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FOUR THOUSAND workers in Britain’s network of 371 Crown Post Offices are on strike today against the government’s policy of wholesale closures and in...

‘ANY attempt to break national pay rates must be met by the TUC calling an indefinite general strike to bring down this Tory-LibDem Coalition...

THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2007 to the working class and youth of the world,...

THOUSANDS of London bus workers will take strike action next Thursday 5th July followed by action on Tuesday 24 July in a dispute over...

MORE than 60,000 junior doctor members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are going on strike for three days this week against massive 31.7%...

MORE than 5,000 trade unionists, workers, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on the London May Day March yesterday...

THE Arab League; the Quartet of the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia; Israel and the Palestinian Fatah movement are...

THE 48-hour London Underground strike was suspended yesterday afternoon by both unions, the TSSA and RMT. The strike, due to start last night...

TENS of thousands of school students around the world are set to walk out of their schools again to join the world-wide ‘Youth Strike...

Trade union leaders were yesterday impotent in the face of threatened mass sackings at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Corus by owner Tata of...

ONE in six A&Es across the length and breadth of the country are threatened with closure, according to research by the Health Service Journal...

EXPORTS to the EU, the UK’s biggest trading partner, are ‘dead in the water’, a member of the Bank of England’s interest rate-setting Monetary...

Saddam Hussein yesterday insisted he was the president of Iraq, and refused to recognise the US appointed court, declining to give his name or...

DOCTORS are calling for an extra £10.3bn to be put in to the NHS, ahead of Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond’s budget tomorrow. This, doctor’s union...

POURING rain made the Young Socialist marchers even more determined and their chants of ‘Youth demand a future, Youth demand jobs’ even louder on...

‘WITH these private companies running London’s buses it’s a race to the bottom – the only way to stop it is to renationalise London...

‘It is appalling that this Labour government is now more obsessed with selling off our public services to put profits in the pockets of...

GREECE’S new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has urged Germany not to humiliate the country over its debts. Varoufakis compared Greece’s plight with that of inter-war...

‘WE HAVE been appalled about the way in which the numbers of those who have died have been publicised all the way along,’ Yvette...

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

There needs to be a 50 per cent increase in the number of hospital consultants by 2010 to ensure ‘a safe service’, the President...

CHANCELLOR Osborne oversaw the creation of a ‘Star Chamber’ yesterday, to force through the planned £60 billion a year spending cuts. Osborne told the...

THE biggest strike of the summer so far continues today, as 115,000 postal workers fight for a  ‘dignified, proper pay rise’. Royal Mail Group members...

THE Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned an Israeli attack on a wedding celebration in Gaza that killed at least six people, including...

Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced his ‘four options’ for extending the period that police can hold ‘terror suspects’ without charging them. He is ‘considering’...

VENTILATORS are to be rationed, using tactics employed on the battlefield, where army medics choose who to treat and who to leave to bleed...

TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday that the NHS will get ‘whatever resources it needs’ to cope with a coronavirus epidemic. He alleged to the...

A PRIVATE midwifery company now has a contract with ten NHS trusts, with up to 300 women a year using a private midwife during...

Dr Patrick Roach, General Secretary of the NASUWT teachers union, has called on the government to take further action on school safety in light...

LECTURERS and staff took on Goldsmiths College higher management yesterday launching a bold and powerful three week strike against redundancies and the axing of...

RUPERT Murdoch ‘is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company’, the Parliamentary Culture Committee reported yesterday. The committee was...

LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are furious that their union leaders in the TGWU have ended their hardship payments. Lakhinder Saran told News Line yesterday: ‘We...

Britain’s biggest public sector union, UNISON yesterday condemned the decision of three Suffolk Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to deny operations to overweight patients. ‘It’s against...

NEW OFFICE for National Statistics (ONS) figures released yesterday show a record rise in redundancies of 370,000 and a fall in the number of...

RCN NURSES from King’s College Hospital in south London marched from their picket line to the Camberwell Abellio bus garage yesterday, to bring greetings...

The University and College Union (UCU) held a strike rally of over 150 members from across the country at the Emmanuel Centre on Marsham...

MIDWIVES remain angry over the government’s attack on public sector pensions, warned the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday. Jon Skewes, director of employment...

THE government’s plans to make firefighters in England work until they are 60 and to increase their pension contributions was backed by MPs, 313...

THE TORIES’ ‘right to rent’ checks are a breach of human rights, the High Court ruled yesterday. These are rules which force landlords to do...

HEALTH unions yesterday slammed the government’s announcement of six new Private Finance Initiative (PFI) hospital projects costing £1.5 billion. Not only will the schemes...

Two hundred trade unionists and youth attended the News Line & All Trades Unions Alliance (ATUA) conference in central London, yesterday. They discussed a resolution...

Nearly all Greek university departments and over 500 schools throughout the country were yesterday being occupied by students in mass and militant mobilisations commemorating...

‘WE ARE calling for a general strike against the privatisation of the NHS,’ Hands off Huddersfield Royal Infirmary spokesman, Mike Foster, told a demonstration...

OVER 100 workers and youth lobbied parliament yesterday afternoon ahead of a vote on the government’s Care Bill which includes the hated ‘Clause 119’...

‘WE WANT a pay rise!’ said over 200 striking Bart’s NHS Trust ancillary workers employed by privateer SERCO at the trust’s four London hospitals. The...