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THE VOTE Hassan Zulkifal Workers Revolutionary Party Ealing Southall campaign got great support at Greenford Bus Depot and Hanwell Royal Mail Delivery Office yesterday...

UNISON yesterday challenged all five Health Trust Boards in Northern Ireland to refuse to comply with a Tory government demand for cuts. In addresses to...

Aides to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas announced yesterday that he had frozen talks with Prime Minister Ismail Haniya on forming a unity government. This came...

SCHOOL students are being packed like sardines into state schools with a third of councils having to rent extra space in empty offices to...

YESTERDAY, marked the first of 10 days of strike action by security staff at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge in central London. Some of...

IN just three days last week, 1,644 doctors applied to work abroad, the General Medical Council confirmed yesterday. The surge in applications began last week...

BIRMINGHAM city council is selling off its community centres and youth centres with millions of pounds of public property being auctioned off to housing...

PRIVATE medical companies have been selling deficient pacemakers to the NHS knowing full well that they have failed tests, the Royal College of Surgeons...

THE widow of Harry Stanley is consulting her lawyers, after a High Court judge yesterday quashed an inquest jury’s verdict of ‘unlawful killing’ over...

THE NHS is sitting on £4 billion of reserve cash whilst unprecedented government cuts of £20bn have doubled the number of hospitals falling into...

Postal workers in London have voted by four to one (79 per cent) in favour of strike action against plans to shut three mail...

‘We’re fighting for our jobs, terms and conditions, pensions, the future of the union and the future of the business,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...

GREEK workers are staging an unprecedented two-day general strike today and tomorrow, called by the GSEE (Greek TUC) against Yiorghos Papandreou’s government’s Mid-Term Economic...

Jubilant Palestinian masses were yesterday celebrating the historic election victory of Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas. The final results declared at 5pm yesterday saw Hamas take...

LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are furious that their union leaders in the TGWU have ended their hardship payments. Lakhinder Saran told News Line yesterday: ‘We...

Europe’s economic crisis ‘could evolve into stagnation, with negative implications for the global economy’, the OECD warned yesterday. The 34-nation Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation...

ROYAL MAIL Communication Workers Union (CWU) postal workers were in a determined mood during their latest pay strike yesterday. At Jubilee Mail Centre in Hounslow,...

The Israeli military yesterday bombed one of its own troops who Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, had kidnapped and taken to a safe...

There will be more job losses at British Airways as a result of the airline’s agreed merger with Iberia, BA chief executive Willie Walsh...

STATEMENT of the Workers Revolutionary League – the Soviet section of the International Committee of the Fourth International: During this time we’re facing the new...

Doctors will be balloted on industrial action short of a strike, after the government failed to return to meaningful talks on NHS pensions, the...

Despite Tory leader Cameron’s protestations that he supports the NHS, it emerged yesterday that several leading Tory shadow cabinet members put their names to...

‘Did you ever discuss or approve a change in the rules of engagement for British police to shoot to kill, shoot in the head...

LAST Wednesday’s general strike in Greece, against the government’s reactionary Pensions Bill, marks a most critical turning point in the fast developing revolutionary situation....

The NHS Commissioning Board will announce compulsory seven-day working in the NHS when it publishes its ‘planning guidance’ for the NHS for the first...

FIREFIGHTERS’ leaders are meeting this week to discuss an industrial action ballot over the government’s attack on their members’ pensions. The FBU is being...

Detainees at Campsfield immigration detention and removal centre near Oxford rose up yesterday morning after an African detainee was beaten and dragged out of...

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Harrogate voted unanimously on Saturday for a one-day strike against a pay-cutting two per cent...

ISRAELI occupation forces carried out 10 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, resulting in 112 fatalities and 157...

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 PRIVATISATION and closure plague is being spread rapidly throughout the NHS. United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has closed its accident and emergency department at Grantham...

PATIENTS suffering from serious and chronic illnesses have been driven to the brink of homlessness after being declared ‘fit-for-work’ and thrown off their benefits....

TORY PM Johnson during the daily Downing Street press briefing yesterday, repeatedly blocked journalists from asking his scientific and medical advisors about the ongoing...

‘THE TGWU leaders are doing everything they can to try to make us give up the fight and sign the Compromise Agreement but we...

ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned yesterday that Israel will strike ‘aggressively’ at Gaza in reaction to any fire from the territory. He said at...

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves launched a vicious war on benefit claimants in her Budget yesterday, warning that she intends to take over the Tory ‘work...

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday launched a campaign to highlight the threat to the UK’s universal postal service and jobs. Calling for the postal...

ELEVEN Palestinians were killed and over 200 wounded when Israeli troops opened fire as Palestinians stormed the occupied Golan Heights and demonstrators...

THE Reading Employment Tribunal has dealt with the last 23 claims for unfair dismissal against Gate Gourmet London arising out of the mass sackings...

BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson yesterday afternoon attacked London postal workers in particular for not accepting the government and Royal Mail plans to...

France was brought to a halt yesterday as over a million state employees went on strike, joining a week-long stoppage by transport workers. Teachers,...

Prime Minister Blair yesterday said UK forces had to be ready for action in Sudan and Somalia as part of a policy of foreign...

FIERCE fighting is taking place in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as Palestinian soldiers battle Israeli troops after they launched another deadly...

BRENT teachers in the ATL and NUT unions are on strike today demanding ‘No Academy at St Andrew and St Francis school!’ The teachers are...

Corporal Joe Glenton, the soldier who faces desertion charges for refusing to return to Afghanistan, has been arrested, imprisoned and charged with five further...