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OVER 100 striking St Mungo’s workers and other trade unionists lobbied City Hall yesterday lunchtime demanding better pay and conditions. There will be a further...

THE Israeli military has once again attacked the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, brutally abducting medical staff and patients before taking...

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...

ISRAELI regime forces killed at least 78 Palestinians, including several aid seekers, in bombing attacks across the Gaza Strip yesterday. Palestine’s Safa news agency reported...

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

THE GAZA death toll passed the 39,000 mark yesterday with the Health Ministry reporting at least 39,006 Palestinians have been killed and 89,818 wounded...

POWERFUL picket lines continue outside London rail depots this morning as the RMT Tube union completes this week’s first 24-hour strike at 12noon today,...

WITH the prospect of industry being shut down in the wake of the energy and CO2 crisis, the Tory government has struck a deal...

THE Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported yesterday afternoon that 109 Palestinians were killed and 216 others injured in the escalating Israeli...

THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced the international community over its ‘shameful silence’ on the Israeli military’s raid against Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital where...

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

‘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...

LARGE numbers of TUC delegates in Brighton yesterday stopped at the 60-strong WRP and Young Socialists lobby to say that they want the TUC...

SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan has welcomed the general ceasefire plan proposed by US president Joe Biden, saying it contained ‘positive ideas’. Hamdan reiterated his...

ISRAEL has rejected another new ceasefire proposal that would have halted its genocidal war on Gaza, warning instead that it will flatten Gaza City...

ONE thousand tractors spread all the way up Whitehall and beyond in a show of strength by tens of thousands of angry farmers yesterday,...

PALESTINE Action scaled the roof of another Israeli arms factory yesterday, morning holding ‘Shut down Elbit’ banners. They announced: ‘We’ve taken to the roof of...

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...

‘DON’T make the £141bn student debt nightmare worse,’ the University and College Union (UCU) warned yesterday ahead of a government spending review. University staff have...

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

A NEW report documenting several violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israel during its recent military attack on the Gaza Strip from 10-21...

THE CRISIS caused by the privatisation of the probation system in England and Wales has cost taxpayers almost £500m, the government’s National Audit Office...

COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) members in Royal Mail have beaten the anti-union laws for the third time in less than three years delivering a...

ISRAELI TANKS reached the southwestern Syrian city of Quneitra yesterday, three kilometres away from the town of Qatana, near Damascus. Israel started the push to...

MOTHER and daughter Azza and Haya Adam, were arrested on Wednesday evening at a pro-Palestine protest, simply for saying the word ‘intifada’. They were arrested...

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

‘IT IS in no-one’s interests for members of the armed forces to be given a free pass over alleged war crimes’ said Kate Allen,...

‘THE people behind me haven’t had a pay rise for half a decade,’ ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan said yesterday, speaking on the picket...

SEVERAL countries told the United Nations Security Council yesterday that they deeply deplore the Israeli parliament’s decision to abolish the operations of the UN...

THE humanitarian situation in Gaza ‘could soon escalate into famine’ as Israeli forces continue to severely restrict the entry of food and other supplies...

GREEK students staged a huge national march in Athens last Thursday against a government Bill to establish private universities while shutting down or merging...

SPEAKING at a press conference on the ‘first hundred days’ of a Labour government, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell, pledged: ‘So let...

REPORTS have emerged of students, despite paying thousands of pounds in fees a year for their tuition, are forced to sit on the floor...

LABOUR’S Manifesto declares that it will ‘Immediately recognise the State of Palestine.’ It adds that Labour will ‘Introduce a War Powers Act to ensure that...

AS HUNDREDS of Israeli tanks amassed on the border fence ahead of their invasion of Gaza, medical authorities in the Gaza Strip said yesterday...

A HUNDRED thousand workers, students and youth rallied in Whitehall in central London on Saturday and more than 70 were arrested as they attempted...

GREEK seafarers of the PENEN trade union (deck hands) staged a most important national strike last Thursday morning against a government Bill which wipes...

‘ENOUGH is enough, it’s time to follow the successful policies of other countries and ban these contracts once and for all,’ GMB’s Tim Roache...

A FIFTH of all small and medium-sized businesses in the UK are unlikely to get the cash they need to survive the next four...

A GENERAL STRIKE for Palestine takes place in Spain today, with the different unions maintaining their calls for worldwide action to end the genocide...

Sir Keir Starmer opened his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool yesterday by condemning the Truss Tory government’s mini-budget last week,...

UCU lecturers at their emergency branch meeting yesterday demanded that the TUC organise a national demonstration and march to parliament on its 1st February ‘Day...

DWP STAFF are to get police powers, the Tory government announced yesterday to investigate the poorest people on Universal Credit. The DWP (Department for Work...

THE TORY government has launched a three-pronged attack on parents, teachers and councils in a bid to force schools to open – despite all...

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...