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A TORY disability campaigner has handed in his party membership and sabotaged a Tory Party website in protest over brutal disability benefit cuts. Graeme Ellis,...

WORKERS at the Greek Finance Ministry early on Tuesday morning occupied the Finance Ministry building in central Athens. They are protesting against huge wage cuts...

MORE than 560 Israeli settlers stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of East al-Quds under the protection of the regime’s forces...

MEMBERS of the PCS civil service union yesterday voted overwhelmingly in favour of national strike action in a consultative ballot against job cuts, pay...

HALF of the English regions have cut their spending on maternity services despite the ongoing baby boom, according to new figures obtained by the...

British Airways (BA) yesterday sacked a second Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) shop steward ‘for his involvement’ in the unofficial strike last August...

THE LEFT-wing Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) yesterday announced the launch of an upcoming membership consultation on whether the trade union should...

OVER 5,000 library campaigners, trade unionists, their families and supporters marched against cuts and closures from the British Library through central London to Trafalgar...

Prime Minister Brown met 15 union leaders at his country residence Chequers for three hours yesterday afternoon, to discuss spending cuts ahead of next...

unions have angrily condemned the news that Academies can now employ unqualified ‘teachers’. The change, announced late last Friday afternoon, is immediate. Until now, state-funded...

THE Israeli occupation army intensified its attacks on homes, civilian targets and shelter centres in different areas of Gaza yesterday, killing and injuring dozens...

Merseyside and North Yorkshire local authority pension funds are suing Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for compensation. The funds accuse RBS of withholding the extent...

TRADE unions in the United Kingdom have denounced as outrageous Israel’s decision to designate six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist. ‘We strongly condemn the...

‘WASHINGTON has openly declared its right to use military force unilaterally and wherever it sees fit in order to protect its own interests,’ Russian...

WHILE the marchers stopped to get their picture by the statue of the leader of the English Revolution, Oliver Cromwell, yesterday morning, the local...

THE FIRST survivor to give evidence to the public inquiry into the Grenfell disaster yesterday told how he was trapped in his 10th floor...

PALESTINE Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki called on judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) yesterday to order an end to Israel’s occupation of...

PUBLIC and Commercial Servants union (PCS) members were out on picket lines since before dawn yesterday as tens of thousands came out in support...

‘The Royal Mail employee shares scheme shouldn’t be shelved, it should be scrapped altogether,’ Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) London Regional Secretary John Denton told...

STRIKING nurses are marching on Downing Street today, leaving UCLH (University College London Hospital) at 2.30pm, as nursing staff go on strike in what...

A TWO day nationwide strike of lecturers at every university in the country has been called in an escalating row over pay, the University...

TODAY is the final day for Ealing Hospital Maternity, but the residents and staff remain completely angry at the planned closure. They are marching through...

AN ARREST warrant is being sought by two pro-Palestinian groups Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and the Hind Rajab Foundation for Israeli Foreign Minister...

THE lives of 16 Gaza doctors, detained by Israel, are at risk. Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital remains held in isolation...

NURSES at their annual RCN (Royal College of Nursing) conference in Liverpool yesterday demanded that NHSEngland finally adopts a Safe Staffing Level, requiring by...

LABOUR leader Keir Starmer has suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the party over his remarks yesterday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn was...

LED by the RCN, a coalition of over 20 health care trade unions, charities and professional colleges yesterday called on the government to...

More than a quarter of a million workers, students and youth participated in the National March for Palestine through central London on Saturday. Palestine flag-waving...

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg yesterday made it clear the coalition will press ahead with its Health and Social Care Bill, despite massive opposition...

A SENIOR military spokesman for the Islamic Republic’s Armed Forces warned Israel and its allies yesterday that Iran will not tolerate the occupying regime’s...

OVER one thousand head teachers across England and Wales yesterday held a mass protest over savage cuts to their schools’ budgets. Heads from Peterborough,...

YOUNG people are being left to suffer, with 34 per cent of the country’s children’s centres slashed since 2010, says the GMB. ‘Unwarranted’ closure of...

Gate Gourmet locked out workers are calling on British Airways workers and all workers to join them on their anniversary march and rally in...

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

A survey of East Sussex GPs has found that more than 70 per cent of them fear patient care will suffer when changes to...

JAPAN, France, and the United States are reportedly set to hold joint military drills for the first time in May next year, as part...

ANY ‘Mayoral Directive’ issued by London mayor Johnson to force through savage cuts and closures in the London fire service will be fought ‘vigorously’,...

THE Assistant UN Secretary-General, Khaled Khiari, has urged the international community to categorically reject any Israeli moves to establish settlements in the Gaza Strip...

THE NHS prescription charge is ‘iniquitous’ and ‘outdated’ and should be scrapped, urge GPs in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB), edited...

THE GAZA STRIP has entered a dangerous phase due to the blockade and border closures, the Government Media Office (GMO) warned yesterday. The GMO reviewed...

Hezbollah fighters killed three Israeli soldiers in fighting along the southern Lebanon border yesterday. This was after a night of air attacks by Israeli jets...

Defence Secretary Hutton has said that further increases in UK troop levels in Afghanistan cannot be ruled out. He said that Britain would consider...

THE YOUNG Socialists March for Jobs from London to Liverpool starts today outside the TUC HQ, Great Russell Street, near Tottenham Court Road, and...

‘WE’RE striking for better working conditions, pay and the service for patients,’ Unison member Scott Tyler emergency medical technician told News Line on the...

POSTAL workers yesterday reacted furiously to news that Royal Mail had won an injunction at the High Court banning the next...