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MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at around 500 colleges and universities across the UK took strike action yesterday against changes to...

A report published yesterday says that police will be allowed to use water cannons, baton rounds and even firearms to combat any repeat of...

THE European trade union body, the Engineering Metalworkers Federation (EMF), has called for a mobilisation of GM workers in Europe on Wednesday, 23rd September...

GATE Gourmet strikers are travelling to the TUC Congress in Brighton on Monday demanding action to win their dispute from the TUC not...

Chancellor Darling is set to announce a 2.5 per cent cut in Value Added Tax (VAT) from 17.5 per cent to 15 per cent...

‘Student nurses are frustrated, angry and disillusioned because of the difficulties they face finding jobs as deficits bite,’ said UNISON, the UK’s largest health...

THE case against the Chagos islanders was adjourned for 14 days on Wednesday. They are being prosecuted for their campaign in Crawley for their right...

TWO tower blocks on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham are at risk of a ‘catastrophic collapse’. After the horrific Grenfell fire, which left so...

The GMB trade union yesterday called for tougher enforcement of the National Minimum Wage in the wake of allegations that a Primark supplier in...

ENFIELD residents told News Line yesterday: we won’t let Chase Farm close! Stuart Hasler, a young Enfield resident, who joined in the campaigning and gave...

British Airways announced yesterday it has drawn up ‘a proposal to clear the £1 billion past service actuarial deficit in its New Airways...

‘The way things are going they are going to wrap everything up – they are covering up everything,’ the cousin of murdered Brazilian Jean...

‘CALL A National Strike Now!’ striking Birmingham binworkers are demanding at their mass rally today, which assembles at 9.30am at the Unite HQ, 30...

YESTERDAY’S shares collapse across the globe was blamed by economists on record inflation, record oil prices and fears of more banks...

RAIL UNION RMT is taking strike action today in defence of Guards’ jobs on West Midlands Trains. The union has called on the government to...

THE strikes that have halted work at seven of South Africa’s gold and platinum mines have spread to the chrome sector. It emerged yesterday that...

ISRAEL killed at least 19 Palestinians sheltering in a school in Gaza’s biggest refugee camp early on Wednesday morning, despite repeated warnings that thousands...

CHILDREN across the UK began sitting their Sats tests yesterday, with parents at many schools boycotting the exams and taking their children out of...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2020 to all our readers, and to the working class, youth and the poor who...

TEACHERS in the NEU (National Education Union) are taking mass strike action this week in their fight for a national 12% pay rise for...

FORMER residents of the Chagos Islands who were forcibly removed from their homeland more than 40 years ago have lost their legal challenge to...

A battle bus toured Heathrow Airport with megaphones, flags and banners yesterday. It was rallying support from other airport workers for the 13,000 striking BA...

THE Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has condemned the latest escalation of violence by Israeli forces against Palestinians across the occupied territories, saying the Tel...

THE ROYAL Colleges, nurses, and NHS workers have reacted angrily to NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey’s outrageous comments that ‘safe staffing levels had...

AS ISRAEL’S genocide in Gaza nears its 11th month, US workers are continuing to rally and demand that President Joe Biden and vice president...

Despite torrential rain, over 20,000 youth and workers with their families congregated for the second night running in Athens’ main square in front of...

AS European Commission officials and European leaders prepare a Greek default, Greek ministers have outlined barbaric plans for the wholesale destruction of public services...

HOUSING and homeless charity Shelter produced a report yesterday warning that one in eleven families are facing eviction this January. Shelter said: ‘One in eleven...

TWO coachloads of angry Fenland Foods workers descended on Marks and Spencer’s flagship London store at Marble Arch yesterday. The ready meal workers blame M&S...

FIVE elite Israeli soldiers were killed and at least two others wounded in Khan Younis on Friday after a building collapsed during a resistance...

THE PRIVATISATION of the NHS blood samples service in Kent will put patients’ lives at risk, Unite warned yesterday, adding: ‘It must be stopped!’ A...

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...

GATE GOURMET strikers were sacked four weeks ago today and were very angry yesterday morning that they have been out so long withtheir union...

YESTERDAY, Sunday 3rd May, was World Press Freedom Day, with Reporters Without Borders, declaring that global press freedom has fallen to its lowest level...

GATE GOURMET, the firm that locked out over 700 of its workers in a pre-planned onslaught on August 10, admitted yesterday that the locked...

NEARLY a quarter of junior doctors say their work makes them feel ‘burnt out’, and almost one-in-three says they are often ‘exhausted’ in the...

SEVENTY thousand people have signed a petition calling for the UK government to send the hospital casualty ship RFA Argus, currently based in Falmouth,...

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) this morning accused the government of giving management consultants a licence to print money at the taxpayer’s...

Health unions yesterday condemned Cameron’s attempt to defend the coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill to privatise and destroy the NHS, as ‘the only...

THERE were picket lines outside Jobcentres and benefit offices in London and across the country yesterday, at the start of a two-day strike by...

Human rights group Liberty yesterday called for stronger privacy protection as a YouGov poll revealed that a majority of UK citizens believe Britain is...

PM Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus. Johnson said he developed mild symptoms over the past 24 hours, including a temperature and cough. He is...

ISRAELI forces have killed more than 71 Palestinians in the 24 hours leading up to Thursday in Beit Lahiya, Rafah and Khan Younis, with...

Israel is to expand its offensive against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, Amir Peretz, the Israeli defence minister, has said, less than a day after its attack...