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DOCTORS at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Cardiff yesterday passionately opposed the privatisation of the NHS. The first motion, Motion 20, opposed...

THE EU-IMF-ECB-imposed Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, on Saturday called for more time to carry out savage austerity cuts, warning that a Greek exit...

THOUSANDS of Greek workers and students took part in rallies and demonstrations last Thursday in a one-day general strike called by several trade unions...

THE ANNUAL May Day march took place on Thursday on the hottest day of the year so far. The march wended its way from Clerkenwell...

THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported yesterday that more than 89 hours have passed, and the fate of its ambulance crew, consisting of paramedics...

Angry nurses are ready to refuse to do unpaid overtime if they don’t get a pay rise of at least three per cent, the...

TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed yesterday that Russia is on the brink of ‘invading’ Ukraine and threatened that what would ensue would be...

THE international community has a responsibility ‘to put an end to Israel’s aggression on our homeland, and to enable our people to establish our...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers, at Heathrow Airport, are welcoming Gate Gourmet striking workers, from Dusseldorf Airport in Germany, to London today. The British Gate Gourmet...

IN the first test of public opinion since British Airways check-in staff announced that they will take strike action to have their pay restored...

Fifteen hundred construction workers employed by civil engineers Laing O’Rourke on the Heathrow Terminal 5 site, yesterday launched the first of two 24-hour strikes...

The arrogance of Metroline’s boss in talks with the Transport and General Workers Union, coupled with the failure to move sufficiently on pay, means...

‘Save Peugot Jobs!’ demanded over 400 French and British workers in Paris yesterday. Peugot workers and a delegation of Renault workers from across France joined...

THE ROYAL College of Nursing have warned of a ‘woeful lack’ of trained nurses as it emerges that untrained care assistants are ‘putting patients...

UNITE leader Len McCluskey visited locked out NHS biomedical staff yesterday to highlight the appalling treatment they’ve received at the hands of their NHS...

THE Executive Committee of YENOP (the trades unions federation of the Public Electricity Board), the biggest trade union federation in Greece, decided last Friday...

UNITE, Community and GMB trade unions yesterday called on Tata steel workers at Port Talbot to vote ‘YES’ when the...

‘It should have been a murder case’, said Sophie Hurndall, the sister of Tom Hurndall yesterday. She was speaking to reporters just after her brother’s...

British air and missile strikes have caused ‘numerous civilian casualties’ especially at the civilian airport in Sirte, Libyan government spokesman Ibrahim Moussa said...

FORMER Tory Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind spoke out in support of bringing down the Johnson government to prevent a no-deal Brexit yesterday. Appearing on the...

NURSES at their annual RCN (Royal College of Nursing) conference in Liverpool yesterday demanded that NHSEngland finally adopts a Safe Staffing Level, requiring by...

‘NO more games with our A&Es,’ doctors demanded yesterday in the wake of the intense A&E crisis over the winter. Doctors union, the BMA, said...

SOME 10,000 workers and their families gathered outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) last Thursday evening in Athens in protest against the European Central Bank’s...

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...

THE Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) targeted the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with four ballistic missiles yesterday as part of its retaliatory...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s telephone call to the Greek President Karolos Papoulias last Friday, when she asked for a referendum to be held on...

‘There must be 300 here today easily and that is replicated at the other four sites. There are no wagons going out at all...

‘THE TGWU leaders are doing everything they can to try to make us give up the fight and sign the Compromise Agreement but we...

TORY PM Theresa May was yesterday accused of a ‘wholesale abandonment’ of Brexit promises by top QC Martin Howe. May’s controversial Chequers sell-out deal...

The Bank of England yesterday launched a scheme to allow banks to ‘swap temporarily their high quality mortgage-backed and other securities for UK Treasury...

LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers got great support yesterday as they campaigned at the TGWU office in Hillingdon to defeat the sell-out Compromise Agreement. Mohammed...

Prime minister Cameron’s adviser Mark Britnell has urged that the NHS be ‘shown no mercy’, adding that the government’s planned health ‘reform’ is a...

‘ACT now to stop another rail tragedy’, demanded the RMT rail union yesterday, in a demonstration alongside members of sister union TSSA outside the...

ADMINISTRATION workers at eight Greek universities are continuing their strike for the seventh consecutive week against the government’s plan to sack some 1,500 of...

THE GMB trade union Central Executive Council (CEC) yesterday gave the go-ahead for an official national strike ballot of members employed by Wal-Mart owned...

AL-AWDA Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, northern Gaza, has issued an urgent appeal to international humanitarian bodies after an Israeli airstrike ignited a catastrophic fire...

YESTERDAY’S 24-hour strike by 200 Aslef members working out of London’s Waterloo Station was 100 per cent solid and will be repeated tomorrow, Aslef...

A THIRD of GPs are considering retiring from general practice within the next five years according to the latest figures from the BMA’s survey...

THE Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval of a bill rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state, viewing...

BRITAIN is providing ‘engineering support’ for UK-supplied aircraft operated by the Royal Saudi Air Force, responsible for killing innocent people in Yemen, a British...

UP TO 500 protesters marched in Crawley on Saturday to demonstrate against the building of a new immigration detention centre at Gatwick Airport. The...

AHEAD of today’s TUC Congress, the leaders of two of the country’s biggest unions warned that their members’ anger over cuts in their jobs,...

EVERY member of the GMB and Unite unions walked out last Friday evening at the Vauxhall car plant in Ellesmere Port in...

THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stressed that hospitals must be a safe place to guarantee human safety and protection. The spokesman for...

THE International Monetary Fund has delivered a brutal assessment of Ireland’s economic situation, complaining of a lack of progress by banks, and dangers of...