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‘The Government’s commitment to “free schools” will create chaos at local level,’ National Union of Teachers (NUT) General Secretary Christine Blower warned yesterday. She continued:...

RUSSIA has begun extensive military exercises on its Ukrainian border following the escalation of violence in eastern Ukraine. ‘The order to use force against civilians...

Almost 8,000 firefighters in England, almost one in five, will be taking some form of industrial action from tomorrow, in a series of regional...

ANGRY doctors yesterday delivered a vote of No Confidence against Tory Health Secretary Hunt. Doctors at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM)...

UK manufacturing output fell by 1.5% in January indicating that the UK is heading for a ‘triple-dip recession’. Yesterday’s announcement led to an immediate fall...

JUNIOR doctors yesterday overwhelmingly voted in favour of taking strike action to defeat the government’s intent to impose a new junior doctor contract in...

‘PRAMESH gets weaker every day but his spirits are high,’ 18-year-old student Janani Paramsothy, told News Line yesterday on the 24-hour picket on the...

LONG A&E waiting times contributed to some 23,000 ‘excess patient deaths’ last year, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said yesterday. In 2022, 1.66...

OVER 500 parents and children held an angry protest outside Downing Street demanding an increase in funding for children with special educational needs and...

REFUGEES broke down the barbed wire fence on the Greek border with Macedonia yesterday, using a steel pole as a battering ram. The protesters shouted:...

MORE than five and a half million low-income households in the UK are cut ting down on or skipping meals, the Joseph Rountree Foundation...

‘WE’RE out because the fight is over jobs, conditions and work/life balance. And although it isn’t primarily about money, we do expect to be...

ANOTHER round of council cuts is set to devastate services for young people in London, with more than £1 million of cuts planned for...

Jean Charles de Menezes’ cousins yesterday said the family is furious at a Metropolitan Police attempt to connect their late relative with a rape...

‘WE HAVE seen nurses spending their entire shifts treating people in car parks because of backed up ambulances, we know the prime minister recognises...

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

SENIOR doctors in charge of more than 60 hospital emergency departments have written to the prime minister warning of ‘very serious concerns’ about patient...

PLANS to close A&Es, maternity services, children’s departments and entire hospitals up and down the country have begun to emerge as the Tory government’s...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress yesterday unanimously voted for Composite Motion 7 on Public Sector Pay and Living Standards. This includes the call on the...

HOUSING and homeless charity Shelter produced a report yesterday warning that one in eleven families are facing eviction this January. Shelter said: ‘One in eleven...

‘I HOPE this gets Tony Blair punished for all his war crimes, for the death of our sons and all those Iraqis,’ Rose Gentle...

TIME is now running as far as the negotiations between the BMA’s Junor Doctors Committee (JDC) and the Tory government is concerned. As part of...

THE RMT rail union announced yesterday that it is to put a new offer from Network Rail to members in an electronic referendum with...

NEW RESEARCH by ActionAid, Public Services International, and Education International warns that the International Monetary Fund’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermine...

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London, on Thursday. The...

A WAVE of protests are taking place outside train stations across the country this morning as millions of commuters see their ticket fare...

The exposure of the UK to the US sub-prime loans crisis will push up mortgage rates in the UK, a former Bank of England...

THE VICE Chancellor of Oxford University withdrew her support for Universities UK’s attack on lecturers’ pensions yesterday, joining dozens of others, including Cambridge, to...

THE financial crisis facing the North of Ireland’s Health Trusts is so severe that four out of five Trusts have failed to break even...

Campaigners against cuts at the southwest London hospital have warned that St George’s Hospital, Tooting, could be taken over by a private company as...

FORMER chairman of the Post Office Henry Staunton dropped a bombshell on the Tories when he appeared before the Business and Trade Select Committee...

THERE was consternation yesterday when a leaked Unite document revealed that a union report going before the TUC General Council on April 24 is...

‘NO privatisation!’ chanted over 70 PCS strikers and their supporters yesterday as they marched off from a rally outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar...

JOSHUA Ogunleye, National Secretary of the Young Socialists, told News Line yesterday: ‘The huge rise in youth unemployment to over the one million mark...

‘If the job cuts are still on, the strikes will be reinstated,’ BECTU assistant general secretary Gerry Morrissey told News Line yesterday. Speaking after the...

PC WAYNE Couzens, who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard was sentenced yesterday to a ‘whole life order’, which means he will never be...

THE NUT and ATL teachers unions, and the FBU (Fire Brigades Union), yesterday accused the Tory Government of being ‘grossly irresponsible’ for having brought...

IRELAND, Norway and Spain formally recognised the state of Palestine yesterday, infuriating leaders of the genocidal Israeli regime, while Hamas described it as ‘a...

‘TUC GET off Your Knees – Call a General Strike!’ rang out as the Young Socialists March for Jobs set off from London to...

‘OUR police officers are now moving more quickly to issue fines where people are clearly breaching coronavirus regulations,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel said...

ONE hundred and forty staff working at Manchester University have been threatened with the sack prompting their union, the University and College...

DOCTORS at the BMA conference (ARM) yesterday voted for Motion 293 from the London Regional Council ‘to resist cuts and the privatisation of the...

‘PEOPLE are really supporting our cause to reopen all the closed services at Ealing Hospital,’ Ealing Southall WRP general election candidate Hassan Zulkifal said...

‘WE demand a full public inquiry into blacklisting!’ Gail Cartmail, assistant general secretary of Unite said while addressing the TUC conference in Brighton yesterday. Speaking...

PRESIDENT Francois Hollande has said a vote by UK MPs against involvement in military strikes on Syria has not changed France’s resolve to take...