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A UN COURT has ruled the UK must return Diego Garcia and the Chagos Islands, which it found were under illegal UK occupation and...

OVER 300 workers and youth attended Sunday afternoon’s WRP-YS celebration of the Centenary of the 1917 Russian revolution. Opening the rally the Secretary of the...

THE BMA GPs conference yesterday voted unanimously, but for a couple of abstentions, for Motion 153: ‘The Market and Any Willing Provider’. The motion from...

BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum has been rocked by a ‘no confidence’ vote at last week’s meeting of the London Region of the BMA. ...

‘Industries must be nationalised under workers control and with no compensation to the failed former owners,’ said All Trades Unions Alliance national secretary Dave...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown attacked the RMT trade union yesterday, saying whatever its reason, the Tube strike is ‘unjustifiable’. Answering questions at his second monthy...

Doctors’ leaders yesterday warned that GP healthcare is in danger of being taken over and monopolised by private companies. Meanwhile, the doctors’ magazine Pulse...

DEFENCE Minister Fallon yesterday announced that there would be an investigation into solicitors who represented Iraqi complainants at the Al Sweedy inquiry. He made...

‘THROW the STP plans out!’ said Roseline Nwangwu an Ealing Hospital worker yesterday morning. Unite union member Roseline added: ‘If they close Ealing Hospital...

MORE than 5,000 trade unionists, workers, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on the London May Day March yesterday...

Israeli police on Tuesday stormed a Bedouin village that was completely razed in July, levelling efforts to rebuild homes for the third time in...

‘WE HAVE been provided with nothing but lies, misinformation and delay,’ Pam Duggan, the mother of Mark Duggan said yesterday, on the opening day...

Diane Abbott MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington has pledged her support for the British Medical Association’s campaign against privatisation, ‘Look after our...

BMA chair Dr Mark Porter told the union’s Special Representative Meeting yesterday that ‘Twenty-four years ago, it was the first reforms that established an...

thousands of PCS members are walking out for one hour today, at 11.00am, coinciding with the Queen’s Speech, which will be outlining...

AROUND 150 locked-out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters – including members of the PCS, CWU, UNISON and Amicus trade unions – staged a...

Prime Minister Blair yesterday told hospital trust executives at a Downing Street meeting that his NHS privatisation ‘reform’ programme will proceed. That was his message...

‘THIS report has found that there was no lawful justification for my son’s killing by the police. ‘He was shot eight times in only two...

‘All these centres should be closed down, there should be no immigration controls,’ Teresa Hayter of the Campaign to Close Campsfield told News Line...

LIBYAN Government forces are firing Russian-made rockets and howitzers on counter-revolutionary ‘rebels’ and their Western commanders and forcing them back. Meanwhile, NATO bombers are clearing...

TEACHERS taking strike action today against DfE plans to force Downhills Primary School in Haringey to become a sponsored academy will be supported by...

WHAT the government is doing is depriving ordinary people of their legal rights,’ GMB member Ake Achi told News Line yesterday. He was speaking on...

The House of Commons yesterday witnessed a Blairite revolt against Prime Minister Brown. Ex-cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt bolstered the Tories by calling...

The Tory-LibDem Health and Social Care Bill risks ‘unravelling and dismantling’ the NHS, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) warned yesterday. The competition running...

STAFF in UK universities are out on strike today for a full day in opposition to an ‘insulting’ 1% pay rise offer. The UCU, Unison,...

Welfare ‘reform’ plans aimed at privatising ‘help’ for the long term unemployed drew an angry response from civil servants’ union PCS yesterday. Union leader Mark Serwotka...

Legal charity Reprieve and rights group Amnesty, yesterday hit back at attacks by MI5 and the government on the Appeal Court judgement that revealed...

TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady has said on the eve of the annual TUC Congress, that unions may come together in co-ordinated strike action...

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) Postal Executive announced yesterday afternoon it has agreed a further round of rolling strike action. A CWU statement ...

Disability Rights UK, representing over 500 organisations across the country, and the Child Poverty Action Group, yesterday condemned MPs for overturning House of Lords...

TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday warned of ‘widespread industrial action’ over public sector pensions. Speaking at a press conference in Congress House, central London,...

JUNIOR doctors have demanded ‘concrete assurances’ from Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt before ‘considering’ re-entering negotiations. Junior doctors are furious at the Tory government’s attempts...

MPs have released a letter from journalist Clive Goodman, jailed for phone hacking, alleging senior News of the World figures knew what was going...

Hamas yesterday condemned as an illegal ‘coup’ the formation by decree of an ‘emergency government’ by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. Hamas said Abbas had suspended...

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday slammed as ‘madness’ the destruction of nurses training places. The RCN was responding to a survey by the...

LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers were campaigning yesterday for their mass picket next Sunday 22nd January between 11am and 1pm and their conference in London...

THOUSANDS of people in Afghanistan and Iraq have been secretly detained by British armed forces and handed over to the United States for torture,...

Enfield Council leaders have decided to mount a legal challenge to Health Secretary Johnson’s decision to close Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E and consultant-led Maternity...

A CLOSED Arts Council meeting is being held in the Roundhouse in Camden, north west London on Tuesday at 1.30pm, to ratify swingeing ‘death...

The deepening eurozone crisis is a threat to Britain’s just rescued banks, the Bank of England warns in its latest Financial Stability Report out...

Unite leader Len McCluskey said yesterday that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been the victim of a ‘political lynching’ orchestrated by ‘sinister forces’,...

Unison general secretary, Dave Prentis, yesterday pledged the union will ‘fight and fight’ until the Health and Social Care Bill is defeated and the...

‘BLAIR says let Israel get on with its attacks and Woodley our TGWU general secretary says nothing’, Gate Gourmet locked out worker...