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THE EU has announced retaliatory tariffs of up to 26bn euros (£22bn) on US imports, responding to President Donald Trump’s 25% levies on global...

THE LONG running industrial dispute involving over 1,800 bus drivers employed by Abellio in London has ended after workers accepted a greatly improved pay...

A BLACK schoolgirl was strip-searched by police after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis. The ‘traumatic’ search by Metropolitan Police officers took place without another...

SEVENTY thousand council workers are to be balloted in every borough in England and Wales in preparation for a strike action against a ‘derisory’...

THE Palestinian Land Authority stated that the recent decisions of the Israeli occupation authorities represent a dangerous and unprecedented escalation directly targeting the national...

ATHENS – Tens of thousands of workers and students marched in all main cities of Greece last Thursday in a 24-hour general strike against...

IN THE House of Commons yesterday morning PM Johnson sought to persuade MPs to support his Brexit plan. He said: ‘This government has moved. Our...

CARS, lorries and buses hooted support along the busy Bath Road on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport in west London yesterday morning as 1,400...

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...

‘HUMILIATING, painful, depressing,’ says a new report released yesterday by homeless charity Crisis, highlighting the brutal realities of ‘sofa surfing’. The research shows that with...

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...

FIVE Palestinians were killed on Friday, including two who died from injuries sustained in earlier Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza...

A TOTAL of 193 Palestinians were killed in 16 massacres perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces over the last 24 hours in the Gaza...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the ‘imminent’ threat of Russian military action in Ukraine justifies evacuating the US embassy in Kiev. His...

SIX people, including four children, were killed in a US drone strike in Kabul, Afghan TV reported yesterday, citing eyewitnesses. Earlier, US officials said that...

CROWDS continue to gather in Minneapolis to protest against federal immigration enforcement (ICE), after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz...

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

Israeli forces targeted a school in Khan Younis that was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians, critically injuring at least eight people yesterday. ‘We heard from...

THE UCU (University and College Union) begins balloting members today for strike action at over 150 universities across the country, with higher education set...

FORTY striking pickets gathered at the Gas Training Centre in Dartford yesterday, to protest against the ‘Fire and Rehire’ policy of Centrica, who now...

‘THE entire country must mobilise to defeat this imperialist aggression,’ the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela declared in a defiant statement yesterday. It said: ‘The Bolivarian...

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

POLITICIANS across Westminster responded on Friday to the Green Party’s capture of the Gorton and Denton parliamentary seat. Green Party leader Zack Polanski described the...

YESTERDAY’S General Strike across Israel was pronounced illegal by the Tel Aviv Labour Court, which ordered the Histradut union organisation to call it off...

‘THOMPSON out!’ chanted 17,000 striking Royal Mail postal workers at a rally in Parliament Square yesterday afternoon. They were expressing their anger at the company’s...

‘BOOTS on the ground, planes in the air,’ Labour Prime Minister Starmer declared in the House of Commons yesterday. In a speech to a packed...

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...

LABOUR PARTY leader Starmer said yesterday the Labour Party is on track to win the next general election, after taking control of key councils...

JUNIOR doctors in England have told the Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, that a credible offer – showing he is serious about pay restoration and...

THE MYANMAR military authorities have seized control of the embassy, leaving the ambassador out in the street and forcing him to sleep in his...

Six Palestine Action protesters were cleared of aggravated burglary over a break-in at a UK subsidiary of an Israeli defence firm yesterday. Charlotte Head, 29,...

AFTER the Scottish government announced they will nationalise Ferguson Marine shipyard, trade unions are calling on the UK government to safeguard jobs and skills...

ISRAELI forces carried out fresh strikes in southern Lebanon, even as US President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of Israel’s conduct and Washington and...

SOUTH AFRICA filed an ‘urgent request’ at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over Israel’s planned ground invasion of the city of Rafah yesterday. The...

‘THE UK government’s extremism definition is a smash and grab on our human rights,’ Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International Chief Executive, said yesterday. He was speaking...

‘WE ARE STRONG, united and determined to win,’ and ‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University,’ University and College Union (UCU) strikers declared...

US ‘INTERNATIONAL banditry’ was condemned by Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian delegate, speaking at the United Nations Security Council in New York yesterday afternoon. He went...

THE RETRIAL of six of the Filton 24 opened at Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London yesterday, with scores of demonstrators outside supporting the...

THE BMA (British Medical Asociation) has asked the government for more clarity on staffing of new Nightingale facilities. Commenting on the planned new Nightingale facilities...

SEAFARERS’ union RMT has raised alarm over government legislation criminalising seafarers for saving lives at sea. The proposals, contained in the government’s Nationality and Borders...

JAILED Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti is at immediate risk in Israeli jails, where he has been attacked three times in as many weeks, including...

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

THE THREE-DAY Labour Policy Forum (LPF) held in Nottingham over the weekend was ‘chaotic’, Unite said yesterday, with the Starmer party leadership seeking to...

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says only Iran is in charge of reopening the Strait of Hormuz under the Tehran-Washington Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), warning...

THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) yesterday announced a global boycott of the University of Leicester as the union hit the institution with the...