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THE LABOUR Party’s governing body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), yesterday adopted all of the examples of ‘anti-Semitism’ in the international definition, in addition...

DISMANTLING our state education system and parcelling it off to unelected, unaccountable sponsors is a disgrace,’ Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union...

THE WARRINGTON and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been forced by an enormous outburst of mass anger to cancel a scheme allowing patients...

Business and Universities Secretary Cable has confirmed his intention to lift the cap on tuition fees, as recommended in the Browne Review. Lifting the cap...

A DELEGATION of five ministers from the Palestinian cabinet visited the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Monday to investigate the ongoing Israeli...

STAFF at the Blackstock Road Finsbury Park campus of the Capital City College Group walked out yesterday for the third day of strike action,...

IT IS ‘totally unacceptable’, that over 4,000 households in North East England remain without power more than nine days after Storm Arwen tore down...

THE Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance groups have condemned an attack by illegal Israeli settlers on the village of Jit in the northern...

STUDENT nurses and midwives are lobbying parliament today in opposition to Tory plans to end the student bursaries by August 2017. And a national march...

TRADE union general secretaries and other delegates to the TUC General Council expressed support, and donated money to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers...

CALLING for cut fire appliances and jobs to be restored, South West Region Fire Brigades Union has warned fire and rescue services won’t be...

‘WE MUST not allow the Gate Gourmet workers to be starved. ‘The whole trade union movement must rally round and provide the funds and make...

THE NHS is wasting precious time and money introducing reforms that are failing to deliver better services to patients or value for money, says...

Public sector union Unison yesterday sounded the alarm bells over a move from NHS foundation trust bosses to lift the cap on the...

Postal workers were yesterday left confused and angry after the Communication Workers Union (CWU) Postal Executive called off strikes at five mail centres late...

FOUR hundred and fifty jobs are to be axed at the BBC, it was announced yesterday. The cuts include the closure of the Victoria Derbyshire...

‘THE POOREST students will graduate with the largest debt. We concur that the reintroduction of grants is essential,’ Emily Chapman, NUS Vice-President (Further Education)...

‘I BELIEVE that young people and working class people are being treated very badly by the capitalist system,’ Workers Revolutionary Party candidate Jonty Leff,...

Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser to US President Bush, was the first person UK ambassador to the US Christopher Meyer heard mention Iraq...

THE JUNIOR doctors strike, on Wednesday February 10th will go ahead, doctors union the BMA announced yesterday. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Despite the...

THE UK committed ‘crimes against humanity’ by refusing to allow Chagos Islanders to return to their homes on the Chagos Islands, which is now...

MORE than half of family doctors say they are expecting to leave the profession early according to a new ComRes survey carried out for...

THE London Fire Brigades Union banner will be on today’s mass march to stop the closure of Lewisham Hospital. Yesterday it was outside Ealing...

RETAIL Price Index (RPI) inflation, which includes housing costs, grew by 2.8% in the year ending January 2014, up from 2.7% in December 2013. This...

TWO TEACHING unions have strongly criticised a minimum wage internship for teachers run by Stranmillis University College in Belfast. The NASUWT said the scheme should...

‘THIS is a difficult and dangerous situation for the world economy,’ Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday in an interview for the ‘Observer’ newspaper. Brown...

THERE was a lively picket of at least 40 workers and youth, including sacked Visteon workers, organised by the North-East London Council of Action...

Mortgage bank Bradford & Bingley is to be nationalised to prevent a run on the bank and its complete collapse, possibly spreading...

OXFORD and Cambridge lecturers joined a three thousand-strong march in central London yesterday called by the London Region UCU on the 13th day of...

‘DON’T sign anything at all’ the leader of the NEU teachers union told striking teachers and support staff who are threatened with ‘fire and...

ON DAY 13 of the daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital, which has been called to prepare for occupation to stop its closure,...

MORE than 80% of parents have refused to put their children in harm’s way, scuppering the government’s plan to reopen schools yesterday, a poll...

THE Islamic Republic’s first and foremost priority is a ‘decisive and firm’ battle to defend its territory against the ongoing unprovoked US-Israeli war of...

Eight mental health workers and their families, who live in the Chase Farm hospital residences, face eviction. The trust has issued eviction notices for these...

‘These grim figures show that unemployment is still a national emergency in this country,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line. He was responding to research...

A LAST minute intervention in Whitehall delayed plans to tackle the backlog of patients on hospital waiting lists in England. Details of the NHS England...

UNDER-FIRE City College Plymouth (CCP) principal Garry Phillips resigned yesterday after a damning report earlier this month exposed serious leadership failings at his previous...

Greek trade union leaders have called a general strike today after armed riot police furiously attacked teachers union leaders on Monday with batons and...

ASLEF has announced a July 8 strike on London Underground after members voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over pay and...

FURTHER welfare cuts and tax rises ‘must be on the cards’ to make the government’s numbers in the Autumn Statement add up, the Institute...

The leader of the Greek conservatives Antonis Samaras, whose New Democracy party came top in last Sunday’s general election, winning just below 19 per...

‘WE demand a full public inquiry into blacklisting!’ Gail Cartmail, assistant general secretary of Unite said while addressing the TUC conference in Brighton yesterday. Speaking...

Around 100 Syrians and supporters held a vigil outside the Syrian embassy in London last Friday evening, to condemn last Thursday’s terrorist bombings in...

LONDON is set to be brought to a standstill after thousands of bus workers employed by the privateer Metroline have voted overwhelmingly for strike...

THE agreement between Israeli Prime Minister-Designate Benjamin Netanyahu and extremist Itamar Ben Gvir is ‘a broad call for an escalation in the violence in...