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‘ISRAEL cannot silence us, nor isolate us, nor break us, our chains will be broken before we are,’ Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi has said...

AS THE Tory Party Conference began in Birmingham yesterday PM Truss boasted that she means to proceed from last week’s huge tax cuts for...

MORE than 200 MPs have signed a letter to the prime minister calling for government promises to Windrush migrants to be written into law....

Legal charity INQUEST yesterday condemned government proposals in the Counter-Terrorism Bill 2008 which ‘give unprecedented powers to the Secretary of State to intervene in...

US federal and local government workers union AFSCME President Lee Saunders has slammed Michigan Governor Snyder for ‘suspending democracy’ in Detroit and filing for...

THE BMA issued a powerful statement yesterday calling for ‘non-clinical managers in the NHS and other health service providers to be regulated, in line...

The YS March for Jobs and Free State Education marched for 17 miles from Sheffield to Chesterfield yesterday. It is marching on to Mansfield and...

Public sector union UNISON yesterday reacted in shock and anger to the announcement by Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust that it plans to cut 600...

ONE in five UK households borrowed money or used savings to cover food costs in April, the latest Which? monthly insight tracker survey has...

EALING CONFERENCE GOES AHEAD: On the eve of the West London Council of Action Conference to defend Ealing Hospital, due to take place on...

‘THE APPROACH to today’s business sets an extremely concerning precedent for our democracy,’ Tory leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom said yesterday,...

UNISON’s NHS workers, including nurses, occupational therapists, porters, paramedics, medical secretaries, cooks and healthcare assistants, have voted yes to industrial action in a dispute...

ISRAELI PM Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday approved 800 new illegal settlement units in the West Bank, determined to drive through the mass expansion while Trump...

UNITE general secretary Len McCluskey on Saturday issued an important statement refuting claims that Jeremy Corbyn was responsible for Tom Watson’s withdrawal from...

THERE WERE no talks yesterday between the TGWU and Gate Gourmet bosses after its chairman David Siegel flew back to the US for crisis...

‘PATIENTS before profits, defend the NHS!’ shouted around 200 demonstrators outside St Paul’s Way General Practice yesterday, opposing the take-over of the doctors surgery...

DISABLED children and adults are challenging the legality of the coalition government’s ‘bedroom tax’ and have won the right to take their cases to...

THE LABOUR Party Conference in Liverpool next week is set to battle over the mandatory reselection of MPs. If it is agreed it will be...

The GMB and Unite, the unions for Remploy workers, held a demonstration in Norwich town centre on Saturday against the government’s plan to shut...

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...

‘I BELIEVE we can win this,’ Communication Workers Union General Secretary Bill Hayes told a mass rally against privatisation by over 600 postal workers...

In his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday, Chancellor Gordon Brown declared for ‘New Labour renewed’. Assuming he will succeed Blair as...

GP LEADERS are dismayed as the UK Secretary of State refuses to give additional help to GP practices. The Health and Social Care Secretary is...

EALING Council is going to go to court today, 9 October in a bid to secure a full judicial review (JR) of plans...

Five US Marines were killed by a roadside bomb in Ramadi, western Iraq, on Saturday, the US military said in a statement yesterday.   Their armoured...

POLICE brutally attacked the large teachers’ rallies which were held in all major Greek cities on Monday, as the primary schools teachers entered the...

Labour’s support for the Tory-LibDem coalition’s public sector pay freeze leaves public sector workers ‘disenfranchised’, the leader of the biggest trade union and biggest...

TORY PM Theresa May attended a summit in Brussels yesterday, hours after 11 Tory rebels and almost the entire Labour Party and all the...

WORKERS in the power industry across India will hold a massive rally in Delhi on November 23 against the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022, which...

THE TUC Congress in Liverpool yesterday unanimously voted for Composite Motion 16: Defending the NHS. The motion calls on ‘the General Council to reactivate the...

News Line & Workers Revolutionary Party Public meetings: Trade unions must act to make sure we quit EU on October 31st! For a workers government and...

Yesterday afternoon the establishment closed ranks to prop up the wobbling Labour government and its defence secretary Des Browne. Following Browne’s statement to the House...

A delegation of over 40 Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members and officials lobbied the Treasury as Chancellor Osborne was making his budget...

Four days of national strike action against job cuts and in defence of safety were announced by the RMT and TSSA rail unions yesterday,...

FRENCH lorry drivers blocked motorways yesterday as a strike wave gripped France bringing sections of the country to a virtual standstill. The entire country is...

‘THROW the STP plans out!’ said Roseline Nwangwu an Ealing Hospital worker yesterday morning. Unite union member Roseline added: ‘If they close Ealing Hospital...

FIFTEEN protesters who locked themselves around a plane at Stansted Airport, successfully stopping those aboard from being deported back to countries where they...

The United States military is investigating whether US Marines who killed 15 civilians, including women and children, near the western Iraqi town of Haditha...

CHRISTINA McAnea, Unison National Secretary for Health, has written to Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt about the proposed transfer of Primary Care Support services...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned as ‘unacceptable’ the terrorising and detention of doctors in Bahrain by the feudal regime that is armed...

HAMAS has warned Israel against attacking the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz yesterday indicated his support...

‘You have to fight for what is right’, Chase Farm Hospital worker Paulette Wright told News Line at the North East London Council of...

THERE are nearly one-and-a-half million workers and youth in the UK who want full-time work but are working part-time because they cannot find full-time...

HUNDREDS of cancer operations were cancelled during the NHS winter crisis, meaning that for some patients, by the time they are treated, their cancer...

CLADDING on 181 tower blocks in 51 areas of the country have now failed fire safety tests. Meanwhile it also emerged yesterday that there are...