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A POWERFUL demonstration against mass railway ticket office hours cuts and total closures was held outside London’s Kings Cross Station early yesterday morning, with...

Tens of thousands of ‘Yellow Vest’ demonstrators took part in anti-government protests across France on Saturday. Police used tear gas against them in streets across...

GATE GOURMET, the firm that locked out over 700 of its workers in a pre-planned onslaught on August 10, admitted yesterday that the locked...

THE boss of rail privateer, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is to resign after the company’s new timetables brought the railway to a near halt....

LIVING standards are the worst since the last war ‘if not since the 1920s’, the leader of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) declared...

ASLEF and RMT railworkers are striking again this week in defence of their jobs, their working conditions, their pensions and pay. Aslef train drivers are...

A UNITED Nations investigation has found that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, systematically targeting reproductive healthcare facilities as part of...

‘OCCUPY the Port Talbot plant and demand that the government renationalise the steel industry immediately,’ Robbie Wheatley, Community union Branch Secretary at Lackenby...

LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers visited Hillingdon Civic Centre, the Uxbridge library, Uxbridge bus garage, Uxbridge tube and Brunel University yesterday, to campaign for...

AN investment bank, led by an oligarch who collaborated with Prince Charles on charity work, managed a network of offshore companies moving billions out...

‘The coalition has got it wrong. By only having a strategy for cuts, it has no plans for growth and recovery.’ So warned Unison general...

THERE were more than 20 locked out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line yesterday fighting for reinstatement on their original terms and conditions. The...

Soaring childcare and transport costs, plus cuts to tax credits, mean families need to earn a third more today than they did just five...

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

British Airways has asked ACAS to mediate after failing to get the unions to agree to plans to cut thousands of jobs and freeze...

ANGRY Gate Gourmet workers were on the picket line yesterday after Wednesday’s sell-out deal between the Transport and General Workers’ Union leaders, TUC leaders...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called a general election for June 30 following the heavy defeat in last Sunday’s Euro elections of his...

NINETY Palestinian women and children were freed from Israeli prisons before dawn yesterday and greeted by large crowds of jubilant relatives, friends and supporters...

THE European Group for the Rights of Prisoners (EORG) was demanding answers yesterday after at least 11 people were ...

PROFESSOR Bren Neale yesterday condemned private treatment centres as dangerous and demanded that they be brought back into the NHS. This follows on from the...

OVER 100 defiant occupying students at the University of Arts London (UAL) were joined by students from the LSE occupation and other universities and...

THREE days after his death, a website has published the last will written by murdered Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi. In his will, the Libyan leader...

IT WAS announced on Tuesday night that all operations during the month of January are cancelled, leaving over 50,000 patients in pain and misery. Also...

HAMAS yesterday denounced US President Trump’s call for the Gaza ceasefire to be cancelled, warning that the only way for the Israeli captives to...

The ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) have committed new massacres on what was described as ‘a night of hell’ in Rafah yesterday, killing at least...

NEARLY a quarter of junior doctors say their work makes them feel ‘burnt out’, and almost one-in-three says they are often ‘exhausted’ in the...

LIBYAN government spokesman Dr Moussa Ibrahim told the world’s press yesterday: ‘We are here to sincerely, as always, appeal for an immediate ceasefire, an...

NHS Chief Executive, Sir David Nicholson, who presided over the Mid Stafford Hospital disaster where there were more than 1,000 unnecessary deaths, yesterday refused...

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...

GP LEADERS are dismayed as the UK Secretary of State refuses to give additional help to GP practices. The Health and Social Care Secretary is...

STRIKE ballots will open at 143 universities across the UK from today in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions. The University and College Union...

‘If we don’t take a stand now, you will see the postal service in the UK destroyed for ever,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...

THE North East London Council of Action organised a mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital yesterday to stop the closure of Maternity, Paediatrics and...

‘We’ve had just as strong support today as we had for the first day of the strike,’ a Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS)...

HUNGER striking Palestinian prisoners have rejected an Israeli proposal to ‘free’ them, on condition that they are expelled, the Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees...

THE North East London Council of Action yesterday held a successful picket against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital A&E, maternity and paediatric departments. Hundreds...

HOMELESSNESS is spreading to the middle class, homelessness charity Crisis is warning, as mass sackings of public sector workers along with the government’s onslaught...

‘THERE is to be a zero pay rise for thousands of teachers in 2015-16.’ So said Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, commenting on...

‘APPROXIMATELY 110,000 Palestinians are reported killed, missing or injured, leaving many suffering long-term disabilities four months into Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip,’ Euro-Med...

TAMILNET reports that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) have fired artillery shells into the makeshift hospital in Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal East, killing at least...

Student nurses are being used to plug staffing gaps as NHS trusts axe thousands of qualified nurses in the face of government-induced deficits, the...

ANKARA and Washington have reached an agreement to work together in their occupation of part of northern Syria, where the two NATO allies have...

PM’S QUESTIONS were yesterday centred on Cameron’s ‘profound apology’ for hiring Coulson as his press officer. Labour leader Miliband opened by saying: ‘For four years...

THE Care Quality Commission has put a cap on the number of people who can be admitted to the ‘Majors’ section of the A&E...