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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...

HEZBOLLAH stressed yesterday that it will go ahead with its pro-Gaza strikes against the Israeli enemy, describing Tuesday’s deadly pager attacks as ‘another reckoning...

‘I WILL now take the steps necessary to make sure that Scotland will have the choice at the end of this process,’ Scottish Nationalist...

A team of British officials have travelled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to visit detainee Binyam Mohamed and make preparations for his expected release. A Scotland...

Resident doctors and their supporters were on the picket line at St Thomas’ hospital on the first day of their five days of strike...

More than 90 per cent of final year midwifery students are struggling to find a job, a new survey published today by the Royal...

‘THIS is the biggest gathering that I can remember of solicitors, barristers, probation staff and the many people we represent,’ solicitor Paul Harris told...

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...

THE PALESTINIAN Islamic Jihad resistance movement strongly condemned the United Arab Emirates (UAE) officials yesterday for receiving Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett, stressing that any...

A group from ‘Tent City’ occupation in Wembley occupied the London headquarters of ARK (Actual Return for Kids) the proposed sponsors of the Wembley...

‘THIS Tory government is coming after the one group of people – the trade unions – who are able to stand up for ordinary...

‘SANTA pigs’ demonstrated outside four south London hospitals yesterday against the bullying of cleaners by managers of the private company they work for, ISS. Under...

WHILE Aslef drivers are striking today against Southern rail’s attempt to impose driver only operation, the RMT union yesterday announced further strike action...

PRIVATEER Serco failed to provide enough staff for the out-of-hours GP services it is contracted to run in Cornwall, the National Audit Office has...

NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) will have to deliver £22bn in cuts by 2020/2021 in order to balance health and social care spending...

UK bosses yesterday warned that the deepening UK slump will see unemployment soar further to 2.9 million next year. The manufacturing sector turned in its...

FOLLOWING the moving of the new Tory anti-union legislation in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the TUC announced yesterday that it will hold...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Bournemouth, yesterday took up the cudgels against privatisation and cuts in the fire, prison and probation services, Royal...

UK interest rates have been left unchanged after the Bank of England said price rises were slowing faster than expected. Interest rates were held at...

‘WE still don’t know the process of accountability,’ British citizen Moazzam Begg, previously held in Guantanamo Bay, said criticising the scope of an inquiry...

THE POLICE have claimed that the final death toll for Grenfell Tower is seventy one and have for the first time admitted that CCTV...

WITH a ComRes poll revealing yesterday that public support for a no-deal Brexit is rapidly rising, up 6% since January and now standing at...

WORK and Pensions Secretary Damian Green is today set to announce a consultation on reforming the hated Work Capability Assessment Tests of claimants of...

DRUGS are to be rationed under new proposals to strip back the care available to patients, including vital medicines for terminally ill patients,...

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

Motorists honked their horns in support of the Chagossian islanders who marched through the pouring rain to Crawley Town Hall yesterday, to demonstrate against...

END the pay freeze for midwives and give them the same percentage pay increase as managers, the Royal College of Midwives has demanded, in...

TUBE union RMT is to leaflet rush-hour passengers at Euston station tomorrow morning, Wednesday, August 11 over cuts to safety and safety-critical jobs. This follows...

ISRAEL has continued its genocidal assault on Palestinian civilians across Gaza and occupied Jerusalem this week. The Gaza Centre for Human Rights issued a report...

'The entire world is watching,’ Greta Thunberg told a 50-strong rally for the Filton 24 hunger strikers on Saturday night. The rally was held at...

THE SYRIAN government absolutely rejects the allegations ‘that the army used in the past or uses now or will use in the future any...

THE crisis in primary care was the topic of an open microphone discussion at the LMC GPs conference in York yesterday morning. Speaker after...

THE Labour government yesterday suffered a massive defeat of its plans for NHS privatisation at the Labour Party conference in Manchester, with delegates backing...

Dutch workers are ready to deal another blow to the bosses and bankers’ EU by following the example of the French and voting ‘NO’...

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

ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) yesterday launched a series of arrests and raids across various areas of the West Bank, primarily targeting the governorates of...

Prime Minister Blair made it clear yesterday he will use last Thursday’s bomb attacks in London to give the police and intelligence services sweeping...

BMA Consultants at their Annual Conference yesterday made it clear they were determined to fight for their pensions. The tone was set by the Consultants...

THE High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, said on Thursday that the United Nations is under...

On the eve of today’s budget, striking lecturers told News Line they are determined to defend their pay, pensions and jobs against the Tory-led...

HUNDREDS of locked out Gate Gourmet workers went to the TGWU regional office in Hillingdon yesterday to receive their ‘hardship’ payments and to question...

‘Our members are really angry,’ Bow, east London Communication Workers Union (CWU) E3 Unit Rep Vince Micaleff told News Line yesterday. He was responding to...

‘STAND up to Hunt,’ is the message from the Society for Acute Medicine who have thrown their full weight behind next week’s junior doctors’...

PRIME Minister Cameron came under increasing pressure yesterday to follow the two top London police officers who have quit in the past two days,...

AN ATTEMPT yesterday by the Tories to introduce a bill which would ban the right to strike in critical services, was overwhelmingly defeated...