Tag: strike
BMA leaders run away after Cameron waves big stick
THE BMA and its Junior Doctors Committee yesterday ‘made the decision to suspend the 48-hour industrial action planned for 26-28 January. We are announcing...
Junior doctors strike suspended by BMA
THE BMA has suspended next week’s 48-hour junior doctors strike. In a statement, the BMA said: ‘The decision comes as ACAS talks continue this week...
UK steel industry collapse – occupy to defend jobs, nationalise the...
THE slaughter of the British steel industry continued yesterday with the official announcement by Tata Steel that it is to axe a further 1,050...
159 Palestinians killed since 3rd Intifada began
ISRAELI army troops on Sunday shot dead an unidentified Palestinian youth at Huwwara checkpoint, to the south of Nablus, after he allegedly attempted to...
As Capitalism reels Corbyn ‘suggests’ a very minimal Fabian programme
LAST week saw the ruling classes of the capitalist world reeling at the prospect of another huge banking crash, with its high priests, the...
GMB celebrates Eleanor Marx Day!
THE GMB trade union held its first annual GMB Eleanor Marx Day last Thursday, 14th January 2016, at the union’s national office in Euston...
Putin Declines To Call Assad An Ally!
IN his recent interview with the German newspaper Bild Vladimir Putin was asked a number of questions about Syria. Question: Now let’s turn to Syria,...
Greek pensions strike!
GREECE’S Seamen’s Pension Fund union held a general assembly to decide on further action on the second day of a two-day strike over pensions. Pension...
Junior doctors fighting! TUC leaders crawling!
YESTERDAY the junior doctors took the first day of their three days of strike action, and shook the Tory regime to its core with...
MASSIVE JUNIOR DOCTORS ACTION! – shakes the Tories to their core
MASS picket lines packed with enthusiastic doctors and supporters were the rule in every part of the country yesterday on the first day of...
Keogh breaks agreement with BMA
THE BMA has rebuked the NHS National Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh for breaking an agreement with it in an attempt to organise strike...
Air strike hits hospital in Yemen
A MEDECINS Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF)-supported hospital has been hit in northern Yemen causing at least four deaths, injuring 10 people and leading...
Trade Unions Must Take Action Alongside The Junior Doctors!
TODAY’S strike by junior doctors has the support of 100% of workers across the country. They are not fooled by all the Tory propaganda that...
Nurses Urge All Out With The Junior Doctors! Adding ‘It’s...
‘NURSES should come on a half day strike with the junior doctors,’ Jenny a student occupational therapist told a mass rally opposite Downing Street...
3 days of Tube strikes – being discussed by RMT &...
TUBE unions’ national executives are meeting today and are expected to announce a further three days of strike action over the Night Tube and...
FBU must fight against a Police Commissioner controlled ‘Fire Service’
THE Fire Brigades Union has appealed to the Home Office, which is now in charge of the fire service, to save the service from...
Irish Nurses strike
IRISH nurses and midwives are taking strike action from next week, with two-hour rolling stoppages commencing on Thursday, 14th January. Members of the Irish Nurses...
Tory ‘war on terror’ used in war on Junior Doctors
EMAILS, made public this week, between the Tory government and the head of NHS England, Sir Bruce Keogh, reveal the way the Tories attempted...
GP surgeries at breaking point
‘GENERAL practice across England is under unprecedented pressure,’ was the BMA’s response yesterday to the news that hundreds of surgeries across the country applied...
Week-long meter workers strike
‘PIG-headed’ EDF Energy bosses have sparked a week-long meter workers’ strike. A week-long strike by EDF Energy workers carrying out Smart meter installations will take...
Junior doctors and student nurses lead the way Now call a...
THE decision by the BMA on Monday to walk away from the negotiations over the imposition of new contracts for junior doctors and to...
Kill the Housing Bill!
‘DEFEND council housing! No social cleansing!’ shouted three hundred people demonstrating outside parliament yesterday as MPs debated the Housing and Planning Bill...
Junior doctors strike is on!
JUNIOR doctors will strike next Tuesday after talks with the government broke down at 4.45pm yesterday afternoon. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Junior doctors...
New York workers win minimum wage rises
THREE increases in the minimum wage in New York took place on the last day of 2015, with workers in the fast food industry,...
TUC on its knees – time for a revolutionary leadership!
THE TUC New Year’s message (see page 3) has been delivered with TUC general secretary O’Grady on her knees appealing to the bosses and...
2016–Year For Revolution!
NEW YEAR’S MANIFESTO by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2016 to...
Junior Doctors Ready To Strike
TIME is now running as far as the negotiations between the BMA’s Junor Doctors Committee (JDC) and the Tory government is concerned. As part of...
‘End The Midwife Shortage’ And Cancel Plans To Remove Bursaries!
CATHY WARWICK, the Chief Executive of the Royal College of Midwives has issued a ‘wish list’ of her hopes for maternity services in 2016. She...
‘We Cannot Tolerate And Forgive Those That Shed The Blood Of...
MARKING one week since local Hezbollah leader Samir Al-Kuntar’s assassination near Damascus at the hands of an Israeli missile, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan...
Tories are the party of the bankers, the bosses and the...
THE south-east London borough of Newham achieved the dubious record of having the biggest rise in house prices in the whole of the UK...
CWA condemns the Obama proposal for immigration raids and deportations!
THE CWA trade union has issued a statement on the Obama administration’s planned Immigration Raids and proposed mass deportations. It reads: ‘We have seen...
‘KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OUR HOSPITAL’ – mass picket issues warning...
‘KEEP your hands off our hospital! This hospital belongs to the public, not the government!’ Kaushalya Gussar declared at the mass picket of Ealing...
Tories’ massive cuts of flood defences and Fire and Rescue...
THE Army has been called out in York, Leeds, and parts of Lancashire after flood defences failed. In the case of York the...
‘We are ready to take action – Don’t come back with...
‘WE are ready to strike, don’t come back with some half-baked deal,’ junior doctors urged their leaders at a 100-strong BMA London Regional Committee...
Stop the return of British troops to Helmand province!
THE Taleban armed forces are now retaking Sangin town in Helmand Province, which was taken over as a British responsibility after the retreat from...
Collective punishment of Palestinians–thrown into prison without charge or trial!
COLLECTIVE punishment has reached new outrageous levels, with the father of a young Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces being arrested and thrown...
The working class faces the threat of state terrorism!
TWO videos, one by the FBI and one by the British police, have just been issued giving advice to people about actions they should...
Defend the Fire Service, the Ambulance Service and the Welfare State!...
THE general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), Matt Wrack, has warned that proposals from Home Secretary Theresa May, to bring fire and...
93 fracking licences issued!
THE Oil and Gas Authority on Thursday awarded a raft of new licences to explore for oil and gas on the mainland of the...
Smash The Bedroom Tax – Bring Down The Tories!
AN explosive report into the effect of the ‘Bedroom Tax’ on families throughout the country was published on Thursday – sneaked out on the...
Student nurses join GPs and junior doctors in demanding action to...
THE determined drive by the Tory government to cut the pay and conditions of every NHS worker, as a prelude to the ultimate aim...
GPs want action ballot!
ALMOST two thirds of GPs want the BMA to ballot the profession over industrial action, a GPonline survey has revealed, as the BMA’s Local...
Stop Bombing Syria! 10,000 March In Central London!
‘STOP bombing Syria! Welfare not warfare! David Cameron shame on you! Hilary Benn shame on you!’ shouted crowds at the end of a 10,000-strong...
The government refuses to release the Shrewsbury 24 trial secret papers
THE ruling class state machinations that secured the jailing of a number of Shrewsbury pickets after the first national building workers strike in...
Shrewsbury trial and jailing ‘a conspiracy at the very heart...
THE government has rejected calls to release confidential files relating to the Shrewsbury 24, who were charged with various offences after the first national...

















