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Six RAF Harrier GR7 jets are to stay in Afghanistan until 31 March 2007 to support UK troops and their allies on the ground,...

FORD is planning to close its plant in Southampton which makes the Transit van and employs 500 workers. A meeting between Ford’s management and unions...

‘IT is no good simply talking about violent extremism, we need to confront all extremism, we need to recognise that the poison of extremism...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad yesterday warned of ‘firm reprisals’ against any country leading the way to impose new sanctions, adding that Iran was ‘not...

THE 595 women cleaners of the Greek Finance Ministry, sacked en masse on 17 September 2013 on the direct orders of the EC-IMF-ECB overlords,...

DOREEN Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, has asserted that ‘racial profiling’ is being used in immigration police stop-and-check operations. She spoke out...

Army drivers are being trained as strikebreakers in the event of a national tanker drivers strike which is expected to be called...

‘ON THE EVE of a crucial election for our Republic,’ the CGT French trade union federation warned of the ‘alarming consequences for our freedoms...

GAZA’S Health Ministry Spokesman Ashraf Al Qudra accused Israel of intentionally striking Palestinian hospitals to shut them down. He announced that at least 15,899 Palestinians...

INQUESTS into the deaths of 21 people in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings are to be reopened, a coroner ruled yesterday. Louise Hunt, the senior...

US miners’ families’ relief turned to fury yesterday when they heard that only one of 12 trapped miners was alive when their bodies were...

The University and College Union yesterday slammed the government after it emerged that Cambridge University plans to charge students £9,000 a year fees. UCU general...

Al JAZEERA is to refer the killing of journalist Samer Abudaqa to the ICC (International Criminal Court). The Al Jazeera Arabic cameraman was killed by...

More than 2,000 students meeting outside the entrance of Jussieu university in the centre of Paris yesterday afternoon voted virtually unanimously to strike until...

JUNIOR doctors are staging a full walkout in England beginning at 7am today, Thursday 27 June and ending at 7am on Tuesday 2nd July. The...

AN unconfirmed number of Palestinian civilians were killed and many more were injured last night in an ongoing Israeli genocide campaign involving airstrikes and...

INTENSIVE Israeli air strikes smashed into homes across southern Lebanon yesterday, levelling schools, destroying infrastructure and overwhelming hospitals. Nine members of the same family were...

AS MANY as 200 cleaners and domestic workers at four south London hospitals took strike action yesterday demanding their wages are increased to £10...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education marched from Wolverhampton to Birmingham yesterday. And last night they were staying at the Irish...

New Year’s statement by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2017...

Over 400 workers, youth, pensioners and local service users lobbied Barnet Council on Tuesday, furious at the massive cuts and privatisation imposed by the...

EALING Hospital workers, patients and visitors yesterday called for an occupation by the trade unions to stop the closure of the hospital’s...

MORE than 800 postal workers from all parts of the country, from Plymouth to Scotland, marched on the Labour Party conference in Manchester yesterday...

RAIL union RMT confirmed today that it has declared a dispute and is preparing an industrial action ballot on Great Western services. This is after...

THOUSANDS of junior doctors will take to the streets of London today in protest at the imposed changes to their contracts. The rally today in...

THE BBC is set to face strike action over job cuts, pensions and pay as unions declared a series of actions in the wake...

AT LEAST 30 Palestinians were killed, including 13 children, when Israel bombed a building housing displaced people in the Jabalia refugee camp at 6am...

‘Kick ancient pay out of our museum’ said placards carried by 300 British Museum staff out yesterday against what amounts to a public sector...

RAIL union RMT confirmed yesterday that London Overground guards will take strike action, together with an overtime ban, for 48 hours over the coming...

THE LABOUR Party yesterday called the revelation that 1,652 properties in North Kensington are unoccupied ‘simply unacceptable’. A local resident and community activist told News...

POSTAL workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of striking for pay, in a ballot of 115,000 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), with...

OVER 400 trade unionists and supporters rallied and marched in central Manchester yesterday in opposition to the Tory ‘Devo-Manc’ plan to fragment and privatise...

A PRIVATISATION and closure plague is being spread rapidly throughout the NHS. United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has closed its accident and emergency department at Grantham...

WORKERS at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury are ramping up pressure in the ‘fire and rehire’ struggle with a protest on Saturday (1...

IRAN struck US military positions in two countries yesterday morning, just hours after an American attack on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz,...

JUNIOR doctors will strike next Tuesday after talks with the government broke down at 4.45pm yesterday afternoon. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Junior doctors...

OVER 1,000 people joined a demonstration and rally on Saturday to protest over plans to cut up to 500 jobs at the...

‘CAMERON’S speech today, with the five fake pledges on the NHS, signify that the coalition government is going full steam ahead with the...

PATIENTS are bearing the brunt of savage cuts to GP surgeries, said the Royal College of GPs yesterday. The RCGP said: ‘GPs are facing a...

THE LONDON Fire Brigade yesterday issued a statement that over the last five years there have been 438 fires in London in factories,...

TORY changes to the NHS were ‘opposed by patients, the public and NHS staff, but politicians pushed through the changes regardless’ Dr Mark Porter,...

EX-BREXIT Under Secretary of State Steve Baker, who resigned along with Brexit Secretary David Davis, told The Sunday Telegraph that Prime Minister May had...

THE HEAD of the Royal College of Nursing has apologised after nurses in England complained of being ‘misled’ over the new pay deal. The union...

THE Iranian nation and armed forces have imposed new realities on the battlefield that Washington and its allies must now accept,’ the Islamic Revolutionary...

HUNDREDS of armed riot police (MAT) in full gear viciously attacked a militant march in Athens against the visit of US President Barack Obama...