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‘EVERY major union is supporting this march. We welcome this opportunity for people to take to the streets to protest at this government. ...

THE Home Office’s forced deportation of 19-year-old female Mauritian student Yashika Bageerathi was stopped yesterday after Air Mauritius refused to fly her. Yashika, who remains...

THE Greek Vouli (parliament) approved on Friday morning by 222 to 64 votes, the new EC-IMF-dictated third austerity bailout accords, proposed by the SYRIZA-ANEL...

HOSPITAL closures across the country were threatened yesterday, after it was revealed that PFI hospital buildings costing a total of £11.4 billion will cost...

‘WE recommend that the government does not bring to the House a motion seeking the extension of British military action to Syria,’ the Foreign...

THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the UK’s three largest trade unions, Unison, Unite and GMB, yesterday condemned the US kidnapping of Venezuelan President...

With shortages of electricity, water, fuel, cooking gas and medicine, a lack of economy and no infrastructure, the masses of Gaza are in a...

The British MP Denis McShane has given a serious warning about the situation in Greece. He said: ‘When I first visited Greece I saw...

‘COORDINATED’ public sector strike action will escalate significantly in January and continue right up until May, PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka warned yesterday in...

DOCTORS have slammed a new scheme to drive workers who are sick back to work. The extremely controversial proposal will see workers who are off...

PASSING lorries, cars and buses hooted in support along the busy London Road in Isleworth, west London, as University and College Union (UCU) members...

HEBA Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed, activists linked to Palestine Action, remain on hunger strike in prison and say they will continue until their demands...

STAFF isolation exemptions are absolutely the wrong answer to the government’s failure to control spiralling infection rates, says doctors’ union the BMA. Responding to news...

LONDON postal workers took 24-hour strike action yesterday, with pickets across the capital demanding that the action is stepped up and that the union...

COPLAND Community School workers took an unprecedented fifth day of strike action yesterday to stop the ARK academy chain taking over their school in...

Five MPs yesterday urged a recall of parliament after the publication of a joint letter from US President Obama, French President Sarkozy and Prime...

UP to 500 jobs will be axed at British Steel with the trade unions agreeing to the axing. The union leaders have warned the takeover...

THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), at its meeting ending on 2nd August 2023, voted by a majority of 6-3 to increase...

MPs have been called to Parliament for a special Saturday sitting on 19th October, following a meeting of the EU’s EC on Friday which...

LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers spoke to News Line on the picket line yesterday. Mrs L Saran said: ‘We are becoming impatient. Last Monday we...

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) Annual Conference in Torquay yesterday voted unanimously to ballot for strike action against any government move to attack...

ALARMING new figures from housing charity Shelter have revealed more than 8,300 people in England were put at risk of losing their home every...

SEVEN out of 10 medical students cannot afford basic necessities, finds a BMA survey. An annual BMA poll found over two-thirds (70%) of 639 surveyed...

5,000 European workers marched to the Opel plant in Antwerp yesterday afternoon to demand that it must not close as a result of the...

ASLEF and RMT railway workers are to strike on Wednesday 1st February, joining 100,000 PCS civil servants, 100,000 NEU teachers and tens of thousands...

US TREASURY Secretary Timothy Geithner held emergency meetings with German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi yesterday. Markets had...

BORIS Johnson came under fire yesterday for boycotting last night’s Channel 4 debate between the candidates for the Tory party leadership and the position...

THE TORY coalition government has rejected demands that it hold an urgent review into the student loan system, despite the system reaching...

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin yesterday accused the US of trying to disrupt the Russian military operation in South Ossetia by transporting Georgian troops...

INTERNET retail giant Amazon being awarded a £600 million contract to provide for our public services is a ‘sick joke’ given the company’s ‘record...

UP TO ten thousand people demonstrated on Friday evening in front of the Israeli embassy in London to protest against Israel’s continued military assault...

THE Brexit Party, led by Nigel Farage, announced on Monday that it will not be standing candidates in the 317 seats won by the...

CROWDS continue to gather in Minneapolis to protest against federal immigration enforcement (ICE), after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz...

TWELVE Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces in several areas in the occupied West Bank yesterday, including nine youths. Two youths and a child were...

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) announced yesterday it is to conduct a second inquiry into last month’s armed police raid in Forest Gate. The...

PRESSURE mounted yesterday on Labour PM Sir Keir Starmer to quit now in the wake of his appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador. After...

FORMER drivers, who used to work on the Tesco distribution contract in Doncaster, staged a demonstration yesterday at the Tesco AGM in London, protesting...

‘What is needed is a mass lobby of parliament to demand nationalisation,’ former GM Luton TGWU convenor Arthur Lynn told News Line yesterday. Commenting on...

THE Chair of the BMA’s GP committee, Dr Laurence Buckman, told the Conference of Local Medical Committees yesterday: ‘A signal has been passed at...

LARGE numbers of TUC delegates in Brighton yesterday stopped at the 60-strong WRP and Young Socialists lobby to say that they want the TUC...

Legal charity Reprieve has accused the Brown government of attempting to intimidate it into dropping legal action on behalf of torture victims. Reprieve said in...

THE Unite trade union has threatened Ford with strike action over 850 proposed sackings and the suspension of a negotiated pay deal to provide...

TORY PM Boris Johnson set out his five point plan for ‘Living with Covid’ yesterday saying that he expects the lifting of restrictions will...

THE head of London’s police is going to be questioned today about the destruction of a ‘lorry-load’ of evidence of widespread police corruption...