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‘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...

THE passage of the British government’s anti-immigration bill shows that the authorities are desperate to show they have a strategy for limiting illegal migration...

£4 BILLION of unusable PPE bought in the first year of pandemic will be burnt ‘to generate power’. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) also voices...

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

THE collapse of construction firm Clugston has halted work on Newcastle University’s new £39m extension and £25m sports centre. Clugston, which employs more than 600...

THE CLAMOUR from senior Labour figures, including deputy leader Tom Watson, shadow chancellor John McDonnell and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, for Labour to...

THE NUMBER of jobs collapsed by 220,000 on the quarter, said the Office for National Statistics yesterday – the largest quarterly decrease since May...

‘CAPITALISM is crashing in Britain and all over the world,’ Workers Revolutionary Party Central Committee member Frank Sweeney told the News Line 55th Anniversary...

‘UNDER this Labour government, if you can work you must work,’ Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the House of Commons yesterday. Launching the...

RESIDENT doctors leaders declared their determination to defeat the Labour government’s continuing attacks on jobs and pay when they appeared on BBC Radio yesterday...

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves trashed the party’s renationalisation policy yesterday. In a speech in Liverpool, with a back-drop bedecked...

WORKERS employed by outsourcing giant Serco, who work in the company’s back-of-house catering department at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, will stage a...

SIX unions have asked urgent questions of Gillian Keegan, the Secretary of State for Education, about RAAC affected schools. The general secretaries of six unions...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s trial at Woolwich Crown Court began yesterday morning, where the Tory government is seeking to extradite him to the US...

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves has come under intense scrutiny after a turbulent period in the financial markets sent the pound plummeting to a 14-month low...

THE CWU (Communication Workers Union) is taking national strike action this Friday with 115,000 Royal Mail workers stopping work. Further action has been called for...

WITH around 100 rebel Tory MPs expected to vote against the new three tier lockdown system in the House of Commons tomorrow, the government...

THE RMT transport union is holding a network-wide strike of 4,000 station staff members on London Underground on Monday 6th June, bringing the Tube...

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...

CROYDON Council has gone bankrupt after racking up debts of £1.5bn. The council issued a rare Section 114 notice, effectively declaring itself bankrupt, on Wednesday...

‘UNDERHAND’ plans to fire 50 GB Terminals workers who unload and process Volkswagens at Sheerness docks in Kent have been slammed as a ‘sneaky...

THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) condemned the Labour Government’s announcement of hospital league tables and its threat to scapegoat and sack NHS workers...

PEOPLE across the country are being asked to put colourful posters in their windows in support of a proper NHS pay rise, in a...

PM TRUSS resigned yesterday afternoon after a meeting with the Chairman of the Tory MPs backbench 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady. Making her announcement, she...

LONDON transport strikes are escalating with 1,100 TfL and Tube Unite members joining the planned August 19th strike, said Unite the union yesterday. A pay...

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...

THE UNITE union has described the decision of Coventry council to press ahead and fire and rehire its entire refuse collection workforce as totally...

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at Nottingham College began balloting for industrial action yesterday as part of a row over new...

THE UCU (University and College Union) lecturers union held a national rally at the front of Kings Cross Station yesterday, completely taking over the...

‘ENOUGH is enough, it’s time to follow the successful policies of other countries and ban these contracts once and for all,’ GMB’s Tim Roache...

THE National Insurance (NI) rise is leaving experienced nurses worse off, even with the proposed pay increase, says the Royal College of Nursing. Responding to...

NURSES are forced to ‘hold their breath’ because of inadequate face masks during dangerous operations, while doctors have absolutely no eye protection, it was...

FOLLOWING his humiliating U-Turn in the small hours of yesterday morning, when Chancellor Kwazi Kwarteng’s announced the abolition of the 45p rate of tax...

THE BOSS of Heathrow airport has warned of making 25,000 job cuts as the Tories’ 14-day quarantine system came into force yesterday morning. Heathrow boss...

STRIKING Ealing civil enforcement officers are protesting outside parliament today against union-busting by the West London Labour Council, furious at the ‘disgraceful’ lack of...

PCS CATERING workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark were in confident mood on the third...

115,000 postal workers are out today in a 24 hour strike for a  ‘dignified, proper pay rise’, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday. Members...

MILLIONS of rail passengers will have to pay an average of 2.7% more for tickets from 2nd January, in a fare rise announced last...

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...

OVER 100 striking NHS facilities workers shouted ‘30p, No,no,no, ISS Shame on You’, as they marched along the quay at Canary Warf beating drums...

POLITICIANS across Westminster responded on Friday to the Green Party’s capture of the Gorton and Denton parliamentary seat. Green Party leader Zack Polanski described the...

NURSES at Lewisham hospital spoke up in favour of going on strike, on the day the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) strongly called for...

FORTY striking pickets gathered at the Gas Training Centre in Dartford yesterday, to protest against the ‘Fire and Rehire’ policy of Centrica, who now...

‘SUSPEND Ofsted inspections’ demanded Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) yesterday, responding to Ofsted’s second report into the...

Picket lines were mounted at depots and stations across London yesterday as RMT members walked out for the second time this week in their...