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THE Prison Officers Association (POA) have condemned a government scheme to form a reserve force for England and Wales to help it respond to...

AN activist who was deceived into a relationship with an undercover, spying police officer has won a tribunal case for breaches of her human...

ROYAL MAIL Communication Workers Union (CWU) postal workers were in a determined mood during their latest pay strike yesterday. At Jubilee Mail Centre in Hounslow,...

A LIVELY crowd of 50 Ritzy cinema workers attracted a lot of support in Brixton yesterday, shouting ‘pay the living wage’ and ‘living staff,...

THE TGWU conference yesterday passed Composite Motion 29 with just one delegate voting against it. This called ‘for the immediate withdrawal of UK troops from...

THE UNITE trade union, which represents over 400 bus drivers at Go North West, has written to the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham,...

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas yesterday accused Palestinian National Authority President Mahmud Abbas of attempting a military coup after Fatah forces sealed off two Hamas-led...

‘The government is allowing multinationals to bleed the NHS dry,’ public sector union UNISON general secretary, Dave Prentis, said yesterday. Private companies are raking in...

VITAL local services are collapsing, council workers have warned in a new survey conducted by their union, Unison. Unison warned that Tory cuts have...

ISMAIL HANIYEH, head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ Political Bureau, has expressed certainty regarding the Israeli regime’s eventual removal from the entirety of...

AT least 21 Palestinian men, women and children were killed in Gaza yesterday, bringing the death toll to 41,226, with a further 76 wounded,...

The British Medical Association has condemned the government for putting GPs into an impossible position and forcing them to choose between ‘two bad...

TORY Prime Minister Johnson is expected to require Labour votes to get his new tougher tier system passed by the House of Commons next...

AROUND 100 protesters gathered outside the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey as bail hearings concluded for members of the Filton 24, activists...

‘GENERAL Practice is cracking,’ Dr Richard Vautrey, GP committee UK chair, told the BMA Annual Representative Meeting in Brighton yesterday, highlighting the closure of...

Clashes broke out yesterday between police and demonstrators across Greece as marchers commemorated the first anniversary of the fatal police shooting of 15-year-old Alexis...

AN increasing number of pupils in Scotland are going to school hungry and a number are displaying signs of stress and lethargy, according to...

‘COVID hospital numbers could get scary!’ Professor Chris Whitty said yesterday, adding that the UK is ‘not out of the woods yet’. ‘People should act...

‘UNDERHAND’ plans to fire 50 GB Terminals workers who unload and process Volkswagens at Sheerness docks in Kent have been slammed as a ‘sneaky...

MATT WRACK, the FBU general secretary, said yesterday in response to the Grenfell Tower inquiry phase one report: ‘The Inquiry’s interim report must finally...

Yesterday the two biggest health unions warned prime minister Blair about the state of the health service. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr...

TUNISIAN police fired tear gas at protesters in a suburb of the capital and in towns across Sfax governorate on Thursday, as anger over...

JUNIOR DOCTORS at Homerton hospital were yesterday determined to win their struggle and save the NHS from privatisation. Johnny Denphy junior doctor at Homerton hospital...

INSTITUTE for Cancer Research (ICR) strikers welcomed great support, including from abroad and other unions as they held a rally outside South Kensington Tube...

OVER 10,000 workers, trades unionists and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square yesterday on May Day. There were banners from trades unions, trades...

CALLING for urgent talks, rail union RMT yesterday repeated its offer to suspend Southern strike action. RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said: ‘I have written...

Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has been overseeing ‘war games’ in preparation for a General Strike this summer. Following orders from the Cabinet...

FIGURES released yesterday show that 3.3 million Americans have filed for unemployment, the worst jobless figures since the Great Depression of the 1930s after...

CUTBACKS, implemented in order to comply with the government’s drive for Foundation Trusts, were to blame for the unnecessary deaths of more than 400...

Chagos Islanders are at the High Court in London today, where the British government is making a second appeal against the ruling that they...

‘UCL Stand for Justice’ has condemned the north London university for going to the courts and smearing its campaign in support of Palestine and...

OVER 3,000 workers and youth staged a rally in the Athens city centre last Friday evening against the visit of the German Chancellor to...

ALMOST 13% of young people worldwide are out of work, and their situation is unlikely to improve for four years, a report by the...

‘IT IS MY expectation that we will be able to end the last domestic restrictions, including the legal requirement to self-isolate if you test...

FAMILIES are being ripped apart because the Home Office refuses to let mums and dads join their children and spouses in the UK. This is...

Gate Gourmet sacked workers are holding their 5th Anniversary rally this Saturday, 2 October at Beaconsfield Primary School, Beaconsfield Road, Southall at 3.00pm

US economic growth will slow sharply in the second half of the year and the risk of it going into a full-scale slump cannot...

UNEMPLOYMENT benefit claimant numbers soared in October with the number of people claiming benefit rising by 10,100, the largest increase since September 2011, the...

SYRIA yesterday began an offensive to take back its entire territory launching a new assault on Idlib, the last part of Syria still controlled...

THE TUC, Unite, RMT, GMB, Aslef and TSSA all said yesterday that the Tories scrapping of the Leeds leg of the HS2 was a...

THE Editorial Board of the News Line, the daily paper of the Workers Revolutionary Party, sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of...

THE Labour Party has defeated the SNP to win the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. The party’s candidate, Michael Shanks, took the Westminster seat with...

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 leader Jeremy Corbyn’s opponents within the Labour Party have stepped up their hysterical witch hunt against him, accusing him of ‘stirring up’ his...

BUS workers’ union Unite yesterday warned of further strike action as London bus workers in over 70 garages went on strike across the capital. They...