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‘THE UK government’s extremism definition is a smash and grab on our human rights,’ Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International Chief Executive, said yesterday. He was speaking...

The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) is lobbying the Unite head office in Holborn, central London, at 11.30 this morning to demand it stops its...

THE decision to postpone the 48 hour strike action by junior doctors from 26 January without any attempt by the government to meet the...

‘THE TUC and its affiliates must fight for the policy they voted for, to increase the minimum wage to £10 an hour,’ Bakers Union...

IRELAND, Norway and Spain formally recognised the state of Palestine yesterday, infuriating leaders of the genocidal Israeli regime, while Hamas described it as ‘a...

‘Grant Shapps needs to stop smearing the RMT and unshackle the rail operating companies so they can come to a negotiated settlement that can...

STAFF at 37 universities are to strike over an ‘unprecedented attack on their pensions’, it was announced by their union University College Union (UCU)...

Student, lecturers and university staff unions yesterday angrily condemned former BP boss Lord Browne’s recommendation that universities in England should be able to charge...

THE parents of Britain’s poorest children are going hungry so that their children have some food on the table. Both parents and children are...

THE PCS civil servants union yesterday slammed Labour’s new proposal which would see three quarters of unemployed youth thrown off Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) because...

IN response to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s so-called day-after plan for Gaza, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that: ‘Gaza...

A Greek single judge court on Sunday ruled ‘illegal’ a four-day national strike declared by the coach drivers’ federation of trades unions to demand...

THE FIRST GP surgery in Maidstone Kent to charge patients for 15-minute face-to-face consultations is open for business! The GP surgery works through ‘Uber-style’...

ON Wednesday morning, the Greek government announced that it will be making an application to the Eurogroup for an extension of the loan agreement,...

UNEMPLOYMENT rose by 114,000 between June and August to 2.57 million, a 17-year high, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said...

‘A MASSACRE with the full meaning of the word,’ took place in Gaza City’s Shujayea district yesterday, when Israel carried out an attack that...

SAUDI officials are trying to strike a deal with Pakistani Prime Minister Pervez Ashraf to buy nuclear weapons from Pakistan. The recent meeting between King...

‘Our union executive should immediately call off the talks with Royal Mail until the threats of redundancy, total flexibility, and attacks on our pension...

TEN thousand workers and youth marched through the centre of Manchester to a rally in Platts Fields on Saturday, against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s...

‘The consultation process has been an absolute sham’, said Save Chase Farm councillor Kieran McGregor ahead of this morning’s lobby of the NHS Independent...

WORKERS at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury are ramping up pressure in the ‘fire and rehire’ struggle with a protest on Saturday (1...

Fears that China intends to reduce the amount of US government bonds it holds as part of its foreign exchange reserves, shook the US...

HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement, has issued a call for an end to Israeli occupation and terrorism against Palestinians on the International Day of...

THE Israeli occupation army intensified its attacks on homes, civilian targets and shelter centres in different areas of Gaza yesterday, killing and injuring dozens...

THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating allegations that the Bank of England rigged the way that money was ‘auctioned’ to banks during the...

over 200 postal workers lobbied the heavily-fortified Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday, to demand the Labour government keeps the Royal Mail public and...

‘FAIR pay now! Bring us back in-house!’ demanded hundreds of Heathrow Airport workers as they marched to the Compass Centre headquarters of Heathrow Airport Limited...

THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2007 to the working class and youth of the world,...

THE Bank of England is to extend its Quantitative Easing (QE) programme (printing money) by another £50bn over the next four months in a...

ABOUT 100,000 people are besieged in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza without medical or food supplies, the Palestinian Civil Emergency...

‘DIRECT action by dairy farmers is imminent,’ Farmers for Action leader David Hanley warned yesterday. He told News Line: ‘This is due to the fact...

GMB trade union members demonstrated yesterday against the union-busting propaganda for Asda Wal-Mart being supplied by public relations company Portland PR, which was set...

OVER 10,000 school youth from around the South East of England descended on London’s Parliament Square yesterday shouting: ‘Solution not pollution! We want change!’...

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

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) is urging all workers and youth to take part in a national demonstration on November 27 in...

the disastrous introduction of a ‘fatally flawed’ new recruitment system for junior doctors could haunt the NHS for years to come, the BMA has...

YESTERDAY’S 24-hour strike by 200 Aslef members working out of London’s Waterloo Station was 100 per cent solid and will be repeated tomorrow, Aslef...

AL-QAEDA-linked militiamen have been driven out of Iraq’s Fallujah and it is now in the hands of local tribesmen, a senior tribal sheikh said...

NATO air raids have killed more than 700 civilians and injured over 4,000, many of them seriously, since bombing of Libya began in March,...

‘OCCUPY to save Ealing Hospital, the time to act is now,’ Bill Rogers, train driver, chairman of Chingford ASLEF Branch and Secretary of the...

HOSPITAL workers in Northern Ireland are prepared to take industrial action against hospital closures, Unison said yesterday, after a ‘major incident’ occurred at the...

Wall Street shares fell 2.4% when trading opened in New York yesterday, in the midst of the financial turmoil caused by the bankruptcy of...

THE two largest teachers’ unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, yesterday announced two more regional strikes, rallies and...

‘WE’RE here to meet the general secretary Tony Woodley regarding the mis-handling of the dispute with an anti-union employer, ICTS UK,’ sacked Belfast International...

Two people were killed and 13 injured when a helicopter crashed into a crane on top of a tall building under construction in Vauxhall,...