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One in three NHS accident and emergency departments could close across London, documents seen by the BBC have revealed. Eleven A&E units are under threat...

Hezbollah fighters killed three Israeli soldiers in fighting along the southern Lebanon border yesterday. This was after a night of air attacks by Israeli jets...

ON THURSDAY evening workers in the Samlak cafe on Southampton Way, Camberwell showed support for Aminata Sellu, WRP candidate for Camberwell & Peckham. Aminata...

‘SCHOOLS are facing the worst cuts in funding since the 1970s,’ the NUT warned as teachers at every school in the country walked out...

Over 1,500 workers and youth marched through Athens on Tuesday evening to the US and Israeli embassies in commemoration of the Nakba and against...

ANXIETY, stress and depression were to blame for nearly half the sick days taken by doctors in central Bristol last year, according to new...

HUNDREDS of Uber drivers descended on the Royal Court of Justice yesterday as Uber appealed once more, attempting to overturn the historic landmark ruling...

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King yesterday urged banks to brace themselves for a eurozone collapse. Introducing the latest financial stability report, King said: ‘Faced...

150 GMB members employed by Carillion at Great Western NHS Hospital in Swindon are to ballot for strike action over bullying, harassment and...

THE Donald Trump administration is planning a large military installation in Gaza capable of housing up to 5,000 personnel as part of a multinational...

FOLLOWING the uproar questioning the legality of the UK drone assassination of a British citizen in Syria, a letter to the UN casts doubt...

‘LET me say to him (Tory chancellor Osborne) I certainly think for the sake of this country that it is time for him to...

‘SAVE our hospital! Defend the NHS!’ shouted up to 50 local residents and health workers who braved the pouring rain to join a...

COUNCIL worker unions angrily rejected a 2 per cent wage cut pay offer yesterday, as inflation hit 4.6 per cent, the highest in 16...

‘WITH THE Eurovision Song Contest taking place on Saturday, the year-long campaign to boycott the competition in Israel is ramping up,’ Zoe Lawlor from...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers cornered their TGWU ex-convenor Dhillon when he came out of the TGWU Regional Office in Hillingdon yesterday midday, where they...

Nigeria’s main trade unions, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trades Union Congress (TUC), have declared mass backing for an indefinite general strike and...

HAILING a ‘new era of peace’, North Korea leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, sealed their talks on Friday with a...

THE PALESTINIAN Islamic Jihad resistance movement strongly condemned the United Arab Emirates (UAE) officials yesterday for receiving Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett, stressing that any...

TEACHERS are increasingly seeing the devastating effects of the cost of living crisis on pupils, a survey by the NASUWT teachers’ union has revealed. Teachers...

LABOUR Prime Minister Starmer announced in the House of Commons yesterday that British Army soldiers are to be mobilised to the Ukraine. Starmer said they...

EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk has said he has received ‘promising signals’ from Irish PM Leo Varadkar that a Brexit deal is still possible. His...

ATHENS riot police were firing rubber bullets and tear gas at workers and youth near to the Athens parliament building during yesterday’s general strike....

ESTIMATES of the death toll in Haiti rose to more than 200,000 yesterday, with warnings of more people dying of hunger and disease following...

TORY PM Theresa May’s ‘time has run out,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Parliament yesterday. He added: ‘She no longer has the authority to offer...

‘WE paid the price of systematic dishonesty, institutional indifference and neglect,’ Natasha Elcock, Chair of Grenfell United, said in the shadow of Grenfell Tower...

By John Coulter, Irish Political Journalist ANOTHER Stormont crisis looms in the North, but is this latest ‘storm’ merely clever sabre rattling or the warning...

BMA Council Chairman, Dr Hamish Meldrum, wrote to doctors and medical students yesterday, following publication of the health White Paper for England, which proposes...

The Lebanese resistance, Hezbollah, yesterday hit back after Tuesday night’s Israeli commando raid on Baalbek – by firing up to 300 rockets into Israel. One...

Doctors and nurses yesterday hit back at health secretary Patricia Hewitt’s complaint that the government should have capped GP’s pay. Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of...

OVER 50,000 farmers and their supporters held a demonstration on Whitehall and outside Downing Street yesterday, demanding an end to the increase in Inheritance...

RAIL union RMT said yesterday’s strike for tube safety and safe staffing levels on London Underground was ‘rock solid’, and demanded that the rail...

UNISON and the GMB yesterday reacted angrily to the revelation that the hospital records of 47 million NHS patients have been sold to insurance...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) announced yesterday that it is consulting its members over the latest government offer to settle the resident doctors dispute,...

‘YOU are the finest workers in the UK. You deserve fair pay, job security and not threats,’ PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka told strikers...

THE TORY civil war is continuing with reports yesterday that as many as 100 Tory MPs are preparing to rebel against PM...

AN outbreak of coronavirus has left Surrey firefighters struggling to maintain fire cover after their brigade management failed to properly implement vital health and...

NEW Business Secretary Peter Mandelson admitted yesterday that he had checked in with his old boss Tony Blair before he agreed to take up...

‘We have three months to prevent great harm being done to the NHS,’ Labour leader Ed Miliband said yesterday. In an article for the Observer,...

IN the wake of the unlawful US aggression against the peaceful Iranian nuclear sites, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday called on the international...

‘We are grateful to the union for their support today, but we have to say “We are not here for the hell of it”...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on Russia to show ‘within hours’ that it is ‘working to disarm separatist militants’ in eastern...

THOUSANDS of Greek workers and students took part in rallies and demonstrations last Thursday in a one-day general strike called by several trade unions...

TENS of thousands of junior doctor members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are holding a 72-hour strike from today until Wednesday. At the weekend...

THE TORY government’s ‘hostile environment’, blocking students from studying in the UK, blocking overseas doctors from working in the NHS, while demanding landlords...