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The Communication Workers Union yesterday warned that planned job cuts by Royal Mail will threaten services and downgrade staff to a part-time workforce. Plans seen...

FOURTEEN-hundred workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland face the sack at 6pm today if they refuse to sign a wage- and conditions-cutting...

NHS doctor Rahmeh Aladwan, 31, pleaded not guilty yesterday at Westminster Magistrates Court to charges of ‘inciting support for Hamas’ and ‘publishing material intended...

TWENTY-NINE Palestinian civilians have been killed and 3,000 wounded by Israeli snipers and tanks firing at unarmed demonstrators near the Gaza border over the...

‘IT’S BABIES, the newborns coming into this world, they must be protected and they must continue to be born in Ealing Hospital,’ Southall College...

IN the midst of catastrophic humanitarian suffering for more than two million Palestinians – half of them children, the Israeli occupation army continued, for...

THE Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) yesterday afternoon announced a ‘criminal investigation’ into the death of Ian Tomlinson. Home Secretary Jaqui Smith had conceded earlier...

The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday rejected an 8% over three years pay-cutting NHS Pay Review Body offer, which is backed by the...

EX-Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond was asked point blank yesterday if he believed bankers who broke the law should be jailed. He was asked the...

‘We made a mistake in the house,’ said one of the Israeli occupation soldiers, trying to justify to the mother of Mohammad Ibrahim Shaham,...

The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) yesterday slammed plans by new Works and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to force five million people...

CALL an ambulance and a fire engine turns up! Firefighters with just six days basic first aid training are being sent to medical emergencies instead...

AS many as 3,000 junior doctors are unable to find posts and are being driven to seek work either abroad or outside the NHS,...

A PETITION to remove Tory Health Secretary Hunt from his post is already heading towards the 100,000 mark. Some 80,000 people have signed a petition...

Postal workers at the CWU Conference in Bournemouth said yesterday they are ready for a fight to defend their jobs, wages and the postal...

BUS workers were in high spirits yesterday on the second Friday out of four consecutive Fridays of strike action over low pay and management...

INSULTED Barts Hospital patient transport staff are demonstrating at 12 noon at Newham Hospital in east London today against management’s poor treatment of staff...

DRUGS are to be rationed under new proposals to strip back the care available to patients, including vital medicines for terminally ill patients,...

THE Bank of England was yesterday exposed as planning to deceive the public over research it is carrying out into the financial risks of...

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has condemned the Trinity Mirror publishing group for announcing the closure of its final salary pension scheme – and...

Sunday November 29th

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday announced a week of action against the closure of Post Offices. The week of campaigning by the ‘Future for...

US federal and local government workers union AFSCME President Lee Saunders has slammed Michigan Governor Snyder for ‘suspending democracy’ in Detroit and filing for...

‘THERE was no deal. There was nothing, nothing on the table,’ said Junior Doctors’ Co-chair, Robert Laurenson outside the Department of Health, yesterday morning. Laurenson...

THE likelihood of Thames Water being taken into public ownership has significantly increased, following the shareholders’ refusal to provide £500m in urgent financial support. This...

‘THIS is the biggest gathering that I can remember of solicitors, barristers, probation staff and the many people we represent,’ solicitor Paul Harris told...

‘More than 30 maternity and A&E units have been shut down, downgraded or threatened with closure since May’s general election, despite the government’s promise...

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

DOCK workers at the UK’s largest container port yesterday began an eight-day strike, for the first time in 30 years. About 1,900 members of the...

Britain is considering sending more troops to Afghanistan ‘as a matter of urgency’ Defence Secretary Des Browne told MPs yesterday. In a statement to the...

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

THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic reinforces – not diminishes – the strong case for the NHS workforce to receive a ‘beyond substantial’ pay rise for 2021-22,...

MORE than 86,000 NHS posts were vacant between January 2017 and March 2017, figures for the NHS in England suggest. Today’s NHS Vacancy Statistics England...

THE GMB has accused BA of bad faith. Claims of ‘significant progress’ in a leaked letter from British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz mask...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday launched the Labour Party’s election manifesto – which pledged to cut billions from public spending, whilst ‘securing the recovery’. Brown...

THOUSANDS of students and workers will be marching from the University of London Union (ULU) to parliament tomorrow, when the Tory-LibDem Coalition government...

Workers on the second day of their two-day strike over pensions at the giant Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland yesterday remained defiant and determined...

OUTSIDE Downing Street yesterday, special forces veteran Ben Griffin read out a message on behalf of disabled veteran Dave Smith. Griffin said: ‘Dave Smith can...

PROTESTERS picketed South African mining company Lonmin’s AGM in central London yesterday, demanding it pays compensation to the families of mineworkers killed in a...

THOUSANDS of head teachers boycotted SATs tests yesterday on the grounds that the tests damage children’s education. Head teachers in the National Association of...

‘IT IS absolutely outrageous! We demand that they reinstate our full A&E, not only the children’s, to 24-hour A&E,’ Julian Porter told News Line...

In his tenth Pre Budget Report yesterday Chancellor Brown spoke about the threat to British capitalism from India and China. He said: ‘Once...

A LONDON march and rally marking the fifth day of strike action in over 30 Sixth Form Colleges took place yesterday, with union leaders...

Public lectures – Trotskyism today

A nurse working at Chase Farm hospital is facing an eviction notice that would leave her homeless by the new year. Gloria Ankrah is being...