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THE Kurdish Community in London have written a statement ahead of a march in central London tomorrow against the arrest of Kurdish demonstrators in...

Tuesday’s student demonstration in London ended in a mass arrest of 144 people, being described by students and legal groups as an exercise in...

A delegation from the Chagos Islands Community Association (CICA) travelled from Crawley yesterday to attend a ‘Let Them Return’ meeting in the House of...

Civil rights organisation Liberty yesterday urged the government not to give police powers to arrest demonstrators for ‘offensive’ chants and/or slogans on placards. This followed...

BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson’s Department and the Unite union both said yesterday that talks on Wednesday with new GM Europe owner, Magna, were ‘constructive’ but...

HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers are striking against government attacks on their terms and conditions today, with mass marches planned in towns and cities...

Hezbollah said its fighters killed or wounded 15 Israeli soldiers trying to advance towards the border village of Aita al-Shaab yesterday morning, as fighting...

Thirty four civilians were taken into custody in a cordon and search operation conducted by the government security forces at Gampaha town from Saturday...

LABOUR launched a new extreme attack on the unemployed yesterday, announcing that if they do not find a job within a year they will...

AT LEAST ten people in a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), located in the Rimal...

Public sector union UNISON yesterday told News Line it is opposed to a bid by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group to build and administer NHS...

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

The Bank of England is warning that high street banks face big new risks from future rises in interest rates and the current crisis...

CHANCELLOR Osborne announced a U-turn on the abolition of tax credits in his Autumn Statement yesterday, while massively extending Tory privatisation and cuts elsewhere. Nursing...

THE HAMAS Movement has called for intensified global mobilisation to Israel’s genocide and starvation war against the Palestinian people referring to the ongoing Israeli...

Oxfam UK warned yesterday that the average prices of staple crops will more than double in the next 20 years leaving billions of people...

AN outbreak of coronavirus has left Surrey firefighters struggling to maintain fire cover after their brigade management failed to properly implement vital health and...

Teachers and lecturers yesterday congratulated teenagers over the best ever GCSE results, but warned youth faced a tough future in the face of education...

SENIOR UN officials have warned that Israel’s genocide and blockade of Gaza have created a man-made famine that is escalating at terrifying speed, with...

Public sector union UNISON yesterday condemned the government’s extension of Patient Choice as a policy that will lead to the closure of good local...

‘WE DON’T forget that our pay was cut by you,’ 300,000 nurses who are currently balloting for strike action told the newly appointed Tory...

‘LEGAL and industrial action is inevitable,’ Unite said yesterday, the day a mass meeting took place at the grounds of Bedfont FC in Feltham,...

‘Medical education is under attack on several fronts,’ warns Professor Michael Rees, chair of the British Medical Association’s (BMA’s) Medical Academics Committee. In a BMA...

JOBCENTRES, benefits offices, the Pension Service and Child Support Agency (CSA) will be hit today as up to 80,000 members of the Public and...

‘ANY military operations in Rafah – with its limited space and crowding with over 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the Israeli army – would...

NATIONAL Gallery staff are taking their 24th day of strike action today against the privatisation of the gallery. Today begins eleven more days of...

THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for the scrapping of the Tory ‘Prevent Strategy’. Delegates condemned the government’s...

‘WITH these private companies running London’s buses it’s a race to the bottom – the only way to stop it is to renationalise London...

DISMISSING the government’s 3.5 per cent proposal on NHS pay announced on Tuesday as a ‘sick joke’, Unite said yesterday that ‘this will accelerate...

Bernard Ribeiro, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, has announced his withdrawal from the crisis talks about the selection of junior doctors for...

A QUARTER of a million civil and public servants are on strike today to put an end to cuts to their pay which their...

‘THE US economy is haemorrhaging jobs at a pace and scale never before recorded,’ Scott Anderson, chief economist at the Bank of the West...

The euro fell sharply in morning trading yesterday, as bond yields on the debt of eurozone periphery countries began to push higher. This came after...

Yesterday’s House of Lords judgement fails vulnerable older people, says Help the Aged. The charity was responding to the decision by the House of Lords in YL v Birmingham...

‘The whole thing is a mess,’ Alex Pereira, the cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes told News Line yesterday. He was responding to reports that...

THE PRIVATISATION of the NHS blood samples service in Kent will put patients’ lives at risk, Unite warned yesterday, adding: ‘It must be stopped!’ A...

TORY PM Boris Johnson’s brother Jo Johnson has quit as Tory MP and minister yesterday, saying he is ‘torn between family loyalty and the...

MASSES of Egyptians flooded into Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday, responding to the calls for a million-strong march to demand the removal of President Mubarak. Simultaneously,...

Prime Minister Blair yesterday attacked MPs for opposing the police demand for powers to hold people for 90 days without charge. Blair told his monthly...

DALE Farm residents won an injunction late yesterday, restraining police and bailiffs from dismantling structures on the site until a hearing at the High...

THE Tory-LibDem Coalition’s £20 billion NHS budget cuts are leading to nurses having to clean toilets and mop hospital floors it emerged yesterday. A survey...

YELLOW Vests and trade unionists are seeking to deliver a crushing blow to France’s president Emmanuel Macron. The CGT union federation has called a...

TUC delegates at their Congress in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Motion 23, Asylum Seekers and Employment to launch a campaign to secure the...

JUNIOR doctors have received back pay of £800,000 after a hard-fought battle against their trust regarding a contract breach. Their union, the British Medical Association...

PRIME Minister Cameron stepped up his war against youth yesterday by launching the new Tory ‘Community Work Programme’. The programme forces youth to carry...