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TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to forcibly impose the new contract on the junior doctors was wrong because he does not have the...

DELEGATES at the Trade Union Congress in Manchester yesterday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 3: Grenfell Tower. The motion condemns the tragedy where...

Hundreds of Tamils demonstrated in Parliament Square yesterday after a sit-in of thousands on Westminster Bridge was broken up by riot police. The protesters alleged...

GPs FROM across the UK yesterday resoundingly rejected calls to introduce a charge for access to general practice. The proposal was debated and voted...

Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, two busy Surrey General Hospitals with bustling Accident and Emergency Departments, are to be replaced by a single hospital...

SRI LANKA’S revolutionary anti-government demonstrators said yesterday they were ending their occupation of official buildings, but vowed to press on with their revolution to...

IN a savage attack that will cost workers hundreds of pounds a week, Chancellor Osborne has said he will use Wednesday’s Budget to announce...

‘NHS hospitals and their contents – including hundreds of thousands of beds, scanners, X-ray equipment, incubators, bedpans, syringes, operating theatre equipment, pacemakers, surgical instruments...

TORY Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said face masks will be compulsory in shops and on public transport in England from tomorrow in response...

TWO Labour MPs who lost no-confidence votes among local party members have told constituents they will not quit. Former minister, and chair of Labour...

The euro fell sharply in morning trading yesterday, as bond yields on the debt of eurozone periphery countries began to push higher. This came after...

NURSES and other vital health workers face the sack within weeks, Jim Mackey, the chief executive of NHS Improvement, the body which is now...

PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday claimed it is ‘in our national interest’ for the UK to launch air strikes on Syria. He made a statement to...

PM JOHNSON yesterday apologised for attending an illegal drinks party in the Downing Street garden while millions of people were under lockdown, and making...

CRUCIAL parts of an inquiry into undercover police spies who spent years embedded in political movements are to be heard in secret in order...

FOLLOWING the moving of the new Tory anti-union legislation in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the TUC announced yesterday that it will hold...

THE widow of Harry Stanley is consulting her lawyers, after a High Court judge yesterday quashed an inquest jury’s verdict of ‘unlawful killing’ over...

THE Israeli occupation forces (IOF) yesterday hijacked at dawn the Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen and kidnapped the activists on board. The vessel, operated by the...

Lawyers for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday said they wanted the truth, and answers to ‘lies that have been told’ about...

OVER 2,000 angry Nigerians demanding their president ‘Buahari must go’ demonstrated outside the Nigerian Commission in London on Wednesday evening before marching to Downing...

The government’s forecasts for the costs of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in this financial year have ‘increased significantly over the last three...

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

NEW government funding proposals will force nursery schools to close, warns the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT). Yesterday was the deadline for submissions to...

‘WE need a national strike to win this now,’ striking Birmingham binworker Dean Harris, Unite Rep at the Atlas refuse site picket line told...

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust yesterday announced plans to axe 430 jobs as part of a cost-cutting plan aimed at saving £84m in the...

MIGRANT domestic workers lobbied Parliament yesterday, World Human Rights Day, demanding an end to modern slavery. Workers were joined at the lobby by supporters including...

WILDCAT strikes by postal workers at three Scottish sorting offices over serious health and safety issues has forced Royal Mail to change its policy...

THE Elect Hassan Zulkifal WRP Ealing Southall campaign got great support on Southall Broadway yesterday. Heathrow Airport worker and GMB member Kutesh Sashikint said: ‘I...

CHRIS KITCHEN, leader of the NUM, demanded an inquiry yesterday into South Yorkshire Police over their manipulation of evidence against miners charged following...

FIREFIGHTERS were on strike again yesterday between 10am and 3pm over government attacks on their pensions, while Tube workers are due to strike for...

Yesterday’s pensions announcement went down like a lead balloon with pensioners who were expecting immediate action to index link the state pension with average...

AN EIGHTY-strong coachload of Yellow Vest protesters came over from France to join the demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday morning demanding WikiLeaks founder...

THE quality and safety of patient care in general practice in England is under threat from rising workload pressures according to a major new...

YESTERDAY was the second day of the Employment tribunal for Gate Gourmet sacked workers where they are bringing their claim for unfair dismissal. Kay Collins,...

END the blockade of Gaza! Stop selling arms to Israel! Investigate Israel for war crimes! delegate to the Labour Party conference, Sarah Jane Potter...

DOCTORS, nurses and NHS staff on hearing the demands blasting out of the megaphone ‘Re-open Maternity! Re-open the Charlie Chaplin childrens’ ward!’ stopped to...

‘THE CAPITALIST system still faces a crisis of legitimacy stemming from the crash,’ Jeremy Corbyn told the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday. In...

THE Bank of England has warned that the biggest banks and building societies operating in Britain face a £120bn shortfall in their finances. In a...

A THIRD of GPs are considering retiring from general practice within the next five years according to the latest figures from the BMA’s survey...

‘IF PHILIP Green won’t do the right thing by the members of the BHS pension fund then he should have his knighthood removed. And...

UNISON yesterday slammed Npower’s ‘scandalous’ 10.4% energy hike that will ‘bring misery to millions of households this winter’. While the TUC said that energy prices...

LIVING standards are the worst since the last war ‘if not since the 1920s’, the leader of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) declared...

WAGES fell by 0.2% in the year to June was the shock news released by the ONS yesterday. Britain is now a nation of the...

YESTERDAY’S General Strike across Israel was pronounced illegal by the Tel Aviv Labour Court, which ordered the Histradut union organisation to call it off...