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Trade unions yesterday condemned Tory threats to ban strikes after Downing Street dropped a bombshell, confirming that Tory leader Cameron is ‘considering’ just that. London...

Nine people were killed and hundreds injured by Israeli forces during protests demanding the right of return for Palestinian refugees, as tens of thousands...

THE Tories have ruled out any fresh talks with the junior doctors and in doing so have thrown down the gauntlet for a fight...

‘A MONUMENTAL victory!’ the GMB union declared yesterday as the London employment tribunal ruled against Uber and in favour of the workforce who are...

THE Bank of England has warned that the biggest banks and building societies operating in Britain face a £120bn shortfall in their finances. In a...

ANGRY doctors yesterday delivered a vote of No Confidence against Tory Health Secretary Hunt. Doctors at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM)...

‘MY BABY Victoria was born at Ealing Hospital and is one month old today,’ said mother Gleisa Lima outside the hospital yesterday morning. She...

VACANCY freezes and fears of redundancy and downgrading are continuing to plague the NHS as it heads for a £1.8bn surplus, a Royal College...

THE Greek National Health Service doctors’ union OENGE has called on all doctors, trades unions, trades councils and social association to ‘organise jointly mobilisations...

THERE was a mass picket of over 200 locked out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow airport yesterday. Senior shop steward Mr Dhillon told News...

BY KHALED TAYEH EVER since Israeli Jewish supremacist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, became officially a part of the new Israeli far-right government, he...

ON THURSDAY evening workers in the Samlak cafe on Southampton Way, Camberwell showed support for Aminata Sellu, WRP candidate for Camberwell & Peckham. Aminata...

COUNCIL tax debt is the fastest-growing form of debt, Citizens Advice reported yesterday, revealing that it has now become the number one debt problem...

TWO desperate refugees tried to commit suicide by hanging themselves in central Athens’ Victoria Square on Thursday. With the EU states bordering Greece...

UNITE, Community and GMB trade unions yesterday called on Tata steel workers at Port Talbot to vote ‘YES’ when the...

NORTHERN Ireland’s Unison education and health members are to take strike action on October 5. Unison general secretary Patricia McKeown said workers in many sectors...

FOREIGN Office documents made public by the National Archives after more than 50 years give the fullest account yet of a massacre which took...

SUCH is the developing crisis facing the Tory Party that the Queen’s Speech has now been delayed. It was due to be delivered on Monday...

ENDING damaging staff cuts, bringing all of London’s Tube back into the public sector and getting the network’s upgrade back on track are more...

‘CUT our pay – no way!’, ‘Two per cent is rubbish, so is Gordon Brown!’ and ‘Come on, come on Gordon Brown – raise...

THE Bank of England (BoE) launched a huge intervention in government bond markets yesterday, as the UK financial crisis spiralled out of control following...

Tens of thousands of students and youth marched from University of London Union (ULU) near Euston down to parliament yesterday lunchtime, shouting against the...

ALL Aer Lingus routes will be affected when 500 pilots strike for 48-hours next Tuesday and Wednesday. They are taking action against the airline’s...

THE House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has called for an investigation into whether the British Labour government outsourced British nationals to countries such...

EALING Hospital workers, patients and visitors yesterday called for an occupation by the trade unions to stop the closure of the hospital’s...

RUSSIA’S Foreign Minister Lavrov, said yesterday that Moscow will not interfere with affairs in Ukraine. The Kremlin has reacted with barely-disguised anger...

A DAMNING investigation has found that individuals who sit on the board of the south London Durand Adademy Trust were also acting...

UNEMPLOYED workers will not be offered homes under a new council ‘re-generation’ scheme, sparking outrage and allegations that the move stinks of ‘social cleansing’. Hastings...

THE British Medical Association yesterday criticised NHS employers for refusing to enter into talks over the loss of hospital accommodation support. From August 2008, junior...

‘I HAVE to be blunt with you, our recovery comes with a cost,’ Chancellor Rishi Sunak told the Tory Party conference yesterday outlining his...

SURGERIES are in such crisis that one in six GPs have cancelled all routine appointments at some point over the last year, seeing emergency...

Unite has sent a letter to Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change yesterday, pleading with him to intervene in the...

‘WE HAVE called for a new customs union, with a say in future trade deals, a strong single market relationship and a guarantee to...

IN response to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s so-called day-after plan for Gaza, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that: ‘Gaza...

SOME 10,000 workers and their families gathered outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) last Thursday evening in Athens in protest against the European Central Bank’s...

AT least nine people were killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp yesterday morning, including five children who were playing in...

DOCTORS will take strike action in defence of their NHS pension scheme on Thursday June 21st, the BMA confirmed yesterday, following an overwhelming YES...

EAST of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) management operated a policy of downgrading target response times for 999 emergency calls from December 18th...

Disabled people occupied the Central Lobby of Parliament yesterday against the abolition of their Independent Living Fund (ILP). They attempted to storm parliament itself,...

JACOB Rees-Mogg Tory MP for North East Somerset yesterday warned that ‘Brexit is being watered down to the extent where you couldn’t really tell...

‘BE READY for action in the autumn term, with head teachers with us on the picket line – get ready for a general strike...

‘What do we want? Fair Pay!’ ‘When do we want it? Now!’ chanted a mass picket of over 150 PCS strikers outside the British...

YOUTH unemployment has risen by another 20,000 to very nearly one million, according to figures issued by the Office for National Statistics yesterday. The number...

35,000 WORKERS and youth rallied yesterday at Marble Arch, Speakers Corner, to insist that ‘Black Lives Matter’ and give their 100% support to the...

A NEW report to the US Congress reveals that the Biden administration has deployed a record number of US troops to Jordan as the...