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STEELWORKERS’ union leaders are urging members to make a ‘huge sacrifice’ and accept both a pay cut and a pensions cut in order to...

PRIME Minister Blair shook hands with Israeli leader Ehud Olmert at Downing Street yesterday, saying that there were the strongest links between Britain and...

Millions of mourners from Iran and other countries performed funeral prayers for the assassinated Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, yesterday. As...

THE ICR (Institute of Cancer Research) strikers have accepted a victory deal after 68 days on strike in which the lowest paid will see...

THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the Labour government’s ‘Plan for Change’ attack on the NHS which it is unveiling today. Professor Phil Banfield,...

On Monday, 23 June, the High Court will respond to a Liberty demand for an independent investigation into the treatment of detainees at Harmondsworth...

WORKERS at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury are ramping up pressure in the ‘fire and rehire’ struggle with a protest on Saturday (1...

UP TO 500 protesters marched in Crawley on Saturday to demonstrate against the building of a new immigration detention centre at Gatwick Airport. The...

‘VICTORY to the junior doctors – kick the Tories out! TUC get off your knees – call a general strike! No privatisation – defend...

FIREFIGHTERS were on strike again yesterday between 10am and 3pm over government attacks on their pensions, while Tube workers are due to strike for...

THE split in the coalition government deepened yesterday, with Deputy Prime Minister Clegg absenting himself from the House of Commons as Prime Minister Cameron...

The Trade Union Congress yesterday expressed ‘serious concerns’ at proposals for private insurance companies to take over the payment of benefits such as unemployment...

NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson yesterday warned that many hospitals will face closure in the ‘new world’ of funding cuts and privatisation. Nicholson told...

YESTERDAY’S soaring inflation figures led trade union leaders to warn the government that members are demanding action against the wage-cutting three-year pay settlements. The Consumer...

NTHABELENG, a 28-year-old nurse on the front line of South Africa’s Covid-19 pandemic, is exhausted and afraid. Each day, she begins her shift haunted by...

ISRAELI war planes pounded Hamas positions in Gaza yesterday with a series of air strikes. They said they were responding to the launch of 28...

UCU and Unison have condemned the police and management attacks on students and staff at the University of London Union (ULU) which is...

THE BANK of England cut its base rate to a record low of 0.1%, a sliver above zero, warning the coronavirus pandemic will result...

‘SCHOOLS are facing the worst cuts in funding since the 1970s,’ the NUT warned as teachers at every school in the country walked out...

FIVE Palestinians were killed on Friday, including two who died from injuries sustained in earlier Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza...

IRAN’S Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) struck the US-run Muwaffaq Salti air base in Jordan with a missile barrage on Wednesday, leaving an A-10 Thunderbolt without...

PALESTINE Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki called on judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) yesterday to order an end to Israel’s occupation of...

WITH a ComRes poll revealing yesterday that public support for a no-deal Brexit is rapidly rising, up 6% since January and now standing at...

NEARLY a quarter of junior doctors say their work makes them feel ‘burnt out’, and almost one-in-three says they are often ‘exhausted’ in the...

UNITE and GMB officers, members and supporters held a lunchtime protest outside the Unison head office in London yesterday, where the NHS staff side...

CROWDS outside the Catalan parliament erupted in celebration, letting off fireworks as Catalonia declared its independence from Spain yesterday afternoon, after a vote of...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange was finally released from prison yesterday, to loud cheers from a crowd who had gathered to show their support for...

The UNISON Health Conference in Brighton yesterday gave environment secretary Hilary Benn a heated reception. He was booed and heckled when he tried to defend...

Tens of thousands of postal workers will go on strike today, tomorrow and Monday as growing unrest has led to the Communication Workers...

TORY MP Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Eurosceptic group the European Research Group (ERG), warned yesterday there is ‘trouble ahead’ for May. He tweeted:...

‘OUR union leaders are telling everybody our dispute is finished but it is not finished,’ locked out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News...

AT least 56 Palestinians have been killed and scores more sustained injuries in Israeli assaults across Gaza since Thursday morning, according to medical sources. In...

THE GERMAN parliament voted yesterday to extend the ‘bailout package’ to Greece by another four months, while in Greece workers erupted on the streets...

‘SIR Graham Brady has confirmed that he has received 48 letters from Conservative MPs so there will now be a vote of confidence in...

STRIKING teachers at Kingsbury High School in north-west London were joined on the picket line by parents and students yesterday morning as they showed...

The NUT ballot of members for national strike action in defence of teachers’ pensions commenced yesterday, and will close at midday on Tuesday June...

TENSIONS were high in the ‘Jungle’ Calais refugee camp yesterday as defiant occupants braced themselves for today’s scheduled closure. There were clashes with French...

‘OPERATION Broadshare’ has been launched by the military to put 10,000 troops on the streets. The military said that it will work alongside the...

inflation hit 5.2% in September, the highest rate since 1992, rising from 4.7% in August, according to the government’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures...

THE NHS will have to divert almost 45 billion pounds from frontline services to pay for costlier medicines under the UK-US trade deal struck...

THE BMA has today confirmed the dates and details of possible industrial action by junior doctors, following a decision by BMA Council, the body...

FORMER Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott has claimed he was against NHS privatisation when he was in government and that he still is. In...

THREE London hospitals face the threat of immediate closure as a result of PFI-induced bankruptcy, it emerged yesterday. In the first case of its kind,...

AT THE eleventh hour, talks between the BMA on behalf of the junior doctors and the government at ACAS reached the following decision: ‘Following talks...

TRADE unionists and Hounslow local people yesterday supported the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and bought tickets for their first anniversary march and rally in...