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‘THE GOVERNMENT is in chaos,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Parliament yesterday, responding to Tory PM May’s speech attempting to defend her Brexit capitulation...

THE Greek coalition government ordered the forced ‘civil conscription’ of the seafarers on Tuesday on the sixth day of their 100 per cent solid...

‘We don’t want macho management or macho trade unionism, we want an honourable compromise,’ said Transport and General Workers Union general secretary Tony Woodley...

THE threat by the Metropolitan Police to ban Saturday’s National March (PSC) for Palestine from assembling at the BBC in Portland Place as arranged...

WORKERS at the Greek Finance Ministry early on Tuesday morning occupied the Finance Ministry building in central Athens. They are protesting against huge wage cuts...

EU leaders yesterday signed an Association Agreement with the Ukrainian coupist government. It is a watered-down version of the agreement that the overthrown President...

Human rights group Liberty will tell the High Court today that vulnerable detainees were left in overcrowded, flooded cells without food or water while...

UP TO one hundred trade unionists, disabled campaigners and their supporters demonstrated yesterday outside Maximus, the company who have taken over the work-capability assessment,...

CAMPAIGNERS for WRP Kensington parliamentary candidate Scott Dore took to the streets yesterday. Ayan gave her support to the candidate. She said, ‘I think that...

PRESIDENT Poroshenko has retracted his earlier statement regarding a ‘permanent ceasefire’ in eastern Ukraine, which followed a phone call between the Russian and...

‘They shot an unarmed man who was trying to protect his family at four o-clock in the morning.’ This is how friends of the 23-year-old...

TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady has said on the eve of the annual TUC Congress, that unions may come together in co-ordinated strike action...

OVER 200 people demonstrated outside the doctors’ union BMA head office in central London yesterday to protest against the ban on Dr Swee Ang...

FORMER owner of BHS Dominic Chappell was accused yesterday of being ‘a liar’ with his ‘fingers in the till’ who ‘threatened to kill’ the...

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...

HUNDREDS of Israeli soldiers are continuing their raid in all sections of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, with bulldozers destroying buildings in the southern section...

‘THESE figures are nothing short of a national scandal.  It’s obscene that in this day and age more than 25,000 people aged 65 and...

PRIME Minister May will go before the House of Commons today to try to explain why she ordered British cruise missile attacks on Syria...

THE Tories published an Education and Adoption Bill yesterday, setting out plans to academise a further 1,000 schools by 2020. Education Secretary Nicky Morgan warned...

OVER 250 tenants and supporters at the West Hendon estate in north London yesterday packed the community centre on the estate for a meeting...

PRIME minister Cameron’s former press secretary Andy Coulson yesterday won a ruling that he can appeal against News International’s refusal to pay his legal...

YESTERDAY’S decision by the Court of Appeal to overturn the convictions of the Shrewsbury Pickets after a nearly 50-year campaign has been hailed as...

STANDING in front of a huge Union Jack with a banner atop it declaring ‘Change Begins....’ Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed the Labour Party...

Venture capitalists Texas Pacific and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts are this week expected to bid for the supermarket group, J Sainsbury. Their take-over will mean sackings,...

The government was plunged into crisis yesterday after Downing Street was forced to correct a Health Minister who had sent out letters proposing the...

‘IT’S A BROKEN system. As the ruins of Carillion lie around us, will the prime minister act to end the costly racket of the...

UNITE general secretary Sharon Graham yesterday said below inflation rises are a wage cut with workers paying the price of the pandemic. Speaking after new...

‘ON ONE issue on the Northern Ireland backstop there remains widespread and deep concern. As a result, if we went ahead and held...

‘THE TUC and its affiliates must fight for the policy they voted for, to increase the minimum wage to £10 an hour,’ Bakers Union...

WHILE the marchers stopped to get their picture by the statue of the leader of the English Revolution, Oliver Cromwell, yesterday morning, the local...

The government yesterday extended its stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland to 70 per cent as RBS headed for a record UK £27bn-£28bn...

THE government has appointed commissioners to help run Nottingham City Council after the authority declared itself effectively bankrupt. The Labour-run authority issued a section 114...

SPANISH police shot dead five suspected terrorists in the town of Cambrils yesterday, during a second vehicle attack, hours after another in Barcelona killed...

TWO hundred people joined a mass picket by the locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow, six months after the 700-strong workforce at the airline...

THE TUC General Council is meeting in Brighton at 9.00am today to discuss a resolution calling for it to consider the practicalities of a...

‘THE BBC says it subscribes to “BBC values”, but it would appear BBC Values do not apply to contractors such as Aramark.’ BECTU General Secretary...

CHEERS went up outside the High Court when Justice Silber ruled yesterday that Jeremy Hunt’s decision to cut the Accident & Emergency and Maternity...

‘I APPEAL to MPs of all parties, be prepared to put the people’s interests before the ideological fantasies, join us in supporting the option...

Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, two busy Surrey General Hospitals with bustling Accident and Emergency Departments, are to be replaced by a single hospital...

THE Institute of Economic Affairs has called for draconian cuts by the government and has said that government spending will have to...

THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the UK’s three largest trade unions, Unison, Unite and GMB, yesterday condemned the US kidnapping of Venezuelan President...

ISRAELI occupation forces yesterday raided the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza and turned it into a military base. Medical sources reported that Israeli forces further...

Teachers and lecturers yesterday congratulated teenagers over the best ever GCSE results, but warned youth faced a tough future in the face of education...

NURSES at Lewisham hospital spoke up in favour of going on strike, on the day the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) strongly called for...

DONALD Trump said on Wednesday he is ‘absolutely without question’ considering withdrawing the United States from NATO, his most explicit threat yet against the...