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‘FIREFIGHTERS and control staff are being left with no other choice but to take action,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack said...

TORY PM Rishi Sunak said he won’t stop selling arms to Israel yesterday, declaring that exports to the genocidal Zionist entity will continue as...

FROM NICK AXARLIS IN ATHENS SCORES of Greek armed riot police attacked thousands of workers and students with tear-gas and noise-smoke grenades last Thursday night...

FOOD, clothing, footwear, fuel, non-alcoholic drinks, alcohol, tobacco, and gig & play tickets all rose at a faster pace last month, leading to another...

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...

THOUSANDS of Sudanese workers and students are marching in London today demanding an end to the war in Sudan. In a statement, ‘London for Sudan’...

AROUND 2,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) began another three days of strike action at 32 non-academised sixth form colleges yesterday, against...

IRAN’S President Masoud Pezeshkian says Israel’s anger over the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Iran and the United States clearly signals the success and...

THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the Labour government’s draft NHS England workforce plan, which embraces low staffing levels, and replaces doctors with...

THE RMT rail union announced yesterday that it is to put a new offer from Network Rail to members in an electronic referendum with...

CHILDREN across the UK began sitting their Sats tests yesterday, with parents at many schools boycotting the exams and taking their children out of...

UNITE Rep at Barts and Whipps Cross hospitals, Leonard Hockey spoke to News Line about the delegation that joined the St Thomas and Guy’s...

THE US nurses union denounced the killing of its member, Alex Pretti, by armed ICE agents in Minnesota on Saturday as ‘a heinous murder’...

THE Iranian foreign minister says calm has been restored across the country after recent unrest, which was fuelled by the incitement of terrorist elements...

THREE quarters of a million families in London will be plunged into fuel poverty after energy bills spiral by as much as 50% in...

‘WE COMPLETELY reject any claim that Labour is anti-Semitic,’ said a Labour Party spokesperson, responding to BBC Panorama’s programme aired on Wednesday evening, attacking...

GAZA'S Health Ministry has declared a polio epidemic, blaming Israel’s genocidal military offensive for the spread of the deadly virus. In a statement yesterday, the...

TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cut the schools repair budget in half in 2021 when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, it emerged yesterday...

US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met for talks in Geneva yesterday. ‘This is a critical moment,’ Blinken said...

HUNDREDS of Lebanese marched to mark the first anniversary of the Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people. Lebanese police clashed with angry...

A PROTEST of striking Manchester bus drivers took place outside the Mayor’s Office yesterday afternoon, demanding that Andy Burnham takes action to stop the...

THIRTEEN universities face ‘a very real prospect’ of insolvency following the coronavirus crisis unless they receive a government bailout, a new report by the...

Junior doctors manned a lively and determined picket outside the Maudsley Hospital in south London yesterday, determined to defend their patients and the NHS. Laith...

WITH a ComRes poll revealing yesterday that public support for a no-deal Brexit is rapidly rising, up 6% since January and now standing at...

ANTI-RACISM protesters who tear down, ‘deface’ or graffiti statues and monuments to imperialism face jail sentences of up to 10 years under a forthcoming...

115,000 postal workers are out today in a 24 hour strike for a  ‘dignified, proper pay rise’, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday. Members...

A FIFTH round of strike action by junior doctors in England begins this morning, from 7am today until 7am on Tuesday 15 August. There will...

THE UNITE union has described the announcement that there will be further job losses at JaguarLandRover’s (JLR’s) Halewood plant in Merseyside as a ‘fresh...

KEIR STARMER stood outside 10 Downing St at 9.30 yesterday morning and announced he is quitting as Labour Party leader. He said that Labour’s governing...

THE COURT of Appeal has overturned a High Court injunction that would have forced asylum seekers to leave the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex. Giving...

‘OUR actions will not depend on negotiations they will depend on the unconditional compliance with the Russian security demands in a historic context. ‘We have...

INVESTORS dumped stocks worldwide for a fourth day yesterday, ahead of US President Donald Trump unveiling a fresh round of tariffs, and mounting concerns...

THE Metropolitan Police breached the rights of the organisers of a planned vigil for Sarah Everard, two judges have ruled. The group had to cancel...

HEEDING the calls by political factions, mainly President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement, thousands of Palestinians rallied in several West Bank city centres to protest...

LABOUR PARTY leader Starmer said yesterday the Labour Party is on track to win the next general election, after taking control of key councils...

DOZENS of banks in the United States are on the verge of collapse despite the Biden administration’s recent measures to calm the turbulent markets,...

BUSINESS activity in Britain fell for the third consecutive month last month, with economists warning of recession. The S&P Global/CIPS flash services business activity index...

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

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves launched a vicious war on benefit claimants in her Budget yesterday, warning that she intends to take over the Tory ‘work...

THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) has announced a round-the-clock 48-hour strike from 8pm on Sunday 30th April to 8pm on Tuesday 2nd May,...

GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel poured buckets of cold water over Tory PM Boris Johnson’s attempts to get a Brexit deal with the EU when,...

MORE tragedy keeps unfolding in the city of Khan Younis, with more mass graves found inside the courtyard of Nasser Hospital. Medical staff and international...

ROYAL COLLEGE of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen has responded to NHS data showing nurse vacancies have jumped to a record level by urging...

THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced a new strike ballot which will ask members employed by the NHS in England if they’re...

A TOTAL of 193 Palestinians were killed in 16 massacres perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces over the last 24 hours in the Gaza...