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BARRISTERS have voted to take indefinite action, refusing appear in court, and take new instructions from September 5th over fees and legal aid cuts,...

MICK LYNCH issued a defiant message from the RMT picket line at Euston Station in central London yesterday morning, saying: ‘I’ve just heard Huw...

THE LABOUR Party Conference in Liverpool opened yesterday with a minute’s silence, followed by leader Sir Keir Starmer leading the hall in singing God...

LARGE numbers of Labour MPs will attend Communication Workers Union (CWU) picket lines again today, in defiance of the anti-union stance taken by party...

A FIFTH round of strike action by junior doctors in England begins this morning, from 7am today until 7am on Tuesday 15 August. There will...

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire on civilians gathered near its GHF (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) site in Rafah, southern Gaza again yesterday, killing at...

OVER 200 people demonstrated outside the doctors’ union BMA head office in central London yesterday to protest against the ban on Dr Swee Ang...

UN EXPERTS have expressed deep concern over the operations of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the so-called relief organisation created by Israel and backed by the...

TORY PM Johnson clashed yesterday with the EU’s Barnier over the thorny issue of Europeans fishing in UK waters and vice-versa. Speaking in Greenwich, Johnson...

COLLECTIVE government failures regarding building regulations ‘over many years’ were partly to blame for the Grenfell Tower fire, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said. He...

‘BELFAST, Liverpool and London must unite against hunger during the Right To Food Week 2023’ says Sarah Wooley the general secretary of the Bakers...

STAFF that work for the Labour Party have voted in favour of striking if Labour carry out their threat of redundancies, GMB and Unite...

MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street to mark the anniversary of the start Israel’s Gaza genocide on Saturday. At least...

THE SPIRALLING cost of energy, combined with a lorry driver shortage and now panic buying, has resulted in 5,500 petrol stations across the country...

UK Lawyers for Israel have written to Wandsworth Labour council’s interim chief executive to demand the closure of the Community Camp 4 Palestine (CC4Pal)...

THE £12bn rise in National Insurance Contributions (NIC) from April is ‘the right plan’ and ‘must go ahead’, Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak...

THOUSANDS of teachers, as well as the parents of hundreds of thousands pupils, are set to defy the government’s instructions for Reception, Year 1...

OVERNIGHT and throughout yesterday morning, the Israeli military continued to pound parts of eastern Rafah city. The majority of residential homes and farmland have been...

MPs yesterday voted by 309-298 against a Labour-moved motion that sought to prevent a no-deal Brexit on October 31! The Labour-led plan was to force...

STRIKING Brunel University lecturers manning the picket lines in Uxbridge, west London yesterday, called for their UCU union to call national strike action to...

PM JOHNSON shed crocodile tears on Saturday as UK Covid-19 fatalities passed the 150,000 mark, with the BMA doctors’ union warning that ‘still the...

VACCINE passport trials will begin from mid-April, Tory PM Johnson announced at the 5pm briefing yesterday. When asked he said: ‘Obviously we are looking at...

CHILDREN went missing yesterday as a US-bound caravan of refugees clashed with Mexican forces under instruction from President Trump to block them from entering...

THE DEBATE on the European Union Withdrawal Agreement Bill began yesterday with Tory PM Johnson confirming that if it is not voted through, the...

FRIENDS and family, concerned members of the North Kensington community and local campaigners joined forces on Saturday evening to demand justice for El, a...

OVER 5,000 workers, trade unionists and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on May Day yesterday. ‘General strike for Palestine’, chanted the Workers...

LEADER of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said the Iranian nation will ‘firmly stand against’ an imposed war. In a televised message...

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

UNITE hit out yesterday at Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s announcement that he would halt new gas and oil production in the North Sea...

THE US ‘war on terror’ has taken almost one million lives across the globe and has cost the country $8 trillion over the past two...

OVER 50,000 university staff at 69 universities are currently balloting for a nationwide strike over an attack on their pensions – which means they...

HUNDREDS of Iraqi members of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) and their supporters stormed the US embassy in Baghdad for the second day 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...

PRIVATE firm G4S has been forced out of the immigration sector it was announced yesterday after the scandal at detention centre Brook House in...

FOLLOWING the ONS (Office of National Statistics) announcement yesterday that inflation in the 12 months to May soared to 11.7%, the RCN (Royal College...

AHEAD of the powerful one-day strike at nine major train privateers this Saturday, Aslef General Secretary Mick Whelan has accused one of them, Avanti...

‘WE have to step up the fight and unite in action across the country to defend all jobs in higher education,’ Hermione Xanthopoulou, Director...

GREEK seafarers went on a 48-hour strike on Wednesday and Thursday, demanding the signing of a new national collective agreement with pay rises of...

AT LEAST 15 Palestinians were killed when Israeli forces stormed a Gaza school sheltering displaced families, amid a wave of attacks across the besieged...

OVER 500 trade unionists gathered outside the RMT headquarters on the waterfront in Dover, yesterday with red RMT flags and union banners after 800...

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at 17 more UK universities have voted to strike over pay and working conditions, meaning that...

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

HAMAS will not engage in new ceasefire talks with Israel, as long as the regime continues its ‘hunger war’ against Palestinians in Gaza. Basem Naim, Hamas political...

THE NHS requires an additional £38bn annually by the end of the next parliament to address the care backlog and reduce prolonged treatment delays,...

IN TESTIMONIES provided to the BMA, one doctor said that ‘we are under immense and continuous stress’. While another doctor said: ‘What has been...