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ANOTHER British soldier has died in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed yesterday. The MoD said the soldier was ‘shot and...

All five thousand Devon Primary Care Trust (PCT) employees across the county have been sent a letter offering voluntary redundancy as a cost-cutting measure....

THE GMB are calling for recognition as the independent union voice for the 2,500 mainly Asian migrant workforce producing ready meals for...

TORY PM Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer came together yesterday in their sanctions attack on Russia – the only disagreement being that...

‘DEFEND Council Housing! Kick Blair out!’ shouted more than 100 tenants, youth and trade unionists as they marched through the Aylesbury Estate in south...

TRADE union general secretaries and other delegates to the TUC General Council expressed support, and donated money to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers...

ONE in five GP surgeries in London is threatened with closure within three years because of lack of staff, funding and pay, the Local...

British families have experienced the biggest fall in wealth since the pandemic, according to yesterday’s report from banking group UBS. According to UBS, the average...

The Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign has responded with anger at claims that the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) report into the Jean Charles’...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are getting great support for their march through Hounslow on Saturday. Saturday’s march assembles at 1.00pm (see advert on this...

THE Unite union yesterday called Honda’s decision to cut 800 jobs at its Swindon plant a ‘hammer blow’ to UK manufacturing and the local...

The Serco-led public-private partnership which runs London’s St Thomas’ and Kings College hospitals’ path labs, GSTS Pathology, has run into trouble having made a...

The PCS union and Citizens Advice yesterday slammed government plans to claw back £60m from hundreds of thousands of benefit claimants who are expected...

LABOUR Shadow Chancellor McDonnell said yesterday that Labour may form the next government, a minority government, without a general election, if MPs don’t back...

IRAN struck US military positions in two countries yesterday morning, just hours after an American attack on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz,...

TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay provocatively declared yesterday that there will be absolutely no pay increase for nurses or doctors above the 5% that...

STUDENTS at Hackney Community College in Shoreditch, east London joined the campaign yesterday to elect Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch...

From today, NHS organisations are to be charged ten per cent interest on money they borrow when they run up deficits. The NHS Bank, run...

THE intensifying global condemnation of Israel’s fatal attack on international humanitarian workers in Gaza is putting immense strain on the British government’s unconditional backing...

‘BOOTS on the ground, planes in the air,’ Labour Prime Minister Starmer declared in the House of Commons yesterday. In a speech to a packed...

‘BLAIR says let Israel get on with its attacks and Woodley our TGWU general secretary says nothing’, Gate Gourmet locked out worker...

ON SATURDAY, the BMA held a rally to launch its campaign for Pay Restoration. Balloting opened for strike action on 9th January and votes...

Health campaigners yesterday warned that NHS privatisation and cuts will be ‘Labour’s poll tax’. The warning came as the number of protests mushroomed around the...

‘IF THEY get rid of 600 beds and so many staff, 8,000 jobs in all – what a disaster! That would be the...

‘THE mass picket has gone very well,’ said Bill Rogers, secretary of the North East London Council of Action, outside the North Middlesex Hospital...

Hamas yesterday expressed total rejection of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza relocation plans which ‘represent a continuation of the settlement plans aimed at liquidating...

‘I STAND by what I said in the House of Commons, that Lord Fink was engaged in tax avoidance,’ Labour leader Miliband said during...

JOSHUA Ogunleye, National Secretary of the Young Socialists, told News Line yesterday: ‘The huge rise in youth unemployment to over the one million mark...

YOUTH unemployment has risen by another 20,000 to very nearly one million, according to figures issued by the Office for National Statistics yesterday. The number...

Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday called for the 10p tax rate to be restored in full. He was speaking after Prime Minister...

PRIVATE medical companies have been selling deficient pacemakers to the NHS knowing full well that they have failed tests, the Royal College of Surgeons...

Politicians, trade union leaders and hundreds of postal workers will come together at a national rally to protest against government plans to privatise Royal...

ENDING damaging staff cuts, bringing all of London’s Tube back into the public sector and getting the network’s upgrade back on track are more...

‘FANTASTIC,’ was how Vestas factory occupier Chris Ash responded to the decision at Newport Magistrates Court yesterday to adjourn the wind turbine company’s attempt...

THERE is to be a march from Ealing Hospital to Downing Street in the first week of September to stop the closure...

BRITAIN will face further tax increases within months after Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement left the economy precariously balanced, according to the Office for...

SOUTHERN rail owner Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) yesterday launched a legal bid to stop ASLEF’s strike action. GTR issued proceedings at the High Court to...

YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak, speaking at the Tory Party conference, assured the party that his main objective is to get the debt under...

TORY Home Secretary Braverman came under fire for her rabid attack on refugees and asylum seekers yesterday, with charity ActionAid UK calling her comments...

‘Save Legal Aid!’ barristers and solicitors are demanding as they take historic strike action today, starting with a 9.30-10.30am demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court,...

ELEVEN Palestinian families from the Gaza Strip remain stranded in Jordan after Israeli authorities obstructed the return of children who had undergone successful cochlear...

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

A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Palestinian minor has told his lawyer that he was severely beaten while detained by Israeli occupation soldiers last week and that he...

DISABILITY Rights UK yesterday welcomed the report published by the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee on the Work Capability Assessment. The MPs found that the Work...

NHS England Medical Director Keogh has announced that hospitals are to be forced to change the consultant contract and institute so-called ‘seven day working’...