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OVER 600 British Airways workers demonstrated outside Heathrow airport yesterday. 42,000 were sacked that day by BA management and will only be re-employed if they...

ISRAELI fighter jets continued bombarding high-rise buildings and other targets in the Gaza Strip using F-15 fighter jets yesterday, as Palestinians marked the Eid...

YESTERDAY’S King’s Speech was opened yesterday by King Charles III. The main issues in the King’s Speech were that ministers will support measures that control...

NEW RESEARCH by ActionAid, Public Services International, and Education International warns that the International Monetary Fund’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermine...

OVER 300 workers and youth marched from the Altab Ali Park in Aldgate East yesterday afternoon through Whitechapel to the News Line Anniversary Rally...

HUNDREDS of residents have received letters confirming Glasgow tower blocks have the very same combustible cladding that rapidly spread the fire in the Grenfell...

‘IT IS OVER,’ Tory defence secretary Ben Wallace admitted yesterday over the UK’s Afghan debacle. He added: ‘It is with deep regret that not everyone...

TRADE union general secretaries and other delegates to the TUC General Council expressed support, and donated money to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers...

THE Tory government risks dividing society, Iain Duncan Smith warned yesterday in his first interview since resigning as Work and Pensions Secretary. He attacked the...

ON Monday 25 February the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will be holding a budget meeting at 10.00am at City Hall, at which his...

‘We are not going to give up!’, declared the comrades of 23-year-old Parameswaran Subramaniyan who after 18 days on hunger strike is too weak...

THE ISRAELI government’s move to revoke the licences of 37 international organisations operating in Gaza and the West Bank, including Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors...

FOUR THOUSAND workers in Britain’s network of 371 Crown Post Offices are on strike today against the government’s policy of wholesale closures and in...

Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust plans to close wards and sack hundreds of staff in a bid to save £23 million in a year, in...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trades Union Congress (TUC) and civil society groups yesterday shut down the entire country at the beginning of...

GREEK public sector workers went on a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday against the so-called government ‘mobility scheme’ to bring in tens of thousands...

THE Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued to carry out intensive deadly strikes targeting civilians in different areas of the Gaza Strip, mainly in Gaza...

the TUC declared yesterday that there has been no ‘real progress’ in pensions talks with the government and the ‘unions remain firmly committed...

‘It seems management are hell-bent on taking on the FBU and cutting 120 jobs’, Merseyside Fire Brigades Union Brigade Chairman Mark Dunne told News...

THE General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) IT system, designed to extract data from the four major clinical IT systems used by GPs, is late,...

RUSSIA ‘categorically denied and continues to categorically deny the possibility of any kind of involvement’, in the attempt to assasinate Skripal and his daughter...

UNITE and Unison are urging MPs to vote on Monday against Clause 18, hastily inserted into the Care Bill, which would make it easier...

DEMONSTRATIONS are taking place outside Parliament from 1.00pm today, and in towns and cities around the country, as the Labour government seeks to pass...

ISRAELI prime minister Ehud Olmert yesterday called the capture of two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border by Hezbollah an ‘act of war’. Olmert threatened...

WORKERS at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich in south east London were on strike yesterday and are striking again today in a bitter struggle...

TATA Steel announced yesterday that it is getting out of Britain at once, threatening the jobs of 19,000 steelworkers in Port Talbot, Rotherham, Corby,...

A LAST minute intervention in Whitehall delayed plans to tackle the backlog of patients on hospital waiting lists in England. Details of the NHS England...

THE director general of Gaza’s Government Media Office, Ismail al-Thawabta, yesterday demanded that Israel opens the crossings and allow aid in ‘immediately’, warning of...

‘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...

LEADING stars, joined crowds at a rally and march yesterday morning, led by two generations of the historic suffragette Pankhurst family in London on...

‘GEORGE Floyd was living, breathing, walking and talking just fine until the police put him face down in handcuffs and put a knee on...

GPs have been told by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) they will have to hit targets for cutting emergency admission rates. If they do not they...

CUTTING the amount the NHS spends on agency midwives would solve the midwife shortage, says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in a new...

EALING Parking Service workers are angry at the way in which their strike has been sold out. Unite Branch Secretary Harjinder Nagi told News Line...

More than half of all school children living in poverty, 1.2 million, are missing out on free school meals, reveals shocking new research by...

THE armed wing of Hamas, Qassam Brigades, hit an Israeli Merkava tank with two Yassin 105 anti-armour missiles near a mosque in the Tal...

THE two brothers released without charge after the massive state terror operation in Forest Gate told a press conference yesterday how they thought they...

‘WE want people to march with us on May Day,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Parmjit Baines said yesterday. She was on a campaign team that...

THE TORY party’s putrefaction continued yesterday with Prime Minister Liz Truss’ sacking of her ‘great friend’, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, followed by a four-minute statement...

‘I HOPE this action is the beginning of a wider movement of the working class standing together in solidarity and working towards a general...

THE suspension of Parliament is ‘the territory of political judgements not legal standards’, the Tory government’s lawyer told the Supreme Court yesterday. The court is...

THE threat by the Metropolitan Police to ban Saturday’s National March (PSC) for Palestine from assembling at the BBC in Portland Place as arranged...

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin yesterday accused the US of trying to disrupt the Russian military operation in South Ossetia by transporting Georgian troops...

Starmer has announced hurried alterations to the Labour welfare bill after more than 120 Labour MPs signalled their intention to vote against it, threatening...

BRITISH Steel has formally been taken into public ownership, fifteen months after the government intervened to prevent the closure of its Scunthorpe steelworks and...