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ONE-IN-FIVE companies are planning to sack workers in response to yesterday’s cut in furlough payments, a British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) survey has found. From...

FIRES burned across Kuwait’s largest oil refinery for a second consecutive day as Iran widened its strikes on Gulf energy infrastructure, while Tehran warned...

THE TORIES are pushing for a rise in the National Insurance rate, affecting over 25 million workers to pay for social care. For someone on...

HUNDREDS of Iraqi members of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) and their supporters stormed the US embassy in Baghdad for the second day in...

THE Hamas Movement yesterday accused the Israeli occupation government of disregarding the ceasefire agreement and ignoring diplomatic efforts aimed at maintaining calm, warning that...

ISRAELI occupation forces killed an 11-year-old Palestinian girl in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday morning, as attacks continued across multiple areas of the enclave...

RYANAIR is planning to make 3,000, 15% of its workers in Europe, redundant and is also planning 20% pay cuts for employees. Unite national officer...

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 RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has called on the Health Secretary to open negotiations on NHS pay as new research shows the UK...

THE RUSSIAN Security Council discussed yesterday recognising Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbass region of Ukraine as independent states. Russian President Vladimir Putin said: ‘I...

THREE consecutive days of strike action hitting 58 universities begin this morning after university bosses and their representatives refused to withdraw pension cuts or...

‘THOMPSON out!’ chanted 17,000 striking Royal Mail postal workers at a rally in Parliament Square yesterday afternoon. They were expressing their anger at the company’s...

NINE thousand Thomas Cook workers lost their jobs yesterday with a further 20,000 threatened across Europe as the company, founded in 1841, went bust....

IRAN launched more than 200 ballistic missiles on Israel yesterday in response to the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah last week as well...

THERE was a very lively and well-attended rally at the front of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday lunchtime, with delegations of Unite...

ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) general secretary and chief executive, Professor Nicola Ranger yesterday warned staff may strike again this summer unless the government...

Over 20,000 staff at scores of universities are striking for five consecutive days this week in their fight for pay and working conditions and...

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...

MORE than 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through central London on Saturday. The march assembled outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place...

THE LABOUR government’s so-called refreshed NHS Workforce Plan, which essentially is to keep patients out of hospital and treat them in the community instead,...

PALESTINIANS in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank rose up in anger to denounce the normalisation deals signed in Washington yesterday afternoon...

ISRAEL’s far right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has authorised personal firearm permits for residents of 18 additional illegal settlements in the occupied West...

‘WE need a national strike to win this now,’ striking Birmingham binworker Dean Harris, Unite Rep at the Atlas refuse site picket line told...

NEW GOVERNMENT fire safety guidance fails to include escape plans, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) warned yesterday. RIBA insist that the government’s guidance...

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...

‘WE ARE on the verge of conflict which would involve the whole continent,’ Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said yesterday at a joint press conference...

A DELEGATION from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) representing members from across the country handed in a 160,000-strong petition to 10 Downing Street...

THE US ATTACK on Iran and Iraq will cement the unity of the two countries, Iranian President Rouhani said in a phone call with...

STRIKING Ealing civil enforcement officers are protesting outside parliament today against union-busting by the West London Labour Council, furious at the ‘disgraceful’ lack of...

TRADE UnIONS, MPs and celebrities have condemned the attempt by the Metropolitan Police to ban this Saturday’s National March for Palestine from assembling outside...

THE TUC said yesterday it will hold a special Congress to discuss the next stage of the campaign against the Tories’ anti-strike laws. The event...

LABOUR members’ ‘hearts are Remain’ Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson claimed yesterday addressing the Centre for European Reform. He went on to insist that...

THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) began five days of hearings against Israel’s illegal use of starvation as a weapon of war against Palestine...

THE GRENFELL Inquiry heard yesterday that the government ‘concealed the risks of building safety’ and that deregulation ‘should be regarded as one of the...

ONE thousand tractors spread all the way up Whitehall and beyond in a show of strength by tens of thousands of angry farmers yesterday,...

UNIONS representing teachers and school leaders in England are united in calling on the School Teachers’ Review Body to make urgent recommendations on pay,...

NEARLY 600,000 people participated in nationwide protests across France on Thursday, according to the CGT union, responding to a strike call by trade unions...

MAY DAY STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARDNews Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers, youth and masses of the world who...

THE GAZA death toll passed the 39,000 mark yesterday with the Health Ministry reporting at least 39,006 Palestinians have been killed and 89,818 wounded...

‘IT IS MY expectation that we will be able to end the last domestic restrictions, including the legal requirement to self-isolate if you test...

THIS Saturday’s National March for Palestine in London is under threat as the Metropolitan Police has refused to authorise its route, despite being given...

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,...

THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched only its second ballot on industrial action in England and its first in Wales in its...

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday denounced the ‘heinous crimes’ committed on Sunday by Zionist settlers in the northern West Bank town of Huwara...

‘WE need the recognition of the State of Palestine immediately, Mr Starmer, don’t wait one more day,’ Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador the UK said...