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SPEECH and Language Therapy Services for children who have problems learning to speak have been severely cut by the Tories with a new report...

JUNIOR doctors have demanded ‘concrete assurances’ from Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt before ‘considering’ re-entering negotiations. Junior doctors are furious at the Tory government’s attempts...

United States defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that the military option against Iran was ‘on the table’. He said this would be...

YESTERDAY PM Theresa May set out her ‘vision for Britain after Brexit’ in a key note speech to their party conference in Birmingham in...

THE National Union of Students (NUS) yesterday issued a warning to Liberal Democrat MPs that they must keep their promises to their constituents to...

BATTLES raged between Hamas fighters and the Israeli military in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital yesterday, as the Israeli genocidal bombardment continued. Palestinian families which...

THE Elect Hassan Zulkifal WRP Ealing Southall campaign got great support on Southall Broadway yesterday. Heathrow Airport worker and GMB member Kutesh Sashikint said: ‘I...

A PETITION calling for a vote of no confidence in Tory Health Minister Jeremy Hunt reached 284,244 signatures by yesterday afternoon, after his decision...

Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) leaders have signed a pay for jobs and ‘efficiency’ deal with Royal Mail. They are attempting to sell it to members...

HEALTH Secretary Jeremy Hunt took a step back yesterday and said he is willing to pause the imposition of the junior doctors’ contract in...

The government will spend more than £850 million in redundancy payments to NHS managers and staff to pave the way for the privatisation of...

Labour is to put down an urgent question in Parliament this morning, after it emerged that Prime Minister Cameron was warned six months ago...

GABRIEL Polley, WRP candidate for Norwich South was prevented from speaking at the Election hustings at the University of East Anglia last Thursday. Gabriel...

THE Tories have no plan to stop youth on apprenticeships being ‘exploited as cheap labour by unscrupulous employers,’ Mark Serwotka, general secretary of public...

Save the Children has declared a ‘crisis for families’ in the UK, as today it partners UK charity Family Action to distribute cash grants...

THE PALESTINIAN organisation that governs Gaza, Hamas, announced on Sunday that it will take legal action against the United Kingdom, which recently listed it...

Cardiff University and College Union (UCU) lecturers branch has called on national union leaders to resign over calling off industrial action before consulting members...

A DELEGATION from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) representing members from across the country handed in a 160,000-strong petition to 10 Downing Street...

THE METROPOLITAN Police’s approach to tackling corruption within its ranks is ‘fundamentally flawed,’ an inspection by the police watchdog published yesterday concluded. It found the...

Yesterday human rights group Liberty called on Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to seek assurances in the next 14 days from the USA that it...

Aides to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas announced yesterday that he had frozen talks with Prime Minister Ismail Haniya on forming a unity government. This came...

FIVE elite Israeli soldiers were killed and at least two others wounded in Khan Younis on Friday after a building collapsed during a resistance...

AMBULANCE drivers are so overworked and underpaid that thousands are forced to take time off because of severe stress. Their union the GMB is...

AMAZON was yesterday accused of ‘dirty tricks’ as the GMB withdrew its recognition bid. Amazon refuses to pay workers a decent wage, but are paying...

WORKERS at all 54 Remploy sites, members of the GMB and Unite unions, went on strike yesterday in a bid to save 2,800 disabled...

LIBYAN government spokesman Dr Moussa Ibrahim told the world’s press yesterday: ‘We are here to sincerely, as always, appeal for an immediate ceasefire, an...

Nearly all Greek university departments and over 500 schools throughout the country were yesterday being occupied by students in mass and militant mobilisations commemorating...

‘We want our jobs back! No to the Compromise Agreement! Kick out Gate Gourmet!’ shouted 150 locked out Gate Gourmet workers and supporters...

THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. It has also wrongfully...

EALING Hospital porters, domestic, catering and help desk workers held their second 12-hour strike yesterday. More than 100 GMB members employed by the privateer Medirest...

THERE was a well-attended picket line at Bow bus garage yesterday as drivers continued their fight for safe scheduling. Tom, a driver with 30 years’...

NICOLAS Sarkozy and David Cameron, with delegations of businessmen plus NATO officers, visited Tripoli yesterday to try to shore up the split and divided...

POSTAL workers in Oxford who have been on unofficial strike for a week, yesterday returned to work. People are still very angry and a sizeable...

GORDON BROWN had a very cool reception at the TUC yesterday. The mood was set by the PCS delegation, which held up placards saying ‘No...

Billions of dollars, pounds and euros were wiped off worldwide share prices yesterday as investors took fright at the abrupt collapse and closure of...

THE Lebanese Health Ministry reported at 4.00pm yesterday afternoon that 274 citizens had been killed in Israeli airstrikes which began at 6.30am, including 21...

‘I’M NOT going to be shut up. I want the whole people of Britain to raise their voice against this,’ said peace campaigner...

THE police officer involved in an alleged plot to spy on the parents of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence should have faced disciplinary charges...

‘External intervention’ in Syria is becoming more likely, says a leading UK-based military think tank. Planning for possible intervention is already under way...

THERE were big demonstrations in Donetsk and other eastern Ukrainian cities yesterday in opposition to the presidential election that was called by the unelected...

At least one person was killed and sixty others were wounded yesterday when over 1,000 angry Iraqis clashed with police in Samawa, south of...

The British Medical Association (BMA) has requested an urgent meeting with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in a further effort to re-start talks...

SCOTLAND’S Parliament has voted to impose an immediate and comprehensive boycott of Israel and companies linked to its genocide in Gaza, passing a landmark...

THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...

TWO hundred Bombardier workers and their supporters descended on parliament yesterday to urge the Tory coalition ‘to save British train manufacturing’. The government has already...