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JOE BRACK from the Julian Assange Defence Committee spoke to News Line yesterday after the Westminster Magistrates Court gave Home Secretary Patel the go-ahead...

THE Chair of the BMA’s GP committee, Dr Laurence Buckman, told the Conference of Local Medical Committees yesterday: ‘A signal has been passed at...

PALESTINIAN Premier Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday called for international intervention to secure the release of a dying hunger-striking prisoner. He told the weekly cabinet session in...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin laid flowers yesterday at a monument in the Leningrad Region commemorating warriors who died during the Nazi-led siege of Leningrad....

THE NHS will face an unprecedented financial crisis in 2015-16,, just after the general election, the King’s Fund charity warned yesterday. In its quarterly...

In comments published yesterday, prime minister Brown called for a ‘root and branch’ review of the EU and NATO’s relations with Moscow to prevent...

THE United Nations General Assembly has passed a draft resolution demanding Israel withdraw from Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, and recognise...

LECTURERS at 140 universities and colleges of higher education across the UK took national strike action yesterday, vowing: ‘We will not back down on...

‘I congratulate all the sacked workers who are standing up and fighting for their rights,’ said locked out Gate Gourmet worker Harbinder Singh to...

THE NEW contract being imposed by the Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt on junior doctors is ‘potentially illegal’, an equal rights watchdog reported yesterday. The...

OVER 20,000 wounded Palestinian people are still trapped in the Gaza Strip with ‘limited access to healthcare’, according to Doctors without Borders (MSF), despite...

HOME Secretary, Amber Rudd, has admitted she does not know what the proposed cap on the social care costs would be, in the Tory...

Norfolk County Fire Service faces savage cuts as a result of the County Council being starved of cash in the Blair government’s ...

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...

THE US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a resolution clearly stating that US military assistance to Saudi Arabia in its war against neighbouring...

‘ALL ACADEMIES must be handed back to local council control’, Hank Roberts past national president of ATL said yesterday. He was speaking after Tory Education...

‘WE WANT a 3% pay rise. SERCO are making us work more for no extra money,’ Unite hospital worker Florence Kwao said yesterday on...

‘WE want a hands up vote at the mass meeting tomorrow, and we want the provisional agreement between Gate Gourmet, the TGWU and the...

THE FIRST Reading of a Bill calling for ‘an independent public inquiry into the UK co-operation with Israel since October 2023’ was passed unopposed...

UNITE general secretary Len McCluskey yesterday said the union had decided to ‘embrace’ a survival plan at Grangemouth put forward by owner Ineos, ‘warts...

ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) yesterday launched a series of arrests and raids across various areas of the West Bank, primarily targeting the governorates of...

GAZA Civil Defence Units have found mass graves of another 50 Palestinians at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, with many of the...

ACROSS the UK yesterday morning, university lecturers and staff walked out on strike against an ‘insulting’ 1% pay offer which, when taken into account...

YOUTH from Northampton joined the Young Socialists March for Jobs as they made their way through the town centre yesterday morning on their way...

140 people were killed yesterday when an Iranian military aircraft crashed into a block of flats in a residential area in the south of...

ONLY a fraction of the donated £20 million has reached the survivors and families of the victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy which claimed...

HEAD teachers from all 250 primary schools in West Sussex have written to Theresa May to demand an extra £20 million as they face...

DIVERTING patients, who are ‘not seriously ill’, away from emergency departments is neither safe nor effective, new research published in the Emergency Medicine Journal...

SHAKER Aamer, the last British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay, has spoken out about his treatment at detention centres in the US and Afghanistan,...

‘THE UK’s health services are hopelessly underfunded in terms of resources and staff who are trained to deal with new mothers with mental health...

ONE in eight NHS trusts in England did not have a single spare intensive care bed last week, NHS England figures published yesterday revealed. 18...

‘A MASSACRE with the full meaning of the word,’ took place in Gaza City’s Shujayea district yesterday, when Israel carried out an attack that...

THE BUS strike by 2,200 Unite members employed by the privateer RATP at eight London garages was solid yesterday, with strikers demanding that the...

The Unite trade union yesterday confirmed it is in talks with Jaguar Land Rover over fears of a further 1,300 job cuts. Unite sent News...

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...

LABOUR was savaged by voters in England, Scotland and Wales, in the regional and council elections as the party paid the price for the...

HUNDREDS of armed riot police (MAT) in full gear viciously attacked a militant march in Athens against the visit of US President Barack Obama...

THE FIGHT for Justice for every single man, woman and child who died in the Grenfell Tower and their families and the survivors who...

‘A painful adjustment faces the global banking sector over the next few months as losses are revealed and new capital is raised to repair...

TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak escalated military action against the Houthi movement in Yemen yesterday, while also announcing that 20,000 British armed forces will...

WORKERS who carry out vital services for Norwich City Council have overwhelmingly voted for industrial action. In the Unite ballot 83% of the workers backed...

THE new Tory Housing and Planning Bill will ‘kill social housing’ a leading West Midlands councillor Frank Allen warned yesterday. All over the country council...

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown laid down the gauntlet at the weekend to this week’s TUC Congress, being held in Liverpool. Downing Street has released excerpts...

UNIFOR National President Jerry Dias, speaking during a press conference, has asked for all Canadians and Americans to boycott all General Motors vehicles that...

A SHORTAGE of ambulances and paramedics along with a ‘meltdown’ of A&E services has lead to an extremely alarming spike in patient deaths, as...