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‘IN 2013, for the first time since World War II, the number of those forcibly displaced from their homes exceeded 50 million,’ warns an...

‘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...

FURTHER funding cuts to local councils will impact on long-term health outcomes, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. The government last week announced a...

ADDRESSING a meeting of the Unite Executive Council and Regional Political Committees yesterday, General Secretary Len McCluskey made clear that he intends to surrender...

THE TORY government has been forced to make a fundamental retreat: their plans to force all of England’s schools to become academies have been...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei said Tuesday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has ‘no objection to the creation of a temporary government of...

FIONA GODLEE, editor of The BMJ, has written to Health Secretary Hunt, accusing him of misrepresenting an academic article on deaths of patients admitted...

‘A SURGE in privatisation is threatening free NHS treatment,’ unions say. With contracts worth £5.5bn going to private firms, health sector unions warn of a...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the poor of the world. We send our revolutionary greetings...

HEALTH unions yesterday slammed the government’s announcement of six new Private Finance Initiative (PFI) hospital projects costing £1.5 billion. Not only will the schemes...

‘THE BREXIT talks are about acting in the national interest and that means making what I believe to be the right choices not the...

HAMAS said ‘the lists of prisoners required to be released’ as part of a ceasefire agreement were exchanged yesterday in Egypt. Taher al-Nunu, who is...

SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell pledged yesterday that Labour will scrap Universal Credit (UC). Interviewed by Sky’s Sophy Ridge, he was asked to comment on reports...

‘STAND FIRM, support the action and mount the pickets,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch urged his members defiantly yesterday afternoon as he confirmed that...

‘WE WILL strike for as long as it takes,’ British Medical Association (BMA) Chair of Council Professor Philip Banfield told the doctors’ union’s cheering...

‘We’re getting ready for revolution in Britain as part of the world socialist revolution.’ That was the message delivered by workers revolutionary Party General Secretary,...

THE Cheltenham-based electronic spying agency, GCHQ, recorded mobile phone exchanges between the Omagh bombers on the day of the attack in 1998. The...

General Motors announced yesterday that Opel/Vauxhall ‘have decided to withdraw all applications for government loan guarantees across Europe’. The GM statement said: ‘There have been...

NEXT Sunday, France will be voting in a referendum on the proposed EU constitution, and to the astonishment of the leaders of the Gaullist...

‘Will the present inquiry by the Cabinet Secretary examine whether or not the Home Office acted improperly in relation to an extradition request for...

THE Tory Party Conference opened in a massive crisis in Birmingham yesterday, after two top Tories resigned from their positions in the preceding two...

GOOGLE has been given the confidential records including full names and patient histories of an estimated 1.6 million NHS patients in a data-sharing agreement. Under...

SPEECH and Language Therapy Services for children who have problems learning to speak have been severely cut by the Tories with a new report...

TRADE unionists and Hounslow local people yesterday supported the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and bought tickets for their first anniversary march and rally in...

‘Very deliberately the government wishes to turn back the clock to the 1930s and 1940s, when there were private, charitable and co-operative providers of...

A TOXIC cocktail of benzene, hydrogen cyanide (HCN), as well as many known cancer-causing chemicals and fibres have been found in soil taken from...

Patient safety and the future career prospects of many thousands of junior doctors could be further jeopardised within the next two weeks, warned the...

ISRAELI forces carried out a series of demolitions and violent raids across occupied Palestinian territories yesterday, further escalating the ethnic cleansing in the West...

The ‘trial’ of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein collapsed into into chaos minutes after it was resumed again yesterday. After boycotting the ‘trial’, Saddam arrived saying...

DOZENS of Palestinians were injured in violent clashes across al-Tur and al-Issawiya neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday as Palestinians protested the death...

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged UK Bank of England governor Mervyn King in 2008 to reform the London interbank offered rate (Libor) process...

THREE weeks of strikes at Goldsmith’s University in south London began yesterday morning and continue today by members of the University and College Union...

THE BANK of England cut its base rate to a record low of 0.1%, a sliver above zero, warning the coronavirus pandemic will result...

Yesterday’s immigration panel ruling to deport an Algerian man as a threat to national security is ‘an affront to justice and a green light...

THE UNITE trade union is demanding an urgent meeting with Ernst & Young, Interserve’s administrators, after Friday’s announcement that the company is being forced...

Postal workers yesterday reacted angrily to Business Secretary Lord Mandelson’s threat to their jobs and pensions if they did not give up their...

IN THE WAKE of the Grenfell Tower fire, you would assume that fire safety checks would have increased. However, over the last seven years,...

CAMPAIGNERS demonstrated outside the High Court yesterday where Ealing Council were seeking a judicial review of the decision to close Ealing Hospital A&E. They had...

Greek police fired teargas and attacked 200,000 workers and youth outside parliament yesterday who were seeking to prevent MPs entering parliament to vote on...

Harrowing video clips of Jean Charles de Menezes’ body in a pool of blood, after being shot seven times in the head at point...

‘THIS government can’t wait to destroy the NHS,’ RMT general secretary Bob Crow told News Line yesterday. The rail union leader was responding to a...

US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met for talks in Geneva yesterday. ‘This is a critical moment,’ Blinken said...

COMMENTS in Parliament by Labour minister Margaret Hodge and Labour MP Brian Donohoe, which were critical of the unions’ call for car buyers not...

THE High Court has today heard, in the case of R (Serdar Mohammed) v Secretary of State for Defence, that British forces passed hundreds...

MORE than half a million people are starving in Gaza, the United Nations Relief Works and Agency (UNRWA), World Food Programme (WFP) and Gaza’s...