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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers picketed the Hillingdon Regional Office of the Transport and General Workers Union yesterday. They told fellow union members that their employment...

THE Tamil Tigers leader V Piraparahan yesterday addressed the Tamil people and the world on the occasion of ‘Great Heroes Day’. He said it was...

THE GMB has hailed a ‘massive victory’ for 40,000 Asda workers in their equal pay claim after the Supreme Court ruled in their favour...

AS Southeastern rail franchise passes into public ownership this Sunday, the RMT transport union has revealed the true cost of private sector failure and...

‘The trade union and Labour movement must rise up and oppose Blair’s proposal to ensure Britain becomes the aircraft carrier for Bush’s nuclear ambitions,’...

NHS bosses have started to implement the £20 billion savage cuts programme, officially described as ‘efficiency savings’, that the new Tory government insists must...

AT least a dozen doctors are to take legal action against the government because they believe they were forced to join a pension scheme...

The family of Baha Mousa who was tortured to death and eight other torture victims yesterday welcomed the announcement that three British soldiers from...

Almost 10p in every pound of a gas or electricity bill is now going directly into the coffers of the privatised energy companies. Gas and...

‘STOP reorganising the NHS, increase NHS funding, and commit to an NHS free at the point of delivery,’ demanded the Royal College of Physicians...

‘GOVE must go!’ was the common chant of tens of thousands of teachers taking part in a second series of joint NUT-NASUWT regional strikes...

MPs yesterday raised questions about the ID card Bill which was introduced in the House of Commons by Home Secretary Charles Clarke. Clarke said he...

THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) warned yesterday that ‘fire and rehire’ tactics have become widespread during the pandemic, with new polling finding that nearly...

Yesterday human rights group Liberty called on Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to seek assurances in the next 14 days from the USA that it...

‘WE DON’T accept privatisation,’ RMT rail union leader Bob Crow said yesterday, on the eve of today’s strike by over 2,300 RMT members employed...

IN LIGHT of the Windrush scandal the government has been forced to change the rules to ensure workers from other countries can participate...

POSTAL workers began balloting for strike action yesterday while the government, in a provocative move, chose the same day to announce they would float...

The CWU postal workers union yesterday slammed a call from government appointed regulator Postcomm to privatise Royal Mail. CWU general secretary Billy Hayes said: ‘This...

DURING the House of Commons Prime Ministers Questions yesterday, both Tory PM May and Labour leader Corbyn avoided the burning issue of the hour,...

making nurses work as Health Care Assistants for a year before they can start to train as a nurse is ‘a stupid idea’, Royal...

GREECE has ordered its public sector bodies to hand over any reserve cash to help it meet a payment due to the International Monetary...

PM TRUSS is determined to remove a cap on bankers’ bonuses as part of a post-Brexit shake-up of City rules, to really get the...

THE CRISIS caused by the privatisation of the probation system in England and Wales has cost taxpayers almost £500m, the government’s National Audit Office...

LABOUR is now promising to campaign for Remain in any new EU referendum against ‘no deal or a damaging Tory Brexit’. The shift in Labour’s...

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at around 500 colleges and universities across the UK took strike action yesterday against changes to...

BRITISH Foreign Secretary Hague yesterday tried to get the EU to lift its arms embargo on the Syrian terrorist ‘rebels’ and to stoke up...

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ISRAELI forces continued lethal operations in Gaza and intensified repression across the occupied West Bank yesterday amid repeated ceasefire violations in the Strip and...

A LIVELY crowd of 50 Ritzy cinema workers attracted a lot of support in Brixton yesterday, shouting ‘pay the living wage’ and ‘living staff,...

A MASS protest in support of the fire service took place outside Ladbroke Grove fire station on Monday night, by residents who live in...

THE MH17 crash was a result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that struck the Boeing from the outside,...

‘I AM voting for Jonty Leff because I am angry about the lack of jobs for young people and the amount that they are...

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...

WHEN Sudan’s civil war broke out in April, conflict arose between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, leader...

With the encouragement of Bush and Blair, Israel continued its murderous air, land and sea bombardments on Lebanon yesterday, striking central Beirut for the...

‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to sit down and make a credible offer so we have a health system that works,’ BMA Junior Doctors Committee Co-Chair,...

‘Vauxhall employees contribute in support of the Opel/Vauxhall turnaround plan,’ General Motors announced yesterday. The deal was struck in Rüsselsheim on Thursday. A...

THE Greek coalition government’s presidential candidate right-winger Stavros Dimas received the votes of just 160 parliamentary deputies last Wednesday night in the first round...

LIBYAN Government forces are firing Russian-made rockets and howitzers on counter-revolutionary ‘rebels’ and their Western commanders and forcing them back. Meanwhile, NATO bombers are clearing...

THE TORIES are failing to tackle the acute teacher shortage crisis in schools across England, a committee of MPs said yesterday. The Education Select Committee...

HUNDREDS of cancer operations were cancelled during the NHS winter crisis, meaning that for some patients, by the time they are treated, their cancer...

Doctors and medical students will be asked to vote on changes to their pensions at the conclusion of negotiations with the government, the British...

IN THE much-anticipated medium term budget policy statement (MTBPS), the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, will, like his counterparts at the South African Reserve...

‘ISRAEL has gone on an assassination spree against resistance commanders in a desperate effort to prevent its demise,’ Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf...

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