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VICIOUS Tory cuts to the tune of £140 million mean that fire and rescue services are fighting with one hand tied behind their back....

‘IF PRESIDENT Putin were to choose the path of bloodshed and destruction he must realise it would be both tragic and futile,’ Tory PM...

PRODUCTION of the MINI at Oxford could be severely disrupted after drivers delivering components voted to go on strike for six days in a...

‘UNITE must call national strike action now to stop the jobs bloodbath at Heathrow Airport,’ British Airways ground staff worker Jamil Singh told News...

The UK unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to September, with the Bank of England (BoE) predicting it will stay that...

THE United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Salama, has confirmed that the Israeli occupation army has used the killing...

A PALESTINIAN infant died on Friday from severe cold while sheltering with her family inside a makeshift tent in Gaza, as Israeli restrictions continue...

CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt has warned it is ‘unlikely’ that there will be room for any ‘significant’ tax cuts in the Budget. But Hunt said that...

THE British Medical Association is warning that insufficient government funding for medical students in England for their lengthy degrees is pushing many into financial...

MORE than a century of Labour dominance in Wales ended yesterday as the party crashed to a historic defeat in the Senedd election, losing...

ON THE EVE of budget day, National Education Union members working in 34 sixth form colleges walked out demanding more funding as colleges have...

TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cut the schools repair budget in half in 2021 when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, it emerged yesterday...

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

PATIENTS at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, East London, are facing the prospect of ‘food chaos’ later this month, after workers employed by...

FRANCE is paralysed by a nationwide general strike by transport workers, teachers and other trade unions, supported by the mass of the working population. This...

THE BUS strike by 2,200 Unite members employed by the privateer RATP at eight London garages was solid yesterday, with strikers demanding that the...

TEN weeks into their indefinite strike for a 10% pay increase, over 200 St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers and their supporters held a festival...

HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers, university workers, civil servants and transport workers are striking in the biggest strike day in more than a decade...

MORE THAN 100,000 NHS workers are set to be sacked under plans being laid out by the Starmer Labour government it emerged yesterday. Former Shadow...

FOOD costs and energy bills are soaring, with the energy crisis driving consumer prices up at the fastest rate in 30 years, latest figures...

‘ALL health workers and their families must be tested immediately,’ Chair of the Council of the British Medical Association and GP Dr Chaand Nagpaul...

MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched from Parliament Square from Downing Street in Whitehall to the American Embassy in Battersea on Saturday...

ON WORLD Children’s Day yesterday it was recorded that at least 5,500 children have been killed by the Zionist Israeli regime since it began...

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

MATERNITY support workers in Grimsby began two weeks of strike action yesterday, over their employer’s failure to compensate them fairly for the many years...

PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron gave his support to Prime Minister François Bayrou at a cabinet meeting yesterday, as France is bracing for fresh political turmoil...

NURSING staff are quitting their NHS pensions to make ends meet as the cost-of-living crisis bites. The number of staff opting out of the NHS...

‘THERE are no depths to which P&O and their Dubai owners at DP World will not sink to extract the maximum profit from ferry...

THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says the ceasefire Israel eventually clinched with Hezbollah has shattered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘illusion’ of reshaping West Asia...

NINETY Birmingham bin strikers came down on a double-decker bus to London to a Unite union rally outside Parliament yesterday afternoon. Strike leader Mike Masters...

HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel yesterday warned that the city of Leicester may be facing a localised lockdown after a rise in coronavirus cases. She said...

A SPOKESMAN for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said yesterday that more than 650 US military personnel were killed and wounded in the...

IRAN will ‘irreversibly’ destroy vital energy and fuel infrastructure across the region if the United States attacks power plants inside the country, Parliament Speaker...

OVER 2,000 campaigners fighting for the freedom of Julian Assange attended a Night Carnival in London on Saturday. The carnival organised by the Don’t Extradite...

  US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Saturday called for one-and-a-half million Palestinians to be deported to Egypt and Jordan. Describing Gaza as a ‘demolition site’, Trump...

RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has accused the Johnson government and the privately-run train operating companies of ‘using Covid as a smokescreen’ to rip...

THE BANK of England warned yesterday that the UK economy is heading towards its deepest recession on record, shrinking by as much as 14%...

‘IT IS TIME for Parliament to take control,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday, responding to Tory PM May’s statement to Parliament on the...

BRITISH Steel is to be sold to Chinese firm Jingye next Monday with the loss of 400 workers. Jingye has offered a contract to 3,200...

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...

THE TORIES stepped up their onslaught on the NHS yesterday with the announcement of the scrapping of the requirement for patients with suspected cancer...

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...

RCN NURSES from King’s College Hospital in south London marched from their picket line to the Camberwell Abellio bus garage yesterday, to bring greetings...

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

THE Gaza Centre for Human Rights has condemned Israel’s decision to close Gaza’s crossings, including Kerem Shalom and Rafah, amid the military escalation between...