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GREEK port workers staged a 100% solid national strike on Thursday against the privatisation plans of the SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) and...

Former Prime Minister Blair and his war cabinet should be put on trial for war crimes, said the parents of soldiers killed in the...

AFTER the Scottish government announced they will nationalise Ferguson Marine shipyard, trade unions are calling on the UK government to safeguard jobs and skills...

Ealing Hospital is Occupied! Local residents, workers and youth occupied the entrance to the Maternity Department of Ealing Hospital yesterday to stop its closure. The...

‘This is a momentous decision,’ said Amnesty International yesterday. ‘The Law Lords ruling has overturned the tacit belief that torture can be condoned under...

TODAY Reprieve will begin legal proceedings to challenge the British government’s infamous series of ‘torture policies’: official guidance for agents interviewing prisoners held abroad. Under...

THE Greek National Health Service doctors’ union OENGE has called on all doctors, trades unions, trades councils and social association to ‘organise jointly mobilisations...

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) yesterday condemned the British state’s refusal to prosecute US Marines over the ‘unlawful killing’ of ITN journalist Terry...

WORKERS attending the last night shift at the GM van plant in Luton on Thursday reacted with anger when they were given individual letters...

OVER 200 workers and youth marched to the 44th News Line anniversary rally yesterday afternoon with flags flying and slogans calling for the Tory-led...

PASSING cars tooted their horns, as campaigners shouted ‘No polyclinics – save our hospitals’ outside Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield yesterday. The north-east London Council...

TALKS are taking place between Gate Gourmet management and the Transport and General Workers Union today. Locked out Gate Gourmet workers told News Line on...

‘The Royal Mail employee shares scheme shouldn’t be shelved, it should be scrapped altogether,’ Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) London Regional Secretary John Denton told...

Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced another 500 UK troops are being sent to Afghanistan. In a statement to MPs in the House of Commons on...

‘Reject this agreement and carry on with the industrial action,’ Billy Colvill, CWU rep from south east London, yesterday urged the union’s postal executive,...

At least thirty-three people were killed and hundreds more injured after a series of explosions hit the London Underground network and a double-decker bus...

‘Many remain in those torture chambers’, just-returned Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed said in a statement read out at a London press conference...

ISRAELI police clashed with Palestinian worshippers inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday. Palestinian guards of the mosque said dozens of Israeli officers raided the compound,...

Prime Minister Blair yesterday announced plans for a ‘system of independent, self-governing state schools’, and an education ‘market based on choice’, with changes being...

Head teachers have voted overwhelmingly to boycott SATs tests, which unions condemned as ‘focusing on failure’. Teaching unions are also deeply opposed to the league...

UNILEVER workers are standing firm despite strong-arm tactics by the employer designed to destroy their resistance to plans to end their final salary pension...

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

UK unemployment has risen above two million for the first time since Labour came to office, official figures revealed yesterday. During the three months to...

French transport unions yesterday extended their nationwide strike for another 24 hours, after bringing the train, bus and metro services to a halt on...

Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, George Galloway has thrown down a challenge to the US Senate homeland security committee to charge him...

Jeremy Corbyn, speaking at a children’s centre in Corby, Northamptonshire yesterday, announced that ‘we will do everything necessary’ to stop a No Deal Brexit...

Staff at 26 Further Education (FE) colleges will take ten days of strike action starting on Monday 26 September demanding ‘a significant pay rise’,...

A LARGE number of sacked Gate Gourmet catering workers from Heathrow were on their way to Brighton to lobby the Trades Union Congress early...

‘The Court of Appeal yesterday handed down a landmark judgment about the torture and abuse of Iraqi civilians in detention with UK Armed Forces...

SEVENTEEN GP surgeries in Hackney and Tower Hamlets are facing closure from Tory-led coalition cuts. Five GP practices in Tower Hamlets and 12 in Hackney...

GENERAL government debt is now over £700 billion as the slump hits public finances. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said: ‘Net debt was £703.4...

‘You have to fight for what is right’, Chase Farm Hospital worker Paulette Wright told News Line at the North East London Council of...

‘I call on every trade unionist around this country in the construction industry to come out on official action,’ Unite official Keith Gibson told...

DOREEN Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, has asserted that ‘racial profiling’ is being used in immigration police stop-and-check operations. She spoke out...

Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley is due to visit the sacked workers at all three Visteon factories this week. The Unite convenor at the...

TODAY, April 1, the first day of the new financial year, a barrage of vicious cuts and hikes come in attacking the living standards...

Fourteen American soldiers were killed in northern Iraq yesterday when their Blackhawk transport helicopter came down during a pre-dawn flight, US command said in...

‘AXE, axe the Bedroom Tax!’ chanted protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday morning, before the opening of an appeal against the hated...

Yesterday was the beginning of the third month since the more than 700 Gate Gourmet workers were locked out at Heathrow Airport. Speaking on the...

HEALTH workers and campaigners descended on Parliament from many parts of the country yesterday, to defend their hospitals. ‘My hospital is under threat. It’s a...

With just five weeks until the German elections, Chancellor Merkel yesterday expressed her anger and frustration at the failure last Friday of General Motors...

The National Union of Students has expressed concern over a huge increase in student hardship, with over 50 per cent of students working during...

OVER 50 people picketed a meeting of Lambeth Primary Care Trust (PCT) yesterday, in opposition to the closure of the renowned Emergency Clinic at...

Fourteen US Marines and their civilian translator were killed by a roadside bomb blast in north-western Iraq early yesterday. The Marines were killed...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned moves to allow a private company to take over the running of Hinchingbrooke NHS hospital in Huntingdon,...