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‘THIS MUST be the end of “fire and rehire”. We now have a collectively bargained agreement,’ Unite NW-54 Branches Communities Rep Sam Harvey told...

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...

‘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...

BUS drivers from Bow bus garage walked out on strike from 5am yesterday over exhausting schedules, inadequate rest breaks, and systematic disregard for their...

TRANSPORT union RMT has blasted Transport for London (TfL) for calling on staff in South African variant postcodes to ‘come into work as normal’...

RAIL and bus workers are supporting the call for the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories. On the picket line...

‘GEORGE Floyd was living, breathing, walking and talking just fine until the police put him face down in handcuffs and put a knee on...

THE CORONAVIRUS Act was put to Parliament for renewal yesterday, extending the sweeping police powers contained in it for a further six months until...

UNITE launched a strike ballot of its 100,000 NHS members outside St Thomas’s Hospital, opposite Parliament, in central London yesterday morning. Onay Kasab, Lead Officer...

TENS OF thousands of workers and students participated in mass and militant rallies and marches throughout Greece on Wednesday, during a 24-hour national strike...

THE Strait of Hormuz is ‘declared completely open’ for the ‘remaining period of ceasefire,’ Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said yesterday. In a statement on...

THE TUC, Unite, RMT, GMB, Aslef and TSSA all said yesterday that the Tories scrapping of the Leeds leg of the HS2 was a...

ISRAEL carried out a massive bombardment of the Qatari capital, Doha, yesterday with more than ten aerial munitions, aimed at assassinating the Hamas Movement’s...

THE SOUTH Western Railway workers’ strike was rock solid yesterday morning in their escalating battle to keep the guards on the train. They are...

‘FAMILIES hit by the cost of living crisis, business hit by a supply chain crisis, those who rely on our schools and our hospitals,...

IRAN says termination of the Israeli war on Lebanon is an ‘inseparable’ part of the agreement between Tehran and Washington to permanently end the...

THE collapse of construction firm Clugston has halted work on Newcastle University’s new £39m extension and £25m sports centre. Clugston, which employs more than 600...

‘I WANT to update everyone on one thing and that is what has been happening at our borders in Dover,’ Tory PM Johnson said...

ISRAEL’S ongoing blockade of northern Gaza has brought the healthcare system to near-total collapse, with almost no remaining services, according to the World Health...

GAZA'S Health Ministry has declared a polio epidemic, blaming Israel’s genocidal military offensive for the spread of the deadly virus. In a statement yesterday, the...

AT least 21 Palestinian men, women and children were killed in Gaza yesterday, bringing the death toll to 41,226, with a further 76 wounded,...

HUNDREDS of farmers descended on Parliament on their tractors yesterday, demanding ‘Save Family Farming!’ Having driven to the capital from as far afield as Exmoor,...

THE armed wing of Hamas, Qassam Brigades, hit an Israeli Merkava tank with two Yassin 105 anti-armour missiles near a mosque in the Tal...

THREE quarters of a million families in London will be plunged into fuel poverty after energy bills spiral by as much as 50% in...

‘There must be 300 here today easily and that is replicated at the other four sites. There are no wagons going out at all...

THE TUC on Friday published a joint statement that was sent yesterday evening to the Secretary of State for Education, on behalf of unions...

YESTERDAY morning the President of the European Commission and Tory PM Johnson announced that they had agreed a Brexit deal. That deal now has...

THE Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates yesterday welcomed the initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, in calling for...

IRAN’S armed forces have warned they will answer ‘dangerous’ Israeli aircraft movements over neighbouring countries, while the Foreign Ministry condemned a fresh US-Gulf statement...

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...

‘We made a mistake in the house,’ said one of the Israeli occupation soldiers, trying to justify to the mother of Mohammad Ibrahim Shaham,...

ANHAR AL-DEEK, the Palestinian woman who was set to give birth in an Israeli prison, has been released to house arrest in a victory...

FOREIGN doctors volunteering in Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals have shared distressing accounts of the dire medical situation and war crimes they’ve witnessed. With 80% of the...

JOHNSON’S Tory government has urged Iraq to allow UK troops to stay in the country following the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani...

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,...

‘LIVES will be at risk’ if Manchester is targeted again by terrorists because a specialist fire service unit has shut, a watchdog warned yesterday. Concerns...

A RALLY of over 200 PCS strikers from Tate Enterprises, employed at Tate Modern and Tate Britain galleries was held on Saturday outside the...

LABOUR said yesterday that it will oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill. ‘With more than one-in-10 people on waiting lists for treatment in...

CWU general secretary Dave Ward, announced yesterday at a press conference that a vote for strike action was carried by CWU members in the...

AN URGENT investigation has found that there are at least 20 housing blocks using the same wooden cladding and wooden structure as the block...

ISRAELI fighter jets continued bombarding high-rise buildings and other targets in the Gaza Strip using F-15 fighter jets yesterday, as Palestinians marked the Eid...

THE WORLD BANK has halted all funding for projects in Afghanistan in a major attack on the Afghan people. It cited ‘concerns’ over how the...

Washington and Tehran are close to signing a one-page memorandum to end the armed conflict. The US leadership’s decision to suspend Operation Project Freedom in...

THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) warned yesterday that ‘fire and rehire’ tactics have become widespread during the pandemic, with new polling finding that nearly...

OVER ten thousand workers, students, and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on the TUC May Day march in London yesterday afternoon. There...