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THE UNITE and GMB trade unions have appealed to the government to announce a bespoke financial package to save the beleaguered aviation industry. The two...

FOURTEEN Palestinian factions have signed a ‘national unity’ agreement aimed at maintaining Palestinian control over Gaza once Israel’s war on the enclave is ended. The...

THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) complained yesterday that they have been barred from a seat at the table, demanding involvement in the trade negotiations...

ISRAELI occupation forces killed an 11-year-old Palestinian girl in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday morning, as attacks continued across multiple areas of the enclave...

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 RAGE of youth and workers in Greece over last Tuesday’s horrific rail crash is now threatening to overthrow the right-wing government of Prime...

THE SUPREME Court yesterday openly sided with a Parliament full of Remainers condemning the proroguing of Parliament by Tory PM Boris Johnson as completely...

IN a speech in Telford yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, urged that ‘his government’ should be judged on the ‘real change’...

HEBA Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed, activists linked to Palestine Action, remain on hunger strike in prison and say they will continue until their demands...

‘I DEMAND the recognition of Palestine’ Shaher Saed, the General Secretary of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU), told the TUC Congress...

TORY PM Truss threw down the gauntlet to the TUC at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons yesterday lunchtime, announcing: ‘We will...

ISRAEL'S treatment of Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, Amnesty International declared in a new report that shatters any pretence of...

‘EALING Hospital workers and patients are fully backing us over our confrontation with Tory Health Secretary Hancock here on Monday when he refused to...

FIRES burned across Kuwait’s largest oil refinery for a second consecutive day as Iran widened its strikes on Gulf energy infrastructure, while Tehran warned...

MORE than half the country wants chancellor Rishi Sunak to continue permanently with the £20-a-week uplift in Universal Credit (UC) due to end in...

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...

UNIONS representing nurses, firefighters, teachers, council workers and every other section announced strike ballots and ‘calls to action’ to achieve inflation-busting pay rises in...

TRADE UnIONS, MPs and celebrities have condemned the attempt by the Metropolitan Police to ban this Saturday’s National March for Palestine from assembling outside...

THE ONE-METRE distancing rule is to be abandoned in schools when they open in September, the Tory government announced yesterday to the alarm of...

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...

POWERFUL picket lines were in place on London Underground (LU) Central and Victoria lines across the weekend, as RMT members took strike action against...

OVER 250 London NHS doctors, nurses and hospital workers demonstrated through the West End on Saturday, demanding a 15 per cent pay increase and...

RESPONDING to yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, the Unite union’s general secretary Len McCluskey said: ‘This Queen’s Speech reveals the nasty, repressive side of this government. ‘The...

BRITAIN is providing ‘engineering support’ for UK-supplied aircraft operated by the Royal Saudi Air Force, responsible for killing innocent people in Yemen, a British...

TWELVE Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces in several areas in the occupied West Bank yesterday, including nine youths. Two youths and a child were...

YESTERDAY morning 200 armed forces personnel were sent into the London NHS to help plug staff shortages in NHS hospitals across London. The Ministry of...

SRI Lanka’s prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as acting president, while the country reels from the economic crisis and the developing...

Fighting between Palestinian resistance forces and Israeli troops raged in Gaza on Friday after the Zionist genocidal regime intensified its ground invasion. Fierce battles raged overnight...

THE BBC said yesterday that it will defend a $10bn (£7.4bn) lawsuit filed against it by US President Donald Trump over an edit of...

THE DECISION by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh...

KOLJA’S Long Walk for Assange is heading for London and will join the weekly Saturday Vigil at Belmarsh Prison on Saturday from 12pm-2pm to...

A DERAILMENT in Lewisham south London is a case in point about why guards must be kept on the trains, transport union RMT said...

THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has called on the Health Secretary to open negotiations on NHS pay as new research shows the UK...

AN ARREST warrant is being sought by two pro-Palestinian groups Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and the Hind Rajab Foundation for Israeli Foreign Minister...

THE NHS is planning ‘previously unthinkable’ cuts to try to balance the books, according to a survey conducted by NHS Providers, which represents NHS...

HAMAS declared on Thursday that Israel’s airstrike on the Qatari capital, Doha, which killed five of its members and a Qatari officer, was both...

Yesterday at the TUC Congress, moving a motion on council funding, Sharon Graham, Unite General Secretary, said: ‘We in the trade unions have enormous...

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...

THE TORIES are announcing new anti-NHS plans today, opening up ‘virtual wards’ in which patients will be monitored in their homes, with cameras at...

GAZA Civil Defence Units have found mass graves of another 50 Palestinians at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, with many of the...

CIVIL SERVANTS’ union the PCS, representing Border Force staff, has joined Care4Calais in their legal fight to prevent Home Secretary Priti Patel from pushing...

‘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...

‘INSTEAD of driving us off a furlough cliff edge later this year, the government should provide continued support for employers,’ the GMB union said...

HEZBOLLAH carried out its deadliest attack against Israel since the latest escalation in fighting began on Sunday night, sending a ‘swarm’ of drones to...

THE Members of the Security Council emphasised the vital role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in providing...