Energy bills will rise by 50% average family to pay £2,000 – Pensioners risk...
BILLS are set to rise by 50% in April when the latest change to the energy price cap takes effect, it emerged yesterday, while...
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...
30,000 university staff jobs at risk!
UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) yesterday launched action to support casualised staff. Over a third of all staff are on ‘fixed-term contracts’ rather than...
Powerful May Day March Calls Kick The Tories Out! Forward To Socialism!
THERE was a powerful May Day March from Clarkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square yesterday with more than 10,000 trade unionists, workers, youth and students...
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,...
‘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...
Junior Doctors Taking 5 Days Of Strike Action
JUNIOR DOCTORS in England will strike for five consecutive days in July, in what is thought to be the longest single period of industrial...
Stop the War condemns Starmer’s ‘grotesque’ warmongering
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer banged the war drums against Russia yesterday and claimed that he intends to make Britain ‘battle-ready’. ‘Russia is already menacing...
NHS Faces ‘Worst Ever Winter!’
THE LATEST ‘catastrophic’ NHS performance figures have sparked fears that the health service is on track for the ‘worst ever’ winter, the BMA doctors’...
Tory split widens over £20 UC cut
TORY PM Johnson faced splits in his ranks as Conservatives opposed the £20 a week cut to Universal Credit in a vote in Parliament...
Amersham Defeat Crisis Hits Tories
THE TORY government has been plunged into crisis by last Thursday’s Amersham by-election defeat. Around 100 Tory MPs have reportedly joined a WhatsApp group called...
RAIL STRIKE SHUTS DOWN UK! – Labour MPs defy Starmer and join pickets
‘The TUC should have called a general strike already. They’re too slow to act,’ was the message from the Waterloo Station picket line yesterday...
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...
The Tuc Must Call A General Strike Now To Boot The Tories Out!
STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class, the youth and the...
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...
PCS Universal Credit strike ballot
PUBLIC and Commercial Services (PCS) union members working in Universal Credit are voting on whether to take strike action over workloads and staff recruitment. The...
Hancock Refuses To Sign To Reopen Ealing Maternity!
EALING SOUTHALL WRP candidate Hassan Zulkifal confronted Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. Hancock claimed: ‘We’ve saved the A&E and now...
Striking Consultants & Junior Doctors Picket
STRIKING consultants and junior doctors held mass pickets outside hospitals around the country yesterday in a show of strength in defence of the NHS...
‘All asbestos must be removed from schools!’
Education unions in the UK have reaffirmed the urgent need to protect students and education workers from asbestos in schools, demanding that ‘all asbestos...
‘No credible route to a zero Covid UK’ says Johnson setting out ‘road map...
‘THERE IS no credible route to a zero Covid Britain or indeed a zero Covid world,’ Tory PM Johnson told Parliament yesterday, setting out...
Junior Doctors Still Demanding 35%
RESPONDING to yesterday’s recommendation from the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB) and the government’s acceptance of that recommendation, the BMA says...
Inquiry into police spying on unions – union heads demand transparency
LEADERS of many of the largest and most prominent trade unions in the UK, have jointly signed a letter demanding that immediate action is...
Labour’s electoral stranglehold is over! – ‘people won’t be taken for granted’
POLITICIANS across Westminster responded on Friday to the Green Party’s capture of the Gorton and Denton parliamentary seat. Green Party leader Zack Polanski described the...
‘THERE COULD BE A MILLION PEOPLE ON STRIKE VERY SOON!’ – but Unite’s Graham...
‘THERE could be up to a million people on strike very, very soon,’ Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said yesterday morning. On the eve of...
HEATHROW CHAOS – Passengers & staff at risk of infection
CHAOS reigned at Heathrow Airport with five-hour queues reported over the last few days risking passengers spreading the virus to each other, as the...
Westbourne Park busworkers set to strike again!
OVER 2,000 bus workers are gearing up to strike against attempts by London’s transport privateers to impose pay cuts and unacceptable new work schedules...
‘Take a stand to save our NHS from Tories!’ – Unite leader Sharon Graham
AMBULANCE worker members of the GMB, Unite and Unison unions will take national strike action on 21st December, with paramedics, emergency care assistants, call...
JUDGE LABOUR ON CHANGE IT DELIVERS – says Corbyn
IN a speech in Telford yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, urged that ‘his government’ should be judged on the ‘real change’...
‘Save our NHS!’ demands 400-strong lobby
THERE was a lively 400-strong lobby of Parliament organised by the Unite trade union yesterday afternoon to ‘Save Our NHS’ and ‘Stop the Cuts’...
Over 10,000 workers & youth march to Trafalgar Square!
OVER ten thousand workers, students, and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on the TUC May Day march in London yesterday afternoon. There...
Balham PCS Strike Ballot Is Called!
STAFF at Balham benefit centre are being balloted for strike action having been told that their office is due to close on 31 December. This...
Sunak attacks the sick, the disabled, refugees & youth
LAUNCHING the Tory Party manifesto yesterday, Rishi Sunak attacked the sick and disabled, refugees and youth, boosted wealthy landlords, and banged the war drums...
‘NO CHOICE BUT TO TAKE ACTION!’ say firefighters and control staff
‘FIREFIGHTERS and control staff are being left with no other choice but to take action,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack said...
Bring us back into the NHS now! – demand Maudsley strikers as...
‘BRING us back into the NHS NOW!’ strikers from SLaM (South London and Maudsley) mental health trust are demanding as they converge on Downing...
MAY GOES TO GROUND! – Johnson & Gove are battling for her job
PM MAY was holed up in crisis talks with senior Tories including Boris Johnson and Michael Gove at Chequers yesterday, with rumours that a...
Downgraded! – A-Level Results Outrage
AS A-LEVEL results came in yesterday morning head teachers warned that lowered grades are ‘unfair and unfathomable’ while teachers said that the results were...
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...
‘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...
TORIES DECLARE WAR ON BMA! –TUC must call a general strike now demands Chingford...
'WE are striking to defend the NHS,’ consultants told News Line on their picket lines as Tory Health Secretary Barclay issued a declaration of...
Grenfell–‘Companies Killed 72 People!’
THE COMPANIES that carried out the Grenfell Tower refurbishment killed 72 people ‘just as surely as if they had taken careful aim with a...
Brady ready to support May deal
SIR GRAHAM Brady, the chair of the Tories’ 1922 Committee, said yesterday, ‘the whole country is tired’ and that people should back the PM...
Assange Supporters Picket Media Conference
AN angry protest by supporters of Julian Assange yesterday morning denounced a Tory government conference titled ‘Defend Media Freedom’. Maxine Walker from the Julian Assange...
Tories Setting NHS Up For Worst ‘Winter Crisis’ Ever
THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has warned that the Tory government is setting the NHS up for the its worst ‘winter crisis’ ever. Last Friday,...
‘A nurses strike is long overdue’
NURSES at Lewisham hospital spoke up in favour of going on strike, on the day the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) strongly called for...
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...