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The British Medical Association consultants conference yesterday voted overwhelmingly to ‘mount the strongest defence of integrated District General Hospitals’. In his keynote speech to the...

The puppet Iraqi police force is infiltrated by sectarian militias and should be disbanded and reorganised, a panel of retired US generals led by...

GPs in Harrow are up in arms against plans to close down health centres and combine GP practices into large units, turning them...

CAMPAIGNERS demonstrated outside the High Court yesterday where Ealing Council were seeking a judicial review of the decision to close Ealing Hospital A&E. They had...

THERE was consternation yesterday when a leaked Unite document revealed that a union report going before the TUC General Council on April 24 is...

WORKERS and youth in Greece are set to deliver the biggest electoral blow ever this Sunday against the two main capitalist parties, the conservatives...

CALLS by the head of NHS Clinical Commissioners for most hospitals to be ‘downsized’ or closed and for 50 per cent of current hospital...

THE SCOTTISH Nationalists have reached out to Labour to form a National Government with the sole purpose of remaining in the European Union. Yesterday, chief...

THE Hamas Palestinian government has condemned the death sentence handed down to Saddam Hussein, recalling the help the Iraqi leader gave...

The Unite union for British Airways’ 11,000 cabin crew, yesterday confirmed that a fresh ballot for strike action at BA is soon to get...

TENANTS and leaseholders are protesting in Tyrrel Way, West Hendon, north London from 7am today, against the eviction threat to 250 families...

BMA representatives yesterday voted – against the advice of BMA Council Chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum – to ‘continue to call for the Health...

FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales went out on a 24-hour strike over the massive attacks that are taking place on their pensions. The walk-out, which...

THE privatisation of housing has been a complete disaster. Completely inadequate numbers of new homes have been built in every region in England since...

Foreign Secretary Hague is being sued over the alleged UK policy of handing over GCHQ-sourced intelligence to the CIA to aid US drone...

ASSOCIATION of Teachers and Lecturers President Hank Roberts yesterday condemned as ‘outrageous’ an offshore company employing thousands of supply teachers avoiding the payment of...

MAY DAY MANIFESTO By the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE editorial Board sends its May Day greetings for the year 2008 to the workers...

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

UNISON yesterday warned the ambulance service is on the verge of breaking down and that the consequences for patient safety are dramatic. Tight targets, long...

AT Gatwick, on Sunday morning, pickets at the South Terminal roundabout got tremendous support from passing motorists, coaches and lorries, and fellow airport workers,...

London doctors have made it clear they are opposed to the government’s plan to slash and privatise the NHS – and want action to...

Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to Manchester City Council’s announcement of 2,000 job cuts. The Labour-run council said it needed to reduce its workforce by...

THE British government accepts that colonial forces in Kenya tortured and abused detainees during the Mau Mau rebellion, the High Court has heard. Three elderly...

‘THIS government will either bring the country to its knees or we will stand up and oppose them and bring them to their knees!’ That...

President Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis to ‘unite, rise up and resist the invaders’, at his show trial yesterday. This prompted chief judge Rauf Abdel...

‘We’ve been fighting for more than one year and we are coming close to victory. Our hearing starts next week and we are very,...

ALMOST 96 per cent of oil and petrol money earmarked for humanitarian needs and reconstruction in Iraq after the 2003 invasion has gone missing,...

‘The unions need to mobilise joint industrial action to defeat the Health and Social Care Bill and see off this Tory coalition government.’ This...

Further Education Colleges in England have indicated they face bankruptcy and disaster aftter their refurbishment programme has been halted. The colleges have lost up...

THE SUPREME Court yesterday openly sided with a Parliament full of Remainers condemning the proroguing of Parliament by Tory PM Boris Johnson as completely...

LONDON'S Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust will be the first to walk out in new wave of...

Public sector trade union Unison, yesterday condemned the bosses’ organisation, the CBI, for calling for a two year public sector pay freeze. Unison...

TEACHERS have voted by a massive 98% in favour of strike action to defeat the Tories’ miserable 4.3% pay offer. Commenting on the ballot result...

US consumer spending fell by one per cent in October, the largest decline since September 2001, in a further sign of the deepening slump,...

‘The GMB is opposed to a John Lewis partnership running the NHS, and so would the 1.4 million staff employed by the service,’ GMB...

‘IT’S the last chance – the Greek people need to know this.’ That was the threat of Eurogroup bully-boy President Jean Claude Juncker to the...

STAFF working for the probation service in England and Wales are walking out of their offices at noon today in a 24 hour strike...

The University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned that higher education could be brought to a standstill as the union announced that it is...

THE United States has warned Russia that its ‘disproportionate and dangerous escalation’ of the conflict in South Ossetia could harm bilateral relations, the White...

GREECE was put in an ‘eight days to default’ situation by the ECB and the EU yesterday. A default by Greece was technically avoided when...

UNISON confirmed yesterday that it is holding a National Demonstration in London on Saturday June 30 in defence of the NHS. A spokeswoman told...

Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley yesterday morning told the BBC Today programme that Spain and Britain had refused to sign a memorandum of...

THE moment of truth is fast approaching for action to be taken to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, north...

In the face of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and in response to the calls made by the UN, EU, the governments of the US,...

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) and Unison at Middlesex University are striking today in a row over job cuts and changes...