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ASLEF train drivers start another programme of rolling one-day strikes today, which will run alongside their nine-day overtime ban which began yesterday, having now...

‘I HOPE this action is the beginning of a wider movement of the working class standing together in solidarity and working towards a general...

LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan has blocked a £50m Metropolitan Police contract with US surveillance technology company Palantir, citing a ‘clear and serious breach’ of...

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,...

THE Labour Party has defeated the SNP to win the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. The party’s candidate, Michael Shanks, took the Westminster seat with...

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

TORY PM Truss threw down the gauntlet to the TUC at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons yesterday lunchtime, announcing: ‘We will...

‘LAST WEEK was a very dark week for Parliament,’ speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle said in an extraordinary interview with...

THIRTEEN universities face ‘a very real prospect’ of insolvency following the coronavirus crisis unless they receive a government bailout, a new report by the...

THE TORY government hid the outcome of an exercise it conducted on how the NHS would cope with a pandemic because it considered the...

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...

RESIDENT doctors across England are staging a full walkout from 7am today until 6.59am tomorrow. The British Medical Association says years of pay erosion and...

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...

IN TESTIMONIES provided to the BMA, one doctor said that ‘we are under immense and continuous stress’. While another doctor said: ‘What has been...

‘WE WILL be reaching out to build the biggest possible consensus,’ Tory PM Johnson said yesterday morning, ‘across business, across industry, across all parts...

AT 6.30 yesterday morning campaigner for Palestine Qesser Zuhrah was arrested by masked police officers under Section 44 of the Serious Crimes Act and...

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...

‘WE’RE striking to defend the NHS,’ doctors said on the over 200-strong rally of junior doctors outside University College Hospital in central London yesterday. There...

THE METROPOLITAN Police arrested 523 supporters of Palestine in Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday, claiming they were showing support for a ‘proscribed...

PM Boris Johnson pulled out of a scheduled appearance before a panel of senior MPs yesterday morning, saying he has to ‘focus on delivering...

THE TORY government issued a calculated insult to thousands of striking nurses yesterday as the Royal College of Nursing held national strike action for...

THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with the University and College Union (UCU) in the fight for fair pay and...

THE TUC stands in solidarity with all Palestinian workers and the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) who on Tuesday took part in...

‘IT IS TIME for Parliament to take control,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday, responding to Tory PM May’s statement to Parliament on the...

THE RMT East Midlands Trains (EMT) strike is to go ahead on Saturday after the company bosses snubbed talks. The dispute is over EMT management’s...

‘WE say to the UK government today we will not allow you to do this, we do not trust you and we will fight...

NURSING staff are quitting their NHS pensions to make ends meet as the cost-of-living crisis bites. The number of staff opting out of the NHS...

THE TORY government is imposing a new legal duty to ‘self-isolate’ if instructed to do so by ‘NHS Test and Trace’ from next Monday,...

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

MORE Unite ambulance workers have decided to take part in industrial action on Tuesday May 2nd. Unite said yesterday that members at South Central, South...

A controversial UK-US medicines deal will cost the NHS an estimated £9bn a year by 2035 in higher drug prices, critics have warned. The agreement,...

‘WE HAVE had massive support from the public,’ the ASLEF rep Lucio Buffone told News Line when he spoke out on the well-attended picket...

‘GRANT Schapps doesn’t respect the right to strike. He wants to make strikes ineffective. I don’t believe him at all. I don’t think he’s...

TRANSPORT union RMT said that its members are standing firm as pickets were out in force yesterday at all key locations in the fight...

THE NAHT school head teachers union executive has announced that it will move to a formal industrial action ballot after a 90% membership vote...

HOMELESS people are being routinely ‘screened out’ and denied access to social housing by social landlords because they are deemed ‘too poor or vulnerable...

‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!’ rang out as 200,000 workers, students and youth marched from Whitehall in central London...

FOUR thousand Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) Unite members came out on strike yesterday, with many demanding that the action should be united with British...

SOUTH London and Maudsley NHS Trust GMB members employed by privateer ISS are striking next week and will march on Downing Street. The GMB union...

TWENTY seven Labour MPs have signed a statement from the Socialist Campaign Group describing Labour leader Keir Starmer’s decision not to readmit Jeremy Corbyn...

YESTERDAY, marked the first of 10 days of strike action by security staff at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge in central London. Some of...

ALMOST six million people are waiting to have hospital treatment in England, the latest NHS monthly performance statistics revealed yesterday. The number of patients on...

RAIL CHAOS rapidly spread across the length and breadth of the UK as new train timetables coming into force yesterday hit serious problems, leaving...

‘IT HAS no moral right to sit on these green benches here. It is a dead Parliament! Parliament is not worth a candle. It...

‘BRING us back into the NHS NOW!’ strikers from SLaM (South London and Maudsley) mental health trust are demanding as they converge on Downing...