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‘WE ARE calling on everyone to march with us through Enfield on Saturday, July 26th. Workers of Enfield won’t allow this government to close...

‘TODAY, Scotland Yard and the British government are refusing to communicate with us, no answer, the telephones are switched off. And that brings...

THE MILIBAND leadership of the Labour Party is to invite non-party members to vote for the party leader in future elections, in an attempt...

DELEGATES to the British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Bournemouth yesterday voted for a ‘campaign by the BMA to repeal the...

HEALTH unions responded angrily to figures released yesterday showing the worst NHS waiting times in decades. This unprecedented crisis, the unions said, is a result of...

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown yesterday pledged to a gathering of businessmen in London to ‘intensify’ the government’s attacks on the Welfare State, whilst continuing...

THOUSANDS of South African students marched to the Union Buildings in the South African capital Pretoria, where they were met by riot police...

EMERGENCY brake problems that led to the suspension of the Hammersmith and City, Circle and District lines were first raised on Tuesday, London Underground’s...

ISRAELI war planes pounded Hamas positions in Gaza yesterday with a series of air strikes. They said they were responding to the launch of 28...

HEALTH Secretary Hunt has decided that Junior Doctors are to have a new contract imposed on them from August next year. The imposition follows on...

DELEGATES to the TUC Conference in Manchester yesterday voted almost unanimously for Composite Motion 10, Defending public services and for Paragraphs 3.1 and 3.13...

TEACHERS in four schools in Calderdale, Greenwich, Newham and Doncaster will take strike action this week to protect salary levels following a review forced...

SOME 160,000 CWU members took action at thousands of UK workplaces on Thursday, other unions visited our lively pickets and the government collapses into...

WORKERS are occupying the Calcast car parts factory in Campsie, just outside Derry in the north of Ireland. The plant, a subsidiary of the...

ARMED squads of the Greek riot police using tear gas and truncheons attacked hundreds of small farmers who were protesting by blockading a motorway...

THE NHS is reeling under the weight of staff absences, with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine warning that up to a quarter of...

THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a dire warning that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is nearing total collapse, as...

‘A NEW, very large, very active council housing building programme is what we will launch,’ the new leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn...

‘PEOPLE aren’t dying because nurses are striking, nurses are striking because people are dying,’ RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said yesterday. ‘Today’s record number...

CUTBACKS, implemented in order to comply with the government’s drive for Foundation Trusts, were to blame for the unnecessary deaths of more than 400...

‘THERE was no chase’ before the Metropolitan Police marksman shot and killed Chris Kaba on 5th September, his cousin Jefferson Bosela told thousands of...

LABOUR Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti yesterday called for uniting with ‘moderate’ Tory MPs to stop a no-deal Brexit...

Yesterday, local government employers confirmed that they are to impose a pay freeze for the third year running on 1.6 million council workers. Unison, Unite...

The battle for Libya continued yesterday with government forces launching bold counter-attacks on the counter-revolutionary ‘rats’ in the wake of Thursday night's call to...

THE SELF-STYLED Ukrainian interim President Olexander Turchynov yesterday warned Russia against any ‘military aggression’ in Crimea. He said Russia’s troops from its Black Sea Fleet...

STRIKING British Airways cabin crew are calling for the rest of the British Airways workforce to be brought out on strike alongside them. They are...

BY THE END of this week Raigmore Hospital in Inverness Scotland will lose its last radiologist, prompting the Royal College of Radiologists to declare...

TODAY, the Tory government withdraws the infection control fund. This was support for those working in care to help them when they fall sick. Unison...

‘CRUDE, expensive and dangerous’ warned doctors yesterday, describing the privately run ‘Referral Management Centres’. They further warned that the Referral Management Centres act as...

GERMANY’S AAA credit rating was cut to ‘negative’ by ratings agency Moody’s yesterday, the first step towards a downgrade. The agency acted after a ...

Student, lecturers and university staff unions yesterday angrily condemned former BP boss Lord Browne’s recommendation that universities in England should be able to charge...

The 287 immigrant workers in Athens and Salonica ended their 44-day hunger strike last Wednesday evening with jubilations. The immigrant workers, most of them of...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said yesterday she was deeply concerned by reports of the rapidly deteriorating conditions facing a quarter...

MARKING half a year of demonstrations against the Macron government, French Yellow Vests protesters defied police tear gas and water cannon attacks for the...

GREEK state hospitals workers and doctors are fighting back against a government vaccination law which has led to unpaid ‘suspension from work’ of some...

Over 50 disabled people demonstrated outside the High Court in London yesterday demanding the government maintain the Independent Living Fund (ILF). Mary Laver from Newcastle...

The Greek working class and youth have delivered a deadly blow against the conservative government of Kostas Karamanlis and his neo-liberal policies in Sunday’s...

WORKERS for Carillion in Qatar sleep ten to a room in lodging reminiscent of tenement slums in Victorian London and nothing has changed despite...

LIBYAN government forces yesterday continued to heroically drive back the NATO- backed NTC counter-revolutionaries at Sirte, inflicting deadly blows on the mercenaries. Gadaffi loyalists have...

‘A SURGE in privatisation is threatening free NHS treatment,’ unions say. With contracts worth £5.5bn going to private firms, health sector unions warn of a...

‘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,...

Locked out Gate Gourmet workers were out all day yesterday campaigning for Sunday’s march and rally in Southall to demand that all the locked...

AROUND 15,000 junior doctors are about to find themselves without training posts if Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and the new Medical Training Application Service...

Seven more US soldiers were killed in Iraq on Wednesday, the US military revealed yesterday, as US and UK troops, backed by Iraqi puppet...