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TORY Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg announced yesterday that the taxpayer is to subsidise the energy bills of every business in Britain to the tune...

UP TO 200 WRP and YS members and supporters marched through East London yesterday on the 43rd anniversary of the News Line daily newspaper...

Teachers, parents and pupils are lobbying a full Cabinet meeting of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, which starts at 6pm tomorrow at Hammersmith Town Hall,...

‘CONFERENCE, it is right that Parliament has the first say, but if we need to break the impasse our options must include campaigning for...

BRITAIN remained without a government yesterday, as the Liberal Democrats prepared to dump their proportional representation policy in order to strike a dirty coalition...

THE prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas is expected to take place today, with Egypt overseeing the process to ensure both sides fulfil their...

NHS Chief Executive, Sir David Nicholson, who presided over the Mid Stafford Hospital disaster where there were more than 1,000 unnecessary deaths, yesterday refused...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs, now in the final week on its route from Manchester to London, left Rugby yesterday morning, heading for...

UP to 500 jobs will be axed at British Steel with the trade unions agreeing to the axing. The union leaders have warned the takeover...

‘Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Death to the occupiers! Death to Israel! Death to the traitors!’ shouted a defiant Iraqi President...

BECTU and the NUJ yesterday warned that BBC plans to cut 2,000 jobs would provoke strikes by Xmas. The BBC intends to reshape its TV...

There is growing anger amongst workers over the future of the GMM Luton plant, at the same time as a decision is imminent...

THE programme of rolling strike action by the Communication Workers Union – in opposition to Royal Mail’s plans to cut wages, add five years...

THE Unite and GMB trade unions have called on Ford to come clean over the future of its UK operations. They are warning that its...

THOUSANDS of Greek bank workers are continuing their strike against privatisation and will be joined by Postal Bank workers who are holding a one-day...

THOUSANDS of ‘Extinction Rebellion’ protesters blocked key areas of central London yesterday demanding action from the government on the ‘climate and ecological emergency’. Traffic was...

THE British Medical Association yesterday challenged the Blair government to say what will happen to chronically ill or emergency patients, ‘if the local hospital...

THE Chair of the BMA’s GP committee, Dr Laurence Buckman, told the Conference of Local Medical Committees yesterday: ‘A signal has been passed at...

MORE than 123,000 children and their families have spent their school holiday homeless, an increase of around 53,000 since the summer holidays of 2011,...

FIANNA Fail has betrayed its working class supporters and Irish Government aviation policy is a complete disaster‚ said TEEU (Technical, Engineering and Electrical Trade...

‘We don’t comment on leaked documents but our concerns remain about the competitive elements in the government’s NHS reforms,’ a British Medical Association (BMA)...

War on Want has condemned the UK private military and security companies (PMSCs), ‘operating with impunity in Iraq’. The charity issued a briefing paper...

ONLY three out of 160 social housing towers have been reclad since the Grenfell fire, over seven months ago, leaving tens of thousands of...

TRADE unions in the United Kingdom have denounced as outrageous Israel’s decision to designate six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist. ‘We strongly condemn the...

PARLIAMENT can stop the UK leaving the EU without negotiating a deal, Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell claimed yesterday. He said he could ‘not countenance’...

CHRONIC staff shortages, concerns about patient safety and plunging morale at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust are the key findings of a...

STRIKING staff at Abingdon and Witney College will be on picket lines outside both the Abingdon and Witney campuses from 8am on Tuesday...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education had its first leg from Manchester to Stockport yesterday. After a great march through Manchester...

THE Labour government is threatening to hit schools with ‘death by a thousand cuts’, teachers leaders warned yesterday. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reported...

THE firefighters union, FBU, yesterday said that they are considering strike action to defend Buckinghamshire firefighter and FBU executive committee member Ricky Matthews. He was...

THE Syrian army has scored ‘major victories’ against ‘rebels’ and now holds ‘the balance of power’ in the conflict, President Bashar al-Assad told a...

THE Bank of England was yesterday exposed as planning to deceive the public over research it is carrying out into the financial risks of...

THE JUNIOR doctors strike, on Wednesday February 10th will go ahead, doctors union the BMA announced yesterday. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Despite the...

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...

ISRAELI forces continued to bombard the Gaza Strip on Thursday despite an announcement by mediators that a ceasefire agreement had been reached to end...

WE are very sad to have to announce the death from lung cancer of Tony Hall, a very good friend of the News Line,...

ZOHRAM MAMDANI, a self-proclaimed ‘democratic socialist’, was elected the 111th mayor of New York yesterday. He is the first person of South Asian descent and...

THOUSANDS of junior doctors will take to the streets of London today in protest at the imposed changes to their contracts. The rally today in...

‘DOO Has to Go!’ chanted over 150 RMT members and their supporters from around the country outside parliament yesterday. On the national demonstration to mark...

HUNDREDS of ancillary workers employed by Serco at Bart’s Health NHS Trust began a two-week strike from 6am yesterday to 6am August 8th in...

JACOB Rees-Mogg Tory MP for North East Somerset yesterday warned that ‘Brexit is being watered down to the extent where you couldn’t really tell...

HUNDREDS of Lebanese marched to mark the first anniversary of the Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people. Lebanese police clashed with angry...

‘CALL A National Strike Now!’ striking Birmingham binworkers are demanding at their mass rally today, which assembles at 9.30am at the Unite HQ, 30...

Tory prime minister Cameron’s decision to veto an EU-wide treaty change over eurozone financial rules was ‘largely political’, Business Secretary Vince Cable said yesterday. He...

LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers expressed shock and anger at the treatment of two hundred Xavier Gourmet workers who found the gate to their...