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MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) and Unison at Middlesex University are striking today in a row over job cuts and changes...

MEDIA and entertainment union, BECTU, has today insisted that the BNP should not be given airtime to promote its racist politics. The union’s statement...

‘I DEMAND the recognition of Palestine’ Shaher Saed, the General Secretary of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU), told the TUC Congress...

Workers at the Vauxhall Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire are bracing themselves for today’s expected announcement by owners GM of 1,000 job cuts. Trade union...

THE COMMUNICATION Workers Union is calling for a massive vote for strike action against Royal Mail management’s attempts ‘to virtually de-recognise the CWU and...

huge marches and demonstrations were held in towns and cities all over the UK yesterday. More than two million nurses, other health workers, teachers,...

250,000 workers, youth and professionals demonstrated outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in central Athens last Wednesday evening against the Austerities Measures Bill and demanding...

GPs in Harrow are up in arms against plans to close down health centres and combine GP practices into large units, turning them...

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CLAUDE SCHMIDT, president of Arconic that made the Grenfell Tower cladding, has said it was not his ‘priority’ to understand fire safety tests and...

‘FROM CAMERON downward there is policy coming from the top to deliberately drive working class families out of London and kettle them into certain...

ROYAL MAIL is to seek a High Court injunction on Tuesday to stop a postal strike. The company said it woulmake a formal application on...

Health service union UNISON yesterday condemned the suggestion by the acting NHS chief executive that whole district general hospitals will face closure. Warning of...

MASS demonstrations were held across Palestine and throughout the Arab world yesterday after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by Israel in the Iranian...

‘WE WILL not have a Wild West situation,’ for drivers, Steve Garelick, GMB branch secretary for professional drivers for London, said yesterday. He spoke to...

THE RMT transport union is holding a network-wide strike of 4,000 station staff members on London Underground on Monday 6th June, bringing the Tube...

BRITAIN’s Tax system ‘hits the poorest families hardest’. They are paying a staggering 47 per cent of their gross income in taxes, the TaxPayers...

ENFIELD residents yesterday made it clear that they are more determined than ever to keep Chase Farm Hospital and all its departments open. They were...

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

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has demanded London mayor, Boris Johnson, abandon plans to shut 12 fire stations. The demand was made after firefighters...

PRIME Minister Sunak made clear in his interview on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme yesterday morning that mortgage holders and public sector...

AS THE murder trial of officer Derek Chauvin continued for the killing of George Floyd, anger erupted outside the Court House where masses of...

‘ENOUGH is enough, it’s time to follow the successful policies of other countries and ban these contracts once and for all,’ GMB’s Tim Roache...

‘IT IS clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a...

A DESPERATE migrant threw himself, his wife and his child on to the train track in Hungary yesterday screaming that he would rather die...

‘ALL 33 of us are fine in the shelter’. This was the message read out by the President of Chile, Sebastian Pinera, on...

ISRAELI forces carried out sweeping overnight raids into yesterday morning across the occupied West Bank, detaining dozens of Palestinians, assaulting residents, and issuing new...

SYRIA has warned that it may use its right to self defence after recent Israeli air raids against a civilian airport near Damascus...

LEBANON’S Hezbollah movement reported that senior Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil, also known as ‘Jawad’, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in the south of...

The Royal College of Nursing yesterday accused the government of exacerbating an already serious midwifery crisis. Student midwives’ leaders expressed alarm over the government’s decision...

OVER 200 patients, health professionals, union members and campaigners marched through east London yesterday against cuts to GP surgeries which threaten the closure of...

TIME is now running as far as the negotiations between the BMA’s Junor Doctors Committee (JDC) and the Tory government is concerned. As part of...

Yesterday the two biggest health unions warned prime minister Blair about the state of the health service. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr...

SENIOR Tories sought to deny that the Tory government is breaking apart yesterday, with former Brexit Secretary David Davis congratulating PM Boris Johnson for...

WITH MILLIONS of new Universal Credit claimants expected when the Tory ‘job retention’, or ‘furlough’, scheme ends over the next three months, the government...

HAMAS declared on Thursday that Israel’s airstrike on the Qatari capital, Doha, which killed five of its members and a Qatari officer, was both...

ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued a large-scale assault on the Tubas governorate in the northern West Bank for the third consecutive day on Friday,...

A TORY disability campaigner has handed in his party membership and sabotaged a Tory Party website in protest over brutal disability benefit cuts. Graeme Ellis,...

IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said yesterday that the threat of war against Iran and the region must be eliminated, and Tehran will...

PALESTINIAN ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, said yesterday that Britain has officially refused to apologise for the infamous Balfour Declaration, and instead has...

MORE than 60,000 junior doctor members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are going on strike for three days this week against massive 31.7%...

THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday announced the dates for the indicative ballot for strike action demanding a 12.5% pay increase. The ballot opens on...

INDUSTRIAL action in English schools is back on the agenda after three education unions – the NEU, NAHT and ASCL – decisively rejected the...

ISRAELI forces have attacked five separate schools in Gaza in just eight days, killing dozens of people sheltering in them, according to Palestinian officials,...

TUBE drivers, cleaners and TFL electricians and engineers have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a series of disputes over attacks on agreements and...