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Unison head of health, Karen Jennings yesterday slammed Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt’s claim that the district general hospital is out of date and no...

INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist Olivier Blanchard has warned UK Chancellor Osborne that he is ‘playing with fire’ with his fiscal policy. Blanchard also...

THE TORY party official fire safety advisor Ken Knight rubber-stamped the use of the flammable cladding, responsible for the rapid spread of the Grenfell...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are calling on all their supporters to join them at their monthly mass picket on the hill at the Beacon...

HAMAS has warned Israel against attacking the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz yesterday indicated his support...

The Communic-ation Workers Union yesterday said its members would not be impressed by remarks from Royal Mail directors that bosses are ready for a...

EIGHT hundred students of nursing and other health care courses were told last Friday that loan instalments expected this week will be reduced or...

THE leaders of Ukraine’s breakaway regions, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics are among those who are being targeted by the new UK anti-Russian...

The Turkish government split yesterday in the face of mass uprisings and a general strike by Turkish workers and youth. In Ankara, the Deputy...

‘We welcome today’s decision to bring a charge of manslaughter against the officer,’ said newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson’s stepson Paul King on behalf of...

PORT Talbot’s steelworks will be given up to £500m by the UK government in a bid to keep the plant open and produce steel...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn says Prime Minister Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ set a ‘deliberately unreachable bar’ for migrants and created the Windrush generation scandal. In...

‘NO fault dismissal will allow employers to sack people where their faces don’t fit,’ Paul Kenny, leader of the GMB public service union warned...

THOUSANDS deemed ineligible to receive Universal Credit have been driven to food banks to survive. The new study published yesterday by the Economic and Social...

NO TO PRIVATISATION! SAVE OUR DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS! BLAIR AND BROWN OUT! THE Blair government is gunning for District General Hospitals – David Nicholson, the Chief Executive...

‘JOHN Roan Resists!’ is the battle cry of 1,200 pupils, their parents and 60 teachers who are in an escalating struggle to stop their...

THE Visteon Belfast factory’s Unite convenor, John Maguire, said yesterday that he was being excluded from the meeting with the Visteon management. He...

Over 400,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street on Saturday, while thousands more marched in other towns and cities around Britain, including...

Millions of graduates will now face paying interest on their student loans again as new interest rates came into effect yesterday. Payments to the Student...

‘PRIOR to the Grenfell Tower fire, many concerns were being raised by many groups, including the Fire Brigades Union, about fires in high-rise buildings....

Saturday April 6th

CAMPAIGNERS against the closure of four west London hospital Accident and Emergency Departments expressed fury yesterday at the declaration by Imperial College Healthcare NHS...

DIRECTOR of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, said that Christmas Eve was one of the most difficult nights in Kamal Adwan Hospital...

THE TORIES are failing to tackle the acute teacher shortage crisis in schools across England, a committee of MPs said yesterday. The Education Select Committee...

THE Palestinian Mission in London reported yesterday that ‘In the past year Israeli government forces have further intensified their provocations and attack against Al-Aqsa...

FIGURES released yesterday showed eurozone unemployment hit a new record high in June, with a jobless rate of 11.2% and 17.8 million people out...

‘OUR FAMILY cannot wait any longer, ’ said the family of Chris Kaba yesterday, the six-months anniversary of the 24-year-old black man’s fatal shooting...

PRIME Minister Blair yesterday refused to name the date for his departure. Speaking yesterday on a visit to one of the new ‘pathfinder...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn presented his position on Brexit yesterday in which a deal with the EU or Remain are the only options and...

‘WE paid the price of systematic dishonesty, institutional indifference and neglect,’ Natasha Elcock, Chair of Grenfell United, said in the shadow of Grenfell Tower...

DISABLED people, benefit claimants and supporters held a vigil and remembrance event yesterday for those who have died because of the actions of Paralympic...

THE Tories’ lead over the Labour Party has narrowed to just two per cent, according to an opinion poll published yesterday. The poll of more...

ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) yesterday launched a series of arrests and raids across various areas of the West Bank, primarily targeting the governorates of...

THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that children in the besieged Gaza Strip live in ‘constant terror due to Israeli bombardment’. UNICEF spokesperson...

PROPOSALS for mass sackings and closures of local A&E and Maternity units were yesterday revealed at a press conference called by the government-appointed administrator...

Rupert Murdoch sought assurances from prime minister Thatcher in the 1980s about policing of print union strikes, the Leveson Inquiry has been told. In a...

‘WE will be balloting for further action, this issue is not going to go away,’ NUJ General Secretary Michelle Stanistreet told News Line yesterday. Speaking...

JOHNSON’S Tory government has urged Iraq to allow UK troops to stay in the country following the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani...

‘We are grateful to the union for their support today, but we have to say “We are not here for the hell of it”...

THE 595 women cleaners of the Greek Finance Ministry, sacked en masse on 17 September 2013 on the direct orders of the EC-IMF-ECB overlords,...

‘WIKILEAKS publication represents a great victory for freedom of expression in the face of government secrecy,’ said a statement by respected journalist Patrick Cockburn,...

MORE THAN 100 youth won enthusiastic support from shoppers as they marched with the Young Socialists through Birmingham city centre on Saturday afternoon, as...

A ‘NEW care model’ in Stockport, Greater Manchester, has sparked a 96% ‘YES’ vote for strike action among Unison members. The strike will take...

‘Industries must be nationalised under workers control and with no compensation to the failed former owners,’ said All Trades Unions Alliance national secretary Dave...

A unit of the British Army’s Special Air Service (SAS) has been accused of carrying out night missions in which they executed civilians in...