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MICK Whelan, general secretary of ASLEF, the train drivers’ union has spoken out after the Tory government suffered a major defeat in the High...

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...

JAGUAR Land Rover’s (JLR) suspension of production after last month’s cyber-attack has thrown tens of thousands of workers and small suppliers into crisis, with...

THERE was a lively and determined picket of members of the Society of Radiographers (SoR) King’s College Hospital in Camberwell, south east London on...

‘WE MUST send a clear message that rogue employers cannot get away with trampling over the laws of this country, it is time to...

ISRAELI PM Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday approved 800 new illegal settlement units in the West Bank, determined to drive through the mass expansion while Trump...

OVER 500 angry NHS workers marched from St Thomas’ Hospital to Downing Street on Wednesday evening to demand a 15 per cent pay rise. ‘Enough...

CLAUDE SCHMIDT, president of Arconic that made the Grenfell Tower cladding, has said it was not his ‘priority’ to understand fire safety tests and...

THE RUSSIAN Ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, held a press conference in New York yesterday during which he made it clear that...

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...

A PALESTINIAN woman was killed yesterday when Israeli forces opened live fire in the Al-Jenena neighbourhood, east of Rafah in southern Gaza, according to...

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

PICKETS were out yesterday morning at the Royal London Hospital on day two of the Junior Doctors’ strike. They are determined to fight whatever government...

ROLLING strike action and a national overtime ban by ASLEF members expands today, with train drivers employed by Northern and TransPennine Express rail privateers...

The Israeli military killed at least 67 people waiting for UN aid lorries in northern Gaza, the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry says. Six more people...

MUCH tougher guidelines will be introduced in response to the ‘hugely distressing’ strip-searching of a black schoolgirl referred to as Child Q, the education...

Over 20,000 staff at scores of universities are striking for five consecutive days this week in their fight for pay and working conditions and...

BORIS Johnson has insisted he will stay in office, despite a growing Tory revolt against his leadership. At Prime Minister’s Questions, he said he had...

GAZA’s Government Media Office yesterday accused Israel of ‘a horrific, intentionally repeated crime’, having lured starving Palestinians to aid centres run by the Gaza...

FOUR thousand Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) Unite members came out on strike yesterday, with many demanding that the action should be united with British...

TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...

THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a dire warning that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is nearing total collapse, as...

THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund is projecting a deep recession in 2020, with global growth projected to be -4.4% in its latest update to the...

PM KEIR Starmer yesterday met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Downing Street as Zelensky continues his diplomatic efforts to secure European backing for...

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...

OVER half a million public sector workers from eight unions were on strike yesterday, fighting against the Tory government’s attack on their pay, conditions...

A MASS Rally of over 150 Serco strikers and supporters took place at Walthamstow’s Whipp’s Cross Hospital yesterday morning, as part of their two-week...

THE US Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has urged all American citizens to run for it and get out of Iraq. This is after...

MORE than 250 media outlets in over 70 countries staged a front page protest yesterday, highlighting the killing of more than 200 journalists in...

OUTSOURCED workers, who provide catering and cleaning services in government offices, took the first of three days of strike yesterday demanding the London Living...

OVER 200 steelworkers from all over the country marched from Trafalgar Square to a rally in Parliament Square yesterday morning. They are fighting against the...

IN less than 12 hours, the Israeli occupation army committed horrific massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip, killing over 100 of them, including...

THERE were more than 16,600 deaths associated with long A&E waits before admission in England last year, analysis by the Royal College of Emergency...

TORY leadership candidate Liz Truss was forced into a humiliating U-Turn yesterday, after saying in a ‘hustings’ meeting on Monday night that, as Prime...

TIM SHARP, the TUC senior policy officer for employment rights, has published an article entitled ‘Fighting the Anti-Strike Law’. He states: ‘The government is attempting...

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

A PERFECT storm of pressures risks engulfing health and social care services in England in the coming months, a comprehensive analysis by the RCN...

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

THE TORY goverment is now rushing to privatise the NHS, by using all means that are available for the task including the use of...

‘IT WAS Murder’, leading campaigner for justice for Chris Kaba, Tye Davis, said – speaking outside Brixton Police Station on Thursday evening. More than 100...

A CROWD of over 200 supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange demonstrated outside the Old Bailey in central London yesterday prior to the...

THE ISRAELI government’s move to revoke the licences of 37 international organisations operating in Gaza and the West Bank, including Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors...

‘OUR policy at the TUC is to call a general strike,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch told News Line on the picket line at...

‘SUSPEND Ofsted inspections’ demanded Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) yesterday, responding to Ofsted’s second report into the...

WOMEN who found out their partners were undercover police spies insisted yesterday that they are the ‘victims of a conspiracy to rape’ by the...