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OVER 20 PCS catering workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark, walked out on indefinite strike...

FIVE Palestinians were killed on Friday, including two who died from injuries sustained in earlier Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza...

RESIDENT doctors in England have overwhelmingly voted that the government’s proposed offer on jobs is not good enough for them to call off proposed...

THE BANK of England cut its base rate to a record low of 0.1%, a sliver above zero, warning the coronavirus pandemic will result...

ISRAEL launched multiple intimidatory attacks on ten ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla overnight on Tuesday night-yesterday morning, while they were sailing 30 nautical...

THE Labour government is threatening to hit schools with ‘death by a thousand cuts’, teachers leaders warned yesterday. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reported...

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,...

A SIX-MONTH campaign led by an NHS doctor to have the full report into a pandemic preparation exercise published has successfully forced the Health...

‘THERE’LL BE AN UPRISING IN THE WORKING CLASS’, CWU telecom executive member Peter Francis told News Line yesterday, speaking at the picket line outside...

PM TRUSS is determined to remove a cap on bankers’ bonuses as part of a post-Brexit shake-up of City rules, to really get the...

THE UK economy nosedived by a record 9.9%, the biggest slump in modern times, with the contraction in 2020 ‘more than twice as much...

JUDGES have quashed the convictions of 39 former postmasters after the most widespread miscarriage of ruling class justice in the history of UK capitalism. The...

At least 13 schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) had funding to rebuild approved under a Labour scheme which was later...

THE US Justice Department has seized 33 Iranian government-affiliated media websites, as well as three of the Iraqi group Kataeb Hezbollah, which it said...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is reportedly putting pressure on regulators to allow government bonds, known as Treasuries, be exempt from risk calculations. Economists have warned...

THE LEFT-wing Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) yesterday announced the launch of an upcoming membership consultation on whether the trade union should...

‘Vice chancellors are about to witness another huge show of strength,’ UCU (University and College Union) General Secretary Jo Grady said yesterday, speaking ahead...

THE VOLCANO of people’s rage which was building up its fury over the last few months, erupted in Greece on Wednesday in an unprecedented...

Thousands of cancer patients have not received the care they need and their conditions have worsened owing to the focus on Covid-19, the British...

THE HIGH Pay Centre’s ‘High Pay Day’ research, published Wednesday, is evidence that the government must rebalance the economy after Covid-19 to make it...

MORE than half the country wants chancellor Rishi Sunak to continue permanently with the £20-a-week uplift in Universal Credit (UC) due to end in...

AN unconfirmed number of Palestinian civilians were killed and many more were injured last night in an ongoing Israeli genocide campaign involving airstrikes and...

A PROTEST of striking Manchester bus drivers took place outside the Mayor’s Office yesterday afternoon, demanding that Andy Burnham takes action to stop the...

THE NHS is planning ‘previously unthinkable’ cuts to try to balance the books, according to a survey conducted by NHS Providers, which represents NHS...

THE NUMBER of homeless people dying on the streets of England has dramatically increased by 25% over five years, while the sheer scale of...

THE Palestinian Hamas resistance movement strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s targeting of schools sheltering internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip yesterday, describing the...

‘DRACONIAN’ new laws have been rushed in by the Tories ahead of Saturday’s coronation and a letter described by lawyers as ‘intimidatory’, has been...

LABOUR’S announcement of £5 billion a year benefits cuts to be snatched from one million disabled and mentally ill workers were denounced by trade...

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer said yesterday that Labour ‘won’t be able to spend our way out’ of the ‘mess’ left by the Tories. While...

TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday travelled to Luxembourg to meet EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and the country’s PM Xavier Bettel. After the meeting, Johnson...

GAMBLING with people’s lives, the new Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid made a statement on removing Covid-19 restrictions yesterday. He told Parliament: ‘We...

THE HIGH Court in London yesterday ruled in favour of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s right to appeal against the UK court ruling approving his...

‘TOWER Hamlets, shame on you!’ shouted the 40-strong picket of striking council workers outside Albert Jacob House on Roman Road in east London yesterday...

THE METROPOLITAN Police have been condemned for their decision to impose a last-minute ban on a planned mass pro-Palestinian march starting from outside the...

EALING SOUTHALL WRP candidate Hassan Zulkifal confronted Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. Hancock claimed: ‘We’ve saved the A&E and now...

A GENERAL strike has been called for today across the whole of Palestine. The call began from Palestinians living and working in Israel and was...

THE US presidential election is on a knife edge, with Republican President Trump and his Democrat rival Joe Biden both claiming to have won. Trump...

STAFF working on a ward for terminal coronavirus patients were denied Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) despite having to bag up 185 bodies in just...

STRIKE ballots will open at 143 universities across the UK from today in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions. The University and College Union...

THE NHS will be encouraged to buy up social care beds in a bid to get medically-fit patients out of hospitals faster, Labour has...

SPENDING CUTS, job losses and pension attacks must end, the RMT told the London Mayor yesterday. The Tube workers’ union wrote to Sadiq Khan, emphasising...

PATIENTS are being put at ‘catastrophic risk’ of harm due to ambulance handover delays, NHS managers warned yesterday. West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) has raised...

MORE than 80 countries and institutions are participating in an international campaign to aid and rebuild the Gaza Strip, following the ceasefire that came...

THIS FRIDAY marks two years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire, and local residents and firefighters are furious that no lessons have been learned...

NURSES at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, north west London, were forced to wear bin bags because of a lack of Personal Protective Equipment...