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ENDING damaging staff cuts, bringing all of London’s Tube back into the public sector and getting the network’s upgrade back on track are more...

DOREEN Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, has asserted that ‘racial profiling’ is being used in immigration police stop-and-check operations. She spoke out...

‘ROCK SOLID,’ said RMT leader Bob Crow about yesterday’s and today’s 48-hour strike by London Underground RMT and TSSA members. Thousands of Tube drivers and...

Members of the Jean Charles de Menezes family refused to listen to the coroner’s summing up at the young Brazilian’s inquest yesterday, in protest...

JUNIOR doctors urged their colleagues yesterday to vote ‘NO’ and reject the so-called ‘deal’ struck by Tory health secretary Hunt and the...

TWO tower blocks on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham are at risk of a ‘catastrophic collapse’. After the horrific Grenfell fire, which left so...

DESPITE the pouring rain, striking BA cabin crew maintained three lively picket lines at Heathrow Airport yesterday. They chanted: ‘Don’t blame it on the ash...

DOWNING Street did not tell the truth when it said Boris Johnson was unaware of official complaints about Chris Pincher’s misbehaviour, a former senior...

Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie, plus four others, were yesterday charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Charlie is a chum...

The Communication Workers Union yesterday warned that planned job cuts by Royal Mail will threaten services and downgrade staff to a part-time workforce. Plans seen...

THE TRADE UNIONS condemned huge attacks on workers’ rights announced by LibDem Business Secretary Cable yesterday. Declaring he intended to make the process of getting...

‘The working class saw our march and lifted it up on their shoulders,’ Young Socialists marcher Paul Lepper told an audience of 250 youth...

A survey of East Sussex GPs has found that more than 70 per cent of them fear patient care will suffer when changes to...

‘THERE’S no support for it among firefighters and there’s no support for it among police officers, there’s no support among local communities and yet...

‘MAKE no mistake we won today in court,’ Stella Moris, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s fiancee said to cheers outside the Royal Courts of Justice...

PARLIAMENTARY Commissioner Sir Philip Mawer yesterday announced a full investigation into Deputy Premier Prescott’s relations with US tycoon Phillip Anschutz, focusing on his...

‘Over 250,000 of our members have turned out on strike today, the biggest strike in the civil service since 1987,’ PCS General Secretary...

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

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

A LABOUR MP said yesterday that British soldiers led the counter-revolutionary ‘rebel’ advance on Tripoli last week. In an interview with the Russia Today...

IRAN'S President Masoud Pezeshkian hit out at Donald Trump over his threats, saying he is not in a position to deprive the Iranian nation...

The Private Finance Initiative ‘will burden local health economies for decades’ and drive forward cuts and closures, the British Medical Association (BMA) warned this...

Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to the announcement by work and pensions secretary Peter Hain that he will proceed with the closure of 28...

The BMA has secured more than £200,000 in back pay for junior doctors, after their rotas failed to provide sufficient rest. It has now...

TORY Chancellor Osborne’s class war Budget yesterday had at its centre a Welfare Spending Cap of £119.5bn for 2015-16. The limit on total welfare spending...

THE CWU (Communications Workers Union) yesterday accepted the Royal Mail offer on pay along with plans to modernise the company and reform the...

Universal Credit (UC) is allowing ‘abusers’ to take control of family finances, an investigation by a parliamentary committee has heard. UC is paid to...

Lecturers and students unions yesterday warned that increased fees will see even more youth denied higher education, as new figures confirmed that a record...

Hundreds of angry supporters of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, many of them armed, protested yesterday against his execution and blamed leading Iraqi politicians for...

THE decision to postpone the 48 hour strike action by junior doctors from 26 January without any attempt by the government to meet the...

DOCTORS union the BMA is ‘strongly opposed to the fragmentation and privatisation of the NHS, which is divisive to hardworking NHS staff and could...

A THIRD of all A&Es across the country are set to close under the Tory government’s new Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), causing the...

THE TORY government’s claim that it is injecting an extra £10bn into the NHS in England over the next five years is simply ‘misleading,’...

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...

HEALTH and care providers must examine whether they have enough nursing staff to provide safe patient care this winter, the Royal College of Nursing...

‘FREE Julian Assange!’ demanded a mass protest outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning while inside, the head of WikiLeaks won the right for extra...

‘RENATIONALISE the water industry,’ demanded GMB water workers from around the country, demonstrating outside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) yesterday...

‘I WANT to set out our plan for Covid this winter and in many ways the situation we face is even more challenging than...

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

HEATHROW Airport trade unionists are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers rally at the end of Monday’s TUC May Day march through London. At...

1.1 MILLION households who cannot afford to heat their home to a comfortable level are in work, according to a new report by the...

UNIONS reacted angrily yesterday to threats by Arts, Media and Sports Secretary Hunt that public sector workers who strike during the Olympics should face...

Teachers have been ‘angered, alienated and attacked’ by coalition ministers who are determined to engage in a ‘head-on collision’ with the profession, delegates to...

JOSHUA Ogunleye, the WRP General Secretary, told the over 100-strong News Line 49th Anniversary rally yesterday: ‘Workers and young people hate capitalism! ‘This is...

‘ONE by one, David Cameron has broken all the promises he made on the NHS. It is now struggling with his toxic medicine of...