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LABOUR leaders Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell yesterday delivered abject apologies for the party’s defeat in last Thursday’s election, which saw them lose 59...

TUC leader Frances O’Grady welcomed delegates to the TUC Congress yesterday saying: ‘Welcome to the TUC, our parliament for working people. ‘Represented, here in the...

LABOUR MP Chris Williamson was allowed back into the party yesterday morning after an investigation into comments he made about the party’s handling of...

AS ISRAEL’S genocide in Gaza nears its 11th month, US workers are continuing to rally and demand that President Joe Biden and vice president...

THE Biden administration should follow US law and immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam said yesterday. The organisations on March...

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

THE NATIONAL Executive of the NEU (National Education Union) is moving to formal ballots for strike action over pay and funding. The formal ballots of...

THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), at its meeting ending on 2nd August 2023, voted by a majority of 6-3 to increase...

THE LEADERS of the Unite and RMT unions warned yesterday that they will mobilise their full power to defeat Tory plans to ban the...

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

AS OF TODAY, ten thousand people on the old benefits system will be forced onto Universal Credit (UC) in a ‘pilot study’ in Harrogate,...

INTENSIVE Israeli air strikes smashed into homes across southern Lebanon yesterday, levelling schools, destroying infrastructure and overwhelming hospitals. Nine members of the same family were...

THE HIGH Court ruled yesterday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited from the UK to the US, where he faces a sentence...

‘CALL the airport out!’ striking worker Carlos Rodriguez said at the rally outside the union Unite’s headquarters on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport yesterday. 4,000...

THE LABOUR government will declare war on the disabled when Chancellor Reeves returns from China this week it was reported yesterday, as the media...

TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak has begged Tory PM Sunak to stop Tata carrying out last Friday’s threat to sack 2,800 steelworkers in Port...

THE President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday stressed the need to completely stop the ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people, open...

LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning to initiate a new regime of widespread welfare cuts, throwing thousands of sick, disabled and mentally ill off...

THE GAZA ‘Board of Peace’ has been announced, with US President Donald Trump as its veto-wielding chairman, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio...

LABOUR’S top brass is facing a mounting backlash against its campaign of intimidation aimed at forcing MPs to fall in line behind a brutal...

IT IS A moral outrage to pay workers less than the minimum wage the GMB union told the Tory government yesterday. The union has written...

HOMELESS people are to be forcibly evicted from the Westminister underpass, which leads to Parliament, by installing rolldown shutters blocking the shelter off. In December...

‘CORONAVIRUS is no reason to fire us!’ shouted over 150 strikers rallying outside the Tate Modern Gallery on Bankside yesterday afternoon. The strikers were marking...

THE LABOUR government’s so-called refreshed NHS Workforce Plan, which essentially is to keep patients out of hospital and treat them in the community instead,...

‘SAVE London Met – 120 Jobs at Risk!’ was the call from a mass rally of workers and students outside the Holloway Road site...

ISRAEL has rejected another new ceasefire proposal that would have halted its genocidal war on Gaza, warning instead that it will flatten Gaza City...

THE Israeli military has intensified its assault on the Gaza Strip, with at least 25 civilians killed and dozens injured since the early hours...

NURSERY heads marched on Downing Street yesterday, furious at the desperate lack of funding which is now so bad that nurseries are threatened with...

GP LEADERS are dismayed as the UK Secretary of State refuses to give additional help to GP practices. The Health and Social Care Secretary is...

STRIKING BMA consultants, picketing outside UCLH hospital yesterday on day two of their action, were adamant that the strike was not just about pay. It...

THE NUMBER of jobs collapsed by 220,000 on the quarter, said the Office for National Statistics yesterday – the largest quarterly decrease since May...

RAIL UNION RMT is taking strike action today in defence of Guards’ jobs on West Midlands Trains. The union has called on the government to...

THE suspension of Parliament is ‘the territory of political judgements not legal standards’, the Tory government’s lawyer told the Supreme Court yesterday. The court is...

‘ONE IN SIX children under two years of age are acutely malnourished in northern Gaza,’ Richard Peeperkorn, World Health Organisation (WHO) representative said yesterday. ‘This...

‘KILL the Bill’ mass demonstrations took place against the Tory government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in cities around the country on Friday...

MORE than 80,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Parliament Square on Saturday, chanting: ‘From the River to...

STRONG pickets gathered yesterday morning outside three of the four South London bus garages who voted for strike action as part of the 48-hour...

‘THE TUC must call strike action, show unity and solidarity with the people of Palestine and end the genocide,’ a Chartered Society of Physiotherapists...

AROUND 1,000 Kurds and their supporters marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street yesterday afternoon in protest against the police attack on the Kurdish...

Israel has approved the establishment of 22 new illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision was reportedly taken in a closed-door vote by...

THREE education unions wrote to the Tory Education Secretary Gavin Williamson yesterday expressing ‘anger and dismay’ at the way the government has treated school...

A NEW report by Amnesty International reveals that precision-guided bombs made by the United States have been used in Saudi-led deadly airstrikes against civilians...

TWO coachloads of French ‘Gilet Jaunes’ (Yellow Vests) joined the Committee to Defend Julian Assange ‘Bastille Day’ protest outside Belmarsh prison in south east...

GREEK seafarers of the PENEN trade union (deck hands) staged a most important national strike last Thursday morning against a government Bill which wipes...

THERE HAS been confirmation that Jaguar Land Rover will build a new all-electric model at its Castle Bromwich plant. Unite said yesterday that the announcement...