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THE British Medical Association is warning that insufficient government funding for medical students in England for their lengthy degrees is pushing many into financial...

TRADE unions in the United Kingdom have denounced as outrageous Israel’s decision to designate six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist. ‘We strongly condemn the...

FAMILIES of six Palestine Action activists have said the jury’s verdict marked a ‘monumental victory’, after their relatives were cleared at Woolwich Crown Court...

WORKERS employed by outsourcing giant Serco, who work in the company’s back-of-house catering department at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, will stage a...

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THE Fire Brigades Union has written to the government to demand it rethinks its decision to reject a key Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendation, on...

The Israeli military killed at least 67 people waiting for UN aid lorries in northern Gaza, the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry says. Six more people...

‘I DEMAND the recognition of Palestine’ Shaher Saed, the General Secretary of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU), told the TUC Congress...

THE UK and India have agreed on a ‘new and expanded’ defence and security partnership during British premier Boris Johnson’s crisis visit to New...

A QUARTER of a million, mainly young people, marched from Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park in London on Saturday afternoon, demanding trade union action...

ONLY 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, a figure drastically lower than the 600 truckloads the UN estimates are required daily to meet...

ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued a large-scale assault on the Tubas governorate in the northern West Bank for the third consecutive day on Friday,...

‘IT WAS Murder’, leading campaigner for justice for Chris Kaba, Tye Davis, said – speaking outside Brixton Police Station on Thursday evening. More than 100...

ASLEF Tube drivers will strike on Wednesday 26 and Friday 28 July, alongside their RMT colleagues, closing down the London Underground (LU) network at...

HUNDREDS of Palestinians being held inside detention facilities across the occupied territories have launched an indefinite hunger strike to protest at mistreatment by prison...

SHIPBUILDERS have occupied the Harland & Wolff site in Belfast, closing the gates and refusing to leave, with their unions GMB and Unite demanding...

HUMAN Rights Watch has accused Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, with US President Joe Biden’s administration criticised for...

WORKERS at the Barts group of hospitals in east London, began a 12 day strike yesterday, running until 17 November, fighting for safe staffing,...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s trial at Woolwich Crown Court began yesterday morning, where the Tory government is seeking to extradite him to the US...

‘HIGH inflation is causing acute distress to the people of this country,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak admitted yesterday. Making a statement to MPs in the...

STRIKING UCU lecturers from Further Education Colleges across London packed out a strike rally at the Emanuelle Centre in Marsham Street in central London...

NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...

AMNESTY International UK has warned that a new UK trade deal with Israel could allow Israel to consolidate its settler-colonialism and apartheid in the...

THE BBC said yesterday that it will defend a $10bn (£7.4bn) lawsuit filed against it by US President Donald Trump over an edit of...

THE passage of the British government’s anti-immigration bill shows that the authorities are desperate to show they have a strategy for limiting illegal migration...

JUNIOR doctors in England have told the Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, that a credible offer – showing he is serious about pay restoration and...

‘THE APPROACH to today’s business sets an extremely concerning precedent for our democracy,’ Tory leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom said yesterday,...

THE TORY government hid the outcome of an exercise it conducted on how the NHS would cope with a pandemic because it considered the...

STUDENTS and university staff are furious after the Tory government inst-ructed them to remain in their student halls and not to return home before...

ON MONDAY a Palestinian man carried a gas canister onto the roof of his home in occupied Jerusalem as his family faced eviction. The Sheikh...

AMBULANCE staff are at breaking point, with the union Unison raising the alarm yesterday that services are facing unprecedented 999 call volumes and unsustainable...

IRAN says termination of the Israeli war on Lebanon is an ‘inseparable’ part of the agreement between Tehran and Washington to permanently end the...

THE UK has agreed to open negotiations with Mauritius over the future of the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean since...

ISRAELI occupation forces have escalated assaults, demolitions, and settler-backed attacks across the occupied West Bank, causing widespread Palestinian casualties, mass arrests, and the destruction...

THE LATEST figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which include every community death linked to Covid-19 in England and Wales, showed a...

TWO 24-hour Tube strikes began at 12 midnight and on Thursday, with RMT members walking out over Transport for London’s (TfL) ‘continued refusal to...

‘WE DON’T forget that our pay was cut by you,’ 300,000 nurses who are currently balloting for strike action told the newly appointed Tory...

RCN NURSES from King’s College Hospital in south London marched from their picket line to the Camberwell Abellio bus garage yesterday, to bring greetings...

NURSES were yesterday striking at many hospitals in England, all but one health board in Wales and the whole of Northern Ireland, for the...

IRAN launched massive retaliatory operations against US military sites in Gulf states in response to renewed US aggression in the region early on Sunday. Iran’s...

‘DON’T sign anything at all’ the leader of the NEU teachers union told striking teachers and support staff who are threatened with ‘fire and...

THE UNION Unite claimed yesterday that the deal offered to British Airways’ pilots would be acceptable to tens of thousands of its cabin crew...

WORK AND PENSIONS Secretary Liz Kendall is making changes to her package of welfare reforms in a desperate attempt to reassure Labour MPs who...

ISRAELI authorities are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the military operations and attacks on Gaza since 7th October 2023,...

‘THE STRIKE is going well, we’re still getting a lot of public support – this fight is important for job security and safety for...