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THE ISRAELI regime has deployed its entire standing army infantry and armoured brigades to the Gaza Strip amid a serious escalation of its 19-month-old...

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’...

Angry sack-threatened workers from the HP Sauce factory in Aston, Birmingham were yesterday stopped from protesting at the parent company Heinz headquarters in Hayes,...

ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least...

Communication Workers Union (CWU) branch officials yesterday warned CWU general secretary Billy Hayes and deputy general secretary Dave Ward against selling out postal workers...

CHAIR of the British Medical Association Dr Mark Porter has declared the BMA’s full support for the junior doctors’ decision to ballot for industrial...

The NHS faces a crunch week, says the Unite union. It has issued a statement saying prime minister Cameron’s pledges on the health service were...

Israel’s brutal occupation of the Palestinian people has created refugees, death squads, and now starvation in Gaza, and hunger throughout the occupied territories. Thousands...

TORY Minister for Equalities Nadhim Zahawi claimed yesterday morning that ‘blackouts are extremely unlikely this winter,’ when he did the rounds of the TV...

Hamas yesterday condemned as an illegal ‘coup’ the formation by decree of an ‘emergency government’ by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. Hamas said Abbas had suspended...

OVER 100 firefighters picketed the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday against the decision to close ten fire stations in London and cut 552 jobs...

GATE GOURMET locked-out workers won a victory yesterday, when they successfully carried out their picket at the Gate Gourmet plant front gate, despite a...

THE NHS ‘cannot survive a second term of Tory-led government,’ the Labour Party’s Chair of General Election Strategy, Douglas Alexander, said yesterday. He was echoing...

MORE than a quarter of countries represented at the ongoing Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth this week have failed to allow...

AS the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 214 yesterday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different...

ONE in five GP surgeries in London is threatened with closure within three years because of lack of staff, funding and pay, the Local...

HEALTH Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has agreed to the relaxing of ambulance response times for some ‘Red 2’ category patients, which include those with...

THE Hamas Movement has condemned the repeated targeting of civilians at food aid distribution centres in the Gaza Strip, calling it a war crime...

RUSSIA is ready for negotiation with the USA, EU and Ukraine, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He added that the talks may start...

TORY Chancellor Hunt turned his fire on the sick, the disabled, the mentally ill and the unemployed in his vicious, vindictive anti-working class Autumn...

Margaret Thatcher considered arming the police during the riots of 1981, whilst a section of her government counselled that Liverpool should be abandoned to...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are calling on all their supporters to join them at their monthly mass picket on the hill at the Beacon...

AN Israeli strike on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood killed at least seven people and wounded 20 others yesterday. Islam al-Jaidi, a resident and a...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are calling on all trade unionists to join them on their march through Hounslow on Saturday the 25th of March. Speaking...

The Trade Union Congress yesterday expressed ‘serious concerns’ at proposals for private insurance companies to take over the payment of benefits such as unemployment...

RUSSIA’s Stalinist leadership is lining up at least seven state companies for privatisation because of the collapse of the oil market...

ON SATURDAY, the BMA held a rally to launch its campaign for Pay Restoration. Balloting opened for strike action on 9th January and votes...

There will be more job losses at British Airways as a result of the airline’s agreed merger with Iberia, BA chief executive Willie Walsh...

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

THE CLOSURE of maternity departments at hospitals up and down the country and the severe lack of midwives has created a situation where as...

A HIGH Court hearing took place yesterday to seek compensation for 122 GMB members blacklisted by Carillion and other construction employers. GMB said: ‘The High...

TURKEY is poised to join the US-led war to remove the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, as well as having its own agenda...

Prime minister Cameron’s adviser Mark Britnell has urged that the NHS be ‘shown no mercy’, adding that the government’s planned health ‘reform’ is 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,...

‘We will stand firm and if necessary we will escalate the fight because we will not let this university go under!’ This was the message...

THERE is a risk MPs will ‘steal Brexit from the British people’ if Theresa May’s proposed ‘backstop’ deal is rejected, senior cabinet minister Liam...

The cost of a university degree will rocket under proposals from business secretary, Vince Cable, to tax university graduates, according to figures released yesterday...

THE GRENFELL community spoke out in furious anger yesterday that a building almost two and a half times taller then the Grenfell Tower is...

University of Strathclyde Association of University Teachers (AUT) representative David Blieman yesterday described as ‘provocative’ a threat to dock lecturers’ pay if they don’t...

HUNDREDS of armed riot police (MAT) in full gear viciously attacked a militant march in Athens against the visit of US President Barack Obama...

The GMB trade union is holding a demonstration in Sheffield and a rally in Wakefield today, to defend 4,000 Remploy jobs. The GMB warned...

The scale and pace of the government’s planned NHS ‘reforms’, combined with £20bn cuts, is ‘extremely risky and potentially disastrous, warned the leaders of...

BOMBING Raqqa will see a large number of civilians killed, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn warned yesterday. He was asked by Andrew Marr: ‘What do...

BMA chair Dr Mark Porter told the union’s Special Representative Meeting yesterday that ‘Twenty-four years ago, it was the first reforms that established an...