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THE NHS is facing a ‘substantial financial problem’ which politicians are ignoring in the election campaign, its former head, David Nicholson warned yesterday. Warning of...

IRAN’S foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned yesterday that any attack on his country after a series of missile strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil...

THE TORY government has been slammed over lack of preventative action, with PM Theresa May being warned that more people are set to die...

In comments published yesterday, prime minister Brown called for a ‘root and branch’ review of the EU and NATO’s relations with Moscow to prevent...

THE GMB has claimed ‘another groundbreaking victory for members who have bogus self-employment claims in driving and logistics sectors’ against national logistics company UK...

THE CAPITALIST world was rocking yesterday after President Trump’s declaration of a trade war on his European Union, Canadian and Mexican rivals. The US...

‘WE WANT a 3% pay rise. SERCO are making us work more for no extra money,’ Unite hospital worker Florence Kwao said yesterday on...

A public inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney, 24 – who died after being shot six times at close range by police as...

‘LABOUR agreed to talks (with the Tories) because we believed it was the right thing to do to see if we could get a...

KURDISH authorities in Syria’s Afrin district have called on President Assad and the Syrian government to send troops to help defend them from a...

Public sector union Unison said yesterday that the NHS Future Forum’s report shows a Health Bill beyond repair and that it should be scrapped. The...

HUNDREDS of Lebanese marched to mark the first anniversary of the Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people. Lebanese police clashed with angry...

UNITE has condemned the government’s plan to cap compensation for unfair dismissal. In a ministerial statement the government has announced plans to introduce...

REPEATED catastrophic failures at an NHS trust meant that more than 200 babies may have died and that many others were left with life-changing...

FIANNA Fail has betrayed its working class supporters and Irish Government aviation policy is a complete disaster‚ said TEEU (Technical, Engineering and Electrical Trade...

TODAY, the Tory government withdraws the infection control fund. This was support for those working in care to help them when they fall sick. Unison...

ASLEF train drivers start another programme of rolling one-day strikes today, which will run alongside their nine-day overtime ban which began yesterday, having now...

‘It seems management are hell-bent on taking on the FBU and cutting 120 jobs’, Merseyside Fire Brigades Union Brigade Chairman Mark Dunne told News...

PAUL Gambaccini, the Radio 2 DJ, said he is ‘coming for the BBC’ after accusing the Corporation of being complicit in the child abuse...

The Iranian government yesterday accused Britain of organising and equipping bombers who killed eight people in attacks in the south-western city of...

‘IT is no good simply talking about violent extremism, we need to confront all extremism, we need to recognise that the poison of extremism...

‘HUMILIATING, painful, depressing,’ says a new report released yesterday by homeless charity Crisis, highlighting the brutal realities of ‘sofa surfing’. The research shows that with...

TORY Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg announced yesterday that the taxpayer is to subsidise the energy bills of every business in Britain to the tune...

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) decided yesterday to hold a strike ballot amongst 270,000 PCS members working for the civil service and...

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...

THE Syrian Army killed tens of insurgents yesterday during clashes in the Syrian city of Aleppo in the northwest of the country. The government...

The leader of the Viva Palestina aid convoy for Gaza, British MP George Galloway, was yesterday deported and declared persona non grata by Egypt. Officials...

BECTU members at the Ritzy cinema will ballot for strike action over management’s decision to announce large scale redundancies just six weeks after an...

LABOUR right-wingers were resoundly beaten yesterday in their attempt to reject Brexit and push the Labour Party conference to accept that Britain should remain...

OVER a hundred Chagossians attended the annual general meeting of the Chagos Islands Community Association in Crawley last Saturday afternoon and early evening. They re-affirmed...

YESTERDAY the Gate Gourmet picket lines were buzzing with the latest revelations concerning the way that the bosses had provoked a strike in order...

RAIL fares are to rise by 1.9% in England, Scotland and Wales it was announced yesterday, with unions, campaigners and Labour leader Jeremy...

PRODUCTION workers at Somerset firm Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Bridgwater are to strike for three days over a ‘paltry’ pay offer. The Unite union said its...

THE TUC Congress in Brighton was divided yesterday over an amendment to Composite Motion 15: Public Sector Pay, which called on the General Council...

WELSH ministers and Tata bosses are due to continue talks this week about the future of the Port Talbot site. The UK government and Tata...

‘YOUTH demand a future! No Zero hour contracts!’ shouted the fifty-strong Young Socialists and Workers Revolutionary Party lobby of the Trades Union Congress in...

CIRCLE HOLDINGS, the first privateer to take over the running of an NHS hospital, quit the management of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire yesterday, leaving...

THERE was massive anger yesterday after the Tory-led coalition announced its plan to enable the rich to purchase a university place for...

GREEK striking teachers along with students staged yet another magnificent march of over 6,000 last Thursday against the hated government Education Bill. Once...

LIBYAN government and civilian forces are dealing deadly blows to the NATO-backed counter-revolutionary ‘rebels’ and mercenaries holed up in Tripoli and other areas of...

THOUSANDS of GPs in England have told the British Medical Association (BMA) that Health Secretary Sajid Javid’s package of measures to supposedly rescue general...

THE Greek coalition government’s presidential candidate right-winger Stavros Dimas received the votes of just 160 parliamentary deputies last Wednesday night in the first round...

Over 80 sacked Visteon workers, Visteon retirees and a delegation of sacked Gate Gourmet workers lobbied the Unite union head office in Holborn, central...