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MORE WORKERS at 74 universities across the country joined the strike yesterday as students also came out onto the picket lines to support their...

PRESIDENT Masoud Pezeshkian has emphasised that Iran makes no decision without the approval of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei. Pezeshkian made...

LABOUR leader Keir Starmer has suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the party over his remarks yesterday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn was...

Ambulance services are under ‘unprecedented pressure’ Tracy Nicholls, chief executive of the College of Paramedics said yesterday morning, with hand-over delays at a scale...

RUSSIAN and Ukrainian negotiators began a fourth round of talks yesterday. Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak said the talks focused on establishing a ceasefire, the withdrawal...

HUNDREDS of people have been wounded in Beirut after security forces used tear gas and water cannon to disperse crowds of anti-government protesters trying...

Over 20,000 staff at scores of universities are striking for five consecutive days this week in their fight for pay and working conditions and...

‘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...

AT LEAST 104 Palestinians, gathered in anticipation of receiving food aid amidst a severe hunger crisis, were killed and another 760 injured in a...

‘ST MUNGO’S should hang its head in shame,’ said Unite ahead of today’s solidarity midday rally outside the homelessness charity’s London HQ in St...

INDUSTRIAL production in the eurozone plummeted dramatically in December with factory output falling by 4.1 per cent in the final month of the year...

UP TO 1,000 school support staff from Merton to Greenwich and Woolwich rallied outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday chanting ‘London Weighting Needs Inflating’. They...

ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...

AMNESTY International has demanded that Israel immediately revoke its mass displacement order for residents of Gaza City, issued on 9th September, denouncing it as...

THE TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!' was the message from the CWU picket...

FIVE-HUNDRED dock workers employed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC) at the Port of Liverpool began a two-week strike last night. Unite regional...

THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton yesterday backed motions demanding better public sector pay and the right to coordinated strike action. Moving Motion 34,...

TENS of thousands of junior doctors in England begin an unprecedented six days of strike action at 7am this morning, with an 8am-10am mass...

WITH the prospect of industry being shut down in the wake of the energy and CO2 crisis, the Tory government has struck a deal...

UNITE has called ‘targeted’ strike action at Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) from Friday 2nd April to Sunday 25th April, with 41 strikes over the...

FRONTLINE health and social care workers must be given every opportunity to have the Covid-19 vaccine, BMA council chair Chaand Nagpaul has said. Dr Nagpaul...

THE LABOUR government will declare war on the disabled when Chancellor Reeves returns from China this week it was reported yesterday, as the media...

‘THE KILLINGS near aid distribution hubs are getting immeasurably worse and show no sign of ameliorating, considering how much Palestinians are in need of...

‘THE occupation is starving us,’ a young boy said yesterday, speaking alongside several dozen other young children who are among the 60,000 Palestinians who...

THE GOVERNMENT Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip has warned of ‘a catastrophe and a massacre that could leave tens of thousands martyred...

UK GOVERNMENT borrowing hit £36.1bn in September as the UK continued heavy spending to support the economy during the coronavirus pandemic. The figure was £28.4bn...

THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday increased interest rates to 1.75% – the highest in 27 years. It warned of 13% inflation...

ISRAEL’S cabinet has approved a measure to assume full control of land registration in Area C of the occupied West Bank, which covers around...

‘THIS SHOULD not be a debate about how we go forward with a no deal Brexit and at the same time offering up our...

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

AS ISRAELI Knesset members accused PM Netanyahu of blocking a ceasefire deal being reached with Hamas for personal reasons in order to avoid prosecution,...

DONALD Trump said on Wednesday he is ‘absolutely without question’ considering withdrawing the United States from NATO, his most explicit threat yet against the...

OVER ten thousand workers students and youth joined the Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day demonstration in central London yesterday. The demonstration assembled outside Marble Arch Station...

LABOUR Party leader Keir Starmer followed up his refusal to support the £15-an-hour motion carried by the conference on Monday by boasting in his...

SUPERMARKET giants Tesco and Morrisons have claimed almost £1bn worth of emergency finances between them – finances that were made available for shops that...

‘WE WILL defend our members against any and all attacks,’ Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham declared yesterday, in response to Tory Business Secretary Kwasi...

A BARRISTER for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire told the public inquiry that a ‘total neglect of safety’ was at the heart of...

UNDER plans unveiled by the government, NHS care in England will be significantly shifted out of hospitals and into newly proposed ‘neighbourhood health centres’. Prime...

PATIENTS at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, East London, are facing the prospect of ‘food chaos’ later this month, after workers employed by...

TORY PM Theresa May’s ‘time has run out,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Parliament yesterday. He added: ‘She no longer has the authority to offer...

TWO Labour MPs barred from entering West BanTWO Labour MPs were ‘astounded’ to be denied entry to Israel to visit the occupied West Bank...

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...

IRAN launched Wave 64 of Operation True Promise at dawn yesterday, striking military and strategic targets across Israel while simultaneously hitting US naval assets...

THERE HAS been confirmation that Jaguar Land Rover will build a new all-electric model at its Castle Bromwich plant. Unite said yesterday that the announcement...

‘WE'VE won every dispute at Heathrow in recent years and we’ll win this one,’ local Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell said when...