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Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to the announcement by work and pensions secretary Peter Hain that he will proceed with the closure of 28...

WITH THE Royal College of Nursing launching a £35 million strike fund to defeat the Tory government’s 1% NHS pay insult at the weekend,...

RESPONDING to yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, the Unite union’s general secretary Len McCluskey said: ‘This Queen’s Speech reveals the nasty, repressive side of this government. ‘The...

‘WE HAVE delivered more powers to the police, including stop and search,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel told the Tory conference in Manchester yesterday. This...

Over forty Libyans demonstrated at Downing Street on Thursday evening to express their anger at the British government’s role in the war on their...

SUPPORT for occupation was rock solid at the monthly North-East London Council of Action picket of Chase Farm Hospital, which was joined by over...

Public sector union UNISON yesterday called for a ‘fresh start’ in response to a forecasted £983m surplus in the NHS. Mike Jackson, Senior National Officer...

HUNDREDS of locked out Gate Gourmet workers went to the TGWU regional office in Hillingdon yesterday to receive their ‘hardship’ payments and to question...

SPEAKING in central London yesterday morning, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called on PM May to resign. He said: ‘The prime minister called this election...

GENERAL government debt is now over £700 billion as the slump hits public finances. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said: ‘Net debt was £703.4...

Business and Universities Secretary Cable has confirmed his intention to lift the cap on tuition fees, as recommended in the Browne Review. Lifting the cap...

THE RMT has re-iterated its call for a reversal to Tube station staffing cuts in the light of a major fire-related incident at London...

THE dispute over pay and staff cuts affecting Greenwich’s 12 libraries has been settled in what the Unite union described as ‘a great victory...

ON Wednesday morning, the Greek government announced that it will be making an application to the Eurogroup for an extension of the loan agreement,...

MORE than half a million people are starving in Gaza, the United Nations Relief Works and Agency (UNRWA), World Food Programme (WFP) and Gaza’s...

UNITE has declared its support for the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli regime, condemning the new legislation barring institutions...

THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has accused the coalition government of ‘truly incompetent planning’ over NHS spending on agency nurses and staff. It...

Some 10,000 workers, students and youth marched through Athens city centre last Thursday evening against the Greek government’s violence in last Wednesday’s general strike...

DESPITE Hamas delivering a positive response to the latest ceasefire proposal hammered out by Qatar and Egypt on Monday, Israel increased its murderous air...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has launched a world- wide trade war, declaring he will impose a 25 per cent tariff on all steel imports...

‘WE WILL continue on and hopefully get the rest of the perpetrators to justice, because there are legal means to get them prosecuted and...

Yesterday the two biggest health unions warned prime minister Blair about the state of the health service. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr...

DUBLIN – Niall Shanahan, Communications Officer of the Impact trade union, has blogged Irish workers that the repayment of Ireland’s bank debt ‘has already...

AN INVESTIGATION is being launched which will examine the activities of an MI5 agent known as ‘Stakeknife’ who has been linked to 50 murders...

FIGURES released yesterday showed eurozone unemployment hit a new record high in June, with a jobless rate of 11.2% and 17.8 million people out...

NOTORIOUS private security firm G4S, currently under investigation for fraud and three of whose employees are presently in court charged with manslaughter, is being...

OVER 50 sacked workers launched a 24-hour picket and demonstration yesterday morning outside the Stead McAlpin factory in Cummersdale, near Carlisle. Workers are angry that...

‘WHILE there is a need for fundamental reform for the City, neither should we just allow it to sink beneath the waves,’ shadow Chancellor...

Norfolk County Fire Service faces savage cuts as a result of the County Council being starved of cash in the Blair government’s ...

‘We have to strike to defend Royal Mail, to defend our jobs and to defend our pensions,’ CWU HP Section Chairman, South Central No...

‘PUBLIC sector workers are at breaking point,’ the GMB union said yesterday after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that inflation has hit...

‘TEACHERS are concerned that the government have not taken the safety measures that they should have done,’ Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of...

A HUNDRED thousand workers, students and youth rallied in Whitehall in central London on Saturday and more than 70 were arrested as they attempted...

PM TRUSS will limit energy bill rises for all households for two years as the new Prime Minister tries to prevent the British economy...

GREEK armed riot police squads assisted by other police units yesterday continued, for the fourth day running, the biggest pogrom against immigrant workers and...

The Bank of England yesterday mortgaged £11 billion more of taxpayers’ money to shore up the big UK banks, as bank bosses held talks...

‘WE ARE on the verge of conflict which would involve the whole continent,’ Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said yesterday at a joint press conference...

‘OUR members are standing firm and determined to win,’ striking Royal London Hospital Unite rep Ebrima Sonko told News Line yesterday on the morning...

KENSINGTON and Chelsea council’s response to the Grenfell Tower, which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children was ‘badly flawed’ leaving...

The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has warned that the scale and pace of change contained in the government’s health White Paper risks...

BOMBING Raqqa will see a large number of civilians killed, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn warned yesterday. He was asked by Andrew Marr: ‘What do...

'IT'S been an absolute outrage that three years later and the Grenfell families still have no justice, and homes are still unsafe,’ Joe Delaney,...

‘ACT, you have resolutions, ACT, you have power, ACT, or you become irrelevant, ACT, according to the power given to you by the Charter...

DURING the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 14 martyrs, who had been reported missing during the war,...

SYRIA yesterday began an offensive to take back its entire territory launching a new assault on Idlib, the last part of Syria still controlled...