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RAIL unions yesterday slammed Tory plans to illegalise rail strikes. Page 60 of the Conservative Party general election manifesto says: ‘We will work with train...

THE MPs’ pay rise plan shows a political class ‘wildly out of touch’, said Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday. Commenting...

FORMER UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is being touted by sections of the Israeli genocide cabinet as an agent to lead the ‘relocation’ of...

LIBERTY this week asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to determine if Christopher Alder’s death in police custody has been properly investigated...

THE German Constitutional Court has shaken the European Union with its statement yesterday that the European Central Bank’s (ECB) bond-buying scheme could be ‘incompatible’...

‘More than 30 maternity and A&E units have been shut down, downgraded or threatened with closure since May’s general election, despite the government’s promise...

The Unite trade union, yesterday welcomed the withdrawal of controversial contracts by Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES), which would have resulted in the termination...

‘WE WILL proudly break the sanctions,’ Iranian leader President Hassan Rouhani said defiantly at a meeting of economic officials yesterday, describing the new wave...

Norfolk County Fire Service faces savage cuts as a result of the County Council being starved of cash in the Blair government’s ...

Almost 10p in every pound of a gas or electricity bill is now going directly into the coffers of the privatised energy companies. Gas and...

HEZBOLLAH stressed yesterday that it will go ahead with its pro-Gaza strikes against the Israeli enemy, describing Tuesday’s deadly pager attacks as ‘another reckoning...

Students and lecturers at Reading University yesterday condemned Monday’s decision to axe the university’s Physics Department. Philip Diamond of the Institute of Physics said the...

THE floods crisis in central and western England continued yesterday with tens of thousands of homes stranded without water and electricity supplies. Up to...

BRITISH Tory and Labour leaders fell in with their US masters’ drive to war yesterday. US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in...

THERE were loud and lively picket lines of striking radiographers outside hospitals around the country yesterday as the NHS workers continued their 48-hour strike...

THE GMB yesterday at its annual Congress in Blackpool demanded that the owner of the American Dry Cleaning Company, Julian Stone, reinstate two...

THE CLADDING samples from each and every one of the 34 tower blocks in 17 council areas in England tested up until yesterday have...

UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis has warned politicians against making ‘selfless’ public service workers pay the price for the economic slump. In his New Year...

THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings on this May Day to the insurgent workers of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. The Iraqi insurgency...

Rose Gentle, Susan Smith, Peter Brierley and Karla Hewett, whose sons and brother died in the Iraq war, set up a 24-hour Peace Camp...

BRITISH Steel has announced the start of a formal consultation that could lead to the closure of its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, placing...

THE TORIES’ civil war over Brexit continued to rage yesterday after PM May received a letter from 30 Tory MPs. The letter...

THE TUC has declared its support for Tube workers who are on strike today over the imposition of night working. Commenting on the strike on...

Chief of Defence Staff Lord Guthrie yesterday gave his backing to a call from right wing think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, for ex-servicemen...

EMI is to announce tomorrow that 2,000 jobs are to go as part of a major restructuring plan. Jobs will go throughout the company,...

THE Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates yesterday welcomed the initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, in calling for...

PATIENTS are suffering as pressure on the NHS reaches a historic high, the BMA warned yesterday. Tthe publication of NHS England’s ‘winter health check’...

THERE are 4.8 million workers earning below the so-called living wage, according to new research from the Resolution Foundation. The figure, equivalent to 20% of...

THOUSANDS deemed ineligible to receive Universal Credit have been driven to food banks to survive. The new study published yesterday by the Economic and Social...

MEMBERS of the PCS civil service union yesterday voted overwhelmingly in favour of national strike action in a consultative ballot against job cuts, pay...

Up to 1,100 NHS jobs are to be axed at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS trust, in a bid to cut the pay bill by...

‘THE Southern guards strike will go ahead, despite any legal challenge,’ RMT Assistant General Secretary Mick Lynch said defiantly on the eve of...

‘TREATING staff with such contempt only hardens their resolve,’ University and College Union (UCU) general secretary Sally Hunt said in response to a new...

CARS hooted and people waved to Santa Claus on the Chase Farm Christmas picket, organised by the North-East London Council of Action yesterday. There was...

STUDENTS across the UK were on picket lines yesterday supporting their lecturers and support staff on the first day of their eight-day strike action...

THE BMA has been shocked and shaken by the resistance of its members to the Tory-LibDem NHS White Paper which seeks to make GPs...

IN AN INTERVIEW with Al Jazeera yesterday, Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said the Palestinian group will not engage in further...

OVER a hundred thousand workers and youth took part in the Durham Miners Gala on Saturday and heard Unite’s McCluskey declare his allegiance...

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

BRITAIN and other Western powers should provide warplanes to the Ukraine, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said last night at the Mansion House banquet, as...

Eight out of ten doctors believe healthcare services for older people are not good enough, according to a British Medical Association (BMA) survey...

‘I WANT to set out our plan for Covid this winter and in many ways the situation we face is even more challenging than...

IN an unprecedented 12 hours long rally under a scorching sun and temperatures exceeding 45ºC, hundreds of LARCO industrial workers and miners, along with...

THE Young Socialists lobbied the TUC Congress yesterday in Brighton to demand that it must call a general strike in support of the Junior...

MAJOR department store BHS is to go into liquidation with the loss of up to 11,000 jobs it was announced yesterday, after efforts to...