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SEVENTY-FIVE thousand junior doctors began their 72-hour strike yesterday, they are continuing it today and are being joined by hundreds of thousands of teachers,...

THE PROPORTION of households in the UK where no-one is working is at its lowest point for over 20 years, the Office for National...

ANKARA and Washington have reached an agreement to work together in their occupation of part of northern Syria, where the two NATO allies have...

THE British Medical Association yesterday expressed concern for the future of the NHS, after Health Secretary Hunt signalled more savage cuts. A BMA spokesperson said:...

RESIDENTS of the Palestinian village of Duma in the occupied West Bank are forming voluntary groups to guard against attacks by Israeli settlers. This is...

RESPONDING to the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) figures showing more nurses leaving than joining the profession, Janet Davies, Chief Executive and General...

‘TO HOBBLE the BBC in this way is, as one MP has already described, a piece of cultural vandalism. The government must face up...

‘JUNIOR doctors cannot and will not accept a contract that is bad for the future of patient care, the profession and the NHS as...

BEREAVED Grenfell relatives were unable to attend the start of public inquiry yesterday due to Home Office visa delays, with family members who have...

OVER 30 National Gallery strikers and their supporters were in a determined mood on Day 9 of their indefinite strike against privatisation and the...

CHANCELLOR Osborne oversaw the creation of a ‘Star Chamber’ yesterday, to force through the planned £60 billion a year spending cuts. Osborne told the...

PRIME Minister May finished a round of talks with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster yesterday afternoon without an agreement being reached. There was...

THE occupied Palestinian territories observed a general strike yesterday, affecting all aspects of life. It was called for by President Mahmoud Abbas and the...

THE FUTURE of Palestine cannot be drawn up by the White House, Jared Kushner or anyone else, Palestinian presidential spokesman Abu Rudeineh insisted in...

‘WE HAVE seen nurses spending their entire shifts treating people in car parks because of backed up ambulances, we know the prime minister recognises...

‘FOR students like me from a working class background, removing the bursary for nurses will mean that they cannot continue their studies,’ student nurse...

Blacklisted construction workers and their supporters, 200 strong, lobbied Parliament yesterday, demanding those who operated and used blacklists in Britain be prosecuted. In 2009 the...

‘THE National Audit Office (NAO) report into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital by private company Circle, should act as a warning of the dangers...

THE SYRIAN government absolutely rejects the allegations ‘that the army used in the past or uses now or will use in the future any...

TENS of thousands of school students around the world are set to walk out of their schools again to join the world-wide ‘Youth Strike...

A NEW BMA poll shows nine out of ten doctors regard the latest government pay award as ‘unacceptable’. As well, the BMA poll of...

YESTERDAY, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell accused PM May of having ‘blown the confidentiality’ over Labour support for her EU Withdrawal Agreement and demanded secret...

WARRING TORY Cabinet Ministers are set to deliver a series of speeches on the ‘road to Brexit’ culminating with one by PM May within...

MORE than 200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails joined on Sunday the over 1,800 hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, according to the...

Over 1,500 workers and youth marched through Athens on Tuesday evening to the US and Israeli embassies in commemoration of the Nakba and against...

The Lugansk city authorities called the Monday airstrike on the city centre, which killed eight, a war crime by the Kiev authorities. In a statement...

THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday supported the call by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell for ‘an emergency Budget for our public services’. The...

THE Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which Unite says places the NHS at ‘unique risk of being irreversibly privatised’, will not exclude healthcare,...

A DEMONSTRATION in Wakefield will be held today into the delay by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) on whether it will launch a...

ISRAELI forces opened fire on Friday afternoon at thousands of Palestinians who participated in the Great March of Return along Gaza borders, killing at...

UNISON is accusing Derby City Council of inflaming tensions and escalating a dispute with school support staff who have seen their pay slashed by...

JUNIOR doctors are set to renew their strike action in a ‘rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September’. The new chair of...

‘MASS rationing of operations to London’s patients’ is being planned under the London Choosing Wisely Programme, which was launched by the Healthy London Partnership...

MARKING half a year of demonstrations against the Macron government, French Yellow Vests protesters defied police tear gas and water cannon attacks for the...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn announced yesterday that he will give Labour MPs a ‘free vote’ on the crucial issue of whether the UK joins...

RELATIVES of people who died in police custody yesterday insisted that reforms pledged by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) be implemented without delay...

DR BAWA-GARBA’s victory, in reversing the General Medical Council’s decision to strike her off the medical register over the death of a patient was...

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...

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

IT WAS announced on Tuesday night that all operations during the month of January are cancelled, leaving over 50,000 patients in pain and misery. Also...

THE government plan to set up a £3.8bn a year fund to amalgamate health and social care, has collapsed and has been ‘postponed’. The...

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

THE British Medical Association yesterday welcomed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s pledge to give the NHS an extra £37 billion over the course of the...

UK manufacturing output fell by 1.5% in January indicating that the UK is heading for a ‘triple-dip recession’. Yesterday’s announcement led to an immediate fall...