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P&O FERRIES has fired 800 seafaring staff with immediate effect. However, crews defied orders and refused to leave their ships, as their union the...

UK DEFENCE Secretary Michael Fallon yesterday called for withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph he...

STUDENTS at Hackney Community College in Shoreditch, east London joined the campaign yesterday to elect Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch...

THE UNITE union will be making ‘a vigorous and well-argued response’ to the consultation on the future of wholly owned subsidiaries set up by...

THE family of a 73-year-old French woman injured in a police charge at a protest are taking legal action. Geneviève Legay fell and hit her...

WRP general secretary Frank Sweeney yesterday condemned the ‘attempt of the NATO gangsters to murder the Libyan leadership headed by Colonel Gadaffi.’ He called them...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn made a ‘project fear’ speech at the TUC in Brighton yesterday, in which he described a No-Deal Brexit as a...

UK NEWSPAPERS have warned that if a government bill authorising police to seize journalists’ notebooks, photos and digital files is passed today, it could...

OVER 2,500 lifejackets were placed on the lawn outside parliament, in Parliament Square yesterday, each representing the life of a refugee man, woman or...

A SENIOR Hamas official has said the Palestinian resistance group never agreed to surrender its weapons during indirect ceasefire talks that brought a pause...

THE CORPORATE debt mountain may trigger a devastating, self-feeding chain reaction of fire sales of junk bonds, threatening to collapse the entire financial system,...

‘WHAT steps will they take in response to concerns over the level of toxins found at the Grenfell Tower site and calls for survivors,...

THE Doctors’ Association (DAUK) has refused to endorse the junior doctor contract deal agreed by the BMA and the government, warning that some members...

‘PEOPLE are really supporting our cause to reopen all the closed services at Ealing Hospital,’ Ealing Southall WRP general election candidate Hassan Zulkifal said...

‘WE WANT the nation to keep Grenfell in their consciousness, member of the Justice4Grenfell campaign group Yvette Williams said on the anniversary of the...

HOMELESS people are to be forcibly evicted from the Westminister underpass, which leads to Parliament, by installing rolldown shutters blocking the shelter off. In December...

THE RUSSIAN Security Council discussed yesterday recognising Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbass region of Ukraine as independent states. Russian President Vladimir Putin said: ‘I...

THE head of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) issued a chilling warning yesterday. . . that the world economic system is headed for...

TRANSPORT union RMT confirmed yesterday that Rail Gourmet staff at Edinburgh Waverley will be going ahead with a new phase of strike action in...

SOUTH-EAST London Council of Action joined with local residents to stop the eviction of young people from homes on the Heygate Estate in Elephant...

LABOUR’S shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth yesterday hit out at Tory cuts, saying the NHS winter crisis ‘was entirely predictable and indeed entirely preventable.’ He...

LONDON postal workers took 24-hour strike action yesterday, with pickets across the capital demanding that the action is stepped up and that the union...

THE Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rate of inflation rose to 1.5 per cent in October, up from 1.1 per cent in September. As...

PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday defended his renegotiation of Britain’s terms of EU membership, as a number of his cabinet ministers lined up to call...

NEW FIGURES exposing the escalating winter crisis in the NHS were published yesterday morning by NHS England, forcing Tory PM May to apologise for...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education marched from Wolverhampton to Birmingham yesterday. And last night they were staying at the Irish...

‘SCRAP the cap!’ shouted thousands of nurses from all over the UK rallying in Parliament Square yesterday. The rally was organised by the Royal College...

‘OUR anniversary march and rally in Southall on Sunday August 20 is very important. ‘We will show our unity and strength and we want everyone...

Health and education unions yesterday responded angrily to Prime Minister Blair’s policy review that signals a stepping up of Blair and Brown’s privatisation drive...

Share prices and the pound were battered yesterday after the publication of official figures showed that the UK economy shrank for...

‘It’s unacceptable and totally undemocratic. We are having security decided by the private sector with no reference to parliament,’ Sharon Holder, GMB national officer,...

A GROUP of lawyers representing Palestinian victims of Israeli attacks on Gaza have filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC), arguing that...

HUNDREDS of workers joined yesterday’s Harland and Wolff Rally in Belfast, with speakers reiterating their demand for the renationalisation of the shipyard. Unite Regional Coordinating...

‘We are grateful to the union for their support today, but we have to say “We are not here for the hell of it”...

WE ARE of the opinion that the advice given by the government to Her Majesty the Queen to prorogue Parliament was unlawful and that...

‘WE WANT a 3% pay rise. SERCO are making us work more for no extra money,’ Unite hospital worker Florence Kwao said yesterday on...

OVER 3,000 people massed around the Clapham Common bandstand on Saturday afternoon for a vigil in respect of Sarah Everard who was abducted and...

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...

‘WE ARE extremely pleased, we are relieved, but we are disappointed that we had to go through all of this to get the Prime...

THE University of Portsmouth is under fire over plans to axe more than half its English literature department. The university suspended the process in...

PRESIDENTIAL candidate, Rene Preval, has condemned the ‘gigantic fraud’ during last week’s elections in Haiti, where an insurrection is taking place by his poverty-stricken...

Babar Ahmad has called ‘for this injustice to be avenged’ after Home Secretary Charles Clarke ordered his extradition to America to face trumped up...

London traffic was gridlocked during yesterday’s 24-hour strike, as Tube workers on picket lines expressed their determination to defend jobs and safety. At Mile End...

A NEW list of approved suppliers to the NHS has heightened fears of a multi-billion pound land grab by a handful of corporations. Competition for...

THE Sri Lankan government has announced that it has temporarily suspended the implementation of the proposed private sector pension scheme which was opposed by...