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THE FIRST GP surgery in Maidstone Kent to charge patients for 15-minute face-to-face consultations is open for business! The GP surgery works through ‘Uber-style’...

‘LET me say to him (Tory chancellor Osborne) I certainly think for the sake of this country that it is time for him to...

SIXTEEN protesters were arrested when police intervened to take action against an occupation on Thursday in support of Palestine by ‘Oxford Action for Palestine...

GMB, the union for construction workers, has described the Metropolitan Police’s admission of their role in the blacklisting scandal as a constitutional crisis which...

A HUGE increase in nursing staff quitting the profession early will make government NHS ‘reforms’ impossible to deliver, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)...

THOUSANDS of people in northern Gaza are facing an imminent massacre as the Israeli military continues its weeks-long siege and heavy bombardment of the region,...

A HOME OFFICE whistleblower has revealed that the Tory government is recruiting supermarket customer services reps and employing them as asylum claim processors with...

US AND Israeli officials have once again conceded the occupying regime’s failure in its months-long aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip, stressing that the...

TUC DELEGATES on the opening day of their Congress in Manchester yesterday, were lobbied by a large delegation of WRP and YS members...

QUEEN Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, south east London, saw GMB members employed by privateer ISS out in force yesterday for a 24-hour strike from...

‘THE FURLOUGH scheme can not continue indefinitely,’ Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday at the Downing Street daily briefing, announcing that by September, the employer...

‘IT’S the last chance – the Greek people need to know this.’ That was the threat of Eurogroup bully-boy President Jean Claude Juncker to the...

Syria declared the ambassadors and envoys from several western states unwelcome yesterday, ordering them out of the country. The move followed last week’s expulsion of...

EU COMMISSION chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, gave a master class in arrogance yesterday as he looked down his nose at the UK...

THE BANK of England and the European Central Bank were yesterday paralysed in the face of the rapidly deepening crisis of the world capitalist...

UK military personel carrying out drone strikes ‘could be vulnerable to a charge of murder,’ Labour MP Harriet Harman said yesterday. Harman chairs the cross-party...

HAMAS has celebrated the ceasefire agreement ending the Israeli regime’s genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip, describing it as a testament to the resilience...

HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth took part in mass rallies and marches in all Greek cities and towns on Thursday as part...

A QUARTER of registered nurses say that their number is so far below what is required that there is now a ‘high risk’ of...

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...

campaigners lobbied the House of Lords yesterday demanding ‘no going back to Dickensian days’. They also chanted ‘Defend Child Benefit for all’, ‘Oppose all benefit...

CHINA cut its main interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 4.6% yesterday, for the fifth time since November, as it moved to try...

THE Reading Employment Tribunal yesterday reported that as a result of its May 18th hearing it had struck out and dismissed 37 claims for...

PM Boris Johnson pulled out of a scheduled appearance before a panel of senior MPs yesterday morning, saying he has to ‘focus on delivering...

WHILE helping identify homeless people at risk of freezing to death on the streets, homeless charity St Mungo’s has admitted to co-operating with ...

THOUSANDS of junior doctors joined more than 140 picket lines across England yesterday to protest against the imposition of a new contract. Junior doctors took...

‘ALL ACTS of genocide are being perpetrated against Gaza,’ Amjad Al Shawa, director of the Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) said yesterday. ‘What is required now...

Speaking yesterday to charities, NHS workers, trade unions and local government leaders, prime minister Brown announced the publication of a consultation document on ‘options...

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TRADE unions yesterday slammed Tory chancellor Phillip Hammond’s instruction to government departments to find spending cuts of up to 6% as part of plans...

‘I AM confident that we will see thousands on today’s march to keep Chase Farm Hospital open’, said Bill Rogers secretary of the...

HOSPITAL workers, patients and local residents in Enfield yesterday reaffirmed their determination to stop the planned closure of the A&E, Maternity and Paediatrics departments...

Southport and Ormskirk UNISON health branch has launched a campaign with other health unions, Amicus, GMB, TGWU, the RCN and RCM against 33 compulsory...

‘BED closures will put patients’ lives at risk,’ campaigners fighting to save community hospital beds across North Staffordshire declared yesterday. The claim that ‘patients...

‘JERMAINE was dead before he got into the car on 11th December 2016,’ Jermaine Baker’s mother Margaret Smith said yesterday, She was speaking after an...

THE CLAMOUR from senior Labour figures, including deputy leader Tom Watson, shadow chancellor John McDonnell and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, for Labour to...

KHALIDA Jarrar, a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is free! She was greeted by a cheering crowd after...

‘CALL the whole airport out to defend all jobs, pay and conditions,’ striking Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) worker, Jarnail Singh, said yesterday ahead of...

THE HEALTH and Social Care Bill has been revised to allow nearly half of foundation hospital income to be raised from private patient beds...

SEVEN UNIONS have warned about their dispute with the UK’s largest academy trust over staff cuts, low pay and outsourcing. The unions have now registered...

COMMUNITY steel union representatives are meeting at the TUC today with the threat of closure hanging over the industry in the UK, with tens...

PLANS to axe thousands of nursing, doctor and NHS staff posts under the Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) were revealed yesterday by the Health...

PATIENTS suffering from serious and chronic illnesses have been driven to the brink of homlessness after being declared ‘fit-for-work’ and thrown off their benefits....

TUC delegates at the opening of the Congress in Brighton yesterday supported the Young Socialists lobby which demanded ‘Youth Demand a Future, Youth Demand...

THE EUROPEAN Union must be hauled before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and prosecuted ‘for crimes against humanity’ after letting ‘thousands of refugees drown...