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Four days of national strike action against job cuts and in defence of safety were announced by the RMT and TSSA rail unions yesterday,...

THE CLOSURE of maternity departments at hospitals up and down the country and the severe lack of midwives has created a situation where as...

CHINA and Russia are rallying behind Venezuela, warning against an imminent military intervention into the Latin American country. It is facing a showdown today...

GAZA’S Health Ministry Spokesman Ashraf Al Qudra accused Israel of intentionally striking Palestinian hospitals to shut them down. He announced that at least 15,899 Palestinians...

The News Line Anniversary Rally takes place on Sunday December 2nd from 2-6pm at Skeel Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary university, Mile End, London E1 For...

NURSES in South West England are furious over leaked plans to sack and re-hire them on lower pay and worse conditions. The government is...

OVER 200 Gambians and supporters marched from Parliament to the Commonwealth Headquarters in Pall Mall calling for the ousting of President Alhaji JJJ Jerehmeh...

A PALESTINIAN mother and her three children were among the ten latest victims of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. A barrage of...

Public service union, Unison has warned of the serious dangers to patient safety if the Ambulance Services are privatised. This comes after the East of...

UCU members at West London College sites in Hammersmith, Acton, Ealing and Southall were on strike yesterday against job losses. Fourteen staff face loosing their...

LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers have been getting tremendous support for their campaign for their march through Southall demanding the reinstatement of all the...

Pro-Palestinian activists reported yesterday that Israeli forces are intercepting a flotilla of more than 50 boats carrying aid for Gaza in international waters west...

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said: ‘The Israeli occupation’s field measures and steps in occupied Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, including the closure of Al-Aqsa’s...

‘I am hurt very badly when I see that report in The Guardian,’ locked-out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News Line. ‘The union refused...

LOCKED OUT Gate Gourmet workers picketed the regional Office of the TGWU in Hillingdon near Heathrow Airport yesterday. The airline catering company, which sacked more...

JULIA TOMLINSON walked out in anger yesterday from the Metropolitan Police Disciplinary Inquiry into the role of PC Harwood in her husband’s death crying...

OVER 5,000 workers, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square in central London for May Day yesterday. There were scores of red...

MORE than 200 MPs have signed a letter to the prime minister calling for government promises to Windrush migrants to be written into law....

PARLIAMENT is being taken ‘into very dangerous and damaging waters,’ Labour MP Alan Simpson said yesterday. He was speaking after the Blair government presented MPs...

YOUTH unemployment increased by 15,000 during the three months to June, reaching 973,000. ‘The coalition is making life hell for youth and it must be...

THOUSANDS of people in Afghanistan and Iraq have been secretly detained by British armed forces and handed over to the United States for torture,...

THE SPIRALLING cost of energy, combined with a lorry driver shortage and now panic buying, has resulted in 5,500 petrol stations across the country...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned ‘commercial involvement in the NHS’ as it emerged that the cost of NHS private finance initiative (PFI)...

Hospital trade unions and patient groups are demanding that the management of Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust come clean on their plans...

THE top American army commander has admitted that the US does not have enough troops to sustain its eight-year-old military occupation of Afghanistan, that...

GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel was first to announce yesterday that General Motors (GM) has chosen Canadian auto parts manufacturer Magna to buy Opel and...

‘OUR resolve is as strong as ever,’ said TGWU union rep Derrick Campbell, as five new days of strike action by Hackney CT Plus...

THE QUEEN has been asked by Tory PM Boris Johnson to prorogue Parliament days after MPs return from the Summer break, which will mean...

THE government yesterday defied the 4pm deadline for handing over unredacted messages and notebooks to the Covid inquiry. It now faces legal action over...

OVER 100 have been killed, including 50 members of local self-defence forces and just over the same number of civilians, in clashes with pro-Kiev...

THERE was enormous support for tonight’s meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday morning. Hospital workers, patients, local residents and youth...

AS JUNIOR doctors ended their latest five-day strike action yesterday morning, BMA Junior Doctors Committee spokesman Dr Tal Ellenbogen accused Tory PM Rishi Sunak...

THE MAY government has dropped its key NHS ‘safe staffing’ measure. This means that nurse staffing fill rate data are no longer being published. This change...

THE GPs magazine Pulse has revealed that both the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) and the BMA’s GP Committee have been excluded from the...

Universities and higher education colleges across the country will be brought to a halt tomorrow as a historic joint AUT/NATFHE pay strike hits home. Thousands...

‘CALL the airport out!’ striking worker Carlos Rodriguez said at the rally outside the union Unite’s headquarters on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport yesterday. 4,000...

‘DISABLED people are getting into debt to pay for essentials. What’s the government’s response? It is cutting the very financial lifeline designed to help...

Senior doctors yesterday renewed a warning that private treatment centres are putting patient care at risk and destabilising the NHS. The British Medical Association (BMA)...

‘SLAVERY should go and our rights given!’ demanded London Overground workers who were lobbying the London Mayor’s office yesterday in preparation for their February...

IRAN threatened to block further trading routes in the Strait of Hormuz region yesterday as the US launched a fresh wave of strikes on...

THE MEETING between the UK foreign minister and her Russian counterpart yesterday was ‘like the mute talking to the deaf’, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei...

THE US Treasury Department and the IMF have warned that if the US does not resolve its current crisis, it will unleash a global...

UNIFOR National President Jerry Dias, speaking during a press conference, has asked for all Canadians and Americans to boycott all General Motors vehicles that...

SHARES in UK mining giant Lonmin plunged after it announced 6,000 jobs cuts in South Africa as part of a scaling back of its...