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A CLAUSE in the newly signed UK-US trade agreement has provoked fierce criticism after it was revealed that Washington will be granted powers to...

TORY Prime Minister Johnson is expected to require Labour votes to get his new tougher tier system passed by the House of Commons next...

Over 400,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street on Saturday, while thousands more marched in other towns and cities around Britain, including...

‘CORONAVIRUS is no reason to fire us!’ shouted over 150 strikers rallying outside the Tate Modern Gallery on Bankside yesterday afternoon. The strikers were marking...

UNITE regional secretary for London Pete Kavanagh told News Line yesterday: ‘We would like to see this £60,000 grant to the families of those...

BILLS are set to rise by 50% in April when the latest change to the energy price cap takes effect, it emerged yesterday, while...

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...

TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay hit out against the NHS’s junior doctors again yesterday ahead of their five-day strike later this month, and on...

EALING Parking Service workers are angry at the way in which their strike has been sold out. Unite Branch Secretary Harjinder Nagi told News Line...

‘The TUC should have called a general strike already. They’re too slow to act,’ was the message from the Waterloo Station picket line yesterday...

NEARLY a quarter of Labour MPs have called fora ceasefire in Gaza. Forty-nine of the party’s 199 MPs have either said they want a ceasefire...

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...

‘YOUNG workers are missing out on £200 million in minimum wage pay,’ the TUC says, while demanding at least £10 an hour regardless of...

THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the Labour government’s ‘Plan for Change’ attack on the NHS which it is unveiling today. Professor Phil Banfield,...

‘REFUGEES are welcome here!’ chanted thousands of workers, students and youth as they joined hundreds of anti-racism demonstrations in towns and cities across the...

SHIPBUILDERS have occupied the Harland & Wolff site in Belfast, closing the gates and refusing to leave, with their unions GMB and Unite demanding...

THE Unite and GMB trade unions have called on Ford to come clean over the future of its UK operations. They are warning that its...

‘CAPITALISM is crashing in Britain and all over the world,’ Workers Revolutionary Party Central Committee member Frank Sweeney told the News Line 55th Anniversary...

HORRIFYINGLY, care workers have been told if they test positive they will have to self-isolate at the care home and will not be able...

THE JOHNSON government faces an expected rebellion by about 60 Conservative MPs in tomorrow’s House of Commons votes to pass new ‘Plan B’ Covid-19...

RAILWAY workers will take the fight for the future of ticket offices to the doorstep of 10 Downing Street on Thursday 31 August –...

STRIKING postal workers fighting Royal Mail’s diktat yesterday called for a general strike. On a lively picket line outside Camden Delivery Office, London NW1, Communication...

THE TORY war on the railways and railway workers is to resume immediately, with reports yesterday of mass ticket office closures being ‘hardwired’ into...

‘Grant Shapps needs to stop smearing the RMT and unshackle the rail operating companies so they can come to a negotiated settlement that can...

THE Bank of England yesterday raised its interest rate from 4.5% to 5%, the highest level for 15 years, in a declaration of war...

TEACHERS have voted by a massive 98% in favour of strike action to defeat the Tories’ miserable 4.3% pay offer. Commenting on the ballot result...

THE BBC has threatened pensioners with bailiffs if they don’t pay the licence fee, after spending £38m on 800 staff to enforce collection. Bailiffs will...

TEACHERS are striking today and have announced further strike dates due to the government’s ‘failure to resolve a clear pay discrepancy’ between staff in...

‘THERE was no chase’ before the Metropolitan Police marksman shot and killed Chris Kaba on 5th September, his cousin Jefferson Bosela told thousands of...

AS MORE than 60,000 junior doctors begin three days of strike action at 7am this morning, the British Medical Association (BMA) warns that two-thirds...

OVER 5,000 workers, trade unionists and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on May Day yesterday. ‘General strike for Palestine’, chanted the Workers...

Scores of striking Go North West bus drivers massed outside the company’s Queens Road depot in Manchester yesterday, on the first day of their...

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...

‘I HOPE this action is the beginning of a wider movement of the working class standing together in solidarity and working towards a general...

A MASS Rally of over 150 Serco strikers and supporters took place at Walthamstow’s Whipp’s Cross Hospital yesterday morning, as part of their two-week...

LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the Labour Party to consider backing the creation of a government of ‘national unity’ to stop Brexit. He...

‘THE TRADE unions should organise mass demonstrations and call a general strike,’ Julian Assange Defence Committee member Joe Brack told News Line yesterday. He was...

WILDCAT strikes by postal workers at three Scottish sorting offices over serious health and safety issues has forced Royal Mail to change its policy...

THE UNITED Kingdom has finalised an agreement with Ukraine that allows Kiev to buy British warships and missiles to enhance its naval capabilities, a...

THE BANK of England has reduced interest rates to 4.25 per cent, marking its second cut this year, as it warned that escalating global...

TORY education secretary Gillian Keegan is trying to get next week’s strike action by 100,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) outlawed, claiming...

ASLEF and RMT railworkers are striking again this week in defence of their jobs, their working conditions, their pensions and pay. Aslef train drivers are...

WRP PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE for Kensington, Scott Dore campaigning outside the busy Ladbroke Grove tube station yesterday gained the support of local residents. Kathleen Jones who...

THE WEST London Council of Action has called a 7am-9am Xmas Mass Picket of Ealing Hospital on Friday 20th December to step up the...

AMENDMENT H calling for a second referendum was resoundingly defeated in parliament last night by 249 votes, with just 85 MPs voting for and...