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

Trade unions yesterday slammed Labour’s privatisation policy in response to MPs’ criticism of the system of NHS charges. MPs on the House of Commons...

COUNCIL workers in Bromley, south London, are engaged in ten days of strike action to halt the privatisation of their services which threatens thousands...

UNISON members at their national delegate conference in Manchester yesterday voted unanimously to oppose the attack on their pensions with coordinated industrial action. Before debating...

TEACHERS unions said yesterday that the Tory government’s academy and free school programme has failed and its privatisation agenda amounted to a ‘war...

FIONA GODLEE, editor of The BMJ, has written to Health Secretary Hunt, accusing him of misrepresenting an academic article on deaths of patients admitted...

US miners’ families’ relief turned to fury yesterday when they heard that only one of 12 trapped miners was alive when their bodies were...

''WE are determined not to get evicted. We are determined to fight and we are determined to get a permanent place for me and...

THE Kurdish Community in London have written a statement ahead of a march in central London tomorrow against the arrest of Kurdish demonstrators in...

STUDENTS at the University of Maryland on Wednesday joined ongoing pro-Palestine campus protests across the US demanding their school cease doing business with military...

CIVIL servants’ union PCS yesterday joined the National Union of Teachers in raising serious concerns about the politicisation of education. Commenting on concerns raised by...

A NEW report documenting several violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israel during its recent military attack on the Gaza Strip from 10-21...

CASES of police abusing their role for sexual gain have risen sharply, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) warned yesterday, revealing the fact...

‘THERE is a real possibility that supplies of petroleum products could be affected,’ union leaders warned yesterday as Unite and the GMB unions announced...

A GOOD picket of junior doctors turned out at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital at 8am. They were in good spirits despite the wind...

OVER 100 workers, youth, pensioners and NHS staff from inside the hospital participated in the North East London Council of Action picket to...

Workers at the Vauxhall Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire are bracing themselves for today’s expected announcement by owners GM of 1,000 job cuts. Trade union...

Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith yesterday revived former Thatcher minister Tebbit’s savage ‘on your bike’ attack on the unemployed. Duncan Smith announced plans for...

ISRAELI forces cracked down on an anti-annexation protest yesterday which was heading towards Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa village, near Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley,...

MP’s are voting today in parliament over controversial plans to cut legal aid which legal charity Reprieve say will see ‘torture victims denied their...

THE METROPOLITAN Police have been condemned for their decision to impose a last-minute ban on a planned mass pro-Palestinian march starting from outside the...

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...

AT LEAST 123 Palestinians, including 21 aid seekers, were killed and 437 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in 24 hours, the Gaza Health...

WARPLANES of the US-led international coalition shelled a hospital and perpetrated a new massacre in Syria on Saturday, claiming the lives of six civilians...

THREE quarters of a million families in London will be plunged into fuel poverty after energy bills spiral by as much as 50% in...

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GAZA prime minister Ismail Haniya has hailed the Egyptian-brokered truce agreement between the Palestinian resistance and Israel as a triumph for the Palestinian people. He...

FELIPA MONTENEGRO the leader of the Bartolina Sisa Movement, which represents the rights of rural Indigenous women in Bolivia denounced that she and her...

AN ANALYSIS by the Health Foundation shows that soaring inflation means NHS staff face an average pay cut of £845 during 2021-22 and will...

AS TEMPERATURES plummet the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) anticipates ‘mayhem this weekend’ with the winter flu epidemic kicking in, affecting hundreds of hospitals...

GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel was first to announce yesterday that General Motors (GM) has chosen Canadian auto parts manufacturer Magna to buy Opel and...

LORD Prescott has demanded an inquiry into appalling treatment of unpaid ‘volunteers’ on the government’s slave labour ‘work programme’. They were bussed up to London...

THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced the international community over its ‘shameful silence’ on the Israeli military’s raid against Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital where...

THE NHS watchdog, Monitor, has proposed to import ‘production line’ surgery techniques from other countries to plug ‘gaps’ in NHS funding. Monitor’s chief executive David...

SACKED Greek ERT state TV and radio workers held a rally last Friday evening outside the main administrative and production building in a suburb...

VENTILATORS are to be rationed, using tactics employed on the battlefield, where army medics choose who to treat and who to leave to bleed...

FOR the first time, the High Court has blocked an attempt to force a comprehensive school to become an academy. Teachers union NASUWT said yesterday...

THE Palestinian Mission to the UK yesterday urged the UK government to protect the Palestinian people following the killing of Palestinian leader Abu Ein. In...

Disability Rights UK, representing over 500 organisations across the country, and the Child Poverty Action Group, yesterday condemned MPs for overturning House of Lords...

RAIL union RMT said yesterday it will fight Transport Secretary Chris Grayling’s plans to privatise Network Rail. The RMT lobbied a major speech on rail...

RAIL union RMT yesterday slammed the government for ‘presiding over a culture of private waste’ on the railways, calling for an end to the...

The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Postal Executive has put forward an emergency motion for possible strike action by Mail Centre members for debate at...

OVER 3,000 workers and youth staged a rally in the Athens city centre last Friday evening against the visit of the German Chancellor to...

JOE BRACK from the Julian Assange Defence Committee spoke to News Line yesterday after the Westminster Magistrates Court gave Home Secretary Patel the go-ahead...

OVER 200 workers and youth took part in a powerful 25th anniversary meeting of the heroic 1986-87 printers strike at St Bride’s Institute yesterday. A...