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Health unions yesterday accused the government of a ‘reckless gamble that could risk people’s lives’ over plans to close centres and axe 700 Blood...

‘IT IS absolutely outrageous! We demand that they reinstate our full A&E, not only the children’s, to 24-hour A&E,’ Julian Porter told News Line...

THE New Orleans river front was hit by a massive blast yesterday morning, with fires raging in the area. The blast at a chemical plant...

CHANCELLOR Hunt has announced that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed by...

St George’s Hospital workers employed by the public services privateer Mitie are escalating their action with a week-long strike commencing on Monday 20th June. On...

News Line & Workers Revolutionary Party Public meetings: Trade unions must act to make sure we quit EU on October 31st! For a workers government and...

FIREFIGHTERS are to fit face masks and deliver vital PPE and medical supplies to NHS and care staff. Fire and Rescue personnel have volunteered to...

TEACHERS unions said yesterday that the Tory government’s academy and free school programme has failed and its privatisation agenda amounted to a ‘war...

‘AT THE end of the day this is being portrayed as a trade war, but it’s workers who will be suffering, thousands of them...

‘Reinstate Sian’ demanded a lobby, by over a dozen female firefighters and supporters, of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) yesterday....

A group of seven leading public health specialists, past presidents of the UK Faculty of Public Health, have called for the Health and Social...

MPs have been called to Parliament for a special Saturday sitting on 19th October, following a meeting of the EU’s EC on Friday which...

The Prison Officers Association (POA) yesterday expressed anger and disappointment after MPs in the House of Commons voted by 481 to 46 to back...

Pregnant women living in the borough of Wirral, northwest England, face being put under the care of a private healthcare company rather than the...

THE TORY government has revealed that it is set to begin training hundreds of British Army personnel as strike-breakers this month, to be mobilised...

THE MH17 crash was a result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that struck the Boeing from the outside,...

LONDON transport strikes are escalating with 1,100 TfL and Tube Unite members joining the planned August 19th strike, said Unite the union yesterday. A pay...

Politicians, trade union leaders and hundreds of postal workers will come together at a national rally to protest against government plans to privatise Royal...

OVER 200 steelworkers from all over the country marched from Trafalgar Square to a rally in Parliament Square yesterday morning. They are fighting against the...

Yesterday’s strike by benefits and pensions staff was a ‘fantastic success’ said the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). Jobcentres, benefit offices, pension centres and...

THE UK Foreign Office yesterday urged British nationals to leave Benghazi at once in response to ‘a specific and imminent threat’ to Westerners from...

THE GSEE (Greek TUC) has declared that it intends to defy today’s ban on demonstrations and marches which was announced by Athens Area Chief...

THE Papandreou government sacked Greece’s military chiefs en masse late on Tuesday night, following a shock announcement of a referendum on the EU austerity...

THE Greek Army’s 71st airborne brigade, ‘Pontos’, carried out a large ‘civil war’ exercise code-named ‘Kallimachos’ on February 3rd and 4th at a specially...

THE meeting of the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group (Health East) last Friday was met by angry protesters organised by Lowestoft Against...

THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday slammed the University of Huddersfield for large-scale redundancy proposals that could see staff lose their jobs by...

MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street to mark the anniversary of the start Israel’s Gaza genocide on Saturday. At least...

THE Communication Workers Union Policy Forum of over 500 CWU reps in central London yesterday voted unanimously for a national strike ballot of Royal...

Share prices and the pound were battered yesterday after the publication of official figures showed that the UK economy shrank for...

THE RMT rail union announced yesterday that guards and drivers on Southern Rail will strike for 24 hours next Wednesday, and Tube drivers will...

MORE than 150 workers and youth attended the conference for strike action to defend Ealing Hospital and the NHS, in Southall yesterday. Moving the resolution,...

‘We want the next strike dates set now,’ a female British Airways cabin crew member at Heathrow told News Line yesterday. She was responding ...

‘PUBLIC sector workers are at breaking point,’ the GMB union said yesterday after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that inflation has hit...

PRIME Minister Blair yesterday refused to name the date for his departure. Speaking yesterday on a visit to one of the new ‘pathfinder...

The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust yesterday confirmed that it is looking to cut £32 million (ten per cent) from its budget over...

AS Southeastern rail franchise passes into public ownership this Sunday, the RMT transport union has revealed the true cost of private sector failure and...

Communication Workers Union (CWU) branch officials yesterday warned CWU general secretary Billy Hayes and deputy general secretary Dave Ward against selling out postal workers...

TODAY, GPs and their supporters will be marching through Tower Hamlets to demand proper funding of GP surgeries, which are threatened with closure due...

FOLLOWING last month’s ballot result in favour of taking industrial action, RMT’s National Executive Committee has taken the decision to call action and...

NEARLY half of England’s maternity units were forced to close to new mothers at some point during 2016 because of severe funding cuts, the...

ON DAY three of the case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, at the Old Bailey in central London, yesterday morning the court went straight...

Doctors to demand referendum on Health Bill – No confidence in Lansley and Coalition An Uprising among doctors against the government’s plan to smash up...

THE Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) yesterday afternoon announced a ‘criminal investigation’ into the death of Ian Tomlinson. Home Secretary Jaqui Smith had conceded earlier...

FORMER drivers, who used to work on the Tesco distribution contract in Doncaster, staged a demonstration yesterday at the Tesco AGM in London, protesting...