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THE TORIES had promised a ‘complete ban’ on evictions from both council and private social housing. However, anger erupted yesterday as it emerged that...

‘THOMPSON out!’ chanted 17,000 striking Royal Mail postal workers at a rally in Parliament Square yesterday afternoon. They were expressing their anger at the company’s...

FROM TODAY all 42,000 British Airways workers who have not signed up for voluntary redundancy will be regarded by BA as being willing to...

ISRAELI forces carried out sweeping overnight raids into yesterday morning across the occupied West Bank, detaining dozens of Palestinians, assaulting residents, and issuing new...

INVESTORS dumped stocks worldwide for a fourth day yesterday, ahead of US President Donald Trump unveiling a fresh round of tariffs, and mounting concerns...

Postal workers at five mail centres – Bolton, Coventry, Crewe, Oxford and Stockport – are striking today against plans to close them and to...

‘THE union solicitor is filing our cases for employment tribunals. The cases must be filed before 90 days, we’ve waited for the company to...

WORKERS vowed to continue their occupation and stop the closure of Harland and Wolff shipbuilding industry in Belfast, after the yard went into administration...

‘THE crusader and colonial bombing campaign targeted inhabited areas in the city of Sabha at dawn on Monday, causing the destruction of several houses,’...

MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has had his passport returned to him as have other Zimbabwe Opposition officials. The documents were taken off them at Harare...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT claimants have been thrown into destitution, poverty, homelessness and starvation as a direct result of a ‘flawed algorithm’ a damning new welfare...

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

HUNDREDS of Lebanese marched to mark the first anniversary of the Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people. Lebanese police clashed with angry...

THERE is an anti-privatisation protest to defend the NHS taking place outside St Paul’s Way Medical Centre tomorrow from 2pm to 3pm. GPs and...

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves launched a vicious war on benefit claimants in her Budget yesterday, warning that she intends to take over the Tory ‘work...

HARMONI, the out-of-hours GP services privateer, is often so short-staffed that it is unsafe. Managers regularly send out desperate texts to doctors and nurses...

THERE was a lively mass picket at SOAS University, Central London, yesterday at the start of a two-day strike by cleaners. SOAS Unison Assistant Branch...

‘No more cuts! Sack Adam Crozier!’ shouted angry postal workers outside Royal Mail’s London headquarters yesterday, as 10,000 members of the Communication Workers Union...

STAFF at the Bank of England kicked off their three-day strike yesterday with a big picket and demonstration addressed by Labour shadow chancellor John...

LOCKED OUT Gate Gourmet workers received their monthly hardship payments of £228.80 from the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) yesterday. ‘We received it today...

THE NHS will face an unprecedented financial crisis in 2015-16,, just after the general election, the King’s Fund charity warned yesterday. In its quarterly...

THE Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has written to health minister Lord Howe expressing grave concern that the government is planning to privatise large...

UN EXPERTS have expressed deep concern over the operations of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the so-called relief organisation created by Israel and backed by the...

THE Greek government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou won the confidence vote in the Vouli (Greek parliament) with a margin of just three last...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are holding their monthly mass picket at the Beacon Roundabout, Beacon Road, near Heathrow Airport, Terminal Four from 11am to...

SAIF AL-ISLAM GADAFFI, son of murdered Libyan leader, Muammar Gadaffi, has been released from prison, according to the militia that has held him for...

Two-thirds of university entrants in England and Wales who applied for maintenance grants – designed to assist poorer students – were turned down, according...

Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin yesterday accused the US of trying to disrupt the Russian military operation in South Ossetia by transporting Georgian troops...

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

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

THE TORY government’s claim that it is injecting an extra £10bn into the NHS in England over the next five years is simply ‘misleading,’...

THE government has ruled that millions of pounds of compensation will be paid to British troops wounded in Iraq after May 2003, when the...

TORY-LIBDEM Coalition plans to charge fees to immigrants and overseas visitors attending District General Hospital Accident and Emergency Departments were condemned by Unison yesterday. ‘The...

THE Israeli minister of military affairs said yesterday that the occupying regime will forcibly expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip by every way possible as...

FORMAL backing for more than a quarter of a million civil and public servants to join a public sector-wide strike on November 30 puts...

THE ISRAELI military yesterday launched a large-scale exercise, involving ground forces, naval vessels and aircraft, simulating a war against Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement. The multi-day...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched a back-stabbing attack on the British Airways workers and their union, demanding that their strike planned to...

Legal charity Reprieve has accused the Brown government of attempting to intimidate it into dropping legal action on behalf of torture victims. Reprieve said in...

THE General Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces has vowed not to back down until securing the country’s legitimate rights and delivering a complete defeat...

OVER 100 striking NHS facilities workers shouted ‘30p, No,no,no, ISS Shame on You’, as they marched along the quay at Canary Warf beating drums...

Workers attending the morning shift at the GM van plant in Luton yesterday were presented with a Unite union leaflet, informing them of a...

FOURTEEN more Palestinians, including two children, died from starvation and malnutrition in Gaza in the 24 hours to yesterday, reports the Palestinian Ministry of...

FRIENDS and family, concerned members of the North Kensington community and local campaigners joined forces on Saturday evening to demand justice for El, a...

The Bedroom Tax will lead to massive rises in rent arrears and homelessness, hitting the poorest people the hardest, Margaret Hodge, Chairwoman of the...

‘We’re expecting a big turn out tomorrow for the nationwide demonstrations,’ an Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) spokesman told News Line yesterday. He added:...