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WOMEN who found out their partners were undercover police spies insisted yesterday that they are the ‘victims of a conspiracy to rape’ by the...

DOCTORS union the BMA is ‘strongly opposed to the fragmentation and privatisation of the NHS, which is divisive to hardworking NHS staff and could...

THE NHS ‘cannot survive a second term of Tory-led government,’ the Labour Party’s Chair of General Election Strategy, Douglas Alexander, said yesterday. He was echoing...

SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan said on Monday night that the United Nations plan to deploy a multinational force in Gaza ‘serves Israeli attempts...

More than a quarter of a million workers, students and youth participated in the National March for Palestine through central London on Saturday. Palestine flag-waving...

THE Tory coalition yesterday launched their latest scheme to drive unemployed people off benefits. The scheme, cynically entitled ‘Help to Work’, targets ‘long-term unemployed’ people...

GIVE us a date for strike action and we’ll do it, the leader of the Prison Officers Association (POA) – whose members are banned...

‘THERE is to be a zero pay rise for thousands of teachers in 2015-16.’ So said Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, commenting on...

UP to 100,000 workers and youth gathered at the 128th Durham Miners Gala on Saturday. Pride of place on the platform after the march through...

FOREIGN Secretary Hague announced the expulsion of all Libyan diplomats from the UK yesterday. He also announced that the counter-revolutionary NTC (National Transitional Council)...

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams yesterday agreed a May 8th date for the return of devolved local government in the north of Ireland, after...

HEALTH regulator Monitor has authorised West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust as a new foundation trust, effectively privatising it from 1st January, 2013. The trust...

Hundreds of students at University of East Anglia (UAE), Norwich held a mass protest against the visit of Universities Minister Willetts on Thursday. UAE Student...

‘We are not going to take this lightly. We will do whatever has to be done to hold on to every part of the...

‘WE’VE been screwed for too long. It’s time to stand up for ourselves and call for the BMA to support industrial action.’ This defiant statement...

AN angry protest by supporters of Julian Assange yesterday morning denounced a Tory government conference titled ‘Defend Media Freedom’. Maxine Walker from the Julian Assange...

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

UNISON confirmed yesterday that it is holding a National Demonstration in London on Saturday June 30 in defence of the NHS. A spokeswoman told...

THE Israeli occupation army committed nine massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 92 civilians...

NURSERY heads marched on Downing Street yesterday, furious at the desperate lack of funding which is now so bad that nurseries are threatened with...

THOUSANDS of postal workers at huge mail centres across the capital are taking action today, the third day of the London postal strike. Union leaders...

ISRAELI warplanes rained terror on Gaza yesterday, targeting ambulances, market places and refugee camps. Warplanes fired missiles at the mosque in the centre of Shati...

The Unite trade union yesterday urged Lloyds TSB and HBOS ‘to start thinking about the human consequences of this takeover’. It was responding to...

TORY party co-chair and Cabinet member, Baroness Warsi, has become involved in an expenses row. She has admitted failing to declare rental...

The Fire Brigades Union says the government’s pension proposals are ‘unacceptable’ and are consulting fire crews with a recommendation there is a rapid move...

LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line yesterday were determined that they will win their struggle to return to their jobs on their...

OVER 200 workers and youth marched to the 44th News Line anniversary rally yesterday afternoon with flags flying and slogans calling for the Tory-led...

LOW income households will have their family finances hit by multiple cuts this month totalling £2.3bn. Almost half of this amount will be provided by...

TENS OF thousands of workers and students participated in mass and militant rallies and marches throughout Greece on Wednesday, during a 24-hour national strike...

STAFF in UK universities are preparing to walk out for their third one-day strike tomorrow as part of a worsening pay dispute. On the eve...

CALLS for a Labour Party leadership election were condemned by UNITE union Joint General Secretary Tony Woodley yesterday. ‘I’ll back the prime minister until we...

HOSPITAL consultants yesterday asserted their determination to defend patient care and oppose NHS privatisation. At the BMA Consultants Conference motion 5,...

TRAIN drivers and guards were on strike in three parts of the country simultaneously yesterday, with Southern, Northern and Merseyside RMT drivers and guards...

AT LEAST 98 GP practices are threatened with closure as a direct result of Tory coalition funding cuts, doctors union the BMA warned yesterday. The...

THE HIGH Court is going to announce its decision on whether Julian Assange is going to be allowed to appeal against his extradition to...

THE UK's civil stockpile of separated plutonium is now over 100 tonnes, enough for the production of 17,000 nuclear bombs. The stockpile has...

The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday angrily rejected health minister Lord Darzi’s claims that they are ‘lagging behind’ and resistant to innovation to...

YESTERDAY lunchtime TUC general secretary Paul Nowak gave a press conference ahead of the Congress. The main thing he talked about was the upcoming Employment...

PASSING cars tooted their horns, as campaigners shouted ‘No polyclinics – save our hospitals’ outside Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield yesterday. The north-east London Council...

Nearly 2,500 members working for the East London Bus Group took part in a 24-hour strike from 3am yesterday in a dispute over the...

TRADE union leaders were united yesterday in their refusal to call for the resignation of the crisis-ridden Tory government. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:...

TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...

The price of oil continued to soar yesterday, with Brent crude rising above $146 per barrel (p.b.) for the first time ever. Brent crude...

OVER 3,000 workers and youth staged a rally in the Athens city centre last Friday evening against the visit of the German Chancellor to...

‘THE bedroom tax is causing real chaos, doing real damage to people’s lives,’ David Orr, Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation said yesterday ‘The...