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‘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...

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday slammed as ‘madness’ the destruction of nurses training places. The RCN was responding to a survey by the...

Patient care in West Yorkshire will be under threat if plans for swingeing cuts to the blood service in Leeds go ahead, the Unite...

REFUGEES, asylum seekers and those that the Home Office are seeking to deport are being set to work in the detention centres, and paid...

BUSWORKERS bought their tickets for the June 16th meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday. Last month, the Ealing Clinical Commissioning...

‘The plan to make patient data available to private companies is all about using the NHS as a treasure trove for profits for private...

With just five weeks until the German elections, Chancellor Merkel yesterday expressed her anger and frustration at the failure last Friday of General Motors...

MORE than 800 postal workers from all parts of the country, from Plymouth to Scotland, marched on the Labour Party conference in Manchester yesterday...

The Royal College of Nursing yesterday called for a halt to the closure of hospital beds until trusts can clearly demonstrate that alternative, tried...

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 European debt crisis is a ‘key risk’ to the UK banking sector and banks should build up their cash reserves in response, the...

Yesterday’s immigration panel ruling to deport an Algerian man as a threat to national security is ‘an affront to justice and a green light...

The GMB trade union yesterday condemned as ‘dubious’ a leaked NHS report recommendation that patients with life-threatening complaints be kept out of hospital and...

Israel has asked the US government to speed delivery of short-range anti-personnel rockets armed with deadly cluster munitions, for use against the Hezbollah ...

UNITE has called for urgent reforms into how the deaths of workers and members of the public killed and injured in road accidents...

MOST of the people due to be put aboard a controversial deportation flight to Jamaica yesterday have been removed from the flight list! This was...

THE MAY government has dropped its key NHS ‘safe staffing’ measure. This means that nurse staffing fill rate data are no longer being published. This change...

Millions of graduates will now face paying interest on their student loans again as new interest rates came into effect yesterday. Payments to the Student...

The High Court yesterday refused to grant British Airports Authority (BAA) a blanket ban on protests in and around Heathrow airport that would have...

AMNESTY International UK has warned that a new UK trade deal with Israel could allow Israel to consolidate its settler-colonialism and apartheid in the...

THE UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has condemned Israel’s oppressive occupation and its damaging effects on Palestinians’ everyday lives, expressing...

THE Fatah Movement yesterday called upon the United Nations and the UN Security Council to fulfil their legal responsibilities and act against Israel’s imminent...

THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...

VIRGIN Care has been awarded over £2bn of NHS contracts in the last five years alone, ringing alarm bells over the further privatisation of...

RYANAIR is planning to make 3,000, 15% of its workers in Europe, redundant and is also planning 20% pay cuts for employees. Unite national officer...

‘They shot an unarmed man who was trying to protect his family at four o-clock in the morning.’ This is how friends of the 23-year-old...

‘WE are not signing the Compromise Agreement. It’s one big con. It’s daylight robbery. There’s no other word for it.’ ‘I sent in my application...

THE Tory-LibDem Coalition’s £20 billion NHS budget cuts are leading to nurses having to clean toilets and mop hospital floors it emerged yesterday. A survey...

Israeli occupation forces and colonists have escalated their attacks across the occupied West Bank, injuring Palestinian civilians, destroying agricultural land, and intensifying efforts to...

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

OVER 550 ROMEC engineers were out on strike on Friday and yesterday in their dispute over Royal Mail and other major companies breaking their...

AS MANY AS 700 people died on the streets while homeless last year, official estimates show, and the number is in reality likely to...

THE Transport and General Workers Union Biennial Delegate Conference in Brighton yesterday heard a call for the nationalisation of Jaguar and Land Rover to...

Army drivers are being trained as strikebreakers in the event of a national tanker drivers strike which is expected to be called...

OVER a third of low paid workers have had to skip meals, sitting at home in the dark and cold because they have no...

‘WE are rock solid!’ Unite leader Len McCluskey declared yesterday during the 24-hour London-wide bus strike that brought the capital to a standstill. He was...

THERE were 150,000 workers, students and youth marching through the streets of London for Palestine from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall on Saturday. As the...

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) and Unison at Middlesex University are striking today in a row over job cuts and changes...

EDUCATION secretary Bridget Phillipson yesterday defended the decision over why the government had abandoned its promise to allow workers to claim protection from day...

THREE victims of alleged torture at the hands of the British government during the Kenya Emergency in the 1950s and 1960s give evidence in...

DOCTORS at the Annual Representative Meeting of the British Medical Association in Edinburgh yesterday voted to stop the privatisation of the NHS, and voted...

Civil rights organisation Liberty yesterday urged the government not to give police powers to arrest demonstrators for ‘offensive’ chants and/or slogans on placards. This followed...

HUNDREDS of workers protested on Monday in front of the al-Awda biscuit factory in Deir al-Balah in Gaza in Palestine, after the plant was...

SQUADS of the Greek anti-terrorist units and riot police armed with automatic weapons, early on Thursday morning occupied the small coastal town of Ierissos...

ALMOST a decade after his WikiLeaks website enraged Washington by leaking secret US documents, a London court will begin hearings on Monday to decide...