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THE Coalition’s Duncan Smith, an ex-army officer, is proposing to discipline the unemployed with forced slave labour, as part of the Coalition’s plan to...

THE News Line salutes the London FBU membership which has stood firm in its defence of terms and conditions against a pre-planned massive onslaught...

Medical students will be left almost £70,000 in debt under government plans to allow universities to charge up to £9,000 in tuition fees, the...

IRISH government plans to increase university fees from 1,500 euros to 2,500 euros led to Wednesday’s 40,000 strong students march in Dublin, and to...

The Fire Brigades Union yesterday gave an undertaking in the High Court not to hinder or intimidate emergency crews provided by private company AssetCo...

The Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) in a statement has urged the Sri Lanka Department of Elections to implement a proper programme...

YOUTH from Stockport College cheered as the YS March for Jobs and Free State Education set off on its latest leg from Stockport to...

THREE members of the Fire Brigades Union were hit and hurt by speeding vehicles driven by strikebreakers on Monday. A statement by the FBU said...

A court hearing on a case about the torture of 142 Iraqis in UK detention opens this Friday, November 5th. Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) are...

THE use of police dogs to ‘protect’ scabs at a south London fire station during yesterday’s one day strike by London FBU members shows...

Firefighters in south east London confronted Assetco scabs outside Old Kent Road fire station, determined to defeat the strike breakers and the London Fire...

THE Iranian Ambassador to the UN urged the UN Security Council (UNSC) to address international demands that Israel be condemned for its nuclear weapons,...

The weekend’s release by Wikileaks of the Iraq War Logs reveals, for the first time, horrendous detail of the torture and ill-treatment of Iraqis...

FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack has announced further London-wide strike action. The strike, which will take place from 10.00am on November 5th to 9.00am on...

UK security chiefs have ordered an acceleration in police heavy weapons training so that they can hold the line against Mumbai-style attacks in UK...

THERE was a ‘bloodbath on every corner’ in Iraq, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a press conference in London on Saturday. Website Wikileaks has revealed...

LAST Friday night, Wikileaks published the secret US field reports and war logs from the battlefield that is Iraq, detailing recorded civilian deaths, torture...

THERE was a ‘bloodbath on every corner’ in Iraq, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a press conference in London on Saturday. Website Wikileaks has revealed...

THOUSANDS of workers and students marched to Downing Street on Wednesday evening, in angry protest against the savage assault on jobs, public services and...

TORY Chancellor Osborne confirmed yesterday that the coalition government was pressing ahead with the most savage attack on the working class since the Second...

OSBORNE began his spending review speech yesterday by saying that: ‘Today’s the day when Britain steps back from the brink’. In fact, his speech represented...

THERE was an angry and determined mood among the 10,000 trade unionists and youth who travelled from all over the country on Tuesday to...

UP TO 10,000 workers and youth supported the TUC lobby of Parliament yesterday. Many told News Line that they want trade union action to put...

Rights group Liberty has warned the government against draft police guidance that would allow race to be a basis for stop and search operations...

FRANCE is fast approaching a revolutionary upheaval. In Paris the social crisis increases as the school youth begin to hit the streets in often impromptu...

THE death of a 46-year-old family man being deported from Heathrow has thrown the spotlight on the entire racist immigration policy and its private...

GREEK riot police fired tear gas and beat Ministry of Culture workers yesterday morning after the workers had occupied the Acropolis in Athens demanding...

AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai confirmed that his administration has been holding unofficial talks with the Taleban ‘for quite some time’. ‘We have been talking to...

IT emerged yesterday that the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson, has been lobbying the Tory home secretary for changes in the...

US special forces in Afghanistan mounted an attempt to rescue Linda Norgrove after the British government in the persons of Foreign Secretary Hague and...

Chairman, retired judge Sir Christopher Holland formally opened a public inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney at 10.30am on Wednesday and adjourned it...

RESIDENTS of Huwwara village, south of Nablus, reported on Thursday that Israeli settlers had set dozens of dunums of farm lands on fire, destroying...

A public inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney, 24 – who died after being shot six times at close range by police as...

PRISONERS will be forced to work 40 hours a week, Thatcherite veteran Clarke told the Tory Party conference yesterday. The Justice Minister...

TAMILNET reports that the School of Law and Government of Dublin City University together with the Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka are...

TWO HUNDRED youth and workers took part in a rally and celebration of five years of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers’ struggle in...

Senior Fatah official and Palestinian Legislative Council member Azzam Al-Ahmad said on Wednesday that the ratification of a unity deal with rival movement Hamas...

YESTERDAY Europe shook as millions of Spanish workers took to the streets in a general strike, while over 100,000 workers from all over Europe...

THE news that the Accident and Emergency and maternity units at Queen Mary’s Hospital are to be closed for the coming winter is a...

TAMIL NET reports that Ananthi Sasitharan, wife of Elilan, former Trincomalee political head of the LTTE, has told BBC Tamil service that she and...

THE Chagossian community in Crawley have reacted with fury after an offer from the coalition government and Vince Cable to allow the islanders...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said that during his tenure as Premier he had reached an agreement with the United States for...

TAMILNET reports that the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) of the Sri Lankan government continues to torture hundreds of Tamil youths arrested and detained under...

TO ADD to the drama surrounding the visit of the Pope – who set the scene with his, and his associates’ attacks on...

THE largest aid convoy yet is on its way to the besieged Gaza Strip, four months after the massacre of activists by Israeli forces...