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NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...

News Line & Workers Revolutionary Party Public meetings: Trade unions must act to make sure we quit EU on October 31st! For a workers government and...

A British soldier has been killed and another injured during an attack at a UK base in Basra, southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence...

THE BMA wrote to Tory health secretary Hunt yesterday with a clear offer: lift the imposition of the new contract and junior doctors will...

‘We won, as we should have done, because it was wrong and the police were wrong’, anti-war protester Brian Haw declared to cheering supporters...

THE FBU has revealed that firefighters dealt with more incidents, more fires and saw more fire deaths last year than for most of the...

ISRAELI forces transferred a Palestinian man to a hospital after severely beating him in his house in Abu Shkheidim village, northwest of Ramallah,...

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a massive land and air attack on the West Bank city of Jenin yesterday, killing at least eight youths...

OVER 100 workers, youth, pensioners and NHS staff from inside the hospital participated in the North East London Council of Action picket to...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn insisted yesterday that whatever Parliament decides, Brexit should be put to a ‘popular vote’, and that Labour is still campaigning...

LONDON delivery offices took all-out strike action yesterday in the ongoing battle by postal workers to defend jobs in Royal Mail. The Communication Workers Union...

WORKERS at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich in south east London were on strike yesterday and are striking again today in a bitter struggle...

THE BMA yesterday published a paper on seven-day services which supports calls for more NHS services to be available for patients throughout the week. Commenting...

THE United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Salama, has confirmed that the Israeli occupation army has used the killing...

OVER 30 GMB members held a lively picket of the private contractor ISS at the company’s HQ in the South Quay Building, Canary Wharf,...

TENS of thousands of workers and youth congregated early yesterday morning in Athens at three pre-arranged points to enforce an encirclement of the Vouli...

DELEGATES at the BMA representatives meeting in Bournemouth yesterday called for Health Secretary Lansley to resign against the advice of their leadership. Motion 22 from...

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...

THE director general of Gaza’s Government Media Office, Ismail al-Thawabta, yesterday demanded that Israel opens the crossings and allow aid in ‘immediately’, warning of...

ISRAEL has officially admitted that its military ordered a deadly attack on a Lebanese ship carrying refugees during the regime’s invasion of the country...

70 YEARS of the NHS are being celebrated with a mass demonstration today in central London supported by the TUC and 11 other health...

TORY PM May hit out at the British Red Cross at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons yesterday, describing its warnings...

EX-LABOUR PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at Labour’s ‘political’ decision to apologise and award damages to party whistleblowers who took part in...

SCORES of town halls in the metropolitan Athens-Piraeus area were being occupied by municipal workers on Wednesday morning following a decision by the POE-OTA...

Ambulance crews in the West Midlands and Shropshire are set to start industrial action, beginning with an overtime ban next Wednesday, followed by a...

ON FRIDAY, PM May wrote a grovelling surrender letter of complete capitulation to the EU President Donald Tusk, in which she agreed that the...

The Tory-LibDem Health and Social Care Bill risks ‘unravelling and dismantling’ the NHS, the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) warned yesterday. The competition running...

EMERGENCY operations are being cancelled putting hundreds of critically ill patients in danger as hospitals run out of intensive care beds, official figures have...

EARLY on Wednesday morning Donald Trump’s Republican Party reached the all-important 270 electoral college votes, meaning that he had won the election to become...

HUGE hikes in gas and electricity bills are coming this year, the energy privateers flagrantly announced yesterday. ‘Big Six’ energy bosses told MPs on the...

ISRAELI forces have killed more than 71 Palestinians in the 24 hours leading up to Thursday in Beit Lahiya, Rafah and Khan Younis, with...

OPENING the ‘Public Services Not Private Profit’ rally yesterday, John McDonnell MP said: ‘Today is the largest and broadest lobby of parliament for decades....

A You Gov poll commissioned by Unison reveals that the majority (62 per cent) of the public do not trust the government to handle...

ONE of the UK’s biggest GP practice operators has been taken over by the US health insurance group Centene Corporation. This has been condemned by...

MORE than 5,000 people a year are being made ‘homeless’ as a household debt crisis deepens, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) warned yesterday. More...

‘ON THIS basis I am not able, in the current circumstances, to recommend to the European Council that we should start discussion on the...

General Motors-owned Vauxhall Ellesmere Port and GM Luton have admitted their future depends on the US government bailing out their parent company. During discussions...

UNISON public sector union has pledged to ‘fight on’ in the face of the High Court ruling rejecting Unison’s challenge to the government’s...

‘OUR members deserve fair pay and will be taking action for as long as it takes to get it,’ said Communications Workers Union (CWU)...

NURSES, doctors and other health workers were ‘slapped in the face’ by the coalition government yesterday, as it emerged that NHS workers...

ANGRY residents, health campaigners and NHS trade unionists demonstrated outside Crawley hospital yesterday, next to the shuttle bus that takes patients and workers to...

UNIVERSITY and college lecturers yesterday morning voted unanimously to reject government plans to instruct university staff to report students for ‘extremism’. The controversial proposals,...

ELEVEN Palestinians were killed and over 200 wounded when Israeli troops opened fire as Palestinians stormed the occupied Golan Heights and demonstrators...

BEDFORDSHIRE Council’s ultimatum to employees to sign new wage-cutting contracts or face the sack has been met with defiance by council workers, who...

OVER 20,000 wounded Palestinian people are still trapped in the Gaza Strip with ‘limited access to healthcare’, according to Doctors without Borders (MSF), despite...