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Yesterday morning over 100 ambulance crew turned out to lobby the board of the South London Healthcare NHS Trust to warn them to stop...

DELHI police yesterday detained Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), on his way to a flag-waving protest in Connaught Place,...

‘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...

OVER 150 UCL students went on rent strike yesterday against what is one of the most expensive student accommodations in the country. They are...

TORY Chancellor Osborne, in his Autumn Statement delivered to parliament yesterday, launched war on the unemployed, students, youth and the state pension. Rather than announcing...

POSTAL workers were out on strike throughout London yesterday, while Royal Mail drivers were also out in Essex and the Midlands; and Stoke on...

THE BMA issued a powerful statement yesterday calling for ‘non-clinical managers in the NHS and other health service providers to be regulated, in line...

THERE was a very lively picket line at UCL Hospital yesterday in London’s Euston Road, with over 40 junior doctors waving placards, chanting and...

THE DEAL, struck between unions and Tata Steel, which guarantees no compulsory redundancies at Port Talbot for five years and accepts the end of...

SOME 3,000 mostly young people marched to the European Commission offices in Athens on Thursday evening calling for a ‘NO’-‘OXI’ vote in Sunday’s referendum. A...

WITH a ComRes poll revealing yesterday that public support for a no-deal Brexit is rapidly rising, up 6% since January and now standing at...

THE government made the final offer and said “no more talks”. We are united, stronger together. We cannot and will not back down,’ Consultants...

‘THIS anti-union legislation has to be answered by unified, generalised strike action from the entire trade union movement.’ Bakers Union leader Ronnie Draper was responding...

A SHORTAGE of ambulances and paramedics along with a ‘meltdown’ of A&E services has lead to an extremely alarming spike in patient deaths, as...

CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond yesterday refused to deny that he said at last Tuesday’s Tory Cabinet meeting that public sector workers are ‘overpaid’. Hammond was repeatedly...

THE Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has warned that it will pull out of the corporatist Croke Park talks if the Government does not...

TEN Palestinians were killed on Sunday after Israeli shells hit a UN school in Rafah where thousands of people were sheltering from the ongoing...

THE number of people who turn to foodbanks over the Christmas fortnight is expected to double, with the economic crisis driving more households below...

General Motors Board of Directors Chairman, Ed Whitacre, known for his asset stripping and merger programme at telecoms empire AT&T, has taken the helm...

‘This despicable government wants to take Multiple Sclerosis nurses away,’ wheelchair-bound retiree George Goodger told News Line yesterday after handing in a petition to...

UNISON members at four NHS Logistics depots began a second 24 hour strike, last night at 10pm. Runcorn depot stopped at 11pm. The workers are...

IN a speech in Telford yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, urged that ‘his government’ should be judged on the ‘real change’...

THE British government took petty revenge after its client ‘revolutionaries’ were driven out of Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawad by the Libyan armed forces...

‘HALT the Family Farm Tax,’ demand thousands of farmworkers as they roll into Whitehall, many aboard their tractors, at 1pm this afternoon. Small farmers across...

THOUSANDS of young workers and students occupied Westminster Bridge yesterday, determined to defeat the Health and Social Care Bill (HSCB), due to be read...

AN angry protest by supporters of Julian Assange yesterday morning denounced a Tory government conference titled ‘Defend Media Freedom’. Maxine Walker from the Julian Assange...

HUNDREDS of angry workers, patients, trade unionists and youth joined the mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield yesterday. They all said they were...

BRITAIN’S trade deficit has ballooned to its biggest since 1989, shocking the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which released the data yesterday. In the three...

ANGRY doctors yesterday delivered a vote of No Confidence against Tory Health Secretary Hunt. Doctors at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM)...

THE TALIBAN announced a ‘general amnesty’ yesterday for government workers across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government. ‘We must congratulate the victorious struggle...

‘I SUPPORT Jonty Leff,’ Gideon Woldeslassie said yesterday morning, referring to the campaign to elect the Workers Revolutionary Party candidate as MP for Hackney...

A GENERAL strike was held in Palestine’s West Bank yesterday as part of a worldwide strike in solidarity with Gaza, which has suffered the...

‘External intervention’ in Syria is becoming more likely, says a leading UK-based military think tank. Planning for possible intervention is already under way...

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire on civilians gathered near its GHF (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) site in Rafah, southern Gaza again yesterday, killing at...

More than 90 per cent of final year midwifery students are struggling to find a job, a new survey published today by the Royal...

PM TRUSS resigned yesterday afternoon after a meeting with the Chairman of the Tory MPs backbench 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady. Making her announcement, she...

HEALTH and care providers must examine whether they have enough nursing staff to provide safe patient care this winter, the Royal College of Nursing...

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday hinted at the prospect of a faster withdrawal of US troops as he urged Iraq’s Arab and...

THE UNISON public sector union yesterday reaffirmed it will back strike action to defend NHS jobs. It was responding to the news that the huge...

BORIS Johnson has insisted he will stay in office, despite a growing Tory revolt against his leadership. At Prime Minister’s Questions, he said he had...

SIR Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, amid the row over leaked emails that lampooned President Trump’s administration, and threatened...

SOUTH African platinum miners were yesterday continuing their strike, and their wives are occupying the entrance to the British-owned Lonmin Marikana mine. Lonmin has given...

THE NUMBER of jobs collapsed by 220,000 on the quarter, said the Office for National Statistics yesterday – the largest quarterly decrease since May...

AT lunchtime yesterday the Greek Development Minister K Khatzidakis announced that the three-party coalition government has decided to place the striking Athens Metro workers...

‘TUC GET off Your Knees – Call a General Strike!’ rang out as the Young Socialists March for Jobs set off from London to...