Chancellor warns of ‘significant disruption!’
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £30bn Budget package to try to keep UK capitalism from being bankrupted and broken apart by the...
AMAZON MUST BE NATIONALISED! – WRP’s Leff tells HQ rally
‘AMAZON and all companies and industries must be nationalised and put under public ownership,’ Jonty Leff, Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and...
‘YOU CAN’T PAY WORKERS LESS THAN THE MINIMUM WAGE!’ – GMB writes to Chancellor...
IT IS A moral outrage to pay workers less than the minimum wage the GMB union told the Tory government yesterday. The union has written...
No Deal Brexit Is Only Way Forward
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, yesterday displayed ‘unredacted documents’ about secret US-UK government trade talks putting the NHS on the table in any future post...
NHS PORTERS AT RISK – transporting the dead in sheets as body bags...
NHS PORTERS at Epsom and St Helier Trust, not only have very ‘flimsy’ Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) but they are being forced to transport...
SNP ready for Corbyn-led interim National Government
THE SCOTTISH Nationalists have reached out to Labour to form a National Government with the sole purpose of remaining in the European Union. Yesterday, chief...
Chancellor Reeves in crisis as government borrowing soars!
CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves is facing mounting pressure as government borrowing soars far beyond expectations, alongside new signs of economic decline. In the year to March,...
A&Es won’t cope this winter! – warn 87% of clinicians
NINE out of ten UK A&E clinicians are not confident that their departments will cope this winter. Shockingly, in a survey by The Royal College...
Mass Protest On First Day Of Assange Case
A CROWD of over 200 supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange demonstrated outside the Old Bailey in central London yesterday prior to the...
Royal London SERCO strike rally
DURING their five-day strike which concludes today, hospital staff working for SERCO gathered for a lively union rally at the Royal London Hospital at...
Racists driven off the streets!
IN A powerful display of unity and solidarity on Wednesday, thousands of youth and workers gathered across the UK to form human shields to...
Scottish midwives industrial action vote!
MIDWIFE and maternity support worker (MSW) members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) across Scotland have overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ on taking industrial action,...
THE NHS IS IN DANGER! – warns BMA Council Chair Nagpaul
THE NHS is in danger of being overwhelmed by a surge of both Covid-19 and non-Covid cases, a new British Medical Association (BMA) survey...
BMA & RCN condemn Starmer’s NHS ‘Plan for Change’
PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service,...
Tory PM Johnson to prorogue Parliament
THE QUEEN has been asked by Tory PM Boris Johnson to prorogue Parliament days after MPs return from the Summer break, which will mean...
Yellow Vests travel to UK to support Assange
AN EIGHTY-strong coachload of Yellow Vest protesters came over from France to join the demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday morning demanding WikiLeaks founder...
Leaseholders’ cladding nightmare is continuing – Tory extra £3.5 billion is too little too...
‘THREE and a half years on from Grenfell and hundreds of thousands can’t sleep at night because their homes are unsafe,’ Labour’s Shadow Housing...
Israeli Tanks Mass On Border Fence!
AS HUNDREDS of Israeli tanks amassed on the border fence ahead of their invasion of Gaza, medical authorities in the Gaza Strip said yesterday...
Unite Demands £60,000 Grant – For Families Of Deceased Bus Drivers
UNITE regional secretary for London Pete Kavanagh told News Line yesterday: ‘We would like to see this £60,000 grant to the families of those...
Junior doctors condemn PM Sunak for ‘trying to intimidate & bully them’
AS JUNIOR doctors ended their latest five-day strike action yesterday morning, BMA Junior Doctors Committee spokesman Dr Tal Ellenbogen accused Tory PM Rishi Sunak...
‘Patient safety has never been at greater risk’ – RCN
‘THIS is yet more evidence that emergency services are in disarray,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday ahead of today’s A&E report...
UK-UKRAINE ALLIANCE – ‘We are strategic partners’ – UK Defence Secretary
THE UNITED Kingdom has finalised an agreement with Ukraine that allows Kiev to buy British warships and missiles to enhance its naval capabilities, a...
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...
Teachers at breaking point – over Covid restrictions
THREE education unions wrote to the Tory Education Secretary Gavin Williamson yesterday expressing ‘anger and dismay’ at the way the government has treated school...
BMA condemns & rejects Primary Care specifications!
THE BMA’s England GP committee has voted not to accept a contract agreement with NHS England and condemned the recently-published draft service specifications outlining...
Harland & Wolff occupied!
SHIPBUILDERS have occupied the Harland & Wolff site in Belfast, closing the gates and refusing to leave, with their unions GMB and Unite demanding...
‘The Tories crashed the economy while working people are taking the hit’ – TUC
TRADE union leaders on Thursday gave their response to Chancellor Hunt’s austerity war on workers in his Autumn Statement. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said: ‘The...
Barristers strike gains support
‘OUR CRIMINAL justice system is in crisis, it’s no exaggeration to say it’s in meltdown,’ Criminal Bar Association (CBA) Chairman Jo Sidhu QC told...
‘Free pass to commit war crimes’ – Amnesty slams army immunity from prosecution
‘IT IS in no-one’s interests for members of the armed forces to be given a free pass over alleged war crimes’ said Kate Allen,...
Stella Assange denounces the US case as ‘pathetic, founded on lies’
ON the second and pivotal day of Julian Assange’s appeal hearing, the unwavering spirit of Assange supporters was palpable outside London’s High Court, despite...
Williamson readmitted to the Labour Party – split widens as 90 MPs oppose his...
LABOUR MP Chris Williamson was allowed back into the party yesterday morning after an investigation into comments he made about the party’s handling of...
Shapps makes ‘disgraceful threats’ to rail workers jobs
TRANSPORT secretary Grant Shapps threatened rail workers’ jobs yesterday by saying: ‘Rail strikes will drive passengers away and threaten rather than protect rail workers’...
‘Get rid of all privatised companies’ urge the striking Junior Doctors
Junior doctors manned a lively and determined picket outside the Maudsley Hospital in south London yesterday, determined to defend their patients and the NHS. Laith...
LOTHIAN PAYING £1.4m A MONTH FOR HOSPITAL IT CANNOT USE!
A health board is paying over a million pounds a month to a private consortium for a hospital it cannot use. The new children’s hospital...
‘Unions must strike to release Assange!’ Protesters rally outside the Old Bailey
‘THE TRADE unions should organise mass demonstrations and call a general strike,’ Julian Assange Defence Committee member Joe Brack told News Line yesterday. He was...
UK Troops For The Ukraine Says Shapps
TORY Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that UK troops are to be sent to the Ukraine ‘to train Zelensky’s military on the ground’...
May Beaten – Corbyn Calls For Election!
PM MAY lost her latest high-stakes gamble in the House of Commons when her EU Withdrawal Bill was defeated by 344-286 MPs despite a...
Renationalise Thomas Cook!
NINE thousand Thomas Cook workers lost their jobs yesterday with a further 20,000 threatened across Europe as the company, founded in 1841, went bust....
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...
Kwarteng declares war on the working class – after humiliating turnaround
FOLLOWING his humiliating U-Turn in the small hours of yesterday morning, when Chancellor Kwazi Kwarteng’s announced the abolition of the 45p rate of tax...
Staff On Terminal Covid Ward Were ‘Denied Ppe’
STAFF working on a ward for terminal coronavirus patients were denied Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) despite having to bag up 185 bodies in just...
Furlough scheme will be extended till October 31
THE FURLOUGH scheme, where currently 6.2 million workers who are not working during the coronavirus crisis are getting 80% of their wages paid by...
Johnson Treats Labour With Contempt
‘THE MINISTERIAL Code says that ministers who knowingly mislead Parliament will be expected to offer their resignation,’ Labour leader Keir Starmer said during PMQs...
‘Indefinite strike to win’ – demand striking bus drivers
‘INDEFINITE strike action to win it quick and win it now,’ Hounslow bus garage driver and Unite member Stoyan Ivanov demanded yesterday. More than 2,000...
‘THEY ARE WORKING TO PRIVATISE THE NHS!’ – Unite’s Graham condemns Tories
‘GENUINELY I believe that they are looking that this is the moment that they can privatise the NHS,’ Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said...