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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro says the United States has declared an ‘electric energy war’ against his country amid a widespread blackout that has left...

THE United States bombed Iran for a twelfth consecutive night early yesterday, and Iranian forces struck back across the Gulf, hitting American installations in...

A SENIOR military spokesman for the Islamic Republic’s Armed Forces warned Israel and its allies yesterday that Iran will not tolerate the occupying regime’s...

DELEGATES to the TUC conference in Liverpool spoke out in favour of a general strike to defeat the Tory Strikes Minimum Service Levels legislation...

CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond has told MPs that he is determined to do everything in his power to stop the ‘catastrophe’ of a no-deal exit by...

OVER 50,000 RMT members across Network Rail, London Overground, London Underground and other 14 train operating companies will walk out on strike this week,...

ISRAELI occupation forces have escalated assaults, demolitions, and settler-backed attacks across the occupied West Bank, causing widespread Palestinian casualties, mass arrests, and the destruction...

HEALTH Secretary Sajid Javid indicated yesterday that the Tory government is set to impose new Covid restrictions, as the Omicron variant spreads around the...

CIVIL SERVANTS’ union the PCS, representing Border Force staff, has joined Care4Calais in their legal fight to prevent Home Secretary Priti Patel from pushing...

A DAMNING report published yesterday entitled ‘Track and Trace’ by Transparency International has shone a light on the Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) scandal, where...

POSTAL workers have announced a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, as workers will also hold a...

HALF A MILLION workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through London on Saturday, assembling in Hyde Park and marching to the American Embassy...

SRI LANKA’S revolutionary anti-government demonstrators said yesterday they were ending their occupation of official buildings, but vowed to press on with their revolution to...

THE METROPOLITAN Police have thrown a spanner into the works of the rapidly developing crisis in the Tory government and party. There is now confusion...

GENERAL Practitioners (GPs) across England have voted overwhelmingly to reject the new 2024/25 national GP General Medical Services (GMS) contract that was imposed on...

‘WE SEND solidarity to the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) members and support the AFT’s call for the US Justice Department to conduct a...

THE ISRAELI military yesterday launched a large-scale exercise, involving ground forces, naval vessels and aircraft, simulating a war against Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement. The multi-day...

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

THE TORY government is imposing a new legal duty to ‘self-isolate’ if instructed to do so by ‘NHS Test and Trace’ from next Monday,...

BORDER staff were preparing yesterday to strike against Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel’s hated ‘pushback’ policy against migrant boats trying to reach the UK. Their...

AS OF TODAY, ten thousand people on the old benefits system will be forced onto Universal Credit (UC) in a ‘pilot study’ in Harrogate,...

JUST PAST noon yesterday, the decision of the High Court was announced on the three-day RCN strike. This was to run from 8pm on 30th...

CHAOS reigned at Heathrow Airport with five-hour queues reported over the last few days risking passengers spreading the virus to each other, as the...

HUNDREDS of Palestinians being held inside detention facilities across the occupied territories have launched an indefinite hunger strike to protest at mistreatment by prison...

PM Johnson has been urged to deliver emergency funds to protect London from £20m of fire cuts. The London Fire Brigade faces £20m of cuts...

THE UK is using ‘terror designations’ as a tool to criminalise grassroot support for Palestine,’ Iran has warned. Iran was reacting to Tory Home Secretary...

FROM TODAY all 42,000 British Airways workers who have not signed up for voluntary redundancy will be regarded by BA as being willing to...

HAMAS negotiators in Cairo have agreed a new proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, which calls for an initial 60-day truce and hostage release...

TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...

ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) stormed Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City at dawn yesterday, kidnapping dozens of injured, displaced people, forcing them outside undressed, blindfolded...

ISRAEL’S genocidal assault on Gaza has devastated the territory’s education system, leaving more than 780,000 students without regular schooling for three consecutive academic years,...

A GROUP of economists issued an open letter yesterday warning that Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s planned financial deregulation bill will lead to an economic...

THE CRISIS in Sri Lanka escalated yesterday as wild protests broke out on the streets over spiralling fuel and food prices, and daily blackouts...

AT least nine people were killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp yesterday morning, including five children who were playing in...

ISRAELI prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel has rejected US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace 15-point plan and will not withdraw...

TORY PM Johnson, yesterday morning stated he is willing to scrap the Iran nuclear deal in favour of a ‘Trump deal’. Then, in a move...

HUNDREDS of striking criminal barristers held mass pickets outside the Supreme Court in London yesterday, as well as outside Preston, Plymouth and Birmingham Crown...

ISRAELI occupation forces carried out 10 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, resulting in 112 fatalities and 157...

MILLIONS of Britons are cold, hungry and struggling to get medical care this winter amid the cost-of living-crisis. Almost a quarter of adults have not...

AFTER nearly three years beneath the rubble, the bodies of 112 Palestinians from the Abu Sharia and Al-Hasayna families, killed in an Israeli airstrike...

THERE was a lively and determined picket of members of the Society of Radiographers (SoR) King’s College Hospital in Camberwell, south east London on...

TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay hit out against the NHS’s junior doctors again yesterday ahead of their five-day strike later this month, and on...

‘THERE is a real possibility that supplies of petroleum products could be affected,’ union leaders warned yesterday as Unite and the GMB unions announced...

DONALD Trump has imposed fresh tariffs on more than 80 countries, replacing a blanket 10 per cent duty hours before it lapsed. The new levies...

FOUR pro-Palestine hunger strikers are continuing their hunger strike. Heba Muraisi is on her 54th day of hunger strike, Teuta Hoxha is on her 48th...