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THE CRISIS caused by the privatisation of the probation system in England and Wales has cost taxpayers almost £500m, the government’s National Audit Office...

‘INSTEAD of driving us off a furlough cliff edge later this year, the government should provide continued support for employers,’ the GMB union said...

OVER 200 workers and youth took part in a powerful 25th anniversary meeting of the heroic 1986-87 printers strike at St Bride’s Institute yesterday. A...

Birkenhead MP Frank Field yesterday became the first Labour right winger to defect to the Tory-led coalition with the Liberal Democrats. Field, who is an...

‘I feel unsafe,’ Alex Alves Pereira, the cousin of the unarmed Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, killed by the Met police, told News Line...

A 48-HOUR London underground strike is to take place next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, tube workers union RMT said yesterday. RMT said that the strike...

GRANGEMOUTH’S owner Ineos announced yesterday the closure of its petrochemical plant, while also keeping the oil refinery closed and perhaps re-opening it if a...

CHANCELLOR Hammond announced an extra £325 million in yesterday’s budget to fast-track some of the 44 hated STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) of Tory...

EDUCATION is resuming for 300,000 Palestinian students in the Gaza Strip after two years of the Israeli genocide war, with 8,000 teachers coming back...

THE few aid trucks let into Gaza are ‘ridiculously inadequate’ and nowhere near sufficient to meet Gaza’s vast needs, instead they serve as ‘a...

‘£10 AN HOUR is the bare minimum that the trade union movement should demand as a minimum wage’, the Bakers Union said yesterday, as...

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday hinted at the prospect of a faster withdrawal of US troops as he urged Iraq’s Arab and...

HUNDREDS of thousands of Greek workers, students and unemployed are expected to take part in rallies and demonstrations in Athens and Salonica on...

THE Nordic nations have voiced serious concerns over the withholding of Palestinian clearance revenues, further straining the already difficult fiscal situation of the Palestinian...

Some 100,000 workers demonstrated through the Athens city centre last Wednesday as part of the one-day general strike called by the GSEE (Greek TUC)...

Leaders of the British Medical Association (BMA) are pressing ahead with assisting GP commissioning, as outlined in the government’s White Paper to privatise the...

sraeli aerial attacks hammered Gaza from north to south yesterday, killing at least 46 people by midday, with a strike on a school in...

THE HOUSE of Commons yesterday late afternoon by 569 votes to 29, a majority of 486, decided to approve the ‘Stormont Brake’ – part...

The POA (Prison Officers Association) has condemned an injunction secured by the Tory government from judges banning its industrial action planned for yesterday. ‘The POA...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday called for a ‘cast iron guarantee’ that not one of 35,000 junior doctors will be without a job...

Staff at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust have been shocked by the sudden announcement on Monday of plans to close five hospital wards and...

UNISON members at five NHS Logistics sites – supplying 43,000 items from beds to surgical supplies to hospitals and GPs across England – will...

Thousands of Jobcentre Plus (JCP) call centre staff will strike on April 18 after bosses refused to improve working conditions and customer service, the...

‘DROP this shameful case. It is a shame on every democracy. Free Julian! I ask everyone to rally behind him,’ Stella Assange urged in...

TRADE unions slammed the government’s mass sackings and cuts to services as being directly responsible for the shocking unemployment figures released yesterday. These showed that...

HAMAS has warned Israel against attacking the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz yesterday indicated his support...

‘BRING us back into the NHS NOW!’ strikers from SLaM (South London and Maudsley) mental health trust are demanding as they converge on Downing...

‘Grant Shapps needs to stop smearing the RMT and unshackle the rail operating companies so they can come to a negotiated settlement that can...

THE SNP would not vote against privatisation in the English health service provided it has no impact on Scottish spending, Scottish Health Secretary Shona...

The government’s forecasts for the costs of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in this financial year have ‘increased significantly over the last three...

The GMB trade union shop stewards at a meeting yesterday in Manchester voted unanimously to ballot for a national strike in Asda Wal-Mart. The GMB...

The Fire Brigades Union says the government’s pension proposals are ‘unacceptable’ and are consulting fire crews with a recommendation there is a rapid move...

PARENTS taking the government to court over SEND funding were cheered by a crowd of over 40 as they entered the High Court yesterday...

The National Union of Journalists held their second 24-hour strike yesterday against compulsory redundancies at the BBC. The action received massive support from...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is reportedly putting pressure on regulators to allow government bonds, known as Treasuries, be exempt from risk calculations. Economists have warned...

THE Hamas Movement yesterday accused the Israeli occupation government of disregarding the ceasefire agreement and ignoring diplomatic efforts aimed at maintaining calm, warning that...

FOR the first time since massive regular protests began in January, the French government has held discussions with union leaders regarding the two year...

THE BMA (British Medical Asociation) has asked the government for more clarity on staffing of new Nightingale facilities. Commenting on the planned new Nightingale facilities...

HAMAS has condemned the US veto in the UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza as ‘blatant complicity and active involvement in...

LEADERS of the Unite trade union were campaigning for ‘peace’ with British Airways management yesterday, as a lobby of the BA Annual General Meeting...

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

THE Palestinian rescue and civil defence teams yesterday removed 12 bodies of Palestinians that were buried under the rubble of two homes destroyed by...

HUNDREDS of Iraqi members of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) and their supporters stormed the US embassy in Baghdad for the second day in...

CHAIR of the King’s College Hospital NHS Trust Bob Kerslake resigned late on Sunday evening stating that the cuts he was being asked to...

OVER 8,500 General Practitioners (GPs) across England have overwhelmingly voted in favour of taking collective action, including strike action, in response to mounting challenges...