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HAMAS has condemned the US veto in the UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza as ‘blatant complicity and active involvement in...

THE 10th picket by the North East London Council of Action outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday heard that the closure of the hospital has...

‘The unions need to mobilise joint industrial action to defeat the Health and Social Care Bill and see off this Tory coalition government.’ This...

THE GRENFELL Tower disaster triggered a mental health crisis of an ‘unprecedented’ scale, a leading doctor has said 100 days on from the fire. NHS...

THE SCOTTISH Nationalists have reached out to Labour to form a National Government with the sole purpose of remaining in the European Union. Yesterday, chief...

HUNDREDS of angry workers, patients, trade unionists and youth joined the mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield yesterday. They all said they were...

PATIENTS and staff yesterday expressed their determination to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E, consultant-led Maternity and Paediatrics departments, and to reopen...

‘GP SERVICES are already at breaking point,’ British Medical Association (BMA) GP Committee chair, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, warned yesterday, demanding that PM Cameron ‘get...

RMT leader Mick Cash hit out to oppose the TUC General Council statement on Brexit saying that it was a staging post to try...

Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún and MLA for West Belfast Jennifer McCann were joined by family members, who have lost loved ones at...

Postal workers yesterday called for public sector unions to come out on strike with them on the eve of the second of two 48-hour...

GREEK seafarers went on a 48-hour strike on Wednesday and Thursday, demanding the signing of a new national collective agreement with pay rises of...

JUST AS LibDem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Alexander was thanking the TUC in the House of Commons yesterday claiming that the public sector...

HUNDREDS of tower blocks across the UK are be at risk of collapse, threatening multiple disasters on the scale of the tragedy at Grenfell...

ISRAELI TANKS reached the southwestern Syrian city of Quneitra yesterday, three kilometres away from the town of Qatana, near Damascus. Israel started the push to...

THE NHS is sitting on £4 billion of reserve cash whilst unprecedented government cuts of £20bn have doubled the number of hospitals falling into...

A PARLIAMENTARY session in Westminster has called on the British government to urgently issue medical visas for injured children from Gaza, enabling them to...

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohamed Mustafa declared the Gaza Strip a famine zone yesterday, calling on the international community to implement UN resolutions prohibiting the...

UNISON yesterday warned the government that its ‘botched roll out’ of Universal Credit, less than 18 months away, will make it more difficult for...

GRENFELL survivors and supporters marched in North Kensington on Tuesday evening demanding ‘Prosecutions now!’ ‘Today we are changing our tone, we are demanding change, enough...

The British Medical Association yesterday repeated concerns about government targets that ‘compromise patient safety’, in the wake of the resignation of United Lincolnshire Hospitals...

THE Labour government is pushing through the Houses of Parliament a bill that will make desertion and refusal to serve in an occupied country...

Prime Minister Blair yesterday announced plans for a ‘system of independent, self-governing state schools’, and an education ‘market based on choice’, with changes being...

JUNIOR doctors are set to renew their strike action in a ‘rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September’. The new chair of...

MORE than half of family doctors say they are expecting to leave the profession early according to a new ComRes survey carried out for...

THE BMA says the dismissal of a consultant from Hampshire for whistleblowing is unacceptable and further highlights the need for cultural and legal reform...

GPs have been told by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) they will have to hit targets for cutting emergency admission rates. If they do not they...

‘TRANSPORT for London – do the right thing!’ shouted striking London Overground Travel Safe security workers lobbying TfL head office in Victoria yesterday. ‘What do...

‘IT’S BABIES, the newborns coming into this world, they must be protected and they must continue to be born in Ealing Hospital,’ Southall College...

Over 24,000 manufacturing jobs are at risk over the next three months as UK firms struggle with falling orders, bosses warned yesterday. The latest Regional...

THE Metropolitan Police has made an ‘unreserved apology’ and paid an undisclosed amount in compensation to seven women who were tricked into long-term relationships...

‘SINCE the great crash of 2007/8 the twin features of inflation of 27% and little or no pay rises have taken a heavy toll...

HUNDREDS of Border Force workers at Heathrow Airport began four days of strike action yesterday against Tory attacks on their working conditions. The more than...

THE ONLY MP in the House of Commons to call for Tory PM May to resign yesterday was a Tory. William Cash Tory MP for...

‘WHEN bus services are axed, it isolates communities,’ Unison warned in launching a new campaign to save local bus services. ‘We are living in isolation!’...

TEACHERS taking strike action today against DfE plans to force Downhills Primary School in Haringey to become a sponsored academy will be supported by...

THE GMB has accused BA of bad faith. Claims of ‘significant progress’ in a leaked letter from British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz mask...

EALING CONFERENCE GOES AHEAD: On the eve of the West London Council of Action Conference to defend Ealing Hospital, due to take place on...

‘A VOTE for Johnson’s Conservatives is a vote to betray our NHS in a sell-out to Trump,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday launching...

Six Palestine Action protesters were cleared of aggravated burglary over a break-in at a UK subsidiary of an Israeli defence firm yesterday. Charlotte Head, 29,...

JUNIOR doctors in England yesterday embarked on a five-day strike, marking the 11th walkout in their prolonged pay dispute. Members of the British Medical Association...

WHISTL, formerly known as TNT, has suspended its door-to-door delivery service in London, Liverpool and Manchester and is threatening to sack 2,000 workers, it...

ED Miliband yesterday assured the bankers that a Labour government would cut the current account deficit in each year of its office. Launching his party’s...

PRIVATE health trade body the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) has welcomed the cross-party consensus on the key role of the independent sector in...

Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith yesterday called on the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) not to re-open its corruption probe into the 1986 so-called ‘Al-Yamamah’...