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ISRAELI forces cracked down on an anti-annexation protest yesterday which was heading towards Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa village, near Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley,...

LABOUR Party leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday called on Prime Minister Theresa May to resign for presiding over police cuts while Home Secretary. When asked if...

AS OF yesterday, doctors, nurses and NHS staff are required to demand documentation from patients to prove that they are eligible for free...

THE mounting anger of GPs and consultants over the Lansley NHS White Paper has forced the British Medical Association (BMA) Council to retreat from...

A LETTER was delivered to the Home Office yesterday, informing it of a forthcoming hunger-strike by pro-Palestine prisoners held in British jails. The prisoners are...

‘WE WILL not have a Wild West situation,’ for drivers, Steve Garelick, GMB branch secretary for professional drivers for London, said yesterday. He spoke to...

NURSES in South West England are furious over leaked plans to sack and re-hire them on lower pay and worse conditions. The government is...

GAZA’S Government Media Office (GMO) has denounced Israel’s allegations of Hamas looting an aid truck in southern Gaza, as ‘entirely false and fabricated’. ‘This accusation...

‘A Rochdale head teacher, Jed Morgan, and the families of refugee children, travelled to London yesterday in a bid to stop the deportation of...

PALESTINIAN prisoner Kayed Fasfous has won a decisive victory and ends his hunger strike after an agreement was reached to end his administrative det-ention...

THE families of Iraqi civilians killed and tortured by British troops, yesterday won their legal battle for public hearings. Their lawyers, Public Interest Lawyers, announced...

Public sector trade union Unison yesterday called for Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to be taken back under NHS control. It also...

‘Reinstate Sian’ demanded a lobby, by over a dozen female firefighters and supporters, of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) yesterday....

A PETITION launched by campaign group Change.org has called on the Courts and Tribunal Service to force the release of data on the number...

‘WE’VE been screwed for too long. It’s time to stand up for ourselves and call for the BMA to support industrial action.’ This defiant statement...

‘WE WILL be reaching out to build the biggest possible consensus,’ Tory PM Johnson said yesterday morning, ‘across business, across industry, across all parts...

THE NUMBER of zero-hours contract and low-paid self-employed workers has rocketed by a quarter since 2011 to three million, new research released yesterday by...

‘RENATIONALISE West Coast and all the other franchises under one single umbrella, and end the profiteering and chaos of rail privatisation once and for...

AROUND 100 members of the Fire Brigades Union from across London lobbied talks at ACAS yesterday, where FBU leaders warned the employers they would...

‘LIVES will be at risk’ if Manchester is targeted again by terrorists because a specialist fire service unit has shut, a watchdog warned yesterday. Concerns...

THE Israeli occupation forces yesterday morning opened fire and executed at least two displaced families who were taking shelter inside a school run by...

THE strikes that have halted work at seven of South Africa’s gold and platinum mines have spread to the chrome sector. It emerged yesterday that...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says Russia is going ahead with deliveries of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to the Syrian army. The arms will help...

THE founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has backed ex-National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, saying the world needs whistleblowers and...

AROUND 2,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) began another three days of strike action at 32 non-academised sixth form colleges yesterday, against...

‘My nightmare is finally at an end,’ said British resident Bisher al-Rawi yesterday, just back in the UK after being held in Guantanamo Bay...

BRITISH Airways mixed fleet cabin crew are striking against poverty pay today in the first day of a 72-hour strike. It follows last week’s two...

THE referendum in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk regions, seeking independence from the central government was massively supported yesterday. THE referendum in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk...

Legal charity Reprieve yesterday demanded the British government reveal details of the secret illegal detention of ‘ghost’ prisoner Mustafa Setmariam Naser on Diego Garcia...

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a massive land and air attack on the West Bank city of Jenin yesterday, killing at least eight youths...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday repeated its concerns that the government is out to privatise GP surgeries. A spokeswoman told News Line: ‘The BMA...

THOUSANDS of Sudanese workers and students are marching in London today demanding an end to the war in Sudan. In a statement, ‘London for Sudan’...

THE latest NHS ‘reorganisation’ came into force last Saturday. This is the slashing of the number of Strategic Health Authorities in England from 28 to...

BALPA the pilots trade union yesterday called on the government to rescue the air industry with the ‘same approach that kept the banks afloat’....

MANCHESTER Go North West strikers were out yesterday mass picketing the depot as part of their indefinite strike. Go North West Unite branch secretary Pat...

TORY Education Secretary ‘Nicky Morgan has failed and must resign!’ teachers union NUT demanded yesterday. Teachers, parents and school students are furious at the chaos...

Prime Minister Blair yesterday admitted at his monthly press conference that the opposition to his schools ‘reforms’ made getting them through parliament ‘a...

ISRAEL must immediately lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip, allowing the delivery of fuel and other essential supplies into the territory without restrictions,...

Disability charities yesterday expressed concerns over Labour’s plans to introduce harsh work tests and force almost two million people off incapacity benefit. In his Budget...

‘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...

LABOUR leader Keir Starmer has suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the party over his remarks yesterday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn was...

UNIFOR National President Jerry Dias, speaking during a press conference, has asked for all Canadians and Americans to boycott all General Motors vehicles that...

THE Tory Party Conference opened in a massive crisis in Birmingham yesterday, after two top Tories resigned from their positions in the preceding two...

Yesterday’s High Court ‘torture verdict strongly condemned the UK government for complicity in US crimes’, said legal charity Reprieve. Lord Justice Thomas and Justice...