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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its New Year’s greetings for the year 2014 to all our readers and to the workers and youth...

TORY-LIBDEM Coalition plans to charge fees to immigrants and overseas visitors attending District General Hospital Accident and Emergency Departments were condemned by Unison yesterday. ‘The...

AT 7pm on the dot on Christmas Eve the doors of Stoke Newington Fire station opened and the fire fighters began their seventh strike...

THREE of the eight fire stations that sent engines to the Apollo Theatre last night are set to close in less than three weeks,...

THE GMB trade union is calling on members and the community to join the lobby of the Clinical Commissioning Group in Cambridge from 1pm...

BY SAWSAN KHALIFE – FIRST PUBLISHED IN ELECTRONIC INTIFADA THE Israeli government’s announcement last week that it has withdrawn proposed legislation to forcibly displace tens...

CHANCELLOR Osborne’s welfare cuts will hit the safety net for workers, warned the TUC last Friday. It was commenting on the Chancellor’s comment at the...

WHEN the Care Bill becomes law the elderly will have to spend £150,000 on care before receiving any financial help. The Bill had its second...

NHS England Medical Director Keogh has announced that hospitals are to be forced to change the consultant contract and institute so-called ‘seven day working’...

UNITE and Unison are urging MPs to vote on Monday against Clause 18, hastily inserted into the Care Bill, which would make it easier...

UNIONS warned yesterday that savage cuts to ambulance services and staffing levels are causing the A&E crisis to ‘spiral out of control’ and ‘will...

TWO-HUNDRED marchers – local residents, trade unionists and youth – expressed enormous anger on Saturday as they demonstrated through Enfield in north London against...

YESTERDAY’S 60-strong mass picket to save Chase Farm Hospital drew big support from patients and local residents who all said they would join today’s...

TORY Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s claims that ‘we can truly be the generation that beats dementia’ is a smokescreen for promoting the big drug...

The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC), a national coalition of over 50 charities, has written a letter to the Department for Work and Pensions calling...

AUSTERITY is being exploited to drive through budget cuts and reforms which are denying children their basic human rights, according to a major new...

THE GMB union is calling for an immediate halt to the tendering process for the up to £1bn Cambridgeshire Elderly Care contract. The union ...

By Paddy O’Regan RAY ATHOW WAS a party member for 47 years and an organiser for over 30. In all that time, what distinguished him is...

QATAR'S construction sector is rife with abuse, with workers employed on multi-million dollar projects suffering serious exploitation in conditions akin to slave labour, Amnesty...

THE TORY coalition Government’s announcement that they will publish NHS staffing levels on a website are a cover to ‘provide any level of nursing...

‘WE ARE celebrating 44 years of the daily Trotskyist paper that fights for a revolutionary leadership that does not bend, capitulate or collapse at...

AS a result of the huge austerity rocking the Greek economy, this year’s march to commemorate the Athens Polytechnic student uprising was the biggest...

OVER 200 workers and youth marched to the 44th News Line anniversary rally yesterday afternoon with flags flying and slogans calling for the Tory-led...

GPs in England will no longer have to offer appointments lasting at least 10 minutes under changes agreed with the government. It is one of...

ON Thursday evening hundreds of Enfield residents were led by the North East London Council of Action into Chase Farm hospital to protest at...

‘SAVE Chase Farm Occupy Now! Whose hospital? Our Hospital!’ More than 200 marchers chanted this slogan as they marched to Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield...

‘SAVE Chase Farm Occupy Now! Whose hospital? Our Hospital!’ More than 200 marchers chanted these slogans as they moved onto the Chase Farm Hospital site...

The RCN has launched a report which reveals there are nearly 20,000 nursing vacancies currently unfilled in England; a ‘hidden workforce crisis’ that could...

THE BIG push is on to destroy the national network of A&Es that millions of people depend on, and to convert at least 100...

HALF of the English regions have cut their spending on maternity services despite the ongoing baby boom, according to new figures obtained by the...

A DRAMATIC one in three hospitals face closure, the Nuffield Trust has warned MPs. Many hospital trusts face severe and potentially unsustainable financial pressures, warns...

Israel has told the Palestinians to forget the 1967 boarders and accept the Separation Wall that cuts through West Bank as the border ...

THE Judicial Review Hearing into the decision to close the Accident and Emergency Department at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield continued in the...

THE Judicial Review into the closure of Chase Farm’s Hospital A&E began yesterday morning. Enfield council is seeking the quashing of...

FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales are on strike from 6am to 8 am today against the vicious government onslaught on their...

HOSPITAL workers at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, Wiltshire, are set to take further strike action against yet another round of vicious attacks...

IN an attempt to shift the blame for the crisis in the NHS away from the massive cuts inflicted on it by the Tory-led...

By: Clare Sambrook First published in Our Kingdom WHAT is the government really doing to protect immigration detainees from their guards? In Parliament on Tuesday 15...

WORKERS employed by privateer Carillion at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon have voted 98.3% in favour of industrial action over job losses, pay...

JUST as preparations were being made for the launch of a campaign to call for the release of Huber Ballesteros and the other several...

THE Court of Appeal’s ruling yesterday that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt did not have legal power to implement cuts at Lewisham Hospital in south-east...

THE Court of Appeal yesterday upheld the decision of a Judicial Review not to proceed with the reconfiguration of Lewisham hospital, meaning that the...

A THOUSAND local residents, health and other workers, trade unionists and youth participated in a very powerful North East London Council of Action march...

THE GLOBAL president of US private health giant United Health, Simon Stevens, has been appointed to head NHS England. Stevens will be employed by the...