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‘No more cuts! Sack Adam Crozier!’ shouted angry postal workers outside Royal Mail’s London headquarters yesterday, as 10,000 members of the Communication Workers Union...

‘I HAD both my babies here and I had the best possible care. I live in Southall, I know how important Ealing Maternity Unit...

ISRAEL carried out a wave of new attacks across the Gaza Strip and occupied Jerusalem this week, drawing international condemnation for grave violations of...

ON STRIKE writers of US daytime TV dramas, short stories and online serials are set to host a special picket event, Daytime United, in...

The NHS Commissioning Board will announce compulsory seven-day working in the NHS when it publishes its ‘planning guidance’ for the NHS for the first...

‘THERE is only one decision! No Extradition!’ shouted supporters of Julian Assange outside London’s Supreme Court in Parliament Square yesterday. Nellie Arequipa was with her...

MARKING four-and-a-half years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire on June 14, 2017, survivors and campaigners are demanding police accelerate their criminal investigation into...

35,000 WORKERS and youth rallied yesterday at Marble Arch, Speakers Corner, to insist that ‘Black Lives Matter’ and give their 100% support to the...

THE number of buy-to-let loans, and the amount of lending, are now their highest since the financial crash in the third quarter of 2008,...

Prime Minister Blair has once again refused to apologise for the police raid and shooting of an innocent man in Forest Gate, as he...

JEREMY Corbyn has put Labour activists on ‘permanent notice’ amid rumours in Westminster of another general election. He said he would ‘absolutely welcome’ a...

‘WE appeal to all Transport and General Workers Union branches and workers and the whole trade union movement to come to our support,’ Gate...

EYEWITNESSES, local people and neighbours of the residents of Grenfell Tower who perished in the fire yesterday morning, reported that ‘within five minutes it...

A SPOKESMAN for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said yesterday that more than 650 US military personnel were killed and wounded in the...

Israeli warships shelled Gaza from the sea yesterday as jets continued to bomb Gaza from the air for a third day in an ‘all-out...

ISRAELI forces continued attacks across the Gaza Strip this week killing Palestinians in air strikes and shelling while reports emerged of Palestinian women detainees...

THE Hamas Palestinian government has condemned the death sentence handed down to Saddam Hussein, recalling the help the Iraqi leader gave...

LABOUR leader Ed Miliband has defended his party’s decision to support the government’s pay cuts for public sector workers, and to continue with Tory...

LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to join them on their march through Southall on Sunday December...

EIGHTY-NINE people took their own lives in prisons during 2015 as the suicide rate behind bars remained at an alarmingly high level, figures...

THE North East London Council of Action organised a mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital yesterday to stop the closure of Maternity, Paediatrics and...

The University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned against further increases to the cost of a university degree after a new survey revealed that...

PRESIDENT Biden has assured American lawmakers that US military personnel will not be taking part in the war in Ukraine, and not a single...

Average petrol prices in the UK set a new record this week at 142.48p a litre, and 147.88p a litre for diesel. The AA Fuel...

IT IS being made even clearer that North Londoners will suffer if the projected closure of Chase Farm A&E goes ahead. The number of people...

THE Welfare Reform Bill will ‘undoubtedly’ cause great harm to children and the poorest families in the country, the Children’s Society warned yesterday. The charity...

NEARLY a quarter of Labour MPs have called fora ceasefire in Gaza. Forty-nine of the party’s 199 MPs have either said they want a ceasefire...

MOST of the locked out Gate Gourmet workers who have received compulsory redundancy letters by special delivery during the past few days went...

THE Tenant Management Organisation which manages Grenfell Tower is to be stripped of its responsibilities for the west London estate, Tory Prime Minister Theresa...

‘HALT the Family Farm Tax,’ demand thousands of farmworkers as they roll into Whitehall, many aboard their tractors, at 1pm this afternoon. Small farmers across...

HUNDREDS of armed riot police (MAT) in full gear viciously attacked a militant march in Athens against the visit of US President Barack Obama...

The High Court yesterday refused to grant British Airports Authority (BAA) a blanket ban on protests in and around Heathrow airport that would have...

‘It will be the biggest march against the funding cuts imposed by Arts Council England so far,’ organisers of today’s march through Norwich ...

A DERAILMENT in Lewisham south London is a case in point about why guards must be kept on the trains, transport union RMT said...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers picketed the Hillingdon Regional Office of the Transport and General Workers Union yesterday. They told fellow union members that their employment...

MUSA IBRAHIM, the spokesman for Colonel Gadaffi, has accused NATO of carrying out air strikes against ‘schools, hospitals and residential areas ...

‘WE HAVE to do 12-hour split shifts here and it really affects our family life,’ Unite bus driver Andreas Almeida said yesterday while giving...

WORKERS at BAA’s seven airports across the UK have voted for strike action to defend their final salary pension scheme. Results of the secret strike...

STRIKE action took place yesterday across the three campuses of Middlesex University with lecturers and staff picketing every entrance against the threat of 300...

The Greek working class and youth have delivered a deadly blow against the conservative government of Kostas Karamanlis and his neo-liberal policies in Sunday’s...

TENANTS facing eviction and already evicted tenants at Sweets Way housing estate in Barnet, north london, came together for a community ‘Fun Day’ yesterday. They...

‘The government is allowing multinationals to bleed the NHS dry,’ public sector union UNISON general secretary, Dave Prentis, said yesterday. Private companies are raking in...

GATE GOURMET locked-out workers had their picket stopped yesterday at the main gate of the Heathrow plant by the Heathrow Airport police and the...

Postal workers in London have voted by four to one (79 per cent) in favour of strike action against plans to shut three mail...

‘My department is running at VERY UNSAFE levels due to inadequate staffing,’ said one of almost 3,000 nurses from across the UK who took...