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‘NO ONE should be immune from prosecution. The firefighters certainly weren’t and the manufacturers of the cladding definitely should not be,’ Lucy Masoud FBU...

THE BAKERS’ union (BFAWU), which was one of the first unions to fight to set up the Labour Party in 1902, disaffiliated from the...

‘WHAT a shameful act by a Labour prime minister as possibly his final act – opening the door to the Tories to come in...

MORE than 123,000 children and their families have spent their school holiday homeless, an increase of around 53,000 since the summer holidays of 2011,...

The staffing crisis is continuing at Stafford Hospital, senior consultant Dr Pradip Singh has alleged. This is three months after the publication of a damning...

PILOT’S union BALPA told News Line yesterday it will be campaigning to change European law after withdrawing from its High Court challenge to a...

FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales went out on a 24-hour strike over the massive attacks that are taking place on their pensions. The walk-out, which...

STUDENTS enthusiastically joined the campaign to elect Jonty Leff as WRP candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch yesterday. They campaigned hard, giving out leaflets, speaking...

‘WE hold the Israeli government fully responsible for the brutal assassination of the toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha,’ PLO official Saeb Erekat said in a...

LABOUR’S shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has called for NHS privatisation to be halted until after the 2015 general election. Speaking yesterday Burnham said ‘privatisation...

THE High Court has today heard, in the case of R (Serdar Mohammed) v Secretary of State for Defence, that British forces passed hundreds...

THE parents of Britain’s poorest children are going hungry so that their children have some food on the table. Both parents and children are...

THOUSANDS of furious staff walked out of Further Education colleges across England from 7.00am this morning in a one-day strike to oppose a proposed...

THREATS of sanctions against the Ukrainian government look like blackmail, and a demand for early elections is a way to force Kiev towards the...

Postal workers yesterday expressed their anger at the government’s determination to part-privatise Royal Mail. ‘If Mandelson is determined to push this through, our only option...

OVER 300 striking teachers from sixth form colleges around the country demanded the government honour their £700 million funding ‘invoice’ which was signed by...

Border and Immigration Agency mass raids to round up alleged illegal immigrants were yesterday condemned as a publicity-seeking ‘cynical approach by government’ by GMB...

FRANCE was totally paralysed yesterday with flights, trains, the Metro and buses all cancelled during the mass ‘Day of Rage’ over President Emmanuel Macron’s...

THE British Medical Association yesterday warned that further NHS cuts will compromise patient care. It was responding to the publication of a review into NHS...

UKIP has its second elected MP at Westminster after Mark Reckless won the Rochester and Strood by-election yesterday. Reckless took 16,867 votes, 2,920 more than...

US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met for talks in Geneva yesterday. ‘This is a critical moment,’ Blinken said...

The Young Socialists March for Jobs for Youth and Free State Education leaves the Bullring in central Birmingham at 9am this morning. It is setting...

HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel yesterday warned that the city of Leicester may be facing a localised lockdown after a rise in coronavirus cases. She said...

THE ASSAULT on the Al Aqsa Mosque is equal to a ‘Declaration of War on the Palestinians’, said the spokesman for the President of...

VICIOUS Tory cuts to the tune of £140 million mean that fire and rescue services are fighting with one hand tied behind their back....

Media unions BECTU and the NUJ yesterday condemned ‘BBC fat-cat bonuses’ and called on BBC bosses to hand them back. They were responding to the...

THE latest NHS workforce data is ‘not something the government should be proud of’, says the BMA. Responding to the latest NHS workforce data BMA...

Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced to MPs that ‘the security service is to double in size to 4,000 personnel’. In a statement to the House...

GREEK students are deepening and extending their fight against the government’s Education Law passed by the Greek Vouli (parliament) last month. Over 300 university...

BRITISH Airways Terminal 4 workers yesterday gave great support to locked out Gate Gourmet workers campaigning at Heathrow for their conference on Sunday January...

‘IF THE government keeps refusing to enter into meaningful discussions, or any discussions, we will be forced to carry on striking because we do...

THE NHS needs a long-term plan rather than a short-term fix, doctors’ leaders said yesterday. Fearing a winter crisis in the NHS in England, the...

‘ANY MP who votes for the Health and Social Care Bill next week is voting for the end of the NHS,’ said Christina McAnea,...

THE Unison West Midlands Office yesterday morning gave its full support to the Young Socialists’ March for Jobs from London to the TUC...

THE US Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has urged all American citizens to run for it and get out of Iraq. This is after...

‘DOWN with the government of murderers’ shouted over 50,000 enraged workers and students last Thursday in Athens in a most militant march on the...

‘TRADE unions must act – save our children’s services!’ rang out as the three hundred-strong march from Southall to Ealing Hospital proceeded yesterday afternoon. The...

15,795 HOMELESS Londoners have been forced into temporary accommodation outside their borough, a Freedom of Information request revealed yesterday. Representing a third of the 47,137...

THE UK military is returning ‘East of Suez’ to its former naval base in Bahrain, 40 years after withdrawal of every military garrison. ‘This new...

The UK government must take responsibility for the torture of Kenyans under the 1950s British colonial government, one of the survivors, 82-year-old Wambugu Wa...

‘ISRAEL has been intentionally starving the Palestinian people in Gaza since October 8,’ the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed concern over the cancellation by an Oxford hospital of a routine heart procedure because of lack of...

TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman was accused in the House of Commons yesterday of ‘repeatedly breaking the law’ over her treatment of asylum seekers...

‘Kick ancient pay out of our museum’ said placards carried by 300 British Museum staff out yesterday against what amounts to a public sector...