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LABOUR is presenting new evidence to parliament today showing moves to break away from national pay in the NHS are spreading across England. A...

OVER 2,000 bus workers are gearing up to strike against attempts by London’s transport privateers to impose pay cuts and unacceptable new work schedules...

‘The siege must end and the Arab League’s stance on this is very clear,’ said the body’s Secretary-General Amr Moussa yesterday. Speaking as he entered...

Police yesterday stopped and searched youth arriving for the Camp for Climate Change a mile away from the protest camp at the northern perimeter...

At 8.00am on Thursday morning the armed Greek riot police invaded the building of the State Electricity Board (DEH) Computer Centre in Athens which...

BANK of England Governor King’s insistence that nothing must be done to prevent the squeeze in living standards down to 1920s levels, has...

UKRAINIAN President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday announced early presidential elections and a compromise agreement with the pro US-EU ‘opposition’. He said that the constitution of 2004,...

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

PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service,...

TORY Justice Secretary David Gauke indicated yesterday that besieged PM May will seek to put her Withdrawal Agreement with a permanent Customs Union tagged...

UNITE has called ‘targeted’ strike action at Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) from Friday 2nd April to Sunday 25th April, with 41 strikes over the...

A GENEVA-based rights group has documented a new Israeli war crime in the Gaza Strip, where an occupation tank deliberately ran over an injured...

‘ONCE AGAIN, we see the reality of bandit capitalism and its toxic impact on our public services,’ Transport union RMT said yesterday, calling for...

‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 800 protesters at a Nakba (Catastrophe) Day demonstration opposite Downing Street on Saturday. The protestors insisted that Palestinian refugees must have...

Yesterday’s strike by benefits and pensions staff was a ‘fantastic success’ said the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). Jobcentres, benefit offices, pension centres and...

UP to a dozen travel safe officers yesterday lobbied a board meeting of Transport for London (TFL) at 197, Blackfriars Road, London. They told News...

‘JERMAINE was dead before he got into the car on 11th December 2016,’ Jermaine Baker’s mother Margaret Smith said yesterday, She was speaking after an...

The leader of the Greek conservatives Antonis Samaras, whose New Democracy party came top in last Sunday’s general election, winning just below 19 per...

POSTAL workers in London have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in an attempt to protect jobs and services from arbitrary cuts. Martin Walsh,...

BRITISH broadcast regulator Ofcom has just slapped Russia Today (RT) with a six-figure £200,000 fine for allegedly breaching impartiality rules. The fine comes before a...

A UNITED Nations investigation has found that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, systematically targeting reproductive healthcare facilities as part of...

TONY BLAIR is to give evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War in the second half of this month, or early February,...

TODAY Reprieve will begin legal proceedings to challenge the British government’s infamous series of ‘torture policies’: official guidance for agents interviewing prisoners held abroad. Under...

MASSES of workers and supporters turned out for the first day of the 15 day strike action at the Royal London Hospital yesterday, part...

‘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...

A DELEGATION of five ministers from the Palestinian cabinet visited the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Monday to investigate the ongoing Israeli...

UNITE leader Len McCluskey yesterday demanded an investigation into claims made by two journalists in an article in The Times newspaper that senior civil...

‘ST MUNGO’S should hang its head in shame,’ said Unite ahead of today’s solidarity midday rally outside the homelessness charity’s London HQ in St...

UK Mortgage approvals fell sharply again in October, the Bank of England reported yesterday, confirming fears that house sales and prices have a lot...

‘We’re getting ready for revolution in Britain as part of the world socialist revolution.’ That was the message delivered by workers revolutionary Party General Secretary,...

AT the Trades Union Congress yesterday morning there were motions demanding more funding for education, and better wages and conditions for all staff working...

OVER 100 have been killed, including 50 members of local self-defence forces and just over the same number of civilians, in clashes with pro-Kiev...

EPSOM and St Helier University Hospitals Trust may be the next to enter the Unsustainable Provider Regime as was triggered for South London Healthcare...

THE boss of rail privateer, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is to resign after the company’s new timetables brought the railway to a near halt....

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...

JOHN McDONNELL, Labour’s shadow chancellor said yesterday that Labour will vote down May’s Brexit deal, will not accept No Deal, and instead will propose...

Students and lecturers at Reading University yesterday condemned Monday’s decision to axe the university’s Physics Department. Philip Diamond of the Institute of Physics said the...

Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday against moves by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to secure immunity from prosecution on fraud...

ISRAELI forces have intensified demolitions in the occupied West Bank and face growing accusations of pursuing a coordinated campaign to erase Palestinian presence and...

INVESTORS dumped stocks worldwide for a fourth day yesterday, ahead of US President Donald Trump unveiling a fresh round of tariffs, and mounting concerns...

RETURN to 1950s-style credit controls or face a credit-fuelled global collapse, was the stark warning given by the former stock market regulator, Jonathan Turner...

SOUTH African platinum miners were yesterday continuing their strike, and their wives are occupying the entrance to the British-owned Lonmin Marikana mine. Lonmin has given...

THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has launched a probe into supply chain finance firm Greensill Capital following its collapse, which threatens to end the...

UNITE has expressed its alarm at the announcement yesterday that Barclays bank is closing a major processing centre in Leeds with nearly 800 jobs...

Rosslare and Dublin port workers have said they will not handle Irish Ferries ship the MV Normandy if it tries to dock at their...