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THE TUC, Unite, RMT, GMB, Aslef and TSSA all said yesterday that the Tories scrapping of the Leeds leg of the HS2 was a...

AMENDMENT H calling for a second referendum was resoundingly defeated in parliament last night by 249 votes, with just 85 MPs voting for and...

ENGLAND’S biggest-ever strike ballot is on the cards, confirmed the University and College Union (UCU) yesterday, after it entered into dispute with 88 English...

‘A CEASEFIRE in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is at its closest point yet, with negotiations to bring the 15-month conflict to an end...

THE US ‘war on terror’ has taken almost one million lives across the globe and has cost the country $8 trillion over the past two...

THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) at its meeting ending on 1 February 2023, voted by a majority of 7-2 to increase...

British Medical Association (BMA) Cymru Wales junior doctors committee has announced new strike dates as part of the dispute over pay. ‘In the absence of...

RUSSIA’S ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, spoke at the emergency special session of the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday, defending...

BLACK, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) nursing staff are still more likely to have problems accessing protective equipment, according to latest UK-wide member survey...

SEVENTY thousand council workers are to be balloted in every borough in England and Wales in preparation for a strike action against a ‘derisory’...

THE few aid trucks let into Gaza are ‘ridiculously inadequate’ and nowhere near sufficient to meet Gaza’s vast needs, instead they serve as ‘a...

NEW emergency powers were outlined yesterday by the Tories as they published the Emergency Coronavirus Bill. The sweeping new powers which will last as...

DOZENS of air strikes pounded Gaza yesterday while a new front in the conflict opened up as the Israeli military also shelled Lebanon in...

GAZA Civil Defence Units have found mass graves of another 50 Palestinians at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, with many of the...

US PRESIDENT Joe Biden announced yesterday the country is banning Russian oil and gas in response to Russia’s ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine. Biden said...

LABOUR IS pledging a relentless focus on the NHS in its first 100 days in government as new research reveals hundreds of ‘extreme’ risks...

‘WE have the right to attack anywhere in Israel, since Israel has attacked anywhere in Lebanon,’ Hezbollah Deputy Leader Naim Qassem said in a...

THE NEW Labour government launched its massive attack on the NHS yesterday, with PM Sir Keir Starmer threatening that the NHS must ‘reform or...

THE government made the final offer and said “no more talks”. We are united, stronger together. We cannot and will not back down,’ Consultants...

BORDER staff were preparing yesterday to strike against Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel’s hated ‘pushback’ policy against migrant boats trying to reach the UK. Their...

UK GOVERNMENT figures show that over 1,800 people in Britain will spend the Christmas holiday incarcerated in immigration detention centres, prompting calls to end...

WRP parliamentary candidate for Camberwell and Peckham Joshua Ogunleye had a warm welcome for his socialist policies at the London College of Arts Camberwell...

INTERNATIONAL rights groups say Israel has failed to meet a deadline set by the United States to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza...

MORE than half a million workers, students and youth joined London’s Nakba 77 march on Downing Street in support of Palestine on Saturday. As it...

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

THERE HAS been confirmation that Jaguar Land Rover will build a new all-electric model at its Castle Bromwich plant. Unite said yesterday that the announcement...

GUYS and St Thomas’ theatre nurses are to strike over a dangerous rise in hours. Burnt out nurses warn that a further hour extension to...

TORY PM Johnson faced Tory rebels in the House of Commons yesterday over whether to continue the foreign aid cut of 0.5% of GNI...

HUMAN Rights Watch has accused Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, with US President Joe Biden’s administration criticised for...

THE METROPOLITAN police are investigating allegations surrounding parties at Downing Street and in Whitehall, M-et Chief Cressida Dick said yesterday, with the Sue Gray...

FRENCH unions brought the transport system to a halt again yesterday on ‘Black Monday’ the day the French parliament, the Assemblée nationale, began debating...

AL-AWDA Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, northern Gaza, has issued an urgent appeal to international humanitarian bodies after an Israeli airstrike ignited a catastrophic fire...

ONE million children in Gaza are in critical need of life-saving health services and supplies, UNICEF’s West Asia and North Africa regional director warns...

OVER 300 striking lecturers, university staff and students rallied outside the Universities UK (UUK) HQ in Tavistock Square, central London yesterday shouting: ‘Hey, hey,...

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...

‘IT IS in no-one’s interests for members of the armed forces to be given a free pass over alleged war crimes’ said Kate Allen,...

THE ISRAELI military yesterday launched a large-scale exercise, involving ground forces, naval vessels and aircraft, simulating a war against Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement. The multi-day...

THE LABOUR government announced 18,000 NHS staff sackings in England yesterday, with a deal with the Treasury signed off to hand the health service...

PALESTINIAN prisoner Kayed Fasfous has won a decisive victory and ends his hunger strike after an agreement was reached to end his administrative det-ention...

THE Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates yesterday welcomed the initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, in calling for...

THE TORY government will introduce ‘Emergency Powers’ tomorrow, Tuesday, which are to be voted on in the House of Commons on Thursday, Health Secretary...

NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD NEW YEAR STATEMENT 2025 THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2025 to all our readers and to the...

‘WE NEED collective action and a general strike. This Tory government has to go. It’s spent the last ten years looking after the bosses...

LEBANON’S Hezbollah has been banned by the UK in its entirety, Tory Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced yesterday. The Lebanon-based...

NHS consultants in England are on 48-hour strike today and tomorrow, with the BMA hosting a rally at its London headquarters in Tavistock Square,...