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IN A CRITICAL and damning judgment, the Home Office’s decision to house asylum seekers who had made it across the Channel in a ‘squalid’...

‘WE ARE here to stand up for the hard working people, we are abused and refused, we have been roundly abused numerous times,’ Hared...

ANGRY GMB members are demonstrating outside the CoNEL College in Tottenham this morning against an ‘utterly shameful’ attack on college cleaners which cuts their...

the Health and Social Care Act, which came into force yesterday, ‘is the privatisation of the National Health Service and must be defeated through...

‘We’re getting ready for revolution in Britain as part of the world socialist revolution.’ That was the message delivered by workers revolutionary Party General Secretary,...

GOVERNMENT proposals to force GPs to sign fewer sick notes for workers have been rejected by Doctors in Unite, which represents GPs and doctors...

Scores of striking Go North West bus drivers massed outside the company’s Queens Road depot in Manchester yesterday, on the first day of their...

WITH MILLIONS of new Universal Credit claimants expected when the Tory ‘job retention’, or ‘furlough’, scheme ends over the next three months, the government...

FOUR thousand Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) Unite members came out on strike yesterday, with many demanding that the action should be united with British...

RIOT police fired rubber bullets Wednesday at Spanish coal miners protesting in the streets of Madrid, along with tens of thousands of other workers. Hundreds...

THE FIRST day of a five-day strike yesterday marked an escalation in the college lecturers’ struggle with eleven colleges out on strike. At the College...

THERE is to be a march from Ealing Hospital to Downing Street in the first week of September to stop the closure...

THE spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry has accused the United States and Britain of being complicit in the ‘terrible and inhumane’ crime perpetrated by...

LABOUR has accused the May government of a ‘blanket sell-off’ of NHS land to raise billions to try to plug the hole in savagely...

THE Care Quality Commission has put a cap on the number of people who can be admitted to the ‘Majors’ section of the A&E...

A CLOSED Arts Council meeting is being held in the Roundhouse in Camden, north west London on Tuesday at 1.30pm, to ratify swingeing ‘death...

STAFF at 74 universities across the length and breadth of the country and in the north of Ireland are to strike in February and...

TEACHERS unions reacted angrily to the news yesterday that the Tories are once again to hold their wage ‘increase’ at just 2%, well below...

PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service,...

German workers are holding ‘warning strikes’ today over General Motors scrapping the sale of GM Europe, which includes Opel and Vauxhall, to Magna. The GM...

PALESTINIAN Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour called for an immediate permanent ceasefire when he addressed a special session of the United Nations...

SURVIVORS of Haiti’s biggest earthquake for 200 years yesterday appealed to the world for urgent food, water and medicines as the death toll continued...

DOCTORS, midwives and local residents yesterday spoke out against the closure of Ealing Hospital maternity unit, planned for the 1st of July. Ian McKenzie, doctor...

‘The consultation process has been an absolute sham’, said Save Chase Farm councillor Kieran McGregor ahead of this morning’s lobby of the NHS Independent...

Former Prime Minister Blair and his war cabinet should be put on trial for war crimes, said the parents of soldiers killed in the...

POWERFUL picket lines were in place on London Underground (LU) Central and Victoria lines across the weekend, as RMT members took strike action against...

THE Junior Doctors’ Alliance has issued a statement opposing Saturday’s announcement by the BMA leadership of the ‘suspension’ of its planned five-day strike actions...

THE TORY government has launched a three-pronged attack on parents, teachers and councils in a bid to force schools to open – despite all...

THE UNITE union has warned that it will leave ‘no stone unturned’ if Doncaster refuse contractor Suez presses ahead with strike breaking during...

CIVIL rights group Liberty yesterday warned that Prime Minister Blair is seeking to cross a ‘fundamental line in the sand’ by sending people to...

TORY leadership candidate Michael Gove admitted on BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he had acted illegally in relation to using cocaine. The former Justice...

‘FLYBE staff feel disgusted at this betrayal and these broken promises,’ pilots union BALPA General Secretary Brian Strutton said yesterday as the news broke...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2020 to all our readers, and to the working class, youth and the poor who...

HUNDREDS of thousands of school youth are walking out on strike today in more than 100 countries around the globe over climate change. School youth...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says Russia is going ahead with deliveries of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to the Syrian army. The arms will help...

TORY Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that UK troops are to be sent to the Ukraine ‘to train Zelensky’s military on the ground’...

The leader of the Greek conservatives Antonis Samaras, whose New Democracy party came top in last Sunday’s general election, winning just below 19 per...

THE TORIES axing of the student nurses and midwives bursary has caused numbers applying to plummet even further, this time by 10%, meaning that...

The Arab League has criticised the United States for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution that sought to condemn Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip. The...

Merseyside and North Yorkshire local authority pension funds are suing Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for compensation. The funds accuse RBS of withholding the extent...

THE WARSAW Conference, organised by the US in the Polish capital on February 13-14, has outraged millions of Arabs who believe their leaders attended...

HAMAS is intensifying its security campaign against armed gangs and militias in Gaza that collaborate with the Israeli military, officials say, aiming to restore...

Prime minister Cameron’s ‘zero tolerance’ attack on youth comes as government cuts are decimating youth services. Unite the union announced at the weekend that youth...

THE latest NHS workforce data is ‘not something the government should be proud of’, says the BMA. Responding to the latest NHS workforce data BMA...

‘It was a night of terror, we were terrified, we thought we were going to burn to death,’ said 27-year-old Fadia Al-Najjar from Khaza’a...