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INSECTS and rats have infested UCL students’ halls of residence sparking a new rent strike against the terrible conditions students are expected to live...

LABOUR is calling for an emergency budget to bring forward measures to tackle the cost of living crisis as inflation soars to a 30-year...

‘THIS REPORT does not call for zero-hours contracts to be banned! Zero-hours workers are amongst the most exploited in this country, and the most...

SUPPORT for the bus workers, who were out on strike in large numbers yesterday to force private bus owners Arriva to increase their miserly...

15,795 HOMELESS Londoners have been forced into temporary accommodation outside their borough, a Freedom of Information request revealed yesterday. Representing a third of the 47,137...

‘JEREMY Hunt. How dare you!’ wrote Julie Lovell, a woman whose 33-year-old daughter Karen, died after the end of the two-day junior doctor strike....

NORMAL government structures were shut down as Blair and his Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, lied and deceived in order to push the Cabinet into...

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) published yesterday its contingency plans for a ‘no deal scenario’ as post-Brexit trade deals with the UK remain deadlocked. The President...

SYRIAN President Bashar Assad visited Moscow on Tuesday to extend thanks to the Russian authorities and people for helping to preserve the unity and...

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has accused the UK government of bullying and hypocrisy in its bid to militarise the conflict in his country. In an...

BRITAIN remained without a government yesterday, as the Liberal Democrats prepared to dump their proportional representation policy in order to strike a dirty coalition...

LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers were campaigning yesterday for their mass picket next Sunday 22nd January between 11am and 1pm and their conference in London...

PRIME Minister Blair yesterday repeated allegations that Iran had a hand in the deaths of British troops in Iraq. Speaking at a joint press conference...

THE ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) continued their genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank overnight on Tuesday and throughout yesterday. In...

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

LECTURERS and staff took on Goldsmiths College higher management yesterday launching a bold and powerful three week strike against redundancies and the axing of...

Strike action ‘very close to the scale of the (1980s) miners strike, if not bigger’ is unavoidable – unless management withdraws attacks on the...

The GMB trade union warned yesterday of a ‘high noon’ over British Airways (BA) pensions crisis and the big cuts it wants to make. Ed...

THE UK has agreed to open negotiations with Mauritius over the future of the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean since...

talks today on the future of the Vauxhall Ellesmere Port and the GMM Luton plants, with thousands of jobs on the line, will not...

BLAYDON Labour MP Dave Anderson has secured a parliamentary debate on behalf of the Shrewsbury 24 campaign this Thursday, 23 January, over the government’s...

‘THOUSANDS of firefighters face the sack’ as a result of the Public Sector Pensions Bill, which imposes a normal pension age (NPA) of 60...

THE GMB yesterday condemned the forced transfer of nearly 700 northwest London NHS pathology service staff to a private company. The service carries out blood...

WITH a ComRes poll revealing yesterday that public support for a no-deal Brexit is rapidly rising, up 6% since January and now standing at...

Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith yesterday revived former Thatcher minister Tebbit’s savage ‘on your bike’ attack on the unemployed. Duncan Smith announced plans for...

EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk dropped his mask of reasonableness yesterday in Brussels when he declared that there is a ‘special place in hell’...

CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak was accused yesterday by the Unite union of having ‘a selective memory’ when it comes to public sector pay, rewarding some...

150,000 WORKERS, trade unionists, students and youth marched from Embankment to Hyde Park in central London on the TUC’s ‘Britain Needs a Pay Rise’...

‘FORCE this British government to carry out the rightful decision to return us back to our beautiful islands and put an end to these...

US WARPLANES launched a major airstrike in Libya early on Friday morning killing, 40 people in one hit. The terror raid was launched from the...

THERE were 200 drivers, guards and engineers in RMT and Aslef outside Marylebone Station in London from 9am-10.30am yesterday morning protesting against Chiltern Railways’...

IAN AUSTIN, MP for Dudley North in the West Midlands, who quit the Labour Party yesterday, said that he will not call a by-election,...

Senior doctors yesterday renewed a warning that private treatment centres are putting patient care at risk and destabilising the NHS. The British Medical Association (BMA)...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has been sent back to Belmarsh high security prison after a judge refused him bail yesterday, despite a decision to...

THE RUSSIAN Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador and warned London of ‘dangerous consequences’, following a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow’s Black Sea...

RUSSIA has recognised the counter-revolutionary Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) as the only legitimate power in the country, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Ahead of...

RATIONING is denying many thousands of patients much-needed surgery, leaving them in excruciating, unnecessary pain as NHS trusts proscribe certain procedures in unofficial ‘local...

‘TRADE unions must act – save our children’s services!’ rang out as the three hundred-strong march from Southall to Ealing Hospital proceeded yesterday afternoon. The...

PARENTS are being forced to remortgage their homes in order to pay for their sons’ and daughters’ tuition fees. ‘My Home Move’ analysed figures which...

THE US veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding a humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip is unjustifiable, says Zhang Jun, China’s...

THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics are receiving dozens of urgent pleas to evacuate casualties but are unable to respond because of...

‘A VOTE for Johnson’s Conservatives is a vote to betray our NHS in a sell-out to Trump,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday launching...

150 GMB members employed by Carillion at Great Western NHS Hospital in Swindon are to ballot for strike action over bullying, harassment and...

THE Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke at the European Parliament on Wednesday morning stating that he was seeking an ‘honourable compromise’ with the...

Human rights organisation Amnesty International has hit back at US president George W Bush’s criticism of its annual report which said the USA was...