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THE UNITE union yesterday called on Birmingham city Labour council to honour the ACAS agreement and resolve the Birmingham bin dispute after the High...

THREE Palestinians sheltering inside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza’s biggest health centre, were shot dead by Zionist snipers yesterday, with another...

‘ONCE AGAIN, we see the reality of bandit capitalism and its toxic impact on our public services,’ Transport union RMT said yesterday, calling for...

AFTER widespread outrage over the United States’ continued backing of Israel’s devastating year-long genocidal assault on Gaza, several media outlets reported on Tuesday that...

THE United States has warned Russia that its ‘disproportionate and dangerous escalation’ of the conflict in South Ossetia could harm bilateral relations, the White...

TORY council leader Elizabeth Campbell was called a ‘murderer’ and told to immediately resign by survivors of the Grenfell Tower tragedy after they pushed...

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

Prime Minister Brown held a press conference late afternoon yesterday to announce the cabinet changes in a hurried reshuffle following the resignations of five...

PM JOHNSON yesterday apologised for attending an illegal drinks party in the Downing Street garden while millions of people were under lockdown, and making...

A UNITED Nations investigation has found that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, systematically targeting reproductive healthcare facilities as part of...

UNITE leader Len McCluskey visited locked out NHS biomedical staff yesterday to highlight the appalling treatment they’ve received at the hands of their NHS...

Detainees at Campsfield immigration detention and removal centre near Oxford rose up yesterday morning after an African detainee was beaten and dragged out of...

‘SELECTION belongs in the dustbin of history and has no place in modern society. There must be no going back,’ Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary...

‘Thank you everybody! Let’s save the NHS and kill this Bill!’ declared consultant Clive Peedell as he an David Wilson arrived to cheers outside...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that the United States has circulated a draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an...

THE Bank of England was yesterday exposed as planning to deceive the public over research it is carrying out into the financial risks of...

PRODUCTION workers at Somerset firm Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Bridgwater are to strike for three days over a ‘paltry’ pay offer. The Unite union said its...

The NASUWT union yesterday said it stands ready to take industrial action over ‘draconian’ measures announced by Education Secretary Gove to bully teachers out...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn presented his position on Brexit yesterday in which a deal with the EU or Remain are the only options and...

SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan has welcomed the general ceasefire plan proposed by US president Joe Biden, saying it contained ‘positive ideas’. Hamdan reiterated his...

THE ‘ROGUE bus service’ being operated by Go North West in the Greater Manchester area is under investigation for serial Covid-19 safety failures and...

UNISON and the GMB yesterday reacted angrily to the revelation that the hospital records of 47 million NHS patients have been sold to insurance...

Home Secretary Theresa May came under renewed pressure to resign yesterday, after former head of the UK Border Force Brodie Clark rebutted her claim...

RMT Tube strikers were on strike against London Underground’s attack on their working conditions yesterday. News Line attended the Arnos Grove RMT picket and spoke...

BOTH the Unite and GMB trade unions have given up the fight to halt the mass sackings organised by British Airways, centring on Heathrow...

THE GLOBAL president of US private health giant United Health, Simon Stevens, has been appointed to head NHS England. Stevens will be employed by the...

The six trade unions – ACM, ATL, GMB, UCU, UNISON and UNITE – representing 250,000 further education staff yesterday submitted a pay claim for...

A group of seven leading public health specialists, past presidents of the UK Faculty of Public Health, have called for the Health and Social...

‘WE need a communist revolution,’ shouted crowds of angry protesters outside Ferguson, St Louis, police station on Friday night. Hundreds of people gathered in the...

‘I AM ANGRY and fed up, and want a different sort of country,’ Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn declared yesterday morning. Interviewed by the...

Labour has accused the government of cutting NHS spending in England in poorer areas and moving funds towards richer parts of the country, citing...

UP to 100,000 workers and youth gathered at the 128th Durham Miners Gala on Saturday. Pride of place on the platform after the march through...

HACKNEY school cleaners have hailed victory in a dispute over the failure to pay proper holiday rates. The settlement of the dispute at the six...

THE north of Ireland was yesterday gripped by a 24-hour general strike by health, education, transport and civil service workers protesting against job...

AHEAD of the House of Commons debate yesterday, the GMB Trade Union says an estimated 54,000 women lose their jobs every year due to...

TRADE unions and children’s charities have denounced calls from the Taxpayers Alliance and the Institute of Directors for the abolition of child benefit. The right-wing...

RIGHT-wing Zionists who planned a march through Jerusalem yesterday were forced to call it off. They planned to mark the beginning of the occupation of...

FOLLOWING a global collapse in the price of oil, oil giant BP yesterday announced it is to cut 300 jobs in its North...

THE ROYAL College of GPs (RCGP) has sounded the alarm over the crisis in general practice, calling yesterday for an urgent emergency rescue plan. Professor...

THE UNITED Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP’s) food stocks in Gaza are completely depleted, as Israel’s aid blockade continues for a ninth week. The WFP...

As President George Bush prepared to discuss his next move in Iraq yesterday, he was delivered a posthumous blow from former President Gerald Ford,...

Public sector union Unison and the TUC have called a candle-lit vigil outside parliament at 9.30pm on September 7th, as the Health and Social...

‘TRADE unions must act – save our children’s services!’ rang out as the three hundred-strong march from Southall to Ealing Hospital proceeded yesterday afternoon. The...

CHILDREN’S wards and cancer units are closing hand over fist across the entire country with the nurses union RCN warning that ‘skeleton staffing’ means...

DOCTORS’ leaders, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis and TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady joined paramedics, nurses, midwives and physiotherapists in a protest outside the...