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COUNCIL worker unions angrily rejected a 2 per cent wage cut pay offer yesterday, as inflation hit 4.6 per cent, the highest in 16...

A MASS ‘kids strike’ takes place today as the hated SATs exams are boycotted by more than 30,000 parents and their children. Parents...

THREE thousand hospital workers, Metro workers, primary school teachers and pensioners marched through Greece’s capital, Athens last Wednesday. The day of strike action was against...

OVER 100 staff, students and lecturers rallied outside London Met University yesterday lunchtime, to vow to halt the wave of hundreds of sackings taking...

Postal workers called for action to defend their jobs and Royal Mail as a public service in response to yesterday’s publication of the...

LAMBETH College UCU began an indefinite strike yesterday in their escalating struggle against the imposition of new contracts. The new contracts would take away both...

UP to 500 jobs will be axed at British Steel with the trade unions agreeing to the axing. The union leaders have warned the takeover...

YESTERDAY was the deadline for locked out Gate Gourmet workers facing compulsory redundancy to sign the ‘Compromise Agreement’, surrendering their claim for unfair dismissal...

Students demonstrated and marched in towns and cities across Britain yesterday in the third day of protests against tuition fees, university cuts and the...

UNISON yesterday called on the government to end the public sector pay freeze, set to stretch for another two years for local government workers...

PARENTS and families of disabled children in Bow in East London are fighting back against the closure of the Bangladeshi Parents Advice (BPA) Service...

WRP general secretary Frank Sweeney yesterday condemned the ‘attempt of the NATO gangsters to murder the Libyan leadership headed by Colonel Gadaffi.’ He called them...

PM JOHNSON shed crocodile tears on Saturday as UK Covid-19 fatalities passed the 150,000 mark, with the BMA doctors’ union warning that ‘still the...

THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education had its first leg from Manchester to Stockport yesterday. After a great march through Manchester...

British Airways (BA) cabin crew outside the High Court cheered and danced yesterday morning after a panel of three senior judges overturned a...

St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)

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

Hezbollah fighters killed three Israeli soldiers in fighting along the southern Lebanon border yesterday. This was after a night of air attacks by Israeli jets...

More than 1.5 million local government workers are to ask for a five per cent pay rise in the new year. Three trade...

BRITISH public finances worsened in November, meaning that Tory Chancellor George Osborne will spectacularly fail to hit his budget deficit target for this year...

‘Nurses should not work for free,’ insisted Dr Peter Carter, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing yesterday. He was commenting on newly qualified...

‘Public sector job losses are coming thick and fast. Councils in particular are bringing forward job losses in order to cope with the deep...

ALARMING new figures from housing charity Shelter have revealed more than 8,300 people in England were put at risk of losing their home every...

‘WHILE there is a need for fundamental reform for the City, neither should we just allow it to sink beneath the waves,’ shadow Chancellor...

THE government made the final offer and said “no more talks”. We are united, stronger together. We cannot and will not back down,’ Consultants...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn insisted yesterday that whatever Parliament decides, Brexit should be put to a ‘popular vote’, and that Labour is still campaigning...

SOME 200 railworkers and supporters demonstrated opposite Parliament yesterday morning to mark two years of strikes by the RMT union to Keep the Guard...

GATE Gourmet locked-out workers got great support when they visited Heathrow Airport yesterday in their campaign for their public meeting on Sunday November 5th. Many...

ON Monday 25 February the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will be holding a budget meeting at 10.00am at City Hall, at which his...

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement that Labour will slash a further 12,000 jobs and close an additional...

Chief of Defence Staff Lord Guthrie yesterday gave his backing to a call from right wing think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, for ex-servicemen...

‘IT IS a very hollow gesture, to open up more spaces while simultaneously driving doctors out of the profession,’ said Dr Aislinn Macklin-Doherty. She was...

GABRIEL Polley, WRP candidate for Norwich South was prevented from speaking at the Election hustings at the University of East Anglia last Thursday. Gabriel...

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...

AS parents face back-to-school costs, new research shows that they also face a growing struggle to provide a decent standard of living for their...

ONLY 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, a figure drastically lower than the 600 truckloads the UN estimates are required daily to meet...

THE BMA yesterday announced the dates for a 72 hour walk out by Junior Doctors in England, saying that Health Secretary, Steve Barclay has...

A tense Chancellor Brown yesterday announced a £36bn increase in the sale of public assets (including Student Loans) and a two per cent Corporation...

ON the eve of tonight’s tube strike action the RMT announced that it is calling for an immediate and indefinite suspension of the Mayor’s...

WORKERS blame the government for the 7.7m-long waiting lists in England, finds a survey. As doctors in England begin the longest period of combined industrial...

Firefighters from every station in Hertfordshire are joining a national rally and lobby of Parliament in Westminster on Wednesday, 12 November. They are urging politicians...

BRITISH Airways workers are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers first anniversary march and rally in Southall this Sunday. Buying his ticket for the...

HAMAS has warned Israel against attacking the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, after Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz yesterday indicated his support...

‘IT seems to me that bank workers are treated as second-class citizens as though their jobs don’t matter.’ This is what Ged Nichols, general secretary...

ON the eve of last Thursday’s student demonstrations, the Greek right-wing government withdrew plans to table in the Vouli (Greek parliament) the reactionary Education...