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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...

SCUNTHORPE scaffolders have stepped up strike action at a British Steel site. The British Steel plant in Scunthorpe faces further disruption this month as scaffolders...

THE Hamas Movement has called on the US administration to rescind its proposals for Palestinian displacement and alternative homelands that align with Israeli plans...

TRANSPORT secretary Grant Shapps threatened rail workers’ jobs yesterday by saying: ‘Rail strikes will drive passengers away and threaten rather than protect rail workers’...

LAST Tuesday on national state television, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis likened students to ‘robbers’ because they have occupied their university departments in...

US PRESIDENT Trump is behind the politically motivated prosecution of Julian Assange who he said should receive the death penalty, it was alleged by...

THE ARMED forces are being mobilised to break NHS workers’ picket lines this week, Dowden, the Tory minister in charge of the capitalist state’s...

THE al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s biggest hospital, will run out of fuel today, or tomorrow at the latest, with 35,000 men, women and children crammed...

FOOD prices are rising at their fastest rate for 45 years, with the cost of basics such as milk, cheese and eggs surging and...

‘OPEN the doors to the refugees,’ demanded 20,000 marchers in Athens on Thursday. Some 20,000 people marched through Athens on Thursday night calling for the...

ENGLISH College principals increased their pay by four times the rate recommended by the sector’s employer body, the University and College Union (UCU) has...

IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian says the nation should not allow rioters to cause insecurity in the country, stressing that protesting is different from rioting. ‘If the people...

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

A SENIOR official from Hamas, Basem Naim, said in a statement yesterday that Hamas is open to any initiative to end the war. ‘We affirm...

THE President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday stressed the need to completely stop the ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people, open...

JOHNSON’S Tory government have stepped up their war on the unemployed ratcheting up the sanctions regime, which leaves some of the most vulnerable people...

THE GOVERNENT wants to sack 91,000 civil service jobs to save money, the UK’s top civil servant says. The aim is to return to 2016...

DOCTORS are under attack financially, professionally and morally, and calling an election doesn’t get the government off the hook, British Medical Association leader Professor...

THE SOCIAL Mobility Commission in its State of the Nation report 2021, published yesterday, has unveiled in detail the devastating impact of coronavirus on...

Yesterday at the TUC Congress, moving a motion on council funding, Sharon Graham, Unite General Secretary, said: ‘We in the trade unions have enormous...

POSTAL workers are warning the public of the ‘end of Royal Mail as we know it’, as 115,000 employees strike today and Black Friday...

BRITISH Airways’ (BA) freight services at Heathrow airport are set for nine days of fresh strike action which will begin on Friday 22 January after...

SOME 4,000 students and workers marched in Athens on Monday night in the biggest demonstration so far in support of imprisoned hunger striker Dimitris...

THREE detained activists affiliated with Palestine Action have ended a prolonged hunger strike after the government blocked a major British Army contract for Elbit...

THE Hamas Movement has condemned the repeated targeting of civilians at food aid distribution centres in the Gaza Strip, calling it a war crime...

‘Butt Out!’ the GMB union told the Tory government yesterday, after it overturned a Welsh law on Monday night banning the use of agency...

‘HEATHROW’S cash mountain should be used to help low paid staff threatened by “fire and rehire”,’ Unite said yesterday. Heathrow workers are currently being...

THERE were lively picket lines outside Imperial College London in White City and South Kensington yesterday. Imperial College staff resumed strikes last Thursday against a...

LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning to initiate a new regime of widespread welfare cuts, throwing thousands of sick, disabled and mentally ill off...

OVER half of London’s nurses want to leave the city as the cost of living devours their income. The majority of nursing staff blame the...

AN EIGHTY-strong coachload of Yellow Vest protesters came over from France to join the demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday morning demanding WikiLeaks founder...

ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) continued their genocidal war on the Gaza Strip for the 642nd consecutive day on Wednesday. Using airstrikes, artillery shelling and live...

THE FIRE Brigades Union has responded to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services State of Fire and Rescue 2021 report...

AROUND 100 protesters gathered outside the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey as bail hearings concluded for members of the Filton 24, activists...

AT least 56 Palestinians have been killed and scores more sustained injuries in Israeli assaults across Gaza since Thursday morning, according to medical sources. In...

HAMAS yesterday condemned Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza City and relocate its population as a clear violation of international law. The Palestinian resistance movement warned that...

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...

ONGOING conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo plus last year’s massive cuts in overseas aid are hampering the Ebola outbreak response, the head...

A HUGE 200,000-strong march of workers, students and youth went from Parliament Square to Hyde Park on Saturday, the 13th National demonstration for Palestine...

TORY Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the new White Paper in Parliament yesterday pushing a complete reorganisation of the NHS, breaking...

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...

‘THERE must be national strike action by the whole RMT to win our P&O members their jobs back,’ leading RMT rep Darren Lalli said...

PATSY Stevenson has warned the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in a pre-action letter that she intends to initiate legal proceedings against the Metropolitan...

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer sought to outbid the Tories in anti-Russian war rhetoric when he was interviewed on BBC TV yesterday morning. Claiming that...

A MOTION is set to be put to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this afternoon to oppose PM Starmer’s scrapping of the Winter...