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THE GMB and Unite unions yesterday called for Liberty Steel to be nationalised after the Tory government rejected a request for £170m in financial...

BREXIT Secretary Stephen Barclay made clear to the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that the Johnson Tory government has no ‘cunning plan’ to avoid...

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...

FACILITIES staff at Maudsley and Bethlem mental hospitals began a new four-day strike yesterday against the ISS offer of a meagre 30p wage increase,...

THERE were lively picket lines outside Imperial College London in White City and South Kensington yesterday. Imperial College staff resumed strikes last Thursday against a...

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

‘THREE and a half years on from Grenfell and hundreds of thousands can’t sleep at night because their homes are unsafe,’ Labour’s Shadow Housing...

‘THIS GOVERNMENT was elected a year ago on a manifesto to support the police and uphold law and order,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel...

THE FIRST day of a five-day strike yesterday marked an escalation in the college lecturers’ struggle with eleven colleges out on strike. At the College...

THE TORIES, under fire from all sides have had to make a U-turn on their policy over the immigration status of NHS workers. Until yesterday...

‘KILL the Bill’ mass demonstrations took place against the Tory government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in cities around the country on Friday...

THE UNITE trade union has hit out at the Johnson government for once again failing to recognise the impact of Covid restrictions on the...

THE VOTE Hassan Zulkifal Workers Revolutionary Party Ealing Southall campaign got great support at Greenford Bus Depot and Hanwell Royal Mail Delivery Office yesterday...

NURSERY heads marched on Downing Street yesterday, furious at the desperate lack of funding which is now so bad that nurseries are threatened with...

‘PEOPLE aren’t dying because nurses are striking, nurses are striking because people are dying,’ RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said yesterday. ‘Today’s record number...

‘OUR members deserve fair pay and will be taking action for as long as it takes to get it,’ said Communications Workers Union (CWU)...

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...

‘NOTHING is going to happen to it until we say so,’ Karim Musilly from Genfell United said defiantly yesterday, responding to reports that the...

THOUSANDS of doctors in England have told a BMA survey they have little or no confidence in the NHS being able to cope this...

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...

THE NUJ and BECTU have condemned the BBC’s plans to cut around 2,000 jobs. The NUJ is urging the broadcaster to meaningfully engage workers and...

A PROTEST of striking Manchester bus drivers took place outside the Mayor’s Office yesterday afternoon, demanding that Andy Burnham takes action to stop the...

‘THE ACTIONS we have taken to sanction Putin’s regime are not cost free for us at home,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday, outlining...

OVER 100,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine on Saturday, from Piccadilly to Whitehall. There were thousands of Palestinian flags, several trade union banners...

‘FLYBE staff feel disgusted at this betrayal and these broken promises,’ pilots union BALPA General Secretary Brian Strutton said yesterday as the news broke...

PRO-Palestinian students have occupied several university campuses in the UK, to protest against the Israeli war on Gaza. Students in Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester,...

TUC leader O’Grady has cautioned new PM Truss not to underestimate the strength of feeling among workers who have endured pay stagnation and real...

ALEX Cruz, the author of the notorious BA ‘fire and rehire’ policy, has been sacked as chief executive and chair of British Airways with...

STOCK indexes were recovering some ground yesterday after the huge record falls on Thursday. ‘There is a sense of fear and panic,’ said James Tao,...

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

MASS PICKETS of striking junior doctors take place today from 8am-11am outside St Thomas’ Hospital opposite Parliament in central London, Queen Elizabeth Hospital in...

UNITE members on strike at the Institute of Cancer Research in Chelsea say they are confident of winning their pay dispute. ‘We rejected the management’s...

THE University of Portsmouth is under fire over plans to axe more than half its English literature department. The university suspended the process in...

NINETY Birmingham bin strikers came down on a double-decker bus to London to a Unite union rally outside Parliament yesterday afternoon. Strike leader Mike Masters...

THE TORIES threatened refugees who refuse to board the Bibby Stockholm ‘death-trap barge’ with destitution yesterday, while Home Secretary Suella Braverman described their legal...

NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...

FOREIGN Secretary Ed Miliband said yesterday that Britain ‘could not simply stand by because we feared Israeli reaction’. This was after Israel ordered the closure...

AN ARREST warrant is being sought by two pro-Palestinian groups Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and the Hind Rajab Foundation for Israeli Foreign Minister...

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

THE NUMBER of homeless people dying on the streets of England has dramatically increased by 25% over five years, while the sheer scale of...

UNITE has expressed its alarm at the announcement yesterday that Barclays bank is closing a major processing centre in Leeds with nearly 800 jobs...

UK INTEREST rates have risen to the highest level since 2009 as the Bank of England tries to slow the pace of rapidly rising...

THE CRISIS caused by the privatisation of the probation system in England and Wales has cost taxpayers almost £500m, the government’s National Audit Office...

AT least a dozen doctors are to take legal action against the government because they believe they were forced to join a pension scheme...

ROYAL MAIL Communication Workers Union (CWU) postal workers were in a determined mood during their latest pay strike yesterday. At Jubilee Mail Centre in Hounslow,...