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The coalition government is pressing ahead with plans to make GP practices responsible for purchasing health care in England, replacing Primary Care Trusts and...

HUNDREDS of thousands of public sector workers are striking in defence of their pensions on Thursday May 10th. The strike comes the day after the...

SIX unions have mounted a legal challenge on behalf of millions of public sector workers over what inflation index is used to increase their...

GPs in England will no longer have to offer appointments lasting at least 10 minutes under changes agreed with the government. It is one of...

DELEGATES at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Annual Congress at the Brighton Conference Centre cheered and gave General Secretary Pat Cullen a standing...

‘NO ONE has been held responsible for anything, no one is going to be prosecuted and the police have been allowed to get away...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his military leadership they should build up their forces in the Arctic as a priority. Commending the recent restoration...

HOMELESS charity Crisis yesterday condemned letters telling tenants in Haringey that ‘social landlord’ Genesis is starting eviction proceedings because it does not think they...

ONLY a fraction of the donated £20 million has reached the survivors and families of the victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy which claimed...

The 1,200 striking workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery yesterday made it clear they are determined to defend their pensions. Unite members walked out of...

OVER 1,000 people joined a demonstration and rally on Saturday to protest over plans to cut up to 500 jobs at the...

THE LEFT-wing Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) yesterday announced the launch of an upcoming membership consultation on whether the trade union should...

‘CUT our pay – no way!’, ‘Two per cent is rubbish, so is Gordon Brown!’ and ‘Come on, come on Gordon Brown – raise...

‘HEADS must roll for the humiliation and misery inflicted on decent, upstanding people,’ the CWU (Communication Workers Union) insisted yesterday. It is demanding criminal investigations...

THOUSANDS of junior doctors will take to the streets of London today in protest at the imposed changes to their contracts. The rally today in...

THE head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has vowed that his militant group would oust militants from a region on the border with Syria, but declined...

OVER 800 doctors, legal experts, and family members have signed an open letter urging Justice Secretary David Lammy to meet to save the pro-Palestine...

ONE in six A&Es across the length and breadth of the country are threatened with closure, according to research by the Health Service Journal...

FIREFIGHTERS in England have announced a further 24 hour strike to take place next Tuesday in the escalating battle over pensions. However no strike action...

THE SYRIAN government absolutely rejects the allegations ‘that the army used in the past or uses now or will use in the future any...

‘VOTE YES,’ the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) urged as it launched a strike ballot of the remainder of its 63,000 members in England...

‘THE TRUTH must come out and it will,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday afternoon as the number who died in the Grenfell Tower...

A QUARTER of a million, mainly young people, marched from Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park in London on Saturday afternoon, demanding trade union action...

THE HIGH Court in London yesterday ruled in favour of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s right to appeal against the UK court ruling approving his...

WHILST out campaigning yesterday, Gate Gourmet workers, now locked out for almost six months, spoke out very angrily about the unsigned letter just received...

‘It was a night of terror, we were terrified, we thought we were going to burn to death,’ said 27-year-old Fadia Al-Najjar from Khaza’a...

THE HOME Office has been forced to apologise after people were wrongly deported for refusing to take DNA tests to prove they were entitled...

SYRIA yesterday began an offensive to take back its entire territory launching a new assault on Idlib, the last part of Syria still controlled...

The House of Commons yesterday witnessed a Blairite revolt against Prime Minister Brown. Ex-cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt bolstered the Tories by calling...

Government plans to downgrade district general hospitals in favour of care in the community are being pushed forward with the announcement of plans to...

REFUGEE children sent from the demolished ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais are being used as forced labour in fruit farms, a charity has claimed. So far...

A YEAR of unparalleled pressure has left staff exhausted and on the brink, a just-released BMA survey shows. Thousands of doctors have revealed the impact...

ON THE day the owners in Dubai are set to pay hundreds of millions in dividends, RMT has called for P&O Ferries to be...

Universal Credit (UC) is allowing ‘abusers’ to take control of family finances, an investigation by a parliamentary committee has heard. UC is paid to...

DELEGATES at the Trade Union Congress in Brighton voted unanimously yesterday to defend the right to strike and political protest. They voted for Composite Motion...

ON THE second day of the ScotRail strike, the RMT revealed that the Dutch-state parent company and top bosses are raking it in at...

THE German Constitutional Court has shaken the European Union with its statement yesterday that the European Central Bank’s (ECB) bond-buying scheme could be ‘incompatible’...

THERE were lively picket lines around Heathrow Airport yesterday, as the British Airways cabin crew took their 11th day of strike action in defence...

‘Rushed through reforms’ to doctors’ training will see ‘risks to patient care’, warns the British Medical Association. The BMA said that under the government’s ‘Modernising...

THE LABOUR, SNP, and Lib Dem parties agreed yesterday not to take up Tory PM Boris Johnson’s challenge and back his motion on Monday...

HEBA Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed, activists linked to Palestine Action, remain on hunger strike in prison and say they will continue until their demands...

‘WE RESPONDED positively to a new proposal over Gaza,’ Hamas chief in Gaza Khalil al-Hayya said on Saturday, adding that his movement had approached...

THE government is responsible for maternity services being overworked, understaffed and struggling to cope, warned the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday. Maternity unit closures,...

GAS for industry and grit for the roads were being rationed yesterday as British industry began to shut down. Vauxhall, Ellesmere Port, Jaguar Land Rover,...

Babar Ahmad has called ‘for this injustice to be avenged’ after Home Secretary Charles Clarke ordered his extradition to America to face trumped up...