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‘HAMAS rejects Israel’s Gaza conquest threats’, senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi declared yesterday after Israel announced plans for the ‘conquest’ and indefinite occupation of...

THREE members of the Fire Brigades Union were hit and hurt by speeding vehicles driven by strikebreakers on Monday. A statement by the FBU said...

Prime Minister Brown yesterday revealed he has no policies to deal with the economic crisis in the interests of workers. In his keynote address to...

THE GMB is recommending that its members vote to reject the Tory government’s ‘jam tomorrow’ NHS pay offer. It says: ‘For long-serving NHS...

‘THE CANDYFLOSS of outrage we’ve had over the last 24 hours, which I think is almost entirely confected, is from people who never wanted...

ISRAELI prime minister Ehud Olmert yesterday called the capture of two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border by Hezbollah an ‘act of war’. Olmert threatened...

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...

TORY PM Boris Johnson set out his five point plan for ‘Living with Covid’ yesterday saying that he expects the lifting of restrictions will...

FRENCH lorry drivers blocked motorways yesterday as a strike wave gripped France bringing sections of the country to a virtual standstill. The entire country is...

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown laid down the gauntlet at the weekend to this week’s TUC Congress, being held in Liverpool. Downing Street has released excerpts...

STAFF in UK universities are preparing to walk out for their third one-day strike tomorrow as part of a worsening pay dispute. On the eve...

THE commander of British forces in Afghanistan yesterday said he needs double the number of soldiers in Helmand Province to cope with the increasingly...

UNISON has condemned calls by a right wing ‘think tank’ for benefit cuts for all claimants living outside of London, and for child benefits...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has written to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill asking him to rule out a no-deal Brexit on October 31, reneging on...

DISABLED people were thrown off benefits in their hundreds of thousands by private assessors Atos and then Capita, and left penniless to face eviction...

General Motors is considering keeping GM Europe rather than selling it. This came after the German government pressed for Canadian auto parts maker Magna, backed...

A Royal College of Nursing (RCN) survey of senior nurses, released yesterday, says 13,000 NHS job losses have been announced in the last six...

TEN British military officers are to be sent to Libya to train Libyan counter-revolutionaries along with a number of French officers. Foreign Secretary Hague announced...

CWU leaders Billy Hayes and Dave Ward announced the timetable for a national postal strike ballot to a meeting of 500 Communication Workers Union...

DELEGATES at the TGWU Biennial Delegate Conference in Brighton yesterday gave their full support to Salford Council workers who will be taking more strike...

‘I will be recommending members reject the new pay offer,’ UNISON Oxfordshire health branch chairman Mark Ladbrooke told News Line yesterday. He was commenting on...

CLAIMS by Chancellor Osborne and Prime Minister Cameron that Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures showing 0.5 per cent growth is ‘good news’ were...

‘IT IS clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a...

RUSSIAN and Ukrainian negotiators began a fourth round of talks yesterday. Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak said the talks focused on establishing a ceasefire, the withdrawal...

Education unions in the UK have reaffirmed the urgent need to protect students and education workers from asbestos in schools, demanding that ‘all asbestos...

Communication Workers Union (CWU) leaders were in talks again with Royal Mail bosses yesterday while thousands of postal workers were out on a second...

AT LEAST five demonstrators have been killed in Baghdad, Karbala and Baqubah in Iraq as security forces opened fire on the mass protest of...

THE GOVERNMENT has dropped the debate and vote on The Financial Services Bill which seeks to secure funds that can be released if there...

FIREFIGHTERS joined members of Unison and GMB trade unions yesterday in an angry lobby of a London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) meeting...

THE Trades Union Congress yesterday voted unanimously to ‘call on the British government to set its own unilateral date for an early and speedy...

YESTERDAY was the second day of the Employment tribunal for Gate Gourmet sacked workers where they are bringing their claim for unfair dismissal. Kay Collins,...

Rose Gentle, Susan Smith, Peter Brierley and Karla Hewett, whose sons and brother died in the Iraq war, set up a 24-hour Peace Camp...

The University and College Union (UCU) announced yesterday that its members at the University of West England (UWE), Bristol, will be balloted for strike...

‘ALL 33 of us are fine in the shelter’. This was the message read out by the President of Chile, Sebastian Pinera, on...

GREEK workers have embarked on a series of occupations of state and municipal buildings as well as mass marches. The actions follow the announcement by...

Pro-Palestinian activists reported yesterday that Israeli forces are intercepting a flotilla of more than 50 boats carrying aid for Gaza in international waters west...

‘WE NEED a general strike to bring the government down and go forward to a workers government and socialism.’ This is what All Trades Union...

British Airways will face strike action by cabin crew and flight attendants at Christmas if it does not ‘pull back from the brink’, from...

Over 2,000 celebrated the ousting of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at a rally in Trafalgar Square, central London, on Saturday organised by Amnesty International...

FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales are on strike from 6am to 8 am today against the vicious government onslaught on their...

THE Speaker of the Syrian People’s Assembly, Jihad Al-Lahham, has written an open letter to John Boehner, the speaker of the US House of...

ISRAEL has continued to obstruct the implementation of the ceasefire agreement by linking the reopening of the Rafah crossing and the entry of humanitarian...

JUNIOR doctors and their union have responded angrily after 1,500 third year trainees were told they have to re-apply for their jobs as registrars...

PREMIER Brown’s plans for the NHS to refuse to treat patients whose lifestyles are judged to be responsible for their illnesses...

UNITE is prepared to accept the Tories’ plans for thresholds for industrial action ballots. The union said in a statement yesterday: ‘The prime minister has...