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Yet another energy supplier, E.On, yesterday announced huge increases in gas and electricity prices to domestic consumers. It is hiking gas prices by 15...

TRADE UnIONS, MPs and celebrities have condemned the attempt by the Metropolitan Police to ban this Saturday’s National March for Palestine from assembling outside...

For the first time an alliance of General Secretaries of trade unions has come together in support of Alphonsus Uche Okafor-Mefor, a Nigerian refugee...

70 YEARS of the NHS are being celebrated with a mass demonstration today in central London supported by the TUC and 11 other health...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers’ branch secretary Jarnail Singh condemned the company for ‘slave driving’ yesterday. He said: ‘They made their plans a long time ago...

GREEK workers last Thursday staged a massive and militant general strike against the right-wing government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, elected a year ago. Record...

THE Democratic Unionist Party is prepared to vote against the Budget on October 29, if their red lines for an EU deal are ignored...

GPs in the West Midlands are up in arms over plans to franchise out services along the lines of fast food outlets or estate...

HEALTH unions have warned that the coalition government’s moves to withdraw a previously announced 1% pay rise for all NHS staff next year are...

JULIA TOMLINSON walked out in anger yesterday from the Metropolitan Police Disciplinary Inquiry into the role of PC Harwood in her husband’s death crying...

Postal workers yesterday responded angrily to Gordon Brown’s insistence at prime minister’s questions, on the eve of their 24-hour rolling strikes, that ‘pay settlements...

THE Labour government yesterday suffered a massive defeat of its plans for NHS privatisation at the Labour Party conference in Manchester, with delegates backing...

DOCTORS are under attack financially, professionally and morally, and calling an election doesn’t get the government off the hook, British Medical Association leader Professor...

SOUTH AFRICAN prosecutors yesterday ‘provisionally’ dropped murder charges against 270 miners, 34 of whose colleagues were shot dead by police last month. Many of the...

The Turkish government split yesterday in the face of mass uprisings and a general strike by Turkish workers and youth. In Ankara, the Deputy...

A FRESH banking crisis is developing, with the credit ratings agency Moody’s reducing the Anglo-Irish bank’s debts to just above junk status. It is estimated...

ASLEF train drivers start another programme of rolling one-day strikes today, which will run alongside their nine-day overtime ban which began yesterday, having now...

THE Tory coalition yesterday launched their latest scheme to drive unemployed people off benefits. The scheme, cynically entitled ‘Help to Work’, targets ‘long-term unemployed’ people...

HAMAS has slammed the US Biden administration’s announcement that it is rushing another $20 billion worth of arms to Israel to escalate its genocide...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education had its first leg from Manchester to Stockport yesterday. After a great march through Manchester...

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust is urging people to avoid using the Accident and Emergency department at weekends because of the pressure...

UNISON members working for Care UK are marching through Doncaster today at 2pm after 30 days of strike action against Bridgepoint Capital, the private...

470 CANCER doctors have signed a joint statement warning Health Secretary Hunt that the new imposed junior doctors contract ‘will lead to worse outcomes...

ONE Palestinian was killed and 167 others injured by Israeli forces on Friday as hundreds of protesters gathered at the eastern border of the...

The class struggle is set to escalate sharply in the new year as workers and their families face soaring food and fuel prices, while...

THE SYRIAN government forces are on the cusp of victory! They have liberated the majority of eastern Aleppo and are driving the terrorist...

OVER 100 Fatah-affiliated prisoners in Israeli jails entered their third day on hunger strike yesterday, prisoner representatives said. The 120 prisoners, all held in Nafha...

‘WE ARE concerned that the implementation of the Health & Social Care Act risks the fragmentation of patient care highlighted in this report,’ Paul...

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

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday accused ministers of agreeing a ‘sweetheart deal’ to ensure a Conservative-controlled council dropped plans to raise council tax by...

BORDER staff were preparing yesterday to strike against Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel’s hated ‘pushback’ policy against migrant boats trying to reach the UK. Their...

FIVE elite Israeli soldiers were killed and at least two others wounded in Khan Younis on Friday after a building collapsed during a resistance...

TRADE unions and children’s charities have denounced calls from the Taxpayers Alliance and the Institute of Directors for the abolition of child benefit. The right-wing...

Former Prime Minister Blair and his war cabinet should be put on trial for war crimes, said the parents of soldiers killed in the...

The BBC unions announced yesterday that they will be targeting the Jubilee celebrations, following BBC management’s decision to write directly to members of staff...

A MASS Rally of over 150 Serco strikers and supporters took place at Walthamstow’s Whipp’s Cross Hospital yesterday morning, as part of their two-week...

Communication Workers Union (CWU) branch officials yesterday warned CWU general secretary Billy Hayes and deputy general secretary Dave Ward against selling out postal workers...

‘It’s a good deal,’ sacked Lindsey oil refinery worker Dave Pritchard told News Line yesterday. He was responding to the agreement reached on Thursday night...

‘This is really the destruction of the NHS,’ Vincent Marks, professor of clinical biochemistry at the University of Surrey and a long-standing supporter of...

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an immediate end to what he described as Israeli occupation and aggression in Gaza, the West Bank,...

‘SELECTION belongs in the dustbin of history and has no place in modern society. There must be no going back,’ Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary...

TEACHERS unions yesterday opposed the ‘scandalous’ proposal to pour millions of pounds into hundreds of new privately run free schools. They were responding to PM...

Chancellor Gordon Brown delivered his 10th Budget yesterday featuring more tax cuts for the rich and pay cuts for the working class. Opening his speech...

IN an unprecedented 12 hours long rally under a scorching sun and temperatures exceeding 45ºC, hundreds of LARCO industrial workers and miners, along with...

DOZENS of air strikes pounded Gaza yesterday while a new front in the conflict opened up as the Israeli military also shelled Lebanon in...