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DIVERTING patients, who are ‘not seriously ill’, away from emergency departments is neither safe nor effective, new research published in the Emergency Medicine Journal...

OVER 50 people picketed a meeting of Lambeth Primary Care Trust (PCT) yesterday, in opposition to the closure of the renowned Emergency Clinic at...

OVER 10,000 workers and youth gathered at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) grounds on Wednesday evening on the 9th day and night...

CULTURE secretary Jeremy Hunt sent a congratulatory text message to News Corp executive James Murdoch just hours before he was asked to oversee the...

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei warned Tuesday that, ‘without Jerusalem there will be no peace’ with Israel. ‘Peace starts in Jerusalem and ends there. Peace...

‘The unions need to mobilise joint industrial action to defeat the Health and Social Care Bill and see off this Tory coalition government.’ This...

A LABOUR MP said yesterday that British soldiers led the counter-revolutionary ‘rebel’ advance on Tripoli last week. In an interview with the Russia Today...

‘I AM absolutely 100% behind Jeremy Corbyn,’ BFAWU Bakers Union General Secretary Ronnie Draper told News Line yesterday, as the attempted coup by a...

‘OUR union leaders are telling everybody our dispute is finished but it is not finished,’ locked out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News...

ACCORDING to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 100 Palestinians have been killed and over 600 injured in Israel’s assault on the besieged coastal enclave. The Palestinian...

THE TORIES are ‘blithely sailing towards an iceberg’ with their plans for the NHS, the President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM),...

Banks and developers will make £23 billion in profits and interest over the next 30 years by building NHS hospitals under the government’s Private...

‘Walsh isn’t interested in compromise. This is our eighth day on strike and it has gone on to a different level’. British Airway’s cabin...

‘WE are all very strong and standing firm in the wind and all weathers on our picket line on the hill and won’t give...

THE Standard and Poor’s ratings agency has threatened to bankrupt the major eurozone states by shredding their triple A status. This would make it impossible...

STUDENT nurses demanded action to defend their bursaries at a Unison student nursing summit held at the union’s headquarters in Euston, central London, yesterday. Sophia...

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...

‘The strike is strong, the public are still behind us and members are strong and want to continue,’ striking RMT London Area Council Rep...

A nurse working at Chase Farm hospital is facing an eviction notice that would leave her homeless by the new year. Gloria Ankrah is being...

TRADE union leaders on Thursday gave their response to Chancellor Hunt’s austerity war on workers in his Autumn Statement. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:  ‘The...

THE United States must bring all prisoners being held in Guantanamo Bay to an independent trial or release them, the United Nations has said...

THE UNISON public sector union yesterday reaffirmed it will back strike action to defend NHS jobs. It was responding to the news that the huge...

ISRAELI police clashed with Palestinian worshippers inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday. Palestinian guards of the mosque said dozens of Israeli officers raided the compound,...

THREE days of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip left 59 Palestinians dead by noon yesterday local time, including 14 children and three women,...

‘HALT the Family Farm Tax,’ demand thousands of farmworkers as they roll into Whitehall, many aboard their tractors, at 1pm this afternoon. Small farmers across...

AT 10:36 yesterday morning PM May announced that she will resign as PM on June 7. She said: ‘I have agreed with the Party Chairman...

AN ACUTE lack of ambulances and paramedics has created a situation where 999 patients classed as ‘life threatening’ are waiting for up to...

DOCTORS’, nurses’, ambulance staff leaders and Labour yesterday slammed plans to more than double target times for ambulances to reach some seriously ill patients. A...

Tens of thousands of ‘Yellow Vest’ demonstrators took part in anti-government protests across France on Saturday. Police used tear gas against them in streets across...

The leaders of five of the largest unions in the AFL-CIO – the Teamsters, UFCW, UNITE-HERE, Laborers’, and SEIU – held a ‘Change to...

‘LONMIN – Blood on your hands! Justice for Marikana now! Amandla!’ shouted a lively protest outside the London-listed mining company’s office in Mayfair yesterday...

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...

DELEGATES to the TUC Conference in Manchester yesterday voted almost unanimously for Composite Motion 10, Defending public services and for Paragraphs 3.1 and 3.13...

FOR the first time since massive regular protests began in January, the French government has held discussions with union leaders regarding the two year...

THE VOTE Arj Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall campaign team got great support from Ealing Hospital, Greenford Bus Garage and Southall Mosques,...

Chagos Islanders are at the High Court in London today, where the British government is making a second appeal against the ruling that they...

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) and Unison at Middlesex University are striking today in a row over job cuts and changes...

GATE Gourmet managers yesterday continued to present their witness statements on the third day of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers employment tribunal in...

AS GREEK workers went to the polls yesterday, bourgeois commentators were warning of a ‘widespread contagion’ or even an ‘asteroid strike’ of an economic...

BANKS and speculators are attempting to offload mortgage default risk onto unsuspecting taxpayers and pension funds amid fears of a looming property crash in...

IN an overwhelming victory for Labour, Sadiq Khan has become the new mayor of London yesterday. Londoners were glad to see the back of Boris...

DEPUTY Labour leader Tom Watson and Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer, along with union leaders, are pushing for a second referendum in a move...

Public sector union Unison, yesterday warned that predicted huge job losses in the public sector could wipe out vital local services such as day...

JUNIOR doctors urged their colleagues yesterday to vote ‘NO’ and reject the so-called ‘deal’ struck by Tory health secretary Hunt and the...

‘Nurses should not work for free,’ insisted Dr Peter Carter, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing yesterday. He was commenting on newly qualified...