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CRUCIAL parts of an inquiry into undercover police spies who spent years embedded in political movements are to be heard in secret in order...

AT 11.00am yesterday, University staff across the country walked out on strike in anger in the first of a series of two-hour strikes in...

AMMAN – The Jordanian newspaper Al-Arab al-Yawm website on August 1st wrote the following about the Syrian ‘rebellion’. ‘As the “decisive” battle for Aleppo rages...

COMMUTERS were up in arms yesterday as above inflation 2.7% increases in rail fares set in, while services across the country have been in...

porters, theatre technicians, catering, cleaning and other NHS support workers, employed by private contractor Carillion at Great Western Hospital in Swindon, have voted by...

HOUSING has become a ‘national emergency’ as it emerged the proportion of home ownership has fallen to the lowest level since 1986 and, as...

AS EXPECTED, the Speaker of the House John Bercow yesterday blocked Parliament from voting on the new Brexit deal with the EU. Announcing his judgement...

Steel union, Community, yesterday expressed ‘outrage’ at the announcement to ‘mothball’ Teesside Cast Products with a threat to 2,000 jobs. The union said that move...

Over 300 people rallied outside the Whittington Hospital, north London, yesterday lunchtime, against the closure of the hospital’s A&E and maternity departments. Organisers ‘Defend the...

THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) yesterday delivered provisional measures in the high-profile case brought by South Africa against Israel, concerning allegations of genocide...

THOUSANDS of British Airways cabin crew marched around Heathrow Airport yesterday afternoon waving flags, chanting: ‘Willie, Willie, Willie! Out! Out! Out!’ They received enthusiastic...

CAPITA shares plunged over 40% yesterday, provoking speculation that the huge conglomerate privateer is going the way of Carillion and is set to...

‘OTHER trade unions should take action to support us and defend the NHS and I really hope we are all going to come together...

FRANCE was totally paralysed yesterday with flights, trains, the Metro and buses all cancelled during the mass ‘Day of Rage’ over President Emmanuel Macron’s...

RMT members working for the 14 train companies in the national rail dispute will walk out on Friday June 2. The union found the Rail...

THE parents of Britain’s poorest children are going hungry so that their children have some food on the table. Both parents and children are...

THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the ceasefire Israel eventually clinched with Hezbollah has shattered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘illusion’ of reshaping West Asia...

The family of Nadeem Dean Khan led a 200-strong demonstration through Burnley, Lancashire, on Saturday to protest against the 28-year-old man’s death in police...

Senior doctors yesterday renewed a warning that private treatment centres are putting patient care at risk and destabilising the NHS. The British Medical Association (BMA)...

TORY education secretary Gillian Keegan is trying to get next week’s strike action by 100,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) outlawed, claiming...

THOUSANDS of lecturers and teachers are striking against the government’s vicious onslaught on their pensions at universities, colleges and schools across London today. They...

‘We are opposed to more troops going into Afghanistan,’ a Stop the War Coalition spokesman told News Line yesterday. He was responding to a...

A LONDON march and rally marking the fifth day of strike action in over 30 Sixth Form Colleges took place yesterday, with union leaders...

‘Raiding public service pay and pensions is a fundamentally flawed strategy,’ said the NASUWT teachers union yesterday. It was responding to calls for pay freezes...

TODAY’S meeting of the General Council of the TUC must go beyond considering the practicalities of a general strike and actually call one, Dave...

SOME 10,000 workers and their families gathered outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) last Thursday evening in Athens in protest against the European Central Bank’s...

RUPERT Murdoch was questioned at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday about meetings held with prime minister Cameron before and after News Corporation’s June 2010 takeover...

‘YOUTH demand a future! No Zero hour contracts!’ shouted the fifty-strong Young Socialists and Workers Revolutionary Party lobby of the Trades Union Congress in...

‘OUR members are eager to make their feelings felt and ready to strike Friday,’ a Communication Workers Union (CWU) spokeswoman told News Line yesterday...

HUNDREDS of firefighters from fire brigades across the UK marked the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell disaster yesterday by participating in the silent walk...

‘PRIVATISATION No Way!’ a lively picket of at least 40 strikers, chanted outside The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square yesterday, on the second day...

PM CAMERON addressed the House of Commons yesterday on the crisis with Russia, the IS movement in Iraq and security in the UK. On the...

MORE than 200 students, lecturers and other workers demonstrated angrily outside the Home Office yesterday afternoon, denouncing the plans to deport up to 3,000...

JUMA AL-BATAN, a 20-day-old baby, died from ‘severe cold’ yesterday, while his twin brother remains in the intensive care unit at a local hospital,...

OVER 4,000 firefighters marched through central London yesterday against attacks on their pensions and cuts to the fire service. The front banner read: ‘We Rescue...

Legal charity Reprieve and rights group Amnesty, yesterday hit back at attacks by MI5 and the government on the Appeal Court judgement that revealed...

LABOUR’S Foreign Secretary David Lammy has shrugged off as ‘bluster’ warnings by Russia that if Ukraine fires its British-provided long-range Storm Shadow missiles into...

ISRAELI forces have launched their most intense raids yet on cities in the occupied West Bank as they pressed on with one of the...

More than 2,000 students meeting outside the entrance of Jussieu university in the centre of Paris yesterday afternoon voted virtually unanimously to strike until...

THE rate of unemployment in the UK has risen from 7.1% to 7.2% the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed yesterday. The ONS figures...

FOUR pro-Palestine hunger strikers are continuing their hunger strike. Heba Muraisi is on her 54th day of hunger strike, Teuta Hoxha is on her 48th...

NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens has intervened in the referendum debate to declare that leaving the EU could damage the NHS. Citing Bank of...

HEALTH chiefs on the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Clinical Strategy Board, yesterday denied that the decision has already been taken to shut the A&E...

Postal workers yesterday condemned as ‘obscene’ over £10m in ‘performance-related bonus’ payments to Royal Mail executives for pushing through ‘efficiency savings’. Royal Mail Group has...