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TUBE drivers were on strike across London yesterday and are out again all day tomorrow, for 24-hours from midnight tonight, in their fight against...

the disastrous introduction of a ‘fatally flawed’ new recruitment system for junior doctors could haunt the NHS for years to come, the BMA has...

NURSES were yesterday striking at many hospitals in England, all but one health board in Wales and the whole of Northern Ireland, for the...

THE EU and the UN called for an official probe into mass graves at hospitals in Gaza, where hundreds of bodies have been discovered,...

CHANCELLOR Osborne has called for an all-out EU-wide War on Welfare, demanding yesterday that the European Union must ‘do more’ to ensure economic competitiveness...

‘THERE needs to be a national demonstration. British Airways, the Bank of England, and Serco workers, we are all on strike because we have...

Yesterday claims were made that the government was in discussions with businesses on the sale of personal information that will be contained in the...

THE first national strike in the National Health Service in 18 years began on Thursday night at 10pm as dedicated health workers and supporters...

THE government did not act on advice from the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to issue ‘a warning to housing providers’ about the danger of...

‘THE UK government’s extremism definition is a smash and grab on our human rights,’ Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International Chief Executive, said yesterday. He was speaking...

The UK’s two biggest teaching unions, the NUT and the NASUWT, yesterday announced plans for jointly coordinated strike action and action short of strike...

THE UK and India have agreed on a ‘new and expanded’ defence and security partnership during British premier Boris Johnson’s crisis visit to New...

‘No negotiator who would give up Jerusalem has a national mandate,’ Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has warned. Addressing guests at an iftar, a fast-breaking...

PROSPECT members in the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency have warned that safety on the UK’s road network is at risk if plans to...

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered a resumption of military strikes against Palestinian militants, and was accused of breaking the truce...

A WEAKER than usual Boris Johnson broke with the pre-speech propaganda that he would take a very defiant ‘do or die’ stance on leaving...

‘TUC GET off Your Knees – Call a General Strike!’ rang out as the Young Socialists March for Jobs set off from London to...

The Greek conservatives New Democracy party is building up a ‘pro-European front against populism’ with the aim of defeating the Coalition of the Radical...

OVER 70 hospital staff, patients, supporters and trade unionists held a rally outside the threatened Whipps Cross District General Hospital in Walthamstow, north London...

DOCTORS at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Cardiff yesterday passionately opposed the privatisation of the NHS. The first motion, Motion 20, opposed...

ISRAEL has ruled out peace and even an interim accord with the Palestinian leadership and the Palestinian people, kicking the ‘peace process’...

PUBLIC support for a nurses strike has risen six months after first industrial action. A new poll by YouGov for the Royal College of Nursing...

Living conditions for Palestinians in Gaza are at breaking point, Karen Abuzayd, head of the UN Relief and Works Agency warned yesterday. She said...

US Senator Bernie Sanders announced yesterday that he will run again for president in 2020, making a second attempt to win the Democratic Party’s...

STATEMENT of the Workers Revolutionary League – the Soviet section of the International Committee of the Fourth International: During this time we’re facing the new...

FILM-MAKER Ken Loach yesterday called on the trade unions to take strike action to force the release of government documents concerning the 1972-73 trial...

ON Monday 23rd October Hertfordshire County Council gave five hours notice of closure of Radlett fire station, betraying understandings and agreements made with...

THE steel industry in the UK faces shut-down, as the capitalist crisis deepens. The demand that the trade unions must organise occupations to halt the...

THE BMA is to survey junior doctors on possible action to take following massive anger over their exclusion from the NHS ‘pay award’. The BMA...

PRIME Minister Cameron explained to an audience of ‘social entrepreneurs’ in London yesterday that the ‘Big Society’ means ‘opening up’ public services to being...

Private security firm Blackwater USA, which sent its mercenaries to Iraq, has been condemned as being ‘dangerously out of control’ after nearly 200 shootings...

ON Saturday, Wakefield was like a sea of miners’ banners, declaring: ‘United we stand, divided we fall,’ ‘An injury to one is an injury...

The Arab League has criticised the United States for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution that sought to condemn Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip. The...

TODAY at the CWU conference postal section, an emergency motion for strike action will be presented. This motion comes after the imposition of the wage...

A TOXIC cocktail of benzene, hydrogen cyanide (HCN), as well as many known cancer-causing chemicals and fibres have been found in soil taken from...

THE RUSSIAN military announced yesterday that they detected a Ukrainian fighter jet flying alongside the Malaysian passenger jet before it crashed. The Russian military...

THOUSANDS of striking doctors and medical students, dressed in their white coats, marched through central Cairo yesterday to join the movement of millions of...

The 287 immigrant workers in Athens and Salonica ended their 44-day hunger strike last Wednesday evening with jubilations. The immigrant workers, most of them of...

Top UN and Palestinian health officials are warning that the new Israeli-controlled aid distribution system in Gaza is being used as a ‘deadly trap’,...

THE TORIES are set to mobilise their new anti-strikes law against railway workers and their unions as further strike action takes place during the...

CIVIL SERVANTS’ union the PCS, representing Border Force staff, has joined Care4Calais in their legal fight to prevent Home Secretary Priti Patel from pushing...

SEVERAL universities were being occupied yesterday, on the eve of today’s National Day of Action against the introduction of £9,000-a-year tuition fees and the...

TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed yesterday that Russia is on the brink of ‘invading’ Ukraine and threatened that what would ensue would be...

HAMAS yesterday denounced US President Trump’s call for the Gaza ceasefire to be cancelled, warning that the only way for the Israeli captives to...

Youth unemployment continued to rise from July to September, with the number of 16 to 24-year-olds out of work up by 15,000 to 943,000,...