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Age UK yesterday published a damning report, which shows the depth of the crisis in social care and its consequent human cost. The report ‘Care...

PRIME Minister Cameron is to set out his strategy on Syria and tackling the Islamic State group in the region before MPs this week. He...

TSSA rail union General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has rounded on the Government over plans for an inflation-busting rail fares increase in England next year...

2.5 MILLION children are living in families struggling with ‘problem debt’, said a shocking new report released yesterday. The report, aptly entitled ‘The Dept Trap’,...

A SPECIAL GPs conference in just a few weeks called by the BMA GPs Committee (GPC) is set to hear unprecedented calls for industrial...

BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson yesterday afternoon attacked London postal workers in particular for not accepting the government and Royal Mail plans to...

STUDENTS enthusiastically joined the campaign to elect Jonty Leff as WRP candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch yesterday. They campaigned hard, giving out leaflets, speaking...

The funeral of a Greek pensioner on Saturday turned into a mass anti-government protest. About 1,000 workers and youth attended the civil funeral in Athens,...

‘THE squeeze is on for nine million households’, says consumer organisation Which? The latest Which? Quarterly Consumer Report reveals that 1.5 million more families are...

NURSES and midwives will fight Tory Health Secretary Hunt’s plans to fund a pay rise by smashing their employment conditions, their unions insisted...

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) decided yesterday to hold a strike ballot amongst 270,000 PCS members working for the civil service and...

‘TUC get off your knees! Call a general strike!’ shouted an enthusiastic Young Socialists lobby of the first day of the TUC Congress in...

AMBULANCE workers union GMB have called for the chief executive of the South West Ambulance Service to quit as they ‘struggle to maintain a...

YESTERDAY morning, both in the capitalist press and on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said that if the Labour Party...

DAVE WILTSHIRE, the Secretary of the All Trades Unions Alliance told the WRP’s May Day rally: ‘From this May Day meeting we send revolutionary...

‘THIS situation cannot be allowed to continue,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday in response to this year’s Sunday Times Rich...

THE Hamas Movement has denounced the Israeli Knesset’s (parliament) national security committee for approving a draft law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners. In a...

COUNCIL-run schools in the poorest areas of the country are being starved of funds by the Tory-led coalition, which is pumping money into privately...

Striking power workers in Lincolnshire are this morning voting on a deal agreed by union leaders yesterday after marathon talks facilitated by ACAS. Union leaders...

Human rights group Liberty will tell the High Court today that vulnerable detainees were left in overcrowded, flooded cells without food or water while...

PM Cameron yesterday disclosed that the government’s legal advice over an imminent attack on Syria was that it would be legal since it...

‘We will use all the means at our disposal to fight,’ PCS civil service union General Secretary Mark Serwotka declared yesterday. He accused the government...

A RECORD number of children are being forced to rely on food banks in order to survive, with the numbers expected to surge...

LABOUR leader Miliband yesterday indicted Cameron’s foreign policy in an attempt to win the support of the British bourgeoisie. He said of PM Cameron’s foreign...

AMENDMENT H calling for a second referendum was resoundingly defeated in parliament last night by 249 votes, with just 85 MPs voting for and...

OVER 20 PCS catering workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark, walked out on indefinite strike...

The show trial in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone of captured Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and six other co-defendants continued yesterday, over the so-called Anfal...

DOCTOR Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was struck of the medical register, and not allowed to treat patients ever again, has won her appeal, reversing the...

STAFF at the Blackstock Road Finsbury Park campus of the Capital City College Group walked out yesterday for the third day of strike action,...

STRIKING lecturers and students at Sussex University celebrated yesterday when six suspended students were reinstated. The six were suspended by the university’s management for taking...

GATE Gourmet workers were very angry yesterday when they heard that BA has decided that three BA shop stewards are to face disciplinary...

SLEEP-deprived junior doctors, subjected to an ever increasing heavy workload, are losing out on vital training and this, in turn, is impacting patient care,...

THE Labour Party is to hold a Special Conference in London in March next year in which the Miliband leadershipwill seek the abolition of...

‘SLAVERY should go and our rights given!’ demanded London Overground workers who were lobbying the London Mayor’s office yesterday in preparation for their February...

The British Medical Association will put ‘absolutely everything’ on the table including strike action when members determine their response to the government’s...

At 8.00am on Thursday morning the armed Greek riot police invaded the building of the State Electricity Board (DEH) Computer Centre in Athens which...

AT 4.15 local time yesterday morning, hundreds of riot police forcibly entered the building of the ERT (state TV and radio corporation) which has...

TORY Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg announced yesterday that the taxpayer is to subsidise the energy bills of every business in Britain to the tune...

MORE THAN 100,000 NHS workers are set to be sacked under plans being laid out by the Starmer Labour government it emerged yesterday. Former Shadow...

The Unite trade union, yesterday welcomed the withdrawal of controversial contracts by Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES), which would have resulted in the termination...

LABOUR’S Andy Burnham, who is set to replace Keir Starmer as Prime Minister in three weeks, pledged to cut welfare and boost military spending,...

LACK of midwives and the closure of maternity units have resulted in more babies suffering from brain damage, dying during childbirth, or dying soon...

THE Chagossian community in Crawley have reacted with fury after an offer from the coalition government and Vince Cable to allow the islanders...

SATs tests are being used as a ‘big stick’ to beat state schools with, says the president of the National Association of Head Teachers...

PRO-Palestinian students have occupied several university campuses in the UK, to protest against the Israeli war on Gaza. Students in Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester,...