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THE Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday voted for an emergency motion moved by Unite calling for a United Nations Security Council resolution...

SEVERE Tory spending cuts are putting the future of local government, children’s services, health care and care for the elderly at risk of collapse,...

‘THERE’S no support for it among firefighters and there’s no support for it among police officers, there’s no support among local communities and yet...

Public sector union UNISON yesterday reacted in shock and anger to the announcement by Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust that it plans to cut 600...

PRIME Minister May finished a round of talks with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster yesterday afternoon without an agreement being reached. There was...

PATHOLOGY staff at King’s College and Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals are today striking against privatisation at all three hospitals between 9am and 5pm. Pathology...

‘THIS anti-union legislation has to be answered by unified, generalised strike action from the entire trade union movement.’ Bakers Union leader Ronnie Draper was responding...

‘OUR members deserve fair pay and will be taking action for as long as it takes to get it,’ said Communications Workers Union (CWU)...

Prime Minister Blair and Gordon Brown, together with Work and Pensions Secretary Hutton, will today announce a new, savage attack on lone parents and...

NUT SIXTH form teachers walked out on strike yesterday morning at colleges across the country against Tory funding cuts that are driving up...

A rights group yesterday sought a ban on US flights carrying bombs and detonators to Israel landing at UK airports. The Islamic Human Rights Commission...

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...

MARK EASTON, the chief executive of the Chase Farm and Barnet NHS Trust, quit yesterday after it was made public that the trust intended...

FORTY bus workers had a very lively picket yesterday morning, at Hackney’s Ash Grove bus depot in east London, as they staged the first...

P&O FERRIES has fired 800 seafaring staff with immediate effect. However, crews defied orders and refused to leave their ships, as their union the...

London doctors have made it clear they are opposed to the government’s plan to slash and privatise the NHS – and want action to...

Hundreds of students at University of East Anglia (UAE), Norwich held a mass protest against the visit of Universities Minister Willetts on Thursday. UAE Student...

‘EVERY day junior doctors despair as they see operations cancelled and treatment postponed for the millions on the waiting lists because our health services...

A LIVELY demonstration was held outside the surgery of the Labour Justice Secretary and deputy Prime Minister David Lammy MP in White Hart Lane,...

YESTERDAY’S soaring inflation figures led trade union leaders to warn the government that members are demanding action against the wage-cutting three-year pay settlements. The Consumer...

Professor John Ashton, who was threatened with discipline over raising concerns about the Health and Social Care Bill, has warned of a return to...

THE City of London and the government were shaken yesterday after PM May postponed a decision to go ahead with the Hinkley Point nuclear...

THE THREAT of industrial action by England’s 50,000 junior doctors has forced Tory health secretary Hunt to think again over plans to impose a...

‘The Localism Bill, promoting the “Big Society” concept, is a smokescreen, so that thousands of local government jobs can be axed’, the Unite union...

The South West TUC has today launched a campaign to stop the West Country being declared a low-pay zone. Chancellor Osborne’s plan to end national...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education set off early yesterday for the latest leg from Stoke to Stafford. Hitting the road...

DRACONIAN emergency powers contained within the Coronavirus Bill were debated during the bill’s second reading in Parliament yesterday. Police state measures were outlined to detain...

THE UK unemployment rate fell to 7.4%, from 7.6% for the three months to September, according to figures released by the Office for National...

LABOUR is presenting new evidence to parliament today showing moves to break away from national pay in the NHS are spreading across England. A...

Public sector union UNISON yesterday joined doctors in opposing government plans to replace NHS-run GP surgeries with ‘polyclinics’. ‘We are opposed to privately-run polyclinics,’ A...

The BRITISH government is to pay millions of pounds in compensation to around a dozen British torture victims and former Guantanamo Bay detainees, it...

Lawyers for Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed yesterday welcomed news that the UK government has referred his case to the Attorney General. The Home Office is...

WORKERS employed by outsourcing giant Serco, who work in the company’s back-of-house catering department at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, will stage a...

5,000 European workers marched to the Opel plant in Antwerp yesterday afternoon to demand that it must not close as a result of the...

REFUGEES stood their ground yesterday in Hungary, defied the police and refused to go to a ‘refugee camp’. They said that they had purchased rail...

FOLLOWING the recommendation of the ‘slap in the face’ 1% pay award by the Department of Health and Social Care in its evidence to...

THE crisis in primary care was the topic of an open microphone discussion at the LMC GPs conference in York yesterday morning. Speaker after...

JUNIOR doctors in England will hold a three-day strike from 7am on Wednesday 14 June to 7am on Saturday 17 June, after rejecting a...

British Airways yesterday initiated legal action in a bid to stop the 12-day strike from December 22, announced by the Unite union. Refusing...

A VOTE took place last night, fast tracking the Johnson government’s 1.25% hike on National Insurance to pay for social care announced only on...

FIVE-to-14-year-olds will be required to learn more ‘hard facts’ under the new National Curriculum announced by prime minister Cameron and Education Secretary Gove yesterday. The...

SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell yesterday slammed the May government’s ‘catastrophic failure’ after the fatal Grenfell Tower fire. Both he and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn demanded...

THE GMB union will consult members in Brighton schools as to what action to take as 51 Teaching Assistant redundancies loom with many facing...

LORD JUSTICE Leveson yesterday called for tougher press self-regulation backed by legislation. Announcing the publication of his report at a news conference which took no...

‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 800 protesters at a Nakba (Catastrophe) Day demonstration opposite Downing Street on Saturday. The protestors insisted that Palestinian refugees must have...