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Chagos Islanders were yesterday jubilant after the Court of Appeal dismissed the government’s appeal against their right to return to their homeland. Following the ruling...

STRIKE action at 27 universities begins on Monday as a survey shows most UK university staff are considering leaving the sector. A third wave of...

HOME Secretary Theresa May has called for an overhaul in the EU asylum rules saying the bloc must speed up deportation of ‘economic migrants’...

Keele University has one week to avoid the ignominy of becoming the first university to receive an academic boycott from the University and College...

PM JOHNSON said yesterday in Blackpool: ‘Today we are living in the aftermath of the worst pandemic for a century, and once again we...

THE indefinite strike of Greek state nursery and primary school teachers, who are demanding higher salaries, is continuing. The leader of their umbrella organisation,...

‘WE say to the UK government today we will not allow you to do this, we do not trust you and we will fight...

CLEARLY the Tory government is determined NOT to address the drastic workforce and pay crisis in the NHS which is at the centre of...

TWO TORY MPs, Sir Roger Gale and Douglas Ross, have publicly confirmed that they have submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime...

‘EVERYONE understands that (Israeli Prime Minister) Netanyahu and his government are not willing to reach a ceasefire deal,’ Hamas warned yesterday. The Hamas Palestine liberation...

‘HE broke the law. He engaged in an illegitimate war of aggression that history has condemned,’ former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter said yesterday,...

‘We’ve been fighting for more than one year and we are coming close to victory. Our hearing starts next week and we are very,...

ORGANISERS of the international ‘Flotilla of Resilience’ announced Thursday afternoon that the Israeli navy intercepted 40 out of 44 boats carrying activists and humanitarian...

PRIME Minister Blair yesterday urged support for ID cards, and a national database on everyone, for ‘less than £30’ above the cost of new...

THREE sets of strikers fighting low pay came together at the Bank of England yesterday lunchtime. The morning began at 8am outside JP Morgan new...

UNITE yesterday welcomed a Scottish parliament motion lodged by Neil Findlay MSP drawing attention to the crisis facing BA workers. The company has served BA...

PM KEIR Starmer yesterday met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Downing Street as Zelensky continues his diplomatic efforts to secure European backing for...

THE Care Quality Commission has put a cap on the number of people who can be admitted to the ‘Majors’ section of the A&E...

The BMA has secured more than £200,000 in back pay for junior doctors, after their rotas failed to provide sufficient rest. It has now...

THE WEST London Council of Action has called a 7am-9am Xmas Mass Picket of Ealing Hospital on Friday 20th December to step up the...

FORMAL backing for more than a quarter of a million civil and public servants to join a public sector-wide strike on November 30 puts...

JEREMY Corbyn launching his official campaign to remain the leader of the Labour Party promised to ‘hold out the hand of friendship’...

RESIDENT doctors in England have overwhelmingly voted that the government’s proposed offer on jobs is not good enough for them to call off proposed...

‘We are heading for a serious conflict,’ UNISON head of health Karen Jennings told News Line yesterday. She was referring to statements by the new...

‘I send this message to Gordon Brown. We are prepared to fight. We are prepared to strike. And we are going to win,’ General...

HAMAS has slammed the US Biden administration’s announcement that it is rushing another $20 billion worth of arms to Israel to escalate its genocide...

SEVERAL hundreds of secondary schools throughout Greece remain shut as school students refused to attend classes considering the Covid-19 government guidelines to be ineffective. Last...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday refused to back or oppose the Tory plan for a two-year transition period after the March 2019 withdrawal from...

RUSSIA has recognised the counter-revolutionary Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) as the only legitimate power in the country, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Ahead of...

ISRAEL’S genocidal war on Gaza entered its 200th day yesterday, with the Health Ministry saying that the IOF (Israeli Occupation Force) had committed three...

PASSING lorries, cars and buses hooted in support along the busy London Road in Isleworth, west London, as University and College Union (UCU) members...

THE Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) targeted the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with four ballistic missiles yesterday as part of its retaliatory...

EALING SOUTHALL WRP candidate Hassan Zulkifal confronted Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. Hancock claimed: ‘We’ve saved the A&E and now...

NHS workers at the South London and Maudsley (SLAM) NHS Trust staged a three-day strike this week against more than 200 job cuts announced...

OVER 100 defiant occupying students at the University of Arts London (UAL) were joined by students from the LSE occupation and other universities and...

THE High Court yesterday followed up its decision to ban strike action at British Airways at Christmas by banning strike action at Network Rail...

COUNCIL worker unions angrily rejected a 2 per cent wage cut pay offer yesterday, as inflation hit 4.6 per cent, the highest in 16...

A SIX-MONTH campaign led by an NHS doctor to have the full report into a pandemic preparation exercise published has successfully forced the Health...

GP LEADERS yesterday handed in a 16,000-strong petition from patients to Downing Street demanding ministers act urgently to help GP practices under threat of...

THE Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) and Independent Greeks party (ANEL) coalition government, has confirmed that it is to implement a privatisation programme. This...

The government is planning a new savage assault on the sick and disabled. A government-commissioned review by Professor Carol Black and former head of the...

THE BMA has responded angrily to threats to GPs issued by the government’s new Chief Inspector of Primary Care, Professor Steve Field, who takes...

THE firefighters union, FBU, yesterday said that they are considering strike action to defend Buckinghamshire firefighter and FBU executive committee member Ricky Matthews. He was...

BRITISH Steel is seeking a £100m loan from the government in order to meet an EU emission rules attack. Previously, the company could have used...

‘THIS IS dangerous nonsense and must be opposed by the whole trade union movement,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said yesterday responding to a...