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BBC Asian Network went on a 24-hour strike yesterday against the axing of one out of two editor posts in Birmingham and moving a...

TUC DELEGATES in Manchester yesterday waved Palestinian flags as they voted unanimously for Emergency Motion 4, ‘Cuts to UNWRA and the Nation-State Law.’ This...

‘THIS STINKS of another multi-million pound taxpayer subsidy to bail out the failing Southern rail part of the Govia Thameslink franchise,’ Mick Cash general...

THE chairman of the British Medical Association’s Consultants Committee has written an open letter to Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, warning that the NHS is...

AN ACUTE lack of ambulances and paramedics has created a situation where 999 patients classed as ‘life threatening’ are waiting for up to...

THE SYRIAN government forces are on the cusp of victory! They have liberated the majority of eastern Aleppo and are driving the terrorist...

STRIKE leaders at Gold Fields KDC West operations in Carletonville, Northwest province, South Africa, said yesterday that their industrial action will not end until...

Public sector trade union Unison, yesterday condemned the bosses’ organisation, the CBI, for calling for a two year public sector pay freeze. Unison...

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...

VIRGIN Atlantic is to cut a third of its staff in the UK and will keep its operation at Gatwick closed in response to...

CIVIL Servants have voted by a massive 61% majority in favour of strike action in their fight for a pay rise of £1,200, or...

TATA Steel announced yesterday that it is getting out of Britain at once, threatening the jobs of 19,000 steelworkers in Port Talbot, Rotherham, Corby,...

PRIVATE companies are being paid tens of millions of pounds of public money to train apprentices with no inspections or checks taking place and...

THE US Justice Department has seized 33 Iranian government-affiliated media websites, as well as three of the Iraqi group Kataeb Hezbollah, which it said...

TENANTS facing eviction and already evicted tenants at Sweets Way housing estate in Barnet, north london, came together for a community ‘Fun Day’ yesterday. They...

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

LOW income households will have their family finances hit by multiple cuts this month totalling £2.3bn. Almost half of this amount will be provided by...

IN the midst of catastrophic humanitarian suffering for more than two million Palestinians – half of them children, the Israeli occupation army continued, for...

LECTURERS are furious after Blackburn College announced plans to sack staff but boost bosses’ pensions. 29 jobs are at risk in the fifth round of...

GREECE was put in an ‘eight days to default’ situation by the ECB and the EU yesterday. A default by Greece was technically avoided when...

THE just-published Resolution Foundation report says that real wage growth will be flat in 2018 and that many households are already pessimistic about...

The top American commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus has said he is preparing recommendations on troop reductions before he returns to Washington next...

Israeli occupation forces kill an average of four children every hour in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported yesterday, the...

TENS of thousands of people demonstrated from mid-day yesterday outside the Bank of England against bankers,capitalism and the G20 summit. They...

JAGUAR Land Rover (JLR) announced yesterday it is cutting up to an eighth of its 40,000 strong UK workforce with up to 5,000 car...

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...

THE dispute over pay and staff cuts affecting Greenwich’s 12 libraries has been settled in what the Unite union described as ‘a great victory...

HOUSE prices in much of London as well as the UK’s southeast have increased by more than 40 per cent, instilling fears of...

The Council of Europe’s interim report yesterday said it is ‘highly likely’ that European governments know of the secret transport by the CIA of...

MEETING & FILM – Saturday March 15, 5pm @ International Student House, 229 Great Portland Street, W1 (next Great Portland St tube) speakers include: John...

TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has struck more than 100 targets in the city of Tel Aviv in retaliation for the...

PATIENTS, NHS workers and privacy campaigners alike are outraged that people’s private medical records are to be put on the internet without their consent...

POSTAL workers were very angry when they demonstrated outside the London Stock Exchange at 7.00am yesterday morning, on the day that Royal Mail shares...

‘WE ARE having a successful picket again today,’ North-East London Council of Action secretary, Bill Rogers, told News Line outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. ‘Everyone...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Bournemouth, yesterday took up the cudgels against privatisation and cuts in the fire, prison and probation services, Royal...

RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev warned yesterday that Georgia’s leadership will ‘pay the price’ for its attack on South Ossetia one year ago. He also condemned...

ISRAEL continued its terror operation against the Palestinian Jenin refugee camp yesterday, with drones, airstrikes and missiles killing 10 Palestinians and injuring over 100...

TWO students began a high court battle against the government yesterday challenging the rise in tuition fees as unlawful as it breaches the equality...

‘This greed has got to be stopped and the government should step in now and levy a windfall tax on the company,’ said UNISON...

YESTERDAY, PM Truss was fighting for her political life against a Tory faction that is determined to ditch her as soon as possible, if...

MILLIONS more appointments with hundreds fewer GPs is ‘pushing doctors to breaking point’, the BMA warned yesterday. Commenting on the latest NHS Digital GP workforce...

PRIME Minister Cameron explained to an audience of ‘social entrepreneurs’ in London yesterday that the ‘Big Society’ means ‘opening up’ public services to being...

THE CRISIS in Sri Lanka escalated yesterday as wild protests broke out on the streets over spiralling fuel and food prices, and daily blackouts...

MANCHESTER Go North West strikers were out yesterday mass picketing the depot as part of their indefinite strike. Go North West Unite branch secretary Pat...

‘WHAT do we want – fair pay! When do we want it – now!’ shouted hundreds of striking McDonald’s, TGI Fridays, Wetherspoons, and UberEats...