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FIREFIGHTERS in Cornwall have slammed ‘dangerous’ plans to cut frontline cover which ‘will seriously affect public safety’ and demand that they are immediately withdrawn....

THE ANNUAL May Day march took place on Thursday on the hottest day of the year so far. The march wended its way from Clerkenwell...

Teachers’ union leader Chris Keates yesterday slammed a BBC Breakfast programme claim that there are an estimated 15,000 incompetent teachers in schools. The NASUWT general...

A PALESTINIAN woman was killed yesterday when Israeli forces opened live fire in the Al-Jenena neighbourhood, east of Rafah in southern Gaza, according to...

UNITE has condemned the government’s plan to cap compensation for unfair dismissal. In a ministerial statement the government has announced plans to introduce...

‘Student nurses are frustrated, angry and disillusioned because of the difficulties they face finding jobs as deficits bite,’ said UNISON, the UK’s largest health...

A realisation of the depth of the slump, yesterday drove the Bank of England to make a panic 1.5% cut in interest rates...

‘OVER half of all major Emergency Departments are currently operating in the Red Zone,’ Dr Adrian Boyle of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine...

Monday September 11th, Brighton

CHANCELLOR Hammond announced an extra £325 million in yesterday’s budget to fast-track some of the 44 hated STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) of Tory...

BY THE END of this week Raigmore Hospital in Inverness Scotland will lose its last radiologist, prompting the Royal College of Radiologists to declare...

BOSSES of London Met University were yesterday accused of acting like ‘19th century mill owners’ at a rally outside the Holloway Road campus in...

FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales will strike again over government attacks on pensions next Saturday, 19 October, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced yesterday. The...

CHILDREN as young as 8-years-old are being strip-searched by the police, with black children six times more likely to be targeted than non-black. A report...

Banning NHS operations to save money will gamble with patients’ health, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons warned yesterday. John Black, one of...

Teachers are heading for a conflict with the government over class sizes. The National Union of Teachers is to vote at its annual conference in...

‘The impact of deficits on NHS services and staff shows no sign of slowing down, with posts at risk of being lost to the...

Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday against moves by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to secure immunity from prosecution on fraud...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are calling on all their supporters to join them at their monthly mass picket on the hill at the Beacon...

THE LABOUR Party Conference in Liverpool next week is set to battle over the mandatory reselection of MPs. If it is agreed it will be...

London’s emergency plans must be changed to take into account the needs of survivors in the aftermath of a major incident, says the report...

IN THE British Medical Journal today, a leading doctor is calling on the Australian government to stop constraining doctors in the care of asylum...

ON FRIDAY, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street in central London to protest the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was...

THE Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition is cracking up, with the latest row breaking out over free schools and school places funding in England, with allies...

IN A powerful display of unity and solidarity on Wednesday, thousands of youth and workers gathered across the UK to form human shields to...

‘WE appeal to all Transport and General Workers Union branches and workers and the whole trade union movement to come to our support,’ Gate...

WORKERS attending the last night shift at the GM van plant in Luton on Thursday reacted with anger when they were given individual letters...

DESPITE fears of a ‘triple dip recession’, the Bank of England has kept interest rates and its Quantitative Easing (QE) monetary stimulus programme on...

UP TO THREE children are being crammed into single rooms in council homes, with families packed into flats like sardines, new figures confirm, with...

A SENIOR military spokesman for the Islamic Republic’s Armed Forces warned Israel and its allies yesterday that Iran will not tolerate the occupying regime’s...

EDUCATION is resuming for 300,000 Palestinian students in the Gaza Strip after two years of the Israeli genocide war, with 8,000 teachers coming back...

A NEW RMT hotline exposes 33 examples of Govia Thameslink cancelling trains due to ‘staff shortage’ or other excuses when a full crew of...

THE government’s Lobbying Bill is an ‘outrageous attack on freedom of speech worthy of an authoritarian dictatorship’, the TUC said yesterday. The TUC is seeking...

Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) yesterday commenced a legal case against the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. They are challenging the unlawful imprisonment, through kettling of...

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...

THE Italian state TV and radio reported on Friday that according to the Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek government was prepared to...

THE Bank of England yesterday left UK interest rates unchanged at 0.5 per cent and announced no expansion to its quantitative easing (QE-printing money)...

Tens of thousands of anti-Mubarak protesters gathered outside Egypt’s parliament yesterday, bringing business to a halt, just several hundred yards from the continuing mass...

LONDON bus drivers employed by French government-owned privateer RATP took their third day of strike action against £2,500 pay cuts yesterday, with another two...

‘SAY “No’’ to this sham consultation!’, shouted dozens of angry local residents fighting to save Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, as they demonstrated outside...

CAMPAIGNERS will be protesting outside Jobcentres in over 70 towns and cities across the UK on Wednesday (9 March 2016) as part of...

ON the opening day of the TUC conference in Manchester yesterday a lively 50 strong lobby of Workers Revolutionary Party and Young socialists members...

GP LEADERS are dismayed as the UK Secretary of State refuses to give additional help to GP practices. The Health and Social Care Secretary is...

AHEAD of today’s TUC Congress, the leaders of two of the country’s biggest unions warned that their members’ anger over cuts in their jobs,...

LETHAL force was used again yesterday against unarmed Palestinians demonstrating on the Gaza border as Israeli forces open fired, killing two Palestinians. Thousands of protesters...