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FRANCE was totally paralysed yesterday with flights, trains, the Metro and buses all cancelled during the mass ‘Day of Rage’ over President Emmanuel Macron’s...

‘THIS SHOULD not be a debate about how we go forward with a no deal Brexit and at the same time offering up our...

EAST London GPs, patients and supporters yesterday staged a protest in Limehouse against cuts in funding that threaten to bankrupt around a dozen surgeries...

ISRAEL’S ongoing blockade of northern Gaza has brought the healthcare system to near-total collapse, with almost no remaining services, according to the World Health...

ON the eve of tonight’s tube strike action the RMT announced that it is calling for an immediate and indefinite suspension of the Mayor’s...

THE TORY party’s putrefaction continued yesterday with Prime Minister Liz Truss’ sacking of her ‘great friend’, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, followed by a four-minute statement...

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...

THE GMB is to make a formal complaint that a Bath employment agency is illegally supplying staff to Swindon hospital during Carillion strike days. GMB...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday called for disciplinary action to be taken against Britain’s top military commander, General Sir Nicholas Houghton, over political interference. Corbyn...

EGYPT will continue to support Gaza against the attacks from the Israeli armed forces, President Mohamed Mursi reiterated yesterday as Israeli airstrikes continued on...

THE ANNUAL May Day march took place on Thursday on the hottest day of the year so far. The march wended its way from Clerkenwell...

THE UNITED States, Britain and France have been setting up new outposts in northeastern Syria, despite the opposition of the Damascus government to...

PM Boris Johnson pulled out of a scheduled appearance before a panel of senior MPs yesterday morning, saying he has to ‘focus on delivering...

THE British Medical Association yesterday warned that further NHS cuts will compromise patient care. It was responding to the publication of a review into NHS...

THE Palestinian Mission in London reported yesterday that ‘In the past year Israeli government forces have further intensified their provocations and attack against Al-Aqsa...

LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers were campaigning yesterday for their mass picket next Sunday 22nd January between 11am and 1pm and their conference in London...

THE UK unemployment rate has surged to its highest level in over three years to 4.5% in the three months to August, compared with...

‘WELCOME to all of you. We are very proud of all of you,’ Parmjit Bains told a rally on the hill near the Gate...

FIREFIGHTERS in Cornwall have slammed ‘dangerous’ plans to cut frontline cover which ‘will seriously affect public safety’ and demand that they are immediately withdrawn....

STAFF at Balham benefit centre are being balloted for strike action having been told that their office is due to close on 31 December. This...

Hundreds of thousands of civil servants, members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), have voted overwhelmingly for strike action over pay. A PCS...

THE LONG running industrial dispute involving over 1,800 bus drivers employed by Abellio in London has ended after workers accepted a greatly improved pay...

MORE than 10,000 people have signed the BMA’s petition calling for the Westminster government to properly fund general practice and source more desperately-needed GPs. The...

CHANCELLOR Osborne launched a massive new attack on the working class and poor yesterday, with his £11.5 billion Spending Review onslaught on pay, public...

‘I AM pleased to report to the House on a UK economy that has grown in every year since 2010,’ Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond...

THE NEW financial year was ushered in yesterday with a series of price hikes that hit working class families hard. Council Tax went up, water...

ONE THOUSAND five hundred lorries are still stuck in Kent unable to leave the UK as Tory PM Johnson and French President Macron thrash...

OVER 6,000 youth and workers demonstrated last Saturday evening throughout the Athens city centre against a rally organised by the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party....

CONSTRUCTION union UCATT has labelled proposals by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), to end secure tenancies and all other current council tenancies in...

ADDAMEER Human Rights Association has reported that 54 Palestinians are missing and unaccounted for after approaching Israeli-American aid distribution centres in Gaza, raising alarm...

THE TORY government’s failure to do more to stop Covid spreading early on in the pandemic was one of the ‘worst public health failures’...

‘Save Legal Aid!’ barristers and solicitors are demanding as they take historic strike action today, starting with a 9.30-10.30am demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court,...

US miners’ families’ relief turned to fury yesterday when they heard that only one of 12 trapped miners was alive when their bodies were...

THE UNION of Workers’ Trade Unions of Niger (USTN) has condemned the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Monetary...

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

OVER 40,000 Greek workers, many with their families, shop-keepers, professional people and youth rallied at the central Athens Vouli (Greek parliament) square calling on...

‘TODAY we put ourselves on notice. Labour is preparing for a general election in 2017,’ said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn concluding his hour-long speech...

A QUARTER of Clinical Commissioning Group board members, who are responsible for £65bn of NHS money are linked to private healthcare companies. Unite has called...

‘Britain’s FBI’, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) – which combines former MI5 and MI6 spies with former ‘specialists’ from the police, customs and...

THE RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners) has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel demanding that the government must act ‘urgently’ to prevent newly-qualified...

GMB is celebrating a landmark legal victory over German-owned, low-cost supermarket Lidl. The Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), the independent tribunal with statutory powers over trade...

At 5.20pm yesterday CWU leaders Dave Ward and Billy Hayes declared that the two days’ strike action today and tomorrow were going ahead and...

‘THEY HAVE abolished capital punishment in this country, but closing Ealing maternity is a sentence of death for mothers and babies,’ Greenford Bus Garage...

SYRIA yesterday began an offensive to take back its entire territory launching a new assault on Idlib, the last part of Syria still controlled...

BIRMINGHAM GP Dr John Cosgrove and 74 fellow GPs have slammed Health Minister Norman Lamb’s call for GPs to explore four personal health...