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COUNCIL tax debt is the fastest-growing form of debt, Citizens Advice reported yesterday, revealing that it has now become the number one debt problem...

WORKERS at all 54 Remploy sites, members of the GMB and Unite unions, went on strike yesterday in a bid to save 2,800 disabled...

THERE has been widespread condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments to an Israeli news channel on Tuesday night that he feels ‘very...

KHALIDA Jarrar, a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is free! She was greeted by a cheering crowd after...

TORY Chancellor Osborne delivered a class war Budget yesterday offering whole swathes of new tax breaks for the rich, while hammering benefits, public services,...

DOMINIC Grieve, the Beaconsfield Tory MP, has told BBC Newsnight that in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Parliament would ‘assert its authority’. He told...

RMT rail union general secretary Bob Crow repeated a call for Blair to go yesterday in the wake of Wednesday’s Terrorism Bill defeat. Crow said:...

TEACHERS are increasingly seeing the devastating effects of the cost of living crisis on pupils, a survey by the NASUWT teachers’ union has revealed. Teachers...

‘ONE SOLUTION – Revolution’ rang out through the 40,000-strong crowd outside the US embassy in Vauxhall, south-west London yesterday as a mass demonstration broke...

THE PUBLIC Accounts Committee released a damning report this morning which condemns the Tories’ ‘slow, inconsistent and at times negligent approach’ to the social...

‘WE HAVE to take strike action where and when we can and as much as we can,’ Sharon Hutchinson, northwest regional organiser and equalities...

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

‘We continue to believe that stock transfer is fraught with financial hazards,’ Unite said yesterday after it was announced that Plymouth council tenants have...

MILLIONS of workers will be worse off under state pension reforms, the TUC warned yesterday. New research published by the TUC found that the vast...

SCHOOL classrooms are at bursting point, with half a million pupils squeezed into classrooms with more than 40 in a class. Labour Party analysis highlighted...

TWO coachloads of angry Fenland Foods workers descended on Marks and Spencer’s flagship London store at Marble Arch yesterday. The ready meal workers blame M&S...

THROUGHOUT Yatta town, south of Jerusalem, a general strike is being observed to mourn the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Hasan Manasra, who was...

FACILITIES staff at Maudsley and Bethlem mental hospitals began a new four-day strike yesterday against the ISS offer of a meagre 30p wage increase,...

‘Unless there is a substantial breakthrough the strikes are going ahead on Thursday, Friday and Saturday,’ CWU London District Chairman John Denton told News...

BANK of Ireland has recorded a pre-tax loss of 1.25 billion euros for the first six months of the year compared to a 556m...

STRIKING barristers were supported by the RMT at their rally outside the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey in central London yesterday, while...

‘Medical education is under attack on several fronts,’ warns Professor Michael Rees, chair of the British Medical Association’s (BMA’s) Medical Academics Committee. In a BMA...

‘The trade union and Labour movement must rise up and oppose Blair’s proposal to ensure Britain becomes the aircraft carrier for Bush’s nuclear ambitions,’...

THE HIGH Court has given the council the go-ahead to privatise Haringey’s housing, allowing huge private developers to embark on a £2bn private housing...

Yesterday’s immigration panel ruling to deport an Algerian man as a threat to national security is ‘an affront to justice and a green light...

‘THE MINISTERIAL Code says that ministers who knowingly mislead Parliament will be expected to offer their resignation,’ Labour leader Keir Starmer said during PMQs...

THERE was a lively picket outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning where a lot of people said they would come to the meeting and march...

At least one person was killed and sixty others were wounded yesterday when over 1,000 angry Iraqis clashed with police in Samawa, south of...

ONLY a fraction of the donated £20 million has reached the survivors and families of the victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy which claimed...

QUEEN Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, south east London, saw GMB members employed by privateer ISS out in force yesterday for a 24-hour strike from...

SOME 60 media and rights organisations yesterday urged the European Union to suspend a cooperation accord with Israel and impose sanctions, accusing it of ‘massacring journalists’...

THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) began five days of hearings against Israel’s illegal use of starvation as a weapon of war against Palestine...

WILDCAT strikes by postal workers at three Scottish sorting offices over serious health and safety issues has forced Royal Mail to change its policy...

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

‘WE RISK sleepwalking into another catastrophic loss of life. We demand urgent action from the government to ensure that the events of Grenfell Tower...

DALE Farm residents won an injunction late yesterday, restraining police and bailiffs from dismantling structures on the site until a hearing at the High...

Metropolitan Police firearms officers were issued with special ‘instant kill’ bullets to use against innocent young Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes on 22 July...

THE GMB is recommending that its members vote to reject the Tory government’s ‘jam tomorrow’ NHS pay offer. It says: ‘For long-serving NHS...

‘Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is deceiving the public about the true adverse impact of his health bill,’ Unite leader Len McCluskey insisted yesterday, as...

Government plans to introduce a new type of GP practice involving the commercial sector could leave patients in deprived areas with a second class...

OVER 8,000 striking teachers and college lecturers from the NUT and UCU unions in London yesterday marched from University College Union London to the...

SUPPORT for the bus workers, who were out on strike in large numbers yesterday to force private bus owners Arriva to increase their miserly...

The family of Jean Charles de Menezes on Thursday demanded action be taken to hold individual police officers to account for the killing of...

THE SOUTH African variant has begun to spread across the UK, the Tories confirmed yesterday. Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the 5.00pm briefing: ‘We...

Hundreds of occupying Waterford Crystal workers, members of the Unite trade union, will be joining today’s national demonstration in Dublin. It has been called by...