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THE European Commission has formed an enlarged Task Force of over 100 German and French technocrats to oversee the implementation of the conditions attached...

JUNIOR doctors are being left in charge of A&Es for entire shifts without a single senior doctor on the ward, new figures have revealed,...

TENS of thousands of junior doctors begin a four-day strike over a 26% erosion in their real-terms pay over the past 15 years, at...

HOMELESS people are to be forcibly evicted from the Westminister underpass, which leads to Parliament, by installing rolldown shutters blocking the shelter off. In December...

ISRAEL’S genocidal war on Gaza entered its 200th day yesterday, with the Health Ministry saying that the IOF (Israeli Occupation Force) had committed three...

LIBERATION Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Political Head, B Nadesan, yesterday blamed the Colombo regime for the stepped up genocidal artillery attacks on civilian...

A legal attempt to remove workers from the Visteon plant in west Belfast was yesterday adjourned at the High Court for the second time...

THIRTEEN-year-old Chloe Narbonne would have died if it wasn’t for a revolutionary pioneering operation that gave her a new artificial heart, all thanks to...

NATO air raids have killed more than 700 civilians and injured over 4,000, many of them seriously, since bombing of Libya began in March,...

THE Unison trade union has welcomed the Cameron-commissioned Berwick Review of patient safety and said that the government should listen to it. Unison said:...

KEEP Our NHS Public (KONP) is demanding that Labour oppose the setting up of a Royal Commission to look at the NHS and...

‘THREE and a half years on from Grenfell and hundreds of thousands can’t sleep at night because their homes are unsafe,’ Labour’s Shadow Housing...

JUDGES have quashed the convictions of 39 former postmasters after the most widespread miscarriage of ruling class justice in the history of UK capitalism. The...

MPs on the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sports Committee are writing to James Murdoch, ex-News of the World editor Colin Myler and...

ONE-IN-FIVE companies are planning to sack workers in response to yesterday’s cut in furlough payments, a British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) survey has found. From...

‘WORKING people will be worried by a Queen’s Speech that declares open season on so many of their rights and protections,’ said TUC General...

CAMBRIDGE University lecturers are striking tomorrow in the increasingly bitter tidal wave of strikes being waged nationally by the University and College...

ROYAL College of Nursing members in England will be asked next Monday if they favour a ballot for strike action to force the government...

IN TESTIMONIES provided to the BMA, one doctor said that ‘we are under immense and continuous stress’. While another doctor said: ‘What has been...

OVER 50,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday afternoon demanding ‘Free, Free Palestine!’ With the Israeli...

‘IF PRESIDENT Putin were to choose the path of bloodshed and destruction he must realise it would be both tragic and futile,’ Tory PM...

INTEREST rates are expected to be hiked by 0.25% to 4.75% today, but with yesterday’s inflation rate remaining at 8.7% in the year to...

Over 5,000 workers and students demonstrated through Athens city centre on Thursday evening against the Zionist pirates and their murders of the Freedom...

Yesterday was the beginning of the third month since the more than 700 Gate Gourmet workers were locked out at Heathrow Airport. Speaking on the...

NATIONAL Union of Teachers (NUT) representatives yesterday condemned the government’s drive to organise strike-breaking during their national strike on March 26. In revised ‘advice on...

THE NEU National Education Union’s 2021 Annual Conference yesterday debated calls from members working in the independent sector for a national campaign to protect...

BOTH the Unite and GMB trade unions have given up the fight to halt the mass sackings organised by British Airways, centring on Heathrow...

Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie, plus four others, were yesterday charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Charlie is a chum...

STUDENTS and trade unions yesterday condemned next Monday’s opening of the first private medical school since the 1940s, charging students an astronomic £162,000 for...

GREEK workers last Thursday staged a massive and militant general strike against the right-wing government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, elected a year ago. Record...

‘Is it our intention to do the dirty work for dictatorships all over the world?’ Labour MP John Denham challenged Home Secretary Clarke yesterday. Denham...

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas yesterday suspended the ‘peace negotiations’ and contacts with Israel until the Israeli ‘criminal aggression’ on Gaza stops. An emergency meeting of...

HUNDREDS of cancer operations were cancelled during the NHS winter crisis, meaning that for some patients, by the time they are treated, their cancer...

THE Labour Party is making detailed plans for government, including ‘war-game-type scenario-planning’ for events such as ‘a run on the pound,’ Shadow Chancellor John...

‘WE’RE having a good picket today,’ said Bill Rogers, secretary of the North-East London Council of Action, outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. The Council of...

RYANAIR pilots have downed tools today causing huge cost to the company after Ryanair managers again refused to enter talks to end the long...

A ‘Christmas kick in the teeth’ for both staff and students is how the University and College Union (UCU) described yesterday’s slashing £398m...

A FINAL pay offer for NHS staff in England, including nurses and ambulance workers, was made yesterday. Unite leader Sharon Graham said that Unite...

HEALTH unions Unison, Unite and the GMB have scornfully condemned the attempts of the Tory-LibDem coalition to involve the trade unions in new talks...

NINETY Palestinian women and children were freed from Israeli prisons before dawn yesterday and greeted by large crowds of jubilant relatives, friends and supporters...

THE lead consultant on the neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked said yesterday that hospital managers should be regulated in a similar way to...

PATIENT confidentiality has been breached! Immigration centres, police stations and prisons have been given full access to hundreds of thousands of patients’ medical records,...

‘We’re fighting for our jobs, terms and conditions, pensions, the future of the union and the future of the business,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...

CALLUM MacLean, Ineos Grangemouth chairman, was exultant yesterday as he told the media that Unite the union had agreed to a three-year pay freeze,...

MORE than 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody launched an open-ended mass hunger strike yesterday morning on Palestinian Prisoners Day, led by imprisoned Fatah...