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‘This is just the start of the battle,’ declared Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) deputy general secretary Dave Ward at a mass rally in...

Trade unions and health professionals yesterday slammed as ‘very alarming’ and ‘staggering’, the government’s leaked draft NHS pay and workforce strategy for 2008...

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

WITH talks between the NHS trade unions and health secretary Hunt due at 2pm today, in a bid to avert Thursday’s NHS strike, efforts...

JUNIOR doctors and their union have responded angrily after 1,500 third year trainees were told they have to re-apply for their jobs as registrars...

LOCAL authorities say Israeli occupation forces have pushed deeper into Gaza City in open violation of the ceasefire, expanding the so-called ‘yellow line’ and...

‘ONCE AGAIN, we see the reality of bandit capitalism and its toxic impact on our public services,’ Transport union RMT said yesterday, calling for...

FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack has announced further London-wide strike action. The strike, which will take place from 10.00am on November 5th to 9.00am on...

‘The abolition of the 10p tax rate has dealt a body blow to millions of low paid workers,’ UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis said...

‘NO ONE should be immune from prosecution. The firefighters certainly weren’t and the manufacturers of the cladding definitely should not be,’ Lucy Masoud FBU...

SHIPBUILDERS have occupied the Harland & Wolff site in Belfast, closing the gates and refusing to leave, with their unions GMB and Unite demanding...

THE TORIES ‘are declaring war on organised Labour in this country’ Jeremy Corbyn, newly elected leader of the Labour Party, told delegates at the...

THE Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke at the European Parliament on Wednesday morning stating that he was seeking an ‘honourable compromise’ with the...

THE Greek coalition government has once again failed in a parliamentary vote to elect its candidate Stavros Dimas as the new President of the...

‘THE Israeli occupation bears direct responsibility for the Baptist Hospital massacre and that its flagrant lies will not fool anyone,’ declared Hamas yesterday. Hamas said:...

THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for the scrapping of the Tory ‘Prevent Strategy’. Delegates condemned the government’s...

Chancellor Gordon Brown delivered his 10th Budget yesterday featuring more tax cuts for the rich and pay cuts for the working class. Opening his speech...

THE BANK of England has revealed that banks extended new mortgage commitments to borrowers worth £69.6bn in the three months to the end of...

RIOT police put down an uprising by immigrants imprisoned at Amygdaleza detention centre, near Athens, who rose up at around 10.00pm on Saturday night. They...

STRIKING barristers were supported by the RMT at their rally outside the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey in central London yesterday, while...

NURSES will suffer a huge wage ‘hit’ this year if the Government imposes a pay rise well below the soaring rate of inflation, unions...

500,000 angry workers, trade unionists and youth marched in London, Glasgow and Belfast against the Tory-LibDem Coalition government and its cuts and privatisation programme...

Top UN and Palestinian health officials are warning that the new Israeli-controlled aid distribution system in Gaza is being used as a ‘deadly trap’,...

THE VAST majority of nurses are prepared to strike over pay, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday as it announced a ‘summer...

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) yesterday expressed ‘deep concern’ over secret plans to hire Group 4 private strike breakers in a £100m contract. A FBU...

THOUSANDS of London bus workers will take strike action next Thursday 5th July followed by action on Tuesday 24 July in a dispute over...

HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, students and youth marched on Saturday through central London, calling for victory to Palestine and an end to Israel’s...

UNISON, the major UK health union, yesterday blamed the government for the crisis over dirty ambulances and issued a call ‘for urgent action to...

THOUSANDS of Greek school and university students took part in militant anti-government and anti-police marches in all the major cities last Friday to commemorate...

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

A DEAL to change Tata’s pension scheme has proved harder to sell to staff than was expected. It is being resisted by steelworkers who have...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his military leadership they should build up their forces in the Arctic as a priority. Commending the recent restoration...

‘SHAME on Uber!’ chanted over 150 striking drivers and supporters outside Uber HQ at Aldgate Tower east London yesterday. ‘Uber Uber you can’t hide! ...

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

HEALTH regulator Monitor has authorised West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust as a new foundation trust, effectively privatising it from 1st January, 2013. The trust...

OVER 30 GMB members held a lively picket of the private contractor ISS at the company’s HQ in the South Quay Building, Canary Wharf,...

‘THIS is torture by any definition of that word.’ That was the reaction of lawyer Phil Shiner, as he made public photographic and medical evidence...

Plans to bring one of the world’s most advanced health scanners to Edinburgh risk creating a two-tier NHS, senior health economist, Professor Allyson Pollock,...

‘As fire crews and support staff were being honoured at a Buncefield award ceremony, fire authority bosses were busily cutting the pay of the...

STUDENTS at University of Arts London (UAL) are in indefinite occupation of London College of Communications (LCC) in Southwark to oppose Elephant & Castle...

PM TRUSS will limit energy bill rises for all households for two years as the new Prime Minister tries to prevent the British economy...

The labour collective occupying the Kherson engineering factory has issued a decree appealing to the ‘Workers of Ukraine’. The decree says: ‘We understand that we...

MORE than 80,000 workers, students and youth marched for Victory to Palestine through central London on Saturday. The London march assembled at Embankment on the...

Unilever workers from all over the country yesterday descended on the London headquarters, outraged at the company’s ending of their final salary pension scheme. They...

ON the eve of last Thursday’s student demonstrations, the Greek right-wing government withdrew plans to table in the Vouli (Greek parliament) the reactionary Education...