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GREEK school and university students and young workers staged various anti-government and anti-police mobilisations over the weekend throughout Greece. Dozens of local rallies were...

‘WE ARE calling on everyone to march with us through Enfield on Saturday, July 26th. Workers of Enfield won’t allow this government to close...

PRIME Minister Boris Johnson spent less than five minutes apologising over ‘Partygate’ to the House of Commons yesterday, before putting it to one side. He...

THE former head of the US central bank, Alan Greenspan, has predicted that Greece will have to leave the eurozone. Greenspan, chairman of the US...

‘PEOPLE are really supporting our cause to reopen all the closed services at Ealing Hospital,’ Ealing Southall WRP general election candidate Hassan Zulkifal said...

THE UCU (University and College Union) begins balloting members today for strike action at over 150 universities across the country, with higher education set...

TWO tower blocks on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham are at risk of a ‘catastrophic collapse’. After the horrific Grenfell fire, which left so...

Unison – the biggest health workers union – yesterday staged a picket of Chase Farm Hospital against the threat to close the hospital’s A&E,...

SYRIA has warned that it may use its right to self defence after recent Israeli air raids against a civilian airport near Damascus...

THE United States Army has exhausted most of its worldwide stock of highly accurate long-range missiles during five months of war against Iran, leaving...

IN A LETTER to the British press, fourteen leading UK playwrights and theatre directors, have condemned the destruction of the Said al-Mishal Cultural Centre...

‘Getting rid of capitalism is the issue,’ said Dave Wiltshire, ATUA National Secretary, yesterday. In response to trade union leaders’ anger over the nearly one...

UNISON members at London Metropolitan University took strike action yesterday in the latest round of their struggle against job cuts, as the...

EUROPEAN Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi yesterday warned eurozone leaders that current financial mechanisms are ‘unsustainable’. Addressing the European Parliament, Draghi asked: ‘Can the...

RAIL union RMT said yesterday’s strike for tube safety and safe staffing levels on London Underground was ‘rock solid’, and demanded that the rail...

Gate Gourmet locked out workers are calling on all trade unionists to act in their support. The TGWU members are fighting for reinstatement on their...

CHILD refugees languishing in squalid conditions in camps in Calais without their parents or any family member to look after them urgently need...

THE European trade union body, the Engineering Metalworkers Federation (EMF), has called for a mobilisation of GM workers in Europe on Wednesday, 23rd September...

TORY Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that UK troops are to be sent to the Ukraine ‘to train Zelensky’s military on the ground’...

LAST WEEK, US President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order to enhance and extend a Trump-era ban on investments with 59 Chinese companies, barring...

COLOMBO – TamilNet reports that 20 Sri Lanka Army soldiers were killed in an intensive counter-attack launched by the Tigers on SLA units that...

THE CLAMOUR from senior Labour figures, including deputy leader Tom Watson, shadow chancellor John McDonnell and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, for Labour to...

Oxfam UK warned yesterday that the average prices of staple crops will more than double in the next 20 years leaving billions of people...

FIVE judges of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal have given a divided ruling over a secret MI5 policy allowing security service agents to commit...

Locked out Gate Gourmet workers are angry that TGWU officers are putting pressure on those who have been selected by the company for compulsory...

TENS OF THOUSANDS of anti-Mubarak protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo were attacked by pro-Mubarak thugs and plain-clothes police yesterday afternoon, as Egyptian Army soldiers...

AS the united Nations officially confirmed that the Israeli war on Gaza is a ‘GENOCIDE’ yesterday, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) massively escalated their...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad yesterday warned of ‘firm reprisals’ against any country leading the way to impose new sanctions, adding that Iran was ‘not...

IRAN launched massive retaliatory operations against US military sites in Gulf states in response to renewed US aggression in the region early on Sunday. Iran’s...

‘SO WE ARE at real risk, without any coherence without any safeguards, that the infection could have a second surge,’ warned Chaand Nagpaul, Chair...

A QUARTER of a million civil and public servants are on strike today to put an end to cuts to their pay which their...

UNISON has condemned calls by a right wing ‘think tank’ for benefit cuts for all claimants living outside of London, and for child benefits...

‘Very deliberately the government wishes to turn back the clock to the 1930s and 1940s, when there were private, charitable and co-operative providers of...

TORY PM Cameron yesterday called on European leaders to deport more refugees, describing them as ‘economic migrants’ who, he claimed, don’t have a genuine...

The Tories are demanding the Cabinet Office state whether or not Culture Minister Tessa Jowell has breached the ministerial code of conduct over her...

HUNDREDS of farmers descended on Parliament on their tractors yesterday, demanding ‘Save Family Farming!’ Having driven to the capital from as far afield as Exmoor,...

TWO weeks of postal strikes began with night shift Mail Centre workers across the UK walking out for 24 hours last Wednesday night at...

THE first private company to run an NHS hospital claims it has cut waiting times, improved care and delivered savings in its first six...

THE RMT’s Bob Crow yesterday called for ‘general coordinated strike action allied to community direct action’ to resist the ConDem coalition government’s...

‘WE’VE been screwed for too long. It’s time to stand up for ourselves and call for the BMA to support industrial action.’ This defiant statement...

Government ministers rushed out denials yesterday in the wake of a report calling for the axing of 137,000 NHS doctors, nurses and other clinical...

NATIONAL Union of Teachers (NUT) representatives yesterday condemned the government’s drive to organise strike-breaking during their national strike on March 26. In revised ‘advice on...

ARMED riot police unleashed a pre-planned pogrom of sheer violence against mass marches of mainly school and university students in all the main cities...

AXING student grants while hiking up university fees to an eyewatering £9,500 a year has driven tens of thousands of students out of education,...