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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei warned Tuesday that, ‘without Jerusalem there will be no peace’ with Israel. ‘Peace starts in Jerusalem and ends there. Peace...

MORE than a century of Labour dominance in Wales ended yesterday as the party crashed to a historic defeat in the Senedd election, losing...

MORE than 5,000 trade unionists, workers, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on the London May Day March yesterday...

‘The NUT will support all those school communities – heads, teachers, parents and governors – who resist forced Academy status’, pledged NUT General Secretary...

THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday increased interest rates to 1.75% – the highest in 27 years. It warned of 13% inflation...

THE LONDON Fire Brigade has accused the Tory government of ‘playing with children’s lives,’ by barring the installation of sprinklers in schools. There are about...

MORE than half a million workers, students and youth joined London’s Nakba 77 march on Downing Street in support of Palestine on Saturday. As it...

QUADCOPTER drones equipped with loudspeakers instructed Palestinian families trapped inside a UN-run school in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza to flee yesterday,...

DOCTORS at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Cardiff yesterday passionately opposed the privatisation of the NHS. The first motion, Motion 20, opposed...

THE TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 16: Palestine, which calls ‘on the British government to maintain all funding to...

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has firmly rejected President Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ the details of which were announced yesterday evening. Abbas said: ‘Trump...

OVER 200 patients, health professionals, union members and campaigners marched through east London yesterday against cuts to GP surgeries which threaten the closure of...

TENS of thousands of public sector workers demonstrated in all the Greek major cities last Thursday as part of a 24-hour national strike called...

A LABOUR MP said yesterday that British soldiers led the counter-revolutionary ‘rebel’ advance on Tripoli last week. In an interview with the Russia Today...

Palestinian resistance fighters took on Israeli tanks invading eastern Gaza City early yesterday morning and forced their withdrawal after hours of fierce clashes. Palestinians said...

‘WE HAVE seen nurses spending their entire shifts treating people in car parks because of backed up ambulances, we know the prime minister recognises...

ISRAELI police clashed with Palestinian worshippers inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday. Palestinian guards of the mosque said dozens of Israeli officers raided the compound,...

‘WE don’t rule out industrial action,’ Michael J Leahy, General Secretary of Community, the steelworkers’ union said yesterday. This was after the Tata...

IRAN says termination of the Israeli war on Lebanon is an ‘inseparable’ part of the agreement between Tehran and Washington to permanently end the...

IN just three days last week, 1,644 doctors applied to work abroad, the General Medical Council confirmed yesterday. The surge in applications began last week...

YESTERDAY, on Al- Quds Day, thousands of people took to the streets of London in a powerful march orchestrated by the Justice for Palestine...

A CALL for ‘appropriate industrial action to stop the redundancy of its members’ was made to BMA representatives at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting...

‘GMB will fight for every single job,’ the GMB union said, reacting yesterday to the news of yet another 5,000 job cuts at British...

LOCKED OUT Gate Gourmet workers picketed the regional Office of the TGWU in Hillingdon near Heathrow Airport yesterday. The airline catering company, which sacked more...

YESTERDAY’S King’s Speech was opened yesterday by King Charles III. The main issues in the King’s Speech were that ministers will support measures that control...

LABOUR Party leader Miliband stepped up his attacks on the trade unions yesterday, announcing plans to end the automatic ‘affiliation’ fee paid by three...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed its concerns over Primary Care Trusts diverting patient referrals to private...

TORY PM Johnson was joined by head of NHS England Simon Stevens at a joint press conference yesterday afternoon in which they reported 492...

THE EU and the UN called for an official probe into mass graves at hospitals in Gaza, where hundreds of bodies have been discovered,...

TEACHING trade unions have condemned the government’s use of private contractors, hired to mark school children’s ‘SATs’ exam papers. The condemnation was in response to...

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

Former Deputy Prime Minister Prescott claimed £4,000 in a year expenses to purchase food, while his former boss Blair even...

INTERSERVE was handed £660 million worth of public contracts in the months before facing collapse, GMB Union has revealed. The company is set to go...

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at 17 more UK universities have voted to strike over pay and working conditions, meaning that...

THE UNITED Kingdom has finalised an agreement with Ukraine that allows Kiev to buy British warships and missiles to enhance its naval capabilities, a...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has threatened Cuba, warning on Sunday: ‘THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I...

Another week of postal strikes begins today – affecting East Anglia, London, the South West and other parts of the UK, the Communication...

US President Joe Biden has stated that his administration is ‘discussing’ potential Israeli plans to strike Iran’s oil industry in response to the recent...

THE BOSS of Heathrow airport has warned of making 25,000 job cuts as the Tories’ 14-day quarantine system came into force yesterday morning. Heathrow boss...

THE government is already drawing up crisis measures to privatise the NHS. A ‘long list of possibilities’ is contained in a leaked Department of Health...

THE Young Socialists completed the final leg of their 248-mile March For Jobs from London to the TUC Congress in Liverpool yesterday mid-day. Birmingham and...

MENTAL health services across the UK are under unprecedented strain, with a steep fall in nurse numbers and available beds at a time of...

BARNSLEY Central MP Dan Jarvis has backed a GMB campaign against the privatisation of Barnsley hospital. Demonstrators are expected to gather outside the hospital today...

GPs yesterday opposed plans by Virgin Healthcare to offer GPs 10% of the profits it plans to make from private services including dentistry, therapies...

THIS is a huge victory for Labour Party members and party democracy,’ John McDonnell MP, Shadow Chancellor and chair of Jeremy for Labour, said...