Watson and Starmer move against Corbyn
DEPUTY Labour leader Tom Watson and Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer, along with union leaders, are pushing for a second referendum in a move...
TUC gives its full support to Sunak
ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...
Hunt pledges sanctions against benefit claimants
‘A CONSERVATIVE government believes those who can work should work, so sanctions will be applied more rigorously to those who fail to meet strict...
Serco hospital workers are set to strike!
PATIENTS at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, East London, are facing the prospect of ‘food chaos’ later this month, after workers employed by...
Thousands of doctors march on Downing St – Kick the Tories out now!
THERE was massive support for the hundreds of picket lines outside hospitals all around the country yesterday morning as 47,600 junior doctors began their...
Johnson ignores the crisis & praises USA!
‘IT WAS CAPITALISM that ensured we had vaccines in less than a year,’ Tory PM Johnson boasted in his closing speech at the Tory...
‘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...
CORBYN OUTLINES BREXIT STRATEGY: 2nd referendum: new Labour deal with EU or Remain!
‘A VOTE for Johnson’s Conservatives is a vote to betray our NHS in a sell-out to Trump,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday launching...
‘You look like gangsters!’ Palestine campaigner Qesser Zuhrah tells masked arresting police officers
AT 6.30 yesterday morning campaigner for Palestine Qesser Zuhrah was arrested by masked police officers under Section 44 of the Serious Crimes Act and...
Sixth Forms strike: ‘urgent funds now!’
A LONDON march and rally marking the fifth day of strike action in over 30 Sixth Form Colleges took place yesterday, with union leaders...
‘Call National strike now!’ – demand Birmingham binworkers
‘CALL A National Strike Now!’ striking Birmingham binworkers are demanding at their mass rally today, which assembles at 9.30am at the Unite HQ, 30...
Johnson not aiming for No Deal
BORIS Johnson told his supporters yesterday midday that he is ‘not aiming for a no-deal outcome’ for Brexit. Launching his campaign for the Tory leadership,...
Kent blood services not for sale!–Unite
THE PRIVATISATION of the NHS blood samples service in Kent will put patients’ lives at risk, Unite warned yesterday, adding: ‘It must be stopped!’ A...
Students join striking university staff – Day one of 3-day strike at 58 unis
AS PART of the nationwide three-day strike to combat pay and pension cuts to university staff, a team of over 40 activists from unions...
Strike Action Sweeping Heathrow
HUNDREDS of Border Force workers at Heathrow Airport began four days of strike action yesterday against Tory attacks on their working conditions. The more than...
ENERGY COMPANIES ‘LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK’ says Unite
TORY Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg announced yesterday that the taxpayer is to subsidise the energy bills of every business in Britain to the tune...
Kwarteng’s mini budget is a major attack on the working class
CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...
‘WE HAVE HAD MASSIVE SUPPORT FROM PUBLIC’ – ASLEF representative tells News Line
‘WE HAVE had massive support from the public,’ the ASLEF rep Lucio Buffone told News Line when he spoke out on the well-attended picket...
Rcm Warns Of A Worsening Crisis
THE Royal College of Midwives is warning of a worsening maternity crisis as a senior midwife survey shows services at boiling point. ‘The maternity crisis...
Nursing Staff Are Quitting NHS Pensions To Make Ends Meet!
NURSING staff are quitting their NHS pensions to make ends meet as the cost-of-living crisis bites. The number of staff opting out of the NHS...
Primary schools are cutting teaching assistants
‘ALMOST a decade of Conservative education cuts has left our children’s future in a perilous state,’ says the GMB trade union. It has responded to...
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...
‘SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA ARE NOT COST FREE!’ – Sunak warns UK Parliament
‘THE ACTIONS we have taken to sanction Putin’s regime are not cost free for us at home,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday, outlining...
Support grows for Sweeney!
WRP parliamentary candidate Frank Sweeney’s campaign team were out meeting workers and youth at Bruce Grove in Tottenham yesterday. They met Ibrahim who told News...
3-day week looms! JCB cuts 4,000 workers’ hours
DIGGER manufacturer JCB is cutting production and working hours in the UK as it faces a shortage of components from China due to the...
Johnson and Barnier clash over EU/UK fishing rights
TORY PM Johnson clashed yesterday with the EU’s Barnier over the thorny issue of Europeans fishing in UK waters and vice-versa. Speaking in Greenwich, Johnson...
Johnson’s brother stabs him in back
TORY PM Boris Johnson’s brother Jo Johnson has quit as Tory MP and minister yesterday, saying he is ‘torn between family loyalty and the...
No protection from unfair dismissal–for 7.5 million!
THE TUC yesterday warned that millions of workers lack basic protections if they lose their jobs in the coming months. New analysis shows that 7.5...
Students packed in like sardines–used as cash cows
REPORTS have emerged of students, despite paying thousands of pounds in fees a year for their tuition, are forced to sit on the floor...
Tories withdraw infection control fund today!
TODAY, the Tory government withdraws the infection control fund. This was support for those working in care to help them when they fall sick. Unison...
Grenfell United will continue to fight for truth!
EIGHTEEN months after the Grenfell Inferno over 600 people turned out on the Silent March for the Grenfell victims and survivors. A delegation...
Junior Doctors Want A 35% Pay Rise!
PICKETS were out yesterday morning at the Royal London Hospital on day two of the Junior Doctors’ strike. They are determined to fight whatever government...
Unite calls May Day NHS strike NHS – St Thomas’ & Yorks Ambulance to...
LONDON'S Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust will be the first to walk out in new wave of...
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...
‘We are not going to let our local NHS services be decimated!’ says Save...
THE SAVE Southend NHS Campaign has learnt from separate senior hospital sources that staff at Southend ITU (Intensive Therapy Unit) have been told there...
Johnson speaks as troops go in
‘IT would be fatal if this sense of progress over vaccines was now to breed any kind complacency,’ Tory PM Boris Johnson said yesterday...
‘NO MORE GOVERNMENT BOND BUYING’ BY BoE!
BANK of England (BoE) Governor Andrew Bailey announced yesterday morning that there will be no more government bond-buying by the Bank after tomorrow, regardless...
Felixstowe Dockers Begin An Eight-Day Strike!
DOCK workers at the UK’s largest container port yesterday began an eight-day strike, for the first time in 30 years. About 1,900 members of the...
Escalate the action – bus workers call for National Strike now!
‘ESCALATE the action – national strike now!’ bus workers told News Line yesterday on the first day of another two days of strike action...
Fire and Rescue cuts puts flood victims lives at risk
VICIOUS Tory cuts to the tune of £140 million mean that fire and rescue services are fighting with one hand tied behind their back....
High risk of harm on shift due to nurse shortage – RCN conference...
A QUARTER of registered nurses say that their number is so far below what is required that there is now a ‘high risk’ of...
BELOW INFLATION RISES ARE A BIG WAGE CUT! – says Unite’s Sharon Graham
UNITE general secretary Sharon Graham yesterday said below inflation rises are a wage cut with workers paying the price of the pandemic. Speaking after new...
‘Where were the bells-tolls for Grenfell?’
THE Coordinator of Justice 4 Grenfell Yvette Williams demanded yesterday, ‘Where were the bell-tolls for Grenfell?’ She contrased the bell tolls and the rush of...
ASLEF & RMT TO STRIKE ON WED 1st FEBRUARY ALONG WITH CIVIL SERVANTS &...
ASLEF and RMT railway workers are to strike on Wednesday 1st February, joining 100,000 PCS civil servants, 100,000 NEU teachers and tens of thousands...
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...