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ROYAL Free Hospital bosses have been putting doctors under pressure to accept as much as ten per cent pay cuts as part of a...

AS PUPILS return to school after the Christmas break, teachers’ unions warned yesterday that funding cuts are much worse than predicted, hitting working class...

Four days of national strike action against job cuts and in defence of safety were announced by the RMT and TSSA rail unions yesterday,...

A MASS hunger strike is being waged by inmates in America’s Cuban Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, against being transferred into ‘maddening’ new isolation units. Thirteen...

‘Tesco is putting more and more pressure on meat suppliers to cut their prices and this is leading to a shocking exploitation of workers...

NEW YEAR STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2019 to all our readers, to the...

ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY IRAQI lawmakers have signed a draft bill, demanding the withdrawal of US military forces from the country following the assassination...

BRITISH personnel have already conducted air strikes in Syria, despite the government’s assurance that there would be a vote in Parliament before any such...

THE Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) demanded an independent investigation into Israel’s killing of 15 paramedics in Gaza last month, when it held a...

SHOPWORKERS trade union leader John Hannett is delighted with the House of Commons vote that defeated the government and removed Sunday trading changes...

PARENTS and families of disabled children in Bow in East London are fighting back against the closure of the Bangladeshi Parents Advice (BPA) Service...

‘Blair is no saviour for the African people,’ G8 Alternatives movement spokesman Mike Arnott told News Line yesterday. He was responding to Blair’s statement on...

LABOUR right-wingers were resoundly beaten yesterday in their attempt to reject Brexit and push the Labour Party conference to accept that Britain should remain...

THE NHS is reeling under the weight of staff absences, with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine warning that up to a quarter of...

The family of Jean Charles de Menezes have reacted with horror at Met chief Sir Ian Blair’s attempted justification of his ‘Shoot-to-Kill’ policy. The 27...

IRAN has suspended its commitments under the 2015 international nuclear deal, a year after it was ripped up by President Trump. President Hassan Rouhani said...

NOT a single film was on show at the Hackney Picturehouse on Saturday as the cinema workers escalated their strike action for a living...

THE GMB yesterday condemned the forced transfer of nearly 700 northwest London NHS pathology service staff to a private company. The service carries out blood...

A ‘PERVASIVE sense of fear and uncertainty’ hangs over the US Democratic party as 81-year-old president Joe Biden faces increasingly strident calls for him...

THE GPs magazine Pulse has revealed that both the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) and the BMA’s GP Committee have been excluded from the...

THE Sri Lankan government has announced that it has temporarily suspended the implementation of the proposed private sector pension scheme which was opposed by...

PRIVATE outsourcing firm Capita has ‘put patients at risk of serious harm’ a damning report by the National Audit Office (NAO) states, which...

FOREIGN Office documents made public by the National Archives after more than 50 years give the fullest account yet of a massacre which took...

THE ROYAL Courts of Justice in The Strand in central London were besieged by supporters of Julian Assange from early morning to late afternoon...

THE Elect Hassan Zulkifal WRP Ealing Southall campaign got great support on Southall Broadway yesterday. Heathrow Airport worker and GMB member Kutesh Sashikint said: ‘I...

NO ACTION is to be taken against the police after the death of Leon Briggs, who died after being restrained by police in 2013,...

A NATIONAL Education Union snapshot poll of 1,026 teachers in England paints a harrowing picture of the increase in poverty seen in our schools...

OVER 300 striking teachers from sixth form colleges around the country demanded the government honour their £700 million funding ‘invoice’ which was signed by...

FOR the first time, the Department for Work and Pensions will have access to patients personal GP records, including their ‘fit notes’...

‘I WILL now form a government,’ Theresa May declared yesterday in a statement outside Downing Street after returning from Buckingham Palace. May said this...

ANKARA and Washington have reached an agreement to work together in their occupation of part of northern Syria, where the two NATO allies have...

BRITAIN’S budget deficit swelled to a new record level last month leading bourgeois analysts to warn that the financial speculators are getting the jitters. Public...

‘WE will build alliances needed to fight future attacks’ Dave Prentis, the Unison leader, told its Health Conference in Brighton yesterday. Addressing health workers, including...

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday said that its 16,000-strong Royal Mail membership in London, covering 159 workplaces in the Greater London...

OVER half of London’s nurses want to leave the city as the cost of living devours their income. The majority of nursing staff blame the...

WORKERS pressure is mounting on the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories at its Annual Congress in Brighton next...

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western nations will pay a ‘heavy price’ for supporting al-Qaeda in Syria, warning that the terrorist group...

‘MANY in the fire service and the fire safety sector have been raising issues about regulation, issues like cladding, for many years and we...

EXPERTS have heavily criticised the Tories’ ‘ad hoc system’ for coronavirus tracking, testing and contact tracing, stating that the government’s ‘abysmal response’ means that...

STAFF at the DVLA office in Swansea begin their four-day strike today after fears of a fresh Covid-19 outbreak as more than 2,000 people...

TUC leader Frances O’Grady welcomed delegates to the TUC Congress yesterday saying: ‘Welcome to the TUC, our parliament for working people. ‘Represented, here in the...

Royal Air Force Typhoon jets based at RAF Northolt will be roaring across London and the home counties tomorrow and Saturday as part of...

GATE Gourmet workers lobbied the TUC General Council in central London yesterday. They brought their banner: ‘Justice for the Sacked Gate Gourmet Workers’ and...

A THIRD of all A&Es across the country are set to close under the Tory government’s new Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), causing the...

A British soldier has been killed and another injured during an attack at a UK base in Basra, southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence...