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‘FLYBE staff feel disgusted at this betrayal and these broken promises,’ pilots union BALPA General Secretary Brian Strutton said yesterday as the news broke...

CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...

‘What do we want? Fair Pay!’ ‘When do we want it? Now!’ chanted a mass picket of over 150 PCS strikers outside the British...

THERE was a very lively picket line at UCL Hospital yesterday in London’s Euston Road, with over 40 junior doctors waving placards, chanting and...

TORY CHANCELLOR SUNAK yesterday said it is ‘very likely’ the UK is in a ‘significant recession’, as figures show the economy contracting at the...

THE Telecoms & Financial Services Conference voted yesterday to serve legal notice to BT Group of the union’s intention to ballot all appropriate members...

ONE HUNDRED and thirty-eight GP surgeries shut last year, compared to 18 the previous year, the latest GP workforce figures from NHS Digital show,...

‘FIREFIGHTERS and control staff are being left with no other choice but to take action,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) General Secretary Matt Wrack said...

THE THREAT to cut health visitor and community nurse jobs in County Durham, while Covid-19 is still widespread, was branded as ‘incomprehensible’ by the...

SINCE 7 October 2023, Israeli airstrikes have emerged as the leading cause of death for humanitarian workers globally, responsible for over 75 per cent...

FAMILIES of six Palestine Action activists have said the jury’s verdict marked a ‘monumental victory’, after their relatives were cleared at Woolwich Crown Court...

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

THREE-QUARTERS of the thousands of children who are strip-searched by police forces around the UK each year are black, the BBC’s File On 4...

THE HOUSE of Commons Health and Social Care Committee is publishing a report this morning which calls the NHS staffing crisis a ‘national scandal’. The...

HAMAS declared on Thursday that Israel’s airstrike on the Qatari capital, Doha, which killed five of its members and a Qatari officer, was both...

THE GOVERNOR of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said yesterday that plots to force a massive devaluation of Iran’s national currency to ruin...

GLOBAL outrage has followed Israel’s assassination of five Al Jazeera journalists in a targeted drone strike outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa...

US PRESIDENT Biden left Washington yesterday evening for Tel Aviv, where he is to meet Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians before flying to Amman...

THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported yesterday that more than 89 hours have passed, and the fate of its ambulance crew, consisting of paramedics...

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

ON the second and pivotal day of Julian Assange’s appeal hearing, the unwavering spirit of Assange supporters was palpable outside London’s High Court, despite...

GAMBLING with people’s lives, the new Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid made a statement on removing Covid-19 restrictions yesterday. He told Parliament: ‘We...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) announced yesterday that it is consulting its members over the latest government offer to settle the resident doctors dispute,...

RESIDENT doctors in England have overwhelmingly voted that the government’s proposed offer on jobs is not good enough for them to call off proposed...

THE United States government shut down yesterday after last-ditch efforts by lawmakers to pass a spending bill failed. Speaking to reporters at the White House,...

TALKS between the UK and EU broke up yesterday, as the two sides remained at loggerheads over a post-Brexit trade deal. Another deadline passed, but...

NEARLY 600,000 people participated in nationwide protests across France on Thursday, according to the CGT union, responding to a strike call by trade unions...

‘THERE was no deal. There was nothing, nothing on the table,’ said Junior Doctors’ Co-chair, Robert Laurenson outside the Department of Health, yesterday morning. Laurenson...

‘PEOPLE aren’t dying because nurses are striking, nurses are striking because people are dying,’ RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said yesterday. ‘Today’s record number...

LONDON is set to be brought to a standstill after thousands of bus workers employed by the privateer Metroline have voted overwhelmingly for strike...

Resident doctors and their supporters were on the picket line at St Thomas’ hospital on the first day of their five days of strike...

MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday afternoon chanting ‘From the River to...

CHINESE artificial intelligence company DeepSeek entered ‘holiday mode’ for Lunar New Year yesterday, having crashed the US stock market the day before. The most notable...

THE Greek Seafarers Trade Union PENEN issued a statement on Sunday condemning the imperialist attack on Iran and calling for the withdrawal of all...

THE HIGH Court has ruled that the Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove broke the law by acting with ‘apparent bias’ in handing a £560,000...

THE DEATHS of more than 50 doctors from Covid-19 in Italy must serve as an ‘urgent warning’ to British government on PPE supply. The BMA...

Iran’s top security body says the powerful Iranian military response as part of True Promise III forced the Israeli regime to halt its aggression unilaterally. The...

THE UNITE and GMB trade unions have appealed to the government to announce a bespoke financial package to save the beleaguered aviation industry. The two...

The Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli occupation army’s ongoing raids and crimes and its persistence in assassinating resistance fighters in the West...

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

STRIKING Ealing civil enforcement officers are protesting outside parliament today against union-busting by the West London Labour Council, furious at the ‘disgraceful’ lack of...

MORE than 130 prominent writers, scholars, and activists, including Sally Rooney, Greta Thunberg, and Brian Eno, have written to the Court of Appeal in...

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...

AN Israeli strike on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood killed at least seven people and wounded 20 others yesterday. Islam al-Jaidi, a resident and 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...