for a special Saturday sitting on 19th October, following a meeting of the EU’s EC on Friday which...
Labour supports key NHS role for health privateers!
PRIVATE health trade body the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) has welcomed the cross-party consensus on the key role of the independent sector in...
£900m PFI COLLAPSE!
‘WE absolutely call for pfi to be abandoned, it is a failed system which is costing the nhs billions,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told ...
‘WE WILL OCCUPY TO STOP CHASE FARM CLOSURE’ – say pickets
OVER 100 workers, youth, pensioners and NHS staff from inside the hospital participated in the North East London Council of Action picket to...
Jenin refugee camp ‘completely destroyed’
‘THE Israeli occupation has completely destroyed the Jenin refugee camp and forcibly displaced over 20,000 Palestinian residents, leaving behind their homes, personal documents and...
Extra Troops Sent To New Orleans
THE New Orleans river front was hit by a massive blast yesterday morning, with fires raging in the area. The blast at a chemical plant...
Greece: Call For A ‘Political General Strike’
An enormous rally of youth and workers with their families at the Vouli (Greek parliament) square in Athens on Sunday demanded for the fifth...
School nurses and health visitors – County Durham swings axe!
THE THREAT to cut health visitor and community nurse jobs in County Durham, while Covid-19 is still widespread, was branded as ‘incomprehensible’ by the...
Greek seafarers strike action
GREEK seafarers went on a 48-hour strike on Wednesday and Thursday, demanding the signing of a new national collective agreement with pay rises of...
DEFEND CHASE FARM – decision day on closure is July 31
THE moment of truth is fast approaching for action to be taken to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, north...
Woodley To Visit Visteon Plants
Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley is due to visit the sacked workers at all three Visteon factories this week. The Unite convenor at the...
World Revolution In 2022!
New Year’s statement by the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2022 to all our readers and to...
Hunt agrees to talks!–as junior doctors call to scrap new contract
HEALTH Secretary Jeremy Hunt took a step back yesterday and said he is willing to pause the imposition of the junior doctors’ contract in...
Labour MPs barred from entering West Bank
TWO Labour MPs barred from entering West BanTWO Labour MPs were ‘astounded’ to be denied entry to Israel to visit the occupied West Bank...
‘2 sisters’ sacked workers picket M&S
FIFTY-NINE sacked workers from the 2 Sisters poultry processing factory in Birmingham travelled to London yesterday, determined to win their jobs back. They demonstrated outside...
‘Dictator’ Hunt!
THE BMA yesterday responded angrily to health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s ‘wholesale attack’ on doctors and the threat to impose seven-day working for consultants...
Reading’s massive STP cuts!
READING Borough Council has become the latest local authority to publish the NHS’s Draft Local Sustainability and Transformation Plan for its...
NHS FRONTLINE SERVICES CUT! says Royal College of Nursing
Almost 10,000 NHS posts in England, the equivalent of a large teaching hospital, have been earmarked for cuts, the Royal College of Nursing revealed...
A FRENZY OF BENEFIT CUTTING! – Coalition goes for the poor
THE Coalition and its supporters are engaged in a frenzy of benefit cutting which is victimising and pauperising the working class and many sections...
Figures expose NHS winter crisis
NEW FIGURES exposing the escalating winter crisis in the NHS were published yesterday morning by NHS England, forcing Tory PM May to apologise for...
Legal bid to halt Aslef strike
SOUTHERN rail owner Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) yesterday launched a legal bid to stop ASLEF’s strike action. GTR issued proceedings at the High Court to...
Aslef supports PCS strikers at British Museum
‘YOU are the finest workers in the UK. You deserve fair pay, job security and not threats,’ PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka told strikers...
Cameron’s 7-day GPs & NHS provokes strike threat
HEALTH unions have threatened to strike over Cameron’s plans to create a seven-day-a-week health service, if it means cuts to the existing payments for...