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CHANCELLOR SUNAK lifted a little of the lid off of the crisis of British capitalism yesterday when he told the House of Commons, in...

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) issued an update yesterday on its investigation into the Forest Gate police shooting of 23-year-old Abdul Kahar. The IPCC...

‘THE GOVERNMENT is failing to get unsafe products out of people’s homes as new fire figures reveal that faulty washing machines, tumble dryers...

Tens of thousands of babies will be vaccinated as part of a strategy to fight the resurgence of the deadly respiratory disease Tuberculosis (TB)...

OVER 300 striking lecturers, university staff and students rallied outside the Universities UK (UUK) HQ in Tavistock Square, central London yesterday shouting: ‘Hey, hey,...

OVER 2,000 bus workers are gearing up to strike against attempts by London’s transport privateers to impose pay cuts and unacceptable new work schedules...

THERE was a very lively and well-attended rally at the front of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday lunchtime, with delegations of Unite...

‘THREATENING to sack thousands of migrant nursing staff is abhorrent beyond words,’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola...

INTERNET retail giant Amazon being awarded a £600 million contract to provide for our public services is a ‘sick joke’ given the company’s ‘record...

SHOPWORKERS trade union leader John Hannett is delighted with the House of Commons vote that defeated the government and removed Sunday trading changes...

STAFF in UK universities are preparing to walk out for their third one-day strike tomorrow as part of a worsening pay dispute. On the eve...

CIRCLE HOLDINGS, the first privateer to take over the running of an NHS hospital, quit the management of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire yesterday, leaving...

‘IGNORE at your peril the wishes of the most important people in the NHS – the patients,’ British Medical Association (BMA) GPs Committee chairman...

THE number of struggling families sending their children to school hungry has increased over the past year, according to a poll of almost 900...

‘PRIVATISATION No Way!’ a lively picket of at least 40 strikers, chanted outside The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square yesterday, on the second day...

ONE in five GP surgeries in London is threatened with closure within three years because of lack of staff, funding and pay, the Local...

THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating allegations that the Bank of England rigged the way that money was ‘auctioned’ to banks during the...

MENTAL health services across the UK are under unprecedented strain, with a steep fall in nurse numbers and available beds at a time of...

THE BMA (British Medical Association) confirmed yesterday that a mass picket of striking Resident Doctors will be held tomorrow morning from 8-11am outside St...

British Airways boss Willie Walsh yesterday said he could not rule out further job cuts and called on BA workers to take a holiday...

DOCTORS are under attack financially, professionally and morally, and calling an election doesn’t get the government off the hook, British Medical Association leader Professor...

HANAN Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), said the ongoing Israeli escalation against the captive Palestinian population in...

THE Bank of England has warned the UK is facing its longest recession since records began, as it raised interest rates by the most...

THOUSANDS of striking doctors and medical students, dressed in their white coats, marched through central Cairo yesterday to join the movement of millions of...

‘We believe that no-one should be above the law, not arms dealers, not Saudi princes, not government ministers’, said Symon Hill of Campaign Against...

THE BMA doctors’ union and the RCN nurses’ union joined hands in denouncing the Tory government’s onslaught on the NHS yesterday, after the...

‘Is it our intention to do the dirty work for dictatorships all over the world?’ Labour MP John Denham challenged Home Secretary Clarke yesterday. Denham...

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

Armed militias operating across Libya are committing widespread human rights abuses with impunity, warned Amnesty International in a new report released yesterday. The report, Militias...

the TUC declared yesterday that there has been no ‘real progress’ in pensions talks with the government and the ‘unions remain firmly committed...

THE BMA and GPs have condemned the way that NHS England and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are treating GP Practices. Dr...

Prime Minister Blair yesterday announced plans for a ‘system of independent, self-governing state schools’, and an education ‘market based on choice’, with changes being...

THE Iranian government yesterday denied US charges that it was smuggling arms into Afghanistan to help the Taleban destroy NATO tanks and bring down...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei said Tuesday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has ‘no objection to the creation of a temporary government of...

GENERAL MOTORS, owned by the US government, is falling out with the German government about who is going to buy GM Europe. The...

OVER 5,000 university students and public sector workers held an impressive and militant rally and march in Athens last Thursday against the government’s plans...

British Member of Parliament George Galloway left the UK on Sunday, December 6th with a convoy of humanitarian aid and will arrive in the...

RETAIL Price Index (RPI) inflation, which includes housing costs, grew by 2.8% in the year ending January 2014, up from 2.7% in December 2013. This...

yesterday the Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced a further day of strike action commencing the evening of Thursday 12th July and continuing through Friday...

THERE has been a strike vote over ‘punishing’ working patterns at Heathrow. International airlines flying from Heathrow Airport face major disruption to the supply of...

TUBE unions’ national executives are meeting today and are expected to announce a further three days of strike action over the Night Tube and...

‘ZERO hours contracts will be banned’ under a Labour government Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said yesterday in a keynote address to the TUC...

THE top American army commander has admitted that the US does not have enough troops to sustain its eight-year-old military occupation of Afghanistan, that...

‘GMB are calling on the government and the minister of health to reinstate the A&E services to Epsom,’ Paul Maloney, Senior Officer of the GMB...

THREE education unions wrote to the Tory Education Secretary Gavin Williamson yesterday expressing ‘anger and dismay’ at the way the government has treated school...