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THE UK economy shrank by 0.2% in the last three months of last year, according to figures released by the Office of National Statistics...

YESTERDAY Paul Miller, chair of the British Medical Association (BMA) Consultants Committee launched an unprecedented attack on the government over the introduction of private...

‘CALLING all cyclists – join our Big Bike Ride from Ealing Hospital to Charing Cross Hospital on Sunday morning. And if you’re not...

Lawyers for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday said they wanted the truth, and answers to ‘lies that have been told’ about...

TENS of thousands of rail workers in dozens of infrastructure and operating companies are to be balloted for strike action. This is after employers...

OVER 100,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through central London on the 17th London National March for Palestine on Saturday. Speakers at the...

‘I DO not believe that nationalisation is the right answer,’ Tory PM Cameron said yesterday, putting two fingers up to the 15,000 steel workers...

‘WE need a national strike to win this now,’ striking Birmingham binworker Dean Harris, Unite Rep at the Atlas refuse site picket line told...

THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) is urging its hundreds of thousands of members to vote to strike for pay in a ballot which...

JUNIOR doctors and their union have responded angrily after 1,500 third year trainees were told they have to re-apply for their jobs as registrars...

TORY Chancellor Osborne, in his Autumn Statement delivered to parliament yesterday, launched war on the unemployed, students, youth and the state pension. Rather than announcing...

JOSHUA Ogunleye, National Secretary of the Young Socialists, told News Line yesterday: ‘The huge rise in youth unemployment to over the one million mark...

‘TUC GET OFF YOUR KNEES, CALL A GENERAL STRIKE!’ rang out outside the Brighton conference centre as the TUC three-day Congress opened yesterday. Hundreds of...

MORE than 560 Israeli settlers stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of East al-Quds under the protection of the regime’s forces...

SCOTLAND'S hospital doctors began balloting for strike action yesterday, against the Scottish government’s attacks on the NHS pension scheme. If the ballot gives the go-ahead,...

‘If we get a tax on pensions and jobs and pay, I think that the inevitability of industrial action stares us in the face,’...

THE LABOUR government announced 18,000 NHS staff sackings in England yesterday, with a deal with the Treasury signed off to hand the health service...

PUBLIC SECTOR employees, many of whom are essential Covid-19 workers, should not be subject to a continuing pay freeze from a government that has...

THE REVELATION that senior British civil servants have been briefing the capitalist press that Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is too sick and unfit to...

PM Cameron was rescued by Labour from a humiliating defeat in the House of Commons on Europe on Tuesday night after he faced his...

‘I will remind the audience on Monday, at the BMA ARM that it is a huge privilege to have the trust of our...

The four five-day strikes by British Airways cabin crew were yesterday declared illegal by the High Court. The first set of strikes was due to...

LABOUR is presenting new evidence to parliament today showing moves to break away from national pay in the NHS are spreading across England. A...

Chief of Defence Staff Lord Guthrie yesterday gave his backing to a call from right wing think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, for ex-servicemen...

‘GRANT Schapps doesn’t respect the right to strike. He wants to make strikes ineffective. I don’t believe him at all. I don’t think he’s...

A group from ‘Tent City’ occupation in Wembley occupied the London headquarters of ARK (Actual Return for Kids) the proposed sponsors of the Wembley...

THE Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has warned that it will pull out of the corporatist Croke Park talks if the Government does not...

THE two brothers released without charge after the massive state terror operation in Forest Gate told a press conference yesterday how they thought they...

UP to 5,000 people marched through central London yesterday on the TUC May Day demonstration. The PCS trade union was on 24-hour strike against mass...

THREE-QUARTERS of newly-qualified nurses are unable to find jobs because trusts are freezing recruitment, the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) said yesterday. The (RCM) Royal...

THE Royal Mail bid to get the three-day London CWU postal strikes declared illegal failed yesterday late afternoon. The London reps meeting taking place in...

Agency workers at BMW’s Mini plant in Oxford erupted in fury yesterday after 850 of them, a third of the Cowley plant workforce, were...

British Airways will face strike action by cabin crew and flight attendants at Christmas if it does not ‘pull back from the brink’, from...

LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are on the picket line today, determined to win victory this year. The airline catering company at Heathrow sacked over 700...

FIANNA Fail has betrayed its working class supporters and Irish Government aviation policy is a complete disaster‚ said TEEU (Technical, Engineering and Electrical Trade...

HOMELESS charity Shelter yesterday condemned the practice of ‘out-of (London)-borough placements’ as ‘unacceptable’. This came as Labour-run Luton Borough Council, Bedfordshire, is considering legal action...

EXTREMELY sick children will not receive the treatment they need if Scotland does not recruit over 100 extra consultants, the Royal College of Paediatrics...

Jeremy Corbyn, speaking at a children’s centre in Corby, Northamptonshire yesterday, announced that ‘we will do everything necessary’ to stop a No Deal Brexit...

STUDENTS and other supporters at the University of Sheffield rallied outside Firth Court yesterday and welcomed Chris Townsend, representing the three-day-old student occupation of...

CALLING for urgent talks, rail union RMT yesterday repeated its offer to suspend Southern strike action. RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said: ‘I have written...

Gate Gourmet sacked workers are holding their 5th Anniversary rally this Saturday, 2 October at Beaconsfield Primary School, Beaconsfield Road, Southall at 3.00pm

NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...

THE UCU (University and College Union) lecturers union held a national rally at the front of Kings Cross Station yesterday, completely taking over the...

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...

SEVERE Tory spending cuts are putting the future of local government, children’s services, health care and care for the elderly at risk of collapse,...