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FOLLOWING meetings on Thursday with the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank), the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos...

AN ARREST warrant is being sought by two pro-Palestinian groups Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and the Hind Rajab Foundation for Israeli Foreign Minister...

TODAY is the final day for Ealing Hospital Maternity, but the residents and staff remain completely angry at the planned closure. They are marching through...

THE Strait of Hormuz is ‘declared completely open’ for the ‘remaining period of ceasefire,’ Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said yesterday. In a statement on...

DISMANTLING our state education system and parcelling it off to unelected, unaccountable sponsors is a disgrace,’ Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union...

‘CUT our pay – no way!’, ‘Two per cent is rubbish, so is Gordon Brown!’ and ‘Come on, come on Gordon Brown – raise...

TURKEY was very close to an invasion of northern Iraq yesterday after a number of Turkish troops were killed and wounded in PKK attacks. Kurdistan...

ISRAEL and the United Arab Emirates reached a deal yesterday that will lead to a full normalisation of diplomatic relations between the two, in...

BARNET tenants are holding a ‘Fun Day’ tomorrow to highlight the community they are at risk of losing if Annington Homes continue to evict...

Head teachers yesterday denounced Ofsted’s ‘bully boy tactics’ and sent a strong message to the chief inspector (HMCI) of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, in...

TORY Chancellor Osborne’s class war Budget yesterday had at its centre a Welfare Spending Cap of £119.5bn for 2015-16. The limit on total welfare spending...

THE CWU (Communication Workers Union) is taking national strike action this Friday with 115,000 Royal Mail workers stopping work. Further action has been called for...

OVER half a million public sector workers from eight unions were on strike yesterday, fighting against the Tory government’s attack on their pay, conditions...

DOCTORS at the Annual Representative Meeting of the British Medical Association in Edinburgh yesterday voted to stop the privatisation of the NHS, and voted...

EMPLOYEES across the UK worked a record amount of unpaid overtime last year, with over 5.4 million workers putting in around £640m worth of...

JOBCENTRE staff who deal with calls from people entitled to benefits and crisis loans went on strike yesterday over oppressive working conditions and unrealistic...

AMBULANCE workers and other NHS staff are ‘determined’ and ‘out solid’ throughout Northern Ireland, the GMB regional officer, Michael Mulholland, said yesterday, during...

LABOUR’S top brass is facing a mounting backlash against its campaign of intimidation aimed at forcing MPs to fall in line behind a brutal...

A cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, the young Brazilian electrician murdered by Metropolitan Police CO 19 firearms officers, yesterday demanded those responsible ‘must face...

AS RUSSIA celebrated Victory Day over the Nazis with massive parades all over the country, Ukrainian troops using heavy weaponry and tanks in the...

Communication Workers Union members have been telling News Line what they think of the ending of their strike actions in order to...

TESCO confirmed yesterday that 9,000 jobs are to be axed, as the supermarket giant looks to scrap the fresh food counters, including the in-store...

SACKED Greek ERT state TV and radio workers held a rally last Friday evening outside the main administrative and production building in a suburb...

AMID a steep surge in Covid-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant, thousands of nurses on Thursday staged nationwide protests against staff shortage in...

THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) yesterday announced a global boycott of the University of Leicester as the union hit the institution with the...

THREE education unions wrote to the Tory Education Secretary Gavin Williamson yesterday expressing ‘anger and dismay’ at the way the government has treated school...

JUNIOR DOCTORS in England will strike for five consecutive days in July, in what is thought to be the longest single period of industrial...

VOTERS in both the Stoke-on-Trent and Copeland by-elections go to the polls today to elect new MPs for the seats held by Labour at...

Over 60 parents, children and their supporters from around the country staged a ‘Save Our Children’s Centres’ Mothers’ Day rally outside Downing...

The TUC has welcomed the government’s announcement that it will adopt most of Tory former deputy prime minister Heseltine’s plans for the privatisation...

‘A MASSACRE with the full meaning of the word,’ took place in Gaza City’s Shujayea district yesterday, when Israel carried out an attack that...

THE RUSSIAN Ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, held a press conference in New York yesterday during which he made it clear that...

Palestinian resistance fighters took on Israeli tanks invading eastern Gaza City early yesterday morning and forced their withdrawal after hours of fierce clashes. Palestinians said...

THE Tenant Management Organisation which manages Grenfell Tower is to be stripped of its responsibilities for the west London estate, Tory Prime Minister Theresa...

Business Secretary Mandelson has signalled that the government may provide a bridging loan or loan guarantees to help finance the sale of GM...

MILLIONS of workers today will be following the lead of the RMT, ASLEF and the Bakers’ trade unions in voting to leave the European...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) announced yesterday that it is consulting its members over the latest government offer to settle the resident doctors dispute,...

‘The TUC leaders must call a General Strike, everyone is being hit over pensions, pay, and conditions,’ said David Pitt, Vice Chair of West...

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...

‘We have rejected the deal between the TGWU leaders and Gate Gourmet and put in for our employment tribunals. ‘The TGWU and TUC leaders...

OPENING the ‘Public Services Not Private Profit’ rally yesterday, John McDonnell MP said: ‘Today is the largest and broadest lobby of parliament for decades....

THE Palestinian Land Authority stated that the recent decisions of the Israeli occupation authorities represent a dangerous and unprecedented escalation directly targeting the national...

AS panic gripped investors on the world’s stock markets, it emerged yesterday that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment company has sold more than 245...

‘THE Ministry of Justice is presiding over a bloodbath of assaults, suicides and self-injury in prisons,’ Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League...

‘RMT guards on Southern Rail remain rock solid and absolutely determined in their action in defence of rail safety,’ General Secretary Mick Cash said...