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TORY PM Theresa May hotfooted off to Brussels yesterday to beg the EU for concessions after ‘postponing’ the vote on her Brexit deal on...

More than 100 care staff have received £964,537, after Excelcare sacked them and offered them new contracts with a 40 per cent pay cut,...

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...

Thousands of cancer patients have not received the care they need and their conditions have worsened owing to the focus on Covid-19, the British...

THE Gaza Health Ministry has published a report detailing the name, age, gender and identification numbers of tens of thousands of people killed by...

‘OCCUPY to save Ealing Hospital, the time to act is now,’ Bill Rogers, train driver, chairman of Chingford ASLEF Branch and Secretary of the...

Chancellor Osborne’s message to the working class in his Autumn Statement was that the crisis is worsening fast, and you will have...

MORE than 5,000 people a year are being made ‘homeless’ as a household debt crisis deepens, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) warned yesterday. More...

IN A LETTER to the British press, fourteen leading UK playwrights and theatre directors, have condemned the destruction of the Said al-Mishal Cultural Centre...

‘Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) is utterly appalled that up to 1,000 newly qualified GPs face deportation despite having completed their GP training in the...

The Howard League for Penal Reform has condemned the use of force to strip-search children in Huntercombe prison, Henley-on-Thames. In a report published earlier this...

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

UNDER HEAVY FIRE, PM May yesterday was reduced to pleading with fellow ministers and MPs to ‘trust me to deliver’ over Brexit. Writing in...

MORE than 2,000 easyJet pilots (99.9%) have voted overwhelmingly to express no confidence in the company’s Chief Operations Officer, Peter Bellew. BALPA, which organised the...

The BMA yesterday confirmed an escalation of the junior doctors industrial action scheduled for April. This follows the continued refusal by the government to step...

TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab appeared before MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, where he was questioned about the end of the UK’s...

‘WE’LL do whatever it takes to save our hospitals,’ GMB National Officer for the NHS Rehana Azam told News Line yesterday. She was responding to...

THE British Medical Association yesterday rebutted right wing attacks on its ‘derogation’ system, whereby the NHS can ask for resident doctors, who are taking...

Birmingham-based vanmaker LDV was yesterday placed into administration by a court, threatening up to 850 jobs and thousands more in the supply chain. In addition...

Lawyers for Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed yesterday welcomed news that the UK government has referred his case to the Attorney General. The Home Office is...

Spain was gripped by a 24-hour general strike by millions of workers yesterday. It was called in protest against a new law making it...

RESPONDING to yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, the Unite union’s general secretary Len McCluskey said: ‘This Queen’s Speech reveals the nasty, repressive side of this government. ‘The...

The family of Jean Charles de Menezes on Thursday demanded action be taken to hold individual police officers to account for the killing of...

A senior consultant at Maidstone Hospital in Kent last Saturday publicly announced that he has resigned his managerial post because of plans to close...

YESTERDAY’S General Strike across Israel was pronounced illegal by the Tel Aviv Labour Court, which ordered the Histradut union organisation to call it off...

‘THIS is a difficult and dangerous situation for the world economy,’ Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday in an interview for the ‘Observer’ newspaper. Brown...

the House of Commons Standards and Privileges committee will investigate phone hacking by newspapers. This follows fresh allegations against the ‘News of the World’ and...

ASSOCIATION of Teachers and Lecturers President Hank Roberts yesterday condemned as ‘outrageous’ an offshore company employing thousands of supply teachers avoiding the payment of...

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday slammed as ‘madness’ the destruction of nurses training places. The RCN was responding to a survey by the...

TODAY Reprieve will begin legal proceedings to challenge the British government’s infamous series of ‘torture policies’: official guidance for agents interviewing prisoners held abroad. Under...

Fourteen American soldiers were killed in northern Iraq yesterday when their Blackhawk transport helicopter came down during a pre-dawn flight, US command said in...

THE Tories are proceeding with savage cuts to the NHS, with A&Es being scaled back or closed across the country. Just a few examples are...

‘WE WERE forced to bury them in a mass grave,’ al-Shifa Hospital Director Mohammad Abu Salmiya reported yesterday as he announced that 179 people,...

‘Vauxhall employees contribute in support of the Opel/Vauxhall turnaround plan,’ General Motors announced yesterday. The deal was struck in Rüsselsheim on Thursday. A...

A 48-HOUR London underground strike is to take place next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, tube workers union RMT said yesterday. RMT said that the strike...

WORKERS at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury are ramping up pressure in the ‘fire and rehire’ struggle with a protest on Saturday (1...

WHEN Sudan’s civil war broke out in April, conflict arose between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, leader...

Teachers have been ‘angered, alienated and attacked’ by coalition ministers who are determined to engage in a ‘head-on collision’ with the profession, delegates to...

SACKED Greek ERT state TV and radio workers held a rally last Friday evening outside the main administrative and production building in a suburb...

AS PART of the nationwide three-day strike to combat pay and pension cuts to university staff, a team of over 40 activists from unions...

‘WIKILEAKS publication represents a great victory for freedom of expression in the face of government secrecy,’ said a statement by respected journalist Patrick Cockburn,...

JUNIOR doctors went to the High Court yesterday in a bid to get the online Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) ruled ‘unlawful’, warning...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT claimants have been thrown into destitution, poverty, homelessness and starvation as a direct result of a ‘flawed algorithm’ a damning new welfare...

‘WE HAVE called for a new customs union, with a say in future trade deals, a strong single market relationship and a guarantee to...