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‘AFTER a decade-long pay cut we are asking ourselves: is this good enough? And of what we have seen, the answer is NO,’ senior...

‘Thank you everybody! Let’s save the NHS and kill this Bill!’ declared consultant Clive Peedell as he an David Wilson arrived to cheers outside...

THE Royal Mail bid to get the three-day London CWU postal strikes declared illegal failed yesterday late afternoon. The London reps meeting taking place in...

FROM NICK AXARLIS IN ATHENS TRULY unprecedented spontaneous mass demonstrations of thousands of furious workers and students have forced the cancellation of the official military...

A FIERY and chaotic debate took place at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) on Labour’s health policy yesterday. At it the ARM representatives strongly...

‘DEFEND Council Housing! Kick Blair out!’ shouted more than 100 tenants, youth and trade unionists as they marched through the Aylesbury Estate in south...

STANDING in front of a huge Union Jack with a banner atop it declaring ‘Change Begins....’ Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed the Labour Party...

THE Donald Trump administration is planning a large military installation in Gaza capable of housing up to 5,000 personnel as part of a multinational...

TENS of thousands are mobilising to surround the White House on June 8th in protest against Biden’s complicity in the Israeli genocide in Gaza,...

KENSINGTON and Chelsea council’s response to the Grenfell Tower, which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children was ‘badly flawed’ leaving...

Hundreds of actors, writers and entertainment workers gathered by the statue of Wolfe Tone at St Stephen’s Green in Dublin on Saturday, to demonstrate...

The BRITISH government is to pay millions of pounds in compensation to around a dozen British torture victims and former Guantanamo Bay detainees, it...

THE UK government has ignored a catalogue of warnings about the nursing workforce crisis since 2016, a new report from the Royal College of...

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

OVER 50,000 farmers and their supporters held a demonstration on Whitehall and outside Downing Street yesterday, demanding an end to the increase in Inheritance...

THE LABOUR government’s so-called refreshed NHS Workforce Plan, which essentially is to keep patients out of hospital and treat them in the community instead,...

‘FORCE this British government to carry out the rightful decision to return us back to our beautiful islands and put an end to these...

DOCTORS are calling for an extra £10.3bn to be put in to the NHS, ahead of Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond’s budget tomorrow. This, doctor’s union...

THE BMA wrote to Tory health secretary Hunt yesterday with a clear offer: lift the imposition of the new contract and junior doctors will...

Public sector union UNISON yesterday welcomed a government move to scrap six projected private treatment and diagnostic centres. As well, the Department of Health (DoH)...

MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched through London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday on the 29th National March for Palestine...

‘ALL the unions should take part in a Day of Action for the NHS,’ Steve Mathan of Hands Off HRI told News Line yesterday. Over...

The leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras paid a long electioneering visit on Monday to the Athens area Police...

TUC DELEGATES in Manchester yesterday waved Palestinian flags as they voted unanimously for Emergency Motion 4, ‘Cuts to UNWRA and the Nation-State Law.’ This...

PEOPLE'S fuel lobby leader Andrew Spence yesterday said: ‘Thousands will back a Unite tanker driver members strike’. He told News Line: ‘It’s not just truck...

PUBLIC and Commercial Servants union (PCS) members were out on picket lines since before dawn yesterday as tens of thousands came out in support...

EALING Hospital staff members and patients welcomed the occupation of the entrance to the closure-threatened Maternity Unit yesterday. The occupation, to keep the unit open,...

BRITISH Museum cleaners, porters and security staff, who used to be employed by collapsed contractor Carillion, are demanding that they are brought back in-house...

ISRAELI occupation forces shot dead 21-year-old Qasim Shuqairat during a raid on his home in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabel al-Mukaber on Wednesday,...

TRADE unions yesterday slammed plans for NHS trusts to make money out of India. This came after the former disgraced Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt...

STRIKE action was rock solid yesterday morning in the fight to stop Night Tube staffing plans ripping up drivers’ work/life balance. Pickets were out in...

The cost of a university degree will rocket under proposals from business secretary, Vince Cable, to tax university graduates, according to figures released yesterday...

Three RAF servicemen were killed on Thursday in one of the daily mortar attacks on their base in Basra, southern Iraq, spokesman Major Matthew...

THE Greek Interior Minister, Christos Kastanidis, has issued a press release/edict stating that the wages of all local government workers would be withheld unless...

Tanker drivers delivering fuel to petrol pumps across the UK have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over safety and growing instability...

FIREFIGHTERS are on strike in defence of their pensions from 12noon until 4.00pm today with pickets outside fire stations and mass demonstrations in towns...

SLEEP-deprived junior doctors, subjected to an ever increasing heavy workload, are losing out on vital training and this, in turn, is impacting patient care,...

LABOUR’S shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has called for NHS privatisation to be halted until after the 2015 general election. Speaking yesterday Burnham said ‘privatisation...

MAHAD Egal, Jamie Murray and their two young children, who survived the Grenfell Tower fire, like so many others have still not been permanently...

‘ONCE AGAIN, we see the reality of bandit capitalism and its toxic impact on our public services,’ Transport union RMT said yesterday, calling for...

STUDENTS and other supporters at the University of Sheffield rallied outside Firth Court yesterday and welcomed Chris Townsend, representing the three-day-old student occupation of...

HUNDREDS of Border Force workers at Heathrow Airport began four days of strike action yesterday against Tory attacks on their working conditions. The more than...

Public sector union Unison yesterday hit back at Treasury Secretary, Danny Alexander’s, call for strike-breakers for the November 30th national pensions strike. Unison gave an...

‘This is just the start of the battle,’ declared Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) deputy general secretary Dave Ward at a mass rally in...

THE Iranian government yesterday denied US charges that it was smuggling arms into Afghanistan to help the Taleban destroy NATO tanks and bring down...