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OVER a hundred thousand workers and youth took part in the Durham Miners Gala on Saturday and heard Unite’s McCluskey declare his allegiance...

THERE has been a 13.6% drop in the real value of average earnings of full time workers in employment in the UK between April...

THE NUMBER of people seeking emergency food aid in the UK has doubled in the past six months, the largest organiser of food...

HOSPITALS built under the hated Private Finance Initiative (PFI) do not respond well to ‘never events’ where patients’ lives are put in to serious...

IRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted unanimously to close Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel yesterday. Netanyahu announced the decision on X. ‘The government, headed...

UNISON has written to all local councils demanding to know what steps they are taking to recover cash invested in Iceland banks and how...

A GOOD picket of junior doctors turned out at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital at 8am. They were in good spirits despite the wind...

SIX RAF Tornados were ready to go last night to begin raining bombs down on Iraq after an extraordinary session of parliament which...

Honda announced 500 job cuts at its Swindon factory yesterday, just months after union leaders agreed to pay cuts in a deal to save...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint press conference in Israel yesterday, in which they threatened...

GAZA’S electricity cut out at 1pm GMT yesterday, when its sole power plant ran out of fuel, leaving the Palestinian territory without electricity after...

RMT leaders yesterday responded defiantly to Southern rail’s threat that if guards strike and do not sign new contracts by Friday, they will be...

AT UNIVERSITY College London (UCL) over fifty students occupied the Cloister Building at 7am yesterday morning in front of the Provost’s office, and plan...

NHS London has allocated £115 million to organise the closure of A&E and maternity services at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield. Emergencies are to be directed...

‘NO privatisation!’ chanted over 70 PCS strikers and their supporters yesterday as they marched off from a rally outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar...

AN OVERWHELMING 96.4% of college lecturers in Scotland in the EIS union voted for strike action yesterday after promises of ‘fair play’ were broken...

THE RMT is demanding action after Better Capital has confirmed that it expects its £20 million investment back while City Link staff and sub-contractors...

BANK of England Governor King’s insistence that nothing must be done to prevent the squeeze in living standards down to 1920s levels, has...

THERE was a well attended picket line of pathology department workers outside the Queen’s Hospital Romford (BHRT) yesterday. Red Unite flags were waving and there...

UNDER HEAVY FIRE, PM May yesterday was reduced to pleading with fellow ministers and MPs to ‘trust me to deliver’ over Brexit. Writing in...

TODAY’S meeting of the General Council of the TUC must go beyond considering the practicalities of a general strike and actually call one, Dave...

HOMELESS charity Shelter has denounced the ‘staggering’ amount of families who are being forcibly evicted from their homes, the highest since records began. Figures released...

THE TORY government is drawing up plans for new anti-union laws to ‘break the stranglehold of the trade unions’, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper disclosed...

IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned yesterday that the situation in the Strait of Hormuz is becoming ‘unbearable’ for the United States, while...

THE BMA GPs conference yesterday voted unanimously, but for a couple of abstentions, for Motion 153: ‘The Market and Any Willing Provider’. The motion from...

TORY leadership candidate Michael Gove admitted on BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he had acted illegally in relation to using cocaine. The former Justice...

OVER a quarter of a million workers, students and youth joined the Nakba 78 March from the museums in Kensington to Pall Mall in...

Faced with a $19bn deficit, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered some 200,000 state workers to be paid the minimum wage because the state...

IN LIGHT of the Windrush scandal the government has been forced to change the rules to ensure workers from other countries can participate...

AS PUPILS return to school after the Christmas break, teachers’ unions warned yesterday that funding cuts are much worse than predicted, hitting working class...

HOUSING benefit cuts being debated in parliament today and set to come into force next April will see local authorities ‘decanting’ poor families out...

VIRGIN Atlantic is to cut a third of its staff in the UK and will keep its operation at Gatwick closed in response to...

DISTRICT nurses face ‘extinction’ by 2025 unless the Tory coalition government launches a mass recruitment campaign and funds an extra 10,000 nurses, warned the...

DRASTIC cuts to the NHS are being planned to meet a budget cut of £15-20 billion, with even bigger spending cuts expected in the...

‘FIRST thing is we will vote against Theresa May’s deal,’ John McDonnell Labour Shadow Chancellor said yesterday about her Brexit deal, after the government...

THERE were more than 20 locked out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line yesterday fighting for reinstatement on their original terms and conditions. The...

THE BMA warned yesterday that the Health and Social Care Bill will lead to more ‘conflicts of interest’, after it emerged yesterday that a...

SYRIAN ‘rebels’ yesterday announced that they are no longer committed to the Annan plan. Major Sami al-Kurdi, for the rebel military council stated that...

STAFF isolation exemptions are absolutely the wrong answer to the government’s failure to control spiralling infection rates, says doctors’ union the BMA. Responding to news...

APPROXIMATELY 2,800 employees out of Tata’s 8,000-strong workforce will lose their jobs as Blast Furnace 5 ceases operations today. Loud noises and large plumes of...

London’s emergency plans must be changed to take into account the needs of survivors in the aftermath of a major incident, says the report...

MORE than 220 firefighters’ jobs in north Wales are threatened with being axed if £3.3m is not found over the next five years, the...

THE BIGGEST strike in the history of the NHS takes place today with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) escalating its action, as members...

Five US Marines were killed by a roadside bomb in Ramadi, western Iraq, on Saturday, the US military said in a statement yesterday.   Their armoured...

IRAN’S new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei made his first public statement since succeeding his father yesterday, vowing that Iran would avenge the blood of...