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‘WE WILL absolutely not pause our strike action,’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary Pat Cullen said yesterday morning on the BBC’s Laura...

LONDON is set to be brought to a standstill after thousands of bus workers employed by the privateer Metroline have voted overwhelmingly for strike...

LABOUR refused to demand Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation yesterday, following the revelation that he held a party in his Downing Street garden...

HOSPITALS ‘do not have the capacity to cope’ said the British Medical Association (BMA) in response to Emergency Medicine Journal findings about longer waits...

OVER 350,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Downing Street on Saturday, in one of the largest demonstrations...

TODAY’S guilty verdicts in the case of Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal and Stop The War Campaign vice chair Chris Nineham are extraordinary...

KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...

THE ‘ROGUE bus service’ being operated by Go North West in the Greater Manchester area is under investigation for serial Covid-19 safety failures and...

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange appeared in court in London yesterday looking very unwell after spending months languishing in Belmarsh Prison where he has been...

MORE WORKERS at 74 universities across the country joined the strike yesterday as students also came out onto the picket lines to support their...

PUBLIC SECTOR employees, many of whom are essential Covid-19 workers, should not be subject to a continuing pay freeze from a government that has...

TORY Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg announced yesterday that the taxpayer is to subsidise the energy bills of every business in Britain to the tune...

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,...

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

MANCHESTER Go North West strikers were out yesterday mass picketing the depot as part of their indefinite strike. Go North West Unite branch secretary Pat...

A MOTION committing the GMB union to fight for criminal charges to be brought against those responsible for the Grenfell Tower Fire was passed...

NURSING staff in the UK are still under pressure to work without PPE and lack promised gowns. Over a third of nursing staff (34%) in...

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

TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay provocatively declared yesterday that there will be absolutely no pay increase for nurses or doctors above the 5% that...

UNITE is warning that the refusal of the nation’s port employers to make fair pay offers to their workers could result in a national dock...

TWENTY-THREE YEARS after 31 lives were lost in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, RMT says that government policy is in danger of dragging the...

SUE GRAY INTENDS TO NAME civil servants who broke Covid rules at lockdown parties in and around Downing Street. The senior civil servant will publish...

ALMOST a decade after his WikiLeaks website enraged Washington by leaking secret US documents, a London court will begin hearings on Monday to decide...

‘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...

AMBULANCE worker members of the GMB, Unite and Unison unions will take national strike action on 21st December, with paramedics, emergency care assistants, call...

A series of ‘shockingly irresponsible’ government decisions put tens of thousands of older people’s lives at risk and led to multiple violations of care...

THE BMA doctors’ union has hailed the Court of Appeal ruling on rest breaks as ‘a significant victory for junior doctors’. Commenting on the Court...

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...

AROUND 50 students have occupied the entrance on the forecourt of University College London (UCL) since last Friday in protest at Israeli genocide in...

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced yesterday that following a meeting on proposed cuts to services in Oxfordshire it is to hold a strike...

VIRGIN Atlantic is to cut a third of its staff in the UK and will keep its operation at Gatwick closed in response to...

‘AS WE begin a new year, the NHS is buckling before our eyes. The pressures are immense with flu cases surging while staff absences...

A PROPOSAL by fire chiefs to expand a firefighter’s role at will and without boundaries has been overwhelming rejected by firefighters by 97%. The proposals...

EU LEADERS France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Angela Merkel – have been told the EU is unlikely to get a trade deal with the...

HUNDREDS of school youth staged a strike for climate change in Parliament Square yesterday. Lana Daly came with friends from west London and said: ‘The...

A health board is paying over a million pounds a month to a private consortium for a hospital it cannot use. The new children’s hospital...

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

A DEFIANT meeting of Alpha catering workers was held yesterday midday at Cranford Park, Heathrow. The workers unanimously dismissed Alpha Catering’s plan to cut the...

THE SPIRALLING cost of energy, combined with a lorry driver shortage and now panic buying, has resulted in 5,500 petrol stations across the country...

THE HIGH COURT ruled yesterday that the Home Office unlawfully prevented the family of Trinidadian national Lynda Mahabir, who came to the UK aged...

TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab appeared before MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, where he was questioned about the end of the UK’s...

THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has launched a probe into supply chain finance firm Greensill Capital following its collapse, which threatens to end the...

LABOUR members’ ‘hearts are Remain’ Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson claimed yesterday addressing the Centre for European Reform. He went on to insist that...

FIREFIGHTERS in Kent are considering strike action against threatened mass sackings of 76 firefighters and the closure of five fire stations by the newly-elected...

‘HUMILIATING, painful, depressing,’ says a new report released yesterday by homeless charity Crisis, highlighting the brutal realities of ‘sofa surfing’. The research shows that with...