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LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he is part of a movement in parliament to take Brexit ‘out of...

MORE than 100 people staged a mass lobby of Southwark Town Hall in south London on Wednesday night. The rain did not dampen their spirits,...

‘WE ARE extremely pleased, we are relieved, but we are disappointed that we had to go through all of this to get the Prime...

MPs have been called to Parliament for a special Saturday sitting on 19th October, following a meeting of the EU’s EC on Friday which...

ALMOST six million people are waiting to have hospital treatment in England, the latest NHS monthly performance statistics revealed yesterday. The number of patients on...

A DRAMATIC one in three hospitals face closure, the Nuffield Trust has warned MPs. Many hospital trusts face severe and potentially unsustainable financial pressures, warns...

ON THE eve of the fifth anniversary of the Potters Bar rail crash which killed seven people and injured 70, Britain’s biggest rail union...

FIERCE battles took place outside the Greek parliament building (the Vouli) on Sunday night as riot police attacked the 30,000 youth, workers and poor...

SIX unions have asked urgent questions of Gillian Keegan, the Secretary of State for Education, about RAAC affected schools. The general secretaries of six unions...

SOUTH-EAST London Council of Action joined with local residents to stop the eviction of young people from homes on the Heygate Estate in Elephant...

THE TUC has joined the Tory government’s new National Taskforce on Carillion. In fact it had launched the call for May to form the taskforce. The...

PCS president Fran Heathcote will be speaking at the demo on 16 January to coincide with the second reading of the government’s Strikes Bill. The...

THE RAGE of youth and workers in Greece over last Tuesday’s horrific rail crash is now threatening to overthrow the right-wing government of Prime...

THE UK Supreme Court yesterday rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s appeal of the decision to extradite him to the US, where the WikiLeaks co-founder...

THE Syrian government has dismissed a peace proposal from the umbrella group representing Syria’s US and UK backed political and armed opposition. The opposition’s High...

Silent march Friday, June 14th Meet 7pm at Methodist Church and march through North Kensington. Solidarity march Saturday, June 15th Meet 11am at Portland Place, off Regent Street W1A...

‘I totally support the call to occupy GM Luton to defend jobs’, former Vauxhall Luton TGWU convenor, Arthur Lynn told News Line yesterday. He...

Hezbollah fighters killed three Israeli soldiers in fighting along the southern Lebanon border yesterday. This was after a night of air attacks by Israeli jets...

A DAMNING report published yesterday entitled ‘Track and Trace’ by Transparency International has shone a light on the Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) scandal, where...

THE Education system is ‘sleepwalking towards centralisation’ with up to 24,000 schools and governing bodies accountable solely to the Secretary of State. New research, conducted...

THE governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, yesterday told The Guardian newspaper that the Bank is watching developments in the ongoing war...

‘THIS has been the best-supported strike I’ve ever seen,’ CWU General Secretary Billy Hayes told striking postal workers on the picket line at Mandela...

‘Keep nurses working – keep patients safe,’ Royal College of Nursing General Secretary Beverley Malone told 1,000 cheering nurses at Westminster Central Hall yesterday. ‘As...

A SUBSTANTIAL majority of doctors in Scotland feel that patient care is being given a lower priority in Scotland’s NHS than both finances and...

AN unconfirmed number of Palestinian civilians were killed and many more were injured last night in an ongoing Israeli genocide campaign involving airstrikes and...

SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan said in a televised statement yesterday that Israel has violated several provisions of the first stage of the ceasefire...

The Arab league yesterday condemned British and United States collusion with Israel, after Israel attacked a Jericho prison containing six Palestinian militants, 20 minutes...

THE leader of one of the country’s biggest trade unions yesterday hit back at Labour after being told his vote on the party leadership...

MASSIVE health service cuts being proposed for Northern Ireland ‘will put patients’ lives at risk’, Dr Tom Black said yesterday. Dr Black who is chair...

RENATIONALISE the Railways now, the RMT, Aslef and Unite trade unions demanded yesterday, after Tory Transport Secretary Chris Grayling announced that East Coast Main...

‘The NHS Commissioning Board and the Health Bill should be scrapped’, a Unite spokeswoman told News line yesterday. She was responding to the news that...

THE Ukrainian army’s continued bombardment of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is destructive, dangerous and even suicidal, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova...

Treasury Secretary, Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander yesterday appealed for workers to scab on the November 30 public sector pensions strike. He told the Andrew Marr...

‘We are prepared to occupy before any closures are implemented,’ said North East London Council of Action Secretary Bill Rogers yesterday. Commenting on news that...

DELEGATES at the annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU) in Harrogate yesterday voted for districts, branches and school groups to ‘immediately prepare’...

HALF A MILLION workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through London on Saturday, assembling in Hyde Park and marching to the American Embassy...

Tens of thousands of postal workers will go on strike today, tomorrow and Monday as growing unrest has led to the Communication Workers...

Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott has retweeted a call for Labour Party deputy leader Tom Watson to quit after he publicly attacked the party’s...

The Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign issued a statement yesterday claiming a victory in their fight for the full truth about the police...

FURTHER funding cuts to local councils will impact on long-term health outcomes, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. The government last week announced a...

JEREMY Corbyn hemmed and hawed yesterday over whether Labour may back Tory PM May’s EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill which she intends to put before...

HEALTH workers have angrily condemned the decision by administrators now running the bankrupt South London Healthcare Trust to close the gynaecology ward at...

WHILST out campaigning yesterday, Gate Gourmet workers, now locked out for almost six months, spoke out very angrily about the unsigned letter just received...

UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) yesterday launched action to support casualised staff. Over a third of all staff are on ‘fixed-term contracts’ rather than...

MORE than 560 Israeli settlers stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of East al-Quds under the protection of the regime’s forces...