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CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a massive onslaught on public services and public sector pay in his budget yesterday, imposing billions more in cuts as well...

THE Hamas Movement has condemned the repeated targeting of civilians at food aid distribution centres in the Gaza Strip, calling it a war crime...

Postal workers yesterday responded angrily to Gordon Brown’s insistence at prime minister’s questions, on the eve of their 24-hour rolling strikes, that ‘pay settlements...

BBC Asian Network went on a 24-hour strike yesterday against the axing of one out of two editor posts in Birmingham and moving a...

SEVENTY-ONE investment staff at the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) shared bonus payments of £2.89m in the year to the end of March 2010. The...

OPERATIONS and drugs will be rationed in a ‘trade-off with improving care in other areas’, Head of NHS England Simon Stevens said yesterday,...

FOLLOWING a 100% strike vote, RMT members working on the Serco Barclays so-called ‘Boris bikes’ London cycle scheme began a 48-hour strike on Sunday...

HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel yesterday warned that the city of Leicester may be facing a localised lockdown after a rise in coronavirus cases. She said...

IN less than 12 hours, the Israeli occupation army committed horrific massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip, killing over 100 of them, including...

HAMAS yesterday urged the United Nations to reconsider its suspension of food aid for Palestinian refugees, imposed after protesters stormed a UN depot in...

British Airways boss Willie Walsh yesterday said he could not rule out further job cuts and called on BA workers to take a holiday...

UCU members at Coventry University are being balloted for industrial action in a row over pay. The ballot opened yesterday and closes on Tuesday...

HUNDREDS of migrant domestic workers will be gathering in Old Palace Yard, Westminster at 11.00 am this Sunday to demonstrate against the government’s proposed...

PRIME MINISTER Truss declared war on ‘militant trade unions and nationalised industries’ in her speech at the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham yesterday morning. Her...

Hamas yesterday expressed total rejection of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza relocation plans which ‘represent a continuation of the settlement plans aimed at liquidating...

‘IT WOULD be foolish to pre-announce’ a date for an interest rate increase, the Bank of England’s deputy governor for monetary policy Ben Broadbent...

‘Grant Shapps needs to stop smearing the RMT and unshackle the rail operating companies so they can come to a negotiated settlement that can...

GATE Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the General Council of the TGWU yesterday morning. They called on their union leadership to reinstate their hardship payments,...

THE MASS closure of A&E’s at hospitals around the country has created a situation where many patients now live in A&E ‘black spots,’ where...

UNEMPLOYED workers are to be thrown off benefits if they refuse to go on slave labour zero-hours contracts, the government announced yesterday. Employment Minister Esther...

BRITISH Steel has announced the start of a formal consultation that could lead to the closure of its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, placing...

AS MANY as 40 different universities around the UK have now reported corona cases as the virus sweeps through the education system. After the University...

DAVE WILTSHIRE, the Secretary of the All Trades Unions Alliance told the WRP’s May Day rally: ‘From this May Day meeting we send revolutionary...

THE UNITE and GMB trade unions have appealed to the government to announce a bespoke financial package to save the beleaguered aviation industry. The two...

MATT WRACK, the FBU general secretary, said yesterday in response to the Grenfell Tower inquiry phase one report: ‘The Inquiry’s interim report must finally...

A SHOCKING Heads of Midwifery (HOMS) survey published yesterday by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) reveals that nearly half do not have enough...

YESTERDAY’S General Strike across Israel was pronounced illegal by the Tel Aviv Labour Court, which ordered the Histradut union organisation to call it off...

HOMELESS people are to be forcibly evicted from the Westminister underpass, which leads to Parliament, by installing rolldown shutters blocking the shelter off. In December...

SOUTH AFRICA in an 84-page suit filed against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on December 29th, asked the top court to...

‘I feel unsafe,’ Alex Alves Pereira, the cousin of the unarmed Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, killed by the Met police, told News Line...

BROADCASTING unions at ITV have voted to go on strike next Thursday after management failed to budge from an ‘insulting’ pay offer of 2...

THE UNITE leadership yesterday failed to get a ‘fire and rehire’ deal accepted by RATP bus workers. The vote at seven West London bus garages...

BORDER staff were preparing yesterday to strike against Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel’s hated ‘pushback’ policy against migrant boats trying to reach the UK. Their...

US PRESIDENT Trump announced he has agreed to suspend ‘war games’ with South Korea in return for a commitment to the ‘complete denuclearisation of...

THE PCS civil servants union yesterday slammed Labour’s new proposal which would see three quarters of unemployed youth thrown off Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) because...

THE Bank of England was yesterday exposed as planning to deceive the public over research it is carrying out into the financial risks of...

‘WHAT steps will they take in response to concerns over the level of toxins found at the Grenfell Tower site and calls for survivors,...

NEARLY 1.5 million customers have been hit by energy firms collapsing under soaring gas prices. Avro Energy and Green ceased trading on Wednesday and their...

OVER 500 parents and children held an angry protest outside Downing Street demanding an increase in funding for children with special educational needs and...

GAZA Civil Defence Units have found mass graves of another 50 Palestinians at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, with many of the...

OVER 400 people lobbied Lewisham hospital on Thursday evening in response to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s announcement that the hospital’s A&E is to be...

Campaigners have slammed government plans to proceed with moving people off incapacity benefit and onto the dole. The government plans to move all incapacity benefit...

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London, on Thursday. The...

Harrowing video clips of Jean Charles de Menezes’ body in a pool of blood, after being shot seven times in the head at point...

UNISON members at four NHS Logistics depots began a second 24 hour strike, last night at 10pm. Runcorn depot stopped at 11pm. The workers are...