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STAFF at 74 universities across the length and breadth of the country and in the north of Ireland are to strike in February and...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn began his speech to the CBI yesterday by declaring his loyalty and enthusiasm for business. He said: ‘And if a Labour...

SRI Lanka’s prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as acting president, while the country reels from the economic crisis and the developing...

‘I KNOW many Members across the House will find these facts incredible (loud jeers) and to that I can only say that they are...

THE British Medical Association yesterday rebutted right wing attacks on its ‘derogation’ system, whereby the NHS can ask for resident doctors, who are taking...

‘THIS is yet more evidence that emergency services are in disarray,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday ahead of today’s A&E report...

AS THE Omicron crisis grips the capital, Labour politicians yesterday called for public ownership of London Transport cleaning services. The MPs and peers made the...

THREE-QUARTERS of cladding systems on new medium-rise buildings use combustible materials, data show. These include 76 schools, 25 hospitals, nursing homes, hospices and older people’s...

SEVEN Palestinian children were killed yesterday in an Israeli strike while attempting to find drinking water in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza – the area...

RUSSIAN, Ukrainian and US negotiators are set to hold talks in the United Arab Emirates, marking the first meeting involving all three countries since...

THE Iranian nation and armed forces have imposed new realities on the battlefield that Washington and its allies must now accept,’ the Islamic Revolutionary...

HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock was forced to resign on Saturday afternoon despite repeated public statements from PM Boris Johnson that he retained his full...

UNIONS representing teachers and school leaders in England are united in calling on the School Teachers’ Review Body to make urgent recommendations on pay,...

AS THE Tory Party Conference began in Birmingham yesterday PM Truss boasted that she means to proceed from last week’s huge tax cuts for...

DELEGATES at the annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU) in Harrogate yesterday voted for districts, branches and school groups to ‘immediately prepare’...

THE UN General Assembly has adopted a Palestinian-drafted, non-binding resolution demanding Israel end ‘its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’ within 12 months. There...

SCOTLAND Yard is to be investigated over its failure to deal with an allegation of two acts of indecent exposure by a serving police...

COVID restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid ‘stumbling into a winter crisis,’ health leaders have warned. The NHS Confederation said a...

‘CORONAVIRUS is no reason to fire us!’ shouted over 150 strikers rallying outside the Tate Modern Gallery on Bankside yesterday afternoon. The strikers were marking...

OVER 200 people protested outside Parliament yesterday to demand the reversal of the Starmer Labour government’s scrapping of the Winter Fuel Allowance for 10...

THE Israeli occupation forces (IOF) yesterday hijacked at dawn the Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen and kidnapped the activists on board. The vessel, operated by the...

THREE unions – BALPA, Unite, and GMB – representing 25,000 British Airways workers have rejected the company’s latest pay deal meaning that a major...

NINETY seven percent of 54,000 primary school teachers polled are opposed to the SATs exams, their union the National Education Union reports today, the...

HUNDREDS of train workers rallied in Euston yesterday to mark three years of the guards strike, the longest in modern history, which has begun...

THE PUBLIC Accounts Committee released a damning report this morning which condemns the Tories’ ‘slow, inconsistent and at times negligent approach’ to the social...

GP LEADERS are dismayed as the UK Secretary of State refuses to give additional help to GP practices. The Health and Social Care Secretary is...

TORY PM Boris Johnson acted the buffoon yesterday as he described Ukraine’s war against Russia as the country’s ‘finest hour’, in a video address...

GP SURGERIES will start receiving referrals from A&E departments under a new set of measures proposed by NHS England which were announced yesterday. The plans,...

DOZENS of innocent civilians, including children and women, were brutally murdered and others injured yesterday as the occupying Israeli regime continued its genocidal war...

‘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 entire country must mobilise to defeat this imperialist aggression,’ the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela declared in a defiant statement yesterday. It said: ‘The Bolivarian...

JUNIOR doctors in England yesterday embarked on a five-day strike, marking the 11th walkout in their prolonged pay dispute. Members of the British Medical Association...

SCORES of Palestinian civilians were murdered and many others injured on Friday as the Israeli genocide campaign in Gaza continued for the 42nd day...

THE UNITE union has described the decision of Coventry council to press ahead and fire and rehire its entire refuse collection workforce as totally...

THE RMT East Midlands Trains (EMT) strike is to go ahead on Saturday after the company bosses snubbed talks. The dispute is over EMT management’s...

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...

‘AS WE begin a new year, the NHS is buckling before our eyes. The pressures are immense with flu cases surging while staff absences...

The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported yesterday that it has treated numerous Palestinians, including children, injured in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, even...

THE TORY government claimed yesterday that there is no threat to the UK gas supplies, despite four energy privateers being widely tipped to go...

ISRAEL and the United Arab Emirates reached a deal yesterday that will lead to a full normalisation of diplomatic relations between the two, in...

ISRAEL is creating ‘nature reserves’ in the occupied West Bank and this is ‘a blatant act of annexation and land theft that violates international...

IRAN’S President Masoud Pezeshkian yesterday hailed the ‘magnificent and epic’ presence of millions of Iranians in nationwide rallies on Monday. In a message to the...

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...

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

‘A NUMBER of our hospitals are literally falling down,’ Nigel Edwards, Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust health think tank said yesterday as he...