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WORKERS pressure is mounting on the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories at its Annual Congress in Brighton next...

PM JOHNSON and Chancellor Sunak were forced into a humiliating u-turn yesterday morning, having initially sought to avoid self-isolating after having been ‘pinged’ following...

A DANGEROUS phone triage scheme for A&E at Wales’ largest hospital is to be launched tomorrow in which patients are expected to ring before...

‘WE SAID you should work from home if you can and if you can’t work from home not to work. We have now changed...

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

ANYONE who has visited one of the red list countries and who fails to quarantine in a government-designated hotel faces a fine of up...

STANDING in front of a huge Union Jack with a banner atop it declaring ‘Change Begins....’ Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed the Labour Party...

MORE than 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine through central London on Saturday. The march assembled outside BBC Broadcasting House in Portland Place...

TENS of thousands of Resident Doctors begin their 15th wave of strike action today in defence of their pay and conditions against attacks first...

‘IF the council take out an injunction we have to stand strong. They are trying to kill our spirit,’ striking Birmingham binworker Ali Chidodo...

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

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

EU LEADERS France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Angela Merkel – have been told the EU is unlikely to get a trade deal with the...

LABOUR PM Keir Starmer is poised for a clash with the unions after downplaying the likelihood of real-terms pay rises for public sector workers...

A&E VISITS in England have halved since the coronavirus outbreak started, dropping to their lowest level since records began. Before the pandemic, more than 2.1m...

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

‘THE TUC must call strike action, show unity and solidarity with the people of Palestine and end the genocide,’ a Chartered Society of Physiotherapists...

RESIDENT doctors in England will strike for six days from 7th April after rejecting a government pay offer that would spread already inadequate increases...

NURSES were yesterday striking at many hospitals in England, all but one health board in Wales and the whole of Northern Ireland, for the...

STRONG pickets gathered yesterday morning outside three of the four South London bus garages who voted for strike action as part of the 48-hour...

YESTERDAY lunchtime TUC general secretary Paul Nowak gave a press conference ahead of the Congress. The main thing he talked about was the upcoming Employment...

OVER 5,000 workers, trade unionists and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on May Day yesterday. ‘General strike for Palestine’, chanted the Workers...

UNITE members at RATP London United yesterday held their sixth day of strike action against £2,500 per annum pay cuts being imposed by French...

AS Southeastern rail franchise passes into public ownership this Sunday, the RMT transport union has revealed the true cost of private sector failure and...

DESPITE thousands of people having seen CCTV footage on the BBC of Kyrees Sullivan, aged 16, and Harvey Evans, aged 15, being chased on...

THE threat by the Metropolitan Police to ban Saturday’s National March (PSC) for Palestine from assembling at the BBC in Portland Place as arranged...

HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock was forced to resign on Saturday afternoon despite repeated public statements from PM Boris Johnson that he retained his full...

GREATER Manchester mayor Andy Burnham received a public endorsement on Friday from ex-Health Secretary Wes Streeting to contest the Makerfield byelection, in his fresh...

THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has called on all fire service employers to refuse to implement the government’s new minimum service levels, condemning the...

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at 17 more UK universities have voted to strike over pay and working conditions, meaning that...

‘SOMETHING out of a police state,’ was how Republic director Harry Stratton described the way in which London’s Metropolitan Police arrested 52 anti-monarchy protesters...

THE UNITED Kingdom has finalised an agreement with Ukraine that allows Kiev to buy British warships and missiles to enhance its naval capabilities, a...

APPROXIMATELY 2,800 employees out of Tata’s 8,000-strong workforce will lose their jobs as Blast Furnace 5 ceases operations today. Loud noises and large plumes of...

AN angry protest by supporters of Julian Assange yesterday morning denounced a Tory government conference titled ‘Defend Media Freedom’. Maxine Walker from the Julian Assange...

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SURREY County Council has announced shocking plans to shut three fire stations at night, axe 70 firefighters’ jobs and halve the fire cover at...

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...

HUNDREDS of train workers rallied in Euston yesterday to mark three years of the guards strike, the longest in modern history, which has begun...

THE TORY plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was yesterday dismissed by the Supreme Court, ending over 18 months of legal battles in...

DOCKERS at Britain’s two major ports – Merseyside and Felixstowe – are to strike together at the end of this month and the beginning...

WRP parliamentary candidate Frank Sweeney’s campaign team were out meeting workers and youth at Bruce Grove in Tottenham yesterday. They met Ibrahim who told News...

HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stephens, has angered millions of workers with his suggestions that pensioners’ free bus passes and their triple-lock pension arrangements...

EDUCATION secretary Bridget Phillipson yesterday defended the decision over why the government had abandoned its promise to allow workers to claim protection from day...

MORE than half a million workers, students and youth joined the Together Alliance and pro-Palestine marches through central London to Whitehall on Saturday. The demonstrations,...

‘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...