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IT is Tuesday, 3.00pm in Paris and people are still pouring into Place D’Italie for the start of the latest massive anti-government demonstration by...

ANGRY NHS workers on strike outside Barnsley hospital in South Yorkshire spoke to News Line yesterday. Ellen Newberry, deputy chair of Junior Doctors Committee (BMA),...

Unison general secretary, Dave Prentis, yesterday pledged the union will ‘fight and fight’ until the Health and Social Care Bill is defeated and the...

Workers and youth in Greece delivered an historic death blow to the present bourgeois parties and to the whole political two-party system in Sunday’s...

THREE thousand hospital workers, Metro workers, primary school teachers and pensioners marched through Greece’s capital, Athens last Wednesday. The day of strike action was against...

With anger over job cuts and NHS ‘reforms’ due to dominate the Royal College of Nursing’s Annual Congress in Liverpool this week,...

LAST WEEK, US President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order to enhance and extend a Trump-era ban on investments with 59 Chinese companies, barring...

The Greek conservatives New Democracy party is building up a ‘pro-European front against populism’ with the aim of defeating the Coalition of the Radical...

THE wife of Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, Fadwa Barghouti, has called on US President Donald Trump to work towards the release of her husband,...

IN A MAJOR police state move, 29 demonstrators were arrested in London at a protest in support of Palestine Action on Saturday, the day...

FIERCE clashes broke out between the French CRS riot police and protesters for the third night in a row on Wednesday night. Demonstrators are furious...

OVER 4,000 firefighters marched through central London yesterday against attacks on their pensions and cuts to the fire service. The front banner read: ‘We Rescue...

THERE was a strong picket line at Harrow bus garage yesterday morning despite the pouring rain. London Sovereign drivers were on their third day of...

THE UK economy ground to a halt in the three months to June 30, with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) up just 0.2 per...

The Trade Union Congress yesterday expressed ‘serious concerns’ at proposals for private insurance companies to take over the payment of benefits such as unemployment...

SEVERAL universities were being occupied yesterday, on the eve of today’s National Day of Action against the introduction of £9,000-a-year tuition fees and the...

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...

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned against any ‘quick fix’ plan to keep asthma and heart patients out of hospital ‘just to...

TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...

AN INVESTIGATION into academy schools has revealed that huge sums of public money are being spent on expenses claims for academy bosses. The investigation, which...

‘STRIKE action is the only way forward. How can we drive our buses safely if there is no A&E at Ealing hospital?’ bus driver...

‘POLICE MURDERERS’ was the cry that greeted the Jury’s verdict yesterday afternoon at the conclusion of the inquest into the police killing of Mark...

SPENDING CUTS, job losses and pension attacks must end, the RMT told the London Mayor yesterday. The Tube workers’ union wrote to Sadiq Khan, emphasising...

‘WE MUST do more to defeat Putin’s campaign of lies and disinformation,’ Labour leader Keir Starmer told the House of Commons yesterday at PMQs. ‘Russia...

THE EUROPEAN Union must be hauled before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and prosecuted ‘for crimes against humanity’ after letting ‘thousands of refugees drown...

The University and College Union yesterday slammed the government after it emerged that Cambridge University plans to charge students £9,000 a year fees. UCU general...

TWO Gate Gourmet locked-out workers went to the TGWU London South East and East Anglia Regional Office in north London yesterday, to ask for...

DOCTORS at the BMA conference (ARM) yesterday voted for Motion 293 from the London Regional Council ‘to resist cuts and the privatisation of the...

THE GAP between the first and second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine must be reduced to three or four weeks to ensure it...

‘I KNOW that the British people hate the idea of unfairness. People like me who make the rules should be accountable for their actions,’...

THERE were three really lively picket lines of striking British Airways cabin crew around Heathrow Airport yesterday, with music, flags, horns and whistles, responding...

TORY Chancellor Osborne yesterday confirmed the government’s intention to savagely attack child benefits, disability benefits and housing benefits in his Emergency Budget, whilst pushing...

HAMAS said ‘the lists of prisoners required to be released’ as part of a ceasefire agreement were exchanged yesterday in Egypt. Taher al-Nunu, who is...

VOLUNTEERS from Calais Action yesterday loaded a truck to take aid for refugees to the Greek island of Samos. Calais Action founder Libby Freeman...

ROYAL Mail’s bullying management, backed to the hilt by the Brown government, yesterday sought to impose extreme flexibility onto the country’s postal workers, ...

Members of the Jean Charles de Menezes family refused to listen to the coroner’s summing up at the young Brazilian’s inquest yesterday, in protest...

JEREMY Corbyn has put Labour activists on ‘permanent notice’ amid rumours in Westminster of another general election. He said he would ‘absolutely welcome’ a...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed concern over the threat of closure hanging over a number of NHS hospitals. This followed data published yesterday...

AXING student grants while hiking up university fees to an eyewatering £9,500 a year has driven tens of thousands of students out of education,...

AT A STORMY packed meeting of some 300 delegates on Monday the Greek Public Workers Confederation ADEDY decided to call a national 24-hour strike...

ISRAELI warplanes rained terror on Gaza yesterday, targeting ambulances, market places and refugee camps. Warplanes fired missiles at the mosque in the centre of Shati...

TWO YEARS-OLD Awaab Ishak died on 21 December 2020 shortly after his second birthday ‘entirely’ as a result of extensive mould in his flat,...

‘TEACHERS are concerned that the government have not taken the safety measures that they should have done,’ Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of...

POSTAL workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of striking for pay, in a ballot of 115,000 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), with...

MORE than 80,000 workers, students and youth marched for Victory to Palestine through central London on Saturday. The London march assembled at Embankment on the...