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THE Hamas Movement has called on the Arab and Muslim summit in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to form an international Arab-Islamic alliance to pressure...

ALMOST two years after over 700 Gate Gourmet, Heathrow workers were sacked and locked out by the Texas Pacific equity capitalist group, the...

DOCTORS union the BMA yesterday responded to the shocking latest England GP workforce data and Health Foundation forecasts, showing a dramatic slump in the...

THE TORY government have offered the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, a two-year extension to her term in office with campaigners for justice furious...

‘MY BROTHER is a political prisoner. He was due to go to university this year, but instead he’s been jailed for protesting outside the...

May Day March Victory to world revolution! Quit the EU Now! Kick the Tories out! For a workers government & Socialism! End Israeli occupation of...

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves has come under intense scrutiny after a turbulent period in the financial markets sent the pound plummeting to a 14-month low...

The Labour government has decided to put on hold a decision to scrap the ‘double whammy’ NHS accounting rules that are forcing hospital trusts...

ISRAELI forces have killed at least seven Palestinians across the Gaza Strip since Sunday in continued violation of the October ceasefire. Five were killed yesterday...

‘The strike is strong, the public are still behind us and members are strong and want to continue,’ striking RMT London Area Council Rep...

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...

UNISON members working for Care UK are marching through Doncaster today at 2pm after 30 days of strike action against Bridgepoint Capital, the private...

MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has had his passport returned to him as have other Zimbabwe Opposition officials. The documents were taken off them at Harare...

Bernard Ribeiro, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, has announced his withdrawal from the crisis talks about the selection of junior doctors for...

THE Israeli occupation forces (IOF) yesterday hijacked at dawn the Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen and kidnapped the activists on board. The vessel, operated by the...

ANGRY Gate Gourmet strikers told News Line yesterday that Transport and General Workers’ Union head of civil aviation, Brendan Gold, had visited them on...

Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) yesterday commenced a legal case against the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. They are challenging the unlawful imprisonment, through kettling of...

WORKERS and small farmers are in occupation for over a week now of the large state owned EBZ sugar-beets factory in Thessaloniki, northern Greece,...

On their picket line outside the British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday, GMB members demanded the doctors association show respect for their own staff...

THE British Medical Association has responded defiantly to Labour PM Starmer’s threat to break his pledge to train 1,000 new doctors unless the union...

Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti and Public Interest Lawyers solicitor Phil Shiner yesterday welcomed an announcement by the Secretary of State for Defence of an...

‘THE SAFETY of firefighters and our communities is the Fire Brigade Union’s greatest concern,’ Gary Keary, FBU Brigade Secretary for Greater Manchester, said yesterday,...

THE ‘improved’ unemployment figures are a mask for a country that is working harder, and getting poorer, with more than 4.5...

SOUTH Wales Police have launched a facial recognition app which is to be installed on their officers’ phones, prompting human rights campaigners Liberty to...

BBC journalists and technicians walked out across the UK at noon yesterday at the start of a 12-hour strike over cuts and a ‘bullying...

HAVOC is being wreaked on the lives of thousands of private tenants by rogue landlords, Shelter reported yesterday. New research found that over 125,000 private...

FOR the first time since massive regular protests began in January, the French government has held discussions with union leaders regarding the two year...

making nurses work as Health Care Assistants for a year before they can start to train as a nurse is ‘a stupid idea’, Royal...

The Prison Officers Association is calling for a series of one-day general strikes to force the repeal of the anti-union laws. Its motion on Trade...

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 strikes are strongly supported, our members are determined to continue the strike action until Royal Mail seriously negotiates,’ a Communication Workers’ Union (CWU)...

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

‘VICTORY to the junior doctors – kick the Tories out! TUC get off your knees – call a general strike! No privatisation – defend...

BRITISH pilots have been flying drones from a US base responsible for covert strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, considered by many to violate international...

THE ROYAL College of Nursing have warned of a ‘woeful lack’ of trained nurses as it emerges that untrained care assistants are ‘putting patients...

OUTSOURCING firm Capita is to close over a third of its offices in the UK permanently – despite the Tory government launching a new...

EARLIER on Monday the Greek Prime Minister and SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) leader Alexis Tsipras fully submitted to the Eurozone leaders’ diktats...

‘we are calling for strike action in our defence,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith declared yesterday, after bailiffs turned up at the wind turbine...

VICIOUS attacks on workers, especially immigrant workers, were at the centre of the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s Queen’s Speech delivered at the State...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were stopped from picketing the Gate Gourmet plant yesterday by the Heathrow Airport police and by the British Airports...

NORTHERN Ireland’s Unison education and health members are to take strike action on October 5. Unison general secretary Patricia McKeown said workers in many sectors...

UNIONS representing teachers and school leaders in England are united in calling on the School Teachers’ Review Body to make urgent recommendations on pay,...

COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) deputy general postal secretary, Terry Pullinger, has reminded the communications industry regulator that its primary statutory duty is ‘to protect...

The Unite union yesterday condemned the sacking by British Airways of a senior Unite official, BASSA branch secretary Duncan Holley, as ‘another act of...