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THE death toll from Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza topped 35,000 yesterday, as the regime’s tanks rolled into the massive Jabalia refugee camp. At least...

British troops in Iraq were on high alert yesterday for fear of further clashes as tensions continued over the rescue at tank-point of two...

EIGHTEEN per cent of young people on slave labour apprenticeship schemes are illegally being paid less than the minimum wage, according to the government’s...

NHS workers at the South London and Maudsley (SLAM) NHS Trust staged a three-day strike this week against more than 200 job cuts announced...

TWO coachloads of French ‘Gilet Jaunes’ (Yellow Vests) joined the Committee to Defend Julian Assange ‘Bastille Day’ protest outside Belmarsh prison in south east...

‘We don’t want macho management or macho trade unionism, we want an honourable compromise,’ said Transport and General Workers Union general secretary Tony Woodley...

BRITISH Tory and Labour leaders fell in with their US masters’ drive to war yesterday. US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in...

‘WE’LL do whatever it takes to save our hospitals,’ GMB National Officer for the NHS Rehana Azam told News Line yesterday. She was responding to...

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said: ‘The Israeli occupation’s field measures and steps in occupied Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, including the closure of Al-Aqsa’s...

THE NUMBER of zero-hours contract and low-paid self-employed workers has rocketed by a quarter since 2011 to three million, new research released yesterday by...

The officer who restrained 20-year-old Rashan Charles in Dalston, East London shortly before he died on July 22 is being investigated for gross misconduct. Rashan...

THE London Guantanamo Campaign staged a protest yesterday outside the American embassy on the 8th anniversary of the establishment of the infamous Guantanamo Bay...

THE Tory-LibDem Coalition plans to abolish the right of workers to claim unfair dismissal and bring in an employers right to sack workers without...

Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday called for the 10p tax rate to be restored in full. He was speaking after Prime Minister...

Media unions BECTU and the NUJ yesterday condemned ‘BBC fat-cat bonuses’ and called on BBC bosses to hand them back. They were responding to the...

THERE was a large picket of about 120 sacked Gate Gourmet workers yesterday. Daljit said: ‘We are waiting to see if British Airways sign ...

OVER 300 workers and youth attended Sunday afternoon’s WRP-YS celebration of the Centenary of the 1917 Russian revolution. Opening the rally the Secretary of the...

PROSPECT members in the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency have warned that safety on the UK’s road network is at risk if plans to...

‘HEATHROW’S cash mountain should be used to help low paid staff threatened by “fire and rehire”,’ Unite said yesterday. Heathrow workers are currently being...

Houses of Parliament cleaners will be on the picket line outside the House of Commons at 10am this morning. They will be joined by Labour’s...

MILLIONS of workers will see their take-home pay fall when contribution rates for those with auto-enrolment pensions are hiked in six weeks time. Since 2012,...

British families have experienced the biggest fall in wealth since the pandemic, according to yesterday’s report from banking group UBS. According to UBS, the average...

THE number of people dying in fire-related incidents in England has seen its biggest percentage increase in 20 years, data published by the Home...

THE TGWU trade union yesterday warned Blair and Brown that they were ignoring Labour voters ‘at their peril’. ‘Choose fresh policies and leaders’ was the...

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday voted to increase its Quantitative Easing (printing money) programme by £50bn to a total of £325bn,...

FOLLOWING meetings on Thursday with the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank), the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos...

JUNIOR doctors and their union have responded angrily after 1,500 third year trainees were told they have to re-apply for their jobs as registrars...

Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Clinical Strategy Board has made it clear that it is rapidly proceeding with the closure of Chase Farm Accident and...

TEN Palestinians were killed on Sunday after Israeli shells hit a UN school in Rafah where thousands of people were sheltering from the ongoing...

‘Last night’s event appears to suggest that something sudden and catastrophic happened,’ offshore workers’ union, OILC leader Jake Malloy told News Line yesterday. Six bodies...

Quebec students and their supporters took to the streets of Montreal last Saturday and promised a summer full of demonstrations unless the dispute over...

‘FREE free Palestine! BBC shame on you, your hands are bloody too!’ chanted 100 protesters outside the BBC in central London yesterday. The vigil marked...

THERE is to be a march from Ealing Hospital to Downing Street in the first week of September to stop the closure...

PATIENTS, NHS workers and privacy campaigners alike are outraged that people’s private medical records are to be put on the internet without their consent...

THE TORY government claimed yesterday that there is no threat to the UK gas supplies, despite four energy privateers being widely tipped to go...

CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday said he will take the Tories’ local elections disaster ‘on the chin’, as his own MPs were calling for his and...

AN EPIDEMIC of an antibiotic-resistant superbug is spreading throughout the hospital system in Palestine’s Gaza City, with doctors warning of a ‘global health security...

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...

A CROSS Party ‘pandemic simulation’ carried out just three years before Covid-19 struck ‘played-out’ a scenario in which the health minister was asked to...

AN ACUTE lack of ambulances and paramedics has created a situation where 999 patients classed as ‘life threatening’ are waiting for up to...

Silent march Friday, June 14th Meet 7pm at Methodist Church and march through North Kensington. Solidarity march Saturday, June 15th Meet 11am at Portland Place, off Regent Street W1A...

UNITE leader Sharon Graham warned yesterday morning that the union is likely to disaffiliate from the Labour Party if Chancellor Rachel Reeves does not...

POSTAL workers are warning the public of the ‘end of Royal Mail as we know it’, as 115,000 employees strike today and Black Friday...

LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers were out campaigning at the weekend for their mass picket next Sunday and their conference in London on Sunday January...