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THE Tories have ruled out any fresh talks with the junior doctors and in doing so have thrown down the gauntlet for a fight...

THE Young Socialists completed the final leg of their 248-mile March For Jobs from London to the TUC Congress in Liverpool yesterday mid-day. Birmingham and...

‘WE’VE been screwed for too long. It’s time to stand up for ourselves and call for the BMA to support industrial action.’ This defiant statement...

EU ambassadors yesterday agreed to delay Brexit, but will not make a decision on a new deadline date until next Monday, just three days...

STUDENTS from poorer backgrounds are being forced to become ‘student commuters’, living in their home town and then commuting back and forth on a...

ON A DAY when 750,000 public sector workers struck to defend their pensions, 70,000 of them marched through London with banners flying, determined to...

SOUTHWARK Council denied that it had started eviction proceedings yesterday against tenants of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, south London. A ...

THE POLICE, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which threatens the fundamental right to protest, was introduced to Parliament yesterday. The government published some of the...

The Bank of England kept interest rates on hold at 4.5 per cent yesterday, as latest official figures showed Britain suffered a new record...

THREE of the 13 hospitals across England that provide complex heart care have been ordered to stop doing so by NHS England, alleging concerns...

THE LEADERS of the Unite and RMT unions warned yesterday that they will mobilise their full power to defeat Tory plans to ban the...

THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has slammed Israel’s new land grab plans, urging the International Criminal Court (ICC) to speed up its investigation into...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday launched the Labour Party’s election manifesto – which pledged to cut billions from public spending, whilst ‘securing the recovery’. Brown...

‘EACH and every one of you are victims of a cynical sacking. It’s not just an issue for you, our members, it is –...

TWENTY-FIVE soldiers in the puppet Iraqi army were killed yesterday in fierce fighting with the Mahdi Army militia, which is opposed to the US-UK occupation of...

LEADER of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said the Iranian nation will ‘firmly stand against’ an imposed war. In a televised message...

THE inquest into the death of 14-year-old Adam Rickwood in Hassockfield Secure Training Centre on 8th August 2004 will open on Monday 10 January...

THE Trafford strategic programme board has announced its support for closing the A&E at Trafford General Hospital, the hospital from which Nye Bevan launched...

EALING Parking Services workers were on the picket line outside Ealing Town Hall yesterday on the third day of three days of strike action...

TORY Justice Secretary David Gauke indicated yesterday that besieged PM May will seek to put her Withdrawal Agreement with a permanent Customs Union tagged...

THREE Tory MPs resigned yesterday to join the independent pro-EU group, set up by seven former Labour MPs who have now been joined by...

ALMOST two years after over 700 Gate Gourmet, Heathrow workers were sacked and locked out by the Texas Pacific equity capitalist group, the...

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...

STRIKING Birmingham bin workers have overwhelmingly rejected, by 97%, the council’s ‘totally inadequate’ offer, with hundreds of members of the Unite union voting against...

Communication Workers Union reps yesterday hit back at Royal Mail’s decision to hire up to 30,000 temporary workers to break the union’s planned 48-hour...

A retired police constable and a police staff member have been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice after claims that evidence...

LOCAL government trade union leaders yesterday called off this month’s planned pensions strikes and accepted Deputy PM Prescott’s abolition of the Rule of 85...

SURREY County Council has announced shocking plans to shut three fire stations at night, axe 70 firefighters’ jobs and halve the fire cover at...

THE UK military is returning ‘East of Suez’ to its former naval base in Bahrain, 40 years after withdrawal of every military garrison. ‘This new...

THE TORIES have been stripping sufferers of multiple sclerosis of the vital funds they need to buy mobility scooters and vehicles if they can...

Workers who have been occupying the Vestas turbine blade plant on the Isle of Wight for fourteen days over plans to cut 625 jobs...

SEVEN-day-GP access was rolled out yesterday across the whole of London, despite warnings from doctors that GP services are already stretched to breaking point. GP...

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

LEWISHAM Hospital consultant John O’Donohue has denounced Health Secretary Hunt’s claim last week that the closure plan for the Lewisham A&E and Maternity departments...

GORDON Brown gave his first speech as prime minister to the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday. He told delegates: ‘All of us must prepare for...

A SECRET Justice Bill could see people imprisoned without explanation, warned legal action charity Reprieve yesterday. Reprieve said: ‘The government this week confirmed that plans...

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to appear before the Leveson Inquiry into media standards on Monday. Under-pressure Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will give evidence...

DOCTORS will take strike action in defence of their NHS pension scheme on Thursday June 21st, the BMA confirmed yesterday, following an overwhelming YES...

THREE Cumbria fire stations risk closure as the entire service is under threat of being taken over by the Police and Crime Commissioner, the...

‘ST MUNGO’S should hang its head in shame,’ said Unite ahead of today’s solidarity midday rally outside the homelessness charity’s London HQ in St...

THERE was a very lively and well-attended rally at the front of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday lunchtime, with delegations of Unite...

THERE is a risk MPs will ‘steal Brexit from the British people’ if Theresa May’s proposed ‘backstop’ deal is rejected, senior cabinet minister Liam...

NISSAN is to cut 12,500 jobs worldwide as it reduces its production capacity and the number of models it produces by 10% by the...

The PCS union and Citizens Advice yesterday slammed government plans to claw back £60m from hundreds of thousands of benefit claimants who are expected...

THE US has indicated that it intends the imminent deployment of troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria, without holding a vote in...