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THERE were 125,000 workers, students and youth on Saturday’s 18th National March for Palestine through London, from Piccadilly to a quarter of a mile...

ENGLAND has an ‘unforgivable’ and ‘frightening’ NHS workforce crisis that severely threatens patient safety, says the BMA doctors’ union in research published today. The BMA...

JAGUAR Land Rover’s (JLR) suspension of production after last month’s cyber-attack has thrown tens of thousands of workers and small suppliers into crisis, with...

‘LABOUR agreed to talks (with the Tories) because we believed it was the right thing to do to see if we could get a...

LABOUR MP Chris Williamson was allowed back into the party yesterday morning after an investigation into comments he made about the party’s handling of...

BELMARSH High Security prison is suffering from an outbreak of coronavirus to such an extent that it is ‘barely functioning’, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has...

SCORES of striking nurses spoke out angrily on the picket lines yesterday to condemn the Tory public sector pay cuts programme. Hundreds of thousands of...

‘NO MEDALS, badges or claps this time – just pay nursing fairly’, a nursing union leader told Boris Johnson yesterday. The leader of the UK’s...

TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday that the NHS will get ‘whatever resources it needs’ to cope with a coronavirus epidemic. He alleged to the...

THE BMA says the dismissal of a consultant from Hampshire for whistleblowing is unacceptable and further highlights the need for cultural and legal reform...

PM JOHNSON shed crocodile tears on Saturday as UK Covid-19 fatalities passed the 150,000 mark, with the BMA doctors’ union warning that ‘still the...

UNITE national officer for health Colenzo Jarrett-Thorpe said yesterday that ‘Pressures on our ambulance members are unprecedented, with the profession not currently being given...

DEATHS from coronavirus will be twice as high this winter than in the first wave of the pandemic, Tory PM Boris Johnson told Parliament...

A BARRISTER for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire told the public inquiry that a ‘total neglect of safety’ was at the heart of...

BIRMINGHAM city council is selling off its community centres and youth centres with millions of pounds of public property being auctioned off to housing...

OVER 2,000 bus workers are gearing up to strike against attempts by London’s transport privateers to impose pay cuts and unacceptable new work schedules...

AN EIGHTY-strong coachload of Yellow Vest protesters came over from France to join the demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday morning demanding WikiLeaks founder...

AT SOUTHWARK Crown Court this week, a protester represented by Bindmans LLP has been found not guilty by a unanimous jury in a trial...

THE LABOUR Party would ‘consider very, very strongly’ voting to revoke Article 50 to block a no-deal Brexit this Friday, Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca...

YESTERDAY’S King’s Speech was opened yesterday by King Charles III. The main issues in the King’s Speech were that ministers will support measures that control...

STAFF at Balham benefit centre are being balloted for strike action having been told that their office is due to close on 31 December. This...

THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday announced the dates for the indicative ballot for strike action demanding a 12.5% pay increase. The ballot opens on...

LABOUR Chancellor John Healey has told every government department to find a further 1% cuts in their capital budgets to fill a £4.7 billion...

SUPPORTING calls for a general strike, leading Labour MP John McDonnell said he supports ‘co-ordinated action’. He also condemned Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer...

FIFTY steelworkers and their supporters demonstrated outside Portcullis House in Westminster yesterday morning as negotiations between their Unite union leaders, the Tata Steel privateers...

PATSY Stevenson has warned the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in a pre-action letter that she intends to initiate legal proceedings against the Metropolitan...

OVER 500 angry NHS workers marched from St Thomas’ Hospital to Downing Street on Wednesday evening to demand a 15 per cent pay rise. ‘Enough...

‘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...

Tory Chancellor Hunt declared that the entire cost of British capitalism’s crisis is to be dumped onto the backs of the working class yesterday. Hunt...

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

‘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...

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...

‘A CONSERVATIVE government believes those who can work should work, so sanctions will be applied more rigorously to those who fail to meet strict...

‘THE Government has five tests it has said must be met to ease lockdown – the first of which is “making sure the NHS...

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...

ONE HUNDRED and thirty-eight GP surgeries shut last year, compared to 18 the previous year, the latest GP workforce figures from NHS Digital show,...

POSTAL workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of striking for pay, in a ballot of 115,000 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), with...

10,000 TUBE workers took strike action yesterday after London Underground (LU) bosses refused to rule out job cuts and detrimental changes to pensions. Under the...

TORY PM Theresa May’s ‘time has run out,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Parliament yesterday. He added: ‘She no longer has the authority to offer...

THERE was a well attended picket line of pathology department workers outside the Queen’s Hospital Romford (BHRT) yesterday. Red Unite flags were waving and there...

DELEGATES at the UCU (University and College Union) Conference in Harrogate last week, backed an important step forward in the fight against the escalating...

THE HOUSE of Commons met on Wednesday morning at 9.30 am to discuss the implications of the major defeat suffered by both the US...

BMA resident doctors’ committee co-chairs Dr Ross Nieuwoudt and Dr Melissa Ryan yesterday called for a ‘tangible and acceptable’ pay offer. Commenting on new talks...

THE FIRST Reading of a Bill calling for ‘an independent public inquiry into the UK co-operation with Israel since October 2023’ was passed unopposed...

HEALTHCARE assistants whose jobs were wrongly graded are at ‘breaking point’, as managers at Epsom Hospital, St George’s in Tooting and St Helier refuse...