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UK resident Binyam Mohamed, recently freed from Guantanamo Bay, has called for ex-US President Bush to be put on trial over his rendition and...

THE Tories are threatening emergency action to either ban the official strike action next Thursday by Home Office PCS union members, including Border Agency...

THE BANK of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday raised interest rates for the first time in more than ten years. The official bank rate...

LORD JUSTICE Leveson yesterday called for tougher press self-regulation backed by legislation. Announcing the publication of his report at a news conference which took no...

A massive strike wave is taking place against the Greek right-wing government this week as workers are staging national strikes, including a general strike...

MPs AND peers yesterday launched a poisonous attack on people coming to live in the UK. A new report says that ‘migrants’ should be ‘obliged’...

OVER 250 London NHS doctors, nurses and hospital workers demonstrated through the West End on Saturday, demanding a 15 per cent pay increase and...

THE Trafford strategic programme board has announced its support for closing the A&E at Trafford General Hospital, the hospital from which Nye Bevan launched...

AT SOUTHWARK Crown Court this week, a protester represented by Bindmans LLP has been found not guilty by a unanimous jury in a trial...

THE TORIES have been stripping sufferers of multiple sclerosis of the vital funds they need to buy mobility scooters and vehicles if they can...

London doctors have made it clear they are opposed to the government’s plan to slash and privatise the NHS – and want action to...

There is ‘no doubt’ that support for the US-led war on Iraq ‘puts the UK more at risk’ of terrorist attack. This is one of...

THE DEBATE on the European Union Withdrawal Agreement Bill began yesterday with Tory PM Johnson confirming that if it is not voted through, the...

‘THE idea that acute district general hospitals ( DGHs) can be run safely without acute surgical cover, a proper intensive care unit (ITU) and...

THE METROPOLITAN Police have been condemned for their decision to impose a last-minute ban on a planned mass pro-Palestinian march starting from outside the...

BMA Consultants at their Annual Conference yesterday made it clear they were determined to fight for their pensions. The tone was set by the Consultants...

ANGRY Rover workers yesterday slammed their betrayal by trade union leaders, Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley, and Amicus General Secretary...

‘OUR union has just reiterated its stance and that is that it is to vote to leave the EU,’ Ronnie Draper, General Secretary of...

THE TORY party official fire safety advisor Ken Knight rubber-stamped the use of the flammable cladding, responsible for the rapid spread of the Grenfell...

PARLIAMENT can stop the UK leaving the EU without negotiating a deal, Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell claimed yesterday. He said he could ‘not countenance’...

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

FIREFIGHTERS have won back their pensions, dealing a mighty blow to the government with far reaching implication for all public sector workers, in particular,...

DOCTORS, nurses and teachers have warned that the Police Bill will turn them into police informants. The Bill, to be debated in the House of...

MPs WILL seek to bring forward legislation to stop Brexit this week, Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has said. He said the plan...

GREEK Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is holding meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande this week, in a bid...

‘WE’RE coming back!’ Gate Gourmet strikers shouted defiantly at the scab lorries accompanied by video surveillance vans as they drove past the mass picket...

THIS Saturday’s National March for Palestine in London is under threat as the Metropolitan Police has refused to authorise its route, despite being given...

STAFF at the Bank of England yesterday started voting in a strike ballot as Unite, the union representing staff at the bank called on...

THE rail union RMT yesterday called off the Docklands Light Railway 48-hour strike after it was declared illegal by the judiciary. In a message to...

PM JOHNSON and Chancellor Sunak are criminals according to the Police! Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will be issued fines – officially known as fixed...

‘The abolition of the 10p tax rate has dealt a body blow to millions of low paid workers,’ UNISON General Secretary, Dave Prentis said...

BARNET tenants are holding a ‘Fun Day’ tomorrow to highlight the community they are at risk of losing if Annington Homes continue to evict...

the occupied Visteon factories received massive support from workers in their areas yesterday, as workers in Belfast, Enfield and Basildon struggled to defend their...

FROM NICK AXARLIS IN ATHENS SCORES of Greek armed riot police attacked thousands of workers and students with tear-gas and noise-smoke grenades last Thursday night...

THE euro strengthened to a two-month high against the US dollar yesterday, as investors’ euphoria overflowed at the ECB’s plan to purchase bonds from...

THE British government accepts that colonial forces in Kenya tortured and abused detainees during the Mau Mau rebellion, the High Court has heard. Three elderly...

Labour leader Ed Miliband said yesterday ‘it beggars belief’ that News International chief executive ‘Rebekah Brooks is still in her post’ and, ‘The least...

TEN per cent of Gaza’s population has been killed, injured, disappeared, or detained since Israel launched its genocidal war on 7 October 2023, according...

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) issued an update yesterday on its investigation into the Forest Gate police shooting of 23-year-old Abdul Kahar. The IPCC...

‘THE bedroom tax is causing real chaos, doing real damage to people’s lives,’ David Orr, Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation said yesterday ‘The...

A DEAL to change Tata’s pension scheme has proved harder to sell to staff than was expected. It is being resisted by steelworkers who have...

HUNDREDS of locked out Gate Gourmet workers went to the TGWU regional office in Hillingdon yesterday to receive their ‘hardship’ payments and to question...

THERE were 125,000 workers, students and youth on Saturday’s 18th National March for Palestine through London, from Piccadilly to a quarter of a mile...

GPs in Harrow are up in arms against plans to close down health centres and combine GP practices into large units, turning them...

Trade unions representing nurses, midwives and health workers covered by the ‘independent’ Pay Review Body (PRB), yesterday reacted angrily to a government-proposed huge ‘pay...