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THREE of the 13 hospitals across England that provide complex heart care have been ordered to stop doing so by NHS England, alleging concerns...

A leaked US Army Criminal Investigation Command report has revealed a catalogue of prisoner abuses, including two deaths, by the US military at Bagram...

THREE London hospitals face the threat of immediate closure as a result of PFI-induced bankruptcy, it emerged yesterday. In the first case of its kind,...

OVER 3,000 workers and youth staged a rally in the Athens city centre last Friday evening against the visit of the German Chancellor to...

CHANCELLOR Osborne launched a massive new attack on the working class and poor yesterday, with his £11.5 billion Spending Review onslaught on pay, public...

THE seven and a half month old strike at the Hellenic Steel plant in Aspropyrgos, just 20 km from Athens, has been declared by...

LABOUR Party leader Miliband stepped up his attacks on the trade unions yesterday, announcing plans to end the automatic ‘affiliation’ fee paid by three...

THE family of Roger Sylvester are disappointed but not surprised by the decision of the Independent Police Complaints Commission that the police officers involved...

THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a dire warning that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is nearing total collapse, as...

‘The strikes are strongly supported, our members are determined to continue the strike action until Royal Mail seriously negotiates,’ a Communication Workers’ Union (CWU)...

FORTY-FIVE drivers and warehousemen at Nippon Express Air Freight Agent in Hayes near Heathrow Airport are on their third day of a three day...

DELEGATES at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool overwhelmingly voted to overturn the Labour government’s abolition of the Winter Fuel Allowance yesterday. Moving the motion,...

2013 Manifesto – STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings for the year 2013 to the...

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) issued an update yesterday on its investigation into the Forest Gate police shooting of 23-year-old Abdul Kahar. The IPCC...

THE Chase Farm occupation was ended at 9pm on Saturday night after the police received government orders to evict the occupiers. The occupation began...

THE BBC has threatened pensioners with bailiffs if they don’t pay the licence fee, after spending £38m on 800 staff to enforce collection. Bailiffs will...

ELEVEN school dinner ladies and men from Haggerston school in Hackney, east London, went on strike yesterday against poverty pay. They were joined by over...

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...

RUSSIA’s Stalinist leadership is lining up at least seven state companies for privatisation because of the collapse of the oil market...

‘It is appalling that this Labour government is now more obsessed with selling off our public services to put profits in the pockets of...

‘STRIKE action is the only way forward. How can we drive our buses safely if there is no A&E at Ealing hospital?’ bus driver...

Jordan’s King Abdullah II has warned of the danger of a ‘summer war’ in the Middle East, should an upcoming Arab summit on the...

Tens of thousands of students and youth marched from University of London Union (ULU) near Euston down to parliament yesterday lunchtime, shouting against the...

WORK and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey has apologised to Parliament for making ‘inadvertently misleading’ statements about Universal Credit. She said she had ‘mistakenly’ told...

CALLS by NHS England chief nursing officer Jane Cummings to cut acute care beds and close District General Hospitals, were roundly condemned by a...

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

NHS bosses have started to implement the £20 billion savage cuts programme, officially described as ‘efficiency savings’, that the new Tory government insists must...

THE COURT of Appeal has overturned a High Court injunction that would have forced asylum seekers to leave the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex. Giving...

THE DECISION by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh...

  US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Saturday called for one-and-a-half million Palestinians to be deported to Egypt and Jordan. Describing Gaza as a ‘demolition site’, Trump...

BY MARY KECHAGIA FOR the sixth week in a row, last Thursday many thousands of Greek university and school students staged militant marches in Thessaloniki...

SHOPWORKERS trade union leader John Hannett is delighted with the House of Commons vote that defeated the government and removed Sunday trading changes...

THIRTEEN million families will lose an average of £260 each year because of Osborne’s cuts to working-age benefits, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)...

‘WE COMPLETELY reject any claim that Labour is anti-Semitic,’ said a Labour Party spokesperson, responding to BBC Panorama’s programme aired on Wednesday evening, attacking...

Despite immense pressure the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), Alexis Tsipras, refused to join or support a ‘grand coalition’ government...

SIX people, including four children, were killed in a US drone strike in Kabul, Afghan TV reported yesterday, citing eyewitnesses. Earlier, US officials said that...

The Greek conservatives New Democracy party is building up a ‘pro-European front against populism’ with the aim of defeating the Coalition of the Radical...

MORE than 80% of parents have refused to put their children in harm’s way, scuppering the government’s plan to reopen schools yesterday, a poll...

SURGEONS have been left ‘kicking their heels’ because thousands of operations have been cancelled as a result of a beds shortage during the winter...

AMNESTY International UK has warned that a new UK trade deal with Israel could allow Israel to consolidate its settler-colonialism and apartheid in the...

THE top American army commander has admitted that the US does not have enough troops to sustain its eight-year-old military occupation of Afghanistan, that...

Responding to yesterday’s unemployment figures, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘Today’s figures show that unemployment is starting to accelerate and it now...

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has announced that its members in England and Wales will take strike action again next weekend, Friday 13 and...

THE Trafford strategic programme board has announced its support for closing the A&E at Trafford General Hospital, the hospital from which Nye Bevan launched...

A Which? survey has found that about one million households use high interest payday lenders every month to try to make ends meet and...