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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....

THE government was in the High Court yesterday where it won an injunction against striking prison staff. The court ordered prison staff to return to...

‘LECTURERS and students unite and fight!’ rang out through the streets of central London yesterday as up to 5,000 striking lecturers, supported by their...

NHS London has allocated £115 million to organise the closure of A&E and maternity services at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield. Emergencies are to be directed...

TORY Brexit secretary Dominic Raab yesterday set out what he called ‘practical and proportionate’ advice in case the UK leaves the EU with no...

PATIENTS at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, East London, are facing the prospect of ‘food chaos’ later this month, after workers employed by...

Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser to US President Bush, was the first person UK ambassador to the US Christopher Meyer heard mention Iraq...

THOUSANDS of lecturers and teachers are striking against the government’s vicious onslaught on their pensions at universities, colleges and schools across London today. They...

NHS bosses are trying to ‘gag’ staff during the general election, GMB Union revealed yesterday, warning that health service workers are being told they...

‘I HAD both my babies here and I had the best possible care. I live in Southall, I know how important Ealing Maternity Unit...

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...

THE UK economy is ‘in a bad place, with confidence evaporating’, the head of the UK’s biggest employers’ organisation has warned. John Cridland, director general...

THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has called on all fire service employers to refuse to implement the government’s new minimum service levels, condemning the...

‘As ordinary trade union members are fighting for their jobs they must have a leadership with a policy of “not one job sold, not...

AVERAGE weekly earnings in the UK are £13 lower than they were a decade ago, a think tank study has found. Job insecurity is...

WORKERS took to the streets in cities across the world yesterday to mark International Workers Day, with trade unions warning that the US-Israeli war...

‘WE WILL return to the Chagos Islands – it’s our right!’, ‘We will return to Diego Garcia – it’s our right!’ shouted more than...

PROTESTS took place worldwide outside Amazon buildings on ‘Black Friday’ yesterday, in the US, UK and across Europe. Black Friday is the busiest online shopping...

ISRAELI Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says security forces will have ‘full freedom’ to act after two Israelis were shot dead in an attack in...

RUSSIA has issued another warning against a proposal made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on ‘a true European Defence Union’. The Kremlin...

STRIKING Village School teachers were in high spirits, yesterday, the third day of their action to stop their school being turned into an academy. Pickets...

JUNIOR DOCTORS at Homerton hospital were yesterday determined to win their struggle and save the NHS from privatisation. Johnny Denphy junior doctor at Homerton hospital...

A SURVEY of GPs has shown that over half support the BMA organising a boycott of commissioning, with a sizeable minority supporting strike action...

THOUSANDS took to the streets of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum yesterday, to demand the release of the political leaders amid reports of clashes and gunfire....

THOUSANDS of NHS workers and many other trade unionists marched to the Tory Party conference yesterday morning to deliver their notice to the Tories...

OVER 300 workers and youth attended Sunday afternoon’s WRP-YS celebration of the Centenary of the 1917 Russian revolution. Opening the rally the Secretary of the...

A secret police squad stole the identities of dead babies and children, using them to attempt to infiltrate political groups and parties, it was...

IN HIS Friday night address to the UN General Assembly in New York, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said that a return to direct negotiations...

SYRIAN transport minister Mahmoud Saeed yesterday accused Turkey of ‘air piracy’ over its forcing down of a Syria-bound passenger aircraft travelling from Russia. Turkish jet...

UNISON members at London Metropolitan University took strike action yesterday in the latest round of their struggle against job cuts, as the...

MORE than 86,000 NHS posts were vacant between January 2017 and March 2017, figures for the NHS in England suggest. Today’s NHS Vacancy Statistics England...

FAMILIES are being uprooted from their council flats or housing association flats and ‘decanted’ hundreds of miles from their homes as areas of London...

A RALLY of over 200 PCS strikers from Tate Enterprises, employed at Tate Modern and Tate Britain galleries was held on Saturday outside the...

‘Blair lied, thousands died! Tony Blair, war criminal,’ chanted hundreds assembled outside the QE2 Centre, Westminster, yesterday. They were taking part in a demonstration organised...

‘WE’RE calling on everyone to join our march from Manchester to London for jobs for youth, and for the smashing of all tuition fees...

CHIEF Inspector of Schools Michael Wilshaw has criticised the heads of some academy chains for being paid vast salaries, up to £225,000 a...

YESTERDAY’S soaring inflation figures led trade union leaders to warn the government that members are demanding action against the wage-cutting three-year pay settlements. The Consumer...

THE Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City, is facing extensive urban destruction by Israeli firepower and forced displacement of its residents. The Israeli military...

HUNDREDS of farmers descended on Parliament on their tractors yesterday, demanding ‘Save Family Farming!’ Having driven to the capital from as far afield as Exmoor,...

A Judicial Review into the government’s decision to scrap the Building Schools for the Future scheme opened yesterday at the Royal Courts of Justice. Six...

WORKERS are resuming work at GM Luton today none the wiser as to what Business Secretary Mandelson told their shop stewards when...

A YEAR of unparalleled pressure has left staff exhausted and on the brink, a just-released BMA survey shows. Thousands of doctors have revealed the impact...

AS Northern and South Western Railway guards strike again this weekend, rail union RMT has raised new safety warnings with the regulator over the...

END the blockade of Gaza! Stop selling arms to Israel! Investigate Israel for war crimes! delegate to the Labour Party conference, Sarah Jane Potter...

THE TORY ‘government has the NHS running on nothing but fumes’, warns British Medical Association (BMA) Council Chair Dr Mark Porter. Addressing doctors at the...