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A ‘UNIVERSAL Credit’ is to be introduced in 2013, to replace all existing benefits. Cameron’s Welfare Bill includes sanctions for those turning down jobs...

PARENTS yesterday spoke out in opposition to the closure of four specialist children’s heart units. The ‘Safe and Sustainable’ review of children’s heart surgery...

YESTERDAY’S inflation rate figures for January are not a shock, in fact, they are an understatement of what the real inflation rate is, as...

TORY prime minister, David Cameron, launched a desperate attempt yesterday to try and convince an incredulous public that his ‘Big Society’ policy is something...

Campaigners have slammed government plans to proceed with moving people off incapacity benefit and onto the dole. The government plans to move all incapacity benefit...

ACCORDING to the latest figures, factory input inflation – that is the increase in raw materials paid for by manufacturers – rose by a...

LORD Oakeshott is the senior Liberal Democrat who quit their front bench in protest at the Tory-LibDem coalition’s decision to allow the bankers to...

THE UNITE trade union leadership announced yesterday that after the cabin crew membership ‘voted last month overwhelmingly, and for the third time, to take...

The government will spend more than £850 million in redundancy payments to NHS managers and staff to pave the way for the privatisation of...

The Institute of Directors (IoD) has proposed a 24-point plan to the Tory-led coalition government to save British capitalism. Central to their ‘blueprint for growth’ is...

UP to 1,500 English Defence League racists, plus foreign supporters, marched through Luton on Saturday, escorted by police from 27 forces as well as...

A survey of East Sussex GPs has found that more than 70 per cent of them fear patient care will suffer when changes to...

Yesterday saw the second reading of the Tory-led coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill in Parliament, a bill designed to facilitate the wholesale closure...

TEN thousand workers and youth marched through the centre of Manchester to a rally in Platts Fields on Saturday, against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s...

THE TUC met yesterday afternoon to discuss pay and pensions and the planned mass demonstration and day of action on March 26 against the...

NHS London has given the go-ahead for plans to close Chase Farm Hospital A&E and the consultant-led Maternity and Paediatrics departments, despite massive opposition...

Nurses and Midwives have strongly criticised the Health and Social Care Bill published last week, calling it a toxic prescription for patients and a...

THE chairman of the BMA’s GP committee has warned that the Tory-LibDem government’s health plans will leave poor, elderly, infirm and terminally ill patients...

‘The historic printers’ strike set the scene for a struggle, not just against Murdoch but the whole capitalist state,’ All Trades Unions Alliance national...

OVER 200 workers and youth took part in a powerful 25th anniversary meeting of the heroic 1986-87 printers strike at St Bride’s Institute yesterday. A...

THE resignation of Coulson yesterday as Prime Minister David Cameron’s Director of Communications, follows on, almost immediately, from the police being forced to re-open...

ON Saturday, March 16, the printers and their supporters replied to this attack on their picket line with a mass picket of 7,000. Again the...

NOT only the print unions got dragged before the Courts. In February 1986 the postal workers union (UCW) was hauled before the judge who ruled...

LANSLEY’S Health Bill is a disaster of ‘Titanic proportions’ warned Unison, the UK’s largest union, yesterday.   The union is calling on the government to...

‘THAT courage is required for a turnout, often indeed much loftier courage, much bolder, firmer determination than for an insurrection, is self-evident.’ ‘It is,...

UK unemployment rose by 49,000 to almost 2.5 million in the three months to the end of November, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...

Staff and patients at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, yesterday showed their support for an occupation to stop the closure of its accident and emergency,...

The scale and pace of the government’s planned NHS ‘reforms’, combined with £20bn cuts, is ‘extremely risky and potentially disastrous, warned the leaders of...

The coalition government will be forced to accept this month that the bank bailout has more than doubled the size of the Public Debt...

NHS managers have warned in a report from the NHS Confederation that the Lansley NHS White Paper will lead to hospital closures and constitutes...

THE result of the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election points to one thing, that the working class and large sections of the middle class...

FIREFIGHTERS are prepared to strike to defeat the Tory-controlled London Fire Authority if it carries out its threat to sack all 5,500 London firefighters...

THE coalition, as expected, has signalled to the bankers that their multi-million bonuses are safe, emboldening the head of Barclays to tell the House...

THE Tory-LibDem coalition has given the banks an assurance that they are at liberty to continue to pay unlimited bonuses, with no government regulation. The...

THE TORY-led coalition is poised to give all power to the employing class through neutering employment tribunals and giving the employers their own ‘charter’...

Prime Minister Cameron yesterday refused to rule out increases in fuel duty, and said the VAT increase to 20 per cent is here to...

THE United Nations is warning of disturbances and revolutions in developing countries worldwide as its food price index hits an all-time high. The UN’s food...

THE revelation yesterday that the News of the World (NoW) newspaper had quietly suspended its assistant editor (news), Ian Edmondson, just before Christmas, has...

THE GMB warned yesterday of 200,000 council job losses in England, with many more to take place in the rest of the UK. GMB national...

worried parents are fearful that a flu epidemic is set to explode from today, when ten million children return to school after the Christmas...

THE increase of VAT from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent today will mean destitution for millions of unemployed and low paid workers...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2011 to all of our readers and...

THE news last week that more than 100 cities in the United States are set to go bankrupt in the new year spells complete...

Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC, and other trade union leaders met secretly with David Cameron last week, the first such meeting between...

‘Without any prior public consultation, Suffolk county councillors have rushed through plans to sell-off the Ipswich fire control centre and get emergency fire calls...