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‘IRAN'S armed forces are better prepared than before and are fully ready for any future contingency, and any return by the enemy to military...

Student, lecturers and university staff unions yesterday angrily condemned former BP boss Lord Browne’s recommendation that universities in England should be able to charge...

‘WE’RE having a good picket today, with plenty of support for an occupation of Chase Farm Hospital,’ said Bill Rogers, North-East London Council of...

WAGE growth is lagging behind inflation for the first time since mid-2014, official figures show. Average weekly earnings excluding bonuses increased by 2.1% in the...

TEN British military officers are to be sent to Libya to train Libyan counter-revolutionaries along with a number of French officers. Foreign Secretary Hague announced...

THERE was a very lively and well-attended rally at the front of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday lunchtime, with delegations of Unite...

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...

‘WHAT do we want? Fair pensions! How do we get it? Strike! Strike! Strike!’ students and lecturers at Sheffield University shouted yesterday while taking...

THOUSANDS of GPs in England have told the British Medical Association (BMA) that Health Secretary Sajid Javid’s package of measures to supposedly rescue general...

THE TORY government has been plunged into crisis by last Thursday’s Amersham by-election defeat. Around 100 Tory MPs have reportedly joined a WhatsApp group called...

TENANTS on demolition-threatened Aylesbury and Heygate council estates in Southwark, south-east London, are to march through the estates on Saturday April 5 to defend...

LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers got great support yesterday as they campaigned at the TGWU office in Hillingdon to defeat the sell-out Compromise Agreement. Mohammed...

Over 100,000 Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), working across 10 government departments and agencies will be on strike at the...

Ahead of the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Report on Wednesday, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has called for cuts across the board in public services,...

HEZBOLLAH forces have battled Israel to standstill. After over four days of fierce fighting, Israeli forces were still struggling to take control of the Lebanese...

SIXTH Form Colleges ‘cannot survive on starvation rations.’ One third say that they will go bust and shut down by 2020 if the massive...

The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Postal Executive has put forward an emergency motion for possible strike action by Mail Centre members for debate at...

‘THE STATE must step back and let the private sector get to work,’ Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared in his virtual Tory Party...

RUSSIAN, Ukrainian and US negotiators are set to hold talks in the United Arab Emirates, marking the first meeting involving all three countries since...

THE JUNIOR doctors strike, on Wednesday February 10th will go ahead, doctors union the BMA announced yesterday. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Despite the...

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...

CHRISTINA McAnea, Unison National Secretary for Health, has written to Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt about the proposed transfer of Primary Care Support services...

NURSING staff in the UK are still under pressure to work without PPE and lack promised gowns. Over a third of nursing staff (34%) in...

THOUSANDS of teachers, as well as the parents of hundreds of thousands pupils, are set to defy the government’s instructions for Reception, Year 1...

THE ISRAELI government’s move to revoke the licences of 37 international organisations operating in Gaza and the West Bank, including Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors...

‘ONE SOLUTION – Revolution’ rang out through the 40,000-strong crowd outside the US embassy in Vauxhall, south-west London yesterday as a mass demonstration broke...

UNISON members at four NHS Logistics depots began a second 24 hour strike, last night at 10pm. Runcorn depot stopped at 11pm. The workers are...

PALESTINE Action scaled the roof of another Israeli arms factory yesterday, morning holding ‘Shut down Elbit’ banners. They announced: ‘We’ve taken to the roof of...

UNISON yesterday warned the ambulance service is on the verge of breaking down and that the consequences for patient safety are dramatic. Tight targets, long...

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

UNITE yesterday warned of ‘a dangerous and quickening race to the bottom’ in the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry as oil giants Shell...

THOUSANDS of school students in all Greek cities participated in militant mobilisations against the government’s austerity laws and police violence on Thursday, the fourth...

‘We understand colonialism and we understand how important it is to support each other internationally,’ Belfast rap group Kneecap singer Mo Chara told a...

STRIKING Paramedics, Emergency Care Assistants, call handlers and other ambulance staff across the country who are on strike again in England and Wales today,...

YOUTH in Stockholm have risen up in anger over the last three days and faced police attacks and racist abuse, following the police shooting...

‘We are opposed to more troops going into Afghanistan,’ a Stop the War Coalition spokesman told News Line yesterday. He was responding to a...

RAIL union RMT confirmed yesterday that London Overground guards will take strike action, together with an overtime ban, for 48 hours over the coming...

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 TORIES are announcing new anti-NHS plans today, opening up ‘virtual wards’ in which patients will be monitored in their homes, with cameras at...

‘TUC GET off Your Knees – Call a General Strike!’ rang out as the Young Socialists March for Jobs set off from London to...

‘AN ALARMING teacher recruitment crisis is gripping England’s schools,’ teachers union NUT warned yesterday, adding that ‘no amount of “golden handshakes” will resolve the...

SAVINGS in the NHS over the past five years have been paid for by the workforce, a pre-election health debate heard yesterday. The packed hustings...

CINEMA workers demanding the Living Wage have overwhelmingly re-newed their mandate for strike action, their union BECTU announced yesterday. Cinema workers at selected Picturehouse Cinemas...

‘THE ONLY reason that the secretary of state (Chris Grayling) is at the dispatch box today is that the Prime Minister is too weak...

DIGGER manufacturer JCB is cutting production and working hours in the UK as it faces a shortage of components from China due to the...