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10 DOWNING Street is preparing to allow parliament to vote on seven alternative EU options next week amid their growing fears that PM May...

‘FAILURE to invest more now to tackle the nursing workforce crisis will mean disaster for the health and care services this winter,’ the Royal...

STRIKING RMT railway workers were boosted by the leader of the US Amazon Labour Union joining their picket line at Euston Station yesterday morning. ALU...

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...

AS MORE than 60,000 junior doctors begin three days of strike action at 7am this morning, the British Medical Association (BMA) warns that two-thirds...

PM Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus. Johnson said he developed mild symptoms over the past 24 hours, including a temperature and cough. He is...

DESPITE announcing yesterday a seven-day rolling average of 130 people a day dying from Covid-19, Tory PM Johnson announced measures to ‘safely ease the...

THE CORONAVIRUS Act was put to Parliament for renewal yesterday, extending the sweeping police powers contained in it for a further six months until...

‘WE THANK the US for the support given to the State of Palestine,’ President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday at a joint press conference with...

MATERNITY support workers in Grimsby began two weeks of strike action yesterday, over their employer’s failure to compensate them fairly for the many years...

Iran’s top security body says the powerful Iranian military response as part of True Promise III forced the Israeli regime to halt its aggression unilaterally. The...

HUNDREDS of Iraqi members of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) and their supporters stormed the US embassy in Baghdad for the second day in...

AHEAD of talks with Unite negotiators aimed at ending the long-running binworkers strike yesterday, Birmingham Council Leader John Cotton claimed: ‘We’re in a position...

PRIVATE firm G4S has been forced out of the immigration sector it was announced yesterday after the scandal at detention centre Brook House in...

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

FRENCH protesters downed tools and marched once again in Paris and other cities yesterday. They have been galvanised by President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to ram...

WORKERS erupted in celebrations across the US on the news that Amazon workers forced the tech giant to recognise a trade union in America...

‘HUMILIATING, painful, depressing,’ says a new report released yesterday by homeless charity Crisis, highlighting the brutal realities of ‘sofa surfing’. The research shows that with...

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves is facing mounting pressure as government borrowing soars far beyond expectations, alongside new signs of economic decline. In the year to March,...

JUDGES have quashed the convictions of 39 former postmasters after the most widespread miscarriage of ruling class justice in the history of UK capitalism. The...

A controversial UK-US medicines deal will cost the NHS an estimated £9bn a year by 2035 in higher drug prices, critics have warned. The agreement,...

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

MATT WRACK, the FBU general secretary, said yesterday in response to the Grenfell Tower inquiry phase one report: ‘The Inquiry’s interim report must finally...

‘INDEFINITE strike action to win it quick and win it now,’ Hounslow bus garage driver and Unite member Stoyan Ivanov demanded yesterday. More than 2,000...

FACILITIES staff are on the third day of their four-day strike action today at Maudsley and Royal Bethlem Hospitals. Lois Gyabi, striking GMB member, told...

‘WE MUST send a clear message that rogue employers cannot get away with trampling over the laws of this country, it is time to...

KENSINGTON and Chelsea council have re-housed Grenfell survivors and their families in a block found to have a ‘high risk’ of fire! A fire risk...

ON DAY three of the case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, at the Old Bailey in central London, yesterday morning the court went straight...

UNITE yesterday welcomed a Scottish parliament motion lodged by Neil Findlay MSP drawing attention to the crisis facing BA workers. The company has served BA...

THE leaders of Ukraine’s breakaway regions, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics are among those who are being targeted by the new UK anti-Russian...

ABOUT 100,000 people are besieged in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza without medical or food supplies, the Palestinian Civil Emergency...

Chancellor Hammond said yesterday that he would seek to bring down the Tory government if it tried to take Britain out of the European...

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...

OVER 2,000 security guards at Heathrow Airport are holding a further 33 days of strike action throughout the summer. The 33 days of strike action...

‘OUR FAMILY cannot wait any longer, ’ said the family of Chris Kaba yesterday, the six-months anniversary of the 24-year-old black man’s fatal shooting...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin announced a ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine’s Donbass region early yesterday morning to ‘defend people there against government forces’, stressing...

TORY CHANCELLOR SUNAK yesterday said it is ‘very likely’ the UK is in a ‘significant recession’, as figures show the economy contracting at the...

A RESERVE Major General in the Israeli occupation army, Yitzhak Brik, yesterday spoke out about the dire situation in the Gaza Strip. Brik described the...

STRIKE ballots will open at 143 universities across the UK from today in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions. The University and College Union...

‘FREE, Free Palestine’ chanted over 1,000 protesters waving Palestine flags outside the High Court yesterday. The court was holding an emergency hearing seeking a judicial...

‘WE NEED collective action and a general strike. This Tory government has to go. It’s spent the last ten years looking after the bosses...

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

‘EALING Hospital workers and patients are fully backing us over our confrontation with Tory Health Secretary Hancock here on Monday when he refused to...

FORMER chairman of the Post Office Henry Staunton dropped a bombshell on the Tories when he appeared before the Business and Trade Select Committee...

FRIENDS and family, concerned members of the North Kensington community and local campaigners joined forces on Saturday evening to demand justice for El, a...