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BUSH flew into London yesterday after sending a public order to Gordon Brown, via the Observer newspaper. This was that Brown must not announce...

THE latest attempt to advance, by sleight of hand, to a united capitalist state of the European Union for the benefit of the...

Over 2,000 Tamils demonstrated outside the Commonwealth Conference in central London on Tuesday against the attendance of Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapakse. Their banners carried...

‘IGNORE at your peril the wishes of the most important people in the NHS – the patients,’ British Medical Association (BMA) GPs Committee chairman...

COLLEGE lecturers across London staged their second strike against the government’s pay-cutting strategy on Monday, June 9th, after taking part in national strike action...

GIVE us a date for strike action and we’ll do it, the leader of the Prison Officers Association (POA) – whose members are banned...

Hundreds of so-called ‘failing’ schools are to be told to ‘improve’ within three years or face closure. Alternatively they may be merged or turned into...

By JOHN COULTER Irish political journalist THE sectarian war in Ireland is over, but the war on racism has begun. That was the pledge from Sinn...

THE UNISON leaders who originally accepted the three year sub-inflation pay deal for NHS workers, along with the RCN, without going to ballot, yesterday...

COLLEGE lecturers in London, members of the University and College Union (UCU), will take strike action on Monday (9 June). And further action across England...

Keele University has one week to avoid the ignominy of becoming the first university to receive an academic boycott from the University and College...

As Israel steps up its human rights violations and systematic breaches of international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip, all the basic functions of...

Not fit for print? On May 1st 2008, the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF) sought to publish an open letter to the...

ON Saturday June 29, the News Line daily newspaper will be having a joint conference with the All Trades Unions Alliance, the body that...

GMB members working in the NHS yesterday voted by over 96% to reject the 2008 pay offer in a consultative ballot on the government’s...

Hospital doctors and GPs on Wednesday condemned health minister Lord Darzi’s plan for London as ‘a disaster waiting to happen’ whose effect on NHS...

New medical students are likely to graduate with debts of £37,000 warns a new British Medical Association (BMA) report published today. The BMA says this...

FRANCE has been shaken for the past six months by an eruption of anger by the education trade unions and by student and school...

Plans to bring one of the world’s most advanced health scanners to Edinburgh risk creating a two-tier NHS, senior health economist, Professor Allyson Pollock,...

Benin is one of several West African states gripped by soaring food prices. In a scene on a popular Benin TV series, a farmer named...

THE PCS civil servants union held a 70-strong international rally at its annual conference in Brighton last Wednesday evening where it launched a joint...

THE defeat of the Labour Party in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election – by 7,860 votes, making a 17.6% swing to the Tories from...

workers, trade unionists and local people are marching through Enfield on Saturday 26th July against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital, the announcement of...

Delegates at this year’s Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) national conference yesterday voted overwhelmingly for a strike ballot of 280,000 members working across...

THE fighting in Johannesburg and its surrounding black townships, over the past week – with more than 23 people being killed, pitched battles with...

THE BROWN government is now beating the big drum of patriotism, a quality that has often been termed as the ‘last refuge of a...

THE Independent Asylum Commission is today publishing Saving Sanctuary, the first of three reports of recommendations aimed at restoring public confidence in sanctuary for...

President Sarkozy threw down the gauntlet to the teaching unions immediately after the hugely successful national strike and demonstrations on Thursday. He shocked union...

Prime minister Brown signalled more attacks on workers, the sick, unemployed and disabled people in his speech to MPs yesterday, outlining the government’s draft...

THE class basis of the Blairite ‘Third Way’ politics is now being clearly revealed for all to see. It is a one hundred per...

‘Free, free Palestine!’ shouted up to 15,000 marchers, as they made their way through central London yesterday to a rally in Trafalgar Square to...

THERE is an obvious contradiction in the fact that while the US and the UK are considering fighting their way into Burma to ‘bring...

May Day greetings from Gulzar Ahmad Chaudhry General Secretary of the Pakistan Trade Unions ‘NO chimney and funnel of any factory or mill was...

BERTIE Ahern quit as the Irish Republic’s Taioseach and Fianna Fail leader on May 6th. Political Journalist JOHN COULTER analyses how he will be...

ON this day of international labour solidarity we call on our fellow trade unionists and all those worldwide who have stood against war and...

More than 90 per cent of final year midwifery students are struggling to find a job, a new survey published today by the Royal...

LABOUR suffered a net loss of 331 seats in local elections in England and Wales on 1 May. It also lost out to Tory...

BROWN’S ‘bad night for Labour’ was the direct result of a self-inflicted wound – Brown’s Thatcherite policies – that cost Labour up to...

UK agencies yesterday called on members of the Mid-East Quartet meeting in London (the US, EU, Russia and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon) to put...

‘Capitalism has had its day, it’s historically bankrupt. Now’s the time to bring it down and go forward to socialism.’ Workers Revolutionary Party General Secretary...

Four thousand workers and youth marched for socialism through central London on May Day yesterday. Led by the May Day Organising Committee banner there were...

HUMANITARIAN agencies in Sri Lanka have told the UN agency IRIN that they are preparing for the fallout as increasing...

MAY DAY MANIFESTO By the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE editorial Board sends its May Day greetings for the year 2008 to the workers...

We are gathering to ‘remember the dead and fight for the living’, RMT leader Pat Sikorski said at the rally at City Hall on...

Angry delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors Conference in central London on Saturday voted for action to restore free accommodation for...