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HIGHLY respected London GP Dr Augustine Obaro died from Covid-19 on New Year’s Day, becoming the 15th GP lost to the pandemic. Dr Obaro, who...

OVER 2,000 campaigners fighting for the freedom of Julian Assange attended a Night Carnival in London on Saturday. The carnival organised by the Don’t Extradite...

STAFF at Balham benefit centre are being balloted for strike action having been told that their office is due to close on 31 December. This...

THE NEW Labour government launched its massive attack on the NHS yesterday, with PM Sir Keir Starmer threatening that the NHS must ‘reform or...

ALL OIL refining ceased in Scotland yesterday with the closure of the Grangemouth refinery, after more than 100 years of operation. Mass sackings of the...

NEW LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves dropped a bombshell on the working class across the UK in a statement in Parliament yesterday, announcing that she...

PARENTS found out yesterday if their child got into the primary school of their choice, while at their annual conference, the National Education Union...

‘I AM HERE today to show the United Kingdom’s steadfast support for the Ukraine,’ Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said yesterday at a joint press...

‘YOU are the finest workers in the UK. You deserve fair pay, job security and not threats,’ PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka told strikers...

STRIKE action was rock solid yesterday morning in the fight to stop Night Tube staffing plans ripping up drivers’ work/life balance. Pickets were out in...

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...

SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell spelt out yesterday that Labour wants to form a ‘caretaker government’ with the other opposition parties which would organise a...

DURING their five-day strike which concludes today, hospital staff working for SERCO gathered for a lively union rally at the Royal London Hospital at...

‘THREATENING to sack thousands of migrant nursing staff is abhorrent beyond words,’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola...

LABOUR’S announcement of £5 billion a year benefits cuts to be snatched from one million disabled and mentally ill workers were denounced by trade...

IN a speech in Telford yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, urged that ‘his government’ should be judged on the ‘real change’...

THE TORY party’s putrefaction continued yesterday with Prime Minister Liz Truss’ sacking of her ‘great friend’, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, followed by a four-minute statement...

THE TORIES have no plan to deal with a second spike of the deadly coronavirus. A fresh report just released by the Public Accounts Committee...

FIFTY steelworkers and their supporters demonstrated outside Portcullis House in Westminster yesterday morning as negotiations between their Unite union leaders, the Tata Steel privateers...

A HUGE 200,000-strong march of workers, students and youth went from Parliament Square to Hyde Park on Saturday, the 13th National demonstration for Palestine...

‘GENUINELY I believe that they are looking that this is the moment that they can privatise the NHS,’ Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said...

‘ALL health workers and their families must be tested immediately,’ Chair of the Council of the British Medical Association and GP Dr Chaand Nagpaul...

ONE in eight NHS trusts in England did not have a single spare intensive care bed last week, NHS England figures published yesterday revealed. 18...

AS THE Omicron crisis grips the capital, Labour politicians yesterday called for public ownership of London Transport cleaning services. The MPs and peers made the...

‘THE NHS long term plan is as much about prevention, and early diagnosis, as treatment and recovery,’ PM May said speaking on The Andrew...

RUSSIAN, Ukrainian and US negotiators are set to hold talks in the United Arab Emirates, marking the first meeting involving all three countries since...

YESTERDAY in Parliament, Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that less serious cases would be turned away from A&E and only the most serious...

SEVEN UNIONS have warned about their dispute with the UK’s largest academy trust over staff cuts, low pay and outsourcing. The unions have now registered...

TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday confirmed that if all attempts to get a deal with the EU fail then he is prepared leave the...

THE TORY government is preparing to simultaneously end the ‘triple lock’ pensions guarantee and raise the employee national insurance contribution (NIC) by one per...

‘CALL A National Strike Now!’ striking Birmingham binworkers are demanding at their mass rally today, which assembles at 9.30am at the Unite HQ, 30...

EIGHTEEN months after the Grenfell Inferno over 600 people turned out on the Silent March for the Grenfell victims and survivors. A delegation...

‘IT HAS no moral right to sit on these green benches here. It is a dead Parliament! Parliament is not worth a candle. It...

ASLEF Tube drivers will strike on Wednesday 26 and Friday 28 July, alongside their RMT colleagues, closing down the London Underground (LU) network at...

FRAIL and vulnerable people will go without the care they need, the union Unison warned yesterday, after the Tories slashed social care funding by...

Sir Keir Starmer opened his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool yesterday by condemning the Truss Tory government’s mini-budget last week,...

‘Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) is utterly appalled that up to 1,000 newly qualified GPs face deportation despite having completed their GP training in the...

NEU (National Education Union) members in England and Wales and support staff in Wales have voted overwhelmingly for strike action and the ballot has...

THERE were loud and lively picket lines of striking radiographers outside hospitals around the country yesterday as the NHS workers continued their 48-hour strike...

THE ONE-METRE distancing rule is to be abandoned in schools when they open in September, the Tory government announced yesterday to the alarm of...

‘LIVES will be at risk’ if Manchester is targeted again by terrorists because a specialist fire service unit has shut, a watchdog warned yesterday. Concerns...

SCOTLAND Yard is to be investigated over its failure to deal with an allegation of two acts of indecent exposure by a serving police...

UNITE yesterday welcomed the news that the government will bring Sheffield Forgemasters into public ownership. The news came as the giant Honda plant in Swindon...

‘RENATIONALISE the water industry,’ demanded GMB water workers from around the country, demonstrating outside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) yesterday...

‘WE ARE going to give employers more discretion, and ask them to make decisions about how their staff can work safely,’ Tory PM Johnson...