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THE SUSPENSION of national strike action across 150 universities by the UCU lecturers union was condemned by a leading London member of the union...

ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) continued their genocidal war on the Gaza Strip for the 642nd consecutive day on Wednesday. Using airstrikes, artillery shelling and live...

THE RMT East Midlands Trains (EMT) strike is to go ahead on Saturday after the company bosses snubbed talks. The dispute is over EMT management’s...

‘THIS IS unfinished business,’ said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen yesterday, urging members to vote YES as the union opened...

THE DEBATE on the European Union Withdrawal Agreement Bill began yesterday with Tory PM Johnson confirming that if it is not voted through, the...

BMA resident doctors’ committee co-chairs Dr Ross Nieuwoudt and Dr Melissa Ryan yesterday called for a ‘tangible and acceptable’ pay offer. Commenting on new talks...

THE International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor has staunchly defended his decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials over war crimes in Gaza,...

THE ARMED forces are being mobilised to break NHS workers’ picket lines this week, Dowden, the Tory minister in charge of the capitalist state’s...

ANGRY NHS workers on strike outside Barnsley hospital in South Yorkshire spoke to News Line yesterday. Ellen Newberry, deputy chair of Junior Doctors Committee (BMA),...

ARRESTS were made as over 100 people protested outside the Home Office in Marsham Street, Westminster in central London yesterday in support of the...

TORY PM Boris Johnson acted the buffoon yesterday as he described Ukraine’s war against Russia as the country’s ‘finest hour’, in a video address...

‘OUR police officers are now moving more quickly to issue fines where people are clearly breaching coronavirus regulations,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel said...

ENGLISH College principals increased their pay by four times the rate recommended by the sector’s employer body, the University and College Union (UCU) has...

THE Right to Education Campaign (REC) today condemned the Israeli military raid that resulted in the detention of 10 students of Birzeit University as...

THE ‘ROGUE bus service’ being operated by Go North West in the Greater Manchester area is under investigation for serial Covid-19 safety failures and...

‘WE WILL FIX the long term problems of health and social care that have been so cruelly exposed by Covid,’ Tory PM Johnson said...

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

HEALTH and education unions have warned the Labour government that they won’t accept its imposition of a miserly 2.8% pay cap on them for...

TEACHERS in the NEU (National Education Union) are taking mass strike action this week in their fight for a national 12% pay rise for...

THERE were 125,000 workers, students and youth on Saturday’s 18th National March for Palestine through London, from Piccadilly to a quarter of a mile...

AS MORE than 60,000 junior doctors begin three days of strike action at 7am this morning, the British Medical Association (BMA) warns that two-thirds...

IRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted unanimously to close Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel yesterday. Netanyahu announced the decision on X. ‘The government, headed...

WORKERS who carry out vital services for Norwich City Council have overwhelmingly voted for industrial action. In the Unite ballot 83% of the workers backed...

THE UN Security Council committee has not reached a consensus on Palestine’s latest application for full United Nations membership, despite substantial support. Meeting in New...

GATWICK Airport is in talks with bank lenders to try to avoid defaulting on multi-million pound loans, as Covid restrictions contribute to huge losses. The...

‘WE THANK the US for the support given to the State of Palestine,’ President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday at a joint press conference with...

AL-AWDA Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, northern Gaza, has issued an urgent appeal to international humanitarian bodies after an Israeli airstrike ignited a catastrophic fire...

ISRAELI forces bombed another United Nations-run school in southern Gaza yesterday, killing at least 20 displaced Palestinians sheltering in the building. More than 60 people...

TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has struck more than 100 targets in the city of Tel Aviv in retaliation for the...

MORE than half a million workers are striking today in Britain’s biggest day of strike action for decades. Hundreds of thousands of members of eight...

EDUCATION is resuming for 300,000 Palestinian students in the Gaza Strip after two years of the Israeli genocide war, with 8,000 teachers coming back...

TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay hit out against the NHS’s junior doctors again yesterday ahead of their five-day strike later this month, and on...

THE Strait of Hormuz is ‘declared completely open’ for the ‘remaining period of ceasefire,’ Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said yesterday. In a statement on...

US PRESIDENT Joe Biden announced yesterday the country is banning Russian oil and gas in response to Russia’s ‘Special Military Operation’ in Ukraine. Biden said...

THE UK government has ignored a catalogue of warnings about the nursing workforce crisis since 2016, a new report from the Royal College of...

ISRAELI forces executed many health workers and other civilians at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza during their two-week occupation which ended overnight yesterday morning. Many departments...

NEARLY 600,000 people participated in nationwide protests across France on Thursday, according to the CGT union, responding to a strike call by trade unions...

‘THE Israeli occupation has completely destroyed the Jenin refugee camp and forcibly displaced over 20,000 Palestinian residents, leaving behind their homes, personal documents and...

‘IT IS high time to make it clear to London that its efforts to ignite a conflict are doomed to failure,’ the Russian Foreign...

HEALTH Secretary Sajid Javid indicated yesterday that the Tory government is set to impose new Covid restrictions, as the Omicron variant spreads around the...

AT LEAST five demonstrators have been killed in Baghdad, Karbala and Baqubah in Iraq as security forces opened fire on the mass protest of...

THE BIGGEST strike in the history of the NHS takes place today with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) escalating its action, as members...

‘TUC GET OFF YOUR KNEES, CALL A GENERAL STRIKE!’ rang out outside the Brighton conference centre as the TUC three-day Congress opened yesterday. Hundreds of...

‘LIVES will be at risk’ if Manchester is targeted again by terrorists because a specialist fire service unit has shut, a watchdog warned yesterday. Concerns...

NINETY seven percent of 54,000 primary school teachers polled are opposed to the SATs exams, their union the National Education Union reports today, the...