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The continued austerity programme is costing jobs and making recovery almost impossible, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions said yesterday. Official figures released yesterday showed...

‘We would fight any attempts to impose a wage freeze,’ UNISON warned yesterday in the wake of Chancellor Gordon Brown’s call for public-sector pay...

YOUNG Socialist editor Paul Lepper yesterday slammed the figures produced by the government for its welfare to work programme. He said: ‘These figures expose the...

Faced with a $19bn deficit, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered some 200,000 state workers to be paid the minimum wage because the state...

AS Southeastern rail franchise passes into public ownership this Sunday, the RMT transport union has revealed the true cost of private sector failure and...

NATO’s decision to suspend co-operation with Russia brings the world back to Cold War-style sword swinging, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday. The 28-nation...

GERMANY has issued warnings to the new Greek government that it must ‘live up to its commitments to its creditors’, and ‘take measures so...

‘ISRAEL'S war on Gaza has turned into a war of extermination’, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said as he welcomed leaders...

35,000 WORKERS and youth rallied yesterday at Marble Arch, Speakers Corner, to insist that ‘Black Lives Matter’ and give their 100% support to the...

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...

TORY leadership candidate Liz Truss was forced into a humiliating U-Turn yesterday, after saying in a ‘hustings’ meeting on Monday night that, as Prime...

THE humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip has turned into a man-made famine, the United Nations human rights chief has said, adding that Israel’s...

LONDON NHS workers have called a demonstration today outside The Old Town Hall in Stratford to protest about hospital workers being forced into abusive...

‘WE say to the UK government today we will not allow you to do this, we do not trust you and we will fight...

The decision to suspend aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency by several Western countries is a ‘collective punishment’, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said...

The College of Emergency Medicine (CEM) yesterday warned that is it misguided to downgrade or close hospital Accident and Emergency departments. The college stressed that...

The TORY government has been forced to back down over its hated ‘Shaping a Healthier Future’ (SaHF) NHS cuts and closure programme in north...

A LARGE number of sacked Gate Gourmet catering workers from Heathrow were on their way to Brighton to lobby the Trades Union Congress early...

STRIKING UCU lecturers from Further Education Colleges across London packed out a strike rally at the Emanuelle Centre in Marsham Street in central London...

Dutch workers are ready to deal another blow to the bosses and bankers’ EU by following the example of the French and voting ‘NO’...

Ministers rushed to attempt a papering over of the yawning cracks in the Blair government yesterday as pressure built up on Deputy Prime Minister...

THE government is responsible for maternity services being overworked, understaffed and struggling to cope, warned the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday. Maternity unit closures,...

WELL over 100 locked out Gate Gourmet workers were picketing yesterday near to Heathrow airport. TGWU member Manny Odedra told News Line: ‘The people the...

AL-QAEDA-linked militiamen have been driven out of Iraq’s Fallujah and it is now in the hands of local tribesmen, a senior tribal sheikh said...

FIFTY GP surgeries in the north of Ireland are threatened with closure, the British Medical Association (BMA) warned yesterday. Sixteen surgeries have handed contracts back...

THE COST of student accommodation is spiralling out of control, the National Union of Students (NUS) said yesterday, warning that private landlords were ‘setting...

‘CHILDREN can get meningitis. If they have to take a child all the way to Northwick Park Hospital they could die on the way!’...

‘IN a country like ours, how can it be that one in five children lives in poverty? How can it be that one in three...

TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said yesterday that he was ‘desperately worried’ about the High Court decision to make the cabin crew strike at...

LABOUR shadow chancellor Balls was booed at the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday when he made it clear that a Labour government would carry...

Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday that Greece has agreed the terms of a financial rescue deal with the European Union and IMF. This will...

THE BMA yesterday condemned the Brown government for putting the drive to reach its political targets before patient healthcare. ‘We are being bullied so...

LONDON Underground control staff working on the Waterloo and City line are on strike for three days, following a 100% ‘YES’ vote, for strike...

Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to the announcement by work and pensions secretary Peter Hain that he will proceed with the closure of 28...

THE Trades Union Congress yesterday condemned cuts to housing benefit and other vital support, as sweeping changes to the Welfare State began to take...

LABOUR’s plan for a permanent customs union with the EU after Brexit can secure a Commons majority, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said yesterday. He called...

PRIME MINISTER Cameron admitted yesterday that major Tory Party donors have been invited to dinner in Downing Street on four occasions since 2010. He said:...

TODAY’S guilty verdicts in the case of Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal and Stop The War Campaign vice chair Chris Nineham are extraordinary...

‘The trade union and Labour movement must rise up and oppose Blair’s proposal to ensure Britain becomes the aircraft carrier for Bush’s nuclear ambitions,’...

STRIKING Haringey bin men are into the second week of their action against private contractors, Haringey Accord, which plans to cut two dust crews,...

OVER 100 Fatah-affiliated prisoners in Israeli jails entered their third day on hunger strike yesterday, prisoner representatives said. The 120 prisoners, all held in Nafha...

THE TUC yesterday voted unanimously to oppose city academies. The National Union of Teachers President Hilary Bills urged the TUC to step up a campaign...

the Brown government’s health insurance and ‘age-tax’ plans announced on Monday were condemned as privatisation and ‘a punishment for growing old’ yesterday. ‘Health insurance means...

Justice secretary Jack Straw has had to order an inquiry into claims that police bugged Tooting Labour MP Sadiq Khan as he visited a...

ISRAEL expanded its ground aggression in the besieged Gaza Strip yesterday, with its minister of military affairs Israel Katz announcing plans to ‘capture extensive...