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SENIOR Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has called on fellow Conservative MPs to assess whether Boris Johnson is still fit to be leader of the...

TRADE unions yesterday welcomed the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader. This was after the explosion of working class anger inside and around...

DESPITE announcing yesterday a seven-day rolling average of 130 people a day dying from Covid-19, Tory PM Johnson announced measures to ‘safely ease the...

‘SLAVERY should go and our rights given!’ demanded London Overground workers who were lobbying the London Mayor’s office yesterday in preparation for their February...

THE government’s hospital closure programme could be derailed if masses of people take to the streets, said Chris Hopson, the leader of NHS England’s...

OVER 10,000 workers and youth gathered at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) grounds on Wednesday evening on the 9th day and night...

THE NHS is in danger of being overwhelmed by a surge of both Covid-19 and non-Covid cases, a new British Medical Association (BMA) survey...

A DEMONSTRATION in Wakefield will be held today into the delay by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) on whether it will launch a...

FRIENDS and family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday marked the third anniversary of the young Brazilian’s killing by a police death squad who...

BRITISH Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) chief negotiator Pete James bought his ticket yesterday for the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers anniversary rally in Southall...

SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell spelt out yesterday that Labour wants to form a ‘caretaker government’ with the other opposition parties which would organise a...

STUDENTS at Manchester Metropolitan University are confined to their rooms, with security officers keeping them inside. In a statement, Manchester Met said: ‘Our security teams...

BUS workers across London are on strike today over an escalating battle over pay. The 24-hour strike is over the refusal of London’s 18 bus...

200 RESIDENTS and their supporters took part in an all-day picket and protest at West Hendon housing estate in north west London yesterday, where...

OVER 8,500 General Practitioners (GPs) across England have overwhelmingly voted in favour of taking collective action, including strike action, in response to mounting challenges...

TORY class war legislation to be brought in for use against the working class over the coming year was unveiled in the Queen’s Speech...

Striking lecturers at Tower Hamlets College in East London yesterday called on other trade unions and colleges to join their Day of Action next...

‘EACH and every one of you are victims of a cynical sacking. It’s not just an issue for you, our members, it is –...

unemployment soared by another 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December, the Office for National Statistics reported yesterday. The official unemployment rate...

THE eviction of Heygate Estate tenant Evelyn Amahian and her two-year-old daughter was halted yesterday morning, when 40 tenants, trade unionists and youth arrived...

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday warned that the ‘welfare reform’ plans announced in the Queen’s Speech ‘are the wrong proposals at...

LEGAL proceedings have been issued in the High Court against the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) saying that the agency’s involvement in a...

The Lugansk city authorities called the Monday airstrike on the city centre, which killed eight, a war crime by the Kiev authorities. In a statement...

IN AN INTERVIEW with Al Jazeera yesterday, Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said the Palestinian group will not engage in further...

TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to forcibly impose the new contract on the junior doctors was wrong because he does not have the...

RUPERT Murdoch ‘is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company’, the Parliamentary Culture Committee reported yesterday. The committee was...

THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for the scrapping of the Tory ‘Prevent Strategy’. Delegates condemned the government’s...

Legal charity Reprieve yesterday demanded the British government reveal details of the secret illegal detention of ‘ghost’ prisoner Mustafa Setmariam Naser on Diego Garcia...

‘External intervention’ in Syria is becoming more likely, says a leading UK-based military think tank. Planning for possible intervention is already under way...

STRIKING nurses are marching on Downing Street today, leaving UCLH (University College London Hospital) at 2.30pm, as nursing staff go on strike in what...

BANKER Richard Meddings has been appointed as the new chairman of NHS England. Meddings, who is also a non-executive director at Credit Suisse will replace...

‘THIS MUST be the end of “fire and rehire”. We now have a collectively bargained agreement,’ Unite NW-54 Branches Communities Rep Sam Harvey told...

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire on civilians gathered near its GHF (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) site in Rafah, southern Gaza again yesterday, killing at...

PATIENTS and doctors still need answers on seven-day hospital services, Dr Mark Porter, the chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA), said yesterday. This follows...

HUNGER striker Parameswaran Subramaniyan, is continuing his hunger strike for the 23rd day outside Parliament, surrounded by more than a thousand Tamil workers...

FIERCE local opposition has emerged on the Carpenter’s Estate, in the heart of Stratford’s Olympic Village, where tenants are being forced from their homes,...

THE NHS prescription charge is ‘iniquitous’ and ‘outdated’ and should be scrapped, urge GPs in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB), edited...

The Welsh TUC is supporting a rally at 1.30 pm tomorrow at Pembroke Dock in solidarity with the Irish Ferries workers fighting attempts...

THE NUT has announced that members in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action to protect pay and working conditions. In the...

AS RUSSIA celebrated Victory Day over the Nazis with massive parades all over the country, Ukrainian troops using heavy weaponry and tanks in the...

‘I AM voting for Workers Revolutionary Party candidate Jonty Leff because the WRP are the only party fighting for a future for young people,’...

A public inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney, 24 – who died after being shot six times at close range by police as...

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

YESTERDAY’S 24-hour strike by 200 Aslef members working out of London’s Waterloo Station was 100 per cent solid and will be repeated tomorrow, Aslef...

PRIME Minister Cameron stepped up his war against youth yesterday by launching the new Tory ‘Community Work Programme’. The programme forces youth to carry...