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TRADE unions in the United Kingdom have denounced as outrageous Israel’s decision to designate six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist. ‘We strongly condemn the...

ON FRIDAY, PM May wrote a grovelling surrender letter of complete capitulation to the EU President Donald Tusk, in which she agreed that the...

NEARLY a quarter of Labour MPs have called fora ceasefire in Gaza. Forty-nine of the party’s 199 MPs have either said they want a ceasefire...

Prime minister Brown yesterday attempted to play down reports of rifts with the Bank of England, and between the EU and the US...

THE North East London Council of Action organised a mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital yesterday to stop the closure of Maternity, Paediatrics and...

Public sector unions yesterday condemned the huge fees being charged for making ‘operational changes’ to contracts by PFI privateers. This followed a National Audit Office...

‘we are calling for strike action in our defence,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith declared yesterday, after bailiffs turned up at the wind turbine...

OVER 5,000 Greek school and university students along with teachers and university lecturers demonstrated through the Athens city centre yesterday afternoon for the third...

‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 800 protesters at a Nakba (Catastrophe) Day demonstration opposite Downing Street on Saturday. The protestors insisted that Palestinian refugees must have...

Despite torrential rain, over 20,000 youth and workers with their families congregated for the second night running in Athens’ main square in front of...

POSTAL workers from the Greenford Mail Centre, one of the biggest in the country, are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ first...

SRI LANKA’S revolutionary anti-government demonstrators said yesterday they were ending their occupation of official buildings, but vowed to press on with their revolution to...

Carillion workers were supported by Unite workers from Honda and BMW and officials from GMB yesterday lunch time, outside The Great Western Hospital in...

PICTUREHOUSE Cinema workers have vowed to defend the right to strike, defy the threats being made against them and proceed with their nine days...

THE Royal College of Midwives is warning of a worsening maternity crisis as a senior midwife survey shows services at boiling point. ‘The maternity crisis...

OVER a hundred thousand workers and youth took part in the Durham Miners Gala on Saturday and heard Unite’s McCluskey declare his allegiance...

PM Cameron yesterday beat the nationalist drum for all he was worth in an attempt to win back the right wing vote that is...

‘THE goverment’s priority at every stage following the European Union referendum has been to respect the outcome of that referendum and to ensure it...

DOCTORS at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Harrogate yesterday voted overwhelmingly in opposition to NHS privatisation and...

PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas yesterday denounced the latest Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip, describing them as a desperate attempt by the regime to cover...

‘IT IS outrageous that London Underground have decided to discriminate against their Night Tube drivers,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said yesterday as...

THE PLO on Wednesday presented a draft UN resolution laying out terms for a final peace deal with Israel but sought to avoid a...

‘We walked out at 9am today as we said we would,’ Hampstead Delivery Office Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Unit rep John Cotier said on...

SPEAKING to the BBC on Tuesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro specifically expressed hope that his country ‘is not robbed of the gold that legally...

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...

‘CHRONIC understaffing across the NHS is putting patient lives at risk,’ a UK-wide annual survey of nurses published yesterday at the start of Unison’s...

THE tuc issued the following statement in support of tomorrow’s Workplace Day of Action for Palestine: ‘The TUC and unions are supporting the workplace day...

FORMER senior military commanders are runnng a campaign to strengthen the British army for a war in Syria. The former head of the armed forces...

PRIME Minister Cameron came under increasing pressure yesterday to follow the two top London police officers who have quit in the past two days,...

THE NUMBER of zero-hours contract and low-paid self-employed workers has rocketed by a quarter since 2011 to three million, new research released yesterday by...

‘BRING us back into the NHS NOW!’ strikers from SLaM (South London and Maudsley) mental health trust are demanding as they converge on Downing...

‘THE ANC NEC lekgotla was the opportunity to address and correct the existential crises facing the nation, the state and the movement. The question...

CHANCELLOR Osborne oversaw the creation of a ‘Star Chamber’ yesterday, to force through the planned £60 billion a year spending cuts. Osborne told the...

THE UNISON National Delegate Conference in Bournemouth yesterday voted for a campaign to bring about a change to UK and EU governments’ policies towards...

‘STILL almost 8 in 10 blocks with Grenfell type cladding have not had it replaced with over half of those with no work started...

TENANTS on demolition-threatened Aylesbury and Heygate council estates in Southwark, south-east London, are to march through the estates on Saturday April 5 to defend...

Vauxhall Ellesmere Port workers voted unanimously at a mass meeting yesterday morning to reject the voluntary redundancy package put forward by General Motors. They were...

The GMB trade union is holding a demonstration in Sheffield and a rally in Wakefield today, to defend 4,000 Remploy jobs. The GMB warned...

OVER 70 hospital staff, patients, supporters and trade unionists held a rally outside the threatened Whipps Cross District General Hospital in Walthamstow, north London...

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

ECUADOR’S President Lenin Moreno has been forced to back down and cancel the country’s IMF loan after the revolutionary uprising sweeping the country won a...

SPORTS Direct boss Mike Ashley admitted, during a grilling by a committee of MPs yesterday, that he was effectively paying warehouse workers less than...

‘SAVE Chase Farm Occupy Now! Whose hospital? Our Hospital!’ More than 200 marchers chanted these slogans as they moved onto the Chase Farm Hospital site...

THE Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO) mobilised over 3,500 supporters of the struggle of the Tamils in a lively and colourful demonstration outside Downing Street...