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THE Iranian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that the United States is not serious about negotiations, and asserted that Washington will face the Islamic Republic’s...

THE PALESTINIAN organisation that governs Gaza, Hamas, announced on Sunday that it will take legal action against the United Kingdom, which recently listed it...

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

TORY Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said face masks will be compulsory in shops and on public transport in England from tomorrow in response...

DAME Cressida Dick ‘felt intimidated’ into stepping down as Metropolitan Police Commissioner after an ultimatum from London Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, according to a...

POLICE officer Benjamin Monk has been jailed for eight years after being sentenced yesterday. He was convicted of the manslaughter of ex-footballer Dalian Atkinson...

THE TORY government issued a calculated insult to thousands of striking nurses yesterday as the Royal College of Nursing held national strike action for...

STUDENTS at the University of Maryland on Wednesday joined ongoing pro-Palestine campus protests across the US demanding their school cease doing business with military...

ISRAELI occupation forces yesterday prevented Red Crescent ambulances and their medical teams from entering the Tulkarm camp and reaching the casualties. The Red Crescent told...

TORY Prime Minister Johnson is expected to require Labour votes to get his new tougher tier system passed by the House of Commons next...

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...

‘DON’T make the £141bn student debt nightmare worse,’ the University and College Union (UCU) warned yesterday ahead of a government spending review. University staff have...

REFUGEE survivors of the Pylos shipwreck off the western shores of Greece, where approximately 600 children, women and men were drowned on 15 June...

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

‘THE ACTIONS we have taken to sanction Putin’s regime are not cost free for us at home,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday, outlining...

‘ALMOST a decade of Conservative education cuts has left our children’s future in a perilous state,’ says the GMB trade union. It has responded to...

THE Hamas Movement, along with the Palestinian presidency, welcomed the UN General Assembly’s overwhelming adoption on Thursday of a resolution calling for an immediate,...

THE UNITED Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed resolution on Palestine statehood on Tuesday, with 172 countries voting in favour of the resolution. The resolution affirmed...

LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday that he is ‘ready and willing’ to put UK ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine, just as...

THE WEST London Council of Action got a huge response at their Xmas picket at Ealing Hospital, yesterday morning. Shaihin, a paediatric nurse at Ealing...

HAMAS has condemned threats made by US President Donald Trump, warning that his remarks will embolden Israel to disregard the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. Hamas...

OVER 2,000 campaigners fighting for the freedom of Julian Assange attended a Night Carnival in London on Saturday. The carnival organised by the Don’t Extradite...

‘WE STAND in the best tradition of British socialism,’ Shadow Chancellor Labour’s John McDonnell said to cheers, outlining yesterday Labour’s economic policy for the...

FIGURES released yesterday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the number of workers on UK company payrolls fell by 649,000 between...

BRIGHTON and Hove primary schools in Sussex are staying closed today after the city council held an emergency meeting and ordered all primaries to...

LABOUR is tomorrow demanding a vote in the House of Commons to introduce a windfall tax on oil and gas companies, with former leader...

UCU UNION lecturers at the CONEL (College of North East London) and City and Islington College, Blackstock Road, started eight days of strike action...

MUCH tougher guidelines will be introduced in response to the ‘hugely distressing’ strip-searching of a black schoolgirl referred to as Child Q, the education...

WITH support from Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, the United Nations Development Programme and the Arab International Organisation for Reconstruction in Palestine...

‘We have been ignored for too long!’ says nurses’ leader Cullen ahead of December strikes   ‘WHILE billions of pounds is being spent on temporary measures...

WORKERS blame the government for the 7.7m-long waiting lists in England, finds a survey. As doctors in England begin the longest period of combined industrial...

THE European Commission has invited representatives of Syria’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), currently ruling Syria, to attend an official donor conference despite the group’s...

AT 6.30 yesterday morning campaigner for Palestine Qesser Zuhrah was arrested by masked police officers under Section 44 of the Serious Crimes Act and...

AMBULANCE worker members of the GMB, Unite and Unison unions will take national strike action on 21st December, with paramedics, emergency care assistants, call...

‘MONDAY’S action will be immense and there will be more of the same if London Underground (LU) continues its attacks,’ leading RMT officer Carlos...

THE UNITE trade union, which represents over 400 bus drivers at Go North West, has written to the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham,...

THE Palestinian rescue and civil defence teams yesterday removed 12 bodies of Palestinians that were buried under the rubble of two homes destroyed by...

OVER ONE hundred British MPs have demanded an immediate cessation of the UK’s arms sales to Israel amidst the ongoing conflict in Gaza. This request...

ONE HUNDRED and forty four workers have lost their lives while on the job in 2017-18, with the GMB at its Annual Conference in...

‘I WANT to set out our plan for Covid this winter and in many ways the situation we face is even more challenging than...

‘LET IN THE TRUCKS’ United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) demanded yesterday. Adnan Abu Hasna, UNRWA’s media advisor, demanded that Israel...

THOUSANDS of postal workers have voted in favour of more strikes in the long-running dispute over pay. More than 95% of staff who voted in...

OVER 100 protesters gathered outside the Old Bailey yesterday in support of the Filton 18, activists from Palestine Action after initially being detained under...

THE BALLOT for a new mandate to continue the powerful RMT Night Tube strike on London Underground has reached a crucial point, with the...

HIGHLY respected London GP Dr Augustine Obaro died from Covid-19 on New Year’s Day, becoming the 15th GP lost to the pandemic. Dr Obaro, who...