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FAMILIES are being ‘warehoused’ inside an office block in Harlow, Essex after being decanted from their local boroughs, with tenants forced to eat, drink...

ISRAELI occupation forces stormed the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp overnight on Tuesday and throughout yesterday, destroying infrastructure. Occupation forces launched a...

THE United Nations has renewed its call to expand humanitarian operations in the Gaza Strip, stressing that Israeli restrictions continue to block vital supplies...

THE CRISIS in Sri Lanka escalated yesterday as wild protests broke out on the streets over spiralling fuel and food prices, and daily blackouts...

STAFF at Balham benefit centre are being balloted for strike action having been told that their office is due to close on 31 December. This...

FORMER Blair spin doctor Alastair Campbell has been expelled from the Labour Party after he revealed that he voted for the Liberal Democrats in...

DR BAWA-GARBA’s victory, in reversing the General Medical Council’s decision to strike her off the medical register over the death of a patient was...

RYANAIR is planning to make 3,000, 15% of its workers in Europe, redundant and is also planning 20% pay cuts for employees. Unite national officer...

‘THERE must be national strike action by the whole RMT to win our P&O members their jobs back,’ leading RMT rep Darren Lalli said...

‘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...

AS the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip enters its 70th day in a row, dozens of innocent civilians were brutally murdered Thursday night...

‘APPROXIMATELY 110,000 Palestinians are reported killed, missing or injured, leaving many suffering long-term disabilities four months into Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip,’ Euro-Med...

TORY PM Boris Johnson’s brother Jo Johnson has quit as Tory MP and minister yesterday, saying he is ‘torn between family loyalty and the...

THE POLICE, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which threatens the fundamental right to protest, was introduced to Parliament yesterday. The government published some of the...

SEVENTY-FIVE thousand junior doctors began their 72-hour strike yesterday, they are continuing it today and are being joined by hundreds of thousands of teachers,...

MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched from Parliament Square from Downing Street in Whitehall to the American Embassy in Battersea on Saturday...

YESTERDAY’S decision by the Court of Appeal to overturn the convictions of the Shrewsbury Pickets after a nearly 50-year campaign has been hailed as...

On the eve of its Congress, the TUC has called on the government to equalise capital gains tax with income tax which could raise...

THIS Labour Government is ‘willing to let the hunger strikers die’, Coventry South MP Zara Sultana warned on New Year’s Day. ‘It’s the first day...

AN EXERCISE simulating a coronavirus outbreak in Scotland, which was shared with a UK government advisory group in 2018, showed a ‘clear gap’ in...

OVER 300 students marched yesterday against Brighton University’s decision to sack over 100 staff as part of a plan to make £17.9 million in...

THEATRE nurses, members of Unite, were yesterday picketing on the second day of their current strike action at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge. Some of...

FRENCH unions brought the transport system to a halt again yesterday on ‘Black Monday’ the day the French parliament, the Assemblée nationale, began debating...

ISRAELI forces have attacked five separate schools in Gaza in just eight days, killing dozens of people sheltering in them, according to Palestinian officials,...

‘REFUGEES are welcome here!’ chanted thousands of workers, students and youth as they joined hundreds of anti-racism demonstrations in towns and cities across the...

HUNDREDS of health workers blocked the entrance to NHS England’s headquarters in central London yesterday. They were demanding the cancellation of business deals with American...

JUNIOR doctors be warned. A historic new GP contract has been quietly negotiated by the BMA and NHSEngland, designed to catapult NHS healthcare into...

‘TODAY, we are devastated. The not guilty verdict leaves us with the deep pain of injustice, adding to the unbearable sorrow we have felt...

HUNDREDS of striking criminal barristers held mass pickets outside the Supreme Court in London yesterday, as well as outside Preston, Plymouth and Birmingham Crown...

RAILWAY workers will take the fight for the future of ticket offices to the doorstep of 10 Downing Street on Thursday 31 August –...

THE Bank of England has warned the UK is facing its longest recession since records began, as it raised interest rates by the most...

A TOXIC cocktail of benzene, hydrogen cyanide (HCN), as well as many known cancer-causing chemicals and fibres have been found in soil taken from...

KOLJA’S Long Walk for Assange is heading for London and will join the weekly Saturday Vigil at Belmarsh Prison on Saturday from 12pm-2pm to...

THE intensifying global condemnation of Israel’s fatal attack on international humanitarian workers in Gaza is putting immense strain on the British government’s unconditional backing...

PORT Talbot’s steelworks will be given up to £500m by the UK government in a bid to keep the plant open and produce steel...

THE official Palestinian presidential spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, yesterday condemned what he described as ‘the dangerous Israeli escalation against our people’, which resulted in...

SENIOR doctors in England will be consulted on taking industrial action if the government’s 1% pay rise offer is not improved. The British Medical Association...

‘THE people behind me haven’t had a pay rise for half a decade,’ ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan said yesterday, speaking on the picket...

TEACHERS are striking today and have announced further strike dates due to the government’s ‘failure to resolve a clear pay discrepancy’ between staff in...

UNIONS representing nurses, firefighters, teachers, council workers and every other section announced strike ballots and ‘calls to action’ to achieve inflation-busting pay rises in...

LANDLORDS face a potential Tory cash bonanza with nothing to stop them holding on to the £400 energy bill rebate which the government is...

AN outbreak of coronavirus has left Surrey firefighters struggling to maintain fire cover after their brigade management failed to properly implement vital health and...

THE Labour Party has defeated the SNP to win the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. The party’s candidate, Michael Shanks, took the Westminster seat with...

YESTERDAY morning, one week after the start of their operation, Russian forces captured the main city in southern Ukraine, Kherson. Kherson is not far from...

UNITE has secured a significant victory on behalf of low-paid cleaners employed by outsourcing giant Mitie at Heathrow airport. The mainly migrant workforce whose first...