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ONE thousand striking lecturers, students and community supporters marched from Sheffield University to the City Hall yesterday to mark the end of four further...

AHEAD of the Budget, each household has reduced their spending by over £3,000 a year on average since 2007, revealing a devastating blow to...

STUDENT nurses demanded action to defend their bursaries at a Unison student nursing summit held at the union’s headquarters in Euston, central London, yesterday. Sophia...

DESPERATE to avoid a Tory Party split, Prime Minister May has agreed with her rebels to amend her EU Withdrawal Bill to include a...

DOCTORS’ leader Chaand Nagpaul is today warning of an ‘all year’ crisis in the NHS as eight in ten doctors say underfunding is significantly...

A TORY pilot trial extending ambulance response time by two minutes has had lethal consequences, with many more patients suffering heart attacks not making...

‘It should have been a murder case’, said Sophie Hurndall, the sister of Tom Hurndall yesterday. She was speaking to reporters just after her brother’s...

OVER 50,000 university staff at 69 universities are currently balloting for a nationwide strike over an attack on their pensions – which means they...

MORE than 40 people picketed Horseferry Road Magistrates’ Court yesterday to demand the release of Talha Ahsan and the repeal of the extradition treaty...

All along the A40, road hauliers and truckers, parked up their big machines and made their way to Marble Arch to warn Gordon...

‘The only way to solve the problems facing the working class today is for the working class to take state power and smash...

THE TUC has urged workers to ‘Shop a Scrooge’ this Christmas. It’s message is dial the National Minimum Wage helpline – 0845 6000 678,...

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...

PM JOHNSON shed crocodile tears on Saturday as UK Covid-19 fatalities passed the 150,000 mark, with the BMA doctors’ union warning that ‘still the...

‘HOW many more families does the minister estimate will be made homeless this winter as a result of this government’s refusal to pause the...

TRADE unions yesterday slammed plans for NHS trusts to make money out of India. This came after the former disgraced Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt...

TREATMENT Centres run by the private sector are much more likely to have an adverse effect on their surrounding NHS trusts, finds new...

‘YOUNG workers are missing out on £200 million in minimum wage pay,’ the TUC says, while demanding at least £10 an hour regardless of...

TEACHERS in four schools in Calderdale, Greenwich, Newham and Doncaster will take strike action this week to protect salary levels following a review forced...

‘THE MINISTERIAL Code says that ministers who knowingly mislead Parliament will be expected to offer their resignation,’ Labour leader Keir Starmer said during PMQs...

Changes to shifts and rosters at Scandinavian Airways at Heathrow (SAS), now to be known as Scandinavian Ground Services (SGS), may lead to industrial...

THE NUMBER of Labour MPs calling for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to quit stood at 87 by late yesterday afternoon, including four ministers. Allies of...

An Israeli raid on the Attar area on the western outskirts of Khan Younis killed at least 13 people and injured 26 yesterday, Gaza’s...

ISRAELI forces opened fire on Friday afternoon at thousands of Palestinians who participated in the Great March of Return along Gaza borders, killing at...

YESTERDAY’S 24-hour strike by 200 Aslef members working out of London’s Waterloo Station was 100 per cent solid and will be repeated tomorrow, Aslef...

THE HIGH Court has given the council the go-ahead to privatise Haringey’s housing, allowing huge private developers to embark on a £2bn private housing...

Trade unions and health professionals yesterday slammed as ‘very alarming’ and ‘staggering’, the government’s leaked draft NHS pay and workforce strategy for 2008...

A LIVELY PCS lobby yesterday of the Royal Courts of Justice took place as the union took the Department for Communications and Local Government...

Academics, students and community groups are celebrating a victory after University College London (UCL), one of the country’s leading institutions, agreed at last to...

Aircraft carrier USS Vincent arrived off the coast of earthquake-hit Haiti yesterday as Admiral Mike Mullen announced a huge US task force. Speaking at a...

THE Unite union yesterday vowed to fight the closures of Ford plants in Southampton and Dagenham. The notice of mass sackings came as prime...

EIGHT hundred students of nursing and other health care courses were told last Friday that loan instalments expected this week will be reduced or...

OVER 60,000 workers and youth in angry and militant mood participated on Tuesday afternoon at a rally in front of the Vouli (Greek parliament)...

ABOUT 2,000 Greek public transport workers took part in a magnificent demonstration last Tuesday afternoon in Athens, against the government’s Transport Bill which slashes...

DOCTORS at the British Medical Association Special Representative Meeting yesterday morning voted unanimously to oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill, and demand...

OVER 100 workers, youth, pensioners and NHS staff from inside the hospital participated in the North East London Council of Action picket to...

AMID a heatwave in the heart of London, hundreds of junior doctors converged at Tavistock Square for a march from BMA House to Parliament...

Workers who lost their pensions when their firm went bust gave a cautious welcome to a second High Court victory yesterday. The court rejected an...

Nine people were killed and hundreds injured by Israeli forces during protests demanding the right of return for Palestinian refugees, as tens of thousands...

The GMB trade union is holding a demonstration in Sheffield and a rally in Wakefield today, to defend 4,000 Remploy jobs. The GMB warned...

RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev warned yesterday that Georgia’s leadership will ‘pay the price’ for its attack on South Ossetia one year ago. He also condemned...

THOUSANDS of postal workers at huge mail centres across the capital are taking action today, the third day of the London postal strike. Union leaders...

RUSSIA has accused Kiev of deliberately holding up the delivery of Russian humanitarian aid to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine, according...

LABOUR Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti yesterday called for uniting with ‘moderate’ Tory MPs to stop a no-deal Brexit...

THE British government took petty revenge after its client ‘revolutionaries’ were driven out of Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawad by the Libyan armed forces...