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Elderly face £150,000 Care Bill

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WHEN the Care Bill becomes law the elderly will have to spend £150,000 on care before receiving any financial help. The Bill had its second...

Tory war on welfare, trade unions must act

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Last week it was revealed that the number of people forced onto the new scheme by the end of next year is now estimated...

A&E staffing levels crisis

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UNIONS warned yesterday that savage cuts to ambulance services and staffing levels are causing the A&E crisis to ‘spiral out of control’ and ‘will...

‘Defend the NHS–We need action now!’ – union leaders keeping a...

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TWO-HUNDRED marchers – local residents, trade unionists and youth – expressed enormous anger on Saturday as they demonstrated through Enfield in north London against...

OSBORNE LASHES THE WORKERS – Trades unions’ verdict on Autumn Statement

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TRADE unions responded angrily to the Tory Chancellor Osborne’s Autumn Budget Statement in which he announced permanent austerity, raising the state pension age to...

March to save Chase Farm today!

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YESTERDAY’S 60-strong mass picket to save Chase Farm Hospital drew big support from patients and local residents who all said they would join today’s...

Osborne bashes pensions & youth

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TORY Chancellor Osborne, in his Autumn Statement delivered to parliament yesterday, launched war on the unemployed, students, youth and the state pension. Rather than announcing...

‘Continue action until we win’ – say striking uni staff

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THOUSANDS of striking university and college lecturers, along with other workers in higher education, were solidly on 24-hour strike on Tuesday. Four unions – University...

Cameron preparing more police state measures

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ON Wednesday, a cabinet level task force set up by Cameron last June to consider proposals for new laws aimed at combating ‘extremism’ published...

Greek workers determined to bring down the crisis-ridden government

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THE Greek coalition government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is in a crisis following disagreements over more barbaric economic measures demanded by the EC-IMF-ECB...

HUNT PROMOTING THE BIG DRUG COMPANIES – under the guise of...

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TORY Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s claims that ‘we can truly be the generation that beats dementia’ is a smokescreen for promoting the big drug...

Renationalise The Energy Companies – The Only Policy For The Crisis!

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YESTERDAY early morning we heard from the BBC, and a number of pro-Tory daily newspapers, that Cameron had succeeded in trumping the Labour Party...

Abolish student loans and debt, and restore grants!

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LAST Monday the coalition government’s drive to privatise every single public service and completely smash up the welfare state took yet another grotesque turn...

Cameron Presiding Over A Sea Of Misery!

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NINE million people across the UK are living with serious debt problems, according to a new report by the Money Advice Service (MAS). MAS points...

RBS scandal demands workers expropriate the banks

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THIS week yet another scandal has broken out concerning the practices of the banking system. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is once again in...

Student loans privatised! – Birmingham University occupied!

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BIRMINGHAM students have occupied their university, pre-empting yesterday’s announcement that Student Loans are to be sold off by the Tory coalition government...

Stop £1bn privatisation – GMB warns against Cambridgeshire sell-off

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THE GMB union is calling for an immediate halt to the tendering process for the up to £1bn Cambridgeshire Elderly Care contract. The union ...

Thousands have had their lives blighted by blacklisting

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THE TRADE UNIONS led by the TUC held a national Day of Action on Wednesday against the blacklisting companies who have prevented trade unionists...

UK death squads in the north – a warning for today

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LAST night’s Panorama programme, entitled ‘Britain’s Secret Terror Force’, threw yet more light on the murderous activities of the British state in its war...

No mandatory safe staffing levels for the NHS!

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THE TORY coalition Government’s announcement that they will publish NHS staffing levels on a website are a cover to ‘provide any level of nursing...

SUCCESSFUL NEWS LINE ANNIVERSARY Rally marks 44 years of the paper...

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‘WE ARE celebrating 44 years of the daily Trotskyist paper that fights for a revolutionary leadership that does not bend, capitulate or collapse at...

Bosses share bonanza

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THE ages old reformist illusion that the worst excesses of capitalism can be curbed through a mixture of indignation and moral outrage received yet...

‘Bring Down The Tories!’

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OVER 200 workers and youth marched to the 44th News Line anniversary rally yesterday afternoon with flags flying and slogans calling for the Tory-led...

Union leaders are refusing to defend jobs in the face of...

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LAST week it was announced by BAE systems, the private defence company, that the shipbuilding industry was to be closed down in Portsmouth and...

Only a general strike will stop the attack on workers rights!...

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THERE were strong picket lines outside fire stations throughout England and Wales between 10am-2pm on Wednesday afternoon, as the Fire Brigades Union held its...

UNITE DEFENDS TRADE UNION RIGHTS –against Tory witch-hunt

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THERE will be ‘no retreat’ over defence of ‘the legitimate right to protest,’ Unite leader Len McCluskey told 1,200 delegates assembled at the union’s...

MPs’ Committee fears new mortgage bubble!

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A VERY nervous House of Commons Treasury Select Committee has just asked the Bank of England to clarify its role in ensuring that the...

‘A bonanza for unscrupulous landlords’ – MPs indict the Immigration Bill

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MPs have blasted the Tory coalition government’s proposal to force landlords to do immigration checks on their tenants, warning that it will lead to...

Syrian Army Making Considerable Gains

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SYRIAN army forces have made considerable gains in their battle against foreign-backed militants around the capital, Damascus, retaking a key ‘rebel’-held town. The government forces...

IDS’ war to starve and break the poor!

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JUST how ruthlessly Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is conducting the ruling class’ war on the poor can be seen in...

Tackling cost of living crisis means tackling capitalism

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LABOUR leader Miliband yesterday lashed out at the payday lenders and the way that these vulture capitalists are preying on the poor, making life...

Labour gives support to Tories’ austerity cuts

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Two reports this week bring home that the reality facing millions of workers and their families under this rotten, bankrupt British capitalist system is...

Firefighters Strike!

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FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales are on strike from 6am to 8 am today against the vicious government onslaught on their...

Trade unions must take action to stop A&E closures!

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IN an attempt to shift the blame for the crisis in the NHS away from the massive cuts inflicted on it by the Tory-led...

The truth about sexual abuse in a British detention centre

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By: Clare Sambrook First published in Our Kingdom WHAT is the government really doing to protect immigration detainees from their guards? In Parliament on Tuesday 15...

McCluskey has learnt nothing from the 1970s and 80s except to...

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IT is clear from Unite leader McCluskey’s article in the Guardian yesterday that he has learnt nothing from the struggles of the 1970s...

Judges Take Just 5 Minutes To Reject Hunt’s Appeal

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THE Court of Appeal’s ruling yesterday that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt did not have legal power to implement cuts at Lewisham Hospital in south-east...

Shooting at the UK’s Afghan Sandhurst!

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THE ‘row’ that left an Afghan officer cadet dead and three NATO troops injured at the UK-established ‘Sandhurst in the Sand’ in Helmand province...

Free School–‘financial misconduct’

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KINGS Science Academy in Bradford, one of the government’s flagship free schools, has been accused of serious financial mismanagement. An Education Funding Agency (EFA) report...

AFL-CIO warns the Democrats not to cut Social Security, Medicare or...

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The AFL-CIO unions have issued a warning to the Democrats about proposed Medicare cuts, telling them, ‘Don’t try it ... we will never forget.’ As...

US healthcare privateer to head NHS England!

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WITH the appointment of Simon Stevens as the new head of NHS England, the Tory-led coalition have put in charge of the day-to-day running...

Unite must hit back and defend its members, with full TUC...

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THE petrochemical plant at the giant Grangemouth complex in central Scotland is to close with the loss of over 800 jobs, owner Ineos announced...

‘We won’t be border police – insist doctors

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HEALTH professionals yesterday condemned coalition government moves to bar immigrants from access to healthcare, and charge overseas visitors a £200 fee to qualify...

Firefighters, postal workers, teachers must unite to smash privatisation!

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THE TORY-led coalition is working overtime to privatise the public sector and turn it into a bonanza, a big killing for the big business...

Labour supporting ‘Free Schools’ and benefit cuts!

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LABOUR yesterday delivered another stab in the back to workers, when two of its newly promoted shadow ministers hit out at the working class. Shadow...