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DOWNING Street did not tell the truth when it said Boris Johnson was unaware of official complaints about Chris Pincher’s misbehaviour, a former senior...

UNISON has served notice of the first week of industrial action on health and social services employers across Northern Ireland. Phase 1 of the Unison...

NEARLY 600,000 people participated in nationwide protests across France on Thursday, according to the CGT union, responding to a strike call by trade unions...

‘WE WILL absolutely not pause our strike action,’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary Pat Cullen said yesterday morning on the BBC’s Laura...

AS MANY as 40 different universities around the UK have now reported corona cases as the virus sweeps through the education system. After the University...

GREEK state hospitals workers and doctors are fighting back against a government vaccination law which has led to unpaid ‘suspension from work’ of some...

HAMAS has celebrated the ceasefire agreement ending the Israeli regime’s genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip, describing it as a testament to the resilience...

THERE was a very lively and well-attended rally at the front of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday lunchtime, with delegations of Unite...

THE 25th National March for Palestine assembled outside Green Park in Piccadilly in central London on Saturday morning, with 50,000 demonstrators chanting: ‘From the...

THE GLOBAL economy nosedived as soon as markets opened yesterday morning with shares around the world haemorrhaging. Once more at the start of US trading,...

OVER 300 University and College Union (UCU) striking lecturers and student supporters rallied and marched to the Royal Exchange Building in the City of...

STAFF that work for the Labour Party have voted in favour of striking if Labour carry out their threat of redundancies, GMB and Unite...

SIX people, including four children, were killed in a US drone strike in Kabul, Afghan TV reported yesterday, citing eyewitnesses. Earlier, US officials said that...

DURING their five-day strike which concludes today, hospital staff working for SERCO gathered for a lively union rally at the Royal London Hospital at...

‘WE HAVE delivered more powers to the police, including stop and search,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel told the Tory conference in Manchester yesterday. This...

FROM NICK AXARLIS IN ATHENS SCORES of Greek armed riot police attacked thousands of workers and students with tear-gas and noise-smoke grenades last Thursday night...

WITH a ComRes poll revealing yesterday that public support for a no-deal Brexit is rapidly rising, up 6% since January and now standing at...

NURSES will suffer a huge wage ‘hit’ this year if the Government imposes a pay rise well below the soaring rate of inflation, unions...

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...

AS ISRAEL’S genocide in Gaza nears its 11th month, US workers are continuing to rally and demand that President Joe Biden and vice president...

'The entire world is watching,’ Greta Thunberg told a 50-strong rally for the Filton 24 hunger strikers on Saturday night. The rally was held at...

TENS of thousands of school and university students demonstrated last Friday in Athens and in all Greek major cities against the oppression and violence...

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

MASS uprisings have broken out in Minneapolis as hectic protests over the police killing of an unarmed black man George Floyd escalated into violent...

A LIVELY demonstration was held outside the surgery of the Labour Justice Secretary and deputy Prime Minister David Lammy MP in White Hart Lane,...

BARRISTERS have voted to take indefinite action, refusing appear in court, and take new instructions from September 5th over fees and legal aid cuts,...

CORONAVIRUS infections have risen by 25% across the UK, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics, to more than 35,200...

THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday slammed the University of Huddersfield for large-scale redundancy proposals that could see staff lose their jobs by...

The TORY government has been forced to back down over its hated ‘Shaping a Healthier Future’ (SaHF) NHS cuts and closure programme in north...

THE GMB union scored an ‘historic’ win on Friday when the Supreme Court passed judgement in the union’s landmark workers’ rights case against Uber. This...

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has held the US administration fully responsible for the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza, the latest of which was the horrific...

NEW RESEARCH by ActionAid, Public Services International, and Education International warns that the International Monetary Fund’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermine...

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...

NINE out of ten UK A&E clinicians are not confident that their departments will cope this winter. Shockingly, in a survey by The Royal College...

STAFF isolation exemptions are absolutely the wrong answer to the government’s failure to control spiralling infection rates, says doctors’ union the BMA. Responding to news...

NINETY Birmingham bin strikers came down on a double-decker bus to London to a Unite union rally outside Parliament yesterday afternoon. Strike leader Mike Masters...

METROPOLITAN Police officer Wayne Couzens yesterday pleaded guilty to murdering Sarah Everard. The 33-year-old vanished while walking home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south...

FIRES burned across Kuwait’s largest oil refinery for a second consecutive day as Iran widened its strikes on Gulf energy infrastructure, while Tehran warned...

MORE than 400 workers were sacked and locked out of the Exxonmobil petrochemical site in Fife, Scotland yesterday, as the company announced a plan...

OVER 200 people demonstrated outside the doctors’ union BMA head office in central London yesterday to protest against the ban on Dr Swee Ang...

‘THE UK government’s extremism definition is a smash and grab on our human rights,’ Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International Chief Executive, said yesterday. He was speaking...

THE JOHNSON government faces an expected rebellion by about 60 Conservative MPs in tomorrow’s House of Commons votes to pass new ‘Plan B’ Covid-19...

PM TRUSS will limit energy bill rises for all households for two years as the new Prime Minister tries to prevent the British economy...

ISRAEL headed towards an air, land and sea attack on Gaza yesterday, having killed more than 3,000 Gazans, including over 1,000 children, during the...

THE UNITE union has agreed a package with engineering giant Rolls-Royce to financially protect the 20,000 UK workforce during the coronavirus emergency by delaying...