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UCU lecturers at their emergency branch meeting yesterday demanded that the TUC organise a national demonstration and march to parliament on its 1st February ‘Day...

TRADE union leaders were united yesterday in their refusal to call for the resignation of the crisis-ridden Tory government. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:...

AT UNIVERSITY College London (UCL) over fifty students occupied the Cloister Building at 7am yesterday morning in front of the Provost’s office, and plan...

MORE than one in five pupils are now eligible for free school meals (FSM) following a steep rise during the pandemic, new government data...

TODAY, the Tory government withdraws the infection control fund. This was support for those working in care to help them when they fall sick. Unison...

‘WIKILEAKS publication represents a great victory for freedom of expression in the face of government secrecy,’ said a statement by respected journalist Patrick Cockburn,...

A TEAM campaigning for Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch, Jonty Leff, won big support on Saturday in Hoxton Market from...

LABOUR’S top brass is facing a mounting backlash against its campaign of intimidation aimed at forcing MPs to fall in line behind a brutal...

SAJID Javid, Tory Health and Social Care Secretary, has spoken to the Royal College of Physicians, on Health Reform. He claimed that there is not...

SOUTH Wales Police have launched a facial recognition app which is to be installed on their officers’ phones, prompting human rights campaigners Liberty to...

THERE was a lively and enthusiastic picket of over 50 striking NHS workers at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel east London, yesterday morning. Speaking...

TORY PM Boris Johnson was mortally wounded in the no confidence vote in parliament last night, with 40% of Tory MPs voting against his...

PRIVATISED rail profits have racked up 15 pence of every pound passengers paid on fares, transport union the RMT said yesterday on the day...

LANDLORDS face a potential Tory cash bonanza with nothing to stop them holding on to the £400 energy bill rebate which the government is...

WITH the prospect of industry being shut down in the wake of the energy and CO2 crisis, the Tory government has struck a deal...

THE RUSSIAN Security Council discussed yesterday recognising Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbass region of Ukraine as independent states. Russian President Vladimir Putin said: ‘I...

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

UNITE general secretary Sharon Graham yesterday said below inflation rises are a wage cut with workers paying the price of the pandemic. Speaking after new...

THE BMA doctors trade union has responded to data on NHS vacancies, GP workforce and GP appointments. Responding to the latest quarterly NHS vacancy data,...

‘HOW low can a government stoop?’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen asked yesterday in response to Tory Health Secretary Stephen Barclay’s...

THE government has been accused of using the pandemic as ‘a smokescreen’ to push through the Health and Care Bill which will open the...

LAUNCHING the Tory Party manifesto yesterday, Rishi Sunak attacked the sick and disabled, refugees and youth, boosted wealthy landlords, and banged the war drums...

‘I AM voting Jonty Leff WRP because I want Universal Credit scrapped,’ David Vervin said as the team fighting to get Leff elected launched...

OVER 200 steelworkers from all over the country marched from Trafalgar Square to a rally in Parliament Square yesterday morning. They are fighting against the...

TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday dodged the question as to whether the inquiry he announced into baby deaths at the Countess of Chester...

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

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn risks jeopardising a vote of no confidence in the government by insisting he becomes caretaker PM, Lib Dems leader Jo...

OVER half a million public sector workers from eight unions were on strike yesterday, fighting against the Tory government’s attack on their pay, conditions...

‘SHUT down the inquiry, it’s a disgrace!’ protesters shouted outside the Grenfell inquiry yesterday, on the first day it resumed after the Attorney General...

A FINAL pay offer for NHS staff in England, including nurses and ambulance workers, was made yesterday. Unite leader Sharon Graham said that Unite...

LABOUR PARTY leader Starmer said yesterday the Labour Party is on track to win the next general election, after taking control of key councils...

THE UK has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for mass vaccination. Britain’s medicines regulator, the MHRA, says the jab, which offers up...

‘Vice chancellors are about to witness another huge show of strength,’ UCU (University and College Union) General Secretary Jo Grady said yesterday, speaking ahead...

THE TORY programme of 38 pieces of anti-working class legislation which the government plans during the current parliamentary session was outlined in the Queen’s...

JOHN SHIPTON yesterday called for the TUC to take up the fight for the release of his son, Julian Assange, and prevent his extradition...

THE JOHNSON government is to pay out tens of millions of pounds to restart production of carbon dioxide at a key plant in the...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has been sent back to Belmarsh high security prison after a judge refused him bail yesterday, despite a decision to...

STRIKING Birmingham bin workers led a 20,000-strong march of workers, students and youth on Downing Street on Saturday. The ‘Welfare not Warfare’ demonstration assembled outside...

‘Don’t lecture us about pay restraint,’ the Unite and GMB unions retorted to appeals from Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey yesterday,...

‘WE COMPLETELY reject any claim that Labour is anti-Semitic,’ said a Labour Party spokesperson, responding to BBC Panorama’s programme aired on Wednesday evening, attacking...

CORNWALL Partnership Foundation Trust is withholding rent payments to NHS Property Services to force it to take urgent action over fire safety. Patients have had...

SHADOW Deputy PM Angela Rayner told the TUC Conference in Liverpool yesterday that a Labour government will overturn the Tory anti-strikes Minimum Service Levels...

‘WE MUST come together to stop no-deal. This week could be the last chance. We are working with other parties to do everything necessary...

THE NHS is in danger of being overwhelmed by a surge of both Covid-19 and non-Covid cases, a new British Medical Association (BMA) survey...

‘REDUCING Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit would be fundamentally the wrong decision. It would be a profound mistake and put millions of families...