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HOSPITALS have been told by the Tory government’s regulator to only fill job vacancies that are ‘essential’, raising fears amongst midwives, doctors and nurses...

TENS of thousands of public sector workers demonstrated in all the Greek major cities last Thursday as part of a 24-hour national strike called...

RMT members at Waterloo Station were picketing South Western Railway yesterday morning as part of their ongoing fight to keep a guard on every...

DOZENS of angry people staged an emergency demonstration outside the Home Office yesterday, demanding the government immediately halts deportations to the Democratic Republic of...

The ‘close relationship’ between the Metropolitan Police and the media has caused ‘serious harm’, says a report by Dame Elizabeth Filkin. A former Parliamentary Commissioner...

OVER 10,000 workers from the Greek state corporations and organisations (power and electricity, telecommunications, post-office, water authorities etc) took part in a militant and...

RUSSIA’S Foreign Minister Lavrov, said yesterday that Moscow will not interfere with affairs in Ukraine. The Kremlin has reacted with barely-disguised anger...

The leading orthopaedic surgeon at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield has handed in his notice after 30 years in the NHS, because ‘all managers...

Public sector union Unison, yesterday warned that predicted huge job losses in the public sector could wipe out vital local services such as day...

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils (APPG-T) said it has received credible information that Sri Lankan government forces are preparing for a final...

A NEW report documenting several violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israel during its recent military attack on the Gaza Strip from 10-21...

‘WE’RE not going to let Chase Farm close,’ Bill Rogers, North East London Council of Action Secretary told News Line yesterday at a lively...

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

SUNAK and the Tory government are ‘so bereft of public support that they cower in fear’ of calling a general election, while the Starmer...

ONE million children in Gaza are in critical need of life-saving health services and supplies, UNICEF’s West Asia and North Africa regional director warns...

‘GIVE us toilets on our stands, don’t just sit there on your hands!’ shouted over 300 bus workers outside Victoria Coach Station yesterday morning. TGWU...

LABOUR’S Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer appeared on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday to urge the Democratic Unionist Party to join Labour in...

THOUSANDS of NHS workers and many other trade unionists marched to the Tory Party conference yesterday morning to deliver their notice to the Tories...

THE BMA has warned that the Tory government’s recommendations on new visa rules from the Migrations Advisory Committee could lead to UK-trained doctors leaving...

THE MET POLICE Commissioner Cressida Dick in light of scandal after scandal engulfing the police force has sent a letter to all 43,000 officers...

PRODUCTION of the MINI at Oxford could be severely disrupted after drivers delivering components voted to go on strike for six days in a...

OVER 500 residents of north Kensington taking part in the 20th Silent Walk for Grenfell were joined by a large delegation of firefighters from...

HAMAS has called on the international community to take immediate action to ‘stop the crime of forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and massacres’ carried out...

yesterday afternoon the British Airways Stewards and Stewardesses Association (BASSA) branch of the TGWU met in a hotel near Heathrow airport to discuss the...

THE increasing marketisation of the education system is putting profit before the interests of pupils, teachers and the public, representatives at the Annual Conference...

THE TORIES, under fire from all sides have had to make a U-turn on their policy over the immigration status of NHS workers. Until yesterday...

IN LIGHT of the Windrush scandal the government has been forced to change the rules to ensure workers from other countries can participate...

THE NUMBER of people killed in Gaza since 7th October rose to 5,087 yesterday – an increase of 436 since Sunday, the Health Ministry...

THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has called on all fire service employers to refuse to implement the government’s new minimum service levels, condemning the...

FIVE hundred professionals from the film, television, and media industries, including Gary Lineker, Ruth Negga, Juliet Stevenson, and Miriam Margolyes, have urged the BBC...

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

PRIVATISED rail profits have racked up 15 pence of every pound passengers paid on fares, transport union the RMT said yesterday on the day...

THE European Commission has offered Ukraine 11 billion euros, falling well short of the $35 billion needed to service immediate debt repayments and avoid...

‘THE Government has five tests it has said must be met to ease lockdown – the first of which is “making sure the NHS...

THERE WERE no talks yesterday between the TGWU and Gate Gourmet bosses after its chairman David Siegel flew back to the US for crisis...

‘WORKING people will be worried by a Queen’s Speech that declares open season on so many of their rights and protections,’ said TUC General...

HUNDREDS of Israeli soldiers are continuing their raid in all sections of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, with bulldozers destroying buildings in the southern section...

THE Unison trade union has welcomed the Cameron-commissioned Berwick Review of patient safety and said that the government should listen to it. Unison said:...

THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the poor of the world who are confronting a...

THE RUSSIAN Ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, held a press conference in New York yesterday during which he made it clear that...

UNITE regional secretary for London Pete Kavanagh told News Line yesterday: ‘We would like to see this £60,000 grant to the families of those...

Five US marines have been killed near Ramadi, western Iraq, when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb, the US military said in a statement...

LABOUR PARTY leader Miliband clashed with Prime Minister Cameron over political donors who held Swiss bank accounts with HSBC, during questions in the House...

TUC Delegates passed Motion Seven on EU Attacks on Trade Union Rights yesterday, which the TUC General Council supported with reservations. The Fire...

THE NHS will be encouraged to buy up social care beds in a bid to get medically-fit patients out of hospitals faster, Labour has...