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MASSIVE, worldwide support for the British Airways cabin crew yesterday forced BA boss Walsh back to the negotiating table with the Unite union. Aviation unions...

NBC News has revealed details of Washington’s assassination of Iranian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, saying the terrorist operation used Israeli intelligence and was...

THE THREE-DAY Labour Policy Forum (LPF) held in Nottingham over the weekend was ‘chaotic’, Unite said yesterday, with the Starmer party leadership seeking to...

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...

SIMON Stevens, the Chief Executive of NHS England, has announced his plan for closing major District General Hospitals in England and replacing them...

CLADDING on 181 tower blocks in 51 areas of the country have now failed fire safety tests. Meanwhile it also emerged yesterday that there are...

The family of Raoul Moat are to pay for a second post mortem, after the first investigation failed to record taser injuries. They say...

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...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s trial at Woolwich Crown Court began yesterday morning, where the Tory government is seeking to extradite him to the US...

POSTAL workers were out on strike throughout London yesterday, while Royal Mail drivers were also out in Essex and the Midlands; and Stoke on...

ISRAELI forces have attacked five separate schools in Gaza in just eight days, killing dozens of people sheltering in them, according to Palestinian officials,...

TWO coachloads of French ‘Gilet Jaunes’ (Yellow Vests) joined the Committee to Defend Julian Assange ‘Bastille Day’ protest outside Belmarsh prison in south east...

THE government’s proposed changes to the GP contract in England risk putting targets before patients and could seriously destabilise local patient services, GP leaders...

THE HAMAS Movement has called on people worldwide to go out ‘in mass demonstrations in all cities of the world and let the coming...

ISRAELI forces carried out sweeping overnight raids into yesterday morning across the occupied West Bank, detaining dozens of Palestinians, assaulting residents, and issuing new...

A packed 400-strong Save Chase Farm meeting in Enfield last Saturday heard calls for Councils of Action to organise occupations to stop the closure...

At least one person was killed and sixty others were wounded yesterday when over 1,000 angry Iraqis clashed with police in Samawa, south of...

KHAN YOUNIS residents returned home yesterday to a landscape of shattered multi-storey buildings, charred overturned vehicles and their Nasser Hospital in a shambles, after...

THE Former and completely discredited prime minister Blair, who took the UK into a war with Iraq that was based on lies and brought...

HUNDREDS of school youth staged a strike for climate change in Parliament Square yesterday. Lana Daly came with friends from west London and said: ‘The...

ISRAELI war planes pounded Hamas positions in Gaza yesterday with a series of air strikes. They said they were responding to the launch of 28...

HEALTH Secretary Lansley announced yesterday that he is putting South London Healthcare NHS Trust into administration. The trust was created by merging three hospitals –...

At the last minute yesterday afternoon, the Transport and General Workers Union called off today’s 48-hour strike by British Airways cabin crew. The TGWU...

‘THE US economy is haemorrhaging jobs at a pace and scale never before recorded,’ Scott Anderson, chief economist at the Bank of the West...

The future of the General Motors plant in Luton, IBC Vehicles, and its 1,000 workforce, is looking ‘doubtful’, despite assurances from GM bosses. GM says...

PICKET lines outside ambulance stations around the country received a cacophony of support from passing vehicles as 23,000 ambulance worker members of Unison, the...

The number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 43,000 to 2.5 million during the three months to February, its highest level since...

The Fire Brigades Union yesterday gave an undertaking in the High Court not to hinder or intimidate emergency crews provided by private company AssetCo...

NURSES, midwives, doctors, paramedics and NHS staff are being driven out of the profession because of overwork and low pay... creating a ‘severe staff...

QUADCOPTER drones equipped with loudspeakers instructed Palestinian families trapped inside a UN-run school in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza to flee yesterday,...

SPORTS Direct boss Mike Ashley admitted, during a grilling by a committee of MPs yesterday, that he was effectively paying warehouse workers less than...

SIX HUNDRED Shell tanker drivers are to take four-day strike action from 6am on Friday, fighting for a £2,000 pay rise and a minimum...

Yesterday fighting in the Lebanon was continuing in Bint Jebayl with Israeli tanks and troops in the town. However, the Israeli Army admitted it...

TENS of thousands of school students around the world are set to walk out of their schools again to join the world-wide ‘Youth Strike...

The BBC unions announced yesterday that they will be targeting the Jubilee celebrations, following BBC management’s decision to write directly to members of staff...

DOCUMENTS kept secret by the Cabinet Office that implicate former prime minister Edward Heath in a concerted attempt to influence the jury in the...

‘THE GOVERNMENT is failing to get unsafe products out of people’s homes as new fire figures reveal that faulty washing machines, tumble dryers...

‘We have rejected the deal between the TGWU leaders and Gate Gourmet and put in for our employment tribunals. ‘The TGWU and TUC leaders...

PASSING cars tooted their horns, as campaigners shouted ‘No polyclinics – save our hospitals’ outside Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield yesterday. The north-east London Council...

MPs have released a letter from journalist Clive Goodman, jailed for phone hacking, alleging senior News of the World figures knew what was going...

GMB members will hold a protest outside the Central London Employment Tribunals to coincide with the introduction of Employment Tribunal fees on Monday, 29th...

DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Liverpool yesterday, voted unanimously for Motion 75 Qatar to strip Qatar of the World Cup. The motion ‘Calls on...

‘IT WAS CAPITALISM that ensured we had vaccines in less than a year,’ Tory PM Johnson boasted in his closing speech at the Tory...

The Greek Chemist shops Association staged a 24-hour national strike yesterday demanding the payment by the Health Ministry of some 500 million euros owed...