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‘AFTER a decade-long pay cut we are asking ourselves: is this good enough? And of what we have seen, the answer is NO,’ senior...

STEPHEN Phillips Tory MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham quit as an MP yesterday. He had a majority of more than 24,000 over Labour in...

A MASS of students over 2,000 strong rallied outside the University of London Students Union (ULU) on Wednesday, to protest the arrest of 41...

‘THE SUPPORT has been amazing,’ striker Peter Gleaves told News Line at the Queens Road Depot in Manchester yesterday, where Go North West bus...

‘ANY attempt by foreign forces to land on Iran’s shores will be met with overwhelming resistance,’ Deputy Chief of the Iranian Army for Coordination...

BANK of England (BoE) Governor Andrew Bailey announced yesterday morning that there will be no more government bond-buying by the Bank after tomorrow, regardless...

THE QUEEN has been asked by Tory PM Boris Johnson to prorogue Parliament days after MPs return from the Summer break, which will mean...

THE TUC said yesterday that young people not in full-time education are now less likely to be in work than people of other ages...

OVER 100 Fatah-affiliated prisoners in Israeli jails entered their third day on hunger strike yesterday, prisoner representatives said. The 120 prisoners, all held in Nafha...

‘I HAVE just chaired a meeting of the cabinet, where we agreed that the government should call a general election, to be held on...

THE price of wholesale gas yesterday surged to a huge record high after the unexpected closure of one of three import pipelines. A technical fault...

INTEREST rates are expected to be hiked by 0.25% to 4.75% today, but with yesterday’s inflation rate remaining at 8.7% in the year to...

ON the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday Gate Gourmet workers told News Line that they were not going to accept compulsory redundancy. Mr Gurbaksish...

THE SYRIAN government absolutely rejects the allegations ‘that the army used in the past or uses now or will use in the future any...

THERE was a strong picket of 80 striking GMB domestic workers, porters and caterers at Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. The workers were in their fourth...

RAIL union RMT yesterday slammed the government and private rail companies after it emerged that passengers facing delays and cancellations – because of the...

‘EALING Hospital A&E and Maternity must not close and it’s a disgrace that the Labour candidate refuses to commit to this,’ Scott Dore, Workers...

‘As ordinary trade union members are fighting for their jobs they must have a leadership with a policy of “not one job sold, not...

THE founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has backed ex-National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, saying the world needs whistleblowers and...

THE battle to stop all NHS cuts is now raging up and down the country. However, the private predators are gathering. Near Horsham last Thursday night...

THE South African government must nationalise mines that Anglo American Platinum Ltd (Amplats) is laying idle, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU)...

THE JOHNSON government faces a substantial rebellion in the House of Commons today and it could be facing defeat, with more than 30 Tory...

Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a US-based advocacy group, has unequivocally condemned Washington’s role in Israel’s genocidal violence against Palestinians. In a series of pointed...

THE Sadr City region of Baghdad is facing a humanitarian catastrophe with tens of thousands of residents cut off from clean water, food and...

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...

WE’RE here over Christmas,’ BA painting student Tobias Newbigin said at the occupation of the Camberwell College of Art yesterday. The occupation of the Wilson...

EALING Council Parking Services workers are striking again today and tomorrow demanding that Ealing Council sacks the Serco public services privateer and takes their...

THE MET Police have issued more than 50 new fines for breaches of Covid rules in Downing Street and other government buildings. The Fixed Penalty...

LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced National Insurance (NI) and income tax thresholds will be frozen for an extra three years beyond 2028 in her...

HAMAS will not take steps towards placing its weapons under centralised control or storing them until Israeli forces have withdrawn from the Gaza Strip,...

The Iranian government yesterday accused Britain of organising and equipping bombers who killed eight people in attacks in the south-western city of...

‘THE people behind me haven’t had a pay rise for half a decade,’ ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan said yesterday, speaking on the picket...

Senior executives at General Motors were meeting yesterday to finalise restructuring plans and proceed to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today. US President Barack Obama...

GOVERNMENT plans to ‘asset-strip’ the £28 billion Royal Mail pension scheme and plough the money into cutting the budget deficit were yesterday condemned by...

OVER 50 striking Swindon hospital workers travelled by coach yesterday to Wolverhampton to lobby their employer, privateer Carillion, demanding an end to...

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday rejected a proposed three-year pay deal for teachers as a pay cut and warned there will be...

PALESTINIAN child prisoners detained by Israeli authorities in recent months have indicated an upsurge of flagrant violations against them during and after detention, including...

THE death toll from Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza topped 35,000 yesterday, as the regime’s tanks rolled into the massive Jabalia refugee camp. At least...

US President Joe Biden has stated that his administration is ‘discussing’ potential Israeli plans to strike Iran’s oil industry in response to the recent...

THE PCS General Secretary and National President sent a message of solidarity to striking CWU members in the Royal Mail yesterday. Their message, to CWU...

TEACHERS unions said yesterday that the policies enforced by the now ex-Tory Education Secretary Gove, and resisted by hundreds of thousands of teachers...

‘I STAND by what I said in the House of Commons, that Lord Fink was engaged in tax avoidance,’ Labour leader Miliband said during...

JUNIOR doctors will strike next Tuesday after talks with the government broke down at 4.45pm yesterday afternoon. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Junior doctors...

SOME thirty thousand Greek workers, youth and students held a rally on Thursday evening outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens. Inside, the Greek...

Washington and Tehran are close to signing a one-page memorandum to end the armed conflict. The US leadership’s decision to suspend Operation Project Freedom in...