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‘TAKE to the streets in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Jerusalem, and in defence of Aqsa Mosque this Friday, Saturday and Sunday,’...

More than two million people have used credit cards to pay their mortgage or rent, an increase of almost 50 per cent in a...

THERE was uproar in south-east London yesterday, after the announcement of plans to shut the Accident and Emergency and maternity departments at Queen Mary’s,...

PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has enacted a presidential decree ordering the national flag to be flown at half-mast today and tomorrow, and on November...

Unite (Amicus section) yesterday expressed fears for the jobs of thousands of its members currently working at Northern Rock, as Chancellor Darling introduced emergency...

Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) leaders have signed a pay for jobs and ‘efficiency’ deal with Royal Mail. They are attempting to sell it to members...

DAVID Cameron is misleading parents and the public on school funding, says the National Union of Teachers (NUT). Commenting on Cameron’s statement on school funding...

‘I WILL not stop with this case while I’m still breathing,’ Rod Charles vowed yesterday. Rod Charles is the great uncle of Rashan Charles...

MOVES by a Midlands hospital trust to recruit unpaid ‘jobseekers’ to clean wards and ‘support patients through their hospital experience’ were condemned by a...

IN A Sunday Telegraph interview, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab threatened to withhold the £39 billion ($51 billion) divorce fee from the EU,...

‘Save Legal Aid!’ barristers and solicitors are demanding as they take historic strike action today, starting with a 9.30-10.30am demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court,...

THE US economy will fall off the ‘fiscal cliff’ when automatic spending cuts and tax increases kick in at the beginning of next year,...

THE United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and dozens of organisations and countries are striving to block or delay an arrest warrant by the...

RAIL ticket price hikes of up to 5.1% came into force yesterday with the RMT, Unite and campaign groups calling for the re-nationalisation of...

‘WE WILL FIX the long term problems of health and social care that have been so cruelly exposed by Covid,’ Tory PM Johnson said...

‘WE ARE marching on Saturday 2nd May to defend Ealing Hospital A&E and Maternity Departments,’ Scott Dore, Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Ealing Central...

‘YOU did It!’ the British Medical Association said in a message to resident doctor members yesterday. ‘A resounding majority of you voted in favour...

LEGAL proceedings have been issued in the High Court against the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) saying that the agency’s involvement in a...

Civil servants union, the PCS, is gearing up for action to fight over 300,000 public sector job cuts, planned by the Tories. PCS NEC...

Hundreds of occupying Waterford Crystal workers, members of the Unite trade union, will be joining today’s national demonstration in Dublin. It has been called by...

Five Israeli soldiers were killed yesterday afternoon as ferocious resistance by Hezbollah fighters held off their attempts to advance into southern Lebanon. Hezbollah also said it...

GAZA’s Government Media Office yesterday accused Israel of ‘a horrific, intentionally repeated crime’, having lured starving Palestinians to aid centres run by the Gaza...

Japan’s nuclear crisis intensified yesterday as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple reactor meltdowns, while investors feared a share market crash. More than...

LOCKED-OUT Travel Safe workers demonstrated yesterday morning outside the headquarters of London Overground Rail Operations Ltd (just outside Swiss Cottage tube station) against...

OVER ten thousand workers students and youth joined the Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day demonstration in central London yesterday. The demonstration assembled outside Marble Arch Station...

YESTERDAY’S General Strike across Israel was pronounced illegal by the Tel Aviv Labour Court, which ordered the Histradut union organisation to call it off...

THE HIGH Speed 2 (HS2) contractor has ‘ratted on overtime agreements’ the Unite union alleged yesterday. Unite, which represents construction workers building the line, expressed...

THE RMT rail union announced yesterday that it is to put a new offer from Network Rail to members in an electronic referendum with...

Four men were yesterday remanded in custody to appear on criminal charges at the Old Bailey on November 14th, in connection with the July...

Serious Crime Prevention Orders dubbed ‘ASBOs for suspected criminals’ were unveiled at a press briefing by Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker yesterday. The new civil...

A POWERFUL busworkers march and rally was held in central London yesterday to launch a national campaign for better health and safety as well...

The BBC was gripped by the biggest strike in ten years yesterday, as over 11,000 journalists and technicians from all three BBC unions –...

A CAMPAIGN team was out on Southall Broadway yesterday fighting for this Wednesday’s march and occupation to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity...

the House of Commons Standards and Privileges committee will investigate phone hacking by newspapers. This follows fresh allegations against the ‘News of the World’ and...

THE Syrian government has dismissed a peace proposal from the umbrella group representing Syria’s US and UK backed political and armed opposition. The opposition’s High...

EMI is to announce tomorrow that 2,000 jobs are to go as part of a major restructuring plan. Jobs will go throughout the company,...

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

The two largest teacher unions, the NUT and NASUWT, representing nine out of 10 teachers in England and Wales, are to stage a series...

THE EU and the UN called for an official probe into mass graves at hospitals in Gaza, where hundreds of bodies have been discovered,...

‘DAVID Cameron and George Osborne’s political cowardice means they are presiding over an economic catastrophe’ said Unite leader Len McCluskey yesterday, commenting on the...

PATIENTS are bearing the brunt of savage cuts to GP surgeries, said the Royal College of GPs yesterday. The RCGP said: ‘GPs are facing a...

THE HAMAS military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades said on Thursday that they had killed eight Israeli soldiers in northeastern Gaza City in what was...

AS a result of the huge austerity rocking the Greek economy, this year’s march to commemorate the Athens Polytechnic student uprising was the biggest...

Fourteen US Marines and their civilian translator were killed by a roadside bomb blast in north-western Iraq early yesterday. The Marines were killed...

STAFF at City College Brighton took one-day strike action yesterday against threatened job losses and cuts to courses and support staff. The UCU members voted...