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RESPONDING to yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, the Unite union’s general secretary Len McCluskey said: ‘This Queen’s Speech reveals the nasty, repressive side of this government. ‘The...

GERMANY has issued warnings to the new Greek government that it must ‘live up to its commitments to its creditors’, and ‘take measures so...

UP to 5,000 people marched through central London yesterday on the TUC May Day demonstration. The PCS trade union was on 24-hour strike against mass...

Yesterday the two biggest health unions warned prime minister Blair about the state of the health service. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr...

PRESIDENT TRUMP told a White House Press conference yesterday afternoon that while he was president of the USA, Iran would never be able to...

‘There should be no question of making patients pay for operations that are considered essential by their doctor or consultant,’ insisted UNISON head of...

PALESTINIAN negotiators in Cairo said yesterday they were examining an Egyptian proposal for a new, three-day cease-fire with Israel. ‘There is a proposal for another...

THE HAMAS political bureau, announced yesterday evening that it has approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. ‘The mujahid brother Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the...

IRELAND’S EU commissioner yesterday threatened that his country will continue to ‘play tough’ on the border issue, claiming that the solution is for the...

British Airways cabin crew have voted by a massive 92.5 per cent, in an over 80 per cent turnout, in favour of strike action...

THE GMB trade union has exposed a shocking Treasury report which Chancellor Philip Hammond tried to hide showing public sector wages are now below...

FRENCH university and high school students were called on to make this Thursday, November 22, a day of strikes and demonstrations against the law...

UP TO THREE children are being crammed into single rooms in council homes, with families packed into flats like sardines, new figures confirm, with...

The NHS Commissioning Board will announce compulsory seven-day working in the NHS when it publishes its ‘planning guidance’ for the NHS for the first...

KEEP Our NHS Public (KONP) is demanding that Labour oppose the setting up of a Royal Commission to look at the NHS and...

Provocative actions by court officials have angered workers occupying the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight. Vestas workers said it has made...

IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian says the nation should not allow rioters to cause insecurity in the country, stressing that protesting is different from rioting. ‘If the people...

NO ACTION is to be taken against the police after the death of Leon Briggs, who died after being restrained by police in 2013,...

UK industrial output fell unexpectedly in June, the latest official figures revealed yesterday. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said industrial output fell 0.5 per...

10,000 TUBE workers took strike action yesterday after London Underground (LU) bosses refused to rule out job cuts and detrimental changes to pensions. Under the...

CHANCELLOR Sunak has ‘a series of questions to answer’, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said yesterday, as the Tory tax scandal developed. Last week,...

THE TORY plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was yesterday dismissed by the Supreme Court, ending over 18 months of legal battles in...

BRITAIN’S credit-worthiness has a ‘negative outlook’ Moody’s ratings agency declared late on Monday night, shortly after the markets closed in the US. In the first...

DISMANTLING our state education system and parcelling it off to unelected, unaccountable sponsors is a disgrace,’ Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union...

A SECOND Foreign Office Minister, Mark Simmonds, has resigned from the government, 10 Downing Street said yesterday. His resignation follows that of Foreign Office Minister...

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement by Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to go ahead with the closure of 93 offices...

Doctors, nurses and health workers will take to the streets with local people today, Saturday 4 October, to defend the future of Hinchingbrooke Hospital,...

‘SLEEPING at night in Gaza is like lying in a coffin,’ said the UNICEF spokesperson, James Elder. While addressing the UN from Rafah on Tuesday,...

FORMER chairman of the Post Office Henry Staunton dropped a bombshell on the Tories when he appeared before the Business and Trade Select Committee...

THOUSANDS of South African students marched to the Union Buildings in the South African capital Pretoria, where they were met by riot police...

OVER 20,000 railway worker members of Aslef and the RMT unions were on strike yesterday, with powerful picket lines outside scores of stations all...

Prime Minister Brown met 15 union leaders at his country residence Chequers for three hours yesterday afternoon, to discuss spending cuts ahead of next...

THE ROYAL College of Nursing is taking the nurses pay claim campaign to the heart of government as its ballot opens on industrial action...

THE boss of rail privateer, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is to resign after the company’s new timetables brought the railway to a near halt....

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday said that its 16,000-strong Royal Mail membership in London, covering 159 workplaces in the Greater London...

RMT General Secretary Bob Crow warned yesterday that the Hutton Review will be ‘the spark that lights the blue touch paper of co-ordinated strike action’. Crow...

Yesterday’s announcement of 1,500 job cuts by Tata Steel in mills in Scunthorpe, Teesside and Hartlepool, is a ‘devastating blow’, the GMB union said. Keith...

HAMAS'S military wing, the Qassam Brigades, launched a ten-rocket missile attack on Israel yesterday, causing loud explosions in the Tel Aviv area, triggering alarm...

DOCTORS’ leader Chaand Nagpaul is today warning of an ‘all year’ crisis in the NHS as eight in ten doctors say underfunding is significantly...

LABOUR PARTY leader Miliband clashed with Prime Minister Cameron over political donors who held Swiss bank accounts with HSBC, during questions in the House...

OVER 150 people attended a public meeting organised by the Tar-Sands Network in east London on Tuesday night, in preparation for today’s lobby of...

‘We’re fighting for our jobs, terms and conditions, pensions, the future of the union and the future of the business,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...

A SENIOR military spokesman for the Islamic Republic’s Armed Forces warned Israel and its allies yesterday that Iran will not tolerate the occupying regime’s...

‘The only way to solve the problems facing the working class today is for the working class to take state power and smash...