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THE Unite union is warning that workers must not be expected to meet the costs of the disruption brought by the erupting Icelandic...

HEALTHCARE assistants whose jobs were wrongly graded are at ‘breaking point’, as managers at Epsom Hospital, St George’s in Tooting and St Helier refuse...

TORY PM Theresa May was yesterday accused of a ‘wholesale abandonment’ of Brexit promises by top QC Martin Howe. May’s controversial Chequers sell-out deal...

THE car industry in Britain is facing ‘Armageddon’, with GM Vauxhall set to close by the end of April unless it gets immediate financial...

TENS of thousands of Resident Doctors began six more days of strike action yesterday, determined to defeat attacks on their pay and on the...

Tens of thousands of Greek school and university students, young workers and unemployed youth participated on Sunday in mass and militant rallies in all...

‘I AM voting for Jonty Leff Workers Revolutionary Party because I want the Tories out and I want a party which is going to...

THE COUNCIL responsible for Grenfell Tower made multimillion-pound property deals while cutting costs to the tower’s restoration, it has emerged. Seventy-two people died when a...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn and his shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer were in Brussels yesterday putting forward Labour’s position to the leaders of the...

Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) leaders have named May 1st as a second national strike day by 200,000 civil servants. The PCS is also...

Prime Minister Blair yesterday outlined new draconian measures to deport or jail people judged to be ‘glorifying terrorism’. He said ‘intensive meetings across government’ had...

WHILE the US was piling the pressure on Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to force the Palestine National Authority to disarm all the anti-occupation groups,...

CONSULTATION has begun into the closures of children’s heart surgeries in England after a review last year. There was a huge public outcry against the...

ISRAELI forces yesterday made preparations for the punitive demolition of the family houses of three Palestinians suspected of carrying out a fatal attack outside...

A KING’S Fund report has warned that government cuts and staff shortages led to a 38 per cent increase in A&E waiting times in...

Began in London on Tuesday, August 19 and and have now arrived in Liverpool! – they will be marching to the TUC Congress from...

THE NHS Support Federation yesterday revealed that almost 70% of contracts for NHS services in England between April-December 2013 were awarded to private companies. THE...

TENS of thousands of farmers drove in a convoy of tractors yesterday into the Indian capital during national Republic Day celebrations as part of...

‘We’re expecting a big turn out tomorrow for the nationwide demonstrations,’ an Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) spokesman told News Line yesterday. He added:...

OUTSIDE Downing Street yesterday, special forces veteran Ben Griffin read out a message on behalf of disabled veteran Dave Smith. Griffin said: ‘Dave Smith can...

‘THIS report highlights yet another case of cuts without thought for the impact on staff and patients,’ said Stephanie Aiken, RCN Deputy Director of...

‘RUSSIA is outraged that its request for an extraordinary meeting has been denied,’ Vasily Nebenzya the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the...

‘I HAVE to come on the march to save my job and to save lives. If Chase Farm closes, lives will be lost,’ nurse...

EIGHT hundred students of nursing and other health care courses were told last Friday that loan instalments expected this week will be reduced or...

Hamas yesterday condemned as an illegal ‘coup’ the formation by decree of an ‘emergency government’ by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. Hamas said Abbas had suspended...

OVER 50 people picketed a meeting of Lambeth Primary Care Trust (PCT) yesterday, in opposition to the closure of the renowned Emergency Clinic at...

Staff and patients at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, yesterday showed their support for an occupation to stop the closure of its accident and emergency,...

THE UK economy shrank by 0.2% in the last three months of last year, according to figures released by the Office of National Statistics...

UNITE union officers met with General Motors bosses on Thursday, to discuss the future of the company’s Luton plant. The 1,400 workers at the Kimpton...

A NEW BMA poll shows nine out of ten doctors regard the latest government pay award as ‘unacceptable’. As well, the BMA poll of...

President Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis to ‘unite, rise up and resist the invaders’, at his show trial yesterday. This prompted chief judge Rauf Abdel...

‘DEFEND Ealing Hospital! Support the junior doctors! Kick the government out!’ shouted the fifty-strong mass picket of Ealing Hospital to defend its vital...

PARENTS, councillors and education unions descended on the Department of Education yesterday to demand that children with special needs are not left high and...

Over 200 medical students, with placards saying ‘No room for more student debt’ and ‘Junior doctors accommodation – going, going, gone’, demonstrated in central...

IRAQ’s former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz took the witness stand Wednesday to defend Saddam Hussein and his associates from charges that they massacred...

‘WE HAVE seen nurses spending their entire shifts treating people in car parks because of backed up ambulances, we know the prime minister recognises...

‘THE government plans the biggest real-term cuts in school funding since at least the late 1970s,’ warns the National Union of Teachers. The NUT has...

‘WE see it as nothing but a “dirty deal” from Tesco,’ Unite shop steward Trev Cheetham said outside Tesco’s, near to Parliament, yesterday. Over...

A PETITION signed by over 46,000 nurses and members of the public was delivered to 10 Downing Street yesterday by a delegation from the...

THE MOTHER and sister of Dexter Bristol (57), who died suddenly earlier this year after being classified as an illegal immigrant, angrily walked out...

BANK of England governor Mark Carney yesterday gave his strongest warning yet about the dangers to the UK’s capitalist economy posed by a collapse...

INTERNET retail giant Amazon being awarded a £600 million contract to provide for our public services is a ‘sick joke’ given the company’s ‘record...

‘Nurses should not work for free,’ insisted Dr Peter Carter, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing yesterday. He was commenting on newly qualified...

‘My department is running at VERY UNSAFE levels due to inadequate staffing,’ said one of almost 3,000 nurses from across the UK who took...

A pilot wrongly accused of training the 9/11 hijackers has lost his fight for compensation for his ordeal. Lotfi Raissi was detained for nearly...