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STRIKING 6th Form College National Union of Teachers (NUT) members from around England took part in a national demonstration on Tuesday to defend their...

NUT SIXTH form teachers walked out on strike yesterday morning at colleges across the country against Tory funding cuts that are driving up...

IN advance of the Tory budget on Wednesday, where chancellor Osborne is due to announce even more savage austerity cuts, the charity Oxfam has...

THOUSANDS of junior doctors marched through the City of London from Whitechapel to St Paul’s on Thursday evening in a show of force and...

WITH the Tory party split and divided, the ruling class in the UK – Cameron, big business and the bankers – are relying on...

TENS OF THOUSANDS of junior doctors struck yesterday and many told News Line just how determined they were to stop the imposed contracts and...

TENS of thousands of junior doctors struck yesterday and made it very clear that they are not a protest movement, and that their first...

‘OTHER trade unions should take action to support us and defend the NHS and I really hope we are all going to come together...

THE peers of the House of Lords on Monday night capitulated to the Tory government over cuts to disabled people’s benefits to ‘encourage them...

THE spectacle of the Tory party tearing itself apart over the EU referendum will most certainly gladden the hearts of workers across the country. Last...

AT THE end of last week the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, announced that all his stated austerity plans in last autumn’s budget statement were...

THE number of people forced to live and sleep on the streets has more than doubled since 2010, the year the Tory-led coalition came...

LECTURERS, librarians, technicians, cleaners and caretakers in Unison and the UCU union walked out on strike in Sixth Form Colleges around the country yesterday,...

THE Unite trade union leadership specialises in doubletalk. One example is the way that it is verbally 100% opposed to the anti-trade union legislation that...

THE Tory government is now split over its EU referendum, with six cabinet ministers, and over 100 MPs advocating a vote to leave the...

THE BMA warned yesterday that ‘Politically driven mismanagement is undermining patient care in England. It was responding to a report from the King’s Fund...

MASSIVE Tory cuts are undermining the NHS and threatening the lives of many thousands. There is already an investigation taking place after  whistleblower Sarah Hayes, a...

The Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq is close to death according to independent doctors who have visited him in the hospital where he is being...

HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s contract imposition has already begun to hit the rocks with 10 of the 20 NHS executives who signed the Dalton letter...

‘JUNIOR doctors cannot and will not accept a contract that is bad for the future of patient care, the profession and the NHS as...

‘WE ARE not striking for cash, we are not striking for our personal careers, we are striking for the long-term sustainability of the NHS...

TODAY’S strike by junior doctors must be supported by the entire trade union movement and the working class. What is at stake in this dispute...

BARTS Health NHS Trust, the biggest hospital trust in the country, will go £134.9 million in the red by the end of March according...

‘BY attacking the junior doctors they’ve poached the wrong bear, we really believe in the NHS and an attack on us is an attack...

HUGE PRESSURES are being put onto GPs in England and Wales. They are so great that doctors are beginning to feel that they are...

JUNIOR doctors are to take strike action on February 10th after rejecting the government’s proposals in negotiations, where the government was represented by NHS...

VERY ANGRY BMA GPs met in conference on Saturday where they carried motions to fight ‘underfunding’ and a rapidly growing workload that ‘threatened NHS...

‘JUSTICE’ Israeli-style was displayed to the world on Thursday when five Palestinian teenagers were sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Israeli military...

THE world capitalist crisis as well as shattering the energy industries – oil, coal and gas – is also decimating world steel production and...

EMPLOYMENT Minister Nick Boles announced on Wednesday evening that the new anti-union legislation will govern industrial action in the fire, health, education, transport,...

THE slaughter of the British steel industry continued yesterday with the official announcement by Tata Steel that it is to axe a further 1,050...

‘OCCUPY the Port Talbot plant and demand that the government renationalise the steel industry immediately,’ Robbie Wheatley, Community union Branch Secretary at Lackenby...

IN his November Autumn statement, Chancellor Osborne was full of optimism that the crisis of world and British capitalism was being resolved, with his...

YESTERDAY the junior doctors took the first day of their three days of strike action, and shook the Tory regime to its core with...

TODAY’S strike by junior doctors has the support of 100% of workers across the country. They are not fooled by all the Tory propaganda that...

THE Fire Brigades Union has appealed to the Home Office, which is now in charge of the fire service, to save the service from...

‘NURSES should come on a half day strike with the junior doctors,’ Jenny a student occupational therapist told a mass rally opposite Downing Street...

EMAILS, made public this week, between the Tory government and the head of NHS England, Sir Bruce Keogh, reveal the way the Tories attempted...

IN a speech yesterday and in interviews with the BBC, the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, admitted that, contrary to everything he has said in...

THE decision by the BMA on Monday to walk away from the negotiations over the imposition of new contracts for junior doctors and to...

‘DEFEND council housing! No social cleansing!’ shouted three hundred people demonstrating outside parliament yesterday as MPs debated the Housing and Planning Bill...

THE Saudi autocrats, the major ally of the US and the UK in the Middle East, alongside Israel, have just thrown barrels of petrol...

THE TUC New Year’s message (see page 3) has been delivered with TUC general secretary O’Grady on her knees appealing to the bosses and...

THE south-east London borough of Newham achieved the dubious record of having the biggest rise in house prices in the whole of the UK...

THE Army has been called out in York, Leeds, and parts of Lancashire after flood defences failed. In the case of York the...