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MINISTERS are drawing up plans to give mayors significant new powers over hospitals and schools as part of a new wave of devolution that...

‘WE'VE won every dispute at Heathrow in recent years and we’ll win this one,’ local Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell said when...

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an immediate end to what he described as Israeli occupation and aggression in Gaza, the West Bank,...

THE LIBDEMS voted for an anti-Brexit coup at their conference in Bournemouth yesterday, pledging to revoke Article 50, reversing their previous policy of campaigning...

MANY junior doctors feel out of their depth with the end-of-life decisions faced during Covid-19 pandemic In normal times, end-of-life care discussions are most commonly...

CHANCELLOR Hunt has announced that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed by...

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...

JUNIOR DOCTORS at Homerton hospital were yesterday determined to win their struggle and save the NHS from privatisation. Johnny Denphy junior doctor at Homerton hospital...

A POWERFUL demonstration against mass railway ticket office hours cuts and total closures was held outside London’s Kings Cross Station early yesterday morning, with...

THE SOUTH Western Railway workers’ strike was rock solid yesterday morning in their escalating battle to keep the guards on the train. They are...

STRIKING Birmingham bin workers have overwhelmingly rejected, by 97%, the council’s ‘totally inadequate’ offer, with hundreds of members of the Unite union voting against...

‘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...

PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas yesterday denounced the latest Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip, describing them as a desperate attempt by the regime to cover...

THE UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has accused Israel of obstructing the entry of essential supplies needed to save the lives of children suffering from...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has called on the United States to continue supplying Ukraine with weapons in its war against Russia, assuring that...

THE DIRECTOR of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) says she has not had enough reassurance about safe staffing to propose an end to...

SIR Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, amid the row over leaked emails that lampooned President Trump’s administration, and threatened...

THE NATIONAL Education Union (NEU) has announced that its members in England will take two further days of strike action this term – on...

FOREIGN Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei says Iran’s proposal for ending the recent war was reasonable, however, the United States continues to insist on ‘unreasonable demands’ shaped...

DURING the House of Commons Prime Ministers Questions yesterday, both Tory PM May and Labour leader Corbyn avoided the burning issue of the hour,...

HAMAS has called upon Islamic nations and United Nations agencies to urgently address and halt Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Gaza...

‘I’m 100 per cent for a general strike,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU) Capital Branch Assistant Secretary and BT Tower rep Darren Weller said yesterday...

IN A historical development at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, South Africa presented its detailed case against Israel committing genocide...

ISRAEL’s far right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has authorised personal firearm permits for residents of 18 additional illegal settlements in the occupied West...

‘The criminal US must know that in addition to punishing its illegitimate and aggressive offspring (Israel), the hands of Islam’s fighters within the armed...

TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay provocatively declared yesterday that there will be absolutely no pay increase for nurses or doctors above the 5% that...

ISRAELI forces have killed more than 71 Palestinians in the 24 hours leading up to Thursday in Beit Lahiya, Rafah and Khan Younis, with...

In the northern Gaza Strip, a humanitarian crisis of alarming proportions is unfolding as infants grapple with the life-threatening consequences of drought and malnutrition. The...

TRANSPORT union RMT said that its members are standing firm as pickets were out in force yesterday at all key locations in the fight...

OVER 1,000 people assembled outside Westminster Magistrates Court in Marylebone, central London yesterday, protesting at the arrest on terrorist charges of member of Irish...

JOHNSON’S ‘Plan B’ measures to attempt to slow the advance of the new Omicron strain of coronavirus only passed in Parliament yesterday with the...

A LIVELY picket of 200 bin men, came out in support of the bin strikers in Birmingham yesterday morning, marking one year of the...

THE SOUTH African variant has begun to spread across the UK, the Tories confirmed yesterday. Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the 5.00pm briefing: ‘We...

EXPERTS have heavily criticised the Tories’ ‘ad hoc system’ for coronavirus tracking, testing and contact tracing, stating that the government’s ‘abysmal response’ means that...

THE ISRAELI regime escalated its genocide in and around Khan Younis, the most densely populated area of the Gaza Strip, yesterday. Palestinian casualties mounted, bringing...

THE LEFT-wing Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) yesterday announced the launch of an upcoming membership consultation on whether the trade union should...

AS THE the Global Sumud Flotilla neared the Gaza coast yesterday an Israeli warship approached the leading Alma vessel, causing a disruption in communications...

ISRAELI forces carried out fresh strikes in southern Lebanon, even as US President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of Israel’s conduct and Washington and...

The Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli occupation army’s ongoing raids and crimes and its persistence in assassinating resistance fighters in the West...

‘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...

HOSPITAL  consultants in England will go on strike on 20th and 21st July if their ballot, which closes at the end of June, is...

‘WE KNOW that we are going to see more hospitalisations and more deaths from Covid,’ Tory PM Johnson admitted at yesterday’s 5.00pm press conference...

THE METROPOLITAN Police have thrown a spanner into the works of the rapidly developing crisis in the Tory government and party. There is now confusion...

PICKET lines outside ambulance stations around the country received a cacophony of support from passing vehicles as 23,000 ambulance worker members of Unison, the...

NTHABELENG, a 28-year-old nurse on the front line of South Africa’s Covid-19 pandemic, is exhausted and afraid. Each day, she begins her shift haunted by...