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Formal talks between Unite trade union officials and Shell suppliers are due to resume today, as hundreds of petrol stations have begun closing. Informal talks...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are taking their fight for reinstatement into the trade union movement and visiting Transport and General Workers Union and other...

Welfare ‘reform’ plans aimed at privatising ‘help’ for the long term unemployed drew an angry response from civil servants’ union PCS yesterday. Union leader Mark Serwotka...

STAFF fighting the imposition of pay cuts and the threat of more sackings – after 25,000-plus job cuts in the last three years –...

THE vast majority of doctors believe the Tory-LibDem coalition government’s health policies threaten the future of the NHS, finds a poll for the BMA. The...

US MILITARY shot down a Syrian military plane last Sunday. Up until yesterday, all sides had agreed to the framework of the Memorandum on...

‘NO to martial law! Strike down the dictatorship! Open the gate!’ demonstrators shouted outside South Korea’s Parliament last night after President Yoon Suk Yeol...

THE SECOND phase of the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire began yesterday with families and friends of the 72 men, women and children...

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); will not prosecute an MI5 officer over the torture of UK resident Binyam Mohamed in Pakistan in 2002, Director...

THE THREAT of industrial action by England’s 50,000 junior doctors has forced Tory health secretary Hunt to think again over plans to impose a...

THE BATTLE is on! RMT confirmed yesterday that the Southern guards’ strike is going ahead. Meanwhile Southern Rail confirmed it will carry...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his military leadership they should build up their forces in the Arctic as a priority. Commending the recent restoration...

Chagos Islanders are angry that the Blair government, in its dying hours has appealed to the House of Lords against the recent Court of...

TUC call general strike to support junior doctors!

DOCTORS at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh have voted no confidence in the CQC (Care Quality Commission) and have declared the organisation...

THE campaign for Jonty Leff, the WRP candidate for Manchester Central, has stepped up a gear on the eve of Thursday’s general election. While canvassing...

The GMB trade union is holding a demonstration in Sheffield and a rally in Wakefield today, to defend 4,000 Remploy jobs. The GMB warned...

THE RMT transport union is holding a network-wide strike of 4,000 station staff members on London Underground on Monday 6th June, bringing the Tube...

TRANSPORT union RMT confirmed yesterday that Rail Gourmet staff at Edinburgh Waverley will be going ahead with a new phase of strike action in...

‘WE DON’T accept privatisation,’ RMT rail union leader Bob Crow said yesterday, on the eve of today’s strike by over 2,300 RMT members employed...

US President Donald Trump backed away from his 48-hour ultimatum to strike Iran’s power plants yesterday, after the Islamic Republic warned that all energy...

Westminster MPs heard calls for the government to ‘Stop, Listen and Think Again’, as trade unionists and community groups lobbied Parliament asking them...

‘IT IS high time to make it clear to London that its efforts to ignite a conflict are doomed to failure,’ the Russian Foreign...

THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world. Under the conditions of the greatest...

EIGHT hundred students of nursing and other health care courses were told last Friday that loan instalments expected this week will be reduced or...

‘HEATHROW’S cash mountain should be used to help low paid staff threatened by “fire and rehire”,’ Unite said yesterday. Heathrow workers are currently being...

HUNDREDS of migrant domestic workers will be gathering in Old Palace Yard, Westminster at 11.00 am this Sunday to demonstrate against the government’s proposed...

BENEFIT cuts have created a kind of famine’ one of the over twenty million people who have visited food banks this year said,...

THE Strait of Hormuz is ‘declared completely open’ for the ‘remaining period of ceasefire,’ Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said yesterday. In a statement on...

LEADERS and officials of Britain and Ireland’s transport unions will today expose the poverty-pay shame of a ferry company operating in UK and Irish...

WORKERS at Heathrow Airport will next week step up strike action in their increasingly bitter dispute over massive wage cuts that the company is...

‘The strike will go ahead,’ said Unison general secretary Dave Prentis yesterday as more unions announced their members will be joining the November 30...

FIGURES released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) yesterday reveal soaring inflation, with the government’s preferred CPI rate hitting 4 per cent in...

GENERAL Practitioners (GPs) across England have voted overwhelmingly to reject the new 2024/25 national GP General Medical Services (GMS) contract that was imposed on...

ISRAEL has ruled out peace and even an interim accord with the Palestinian leadership and the Palestinian people, kicking the ‘peace process’...

‘OUR policy at the TUC is to call a general strike,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch told News Line on the picket line at...

Staff and students at London Metropolitan University will protest from 4.00pm on Monday in their ongoing fight to save over 550 jobs. Members of the...

WORKERS pressure is mounting on the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories at its Annual Congress in Brighton next...

Public sector union UNISON yesterday reacted in shock and anger to the announcement by Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust that it plans to cut 600...

THE BMA has criticised the ‘appalling’ failure by health privateer Capita to send cervical screening letters to up to 48,000 women. It has written...

Serious Crime Prevention Orders dubbed ‘ASBOs for suspected criminals’ were unveiled at a press briefing by Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker yesterday. The new civil...

JUNIOR doctors in England will hold a three-day strike from 7am on Wednesday 14 June to 7am on Saturday 17 June, after rejecting a...

PRIVATE companies are being paid tens of millions of pounds of public money to train apprentices with no inspections or checks taking place and...

FOREIGN Secretary David Lammy has said British warplanes could strike Iranian missile bases as the United States and Israel continue their assault on Iran. Lammy...