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TRADE unions yesterday welcomed the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader. This was after the explosion of working class anger inside and around...

one in five mortgage holders is worried about meeting their repayments over the next 12 months, while a quarter of these haven’t any idea...

ED Miliband yesterday assured the bankers that a Labour government would cut the current account deficit in each year of its office. Launching his party’s...

THE FIGHT for Justice for every single man, woman and child who died in the Grenfell Tower and their families and the survivors who...

THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...

TODAY’S meeting of the General Council of the TUC must go beyond considering the practicalities of a general strike and actually call one, Dave...

THE MET Police’s Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS), the body which is meant to ‘root out misconduct’, is itself under investigation for ‘serious corruption...

‘THE STATE must step back and let the private sector get to work,’ Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared in his virtual Tory Party...

Teachers at 32 Further Education (FE) Colleges have voted to strike over pay and workloads, with the University and College Union (UCU) committee meeting...

PM Johnson has been urged to deliver emergency funds to protect London from £20m of fire cuts. The London Fire Brigade faces £20m of cuts...

A PLAN to move out-of-hours surgery from Cheltenham General Hospital seven miles away to Gloucester has been slammed by almost 60 consultants and senior...

The BMA yesterday confirmed an escalation of the junior doctors industrial action scheduled for April. This follows the continued refusal by the government to step...

STAFF at Winchester University are set to walk out for five days at the end of the month after the university said it wants...

‘TWO of our brothers are on a hunger strike to death,’ Janani Paramsothy of the British Tamil students told News Line at Parliament Square...

WORKING in Gaza on patients hit by Israeli fire, medical teams noted ‘the injuries include an extreme level of destruction to bones and soft...

Save the Children has declared a ‘crisis for families’ in the UK, as today it partners UK charity Family Action to distribute cash grants...

REFUGEE charity Care4Calais reported yesterday that it had managed to stop 20 asylum seekers from being forced aboard the Bibby Stockholm ‘deathtrap barge’ anchored...

Today’s massive London march against the coalition government will be the biggest since the two million-strong march against the Iraq war under the Blair...

‘EVERYONE understands that (Israeli Prime Minister) Netanyahu and his government are not willing to reach a ceasefire deal,’ Hamas warned yesterday. The Hamas Palestine liberation...

SELF-DEFENCE forces in eastern Ukraine have shot down two military helicopters near the city of Slavyansk. One was carrying fourteen soldiers including an army...

‘BRITISH Airways cabin crew are fighting for the whole trade union movement,’ striking Unite member ‘George’ told News Line yesterday. Using a pseudonym to avoid...

ISRAEL’S genocidal war on Gaza entered its 200th day yesterday, with the Health Ministry saying that the IOF (Israeli Occupation Force) had committed three...

THOUSANDS of striking doctors and medical students, dressed in their white coats, marched through central Cairo yesterday to join the movement of millions of...

Israeli police on Tuesday stormed a Bedouin village that was completely razed in July, levelling efforts to rebuild homes for the third time in...

‘CASH-FOR-VOTES’ and ‘an outrageous straight bung’ were how SNP Leader in Westminster Ian Blackford and Wales First Minister Carwyn Jones described the Tory-DUP...

THE BMA doctors’ union and the RCN nurses’ union joined hands in denouncing the Tory government’s onslaught on the NHS yesterday, after the...

THE lead consultant on the neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked said yesterday that hospital managers should be regulated in a similar way to...

PALESTINE’S UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour has called on the UN Security Council to ensure ‘protection’ for Palestinians, who have increasingly come under deadly attacks...

GPs at their annual conference in Liverpool yesterday voted in favour of a motion calling for the end of the work capability assessment. The doctors,...

TRADE unionists are flocking to the junior doctors picket lines this morning. Matt Wrack, general secretary at the Fire Brigades Union, said: ‘Our people...

THREE thousand five hundred car workers’ jobs are to be axed as Japanese carmaker Honda announces this morning that it is to shut down...

By John Coulter, Irish Political Journalist ANOTHER Stormont crisis looms in the North, but is this latest ‘storm’ merely clever sabre rattling or the warning...

JEREMY Corbyn speaking in Swindon yesterday confirmed that Labour will abolish zero-hours contracts. He said that, ‘Some one million people are on zero-hours contracts’ and...

HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stephens, has angered millions of workers with his suggestions that pensioners’ free bus passes and their triple-lock pension arrangements...

Lebanon’s prime minister Fuad Siniora yesterday condemned the latest ‘deliberate massacre’ of over fifty innocent civilians in south Lebanon. As the UN argued over an...

EALING Hospital workers are ready to welcome the occupation of the maternity unit today. Today, the hospital management intends to commence turning away expectant mothers...

BORIS Johnson has insisted he will stay in office, despite a growing Tory revolt against his leadership. At Prime Minister’s Questions, he said he had...

THE OCCUPATION of Harland and Wolff, in Belfast in the north of Ireland, is going from strength to strength, now into its fourth day...

‘THERE was no deal. There was nothing, nothing on the table,’ said Junior Doctors’ Co-chair, Robert Laurenson outside the Department of Health, yesterday morning. Laurenson...

AS parents face back-to-school costs, new research shows that they also face a growing struggle to provide a decent standard of living for their...

WHILE Aslef drivers are striking today against Southern rail’s attempt to impose driver only operation, the RMT union yesterday announced further strike action...

THE Hampstead-based Royal Free Hospital NHS trust, which will take over Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield and Barnet Hospital this July, has confirmed its...

MORE than 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody launched an open-ended mass hunger strike yesterday morning on Palestinian Prisoners Day, led by imprisoned Fatah...

THE Israeli occupation army assassinated a senior Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb yesterday, killing and injuring about two dozen civilians...

ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY IRAQI lawmakers have signed a draft bill, demanding the withdrawal of US military forces from the country following the assassination...