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THE decision on Thursday by the administrators to close all 163 BHS stores and throw 11,000 workers out of a job with immediate effect...

YESTERDAY, David Cameron formally announced that the Tory government would be sending a Royal Navy warship to the coast of Libya as part of...

THE TORY government is on the brink of a savage attack on Tata Steel workers’ pensions, and after four weeks of consultation will be...

‘SAVE Our Steel!’ shouted over one thousand steel workers as they marched through central London from the Embankment to Parliament yesterday afternoon. They were joined...

YESTERDAY, steelworkers were marching for their jobs to parliament, defending an industry that is being deliberately destroyed, while university lecturers were taking the first...

‘SAVE Our Steel!’ shouted over one thousand steel workers as they marched through central London from the Embankment to Parliament yesterday afternoon. They were joined...

THE EU IS IN DESPERATE CRISIS with the established political order breaking apart in country after country, from Ireland and the UK to Austria, Greece...

ELEVEN thousand steel workers, whose jobs hang in the balance, were watching like hawks as the deadline for ‘interested parties’ to enter bids to...

GREEK civil servants employed at Inland Revenue offices picketed a Finance Ministry building in Athens on Thursday morning against a government ‘multi-Bill’ which scraps...

THE BMA leadership have allowed themselves to be taken for a ride by Health Secretary Hunt! The government that imposed provocation after provocation onto the...

ONE in three people in the country have ‘experienced poverty’ in the past four years. According to figures produced by the Office for National Statistics,...

BMA Junior Doctors’ Committee Chair Dr Johann Malawana admitted on Saturday that despite gigantic efforts to find ‘common ground,’ no agreement could be reached...

Turning the Tide – The 1966 seamen’s strike and the making of modern maritime trade unionism. An RMT pamphlet, available free from RMT head...

THE decision last week by Tory Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and agreed by the BMA to extend the ‘talks’ over imposing new contracts on...

AN academy chain in London set up by the Tory schools minister Lord Nash is having its education curriculum drawn up by his daughter. The...

TODAY junior doctors meet at their conference in central London to decide the next step in their battle against Tory health secretary Hunt’s imposed...

OVER 30,000 workers, unemployed, youth and students, lawyers, small shop keepers and poor farmers filled up the large square in front of the Vouli...

JUST over a month ago, Tory prime minister David Cameron announced that hundreds of extra armed police would be sent around the country to...

WORKERS in Greece staged a militant two-day general strike last Friday and Saturday against the government’s Pensions and Tax Reforms Bill that crushes the...

THE Junior Doctors Committee of the BMA is meeting this Saturday to respond to Tory Health minister, Hunt, who has been forced to agree...

THE proposal, made by 22 medical colleges and faculties for a five-day pause in the drive to impose new junior doctors’ contracts in England,...

HEALTH Secretary Jeremy Hunt took a step back yesterday and said he is willing to pause the imposition of the junior doctors’ contract in...

BMA chair Dr Mark Porter told the union’s Special Representative Meeting yesterday that ‘Twenty-four years ago, it was the first reforms that established an...

WORKERS and youth on the 10,000-strong May Day march in London on Sunday expressed their determination to defend the NHS and the Welfare State. Many...

MAY DAY in France erupted into state-organised violence when riot police attacked workers and youth in what was a blatant attempt to crack down...

OVER 10,000 trade unionists and youth took part in the London May Day march yesterday from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. As well as trade...

THE attempt to frame up Ken Livingstone as a rabid racist, after similar attempts to do the same to Labour leader Corbyn, who was...

TUC call general strike to support junior doctors!

THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings on May Day 2016 to the workers and the oppressed people of the...

TORY PM Cameron and ex-TUC leader Brendan Barber have ‘put their differences aside’ and joined forces to write a joint article published in...

‘VICTORY to the junior doctors – kick the Tories out! TUC get off your knees – call a general strike! No privatisation – defend...

‘SAVE our NHS! Jeremy Hunt doesn’t care! Doctors and teachers unite and fight!’ shouted junior doctors, teachers and their supporters on a 10,000-strong march...

THE latest two-day strike action of the junior doctors has been a resounding success with massive picket lines, and huge public support, while the...

THE TUC must organise a national day of action in support of the junior doctors’ dispute and our NHS, the Public and Commercial Services...

THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Tories, headed by Cameron, Osborne and Hunt, have picked their quarrel with the junior doctors. It is...

IT’S a shame that the All in a Day’s Work book of interviews, recording lives and the struggles of west London workers from 1945-1995,...

All in a Day’s Work Working Lives and Trade Unions in West London 1945-1995 Published by the Britain at Work Project £12.80 with p&p ALL in a Day’s...

THIS MORNING for the first time in history, junior doctors launch their full walk-out, taking the government head on. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded yesterday...

THE lobby of the TUC general council meeting tomorrow is crucial for the fight, not just in defence of the junior doctors, but to...

US President, Barak Obama, has issued his ultimatum to the British ruling class – stay in the EU or else! In a lengthy article in...

GREEK journalists employed in newspapers are on a national 48-hour strike this Thursday and Friday, while journalists on radio and television are staging their...

‘WE have a duty to stand up for our junior doctors. We cannot allow them to be bullied in such a way,’ Ian Hodson,...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) on Tuesday wrote a letter to Health Secretary Hunt making a ‘clear offer’ to cancel the junior...

THE BMA wrote to Tory health secretary Hunt yesterday with a clear offer: lift the imposition of the new contract and junior doctors will...

THE imperialist war drums are beating with a vengeance as advanced preparations for a direct military intervention into Libya by Britain, Italy, France and...