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TRAIN staff were joined by angry commuters in protests at over forty stations across the UK as the 3.4% hikes in rail fares...

RUSSIA ‘reserves the right to respond’ after Israel’s actions led to the downing of a military plane in Latakia in Syria, resulting in...

AROUND 100 angry family members demonstrated against the threatened closure of their Bangladeshi Parent Adviser (BPA) service yesterday, marching from Chrisp Street Market in...

‘WE ARE having a successful picket again today,’ North-East London Council of Action secretary, Bill Rogers, told News Line outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. ‘Everyone...

The University and College union (UCU) yesterday welcomed findings by the BBC, which it said shone a light on the real level of debt...

LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers received a report back yesterday morning on the picket line at Heathrow Airport from their shop stewards, of a...

A new flotilla to break the siege on Gaza is being prepared in Lebanon. It includes an all-woman vessel, named the Mariam, organised by Samar...

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PALESTINIAN prisoner Kayed Fasfous has won a decisive victory and ends his hunger strike after an agreement was reached to end his administrative det-ention...

THE METROPOLITAN police are investigating allegations surrounding parties at Downing Street and in Whitehall, M-et Chief Cressida Dick said yesterday, with the Sue Gray...

‘ROYAL MAIL is misleading the public,’ the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday at the start of the national postal strike in defence of...

TENS of thousands of workers, youth, students and professionals demonstrated on May Day in over 80 Greek cities and towns. In all marches, the...

ISRAELI forces continued to bombard the Gaza Strip on Thursday despite an announcement by mediators that a ceasefire agreement had been reached to end...

THE FIRST person to have a joint enterprise murder conviction quashed was released from prison yesterday in a landmark ruling against the controversial...

THE head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has vowed that his militant group would oust militants from a region on the border with Syria, but declined...

The six trade unions – ACM, ATL, GMB, UCU, UNISON and UNITE – representing 250,000 further education staff yesterday submitted a pay claim for...

THE TORY government has been slammed over lack of preventative action, with PM Theresa May being warned that more people are set to die...

THE Labour Transport Secretary Lord Adonis yesterday demanded that Unite cancel the planned strike action by British Airways cabin crew, despite an overwhelming vote...

Began in London on Tuesday, August 19 and and have now arrived in Liverpool! – they will be marching to the TUC Congress from...

FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales are preparing for strike action over pensions after governments in Westminster and Cardiff refused to reach a compromise in...

AS MORE than 60,000 junior doctors begin three days of strike action at 7am this morning, the British Medical Association (BMA) warns that two-thirds...

Two million UK workers are ‘trapped in a continual round of low-paid and insecure work where mistreatment is the norm’ according to the findings...

WORKERS at Croydon Hospital are staging a protest on January 31st to demand Covid sick pay. Porters and cleaners at the south London hospital are...

SOUTHERN are running the equivalent of a 1,000 trains a year with just a driver and no other member of staff on board, RMT...

ISRAEL has continued to obstruct the implementation of the ceasefire agreement by linking the reopening of the Rafah crossing and the entry of humanitarian...

A SUBSTANTIAL majority of doctors in Scotland feel that patient care is being given a lower priority in Scotland’s NHS than both finances and...

‘I was a victim of the Ugandan authorities and this inquiry shows I became a victim of the UK authorities,’ said Enid Ruhango yesterday. She...

MILLIONS of workers will be worse off under state pension reforms, the TUC warned yesterday. New research published by the TUC found that the vast...

‘THE UK’s health services are hopelessly underfunded in terms of resources and staff who are trained to deal with new mothers with mental health...

CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a massive onslaught on public services and public sector pay in his budget yesterday, imposing billions more in cuts as well...

CIVIL Servants have voted by a massive 61% majority in favour of strike action in their fight for a pay rise of £1,200, or...

TUBE unions’ national executives are meeting today and are expected to announce a further three days of strike action over the Night Tube and...

LABOUR Party leader Sir Keir Starmer volunteered yesterday to ‘work with the Prime Minister in the national interest.’ Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show,...

Gate Gourmet locked-out workers were campaigning yesterday on Southall Broadway near Heathrow Airport for their public meeting on Sunday November 5th. The meeting is being...

THE threat by the Metropolitan Police to ban Saturday’s National March (PSC) for Palestine from assembling at the BBC in Portland Place as arranged...

‘We will use all the means at our disposal to fight,’ PCS civil service union General Secretary Mark Serwotka declared yesterday. He accused the government...

Thirty-five Labour MPs have written a letter in support of the striking Birmingham bin workers ahead of their MEGAPICKET on Friday. Many hundreds of trade...

YESTERDAY morning, one week after the start of their operation, Russian forces captured the main city in southern Ukraine, Kherson. Kherson is not far from...

Yesterday two warnings were given as to the critical situation in Iraq and of US plans to use tactical nuclear weapons against Iran. Award-winning US...

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...

THE TORIES stepped up their onslaught on the NHS yesterday with the announcement of the scrapping of the requirement for patients with suspected cancer...

UNISON leader Dave Prentis has warned that the massive 10 per cent price hike announced by the British Gas energy privateer yesterday will lead...

Venture capitalists Texas Pacific and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts are this week expected to bid for the supermarket group, J Sainsbury. Their take-over will mean sackings,...

TEACHERS and heads unions yesterday welcomed education secretary Gove’s abandonment of plans to scrap GCSEs in key subjects in England and replace them with...

A fifth day of anti-government protests raged in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and other cities on Monday, paralysing much of the country amid rising...