Tag: strike

A MOTION to be heard tomorrow at the BMA annual conference in Brighton challenges the crackdown ordered by the Labour government against any doctors...

VOTERS in Thursday’s Makerfield by-election elected Labour’s Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, with a majority of 9,231 (55 per cent), doubling Labour’s previous...

AROUND 200 workers rallied at the the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) near South Kensington Tube station yesterday, on their final day of strike...

THE HUMILIATING peace deal that US president Donald Trump was forced to accept following the abject failure of the US-Israeli war on Iran has...

ISRAELI forces carried out fresh strikes in southern Lebanon, even as US President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of Israel’s conduct and Washington and...

LAST Friday, four Palestinian activists became the first protesters in Britain to be sentenced as terrorists without being convicted of any terrorism offence. The four...

FOLLOWING US President Donald Trump’s ever more violent threats to ‘destroy Iranian civilisation’ with hints about using the US nuclear option, he has been...

TORY leader Kemi Badenoch has written to Keir Starmer and six other potential contenders in the race to replace him, offering to help out...

After walking out on strike at midnight on June 1st, UAW Local 2093 members at American Axle/Dauch Corporation in Three Rivers, Michigan reached an agreement...

SHOCK waves from the double cabinet resignations of Defence Minister John Healey and Armed Forces minister Al Carns on Thursday have hit Westminster and...

Today, four Palestinian Action activists may become the first protesters in Britain to be sentenced as terrorists without being convicted of terror offences. Last month,...

THE Iranian foreign ministry said yesterday that Iran’s armed forces have dealt a heavy blow to US bases and assets across the region, in...

SEVERAL civilians were killed in Israeli bombing of the ancient city of Tyre in southern Lebanon yesterday, despite warnings from Iran to stop attacking...

LAST month the Parliamentary Education Committee was warned by the Office for Students (OfS), the higher education regulator for England, that it fears 24...

CALUM Bradley, Anti Casualisation Officer Goldsmiths University College Union (UCU), spoke to News Line from the picket line outside the university in New Cross...

THE BIRMINGHAM bin strikers are fighting against an attempt by the leaders of their union, Unite, to call off their more than one-year-long struggle...

A second general strike in six months which started on Tuesday evening disrupted services across Portugal on Wednesday and continued into Thursday. The nationwide action,...

THERE was full support from former workers at the Arnos Grove picket line yesterday morning. News Line spoke to John O’Farrell, who said: ‘Well I’d...

‘FROM the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free!’, chanted over 50 protesters at an emergency demonstration outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development...

‘CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves’ tax raids destroy jobs’, warned a report by The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) yesterday. Unemployment will jump by 400,000 under Labour,...

TUBE drivers were on strike across London yesterday and are out again all day tomorrow, for 24-hours from midnight tonight, in their fight against...

LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves has commissioned a research paper from the British Infrastructure Taskforce, a group made up of major private investors, to investigate...

DELEGATES at the UCU (University and College Union) Conference in Harrogate last week, backed an important step forward in the fight against the escalating...

THE BANK OF ENGLAND is now paving the way for the release of billions of pounds of paper currency into the collapsing UK economy...

MARCHES and rallies took place across Italy on Thursday and Friday during a nationwide public and private sector general strike organised by trade unions. Workers...

Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister, on Wednesday condemned what he described as calls for war against the island following the publication...

Yesterday, Labour’s ‘worklessness tsar’ Alan Milburn published an interim report that warned the UK faces a ‘generational fault line’ in which over 1.25 million...

RESIDENT doctors leaders declared their determination to defeat the Labour government’s continuing attacks on jobs and pay when they appeared on BBC Radio yesterday...

THE Iranian foreign ministry denounced the attack carried out by the US early on Tuesday morning as ‘an act of bad faith’ and a...

The App Drivers Union (ADU) said on Monday that they have been recognised by the US state of Massachusetts, making it the first certified...

BOW bus garage drivers in East London are leading the fight for safety across the country’s bus network, as their dispute around scheduling and...

MORE than 9,400 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are marking Eid al-Adha under suffocating restrictions, dire conditions, and an unprecedented rise in abuse and...

SINCE Israel escalated its war on Lebanon on 2nd March, more than 120 healthcare workers have been killed, many of them in deliberate double-tap...

ISRAELI forces have killed at least seven Palestinians across the Gaza Strip since Sunday in continued violation of the October ceasefire. Five were killed yesterday...

NURSES are ‘not afraid to strike’ over promised pay upgrades, the Royal College of Nursing union warned James Murray, the new Labour Health Secretary...

THE Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy has reported an increased rate of cargo transit via the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf,...

Public transport workers in the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation (FNV) are planning a national strike that will affect all trains, buses, trams, and metro...

DISASTROUS financial data released yesterday showed UK public sector borrowing hitting £24.3bn in April, dealing another body-blow to the beleaguered and split Labour government. The...

THE Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, has just issued a warning to the Chancellor Rachel Reeves against capping supermarket food prices. He...

TEN countries’ foreign ministers have strongly condemned Israel’s attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, a peaceful civilian humanitarian mission attempting to break the Israeli...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week joined in the chorus of bankers, speculators and capitalist financiers warning the Labour government that it must...

The first speaker at the rally in Pall Mall was Palestinian journalist Ahmed Alnaouq from We Are Not Numbers, who said: ‘78 years ago...

Yesterday, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported that one of the biggest investors in UK government debt has sold off ‘fragile’ UK bonds in what...

OVER a quarter of a million workers, students and youth joined the Nakba 78 March from the museums in Kensington to Pall Mall in...

ANDY BURNHAM’S bid to challenge PM Keir Starmer for the Labour Party leadership late Thursday, following Wes Streeting’s resignation as Health Secretary, has ignited...