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CARS, lorries and buses hooted support along the busy Bath Road on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport in west London yesterday morning as 1,400...

LABOUR shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has thrown a political bomb into the middle of the Labour Party with his pledge to the Scottish Nationalists...

UK INTEREST rates have risen to the highest level since 2009 as the Bank of England tries to slow the pace of rapidly rising...

‘DESPITE Tory claims that the cost-of-living crisis is coming to an end, the truth is that inflation (RPI) is still outstripping wage growth,’ Unite...

TORY CHANCELLOR SUNAK yesterday said it is ‘very likely’ the UK is in a ‘significant recession’, as figures show the economy contracting at the...

GPs HAVE voted overwhelmingly to ballot for industrial action if ‘disastrous’ changes to their working contract, which they say threaten patient safety, are not...

RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has accused the Johnson government and the privately-run train operating companies of ‘using Covid as a smokescreen’ to rip...

LABOUR’S Foreign Secretary David Lammy has shrugged off as ‘bluster’ warnings by Russia that if Ukraine fires its British-provided long-range Storm Shadow missiles into...

‘WE REALISE that we had taken the wrong road and that we needed to change course,’ Roger Taylor, chair of The Office of Qualifications...

SIX unions have asked urgent questions of Gillian Keegan, the Secretary of State for Education, about RAAC affected schools. The general secretaries of six unions...

‘CAN I put on record my thanks to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the CBI, and other business groups,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak said...

‘UNDERHAND’ plans to fire 50 GB Terminals workers who unload and process Volkswagens at Sheerness docks in Kent have been slammed as a ‘sneaky...

LABOUR moved a step closer to forming a national government yesterday with the Scottish and Welsh nationalists, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens all...

BRITISH Airways Cargo workers begin nine days of strike action on Christmas Day, however their union, Unite, has called off all pickets. Under BA’s fire...

‘IT IS in no-one’s interests for members of the armed forces to be given a free pass over alleged war crimes’ said Kate Allen,...

THE UK and India have agreed on a ‘new and expanded’ defence and security partnership during British premier Boris Johnson’s crisis visit to New...

A HUGE 200,000-strong march of workers, students and youth went from Parliament Square to Hyde Park on Saturday, the 13th National demonstration for Palestine...

TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson has invited the SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon and the Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford, to a ‘Team UK’ summit. Johnson congratulated...

VACCINE passport trials will begin from mid-April, Tory PM Johnson announced at the 5pm briefing yesterday. When asked he said: ‘Obviously we are looking at...

TRADE union leaders on Thursday gave their response to Chancellor Hunt’s austerity war on workers in his Autumn Statement. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:  ‘The...

LAST week the FBU  said it would formally issue notice of ballot if ‘a substantial pay increase that takes into account the current level of inflation...

AN ANALYSIS by the Health Foundation shows that soaring inflation means NHS staff face an average pay cut of £845 during 2021-22 and will...

DOCK workers at the UK’s largest container port yesterday began an eight-day strike, for the first time in 30 years. About 1,900 members of the...

STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class, the youth and the...

PUBLIC and Commercial Services (PCS) union members working in Universal Credit are voting on whether to take strike action over workloads and staff recruitment. The...

Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott has retweeted a call for Labour Party deputy leader Tom Watson to quit after he publicly attacked the party’s...

SWINDON residents turned out in their thousands on Saturday’s march to save the Honda car factory and stop its closure. There were 6,000 on the...

‘OUR policy at the TUC is to call a general strike,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch told News Line on the picket line at...

LONDON'S Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust will be the first to walk out in new wave of...

INSTEAD of organising a general strike to smash the anti-union laws, the TUC leader Paul Nowak has decided to report the UK government to...

BORIS Johnson told his supporters yesterday midday that he is ‘not aiming for a no-deal outcome’ for Brexit. Launching his campaign for the Tory leadership,...

THE MYANMAR military authorities have seized control of the embassy, leaving the ambassador out in the street and forcing him to sleep in his...

‘PEOPLE are really supporting our cause to reopen all the closed services at Ealing Hospital,’ Ealing Southall WRP general election candidate Hassan Zulkifal said...

TORY Home Secretary Priti Patel launched the UK’s first ‘points-based immigration system’ yesterday. The new system will come into force on New Year’s Day, immediately...

JUNIOR Doctors and Consultants begin three days of joint strike action at 7am this morning, determined to defend the NHS and defeat the Tory...

‘DON’T make the £141bn student debt nightmare worse,’ the University and College Union (UCU) warned yesterday ahead of a government spending review. University staff have...

‘THERE is still a small minority who refuse to do the right thing and to them my message is clear: if you don’t follow...

MORE THAN 50 people have been ‘unlawfully arrested’ under the ‘draconian’ Coronavirus Act, it emerged yesterday, yet the government are insisting that the laws...

MICK LYNCH issued a defiant message from the RMT picket line at Euston Station in central London yesterday morning, saying: ‘I’ve just heard Huw...

PRIME Minister Boris Johnson spent less than five minutes apologising over ‘Partygate’ to the House of Commons yesterday, before putting it to one side. He...

HUNDREDS of striking criminal barristers held mass pickets outside the Supreme Court in London yesterday, as well as outside Preston, Plymouth and Birmingham Crown...

‘THE damage that you’re doing to families like mine is terrible,’ the mother of a sick three-year-old girl told Tory Health Secretary Stephen Barclay...

PALESTINE Action scaled the roof of another Israeli arms factory yesterday, morning holding ‘Shut down Elbit’ banners. They announced: ‘We’ve taken to the roof of...

AN URGENT investigation has found that there are at least 20 housing blocks using the same wooden cladding and wooden structure as the block...

THE TUC warned yesterday that the right to strike of 1-in-5 workers in Britain is at risk because of the Tory government’s Strikes (Minimum...