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Delegates at this year’s Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) national conference yesterday voted overwhelmingly for a strike ballot of 280,000 members working across...

SHARES in UK mining giant Lonmin plunged after it announced 6,000 jobs cuts in South Africa as part of a scaling back of its...

SOUTH African platinum miners were yesterday continuing their strike, and their wives are occupying the entrance to the British-owned Lonmin Marikana mine. Lonmin has given...

THE TORIES stepped up their onslaught on the NHS yesterday with the announcement of the scrapping of the requirement for patients with suspected cancer...

VIDEO footage has emerged showing a Palestinian being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier at point-blank range despite lying motionless and severely...

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

TORY PM Cameron yesterday called on European leaders to deport more refugees, describing them as ‘economic migrants’ who, he claimed, don’t have a genuine...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn made a ‘project fear’ speech at the TUC in Brighton yesterday, in which he described a No-Deal Brexit as a...

‘We have to strike to defend Royal Mail, to defend our jobs and to defend our pensions,’ CWU HP Section Chairman, South Central No...

ISRAELI soldiers intensified their offensive in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem yesterday, raiding at least 20 towns and villages as well as...

‘We are fighting the government and business now,’ said Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region No.6 branch secretary Paul Olden yesterday. Commenting on the government’s...

ELDERLY and disabled passengers are losing vital bus services because of cuts in government funding, councils in England are warning. The Local Government Association (LGA)...

‘We must demand the TUC call a General Strike to defend public services, because that is what Royal Mail is,’ leading postal workers’ union...

The Turkish government split yesterday in the face of mass uprisings and a general strike by Turkish workers and youth. In Ankara, the Deputy...

GATE Gourmet locked out workers were angry yesterday when they were told by the local union office that that they had received the last...

Armed militias operating across Libya are committing widespread human rights abuses with impunity, warned Amnesty International in a new report released yesterday. The report, Militias...

OVER a million council workers and school support staff are to strike on 14 October over the government’s 1% pay ‘offer’. Unions representing over a...

‘SANTA pigs’ demonstrated outside four south London hospitals yesterday against the bullying of cleaners by managers of the private company they work for, ISS. Under...

PM Boris Johnson pulled out of a scheduled appearance before a panel of senior MPs yesterday morning, saying he has to ‘focus on delivering...

AMBULANCE staff are at breaking point, with the union Unison raising the alarm yesterday that services are facing unprecedented 999 call volumes and unsustainable...

EUROPEAN Central Bank chief Mario Draghi yesterday launched the bank’s ‘expanded asset purchase programme’, to buy bonds from banks to try...

THE GREAT gold rush has begun! Gold surged 5% on Thursday to a five-year high as plummeting world markets have driven investors to search...

LEADERS of many of the largest and most prominent trade unions in the UK, have jointly signed a letter demanding that immediate action is...

‘We have made it clear that yesterday’s announcement was a good start but it will not in itself be quick enough to offset potentially...

A SQUAD of Greek armed riot police on Tuesday morning attacked the sacked women cleaners who were blockading the entrance into one of the...

THE Attorney General ruled yesterday that contractors can give evidence to the Grenfell inquiry without fear of prosecution over the 72 deaths. Grenfell United, the...

Unilever workers from all over the country yesterday descended on the London headquarters, outraged at the company’s ending of their final salary pension scheme. They...

The debt crisis is now eating at the heart of the Eurozone, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned yesterday. He urged all 27 EU...

‘THIS YEAR marks 100 years since the Balfour Declaration when a British Foreign Secretary promised the land of Palestine to the Jewish people, my...

Trade unions yesterday condemned the Cameron government’s just-announced decision to press ahead with increasing the pension contributions of public service workers from April 2012. Teachers...

‘WELCOME to all of you. We are very proud of all of you,’ Parmjit Bains told a rally on the hill near the Gate...

‘UNDERHAND’ plans to fire 50 GB Terminals workers who unload and process Volkswagens at Sheerness docks in Kent have been slammed as a ‘sneaky...

‘THIS is just pre-conference spin to try to improve the Tories toxic reputation on their shabby treatment of disabled people,’ said Disabled People Against...

A SHORTAGE of ambulances and paramedics along with a ‘meltdown’ of A&E services has lead to an extremely alarming spike in patient deaths, as...

Dr Kevin O’Kane, chairman of the London Region BMA told its Annual Business Meeting on Thursday night that London Region felt let down and...

THATCHER’S state funeral on April 17, is to be a Tory state provocation of the working class. Her coffin is to be carried through the...

MAY DAY STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARDNews Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers, youth and masses of the world who...

‘As ordinary trade union members are fighting for their jobs they must have a leadership with a policy of “not one job sold, not...

‘DO you think they need any reason to attack this hospital? What kind of reason? They are liars! liars! They just want to destroy...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday insisted it is ‘fighting to preserve the NHS’. Responding to a news article in Pulse magazine on the BMA’s...

THE SMITH Commission has announced recommendations that devolution be strengthened, with new powers for the Scottish Parliament to set income tax rates, benefits and...

Hundreds of Tamils demonstrated in Parliament Square yesterday after a sit-in of thousands on Westminster Bridge was broken up by riot police. The protesters alleged...

‘THIS is a national one-day pay strike. We haven’t had a pay rise for six years – which represents a 17 per cent pay...

ISRAELI prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel has rejected US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace 15-point plan and will not withdraw...

THE two brothers released without charge after the massive state terror operation in Forest Gate told a press conference yesterday how they thought they...