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‘After Blair, Not Brown But A Workers’ Government And Socialism’

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TWO HUNDRED trade unionists and youth attended the News Line-All Trades Union Alliance conference in Bethnal Green, east London, last Sunday. Opening the conference, chairman...

BUILD REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP – forward to a workers’ government

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TWO HUNDRED trade unionists and youth attended the News Line-All Trades Union Alliance conference in Bethnal Green, east London, yesterday. Moving the main resolution, ‘After...

Brown’s ‘government of all the talents’ is a national government

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GORDON Brown yesterday launched his campaign to take over the job of Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. He spoke about his ‘new ideas and...

US Nurses Demand Their Rights

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More than 50 nurses from several AFL-CIO unions packed a House of Representatives hearing room on Tuesday to demand their rights be protected. They were...

Now send Brown packing – forward to a workers government!

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Blair stood down yesterday, driven out of power by the Iraqi insurgency and the British workers’ determination to defend their welfare state. The disorientated...

Wal-Mart’s ‘Vicious Anti-Union Activities’ Exposed

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THE AFL-CIO American trade union confederation has congratulated Human Rights Watch for its May Day report exposing the ‘vicious anti-union’ activities of retailing giant...

Reid goes into opposition to a Brown government

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IT MUST be a grave crisis indeed when Reid the Home Secretary – who only a week ago was posing as carrying the entire...

WORKERS DEMAND NEW LEADERSHIP IN UNIONS – ‘We are fighting our...

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UP to 5,000 people marched through central London yesterday on the TUC May Day demonstration. The PCS trade union was on 24-hour strike against mass...

Marchers Support Gate Gourmet Workers

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UP to 5,000 people marched through central London yesterday on the TUC May Day demonstration. The PCS trade union was on 24-hour strike against mass...

HEWITT MUST GO! say junior doctors

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors Conference in London on Saturday called for the immediate resignation of health secretary Patricia Hewitt and health...

Barnsley Nurses To Strike

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GMB trade union members at Barnsley Hospital have voted to take strike action in a dispute following the introduction of Agenda for Change. The members...

A billionaires’ paradise – the UK under Blair and Brown

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IN the last 12 months the working class and the vast majority of the middle class have desperately struggled under a huge and...

ESOL CLASSES ARE A BASIC RIGHT! – call for mass registration...

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TWO thousand people took part in three marches that converged on Hackney Town Hall on Saturday, demanding free English language courses for everyone. The marches...

Junior Doctors Slam ‘Shambolic And Deeply Destructive’ Changes

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Junior doctors are meeting today to discuss what to do about the government’s disastrous ‘reforms’ to post graduate medical training. The British Medical Association...

NORTH LONDON COLLEGES ON THE MARCH – to defend ESOL

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Staff and students from North London colleges are today marching to demonstrate their opposition to plans to restrict access to free English for Speakers...

RESIGN NOW HEWITT! – demand junior doctors

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‘The appropriate thing for Patricia Hewitt to do, would be to resign now,’ said furious junior doctors yesterday after their personal details were made...

‘THE FUTURE OF THE NHS IS AT STAKE!’ – say ‘Mums...

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OVER 400 doctors, furious at government ‘reforms’ which threaten their profession – making a staggering 14,000 hospital doctors redundant from August – descended on...

Anger Over Doctors For Export!

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Junior doctors, angry at the prospect of thousands being without jobs and government plans to ship them overseas, are lobbying MPs today. The British Medical...

‘WE WON’T ALLOW REMPLOY CLOSURE PLAN’ – Remploy stewards tell News...

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THE whole of the Remploy network of factories for disabled workers is under threat, because the government plans to limit the company’s funding to...

Time to take action against the venture capitalists

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A BIDDING war between warring groups of venture capitalist locusts has broken out over who is to asset strip Boots. Yesterday morning, the...

A Damning Indictment Of The Bus Industry

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A SURVEY published yesterday shows that bus workers believe that the privatised bus companies are far more interested in making big profits than providing...

Strike to support nurses and defend the NHS!

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THE anger of nurses working in the National Health Service (NHS) at having a pay cut imposed upon them this year, by the government...

Gettelfinger Has No Answer To ‘The Race To The Bottom’

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UAW President Ron Gettelfinger spoke at the Michigan State University School of Labour and Industrial Relations in East Lansing, Michigan on April 10th...

Berezovskiy calls for the violent overthrow of Putin

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FOR some time the Blair government has been bringing in draconian anti-terrorist legislation, such as the Terrorism Act 2000. It has been boldly ‘identifying’ terrorism...

Build millions of council houses to solve housing crisis

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PUBLIC sector workers such as firefighters, teachers, and nurses, cannot afford to buy homes in seven out of 10 UK towns, because of the...

FAILURE TO LEGISLATE LEAVES SEAFARERS EXPOSED – warns ITF inspector, Part...

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The purpose of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC), which comes into operation soon, is to protect seafarers’ rights throughout the world. But as Tony Ayton,...

FAILURE TO LEGISLATE LEAVES SEAFARERS EXPOSED – warns ITF inspector

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Last year, 2006, the General Conference of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) put together a new International Convention dealing with the issue of seafarers’...

Angry Teachers Vote For Strike Ballot Against Pay Cut

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Harrogate voted unanimously on Saturday for a one-day strike against a pay-cutting two per cent...

TGWU relies on the Sainsbury family to defend its members’ jobs...

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YESTERDAY the TGWU leaders produced their statement of full support for the Sainsbury family in the battle to keep out the Texas Pacific-backed raiding...

Never mind the claimants – use lie detectors on the politicians

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WORK and Pensions Minister John Hutton said yesterday that lie detectors will be used to help root out benefit cheats in job centres later...

FIRST NHS TAKE-OVER – Heart of England Foundation Hospital swallows up...

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This Sunday April 8th will mark the first takeover by a foundation trust hospital of a ‘bankrupt’ NHS hospital. Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust...

25 years since the Malvinas war

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THE 1982 Malvinas (Falklands War) was a decisive event not just for Britain’s Foreign Policy but for its home policy. The islands off the Argentinian...

Bush moves towards intervention with ‘free hostages’ call

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PRESIDENT BUSH has laid the basis for military intervention against Iran with his condemnation of Iran’s ‘inexcusable behaviour’ in arresting the 15 British sailors...

Nurses’ Pay Cut By Instalments Is ‘Not Acceptable’

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OVER ten thousand nurses have bombarded MPs with letters protesting at this year’s pay cut for nurses and other health care workers. It comes...

20,000 Civil Servants On Strike Today!

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Approximately 20,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Identity and Passports Service (IPS)...

State ownership brings MG Rover back from the dead!

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THE state-owned Nanjing Automobile company, which bought MG Rover for a knock down price of £53 million and then transferred and reassembled 10,000 tonnes...

The Bully State and forced labour is to replace the Welfare...

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TWO hundred thousand young people aged between 16 and 18, 11 per cent of that total age group, who are unemployed with no...

LABOUR CRASHING NHS!– with its privatisation policies

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‘Increased use of the private sector is skewing staffing levels in the NHS,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was responding to...

Union leaders go easy on Brown’s bosses’ budget

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CHANCELLOR Brown’s budget yesterday outlined savage attacks on the working class, particularly low paid workers. His decision to abolish the 10 pence tax rate...

Brown In Blinkers Ignores The Economic Crisis

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BROWN’S ‘big’ budget speech yesterday was an anti-climax, since it was an obvious attempt to ignore the worldwide capitalist economic crisis, and the completely...

BROWN SEES NO CRISIS! – while Cameron demands election

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A tense Chancellor Brown yesterday announced a £36bn increase in the sale of public assets (including Student Loans) and a two per cent Corporation...

Inflation up as Blair-Brown move to cut wages!

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INFLATION in the UK is accelerating out of control. According to the latest Labour government figures which grossly underestimate the process the Consumer...

Unions Reject More ‘Reforms’

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Health and education unions yesterday responded angrily to Prime Minister Blair’s policy review that signals a stepping up of Blair and Brown’s privatisation drive...

PROTECT OUR TRAINING, PROTECT OUR NHS! – Doctors march against MTAS

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Over 12,000 junior doctors and supporters, including medical students, registrars and a number of consultants, marched through central London last Saturday against government ‘reforms’...

Junior Doctors Are Plunged Into Crisis

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AT the heart of the Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) programmes for junior doctors is the...