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ROYAL College of Nursing members in England will be asked next Monday if they favour a ballot for strike action to force the government...

US FIGHTER planes attacked a Syrian Army post on Sunday evening, killing three Syrian soldiers and wounding 13 others in what has been condemned...

US TREASURY Secretary Timothy Geithner held emergency meetings with German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi yesterday. Markets had...

THE RMT will hold a national protest outside Parliament at noon next Wednesday, 26th April, to mark the one year anniversary of RMT industrial...

NISSAN is piloting new safety measures which will see around 50 staff return to work at Britain’s biggest car plant today, with the support...

STRIKING British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew at Heathrow Airport welcomed other trade unionists on their Hatton Cross picket line on Saturday, dubbing it...

‘Whether it’s redundancies or posts not being filled, thousands of jobs are still being lost in the NHS,’ a British Medical Association spokesman...

US PRESIDENT Trump announced yesterday that he is sending ‘a surge of federal security forces to US cities in a crackdown on crime’. Chicago, New...

CHAGOS Islanders demonstrated outside the High Court in London’s Strand yesterday, in support of Dominique Elysse, who is seeking to establish British citizenship. The...

LOCAL councils should ‘back off’ from calling in bailiffs, after doing so an ‘excessive’ 1.8 million times in the last year, to collect debts...

BY JOHN COULTER, IRISH POLITICAL JOURNALIST Sinn Féin and families of the victims of British state violence, yesterday held their rally in opposition to...

OVER a hundred Chagossians attended the annual general meeting of the Chagos Islands Community Association in Crawley last Saturday afternoon and early evening. They re-affirmed...

A LIVELY crowd of 50 Ritzy cinema workers attracted a lot of support in Brixton yesterday, shouting ‘pay the living wage’ and ‘living staff,...

Health unions yesterday condemned Cameron’s attempt to defend the coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill to privatise and destroy the NHS, as ‘the only...

WIKILEAKS co-founder Julian Assange was forcibly arrested and dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London yesterday. In an unprecedented move the embassy allowed...

UNITE’S leadership said it wants ‘full involvement’ in the negotiations over the axing of 275 managerial, supervisory and engineering jobs announced by Ford in...

THE Tories are threatening emergency action to either ban the official strike action next Thursday by Home Office PCS union members, including Border Agency...

Birkenhead MP Frank Field yesterday became the first Labour right winger to defect to the Tory-led coalition with the Liberal Democrats. Field, who is an...

ASKED if he would take the blame if Britain votes to leave the EU tomorrow, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn replied: ‘I’m not going...

‘THIS demo is just the start, this strike is just the start,’ Kevin Courtney NUT acting General Secretary told a mass rally of teachers...

A TOWER block in Bradford with 160 flats has been evacuated over ‘serious fire safety deficiencies’. All the residents at Appleton Point were told to...

SQUATTING in a residential building in England and Wales has become a criminal offence, meaning squatters would face six months in jail, a £5,000...

‘CAMERON’S speech today, with the five fake pledges on the NHS, signify that the coalition government is going full steam ahead with the...

TODAY’S meeting of the General Council of the TUC must go beyond considering the practicalities of a general strike and actually call one, Dave...

‘SLAVERY should go and our rights given!’ demanded London Overground workers who were lobbying the London Mayor’s office yesterday in preparation for their February...

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

‘TRADE unions must act – save our children’s services!’ rang out as the three hundred-strong march from Southall to Ealing Hospital proceeded yesterday afternoon. The...

EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk has said he has received ‘promising signals’ from Irish PM Leo Varadkar that a Brexit deal is still possible. His...

‘FROM CAMERON downward there is policy coming from the top to deliberately drive working class families out of London and kettle them into certain...

CROWDS outside the Catalan parliament erupted in celebration, letting off fireworks as Catalonia declared its independence from Spain yesterday afternoon, after a vote of...

Education Secretary Gove ‘has launched a vicious assault on teachers’ commitment and professionalism’, said NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates yesterday. This is ‘to deflect from...

ANTI-GOVERNMENT protesters confronting riot police in Istanbul’s Taksim Square and its adjoining Gezi Park yesterday, issued a call for Turkish citizens to join them...

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

AN AMENDMENT aimed at blocking any attempt to shut down Parliament to ensure that Brexit is carried out, was passed by a majority of...

WORKERS at all 54 Remploy sites, members of the GMB and Unite unions, went on strike yesterday in a bid to save 2,800 disabled...

FROM NICK AXARLIS IN ATHENS SCORES of Greek armed riot police attacked thousands of workers and students with tear-gas and noise-smoke grenades last Thursday night...

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

HOSPITALS and fire services will be run ‘outside the public sector’ Francis Maude, Tory Cabinet Office minister revealed yesterday, speaking to the Daily Telegraph. Firefighters...

‘LET me say to him (Tory chancellor Osborne) I certainly think for the sake of this country that it is time for him to...

YESTERDAY’S 60-strong mass picket to save Chase Farm Hospital drew big support from patients and local residents who all said they would join today’s...

HOUSING charity Shelter yesterday described the rental market as ‘out of control’ as letting group LSL revealed the average rent paid by private tenants...

MPs have blasted the Tory coalition government’s proposal to force landlords to do immigration checks on their tenants, warning that it will lead to...

The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was divided over its ‘quantitative easing’ policy of printing money this month. The Minutes of the last...

US President Barack Obama unveiled his 2012 budget yesterday, describing the proposal as a ‘down payment’ on future cuts to the US budget...

MPs have been called to Parliament for a special Saturday sitting on 19th October, following a meeting of the EU’s EC on Friday which...