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GP leaders yesterday warned the government that its plans to recruit 5,000 new GPs and introduce seven-day opening are undeliverable, as new figures show...

Israeli forces targeted a home in Gaza City early Monday, killing a young girl and injuring dozens of Palestinians just minutes after a humanitarian...

THE spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry has accused the United States and Britain of being complicit in the ‘terrible and inhumane’ crime perpetrated by...

Cabin crew resumed their determined strike against British Airways’ attempted union-busting at Heathrow, Gatwick and the other airports at midnight last night. They are taking...

HEALTH and education unions have warned the Labour government that they won’t accept its imposition of a miserly 2.8% pay cap on them for...

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...

THE eviction of Heygate Estate tenant Evelyn Amahian and her two-year-old daughter was halted yesterday morning, when 40 tenants, trade unionists and youth arrived...

‘WHAT happened to us could have happened to anyone!’ This is what Visteon shop steward Raymond Dixon told the crowd in Trafalgar Square at the...

SELF DEFENCE forces have confirmed they attacked a Ukrainian military helicopter at an airfield in eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk. A plume of smoke...

HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, youth, self-employed and small shopkeepers took part last Wednesday in the mass and militant demonstrations throughout Greece as part...

A GROUP of 106 South African mineworkers, arrested following the police shooting at UK-based Lonmin’s Marikana mine, were released yesterday by the ...

US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria killed nine civilians in the east of the town of Mare, approximately 25 kilometres north of Aleppo yesterday. Meanwhile, the...

‘CALL the whole airport out to defend all jobs, pay and conditions,’ striking Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) worker, Jarnail Singh, said yesterday ahead of...

Public services often fail to consider the special needs of older people, who are being treated like ‘second class citizens’, Age Concern said yesterday. It...

Chancellor Osborne’s message to the working class in his Autumn Statement was that the crisis is worsening fast, and you will have...

THE VOTE Arjinder Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall campaign team got great support from Ealing Hospital workers and patients yesterday morning, following...

END the pay freeze for midwives and give them the same percentage pay increase as managers, the Royal College of Midwives has demanded, in...

UNIONS warned yesterday that savage cuts to ambulance services and staffing levels are causing the A&E crisis to ‘spiral out of control’ and ‘will...

‘DESPITE five days of strike action by 55 members of the GMB, NCP, owned by private equity group 3i, is refusing to recognise the...

THE latest NHS workforce data is ‘not something the government should be proud of’, says the BMA. Responding to the latest NHS workforce data BMA...

THE Health and Safety Commission (HSC) yesterday announced the official inquiry into the Buncefield oil depot fire. HSC chairman Bill Callaghan told a press conference...

BUS drivers across London and Crawley, working for First Bus, Metroline and Metrobus, are staging a 24-hour strike today, demanding a fair pay rise...

THE Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval of a bill rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state, viewing...

TORY Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi has quit the government, saying its policy on Gaza is ‘morally indefensible’. In her resignation letter, Warsi spoke of...

QATAR announced yesterday that the truce between Israel and Gaza has been extended for two days, with 20 Israeli captives to be handed over...

Firefighters from every station in Hertfordshire are joining a national rally and lobby of Parliament in Westminster on Wednesday, 12 November. They are urging politicians...

THE ROYAL Courts of Justice in The Strand in central London were besieged by supporters of Julian Assange from early morning to late afternoon...

TWO weeks of postal strikes began with night shift Mail Centre workers across the UK walking out for 24 hours last Wednesday night at...

On YESTERDAY’S second anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle, Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas, reaffirmed that its top priority is an immediate end to the...

STUDENTS and trade unions yesterday condemned next Monday’s opening of the first private medical school since the 1940s, charging students an astronomic £162,000 for...

At least thirty-three people were killed and hundreds more injured after a series of explosions hit the London Underground network and a double-decker bus...

PEOPLE across the country are being asked to put colourful posters in their windows in support of a proper NHS pay rise, in a...

ISRAELI occupation forces stormed the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp overnight on Tuesday and throughout yesterday, destroying infrastructure. Occupation forces launched a...

THE UK is ready to back up the newly founded Saudi coalition ground army, with air support in Syria, British military sources told the...

THE LABOUR Party leadership will ‘never be forgiven’ if it goes ahead with its benefit cuts plans next Tuesday, the Fire Brigades Union leader...

‘THE working class is tired of listening to the lies put forward by the ruling class politicians,’ said Workers Revolutionary Party candidate Gabriel Polley,...

THE DEBATE on the European Union Withdrawal Agreement Bill began yesterday with Tory PM Johnson confirming that if it is not voted through, the...

THE French transport workers’ strike against pension cuts yesterday caused huge stoppages on TGV fast rail routes, local train, metro and bus services. Only 90...

A MAN was shot dead in Portland, Oregon as a large demonstration of supporters of President Trump clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters. The city...

Youth are marching from Manchester to London to demand 'Jobs for youth' and 'Free State education'. The March started in Manchester on Saturday 30...

‘BURSARIES or bust! Jeremy bite the dust!’ chanted over a thousand student nurses as they marched to Downing Street on Saturday in their campaign...

EALING Council Parking Services workers are striking again today and tomorrow demanding that Ealing Council sacks the Serco public services privateer and takes their...

HEAVY fighting continues in many areas of Tripoli today, especially around the compound of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gadaffi, as soldiers and armed civilians...