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

MASSES of people surrounded the Israeli High Court yesterday protesting against the eviction of families in the Sheikh Jarrah district of Jerusalem. Israel’s supreme court...

FIVE THOUSAND steel jobs hang in the balance as steel giant Liberty announced plans to sell its plant in Stocksbridge, Sheffield, as part of...

MILLIONS more appointments with hundreds fewer GPs is ‘pushing doctors to breaking point’, the BMA warned yesterday. Commenting on the latest NHS Digital GP workforce...

ONE thousand tractors spread all the way up Whitehall and beyond in a show of strength by tens of thousands of angry farmers yesterday,...

A MOTION from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite was passed at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday calling for ‘extending public...

LONG A&E waiting times contributed to some 23,000 ‘excess patient deaths’ last year, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said yesterday. In 2022, 1.66...

TEACHERS are increasingly seeing the devastating effects of the cost of living crisis on pupils, a survey by the NASUWT teachers’ union has revealed. Teachers...

SENIOR Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has called on fellow Conservative MPs to assess whether Boris Johnson is still fit to be leader of the...

DESPITE the Scottish experiment of opening schools in August proving to be a total failure, the Tories proceeded with the re-opening of schools in...

‘IF PRESIDENT Putin were to choose the path of bloodshed and destruction he must realise it would be both tragic and futile,’ Tory PM...

THE GAP between the first and second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine must be reduced to three or four weeks to ensure it...

TORY PM May would not commit to a vote on her Brexit deal yesterday before Parliament breaks up for Christmas and instead said: ‘I...

STRUGGLING families are losing out on hundreds of pounds a year as a result of changes to child benefit over the past decade, said...

THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) warned yesterday that ‘fire and rehire’ tactics have become widespread during the pandemic, with new polling finding that nearly...

Treasury officials accused Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng of ‘making things up’ when he appeared on TV yesterday morning. With PM...

THE homelessness charity Crisis said yesterday that what was already an emergency now risks becoming ‘a growing catastrophe’. Chief executive Matt Downie said: ‘The Scottish...

LABOUR leaders refused to confirm whether they would vote in favour of a Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU or abstain...

‘DESPITE Tory claims that the cost-of-living crisis is coming to an end, the truth is that inflation (RPI) is still outstripping wage growth,’ Unite...

STUDENTS across the UK were on picket lines yesterday supporting their lecturers and support staff on the first day of their eight-day strike action...

YESTERDAY morning the President of the European Commission and Tory PM Johnson announced that they had agreed a Brexit deal. That deal now has...

‘ONE area that the leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn and I do not agree,’ Tory PM Theresa May said in the House of...

HORRIFIC pay cuts of up to £8,000 a year being imposed on thousands of Heathrow airport workers are the cost of eye-watering levels of...

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...

TRADE UNIONS led by Unite, have submitted a pay claim to the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) seeking a 10 per cent pay increase in...

The TORY government has been forced to back down over its hated ‘Shaping a Healthier Future’ (SaHF) NHS cuts and closure programme in north...

A BLACK schoolgirl was strip-searched by police after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis. The ‘traumatic’ search by Metropolitan Police officers took place without another...

BARTS Hospital Trust workers organised a march from the hospital to a meeting at Altab Ali Park on the final Friday of their two-week...

JUDGES have quashed the convictions of 39 former postmasters after the most widespread miscarriage of ruling class justice in the history of UK capitalism. The...

VENTILATORS are to be rationed, using tactics employed on the battlefield, where army medics choose who to treat and who to leave to bleed...

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...

A PARLIAMENTARY session in Westminster has called on the British government to urgently issue medical visas for injured children from Gaza, enabling them to...

MORE than 70 schools have been built using combustible insulation since the material was banned on high-rise apartment blocks after the Grenfell Tower disaster,...

OVER 2,000 security guards at Heathrow Airport are holding a further 33 days of strike action throughout the summer. The 33 days of strike action...

RMT members working for the 14 train companies in the national rail dispute will walk out on Friday June 2. The union found the Rail...

LABOUR Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti yesterday called for uniting with ‘moderate’ Tory MPs to stop a no-deal Brexit...

ONE-IN-FIVE companies are planning to sack workers in response to yesterday’s cut in furlough payments, a British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) survey has found. From...

‘THERE must be national strike action by the whole RMT to win our P&O members their jobs back,’ leading RMT rep Darren Lalli said...

‘BE READY for action in the autumn term, with head teachers with us on the picket line – get ready for a general strike...

ASLEF train drivers’ trade union members have voted overwhelmingly for more strike action, having not had a pay rise for five years. Mick Whelan, general...

YESTERDAY, Wednesday 18th February, the Filton 24 defendants who have not yet gone to trial, were formally acquitted of aggravated burglary. The CPS confirmed they...

‘THE STRIKE is going well, we’re still getting a lot of public support – this fight is important for job security and safety for...

TORY leadership candidate Liz Truss was forced into a humiliating U-Turn yesterday, after saying in a ‘hustings’ meeting on Monday night that, as Prime...

‘THE FURLOUGH scheme can not continue indefinitely,’ Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday at the Downing Street daily briefing, announcing that by September, the employer...

DELEGATES at the annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU) in Harrogate yesterday voted for districts, branches and school groups to ‘immediately prepare’...