‘HANDS OFF OUR JOBS, WAGES AND PENSIONS’ – Lecturers warn the Tory Lib-Dems
On the eve of today’s budget, striking lecturers told News Line they are determined to defend their pay, pensions and jobs against the Tory-led...
Tories announce £330bn bailout for big business
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled a multi-billion bailout for big businesses in light of the coronavirus crisis.
Speaking at the daily press conference Sunak...
TORY MPs BOYCOTT CORBYN MEETING
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn convened a meeting yesterday with opposition MPs from the Liberal Democrats, Scottish Nationalists, Greens, Plaid Cymru and Change UK ‘independents’...
20,000 are threatened with eviction during corona crisis
THE TORIES had promised a ‘complete ban’ on evictions from both council and private social housing. However, anger erupted yesterday as it emerged that...
Steel Closure Is Devastating
THE TORIES ‘must bring British Steel into public ownership’, Unite said after the devastating announcement that the industry fell into liquidation yesterday morning.
Unite assistant...
‘LEAVE WON’T BE ON ANY BALLOT’ says John McDonnell
SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell spelt out yesterday that Labour wants to form a ‘caretaker government’ with the other opposition parties which would organise a...
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...
Tories threaten councils – to try to force reopening of schools
THE TORY government has launched a three-pronged attack on parents, teachers and councils in a bid to force schools to open – despite all...
Safe staffing dumped!
THE MAY government has dropped its key NHS ‘safe staffing’ measure.
This means that nurse staffing fill rate data are no longer being published.
This change...
‘Sleepwalking towards another catastrophe’ – FBU statement marking 2 years since Grenfell fire
‘WE RISK sleepwalking into another catastrophic loss of life. We demand urgent action from the government to ensure that the events of Grenfell Tower...
Picket Grenfell Inquiry
Monday morning 9.00am
450 jobs axed at BBC
FOUR hundred and fifty jobs are to be axed at the BBC, it was announced yesterday.
The cuts include the closure of the Victoria Derbyshire...
Johnson squirms over ‘surrender’ to the ‘Surrender Act!’
Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to deliver a squirming account of his failure to take the UK out of the EU on...
MI5 carrying out serious crimes is lawful rules Judicial Tribunal
FIVE judges of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal have given a divided ruling over a secret MI5 policy allowing security service agents to commit...
Picket Grenfell Inquiry
TODAY!
CHILDREN GOING TO SCHOOL HUNGRY
‘THIS report rightly blames the government’s austerity agenda, including cuts to support services and children’s centres, for limiting the educational potential of disadvantaged young...
Stop mass deportation flight today! – demand 150 MPs and Lords
THE MASS deportation flight due to leave today with 50 people on board who came to the UK as children must be stopped! over...
Passengers ‘lives at risk’ without guards
A DERAILMENT in Lewisham south London is a case in point about why guards must be kept on the trains, transport union RMT said...
Hostile Environment – Youth targeted & charged £2,033 every 30 months
THE TORIES’ Hostile Environment is alive and kicking with a new extortionate fee of £2,033 charged every 30 months, targeting people whose immigration status...
Another 10,000 to be driven onto UC – After Rudd drives through legislation with...
AS OF TODAY, ten thousand people on the old benefits system will be forced onto Universal Credit (UC) in a ‘pilot study’ in Harrogate,...
Great Response In Hackney And Kensington
STUDENTS gave their full endorsement to WRP candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch Jonty Leff yesterday as a campaign team worked hard fighting for...
RMT calls for talks – pickets call for a workers’ government!
RAIL UNION RMT yesterday issued a fresh call for further talks as members across the length and breadth of South Western Railway stood firm...
No joint press conference in Luxembourg – ‘We’re ready for no-deal’ – Johnson
TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday travelled to Luxembourg to meet EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and the country’s PM Xavier Bettel.
After the meeting, Johnson...
Manchester fire service massacre! – 6 stations, 100 staff, 9 engines
‘THE SAFETY of firefighters and our communities is the Fire Brigade Union’s greatest concern,’ Gary Keary, FBU Brigade Secretary for Greater Manchester, said yesterday,...
‘WE ARE WILLING TO NEGOTIATE WITH MAY’ says McDonnell
LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he is part of a movement in parliament to take Brexit ‘out of...
BofE cuts interest rates to 0.1%
THE BANK of England cut its base rate to a record low of 0.1%, a sliver above zero, warning the coronavirus pandemic will result...
GRENFELL INQUIRY HALTED! – no date set for reopening
THE GRENFELL INQUIRY HAS BEEN HALTED!
Hearings have been cancelled until the charman of the inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick considers a demand from lawyers representing...
‘MAY’S TIME HAS RUN OUT!’ – Corbyn calls for general election
TORY PM Theresa May’s ‘time has run out,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Parliament yesterday.
He added: ‘She no longer has the authority to offer...
Farage Won’t Stand Against Tories
THE Brexit Party, led by Nigel Farage, announced on Monday that it will not be standing candidates in the 317 seats won by the...
Palestine Demands A Criminal Investigation
PALESTINE has demanded an immediate international criminal investigation into the Tel Aviv regime’s policy of settlement expansion and expropriation of Palestinian territories.
The Palestinian Ministry...
Homeless Children Housed In Containers!
TENS of thousands of homeless children in England are ‘temporarily’ housed in converted shipping containers and office blocks, freezing in winter, sweltering in the...
Care workers have little or no protection says GMB
HORRIFYINGLY, care workers have been told if they test positive they will have to self-isolate at the care home and will not be able...
Unite-Rolls Royce jobs deal – includes a 10% pay delay for 1 year
THE UNITE union has agreed a package with engineering giant Rolls-Royce to financially protect the 20,000 UK workforce during the coronavirus emergency by delaying...
NISSAN WILL SACK 12,500! Sunderland’s future hangs in the balance!
NISSAN is to cut 12,500 jobs worldwide as it reduces its production capacity and the number of models it produces by 10% by the...
‘We Need A Pay Rise!’ Shout Striking RMT Cleaners
‘WE need rise of pay! RMT here to stay!’ shouted over 40 striking cleaners outside Arriva Rail’s London head office in Swiss Cottage yesterday...
Labour launches EU election campaign
‘LABOUR agreed to talks (with the Tories) because we believed it was the right thing to do to see if we could get a...
Parliament taking control from government!
‘THE APPROACH to today’s business sets an extremely concerning precedent for our democracy,’ Tory leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom said yesterday,...
Heathrow strike vote!
THERE has been a strike vote over ‘punishing’ working patterns at Heathrow.
International airlines flying from Heathrow Airport face major disruption to the supply of...
‘Renationalise water now!’
‘RENATIONALISE the water industry,’ demanded GMB water workers from around the country, demonstrating outside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) yesterday...
May and Corbyn capitulate to EU
REFERRING to PM May’s letter sent to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Rory Stewart, the prisons minister, said yesterday: ‘Yes. I think she feels, as...
HEALTHCARE WORKERS RISKING LIVES! – without ‘death in service’ benefits guaranteed says BMA
THE BMA (British Medical Association) said yesterday that ‘frustration grows’ over the government’s failure to guarantee that the families of healthcare workers who lose...
‘LEAVE NOW’ DEMAND MAY’S MPs – as Tory split widens
DURING the House of Commons Prime Ministers Questions yesterday, both Tory PM May and Labour leader Corbyn avoided the burning issue of the hour,...
1,800 will spend Christmas in an immigration detention centre!
UK GOVERNMENT figures show that over 1,800 people in Britain will spend the Christmas holiday incarcerated in immigration detention centres, prompting calls to end...
Corbyn Condemns Pm Johnson Over Customs Union
IN THE House of Commons yesterday morning PM Johnson sought to persuade MPs to support his Brexit plan.
He said: ‘This government has moved. Our...
University staff step up struggle
MORE WORKERS at 74 universities across the country joined the strike yesterday as students also came out onto the picket lines to support their...
