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The high-tech way Amazon processes orders and tracks inventory disguises the fact that it is also a traditional labour-intensive mail order retail business that...

Over 500 students, lecturers and other academic staff, and privatisation-threatened support workers, held a vibrant march and rally on Tuesday afternoon, in support of...

JEREMY HUNT, who did a stint as a very pro-Murdoch Culture Secretary, was reshuffled out of that job and became Health Secretary as a...

DISABILITY Rights UK yesterday welcomed the report published by the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee on the Work Capability Assessment. The MPs found that the Work...

Yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, introduced legislation on banking reforms – reforms which he is desperately trying to insist will prevent the continuing...

IN THE UK at the moment there are dozens of District General Hospitals – some of the best in the world – set for...

MINISTERS are attempting to overturn concessions won by members of the House of Lords to the Tory-LibDem Coalition Government’s repressive Secret Courts Bill, warns...

THE unprovoked air strike by Israeli forces on a scientific research centre on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus is the opening shot...

WITH petrol poised to rise to £7.40 a gallon, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has intervened to rub salt into the gaping wounds...

BRITAIN is to send 350 troops to Mali to be deployed as ‘advisers’ and ‘trainers’, Defence Secretary Hammond told an anxious House of Commons...

Scores of Iraqis were at the High Court in London yesterday demanding an Independent Public Inquiry into allegations that British interrogators abused, killed and...

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at the Swiss ski resort of Davos, ended last Saturday. The four days of the forum...

ONTARIO trade unionists and their families rallied in Toronto on Saturday to demand good jobs, public services, workers’ rights and the recall of the...

THE Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) has just warned that we are rapidly heading for a petrol price of £7.40 a gallon, a catastrophe that...

THE response of the Tory-LibDem government to the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system has been to try to force the working class,...

THE UK Foreign Office yesterday urged British nationals to leave Benghazi at once in response to ‘a specific and imminent threat’ to Westerners from...

DUBLIN – Niall Shanahan, Communications Officer of the Impact trade union, has blogged Irish workers that the repayment of Ireland’s bank debt ‘has already...

BANK of England Governor King is going into retirement a worried man – that his successor, the Canadian banker Carney in alliance with a...

‘OCCUPYING fire stations to stop their closure is a tactic that should be considered,’ David Williams West Yorkshire Brigade Secretary told News Line at...

THE latest State of Maternity Services report from the Royal College of Midwives shows the baby boom in UK continuing and maternity services at...

TORY prime minister David Cameron has promised that British imperialism is prepared to wage a war lasting decades throughout Africa and the Middle East...

‘THESE fire stations belong to the people of London and it’s the people of London who say that these buildings are ours and we...

THE British Medical Association yesterday warned against mass A&E closures implicit in a review of emergency services being carried out Professor Sir Bruce Keogh,...

THE White House on Thursday issued a ‘Readout of the President’s Call with Prime Minister Cameron of the United Kingdom’. The record of the phone...

2013 OPENS with Michael Farrar, the NHS confederation chairman, appealing for fewer hospitals and beds, and more care for elderly people in their own...

UNITE has condemned the government’s plan to cap compensation for unfair dismissal. In a ministerial statement the government has announced plans to introduce...

ON Monday, President Obama addressed the prospect of the USA going bust saying: ‘So to even entertain the idea of this happening – of...

BRITISH IMPERIALISM was run out of Basra and Iraq, and is about to be run out of Afghanistan. However, it is still organising new...

THURSDAY’S announcement that seven prisons are to be closed in March 2013 will endanger the government commitment to a rehabilitation revolution, insisted the Prison...

THE Unite union yesterday called Honda’s decision to cut 800 jobs at its Swindon plant a ‘hammer blow’ to UK manufacturing and the local...

DESPITE fears of a ‘triple dip recession’, the Bank of England has kept interest rates and its Quantitative Easing (QE) monetary stimulus programme on...

THE defence contractor which reached a settlement with alleged victims of torture in the notorious prison of Abu Ghraib is now again at the...

THE picket called each Wednesday by the South East London Council of Action, to prepare to defend Lewisham hospital with an occupation to keep...

PM CAMERON received an almighty slap in the face on Wednesday when the Obama administration effectively told him to shut up and drop all...

WHILE the US and the UK have reduced their military spending, under pressure from the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system, the new...

Today Parliament votes on the Tory coalition bill to place a 1% cap on all benefits and tax credits for the next three years...

SYRIAN government troops late on Sunday repulsed an attack by an armed gang on a police school in the northern city of Aleppo. This came...

MILIBAND’S Labour Party yesterday said that if it was the government it would offer the long-term unemployed a guarantee of a six-month job. This...

Teacher hostility to the government and its policies has increased dramatically in recent months, according to a YouGov survey of 804 teachers, which was...

THE New Year has kicked off with a frenzied attack by both Tory and their LibDem coalition partners on the low paid, unemployed, the...

THE Coalition and its supporters are engaged in a frenzy of benefit cutting which is victimising and pauperising the working class and many sections...

AT THE last TUC Congress its leaders were forced by the anger of delegates to accept and agree a resolution that the TUC was...

LONDON Underground (LU) station cleaners employed by the ISS and Initial privateers on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines held a 48-hour turn-of-the-year pay...

2013 Manifesto – STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings for the year 2013 to the...

THE just-released Thatcher papers confirm that the Tory leader had a very real hatred of the NHS and the Welfare State and, along with...