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‘THERE is still a small minority who refuse to do the right thing and to them my message is clear: if you don’t follow...

A BIG demonstration of more than 5,000 teachers, UCU university lecturers, PCS members members marched through Liverpool on the TUC Day of Action yesterday. They...

BRITISH Steel has formally been taken into public ownership, fifteen months after the government intervened to prevent the closure of its Scunthorpe steelworks and...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly yesterday. According to Putin, the birth rate in the...

HORRIFYINGLY, care workers have been told if they test positive they will have to self-isolate at the care home and will not be able...

THE UK unemployment rate has surged to its highest level in over three years to 4.5% in the three months to August, compared with...

ISRAELI forces continued attacks across the Gaza Strip this week killing Palestinians in air strikes and shelling while reports emerged of Palestinian women detainees...

MPs are attempting to force the release of documents relating to Lord Mandelson’s appointment as UK ambassador to the United States after a Commons...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in launching his party’s election campaign yesterday, reiterated Labour’s plan for Brexit which means renegotiating another deal with the European...

THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that children in the besieged Gaza Strip live in ‘constant terror due to Israeli bombardment’. UNICEF spokesperson...

THE PCS (Public and Commercial Services) union has served notice on the Home Office of its intention to ballot members at Heathrow Airport for...

THE suspension of Parliament is ‘the territory of political judgements not legal standards’, the Tory government’s lawyer told the Supreme Court yesterday. The court is...

IRELAND, Norway and Spain formally recognised the state of Palestine yesterday, infuriating leaders of the genocidal Israeli regime, while Hamas described it as ‘a...

IRAN launched Wave 64 of Operation True Promise at dawn yesterday, striking military and strategic targets across Israel while simultaneously hitting US naval assets...

LEADERS of many of the largest and most prominent trade unions in the UK, have jointly signed a letter demanding that immediate action is...

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves is facing mounting pressure as government borrowing soars far beyond expectations, alongside new signs of economic decline. In the year to March,...

PATSY Stevenson has warned the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in a pre-action letter that she intends to initiate legal proceedings against the Metropolitan...

THE increasingly beleaguered and desperate Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week announced he has ordered the Israeli army to seize control of 70%...

ISRAEL carried out a massive bombardment of the Qatari capital, Doha, yesterday with more than ten aerial munitions, aimed at assassinating the Hamas Movement’s...

‘WE MUST send a clear message that rogue employers cannot get away with trampling over the laws of this country, it is time to...

THE Greek National Health Service doctors’ union OENGE has called on all doctors, trades unions, trades councils and social association to ‘organise jointly mobilisations...

THE United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that half the population is starving in Gaza. UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini,...

THOUSANDS of teachers, students, and supporters gathered in London yesterday on the fifth day of strikes this year, organised by the National Education Union...

ISRAELI forces continued lethal operations in Gaza and intensified repression across the occupied West Bank yesterday amid repeated ceasefire violations in the Strip and...

THE co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, will begin a legal challenge against proscription of the group as a ‘terrorist’ organisation before London’s High...

PRIME Minister Sunak made clear in his interview on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme yesterday morning that mortgage holders and public sector...

US President Joe Biden affirmed last night that a two-state solution was the ‘only real solution’ to the war in Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli...

THE LABOUR Party Conference in Liverpool opened yesterday with a minute’s silence, followed by leader Sir Keir Starmer leading the hall in singing God...

MIDWIFE and maternity support worker (MSW) members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) across Scotland have overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ on taking industrial action,...

WORKERS employed by Scottish Water are staging a two-day strike amid a continued dispute over pay. Members of the unions Unite, GMB and Unison are...

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves abandoned a proposal to introduce voluntary price caps on essential groceries yesterday after a concerted backlash from supermarket executives and pressure...

THE Ukrainian army’s continued bombardment of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is destructive, dangerous and even suicidal, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova...

NURSING staff are quitting their NHS pensions to make ends meet as the cost-of-living crisis bites. The number of staff opting out of the NHS...

THE UK committed ‘crimes against humanity’ by refusing to allow Chagos Islanders to return to their homes on the Chagos Islands, which is now...

THE Hamas Movement has condemned the ongoing Israeli massacres on the Gaza Strip, saying: ‘The Nazi Zionist enemy continues to brutally target civilians in...

AN independent panel has accused the Metropolitan Police of ‘a form of institutional corruption’ for concealing or denying failings over the unsolved murder of...

‘I DEMAND the recognition of Palestine’ Shaher Saed, the General Secretary of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU), told the TUC Congress...

LABOUR PM Sir Keir Starmer, after a few warm words about how special Brighton was to him, got down to business to tell the...

EDUCATION secretary Bridget Phillipson yesterday defended the decision over why the government had abandoned its promise to allow workers to claim protection from day...

IN THE House of Commons yesterday morning PM Johnson sought to persuade MPs to support his Brexit plan. He said: ‘This government has moved. Our...

ISRAELI forces continued to bombard the Gaza Strip on Thursday despite an announcement by mediators that a ceasefire agreement had been reached to end...

AFTER A DAY of plots, counter plots and demands that he go, PM Johnson, in his lunchtime statement to the House of Commons, attempted...

Statement by the News LIne Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the poor of...

LABOUR Health Secretary Wes Streeting yesterday launched a new attack on the NHS. While he noted the King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust survey reveals the...

‘PRIOR to the Grenfell Tower fire, many concerns were being raised by many groups, including the Fire Brigades Union, about fires in high-rise buildings....