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TORY leadership candidate Michael Gove admitted on BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he had acted illegally in relation to using cocaine. The former Justice...

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...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has warned other countries against doing business with Tehran, saying he had imposed ‘the most biting’ sanctions on the country....

THE TORY government has been plunged into crisis by last Thursday’s Amersham by-election defeat. Around 100 Tory MPs have reportedly joined a WhatsApp group called...

THERE was a lively picket of both gates at Chase Farm Hospital yesterday morning by the North-East London Council of Action, demonstrating to stop...

THE BBC must undergo a radical overhaul said chairman of the BBC Trust Chris Patten yesterday. Speaking in the wake of Saturday evening’s resignation by...

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at Nottingham College began balloting for industrial action yesterday as part of a row over new...

The GMB trade union yesterday called for tougher enforcement of the National Minimum Wage in the wake of allegations that a Primark supplier in...

The Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre on Sunday morning in southern Gaza, killing at least 31 aid seekers and injuring 120 others...

THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating allegations that the Bank of England rigged the way that money was ‘auctioned’ to banks during the...

THERE has been a strike vote over ‘punishing’ working patterns at Heathrow. International airlines flying from Heathrow Airport face major disruption to the supply of...

‘CONFERENCE, it is right that Parliament has the first say, but if we need to break the impasse our options must include campaigning for...

‘The appropriate thing for Patricia Hewitt to do, would be to resign now,’ said furious junior doctors yesterday after their personal details were made...

SPEECH and Language Therapy Services for children who have problems learning to speak have been severely cut by the Tories with a new report...

TRAIN drivers and guards were on strike in three parts of the country simultaneously yesterday, with Southern, Northern and Merseyside RMT drivers and guards...

News Line & Workers Revolutionary Party Public meetings: Trade unions must act to make sure we quit EU on October 31st! For a workers government and...

AMNESTY International (AI) described yesterday’s decision by Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), to open a formal investigation into the situation...

Merseyside and North Yorkshire local authority pension funds are suing Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for compensation. The funds accuse RBS of withholding the extent...

GP LEADERS at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) have called on the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to suspend its current inspection regime...

Public sector unions yesterday slammed prime minister Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ plans as a threat to public services and the welfare state. Commenting on Cameron’s speech...

‘ALL 33 of us are fine in the shelter’. This was the message read out by the President of Chile, Sebastian Pinera, on...

LABOUR’S top brass is facing a mounting backlash against its campaign of intimidation aimed at forcing MPs to fall in line behind a brutal...

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...

DEFENCE Secretary Philip Hammond has refused to rule out the possibility that Britain will join the US’ covert drone programme in Yemen, despite...

The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Postal Executive has put forward an emergency motion for possible strike action by Mail Centre members for debate at...

PALESTINE Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki called on judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) yesterday to order an end to Israel’s occupation of...

LABOUR’S shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer yesterday announced a major policy shift, supporting continued membership of the single market and customs union during an...

NEARLY 500 people were arrested in Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday for holding up posters declaring: ‘I oppose Genocide – I support...

FIRE Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack yesterday responded to London mayor Sadiq Khan’s decision to backstab Corbyn and urge Labour voters to ditch...

INTERROGATION methods, including ‘dunking suspects in icy water’ and ‘smashing a prisoner’s head against a wall’ are included in a long-awaited US Senate report,...

HAMAS has hailed yesterday’s reopening of the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza as a significant achievement for the Palestinian resistance. However, the Gaza Ministry of...

‘We’re expecting a big turn out tomorrow for the nationwide demonstrations,’ an Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) spokesman told News Line yesterday. He added:...

TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cut the schools repair budget in half in 2021 when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, it emerged yesterday...

THE UK has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for mass vaccination. Britain’s medicines regulator, the MHRA, says the jab, which offers up...

RESPONDING to the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) figures showing more nurses leaving than joining the profession, Janet Davies, Chief Executive and General...

KEIR STARMER stood outside 10 Downing St at 9.30 yesterday morning and announced he is quitting as Labour Party leader. He said that Labour’s governing...

Right wing Labour MP Frank Field yesterday appeared alongside David Cameron at an election event, suggesting that he would serve in a Cameron government....

‘WELCOME to all of you. We are very proud of all of you,’ Parmjit Bains told a rally on the hill near the Gate...

PM Cameron yesterday disclosed that the government’s legal advice over an imminent attack on Syria was that it would be legal since it...

The Greek government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou has unveiled the contents of a Presidential Decree which would allow for mass sackings, at half...

TEACHERS are increasingly seeing the devastating effects of the cost of living crisis on pupils, a survey by the NASUWT teachers’ union has revealed. Teachers...

THE BMA yesterday condemned the Brown government for putting the drive to reach its political targets before patient healthcare. ‘We are being bullied so...

Blacklisted construction workers and their supporters, 200 strong, lobbied Parliament yesterday, demanding those who operated and used blacklists in Britain be prosecuted. In 2009 the...

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