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‘Did you ever discuss or approve a change in the rules of engagement for British police to shoot to kill, shoot in the head...

TWO HUNDRED civil servants employed at the International House Tax Office in Ealing Broadway west London went on strike yesterday, determined to defend their...

AT least 56 Palestinians have been killed and scores more sustained injuries in Israeli assaults across Gaza since Thursday morning, according to medical sources. In...

‘I AM voting for Workers Revolutionary Party candidate Jonty Leff because the WRP are the only party fighting for a future for young people,’...

WHILE Aslef drivers are striking today against Southern rail’s attempt to impose driver only operation, the RMT union yesterday announced further strike action...

THERE were 200 drivers, guards and engineers in RMT and Aslef outside Marylebone Station in London from 9am-10.30am yesterday morning protesting against Chiltern Railways’...

NICOLAS Sarkozy and David Cameron, with delegations of businessmen plus NATO officers, visited Tripoli yesterday to try to shore up the split and divided...

With shortages of electricity, water, fuel, cooking gas and medicine, a lack of economy and no infrastructure, the masses of Gaza are in a...

‘LAST WEEK was a very dark week for Parliament,’ speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle said in an extraordinary interview with...

WHILE claiming that ‘a renewed recovery is now under way in the United Kingdom’, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said yesterday that interest...

ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least...

A CALL for ‘appropriate industrial action to stop the redundancy of its members’ was made to BMA representatives at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting...

‘This is really the destruction of the NHS,’ Vincent Marks, professor of clinical biochemistry at the University of Surrey and a long-standing supporter of...

FRONTLINE health and social care workers must be given every opportunity to have the Covid-19 vaccine, BMA council chair Chaand Nagpaul has said. Dr Nagpaul...

ON THE SECOND day of the three-day strike of 58 universities’ at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in central London yesterday...

YESTERDAY’S shares collapse across the globe was blamed by economists on record inflation, record oil prices and fears of more banks...

BILL Rogers the secretary of the North East London Council of Action welcomed 100 workers and youth to yesterday’s conference in Enfield...

THE Serious Fraud Office announced yesterday that there will be no criminal charges brought over the sale and subsequent collapse of MG Rover. Bert Hill,...

LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers spoke to News Line on the picket line yesterday. Mrs L Saran said: ‘We are becoming impatient. Last Monday we...

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...

RUSSIA’S Foreign Minister Lavrov, said yesterday that Moscow will not interfere with affairs in Ukraine. The Kremlin has reacted with barely-disguised anger...

THE United Nations has renewed its call to expand humanitarian operations in the Gaza Strip, stressing that Israeli restrictions continue to block vital supplies...

KENSINGTON and Chelsea council have re-housed Grenfell survivors and their families in a block found to have a ‘high risk’ of fire! A fire risk...

PRIME Minister Blair shook hands with Israeli leader Ehud Olmert at Downing Street yesterday, saying that there were the strongest links between Britain and...

Drivers honked their horns enthusiastically saluting the picket line outside Chase Farm hospital on day ten of the daily picket fighting to keep the...

THE Tory government yesterday conceded that a ‘hit list’ of names of several ‘British jihadis’ were drawn up at the meeting of senior national...

Chancellor Osborne and Bank of England Governor King announced a massive £140bn emergency stimulus package for ailing British capitalism on Thursday night. Both were speaking...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2023 to all our readers, and to the working class, youth and the poor, who...

STEELWORKERS’ union leaders are urging members to make a ‘huge sacrifice’ and accept both a pay cut and a pensions cut in order to...

AS OF TODAY, ten thousand people on the old benefits system will be forced onto Universal Credit (UC) in a ‘pilot study’ in Harrogate,...

‘PASSENGERS are still getting mugged,’ Manuel Cortez, leader of the TSSA railworkers union said yesterday after Transport Secretary McLoughlin announced that he was capping...

MORE WORKERS at 74 universities across the country joined the strike yesterday as students also came out onto the picket lines to support their...

In a paper submitted to the House of Commons Treasury Committee, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England warned yesterday: ‘The recent turmoil...

Al JAZEERA is to refer the killing of journalist Samer Abudaqa to the ICC (International Criminal Court). The Al Jazeera Arabic cameraman was killed by...

ISRAELI soldiers have violently beaten up a blind and paralysed Palestinian man in front of his wife and children for no apparent reason in...

THE new NHS report released yesterday has revealed a further £30bn of NHS cuts by 2020. The report entitled the ‘Five Year Forward View’ ...

ISRAELI forces yesterday made preparations for the punitive demolition of the family houses of three Palestinians suspected of carrying out a fatal attack outside...

Locked out workers at British Airways caterer Gate Gourmet demanded their dispute be made official as talks between the company and the Transport and...

THE US Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has urged all American citizens to run for it and get out of Iraq. This is after...

‘Privatisation has been a disaster, we want the complete renationalisation of the railway network in Britain,’ RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said yesterday. Crow was...

HUNDREDS of school youth staged a strike for climate change in Parliament Square yesterday. Lana Daly came with friends from west London and said: ‘The...

PCS civil servants union general secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday slammed Work and Pensions secretary Duncan Smith’s speech attacking youth, families and the unemployed. Serwotka said:...

PRESIDENT Poroshenko has retracted his earlier statement regarding a ‘permanent ceasefire’ in eastern Ukraine, which followed a phone call between the Russian and...

The Lugansk city authorities called the Monday airstrike on the city centre, which killed eight, a war crime by the Kiev authorities. In a statement...

FIGURES released yesterday showed eurozone unemployment hit a new record high in June, with a jobless rate of 11.2% and 17.8 million people out...