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Army drivers are being trained as strikebreakers in the event of a national tanker drivers strike which is expected to be called...

THE Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) yesterday struck off the medical register former British Army doctor Dr Derek Keilloh after his misconduct over the...

Scores of Iraqis were at the High Court in London yesterday demanding an Independent Public Inquiry into allegations that British interrogators abused, killed and...

Yesterday a junior defence minister and six parliamentary private secretaries resigned over Prime Minister Blair’s refusal to name a date for his departure. Junior defence...

Prime Minister Blair yesterday announced the government’s intention to introduce new laws against ‘incitement and the instigation of terrorism’, for which he had the...

BRITISH soldiers are set to be sent to Libya it has emerged, with Downing Street repeatedly refusing to rule out deploying ground troops...

PROSPECT members in the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency have warned that safety on the UK’s road network is at risk if plans to...

UCU members at West London College sites in Hammersmith, Acton, Ealing and Southall were on strike yesterday against job losses. Fourteen staff face loosing their...

Lawyers yesterday revealed shocking allegations about the behaviour of British troops in Iraq. Martyn Day, senior partner at law firm Leigh Day & Co, and Phil Shiner of Public...

VICIOUS Tory cuts to the tune of £140 million mean that fire and rescue services are fighting with one hand tied behind their back....

‘We offer our full solidarity,’ civil servants’ union PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka told a 500-strong rally of striking postal workers in central...

‘We welcome today’s decision to bring a charge of manslaughter against the officer,’ said newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson’s stepson Paul King on behalf of...

PARLIAMENTARY Commissioner Sir Philip Mawer yesterday announced a full investigation into Deputy Premier Prescott’s relations with US tycoon Phillip Anschutz, focusing on his...

Unemployed construction workers were joined by young apprentices unable to complete their training because of a lack of work, in a mass protest at...

‘NO matter how many times you said to senior American officers, and indeed Mr Rumsfeld, that we were not committing our forces until we...

MORE THAN 100 youth won enthusiastic support from shoppers as they marched with the Young Socialists through Birmingham city centre on Saturday afternoon, as...

A US military post came under attack in Balad on the outskirts of Baghdad yesterday as explosions rocked the Iraqi capital, despite a round-the-clock...

At least thirty people were killed as President Musharraf yesterday called out the army to restore order in the cities as violent protests spread...

The Blair government has intervened in a European Court of Justice (EJC) test case to insist that the right to strike is not a...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education had a great day in Sheffield yesterday. The day started with the marchers splitting up...

THE case against the Chagos islanders was adjourned for 14 days on Wednesday. They are being prosecuted for their campaign in Crawley for their right...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said yesterday she was deeply concerned by reports of the rapidly deteriorating conditions facing a quarter...

A retired police constable and a police staff member have been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice after claims that evidence...

GMB trade union members demonstrated yesterday against the union-busting propaganda for Asda Wal-Mart being supplied by public relations company Portland PR, which was set...

Over 30,000 Belgian postal workers began a three-day strike yesterday against privatisation to defend their jobs, pay and working conditions. Postal unions...

Five Iraqis were arrested yesterday after a massive pre-dawn assault on the city of Basra by a force of more than 1,000 UK and...

STAFF at Norfolk’s biggest hospital , the Norfolk and Norwich, were told to make the ‘least unsafe decision’ last week, when the hospital had...

US President Barack Obama announced on Saturday that, despite deciding as ‘Commander-in-Chief’ to take military action against Syria, he will seek congressional support for...

Justice secretary Jack Straw has had to order an inquiry into claims that police bugged Tooting Labour MP Sadiq Khan as he visited a...

TUBE drivers, cleaners and TFL electricians and engineers have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a series of disputes over attacks on agreements and...

STUDENTS at Hackney Community College in Shoreditch, east London joined the campaign yesterday to elect Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch...

Nearly all Greek university departments and over 500 schools throughout the country were yesterday being occupied by students in mass and militant mobilisations commemorating...

‘I THINK we are dealing with a mafia not a police organisation,’ alleged the cousin of murdered Brazilian man Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday. Alex...

OVER 100,000 will be gathering in central London today, on the eve of the Labour Party conference, to demand the withdrawal of British and...

‘NOW that Eric Born (managing director Gate Gourmet UK and Ireland) has admitted that only 137 have signed the Compromise Agreement, it shows that...

The GMB trade union yesterday accused Stansted security contractor Airfield Services of Gate Gourmet tactics. It said that Airfield Services was showing gross irresponsibility in...

Greek public sector workers on short contracts staged a successful 24-hour national strike last Thursday demanding permanent jobs and full labour rights. Their struggle was...

QUEUES of worried and angry savers continued outside Northern Rock banks yesterday. At the Harrow branch many queuers told News Line that they did not...

‘Talks have, indeed, broken down as a consequence of Gate Gourmet wanting to selectively re-employ those who had been sacked, even though there is...

TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled a multi-billion bailout for big businesses in light of the coronavirus crisis. Speaking at the daily press conference Sunak...

MONDAY’S launch of the daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital, in preparation to occupy the departments threatened with closure, was a roaring success. The...

MARK EASTON, the chief executive of the Chase Farm and Barnet NHS Trust, quit yesterday after it was made public that the trust intended...

NUT members at Bilborough College, Nottingham went on strike yesterday against compulsory redundancies, downgrading of teachers’ jobs and workload, with a picket from 7.45am...

Thousands of Jobcentre Plus (JCP) call centre staff will strike on April 18 after bosses refused to improve working conditions and customer service, the...

TUC general secretary Brendan Barber led a delegation of union leaders to meet with Tory-LibDem coalition prime minister Cameron yesterday midday....