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‘WE absolutely call for pfi to be abandoned, it is a failed system which is costing the nhs billions,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told ...

‘THE SUPPORT has been amazing,’ striker Peter Gleaves told News Line at the Queens Road Depot in Manchester yesterday, where Go North West bus...

THE decision to postpone the 48 hour strike action by junior doctors from 26 January without any attempt by the government to meet the...

HOSPITALS are ‘running out of vital equipment’ while at the same time GP surgeries are running out of flu vaccines, it emerged yesterday...

RUSSIA has accused Kiev of deliberately holding up the delivery of Russian humanitarian aid to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine, according...

GREEK local government along with college and university administrative workers are continuing with occupations, strikes and demonstrations against the government’s mass sackings plans. On...

British warplanes yesterday bombed vehicles and buildings in the northwestern Iraqi town of Karabila, close to the Syrian border. In what was considered a rare...

IN A further Tory attack on the working class, landlords will be expected to evict entire families, if they believe them to be ‘illegal...

THE question and answer session with Prime Minister Blair at the GMB conference yesterday just illustrated the unbridgeable gulf between him and the working...

THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings on this May Day to the insurgent workers of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. The Iraqi insurgency...

Greek workers and youth are infuriated with the leaked German government document which proposes that an EU ‘Budget Commissioner’ should be installed in Greece...

The High Court yesterday gave the go ahead for a legal challenge over the torture of Iraqi civilians at the hands of UK troops. The...

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg yesterday made it clear the coalition will press ahead with its Health and Social Care Bill, despite massive opposition...

THE BMA (British Medical Association) confirmed yesterday that a mass picket of striking Resident Doctors will be held tomorrow morning from 8-11am outside St...

THE number of people who have died, been assaulted or injured themselves in prison has risen to its highest level for a decade, figures...

England should follow the example of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, and abolish all prescription charges, the British Medical Association (BMA) said today. The Department...

A ‘CRIPPLING’ lack of beds for mental health patients has reached such a crisis point that patients are being sent home, told to camp...

THE euro strengthened to a two-month high against the US dollar yesterday, as investors’ euphoria overflowed at the ECB’s plan to purchase bonds from...

PM Cameron said yesterday that his government will bring forward legislation under which ‘banning orders’ and ‘disruption orders’ will be used against ‘extremists’ and...

LABOUR Prime Minister Starmer announced in the House of Commons yesterday that British Army soldiers are to be mobilised to the Ukraine. Starmer said they...

TRADE UNIONISTS have called for pre-emptive strike action to defeat the anti-union laws that the Tory government are attempting to push through parliament. The Trade...

Health minister Ara Darzi’s plans ‘are a massive attack on hospital care in London’, warned consultant surgeon Anna Athow yesterday. Darzi is conducting...

‘THE bedroom tax is causing real chaos, doing real damage to people’s lives,’ David Orr, Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation said yesterday ‘The...

‘THE GOVERNMENT should immediately suspend charging for NHS maternity care,’ for non-UK residents, concludes a new report released yesterday from Maternity Action. The report, called...

THE Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which Unite says places the NHS at ‘unique risk of being irreversibly privatised’, will not exclude healthcare,...

TRADE unions yesterday slammed Tory chancellor Phillip Hammond’s instruction to government departments to find spending cuts of up to 6% as part of plans...

THE Tory government ‘should concentrate on expanding GP numbers rather than promising patients undeliverable services’, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the British Medical Association...

STRIP private outsourcing giant Capita of its NHS contract, doctors’ union the BMA demanded after the shocking news broke yesterday that more than 3,500...

NATO air raids have killed more than 700 civilians and injured over 4,000, many of them seriously, since bombing of Libya began in March,...

SOUTHWARK Council denied that it had started eviction proceedings yesterday against tenants of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, south London. A ...

THE GAZA ‘Board of Peace’ has been announced, with US President Donald Trump as its veto-wielding chairman, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio...

New Year’s statement by the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2022 to all our readers and to...

FOREIGN Office documents made public by the National Archives after more than 50 years give the fullest account yet of a massacre which took...

UNITE yesterday welcomed a Scottish parliament motion lodged by Neil Findlay MSP drawing attention to the crisis facing BA workers. The company has served BA...

‘CLEARLY the fact that there were no sprinklers had its affect,’ Chief Fire Officer of Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, Dan Stephens said yesterday. He...

MASSIVE aerial and artillery strikes pounded neighbourhoods, homes, shelters and aid convoys yesterday, killing scores of civilians, mostly children and women, as the US-UK-backed...

The coalition government is pressing ahead with plans to make GP practices responsible for purchasing health care in England, replacing Primary Care Trusts and...

‘OUR members deserve fair pay and will be taking action for as long as it takes to get it,’ said Communications Workers Union (CWU)...

THIRTEEN universities face ‘a very real prospect’ of insolvency following the coronavirus crisis unless they receive a government bailout, a new report by the...

‘TELL the BA workers and every worker on the airport, we need their help again,’ Gate Gourmet striker Mrs P Samara told News Line...

Doctors are extremely concerned about the impact of the private sector on healthcare, a snapshot BMA News survey has indicated. More than nine out of...

A DAMNING investigation has found that individuals who sit on the board of the south London Durand Adademy Trust were also acting...

‘REDUCING Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit would be fundamentally the wrong decision. It would be a profound mistake and put millions of families...

Labour has only very narrowly retained the formal endorsement of Scotland’s trades unions for May’s Holyrood and council elections. The General Council of the STUC...