Tag: england

Formal talks between Unite trade union officials and Shell suppliers are due to resume today, as hundreds of petrol stations have begun closing. Informal talks...

PRIME Minister Brown’s alliance with the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party has paid off with the passage by nine votes of his amendment to the...

FAMILY doctors yesterday expressed their furious opposition to privately-run polyclinics and voted to take ‘unprecedented action’ in response to ‘unprecedented political threats to general...

COLLEGE lecturers across London staged their second strike against the government’s pay-cutting strategy on Monday, June 9th, after taking part in national strike action...

GIVE us a date for strike action and we’ll do it, the leader of the Prison Officers Association (POA) – whose members are banned...

Hundreds of so-called ‘failing’ schools are to be told to ‘improve’ within three years or face closure. Alternatively they may be merged or turned into...

COLLEGE lecturers in London, members of the University and College Union (UCU), will take strike action on Monday (9 June). And further action across England...

The British Medical Association (BMA) Consultants Conference in London on Wednesday voted to reject NHS privatisation and to call on the BMA to...

‘WE will not let this government privatise the NHS,’ declared British Medical Association Consultants Committee Chairman Jonathan Fielden yesterday. In his keynote address to the...

As Israel steps up its human rights violations and systematic breaches of international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip, all the basic functions of...

THE announcement by the Brown government that it is going to bring private managers in to run NHS hospitals is a concrete example of...

CITIGROUP bank has warned the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) against upping interest rates when it meets this week. It noted that already...

‘WE made Marks and Spencer their profits!’ said an angry Fenland Food worker fighting the closure of her factory and the loss of hundreds...

GMB members working in the NHS yesterday voted by over 96% to reject the 2008 pay offer in a consultative ballot on the government’s...

TWO coachloads of angry Fenland Foods workers descended on Marks and Spencer’s flagship London store at Marble Arch yesterday. The ready meal workers blame M&S...

‘My personal view is the unions should be up in arms over the number of beds lost in the NHS,’ East Surrey UNISON official...

Unemployment is set to increase sharply this year, economists have warned, after a Bank of England report showed more firms were looking to axe...

Delegates at this year’s Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) national conference yesterday voted overwhelmingly for a strike ballot of 280,000 members working across...

One in four older people in the UK have become so worried about the future that they are making themselves ill, according to the...

NOT ONLY has the world crisis of capitalism now been accepted as the reality by even the most sceptical of the bourgeoisie, its different...

MEMBERS of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have been joined by over 50 angry pensioners and other local residents in a demonstration against the...

‘Free, free Palestine!’ shouted up to 15,000 marchers, as they made their way through central London yesterday to a rally in Trafalgar Square to...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday announced a national ‘Support your Surgery’ campaign to defend and promote NHS GP services in England. The BMA warned:...

YESTERDAY the TUC revealed in its ‘Commission on Vulnerable Employment’ report what everybody already knows. This is that low pay and slave labour...

LABOUR suffered a net loss of 331 seats in local elections in England and Wales on 1 May. It also lost out to Tory...

‘Capitalism has had its day, it’s historically bankrupt. Now’s the time to bring it down and go forward to socialism.’ Workers Revolutionary Party General Secretary...

MAY DAY MANIFESTO By the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE editorial Board sends its May Day greetings for the year 2008 to the workers...

The 1,200 striking workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery yesterday made it clear they are determined to defend their pensions. Unite members walked out of...

Over 400,000 teachers, college lecturers and public and civil servants held a magnificent one-day national strike on Thursday, with a militant turnout on marches...

‘The abolition of the 10p tax rate has dealt a body blow to millions of low paid workers,’ UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis said...

THE Bank of England yesterday launched its government-backed scheme to allow the major banks to swap their dodgy mortgages for UK Treasury Bonds, in...

The Bank of England yesterday launched a scheme to allow banks to ‘swap temporarily their high quality mortgage-backed and other securities for UK Treasury...

CHANCELLOR Darling yesterday admitted that the Labour government, cold-bloodedly, in the last budget, abolished the 10p tax rate for the lower paid, knowing that...

By Irish political journalist John Coulter THE racist British National Party has confirmed it will contest the next Northern Irish council elections. Mid Ulster, Upper Bann,...

PRIME Minister Brown has made an appeal to the Wall Street bankers to be honest, surely a contradiction in terms. He wants them to publicly...

Seven mothers on hunger strike in the family unit in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), near Bedford, yesterday managed to get a message...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday slammed pressures being put on GPs by private companies running out of hours services to cut down on...

PRIME MINISTER Brown said yesterday that he will not be diverted from taking ‘unpopular’ decisions to ensure Britain gets through the global credit crunch....

Soaring factory prices have seen UK producer inflation reach its highest rate, 6.2%, in nearly 17 years in March. Annual ‘output price inflation’ at 6.2%,...

OVER 100,000 Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), will be on strike at the same time as the NUT teachers and...

GPs yesterday opposed plans by Virgin Healthcare to offer GPs 10% of the profits it plans to make from private services including dentistry, therapies...

The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday rejected an 8% over three years pay-cutting NHS Pay Review Body offer, which is backed by the...

The squeeze on the availability of mortgages is expected to continue and get worse in the next three months, the Bank of England has...

UNISON yesterday called on the government to build more council houses as First Direct became the first major bank to stop lending to house...

MEMBERS of the 270,000-strong National Union of Teachers (NUT), Britain’s largest teaching union are to take strike action on April 24 over pay. They...