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THE BMA has criticised the ‘appalling’ failure by health privateer Capita to send cervical screening letters to up to 48,000 women. It has written...

WES Streeting has resigned as health secretary, telling Sir Keir Starmer in a public letter yesterday that he has ‘lost confidence’ in the Prime...

THE CHILDREN of working class families are being denied an education during the coronavirus lockdown as many families do not have access to laptops,...

THE TORIES threatened refugees who refuse to board the Bibby Stockholm ‘death-trap barge’ with destitution yesterday, while Home Secretary Suella Braverman described their legal...

BEIJING says it will take ‘all necessary measures’ to protect its interests as the US steps up efforts to isolate Tehran. China has denounced the...

UK GOVERNMENT figures show that over 1,800 people in Britain will spend the Christmas holiday incarcerated in immigration detention centres, prompting calls to end...

THE STARMER Labour government is launching its war on the sick, the disabled and the unemployed, with the youth particularly targeted, as it brings...

Around 5,400 postal workers walked out in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool yesterday in the face of management provocations. Glasgow Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) officials yesterday...

STAFF at 37 universities are to strike over an ‘unprecedented attack on their pensions’, it was announced by their union University College Union (UCU)...

‘SAY “No’’ to this sham consultation!’, shouted dozens of angry local residents fighting to save Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, as they demonstrated outside...

THE battle to stop all NHS cuts is now raging up and down the country. However, the private predators are gathering. Near Horsham last Thursday night...

A DELEGATION of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers visited Hillingdon Direct Works Council Depot yesterday to publicise their march through Hounslow on the 25th of...

‘ARREST the war criminal now!’ shouted more than 500 Palestinians and their supporters outside 10 Downing Street yesterday, as they demonstrated against visiting Israeli...

JOE Morgan from the GMB yesterday morning treated the YS marchers to a hearty breakfast to fuel their journey from Birmingham out to Wolverhampton...

ISRAELI forces raided towns and villages across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem overnight and yesterday. In Biddu, northwest of Jerusalem, they seized a house,...

SPAIN’S state prosecutor yesterday requested a European arrest warrant for the deposed Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, and four of his former regional ministers...

Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) leaders have named May 1st as a second national strike day by 200,000 civil servants. The PCS is also...

STRIKING teachers at Kingsbury High School in north-west London were joined on the picket line by parents and students yesterday morning as they showed...

BMA chair Dr Mark Porter told the union’s Special Representative Meeting yesterday that ‘Twenty-four years ago, it was the first reforms that established an...

ENGLAND’S hospitals have been dangerously full of patients during the month of January, the Labour Party warned yesterday. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: ‘Too...

LONDON transport strikes are escalating with 1,100 TfL and Tube Unite members joining the planned August 19th strike, said Unite the union yesterday. A pay...

MANY Heathrow Airport workers, most of them Transport and General Workers Union members, bought their tickets yesterday for the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers pre-Tribunal...

See photo gallery for feature by Mats Svensson of demolition of two houses in Silwan, Jerusalem last week

I’M VOTING Arjinder Thiara, Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall,’ mental health nurse and Unison member Susan Griffiths said at Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. ‘What...

Postal workers were out on strike across London, Essex, Scotland and the West Midlands yesterday, the first of a number of days of strike...

JUNIOR doctors across Wales began a three day strike over pay yesterday and continue until tomorrow, after almost every junior doctor (98%) who took...

THE UK economy ground to a halt in the three months to June 30, with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) up just 0.2 per...

AS EXPECTED, the Speaker of the House John Bercow yesterday blocked Parliament from voting on the new Brexit deal with the EU. Announcing his judgement...

TRANSPORT union RMT members were on the picket line at Waterloo Station on Saturday morning as their strike carries on in defence of pay,...

‘WE HAVE to take strike action where and when we can and as much as we can,’ Sharon Hutchinson, northwest regional organiser and equalities...

THERE was a lively picket of both gates at Chase Farm Hospital yesterday morning by the North-East London Council of Action, demonstrating to stop...

‘JERMAINE was dead before he got into the car on 11th December 2016,’ Jermaine Baker’s mother Margaret Smith said yesterday, She was speaking after an...

TEACHERS have voted by a massive 98% in favour of strike action to defeat the Tories’ miserable 4.3% pay offer. Commenting on the ballot result...

THE South African miners’ trade union Amcu has said it will march to the British embassy this week to hand over a memorandum...

THE RMT transport union yesterday called on Southern rail staff to stand together and reject a divisive and tainted company plan to destroy safety...

‘Victory to Palestine!’ rang out through the streets of Central Manchester on Day 15 of the Young Socialists March for Jobs to the TUC...

GATE Gourmet workers were on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, determined to win their rights, having been told on Wednesday that British...

WHITTINGTON NHS Trust has had to abandon plans to put the company responsible for installing the flammable cladding on Grenfell Tower in charge of...

Throughout Saturday night thousands of youth attacked banks and department store buildings as well as police stations in Athens and in many other Greek...

A NEW massacre of Palestinians, which left three people dead and more than 40 wounded, was committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the...

OVER 200,000 civil servants from over 200 government departments, agencies and public bodies are taking part in one-day national strike action today. The strike...

THE PCS trade union responded to the breakdown of the ceasefire in Gaza with a declaration that ‘We support the trade unions enforcing a...

LEADER of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg indicated yesterday that Tory PM Boris Johnson is preparing to bring back to Parliament this Saturday...

COLONEL Gadaffi was yesterday badly wounded by a NATO air attack on a convoy of vehicles outside the city of Sirte. It was...

OVER 100 firefighters picketed the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday against the decision to close ten fire stations in London and cut 552 jobs...