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PARTY leader Ed Miliband yesterday set out how a Labour government would ‘deal with the deficit’. In a speech delivered at the New Economic Foundation...

‘EACH and every one of you are victims of a cynical sacking. It’s not just an issue for you, our members, it is –...

RUTHLESS cuts on London Underground made by former mayor Boris Johnson ‘seriously threaten the safety of Londoners’, the RMT said on the eve of...

MPs yesterday voted by 309-298 against a Labour-moved motion that sought to prevent a no-deal Brexit on October 31! The Labour-led plan was to force...

LABOUR leader Ed Miliband, put on his Tory hat yesterday when he launched his party’s Business Manifesto, at business news agency Bloomberg and...

Post workers were out on strike again on Saturday in defence of their jobs, working conditions, pensions and pay. The Communication Workers Union branded Royal...

WORKERS employed by Scottish Water are staging a two-day strike amid a continued dispute over pay. Members of the unions Unite, GMB and Unison are...

President Sarkozy threw down the gauntlet to the teaching unions immediately after the hugely successful national strike and demonstrations on Thursday. He shocked union...

THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund is projecting a deep recession in 2020, with global growth projected to be -4.4% in its latest update to the...

DATES for the planned privatisation of Royal Mail before Christmas are expected to be announced in the House of Commons by Business Secretary Cable...

ISRAELI forces carried out sweeping overnight raids into yesterday morning across the occupied West Bank, detaining dozens of Palestinians, assaulting residents, and issuing new...

A GROUP of 106 South African mineworkers, arrested following the police shooting at UK-based Lonmin’s Marikana mine, were released yesterday by the ...

Gate Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) executive meeting at Transport House, central London yesterday, to demand the...

PROFESSOR Bren Neale yesterday condemned private treatment centres as dangerous and demanded that they be brought back into the NHS. This follows on from the...

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

ABOUT 100,000 people are besieged in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza without medical or food supplies, the Palestinian Civil Emergency...

Chancellor Osborne’s message to the working class in his Autumn Statement was that the crisis is worsening fast, and you will have...

THE NASUWT and NUT teachers’ unions’ annual conferences at the weekend voted to resist the spread of academies and free schools. Both conferences carried votes...

OCCUPIERS at the University of Sussex are fighting a court injunction to forcibly remove them from the campus. Students at the university have been occupying...

THE Syrian Army killed tens of insurgents yesterday during clashes in the Syrian city of Aleppo in the northwest of the country. The government...

BRITISH Steel is seeking a £100m loan from the government in order to meet an EU emission rules attack. Previously, the company could have used...

seventy fire stations in England are threatened with closure and scores more face severe downgrading when the government presses ahead with its spending cuts,...

EU COMMISSION chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, gave a master class in arrogance yesterday as he looked down his nose at the UK...

OVER 1,000 protesters demonstrated in Trafalgar Square yesterday as Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced that she intends to ‘proscribe’ protest group Palestine Action...

‘The siege must end and the Arab League’s stance on this is very clear,’ said the body’s Secretary-General Amr Moussa yesterday. Speaking as he entered...

TWO hundred Chagos Islanders and their supporters descended on the Court of Appeal in London yesterday, demanding that the court upholds their right to...

A day of protest was called on Friday, September 27, and a general strike took place across the whole of Spain in solidarity with...

President Bush yesterday warned Americans that the economic damage to the US will be ‘painful and lasting’ if Congress fails to pass his $700...

Ten people, including six children, were killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza yesterday. Their bodies were...

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday reacted angrily to Royal Mail’s plan to end its final salary pension scheme for new employees....

THE NUMBER of zero-hours contract and low-paid self-employed workers has rocketed by a quarter since 2011 to three million, new research released yesterday by...

A UNITED Nations investigation has found that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, systematically targeting reproductive healthcare facilities as part of...

A LABOUR government would continue with the reactionary Tory policy of incarcerating refugees aboard barges moored offshore, according to shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock...

THE BANK of England has reduced interest rates to 4.25 per cent, marking its second cut this year, as it warned that escalating global...

LABOUR has removed its backing for Palestine-supporting Rochdale by-election candidate Azhar Ali. Ali was recorded speaking out in support of Palestine at a Labour Party...

THE head of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) issued a chilling warning yesterday. . . that the world economic system is headed for...

AN INVESTIGATION is being launched which will examine the activities of an MI5 agent known as ‘Stakeknife’ who has been linked to 50 murders...

Jordan’s King Abdullah II has warned of the danger of a ‘summer war’ in the Middle East, should an upcoming Arab summit on the...

Britain’s fourth largest supplier of gas and electricity, Npower, yesterday announced huge new energy price hikes for its four million domestic customers. The average increases...

UNITE leader Sharon Graham warned yesterday morning that the union is likely to disaffiliate from the Labour Party if Chancellor Rachel Reeves does not...

BRITISH broadcast regulator Ofcom has just slapped Russia Today (RT) with a six-figure £200,000 fine for allegedly breaching impartiality rules. The fine comes before a...

HOSPITALS bombed by Saudi forces in Yemen murdering the staff inside, and doctors shot dead in Palestine treating the wounded on the Gaza border,...

IN TESTIMONIES provided to the BMA, one doctor said that ‘we are under immense and continuous stress’. While another doctor said: ‘What has been...

SIR Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, amid the row over leaked emails that lampooned President Trump’s administration, and threatened...

LAST WEEK, US President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order to enhance and extend a Trump-era ban on investments with 59 Chinese companies, barring...