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POSTAL workers in Royal Mail yesterday voted by 4 to 1 (78%) in favour of strike action in a move to protect their jobs,...

‘Keep nurses working – keep patients safe,’ Royal College of Nursing General Secretary Beverley Malone told 1,000 cheering nurses at Westminster Central Hall yesterday. ‘As...

SINCE 7 October 2023, Israeli airstrikes have emerged as the leading cause of death for humanitarian workers globally, responsible for over 75 per cent...

CROWDS continue to gather in Minneapolis to protest against federal immigration enforcement (ICE), after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were interviewed by the Heathrow Airport free newspaper Skyport yesterday. Parmjit Bains told News Line: ‘All Heathrow Airport workers read it. ‘They...

Legal charity Reprieve has accused the Brown government of attempting to intimidate it into dropping legal action on behalf of torture victims. Reprieve said in...

THE Doctors’ Association (DAUK) has refused to endorse the junior doctor contract deal agreed by the BMA and the government, warning that some members...

LABOUR Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls, yesterday made it crystal clear that if elected, Labour would continue Tory policy to to make pensioners, workers,...

A TOWER block in Bradford with 160 flats has been evacuated over ‘serious fire safety deficiencies’. All the residents at Appleton Point were told to...

THE IMF warned yesterday that the British banks have a ‘very large potential to originate global shocks’. As if that was not enough they added...

Business and Universities Secretary Cable has confirmed his intention to lift the cap on tuition fees, as recommended in the Browne Review. Lifting the cap...

Cameron wants parliament to decide air strikes on Syria Cameron lost the parliamentary vote to bomb Syria in 2013 and has so far refused to...

THE GREAT gold rush has begun! Gold surged 5% on Thursday to a five-year high as plummeting world markets have driven investors to search...

‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 800 protesters at a Nakba (Catastrophe) Day demonstration opposite Downing Street on Saturday. The protestors insisted that Palestinian refugees must have...

HEALTH workers, trade unionists, pensioners and residents from the SE London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley are marching today against plans to...

Without the Affordable Care Act, up to 129 million non-elderly Americans who have some type of pre-existing health condition, like heart disease, high blood...

THE number of people who have died, been assaulted or injured themselves in prison has risen to its highest level for a decade, figures...

MPs AND peers yesterday launched a poisonous attack on people coming to live in the UK. A new report says that ‘migrants’ should be ‘obliged’...

Bus drivers have backed a call for a major cut in their driving hours. At a conference in Eastbourne organised by the Transport and General...

THE BMA has rebuked the NHS National Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh for breaking an agreement with it in an attempt to organise strike...

HOMELESSNESS charity St Mungo’s revealed yesterday that 129 rough sleepers died in London since 2010 – an average of one a fortnight – while...

NEW emergency powers were outlined yesterday by the Tories as they published the Emergency Coronavirus Bill. The sweeping new powers which will last as...

‘THE Charlie Chaplin Children’s Ward must not close!’ Jaswinder Pannu exclaimed yesterday morning. She spoke to News Line during the 50-strong mass picket of Ealing...

ANY talk of ‘recovery’ has been well and truly scotched by the revelation that Britain’s trade deficit widened more than expected in January,...

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has announced that its members in England and Wales will take strike action again next weekend, Friday 13 and...

The Lebanese resistance, Hezbollah, yesterday hit back after Tuesday night’s Israeli commando raid on Baalbek – by firing up to 300 rockets into Israel. One...

A MAN, claimed by the police to be Yasin Omar, was stunned with a high voltage taser during an armed police raid carried...

  US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Saturday called for one-and-a-half million Palestinians to be deported to Egypt and Jordan. Describing Gaza as a ‘demolition site’, Trump...

THE WORLD BANK has halted all funding for projects in Afghanistan in a major attack on the Afghan people. It cited ‘concerns’ over how the...

Although vicious austerity measures were voted for by a 199–74 majority in the Vouli (parliament) on Sunday night, the Greek ‘bailout’ is still not...

Locked Out Gate Gourmet workers are calling on all trade unionists to attend their Conference in London on Sunday the 29th of January. More than...

THE Unite trade union has condemned RBS for ‘brutal and irresponsible’ behaviour by announcing 1,400 job cuts just one day after figures were released...

AN EXERCISE simulating a coronavirus outbreak in Scotland, which was shared with a UK government advisory group in 2018, showed a ‘clear gap’ in...

Home Secretary Clarke’s plans to give police powers to hold people for 90 days without charge has been condemned as ‘unlawful’ by Law Lord,...

OVER ONE hundred British MPs have demanded an immediate cessation of the UK’s arms sales to Israel amidst the ongoing conflict in Gaza. This request...

THOUSANDS of hospital operations for children are being cancelled every year owing to a lack of beds, staff and equipment in the NHS. NHS figures,...

Hundreds of so-called ‘failing’ schools are to be told to ‘improve’ within three years or face closure. Alternatively they may be merged or turned into...

Corporal Joe Glenton, the soldier who faces desertion charges for refusing to return to Afghanistan, has been arrested, imprisoned and charged with five further...

THE London Guantanamo Campaign staged a protest yesterday outside the American embassy on the 8th anniversary of the establishment of the infamous Guantanamo Bay...

A STRONG contingent of over forty lecturers and staff picketed both gates of Queen Mary’s (QM) University in east London on the second day...

THE International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor has staunchly defended his decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials over war crimes in Gaza,...

GATE GOURMET locked out workers are winning great support in the London Region TGWU, and attended a meeting earlier this week. Locked out worker...

DESPITE the Scottish experiment of opening schools in August proving to be a total failure, the Tories proceeded with the re-opening of schools in...

HEATHROW Airport police dismantled the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ picket tent on the hill at the Beacon Roundabout yesterday, threatening the workers’ TGWU Branch...

STUDENTS and university staff are furious after the Tory government inst-ructed them to remain in their student halls and not to return home before...