‘We won today in Court’ says Moris after Assange is granted Supreme Court appeal...
‘MAKE no mistake we won today in court,’ Stella Moris, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s fiancee said to cheers outside the Royal Courts of Justice...
‘All bus workers must strike together’ – Renationalise now! – demands Harrow picket
THERE was a strong picket line at Harrow bus garage yesterday morning despite the pouring rain. London Sovereign drivers were on their third day of...
Labour Shadow Ministers Prepared To Join Nurses On The Picket Line!
WITH THE Royal College of Nursing launching a £35 million strike fund to defeat the Tory government’s 1% NHS pay insult at the weekend,...
Burnham threatens legal action over HS2 rail link
LABOUR’s Andy Burnham has said he will consider taking legal action if the government abandons plans for building the HS2 rail link in northern...
Get out of the EU now! – RMT’s Cash tells May Day rally
‘GET OUT of the EU now,’ RMT general secretary Mick Cash told the May Day rally in Trafalgar Square at the end of the...
‘All NHS workers & their families must be tested!’ – demands BMA chair Dr...
‘ALL health workers and their families must be tested immediately,’ Chair of the Council of the British Medical Association and GP Dr Chaand Nagpaul...
Scrap Tories’ ‘Hostile Environment’ – demand Human Rights lawyers on 72nd anniversary of Windrush
YESTERDAY, campaigners marked the 72nd anniversary of the landing of the Empire Windrush, bringing hundreds people to live and work here from the Caribbean,...
‘If other workers want to come out with us they are very welcome!’
THE RMT strike action went ahead yesterday after talks on Wednesday broke down without agreement. John Gutteridge, RMT Learning Rep spoke to News Line on...
Tory Rwanda plan unlawful
THE TORY plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was yesterday dismissed by the Supreme Court, ending over 18 months of legal battles in...
‘Inflation hangs around like a bad smell!’ says BofE!
THE BANK of England has raised interest rates to their highest levels in almost 15 years. The base rate has risen from 4.25% to 4.5%...
FREE, FREE PALESTINE! chant protesters at High Court
‘FREE, Free Palestine’ chanted over 1,000 protesters waving Palestine flags outside the High Court yesterday. The court was holding an emergency hearing seeking a judicial...
Javid’s plan is to privatise the NHS
SAJID Javid, Tory Health and Social Care Secretary, has spoken to the Royal College of Physicians, on Health Reform. He claimed that there is not...
Anti-deportation fighters block removals – are backed by TUC
MOST of the people due to be put aboard a controversial deportation flight to Jamaica yesterday have been removed from the flight list! This was...
Starmer aide McSweeney quits – who’s next?
LABOUR leader and PM Keir Starmer’s position was further weakened yesterday as his Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney was forced to quit amidst the...
Social housing landlords deny homeless access to properties
HOMELESS people are being routinely ‘screened out’ and denied access to social housing by social landlords because they are deemed ‘too poor or vulnerable...
5,500 petrol stations run dry! Bad pay & conditions force truckers to quit!
THE SPIRALLING cost of energy, combined with a lorry driver shortage and now panic buying, has resulted in 5,500 petrol stations across the country...
‘Significant Victory’ For Junior Doctors!
THE BMA doctors’ union has hailed the Court of Appeal ruling on rest breaks as ‘a significant victory for junior doctors’. Commenting on the Court...
SOAS cleaners join striking lecturers
ON THE SECOND day of the three-day strike of 58 universities’ at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in central London yesterday...
Unite will fight brutal Tory school cuts
UNITE General Secretary Sharon Graham pledged her union would stand against the Westminster government’s ‘scorched earth’ approach in imposing brutal cuts on schools and...
COVID-19s BRUTAL IMPACT ON NHS says BMA leader Chaand Nagpaul
Thousands of cancer patients have not received the care they need and their conditions have worsened owing to the focus on Covid-19, the British...
COMPANIES TO LAUNCH MASS SACKINGS – following big cut in furlough payments
ONE-IN-FIVE companies are planning to sack workers in response to yesterday’s cut in furlough payments, a British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) survey has found. From...
‘We need properly funded GP services!’ – says BMA’s petition to government
MORE than 10,000 people have signed the BMA’s petition calling for the Westminster government to properly fund general practice and source more desperately-needed GPs. The...
Nurses pay cut plan a ‘death knell’ for Truss!
TORY leadership candidate Liz Truss was forced into a humiliating U-Turn yesterday, after saying in a ‘hustings’ meeting on Monday night that, as Prime...
Busworkers launch a national health & safety campaign
A POWERFUL busworkers march and rally was held in central London yesterday to launch a national campaign for better health and safety as well...
Call A General Strike To Kick The Tories Out!
The TUC (Trades Union Congress) has called a summit at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Wednesday, June 15. ‘to bring together union leaders and...
DON’T EXTRADITE JULIAN ASSANGE! – demands 2,000-strong Night Carnival
OVER 2,000 campaigners fighting for the freedom of Julian Assange attended a Night Carnival in London on Saturday. The carnival organised by the Don’t Extradite...
‘WE’RE ON LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE’ – barristers tell MPs
BARRISTERS lobbied parliament yesterday and raised with MPs the demand of an urgent injection of funds into Legal Aid. Lucie Wibberley, the Criminal Bar Association...
‘Bring companies guilty of corporate murder to justice’
ONE HUNDRED and forty four workers have lost their lives while on the job in 2017-18, with the GMB at its Annual Conference in...
‘There was no chase!’ – before Met police shot and killed Chris Kaba
‘THERE was no chase’ before the Metropolitan Police marksman shot and killed Chris Kaba on 5th September, his cousin Jefferson Bosela told thousands of...
Ryanair Mass Sackings
RYANAIR is planning to make 3,000, 15% of its workers in Europe, redundant and is also planning 20% pay cuts for employees. Unite national officer...
Labour Launches Anti-NHS Plan For Change!
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the Labour government’s ‘Plan for Change’ attack on the NHS which it is unveiling today. Professor Phil Banfield,...
EU announces £22bn tariffs on US imports
THE EU has announced retaliatory tariffs of up to 26bn euros (£22bn) on US imports, responding to President Donald Trump’s 25% levies on global...
‘Abysmal response’ to corona – experts warn antibody tests are ‘invalid’
EXPERTS have heavily criticised the Tories’ ‘ad hoc system’ for coronavirus tracking, testing and contact tracing, stating that the government’s ‘abysmal response’ means that...
Striking Nurses To March On Downing Street!
STRIKING nurses are marching on Downing Street today, leaving UCLH (University College London Hospital) at 2.30pm, as nursing staff go on strike in what...
TORIES SET TO USE ANTI-STRIKE LAWS! – against NHS and rail workers
THE TORIES are set to mobilise their new anti-strikes law against railway workers and their unions as further strike action takes place during the...
Grenfell Tower survivors threatened with eviction
MAHAD Egal, Jamie Murray and their two young children, who survived the Grenfell Tower fire, like so many others have still not been permanently...
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...
Postal Workers Strike Hardening Up
THERE was a hardened determination on the striking postal workers picket lines yesterday morning, as Communication Workers Union (CWU) members defiantly rebutted the Royal...
Seafarers will be criminalised for saving refugees lives says RMT as Patel launches Borders...
SEAFARERS’ union RMT has raised alarm over government legislation criminalising seafarers for saving lives at sea. The proposals, contained in the government’s Nationality and Borders...
Wildcat Postal Strikes
WILDCAT strikes by postal workers at three Scottish sorting offices over serious health and safety issues has forced Royal Mail to change its policy...
US-UK Are Routed In Kabul – ‘A Strategic Disaster’ – Liam Fox
THE Taliban took control of Afghanistan yesterday, with the collapsing NATO-backed government shrieking in its fear that they are entering the capital, Kabul, ‘from...
Draconian police state powers
DRACONIAN emergency powers contained within the Coronavirus Bill were debated during the bill’s second reading in Parliament yesterday. Police state measures were outlined to detain...
‘CRADLE OF DISEASE’ – 4,000 packed into ASOS warehouse
JAM-PACKED ASOS clothing warehouse is a ‘cradle of disease’, terrified workers in the GMB union warned yesterday, calling for their entire operation to be...
Tories ask Iraq ‘let UK troops remain!’
JOHNSON’S Tory government has urged Iraq to allow UK troops to stay in the country following the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani...
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,...