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ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...

Prison Officers Association (POA) members defied the government yesterday and walked out for the first illegal strike against Labour over public sector...

THE MYANMAR military authorities have seized control of the embassy, leaving the ambassador out in the street and forcing him to sleep in his...

MASSIVE health service cuts being proposed for Northern Ireland ‘will put patients’ lives at risk’, Dr Tom Black said yesterday. Dr Black who is chair...

FOR the first time in history midwives are uniting with other health workers to ballot for strike action, in an escalating fight over...

DISINVESTMENT in general practice by successive governments has drastically hampered doctors’ ability to provide safe care, BMA GPs committee chair Chaand Nagpaul has warned...

Greek workers, youth and students in their thousands demonstrated in every city on May Day celebrating historic past struggles and showing their determination to...

Defence Secretary Hutton has said that further increases in UK troop levels in Afghanistan cannot be ruled out. He said that Britain would consider...

Postal workers yesterday expressed their anger at the government’s determination to part-privatise Royal Mail. ‘If Mandelson is determined to push this through, our only option...

With anger over job cuts and NHS ‘reforms’ due to dominate the Royal College of Nursing’s Annual Congress in Liverpool this week,...

TWENTY thousand university and school students, primary and secondary school teachers and universities staff marched through Athens last Thursday in a determined and enthusiastic...

WORKERS at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital are holding a mass lunchtime rally outside the hospital today, against victimisation by their multi-national privateer employer Carillion. Swindon...

‘LATER this week we will announce which areas will fall into which tiers,’ Tory PM Johnson told Parliament yesterday, speaking from Number 10, where...

With the encouragement of Bush and Blair, Israel continued its murderous air, land and sea bombardments on Lebanon yesterday, striking central Beirut for the...

There was another record increase in the unemployment rate to reach 2.38 million in the second quarter of 2009, according to the latest figures...

‘THREE and a half years on from Grenfell and hundreds of thousands can’t sleep at night because their homes are unsafe,’ Labour’s Shadow Housing...

THE UK is turning a blind eye to suffering on its doorstep by failing to protect vulnerable refugees, who have been displaced by conflict,...

NEWS International chief executive Rebekah Brooks resigned yesterday morning, thrown overboard by Murdoch as he sought to get a grip on News International’s runaway...

‘Our union executive should immediately call off the talks with Royal Mail until the threats of redundancy, total flexibility, and attacks on our pension...

ANGRY residents, health campaigners and NHS trade unionists demonstrated outside Crawley hospital yesterday, next to the shuttle bus that takes patients and workers to...

PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday announced plans for a new raft of savage attacks on migrant workers. In a widely publicised speech given in a...

A BABY girl was the sole survivor of an overnight Israeli attack on a family home in Khan Younis which killed 10 people yesterday. The...

REFUGEES from the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) celebrated their court victory last week, as they demonstrated opposite Downing Street yesterday against deportations...

Over 2,000 celebrated the ousting of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at a rally in Trafalgar Square, central London, on Saturday organised by Amnesty International...

‘THE BBC says it subscribes to “BBC values”, but it would appear BBC Values do not apply to contractors such as Aramark.’ BECTU General Secretary...

Ambulance staff demonstrated outside Newham Hospital in East London yesterday against the imposition of grossly inferior un-negotiated new contracts, and demanding that they be...

THE homelessness charity Crisis said yesterday that what was already an emergency now risks becoming ‘a growing catastrophe’. Chief executive Matt Downie said: ‘The Scottish...

Junior doctors, angry at the prospect of thousands being without jobs and government plans to ship them overseas, are lobbying MPs today. The British Medical...

The Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre on Sunday morning in southern Gaza, killing at least 31 aid seekers and injuring 120 others...

IN AN INTERVIEW with Al Jazeera yesterday, Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said the Palestinian group will not engage in further...

IRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted unanimously to close Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel yesterday. Netanyahu announced the decision on X. ‘The government, headed...

‘MY BROTHER is a political prisoner. He was due to go to university this year, but instead he’s been jailed for protesting outside the...

The BMA has secured more than £200,000 in back pay for junior doctors, after their rotas failed to provide sufficient rest. It has now...

‘THE Tolpuddle Martyrs were called troublemakers and were transported to Australia. ‘We were called troublemakers and sacked,’ Parmjeet Sidhu said at the Gate Gourmet locked-out...

THE Palestinian Mission to the UK yesterday urged the UK government to protect the Palestinian people following the killing of Palestinian leader Abu Ein. In...

SAVAGE cuts policies are continuing to tear the heart out of the NHS! The entire consultant team, of four emergency consultants, running Accident and Emergency...

STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class, the youth and the...

The Egyptian revolution is advancing, with thousands rallying yesterday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square for a ‘Friday of Reclaiming Honour’ protest against military and police...

‘Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Death to the occupiers! Death to Israel! Death to the traitors!’ shouted a defiant Iraqi President...

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt yesterday said he will hand over private e-mails to his special adviser about the BSkyB takeover bid to the Leveson...

UNITE, Britain’s largest union, yesterday announced a new round of strikes over 20 days at British Airways. This follows the third overwhelming vote by Unite’s...

THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the ceasefire Israel eventually clinched with Hezbollah has shattered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘illusion’ of reshaping West Asia...

HOSPITAL doctors in Scotland have voted to take strike action against the government’s attacks on the Scottish NHS Pension Scheme. However, the BMA Council, met...

YESTERDAY the UNISON trade union pointed out what most health workers know from hard experience, that; ‘Huge increases in the basics of life eat...

THE NEW contract being imposed by the Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt on junior doctors is ‘potentially illegal’, an equal rights watchdog reported yesterday. The...