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CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond has told MPs that he is determined to do everything in his power to stop the ‘catastrophe’ of a no-deal exit by...

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called on the army to take charge of security along with the riot police after hundreds of thousands of Egyptians...

COUNCIL tax debt is the fastest-growing form of debt, Citizens Advice reported yesterday, revealing that it has now become the number one debt problem...

THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has warned that the Tory government is setting the NHS up for the its worst ‘winter crisis’ ever. Last Friday,...

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced yesterday that following a meeting on proposed cuts to services in Oxfordshire it is to hold a strike...

‘Welfare changes starting today will see up to 111,000 single parents set up to fail as they are forced to seek work – or...

HEALTH Secretary Hunt announced yesterday that he is to dissolve the trust that runs Stafford General Hospital, with services set to be downgraded or...

‘THE BBC says it subscribes to “BBC values”, but it would appear BBC Values do not apply to contractors such as Aramark.’ BECTU General Secretary...

THE United States government shut down yesterday after last-ditch efforts by lawmakers to pass a spending bill failed. Speaking to reporters at the White House,...

A&E VISITS in England have halved since the coronavirus outbreak started, dropping to their lowest level since records began. Before the pandemic, more than 2.1m...

TORY PM Boris Johnson acted the buffoon yesterday as he described Ukraine’s war against Russia as the country’s ‘finest hour’, in a video address...

THE commander of British forces in Afghanistan yesterday said he needs double the number of soldiers in Helmand Province to cope with the increasingly...

‘WE’RE here to meet the general secretary Tony Woodley regarding the mis-handling of the dispute with an anti-union employer, ICTS UK,’ sacked Belfast International...

French transport unions yesterday extended their nationwide strike for another 24 hours, after bringing the train, bus and metro services to a halt on...

AS AMAZON dominates online marketplaces and positions itself to become the largest retailer in the US, more and more people are finding out the...

PARENTS are being forced to remortgage their homes in order to pay for their sons’ and daughters’ tuition fees. ‘My Home Move’ analysed figures which...

GPs are angry that the government intends to impose changes to their contracts. There are huge implications in the Department of Health’s proposed imposed changes,...

A DELEGATION of locked out Gate Gourmet workers joined the Terminal 5 building workers’ picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday afternoon. Parmjit Bains, one of...

50,000 Greek civil servants and public sector workers on Wednesday staged a successful 24-hour national strike and a big march through Athens against the...

CAMPAIGNERS and housing charities yesterday condemned ‘social cleansing’ of low income families as it emerged that more than 50,000 families have been quietly moved...

THE North-East London Council of Action Christmas picket of Chase Farm Hospital got a very warm reception yesterday for its demand to occupy to...

THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday supported the call by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell for ‘an emergency Budget for our public services’. The...

THE ASSAULT on the Iraqi city of Mosul has begun, with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announcing in a televised address in the early...

PM Cameron yesterday beat the nationalist drum for all he was worth in an attempt to win back the right wing vote that is...

A STRONG contingent of over forty lecturers and staff picketed both gates of Queen Mary’s (QM) University in east London on the second day...

PM Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus. Johnson said he developed mild symptoms over the past 24 hours, including a temperature and cough. He is...

GREECE was put in an ‘eight days to default’ situation by the ECB and the EU yesterday. A default by Greece was technically avoided when...

Over 400,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street on Saturday, while thousands more marched in other towns and cities around Britain, including...

THE BAKERS’ union (BFAWU), which was one of the first unions to fight to set up the Labour Party in 1902, disaffiliated from the...

FOLLOWING a 100% strike vote, RMT members working on the Serco Barclays so-called ‘Boris bikes’ London cycle scheme began a 48-hour strike on Sunday...

‘A MASSACRE with the full meaning of the word,’ took place in Gaza City’s Shujayea district yesterday, when Israel carried out an attack that...

PREMIER Papandreou told the Greek parliament yesterday that he was now adopting a ‘national position’ and was discussing with the right-wing...

STAFF in UK universities are out on strike today for a full day in opposition to an ‘insulting’ 1% pay rise offer. The UCU, Unison,...

Private treatment centres are treating as few as a quarter of the National Health Service patients they have been paid to handle. In the worst...

MASSIVE aerial and artillery strikes pounded neighbourhoods, homes, shelters and aid convoys yesterday, killing scores of civilians, mostly children and women, as the US-UK-backed...

OVER ten thousand workers, students, and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on the TUC May Day march in London yesterday afternoon. There...

FOUR-HOUR waits in A&E at north Middlesex Hospital have increased by 380% while at the Royal Free Hospital in London, four-hour waits in A&E...

UNITE general secretary Len McCluskey yesterday said the union had decided to ‘embrace’ a survival plan at Grangemouth put forward by owner Ineos, ‘warts...

THE LABOUR government will declare war on the disabled when Chancellor Reeves returns from China this week it was reported yesterday, as the media...

RIGHTS groups yesterday slammed government plans for new laws to stop British nationals, who have been suspected of travelling to Syria and Iraq to...

GP leaders yesterday warned the government that its plans to recruit 5,000 new GPs and introduce seven-day opening are undeliverable, as new figures show...

Seven Palestinians were killed in Israeli air raids in several parts of the Gaza Strip yesterday and on Wednesday. Five of the victims were activists...

AN Israeli strike on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood killed at least seven people and wounded 20 others yesterday. Islam al-Jaidi, a resident and a...

THE PCS (Public and Commercial Services) union has served notice on the Home Office of its intention to ballot members at Heathrow Airport for...

Ten people, including six children, were killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza yesterday. Their bodies were...