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LABOUR Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer chaired a European leaders war summit at Lancaster House in The Mall in central London yesterday. With hugs and...

FRANCE was totally paralysed yesterday with flights, trains, the Metro and buses all cancelled during the mass ‘Day of Rage’ over President Emmanuel Macron’s...

THE NEU National Education Union’s 2021 Annual Conference yesterday debated calls from members working in the independent sector for a national campaign to protect...

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...

YESTERDAY, campaigners marked the 72nd anniversary of the landing of the Empire Windrush, bringing hundreds people to live and work here from the Caribbean,...

WES Streeting has resigned as health secretary, telling Sir Keir Starmer in a public letter yesterday that he has ‘lost confidence’ in the Prime...

THE GOVERNENT wants to sack 91,000 civil service jobs to save money, the UK’s top civil servant says. The aim is to return to 2016...

KENSINGTON and Chelsea council have re-housed Grenfell survivors and their families in a block found to have a ‘high risk’ of fire! A fire risk...

THE HIGH Court in London yesterday ruled in favour of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s right to appeal against the UK court ruling approving his...

SEVEN UNIONS have warned about their dispute with the UK’s largest academy trust over staff cuts, low pay and outsourcing. The unions have now registered...

ALL CONTACT with medical staff inside al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza City has been lost after Israeli drones bombarded the area around it. The Gaza...

NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...

HAMAS has condemned the US veto in the UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza as ‘blatant complicity and active involvement in...

AHEAD of talks with Unite negotiators aimed at ending the long-running binworkers strike yesterday, Birmingham Council Leader John Cotton claimed: ‘We’re in a position...

‘THERE is a real possibility that supplies of petroleum products could be affected,’ union leaders warned yesterday as Unite and the GMB unions announced...

TWO million out of five million public sector workers are set to get a £2bn ‘below-inflation pay rise’ as one of PM May’s final...

ISRAELI fighter jets continued bombarding high-rise buildings and other targets in the Gaza Strip using F-15 fighter jets yesterday, as Palestinians marked the Eid...

UNITED States Capitol Police have arrested several members of the medical advocacy group Doctors Against Genocide, who had gathered to hold a press conference...

PRIME Minister Theresa May has written to the European Union to ask for a three-month delay to Brexit. The UK is leaving the EU next...

SCOTTISH Labour may hold a special conference in the spring to decide whether to change its stance on supporting a second Scottish independence referendum. The...

CHINA has celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding with a massive military parade in Beijing showing off some of the world’s most advanced...

WORK and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall openly admitted on Tuesday that the Labour government cut the £300 Winter Fuel Payment to 10 million pensioners...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has been sent back to Belmarsh high security prison after a judge refused him bail yesterday, despite a decision to...

THE COMMUNICATION Workers Union is calling for a massive vote for strike action against Royal Mail management’s attempts ‘to virtually de-recognise the CWU and...

SATURDAY’S demonstration of over 3,000 workers and youth following last Monday’s police killing of young black rapper Chris Kaba assembled at 11.30am at Parliament...

AFTER A DAY of plots, counter plots and demands that he go, PM Johnson, in his lunchtime statement to the House of Commons, attempted...

UNIVERSITY lecturers are gearing up for strike action against cuts to their pensions. Universities UK’s (UUK) announced yesterday that cuts to the pensions of university...

‘ACTION now to defend the NHS!’ demand thousands of Junior Doctors as they begin another three-day strike at 7.00am today. At the end of it...

STATEMENT of the Workers Revolutionary League – the Soviet section of the International Committee of the Fourth International: During this time we’re facing the new...

‘THIS is the most draconian anti-refugee legalisation yet, as Rishi Sunak bids to make the UK off-limits to any refugees other than those his...

BRITISH Airways’ (BA) freight services at Heathrow airport are set for nine days of fresh strike action which will begin on Friday 22 January after...

THE UNITED Nations (UN) Security Council is to convene today at the request of Iran to discuss Saturday’s Israeli strikes on the country. Iran says...

AS A-LEVEL results came in yesterday morning head teachers warned that lowered grades are ‘unfair and unfathomable’ while teachers said that the results were...

THE TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!' was the message from the CWU picket...

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

RAIL unions ASLEF and TSSA have announced that they will ballot their members for strike action on the railways. If the ASLEF ballot is successful...

A THOUSAND school youth walked out of classes yesterday to join the mass protest in Parliament Square, furious at how capitalism is destroying the...

AROUND 20 unemployed workers are chasing every job vacancy in poorer parts of the UK, with that number rising to 50 in the areas...

GAZA’S Government Media Office (GMO) has denounced Israel’s allegations of Hamas looting an aid truck in southern Gaza, as ‘entirely false and fabricated’. ‘This accusation...

‘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...

A MOTION from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite was passed at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday calling for ‘extending public...

SOUTH Korea’s biggest umbrella labour group, the Confederation of Korean Trade Unions (KCTU), yesterday called an indefinite nationwide strike to continue until president Yoon...

THIRTY-FOUR sixth form colleges are on strike today to demand more funding for their students and their colleges. Nine colleges are joining the strike action...

BARRISTERS have voted to take indefinite action, refusing appear in court, and take new instructions from September 5th over fees and legal aid cuts,...

THE TORY government is preparing to simultaneously end the ‘triple lock’ pensions guarantee and raise the employee national insurance contribution (NIC) by one per...