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‘WE have a duty to stand up for our junior doctors. We cannot allow them to be bullied in such a way,’ Ian Hodson,...

ASSOCIATION of Teachers and Lecturers President Hank Roberts yesterday condemned as ‘outrageous’ an offshore company employing thousands of supply teachers avoiding the payment of...

THE Communication Workers Union has said it is prepared to ‘settle around inflation’ for the next two years. Given that ‘around’ means less, and that...

Starmer has announced hurried alterations to the Labour welfare bill after more than 120 Labour MPs signalled their intention to vote against it, threatening...

HEALTH regulator Monitor has authorised West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust as a new foundation trust, effectively privatising it from 1st January, 2013. The trust...

THE WELFARE Bill, slashing benefits from the disabled and mentally ill, was passed by 335 votes to 260 in the House of Commons yesterday...

PROPOSALS to ‘save £3 billion’ by transferring NHS services onto the web to end the overcrowding of GP surgeries have been condemned by charities...

THE NUMBER of people killed in Gaza since 7th October rose to 5,087 yesterday – an increase of 436 since Sunday, the Health Ministry...

‘IT IS foolish to rely on foreign companies and foreign governments to keep Britain’s lights on and our economy powered when we could easily...

STRIKING British Airways cabin crew are calling for the rest of the British Airways workforce to be brought out on strike alongside them. They are...

A team of British officials have travelled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to visit detainee Binyam Mohamed and make preparations for his expected release. A Scotland...

THE Labour Party has defeated the SNP to win the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. The party’s candidate, Michael Shanks, took the Westminster seat with...

A LIVELY North East London Council of Action monthly picket of Chase Farm Hospital won big support yesterday for its determination to keep...

Media unions BECTU and the NUJ yesterday condemned ‘BBC fat-cat bonuses’ and called on BBC bosses to hand them back. They were responding to the...

THE PROPORTION of households in the UK where no-one is working is at its lowest point for over 20 years, the Office for National...

IN LIGHT of the Windrush scandal, ‘obscene’ Home Office fees have been slammed by campaigners who brand the Home Office as ‘a money-making machine’...

GATE Gourmet workers lobbied the TUC General Council in central London yesterday. They brought their banner: ‘Justice for the Sacked Gate Gourmet Workers’ and...

AROUND 100 students from London universities and their supporters, marched from University of London Union (ULU) and lobbied a meeting of university management against...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohamed Mustafa declared the Gaza Strip a famine zone yesterday, calling on the international community to implement UN resolutions prohibiting the...

WORKERS employed by outsourcing giant Serco, who work in the company’s back-of-house catering department at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, will stage a...

PICKET lines outside ambulance stations around the country received a cacophony of support from passing vehicles as 23,000 ambulance worker members of Unison, the...

IN response to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s so-called day-after plan for Gaza, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that: ‘Gaza...

OVER 5,000 workers, trade unionists and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on May Day yesterday. ‘General strike for Palestine’, chanted the Workers...

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

WORKERS in Greece staged the biggest march of recent years in Athens on Wednesday, against the government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou which carries...

TORY PM May announced yesterday that a political declaration has been ‘agreed in principle’ between the UK and the EU outlining how trade, security...

TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £30bn Budget package to try to keep UK capitalism from being bankrupted and broken apart by the...

THE MILITARY will take charge of the operations targeting refugees and asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in inflatable boats within weeks, the government...

EDUCATION Secretary Gove is ‘irrepairably damaging children’s education’ says Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL). Speaking at the...

THE EDITORIAL Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the working class of the world. We salute in particular the heroic struggle...

TRADE unions yesterday slammed Tory chancellor Phillip Hammond’s instruction to government departments to find spending cuts of up to 6% as part of plans...

‘The welfare of cats and dogs will come before the fall-out from any terrorist attack in London under the capital’s new poison strategy’, warns...

BUS workers are to increase their Olympic Games payment claim against the bus privateers and Transport for London (TfL), Unite declared yesterday. London buses will...

Venture capitalists Texas Pacific and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts are this week expected to bid for the supermarket group, J Sainsbury. Their take-over will mean sackings,...

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...

LABOUR PM Sir Keir Starmer, after a few warm words about how special Brighton was to him, got down to business to tell the...

The Maternity unit at Ealing Hospital is set to close tomorrow, Wednesday 24 June. This is a disaster for the densely populated part of...

SAVAGE Tory cuts to the fire service have led the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) to ask the following ominous question: ‘Could the...

A DEMONSTRATION in Wakefield will be held today into the delay by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) on whether it will launch a...

The latest hospital trust to announce staff cuts, St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, has said it plans to axe up to 150 jobs. The trust,...

Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday announced a whole series of police state measures for use against young people and workers. He told a recalled House...

Officials in Doha have confirmed that Qatar is secretly supplying French-made ‘Milan’ anti-tank missiles to Libyan counter-revolutionaries in Benghazi, as part of the western...

‘THIS SORT of service is the slippery slope towards the privatisation of the NHS,’ Dr Applebee, chair of Tower Hamlets Local Medical Committee warned...

KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...