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THE UK unemployment rate fell to 7.4%, from 7.6% for the three months to September, according to figures released by the Office for National...

THE FURLOUGH scheme, where currently 6.2 million workers who are not working during the coronavirus crisis are getting 80% of their wages paid by...

OVER 200 workers and youth marched to the 44th News Line anniversary rally yesterday afternoon with flags flying and slogans calling for the Tory-led...

‘YET another British government has engineered the repression of the truth behind the murder of my husband Pat Finucane.’ This was the response of Geraldine...

NO TO PRIVATISATION! SAVE OUR DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS! BLAIR AND BROWN OUT! THE Blair government is gunning for District General Hospitals – David Nicholson, the Chief Executive...

MORE than 130,000 homeless children will be living in temporary accommodation this Christmas in Britain, according to estimates by the homeless charity Shelter. In...

HEATHROW Airport police dismantled the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ picket tent on the hill at the Beacon Roundabout yesterday, threatening the workers’ TGWU Branch...

TOWER block tenants on Camden Council’s Chalcots estate in north London are angry at the ‘shoddy’ safety measures carried out since they were ordered...

EMERGENCY operations are being cancelled putting hundreds of critically ill patients in danger as hospitals run out of intensive care beds, official figures have...

Health unions yesterday expressed concern after health secretary Alan Johnson endorsed plans to close maternity units at four Greater Manchester hospitals in Rochdale, Salford,...

THE BRITISH airforce has admitted its involvement in the US-led airstrikes which killed over 60 Syrian Army troops and injured over 100 more. It has...

Royal Air Force Typhoon jets based at RAF Northolt will be roaring across London and the home counties tomorrow and Saturday as part of...

‘THE CANDYFLOSS of outrage we’ve had over the last 24 hours, which I think is almost entirely confected, is from people who never wanted...

AN estimated 655,000 more Iraqis have died as a consequence of the March 2003 military invasion of Iraq than would have been expected in...

RESPONDING to the annual State of Fire report from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary,...

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

PUBLIC sector union Unison yesterday condemned former NHS Chief Executive from 2000-2006, Nigel Crisp’s call to close or merge hospitals. Now Lord Crisp, he told...

BALPA the pilots trade union yesterday called on the government to rescue the air industry with the ‘same approach that kept the banks afloat’....

ISRAELI settlers set fire to Palestinian homes and vehicles across the occupied West Bank at dawn yesterday, as hundreds more stormed the Aqsa Mosque...

THE DISASTROUS Universal Credit scheme was rolled out in Hammersmith and Fulham yesterday, prompting the GMB union to demand that it ‘should be withdrawn’...

THE TUC Congress yesterday instructed the TUC General Council to support and coordinate joint strike action against attacks on jobs, pensions, pay and public...

ISRAELI warplanes rained terror on Gaza yesterday, targeting ambulances, market places and refugee camps. Warplanes fired missiles at the mosque in the centre of Shati...

HEALTH workers, furious about the government’s offer of a below-inflation 3% pay deal are to be consulted by their unions, the BMA, RCM, RCN,...

Over 300 people rallied outside the Whittington Hospital, north London, yesterday lunchtime, against the closure of the hospital’s A&E and maternity departments. Organisers ‘Defend the...

TENS of thousands of school, college and university students demonstrated against education cuts, tuition fees and the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)...

POLICE officer Benjamin Monk has been jailed for eight years after being sentenced yesterday. He was convicted of the manslaughter of ex-footballer Dalian Atkinson...

‘WE need the recognition of the State of Palestine immediately, Mr Starmer, don’t wait one more day,’ Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador the UK said...

THE TORIES are failing to tackle the acute teacher shortage crisis in schools across England, a committee of MPs said yesterday. The Education Select Committee...

‘Prime Minister Cameron’s plans to slash public spending will hit the poor and the vulnerable,’ TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber warned yesterday. Commenting on ...

THE Syrian Cabinet has condemned the terrorist blasts which hit the cities of Jableh, Tartous, and al-Qamishli last Monday. It also condemned terrorist mortar attacks...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for right wing Labour MPs to ‘think again’ after reports that some are planning a ‘semi-split’ breakup of...

THE Iranian foreign minister says calm has been restored across the country after recent unrest, which was fuelled by the incitement of terrorist elements...

OVER 2,500 people marched in support of the locked out Gate Gourmet workers last Saturday in the Swiss capital of Berne. The march was...

DOZENS of Palestinians were injured in violent clashes across al-Tur and al-Issawiya neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday as Palestinians protested the death...

Lawyers for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday said they wanted the truth, and answers to ‘lies that have been told’ about...

Over 400 workers, youth, pensioners and local service users lobbied Barnet Council on Tuesday, furious at the massive cuts and privatisation imposed by the...

Began in London on Tuesday, August 19 and and have now arrived in Liverpool! – they will be marching to the TUC Congress from...

GATE GOURMET strikers were on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday in high spirits, after their successful intervention at the TUC in Brighton...

‘GATE Gourmet are not going to get away with what they did, sacking us for no reason,’ said Raj Sahdev yesterday on the locked-out...

THE mass picket of over 100 Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow Airport yesterday were angry at capitalist press revelations that at least two of...

TORY Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the new White Paper in Parliament yesterday pushing a complete reorganisation of the NHS, breaking...

‘BED closures will put patients’ lives at risk,’ campaigners fighting to save community hospital beds across North Staffordshire declared yesterday. The claim that ‘patients...

THE POA has joined the FBU, PCS and GMB in a Legal Challenge to ‘stop the looting of their pensions!’ The POA, along with the...

A PALESTINIAN-British schoolgirl Leanne Mohamad, who was crowned regional finalist in the ‘Speak Out’ Challenge has been barred from progressing further in the competition...