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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that yesterday’s decision by western states to expel Russian diplomats was a mistake and a mirror response will be...

THE LABOUR Party yesterday tabled an amendment to the government motion to ‘break the Brexit deadlock and protect the UK from a No Deal...

Private investors are benefiting from Private Finance Initiative debts which are damaging the NHS, said the British Medical Association this morning. The BMA was responding...

EVERY school in the country must be immediately assessed for fire risk, the EIS teachers union urged, after an investigation found that Cairneyhill Primary...

In his first budget, Chancellor Darling hit the working class and middle class with big hikes in alcohol, tobacco and vehicle taxes while giving...

ANGRY workers and youth defied Saturday night’s midnight-5am curfew imposed in Ferguson, Missouri, where unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot dead by police...

DOWNING Street has signalled it is preparing compromises in a bid to quell a major rebellion by Labour MPs over welfare reforms, with more...

New private health company ‘The Practice’ has taken over ChilversMcCrea Ltd to form a group that now runs 50 GP practices in England and...

SHOP Stewards representing the 670 locked out Gate Gourmet workers are meeting Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley at the union’s...

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

Gordon Brown has ruled out setting a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, saying they still have ‘an important job to...

IN THE WAKE of the Grenfell Tower fire, you would assume that fire safety checks would have increased. However, over the last seven years,...

THE RMT is demanding action after Better Capital has confirmed that it expects its £20 million investment back while City Link staff and sub-contractors...

DELEGATES at the UCU (University and College Union) Conference in Harrogate last week, backed an important step forward in the fight against the escalating...

CARS, lorries and buses hooted support along the busy Bath Road on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport in west London yesterday morning as 1,400...

WORKERS attending for the Monday night shift at the General Motors van plant in Luton were shocked to be informed that all production would...

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has called for an independent investigation into violence in Egypt and said she deplored the killing of protesters...

‘If the job cuts are still on, the strikes will be reinstated,’ BECTU assistant general secretary Gerry Morrissey told News Line yesterday. Speaking after the...

GREEK Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is holding meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande this week, in a bid...

OVER 300 NHS workers and their supporters from Barts’ and St Thomas’ Hospitals marched from St Thomas’ to Trafalgar Square. Unite had called a 2-day...

BRITISH Airways’ (BA) freight services at Heathrow airport are set for nine days of fresh strike action which will begin on Friday 22 January after...

LONDON Fire Brigade Chief Dany Cotton is to leave the service four months early. Cotton, 50, previously announced she was standing down from the London...

HEALTH workers, furious about the government’s offer of a below-inflation 3% pay deal are to be consulted by their unions, the BMA, RCM, RCN,...

AFTER the House of Lords accepted the Lobbying Bill by just one vote the bill is now set to become law. The TUC Congress 2013...

THE Greek government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is presenting to the Vouli (Greek parliament) another austerity measures Bill. The vote is to be...

‘What angers me is they call this a risk reduction plan, when it is obvious it will cause more risk,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU)...

‘Over 250,000 of our members have turned out on strike today, the biggest strike in the civil service since 1987,’ PCS General Secretary...

Yesterday two warnings were given as to the critical situation in Iraq and of US plans to use tactical nuclear weapons against Iran. Award-winning US...

A UN human rights committee report on UK social housing conditions has urged the ‘immediate suspension’ of the bedroom tax in the UK. The bedroom...

LONDON transport strikes are escalating with 1,100 TfL and Tube Unite members joining the planned August 19th strike, said Unite the union yesterday. A pay...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings on this 2013 May Day to the workers and the oppressed nations fighting imperialism throughout...

NEARLY a quarter of junior doctors say their work makes them feel ‘burnt out’, and almost one-in-three says they are often ‘exhausted’ in the...

‘I REFUSE to accept that I live in a country that accepts that child poverty is normal,’ Apsana Begum, suspended Labour MP for Tower...

AS TEHRAN hosted a round of intra-Afghan talks, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has told the representatives of the Kabul government and the...

REPRESENTATIVES of United Steel Workers (USW) trade union members who are locked out in Massachusetts, USA, by National Grid, lobbied the parent company’s AGM...

EALING SOUTHALL WRP candidate Hassan Zulkifal confronted Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. Hancock claimed: ‘We’ve saved the A&E and now...

OVER half of all teachers have seriously considered leaving the profession in the last twelve months, a survey carried out for teaching union NASUWT...

HOME Secretary Theresa May yesterday announced plans for a National Crime Agency, training more riot police and area curfews. In a speech to an audience...

EALING Hospital workers, patients and visitors yesterday called for an occupation by the trade unions to stop the closure of the hospital’s...

INFLATION has risen to 1.8% for the first time in 10 months further cutting the value of wages, as transport prices soared over March...

HUGE petrol and food price increases have pushed up the UK cost of living, cutting workers’ wages and living standards. The Office of National Statistics...

ISRAEL has rejected another new ceasefire proposal that would have halted its genocidal war on Gaza, warning instead that it will flatten Gaza City...

IRAN'S President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian has criticised the repeated applause from US lawmakers for the Israeli Prime Minister during his address to Congress, asserting that...

THE OUTGOING Speaker John Bercow, due to leave on October 31, has said that he will forcibly remove PM Johnson from office if he...