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CHANCELLOR Osborne launched a massive new attack on the working class and poor yesterday, with his £11.5 billion Spending Review onslaught on pay, public...

SOUTH African platinum miners were yesterday continuing their strike, and their wives are occupying the entrance to the British-owned Lonmin Marikana mine. Lonmin has given...

British warplanes yesterday bombed vehicles and buildings in the northwestern Iraqi town of Karabila, close to the Syrian border. In what was considered a rare...

Patients should ask ‘not what the NHS can do for you, but what you can do for the NHS,’ prime minister Brown warned yesterday. In...

HEALTH workers, trade unionists, pensioners and residents from the SE London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley are marching today against plans to...

THE Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has written to health minister Lord Howe expressing grave concern that the government is planning to privatise large...

‘STUDENTS and lecturers must go out on strike, in fact, I am for an all-out strike, to ensure education is free,’ said Dalia Giuaballa,...

‘I AM voting for Workers Revolutionary Party candidate Jonty Leff because the WRP are the only party fighting for a future for young people,’...

‘OUR ship carried two desalination machines, bricks and roof-tiles, 250 electric vehicles for disabled persons, a forklift truck donated by the Elefsina dockworkers and...

STRIKING Ealing civil enforcement officers are protesting outside parliament today against union-busting by the West London Labour Council, furious at the ‘disgraceful’ lack of...

THREE thousand Beccles residents have demanded to know why £2m of taxpayers money is being spent on a ‘Free School’ with only 68 pupils. The...

Nearly 2,500 members working for the East London Bus Group took part in a 24-hour strike from 3am yesterday in a dispute over the...

THE Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that more than two hundred civilians lost their lives as the US-led coalition...

Unemployed construction workers were joined by young apprentices unable to complete their training because of a lack of work, in a mass protest at...

MINISTERS are drawing up plans to give mayors significant new powers over hospitals and schools as part of a new wave of devolution that...

AS PUPILS return to school after the Christmas break, teachers’ unions warned yesterday that funding cuts are much worse than predicted, hitting working class...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Black Sea town of Sochi yesterday to discuss carmaker Opel and other industrial...

PEOPLE who have fled to Britain, seeking help and refuge, are suffering horrifying violence at the hands of the British state, it was alleged...

OVER 30,000 workers, trade unionists and local residents marched through Stafford on Saturday against Coalition plans to ‘downgrade’ Stafford District General Hospital and close...

IRAN’S Press TV English service anchor Marzieh Hashemi, 59, was freed on Wednesday from a Washington prison where she had been held by federal...

OVER 1,000 trade unionists from all the public services joined a TUC rally at Westminster yesterday, where they demanded that their leaders call action...

‘IT IS high time to make it clear to London that its efforts to ignite a conflict are doomed to failure,’ the Russian Foreign...

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) yesterday expressed ‘deep concern’ over secret plans to hire Group 4 private strike breakers in a £100m contract. A FBU...

Millions of graduates will now face paying interest on their student loans again as new interest rates came into effect yesterday. Payments to the Student...

UNISON confirmed yesterday that it is holding a National Demonstration in London on Saturday June 30 in defence of the NHS. A spokeswoman told...

Mounting fury over a number of NATO air strikes into Pakistani territory, yesterday saw Pakistan seal its border with Afghanistan blocking the NATO supply...

Resident doctors and their supporters were on the picket line at St Thomas’ hospital on the first day of their five days of strike...

‘This will probably happen in other detention centres, the only time people listen is when there is a revolt,’ Bill MacKeith of Close Campsfield...

EMERGENCY admissions to accident and emergency departments have hit their highest level since records began, the latest NHS England figures reveal. This is just as...

VOLUNTEERS from Calais Action yesterday loaded a truck to take aid for refugees to the Greek island of Samos. Calais Action founder Libby Freeman...

Seven more US soldiers were killed in Iraq on Wednesday, the US military revealed yesterday, as US and UK troops, backed by Iraqi puppet...

THIS MORNING for the first time in history, junior doctors launch their full walk-out, taking the government head on. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded yesterday...

TUESDAY’S strikes by staff in colleges and universities closed institutions and key learning facilities with hundreds of classes cancelled, the UCU said yesterday. The action,...

MORE than 2,000 actors, dancers and other artists marched from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden central London to 10 Downing Street on...

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...

A group of 240 doctors are to stand ‘as many candidates as possible’ against coalition MPs in the next general election. They want to show...

Post Office workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay, job security and the future of the Crown...

ISRAELI warplanes bombed the Al Jabaliya refugee camp again yesterday morning, killing scores of children, burying them in their homes. Extending just one square kilometre,...

EIGHTEEN per cent of young people on slave labour apprenticeship schemes are illegally being paid less than the minimum wage, according to the government’s...

‘Kick ancient pay out of our museum’ said placards carried by 300 British Museum staff out yesterday against what amounts to a public sector...

UNISON has written to all local councils demanding to know what steps they are taking to recover cash invested in Iceland banks and how...

THE BBC has threatened pensioners with bailiffs if they don’t pay the licence fee, after spending £38m on 800 staff to enforce collection. Bailiffs will...

COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) reps from Royal Mail workplaces across the UK will meet next week to decide on actions to protect postal jobs...

ISRAELI occupation forces killed an 11-year-old Palestinian girl in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday morning, as attacks continued across multiple areas of the enclave...

HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock admitted yesterday morning that the Tory government is considering the imposition of martial law and curfews in the event of...