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‘WE MUST work to control immigration and put Britian first,’ Tory Home Secretary Theresa May said yesterday, stepping up her war on refugees. The economic...

AUSTRALIANS will be hitting the streets in their thousands in cities and towns across the country on Sunday, 11th October in opposition to the...

THERESA May, at the Tory Party conference yesterday, knocked any notion that there could be a caring Tory Britain on the head as she...

NURSES are working in ‘intolerable situations’ and feel ‘unsupported and undervalued’, with many thinking about leaving the profession, according to new RCN research published...

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad says the coalition of Iran, Russia, Syria and Iraq will succeed, that it must or the entire region will be...

PM CAMERON told the Andrew Marr Show yesterday that what was interesting about Unite leader McCluskey’s proposals on the new anti-trade union bill...

MEDICAL students’ leaders yesterday defended final year medical students against threats to their careers if they demonstrate against the government ...

AN ISIS HQ, command point and an ammo depot in Syria were destroyed by Russian military night operations on Wednesday, it was revealed yesterday. Footage...

JUNIOR Doctors are to hold a mass demonstration in central London on Saturday October 17th against the imposition of new contracts cutting their pay...

ANGRY at being snubbed by NHS Employers, over 3,000 junior doctors and medical students held an impromptu rally outside Westminster Central Halls in London...

‘A NEW, very large, very active council housing building programme is what we will launch,’ the new leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn...

ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTY workers and youth attended the West London Council of Action/All Trades Unions Alliance Conference on Sunday, which was called to save Ealing Hospital...

‘AT THE heart of Jeremy’s campaign on which he has received such a huge mandate, was the rejection of austerity politics’, Labour shadow chancellor...

BAHRAIN’s ‘widespread and systematic’ abuse of human rights has been condemned by the entire trade union movement in the UK in launching a new...

EALING CONFERENCE GOES AHEAD: On the eve of the West London Council of Action Conference to defend Ealing Hospital, due to take place on...

EALING CONFERENCE GOES AHEAD: On the eve of the West London Council of Action Conference to defend Ealing Hospital, due to take place on...

THE housing crisis in the UK has reached explosion point. There is no new council housing being built, rents are being driven sky-high, while housing...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has served notice on behalf of a growing number of unions and their...

SCHOOLS were shut once again on Monday morning for 1,500 students in Prospect Heights School District 23, in Chicago, Illinois. The increasingly combative teachers...

THE prestigious and world famous NHS Addenbrooke’s Hospital has been placed into special measures. UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis commented yesterday: ‘This is a shocking...

ON THURSDAY, members of Congress, led by Senator Patty Murray (Democrat-Washington) and Representative Bobby Scott (Democrat-Virginia), proposed the Workplace Action for a Growing Economy...

FOR the first time ever, the serving director of MI5, Andrew Parker, yesterday gave a live BBC interview in a bid to push MPs...

THE TUC Congress in Brighton ended on Wednesday with a call on the TUC General Council to campaign for a state pension above the...

DELEGATES at the TUC conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 16, Blacklisting and Undercover Surveillance of Trade Unionists. The motion calls on...

THE TORIES ‘are declaring war on organised Labour in this country’ Jeremy Corbyn, newly elected leader of the Labour Party, told delegates at the...

MORE than 100,000 people marched through central London from Hyde Park to Parliament Square on the REFUGEES WELCOME HERE! march on Saturday. The march was...

US school teachers are on strike in Washington state, defying a strike ban. Pasco Association of Educators have been on strike for two weeks. The...

‘TUC get off your knees! Call a general strike!’ shouted an enthusiastic Young Socialists lobby of the first day of the TUC Congress in...

TRADE unions yesterday welcomed the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader. This was after the explosion of working class anger inside and around...

ISRAELI forces early on Thursday detained four Palestinians from several West Bank districts. Two Palestinians were detained from Jericho, another from Jerusalem and one from...

IN A speech yesterday, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, promised to privatise every public service in the country, to ‘open up’ public services...

‘ARREST the war criminal now!’ shouted more than 500 Palestinians and their supporters outside 10 Downing Street yesterday, as they demonstrated against visiting Israeli...

15,795 HOMELESS Londoners have been forced into temporary accommodation outside their borough, a Freedom of Information request revealed yesterday. Representing a third of the 47,137...

THE Tory government yesterday conceded that a ‘hit list’ of names of several ‘British jihadis’ were drawn up at the meeting of senior national...

‘ON this Labour Day, CWA members aren’t taking it easy. Across our union, we’ve been mobilising for fair contracts, organising new members, fighting back...

SURGING conflict and political upheaval across the Middle East and North Africa are preventing more than 13 million children from going to school, according...

A PALESTINIAN prisoner who has been in solitary confinement for eight years in Israeli jails has recently been suffering a psychological and neurological disorder,...

HUGE numbers of anti-water-charges demonstrators marched through Dublin city last Saturday, ending with a 100,000-strong rally at the Spire on O’Connell Street, with...

TEN years of uneven recovery have exacerbated the economic inequalities that predated Hurricane Katrina, says Louisiana SEIU local 21LA. Without a doubt, the economic progress...

THE deepening worldwide capitalist crisis is driving forward revolution with seven-league boots. The crisis is threatening a new banking and industrial crash at any moment...

THE National Union of Students (NUS) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) yesterday signed an agreement for joint campaigning for the coming year. The...

THE TUC and the NUS signed an agreement yesterday for joint campaigning by the trade union and student movements for the coming year. The partnership...

US Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders called on US trade unions to rise up and join his political revolution to defeat the Koch brothers...

AUGUST 14th was the 9th anniversary of the defeat of the massive Israeli ground and air attack on southern Lebanon to try and smash...

CAIRO witnessed its biggest protests in months this week, when employees from the tax and customs authorities gathered in front of the Press Syndicate...