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Over 1,000 NHS workers at Barts Health NHS Trust in the City of London began voting for strike action yesterday in a fight against...

THE government’s hospital closure programme could be derailed if masses of people take to the streets, said Chris Hopson, the leader of NHS England’s...

THREE days of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip left 59 Palestinians dead by noon yesterday local time, including 14 children and three women,...

‘I WILL now take the steps necessary to make sure that Scotland will have the choice at the end of this process,’ Scottish Nationalist...

YOUTH unemployment increased by 15,000 during the three months to June, reaching 973,000. ‘The coalition is making life hell for youth and it must be...

‘Walsh isn’t interested in compromise. This is our eighth day on strike and it has gone on to a different level’. British Airway’s cabin...

GATE GOURMET locked out workers are winning great support in the London Region TGWU, and attended a meeting earlier this week. Locked out worker...

Government plans to downgrade district general hospitals in favour of care in the community are being pushed forward with the announcement of plans to...

‘If we get a tax on pensions and jobs and pay, I think that the inevitability of industrial action stares us in the face,’...

Health Secretary Lansley’s decision to push ahead with the coalition’s massive attack on the NHS, in the teeth of fierce opposition, is ‘a...

METROPOLITAN Police officer Wayne Couzens yesterday pleaded guilty to murdering Sarah Everard. The 33-year-old vanished while walking home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south...

‘HEADS must roll for the humiliation and misery inflicted on decent, upstanding people,’ the CWU (Communication Workers Union) insisted yesterday. It is demanding criminal investigations...

GATE Gourmet workers are very angry that their union, the TGWU, is still urging them to sign the Compromise Agreement deal negotiated with the...

‘The TUC is mounting a wide campaign against these mistaken policies,’ said TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday, after a special TUC meeting called...

‘I’m 100 per cent for a general strike,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU) Capital Branch Assistant Secretary and BT Tower rep Darren Weller said yesterday...

TORY changes to the NHS were ‘opposed by patients, the public and NHS staff, but politicians pushed through the changes regardless’ Dr Mark Porter,...

‘YOU have to stand up for what you think is right. It’s all about passenger safety. All the rules are being broken on a...

REPORTS have emerged of students, despite paying thousands of pounds in fees a year for their tuition, are forced to sit on the floor...

IT is Thursday afternoon in Paris and TENS of thousands of school and student youth have converged on the Place d’Italie. They are marching towards...

US president-elect Barack Obama discussed the financial crisis and other big problems with world leaders yesterday. He spoke by telephone with the...

DOCTORS at the British Medical Association Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) yesterday voted overwhelmingly to oppose the government’s ‘local hospital model for London’. They voted instead...

THE EU is ‘united’ over the negotiated Brexit deal, the bloc’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has responded, after the UK’s PM May said she...

Negotiations over the future of GM sites in Luton and Antwerp would be ‘a hard nut’ to crack, Opel Works Council chief Klaus Franz...

STRIKING platinum miners at Lonmin’s Marikana mine in South Africa defied the company’s sack threats yesterday and refused to return to work. The 3,000 striking...

TORY PM Johnson said yesterday that he believed there was ‘a good chance’ of a Brexit deal with the EU, while also insisting that...

GROWING numbers of private sector tenants are turning to Citizens Advice after facing eviction despite being up to date with their rent, the national...

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

‘AS of May 27, 2022, the forces of the DPR and the LPR supported by the Russian army’s firepower, liberated and established full control...

PALESTINIAN premier Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday pledged to file charges with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli leaders responsible for the Gaza onslaught. This came...

FAILING Tube privateer Metronet should get no more public money, and be ‘brought back in-house’ London Underground’s biggest union said yesterday. As the Public Private...

ELIZABETH Wilmshurst yesterday, appearing at the Chilcot inquiry, deplored the fact that Lord Goldsmith was asked formally about the legality of the Iraq war...

THE rail union RMT yesterday called off the Docklands Light Railway 48-hour strike after it was declared illegal by the judiciary. In a message to...

German workers are holding ‘warning strikes’ today over General Motors scrapping the sale of GM Europe, which includes Opel and Vauxhall, to Magna. The GM...

OVER 500 residents of north Kensington taking part in the 20th Silent Walk for Grenfell were joined by a large delegation of firefighters from...

THIRTEEN-year-old Chloe Narbonne would have died if it wasn’t for a revolutionary pioneering operation that gave her a new artificial heart, all thanks to...

LABOUR MP Chris Williamson was allowed back into the party yesterday morning after an investigation into comments he made about the party’s handling of...

The Metropolitan Police yesterday were investigating why the police had not told high-profile figures that their mobile phones were being hacked into, and why...

PLAID Cymru Assembly Members have accused the Labour-led Welsh government of supporting the huge salaries of council chief executives. The chief executive of Wales’s biggest...

THE DECEMBER 12th election is a crisis election, in a situation where the worldwide crisis of capitalism is deepening rapidly to explosion point. Eleven...

A KING’S Fund survey shows public satisfaction with the way the NHS is run fell from 70% in 2010 (the year that Tory...

THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) is urging its hundreds of thousands of members to vote to strike for pay in a ballot which...

THE new NHS report released yesterday has revealed a further £30bn of NHS cuts by 2020. The report entitled the ‘Five Year Forward View’ ...

In his tenth Pre Budget Report yesterday Chancellor Brown spoke about the threat to British capitalism from India and China. He said: ‘Once...

The hugely expensive ‘consultation process’ meant to rubber stamp the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield has backfired, after the majority of returnees...

THE UK, US and Australia have announced a security pact in the Asia-Pacific, to step up their war against China. China’s embassy in Washington...