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OVER 20,000 striking teachers, college lecturers and civil servants from every London borough marched through the centre of the capital yesterday, with marches and...

BILLS are set to rise by 50% in April when the latest change to the energy price cap takes effect, it emerged yesterday, while...

THE Bank of England has warned that the biggest banks and building societies operating in Britain face a £120bn shortfall in their finances. In a...

Hundreds of thousands of workers, youth and self-employed people staged a colossal rally last Sunday night in Athens outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) against...

THE BMA yesterday announced the dates for a 72 hour walk out by Junior Doctors in England, saying that Health Secretary, Steve Barclay has...

‘WE WILL strike for as long as it takes,’ British Medical Association (BMA) Chair of Council Professor Philip Banfield told the doctors’ union’s cheering...

UK unemployment rose to 2.261 million in the three months to April, the highest since November 1996, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said...

THE United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has condemned the Tory government for illegally ‘extinguishing the right to seek refugee protection in the UK’. The UNHC...

‘WE NEED other unions who are being attacked by this government to take action,’ BMA junior doctors committee member Aislinn Macklin-Doherty told News...

‘HIGH inflation is causing acute distress to the people of this country,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak admitted yesterday. Making a statement to MPs in the...

HUNDREDS of Germans have donned yellow vests to match protesters in France, demonstrating in the bastion of Germany’s car industry in Stuttgart against a...

‘WE’RE HUGELY shocked by today’s announcement. It’s a real hammer blow for the Welsh economy and the community in Bridgend,’ GMB’s Regional Organiser Jeff...

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

HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers, university workers, civil servants and transport workers are striking in the biggest strike day in more than a decade...

OVER 4,000 firefighters marched through central London yesterday against attacks on their pensions and cuts to the fire service. The front banner read: ‘We Rescue...

A record 127,992 children in England will wake up homeless on Christmas day, according to new government figures highlighted by Shelter. The charity turned...

OCCUPIERS at the University of Sussex are fighting a court injunction to forcibly remove them from the campus. Students at the university have been occupying...

THE financial crisis facing the North of Ireland’s Health Trusts is so severe that four out of five Trusts have failed to break even...

NURSES will suffer a huge wage ‘hit’ this year if the Government imposes a pay rise well below the soaring rate of inflation, unions...

Charities Oxfam, Action Aid and Christian Aid said yesterday that Bush’s pledge to double US aid to Africa was too little, too late. Action Aid...

‘STRIKE action is the only way forward. How can we drive our buses safely if there is no A&E at Ealing hospital?’ bus driver...

‘UNITE must call national strike action now to stop the jobs bloodbath at Heathrow Airport,’ British Airways ground staff worker Jamil Singh told News...

ARRESTS were made as over 100 people protested outside the Home Office in Marsham Street, Westminster in central London yesterday in support of the...

Over 900 road hauliers and independent truckers, descended on Parliament yesterday to lobby their MPs to urgently and immediately reduce the price of fuel....

EDWARD SNOWDEN has sought asylum from 15 countries after Russia and Ecuador have denied his petitions. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on Monday that Moscow...

TWO Labour MPs barred from entering West BanTWO Labour MPs were ‘astounded’ to be denied entry to Israel to visit the occupied West Bank...

UNISON’s national delegate conference yesterday opened with a row over the refusal of the Standing Orders Committee to allow a debate on emergency motions...

SCORES of people, including many women and children, were killed in Israeli air attacks on two UN-run schools in northern Gaza on Saturday –...

SENIOR doctors in England will be consulted on taking industrial action if the government’s 1% pay rise offer is not improved. The British Medical Association...

OVER 1,000 striking junior doctors rallied in Whitehall outside Downing Street on Friday afternoon, at the beginning of another four-day strike to defend the...

OVER 100,000 students, lecturers and college youth filled the streets of Westminster yesterday, in a massive demonstration against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s announcement of...

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...

CONTRARY to Tory Chancellor Osborne’s claims that his Emergency Budget is ‘fair’ and ‘progressive’, it is actually unfair and regressive, hitting the poorest hardest. That...

The North East London Council of Action is holding a picket of Chase Farm Hospital today as news emerged that huge cuts...

TRADE unionists and Hounslow local people yesterday supported the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and bought tickets for their first anniversary march and rally in...

‘We have rejected the deal between the TGWU leaders and Gate Gourmet and put in for our employment tribunals. ‘The TGWU and TUC leaders...

The future of the General Motors plant in Luton, IBC Vehicles, and its 1,000 workforce, is looking ‘doubtful’, despite assurances from GM bosses. GM says...

SEVERAL civilians were killed and injured yesterday in an Israeli shelling targeting areas west of Gaza City. Eyewitnesses said the occupation warplanes bombarded a residential...

OVER one hundred RMT members, along with members of the PCS, UCU and Unite rallied outside Parliament yesterday to defend the right to strike. This...

On the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) last Thursday, agriculture minister Dr Mohammed Al-Agha strongly criticised international institutions for not...

Doctors ‘feel like lambs to the slaughter and cannon fodder’, said the chair of the Doctors’ Association UK yesterday morning, demanding that frontline NHS...

As MPs prepare to vote on the hike on university tuition fees of up to £9,000, the Young Socialists Student Society called on...

‘The ink was barely dry on the new coalition government’s pledge that the NHS would be ring-fenced from the cuts before we were hit...

‘They were sending me to the US for an execution, I will never forgive that,’ said Algerian pilot Lofti Raissi yesterday, after winning the...