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TODAY Tory health minister, Jeremy Hunt, is unveiling his plan to send ‘hit squads’ into ten NHS hospital trusts to carry out a witch-hunt...

OVER a hundred thousand workers and youth took part in the Durham Miners Gala on Saturday and heard Unite’s McCluskey declare his allegiance...

PORTUGAL’S borrowing costs have jumped to over 7%, meaning that it will shortly have to seek another IMF-EU bailout, by offering even more cuts...

THE two largest teacher unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, yesterday confirmed the next phase of their jointly...

THREE thousand workers staged a militant march through Athens on Thursday, despite temperatures of 40 degrees, demanding the overthrow of the government and an...

THE CWU leadership is seeking to make a deal with the coalition over the terms and conditions of the privatisation of Royal Mail, when...

SCORES of town halls in the metropolitan Athens-Piraeus area were being occupied by municipal workers on Wednesday morning following a decision by the POE-OTA...

MIDWIVES have commented on the NHS Staff Survey and the impact of staff shortages and inadequate staffing levels on the health of midwives and...

FIVE-to-14-year-olds will be required to learn more ‘hard facts’ under the new National Curriculum announced by prime minister Cameron and Education Secretary Gove yesterday. The...

IN October 2012 Enfield Council engaged the services of Hygeian Consulting, a specialist healthcare consultancy, to support its scrutiny of the implementation of the...

DOCTORS at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh have voted no confidence in the CQC (Care Quality Commission) and have declared the organisation...

CHANCELLOR Osborne’s vicious £11.5 billion Spending Review attacks on pay, public services and benefits, were immediately condemned by trade union and TUC leaders representing...

TENS of thousands of teachers across the North West took strike action yesterday. This was a further step in the NASUWT and NUT teacher unions’...

OVER two thousand teachers held a ‘March for Education’ organised by the London Region National Union of Teachers in central London on Tuesday...

IN HIS Spending Review of yesterday, drawn up at a time when the capitalist crisis is deepening, with inflation rising and the banks warning...

CHANCELLOR Osborne launched a massive new attack on the working class and poor yesterday, with his £11.5 billion Spending Review onslaught on pay, public...

ANGRY doctors yesterday delivered a vote of No Confidence against Tory Health Secretary Hunt. Doctors at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM)...

‘COME and get it if you dare!’ was the defiant reply of the ERT (Greek state TV and Radio network) workers’ union POSPERT to...

COUNCILS in England face a 10% cut in funding from central government as part of the coalition’s spending plans for 2015/16. As well, there...

OVER 10,000 workers and youth gathered at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) grounds on Wednesday evening on the 9th day and night...

THE Brazilian government is deploying heavily armed troops to five main urban centres that are the driving force of the present uprising by the...

THE occupation of the Greek State TV and Radio network building HQs (ERT) completed eight days and nights on Tuesday and has entered a...

THE leaders of the eleven TV, Radio and newspaper media trade unions issued a ‘Victory at ERT’ (Greek State TV and Radio network) statement...

TENS of thousands of workers and youth mass day and night in the grounds around the occupied Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) building...

THE Labour shadow education minister, Stephen Twigg, made a speech yesterday that was billed as ‘wresting’ the initiative on education from the Tories –...

ALL SCHOOLS will be academies under a Labour government, the party’s education spokesman, Stephen Twigg said yesterday. Academies, which are privately-run but state-funded, operate...

OVER 200 striking refuse workers, who have already endured three years of pay freezes, defiantly marched with their supporters through Brighton and Hove on...

THE Greek State TV and Radio building in northern Athens has become a revolutionary centre of resistance against the parliamentary junta, imposed on Greece...

TENS of thousands of Greek workers and youth are congregating every day and every night at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) building...

BY DAVID VINE AURELIE Lisette Talate died last year at 70 of what members of her community call, in their creole language, sagren — profound...

TENS of thousands of Greek workers, youth and unemployed took part in a general strike rally yesterday in front of the occupied ERT (Greek...

THE National Association of Letter Carriers’ (NALC) annual food drive collected 74.3 million pounds of food and was the second most successful in the...

DISABLED People Against Cuts (DPAC) organised a lively demonstration near Parliament on Monday, to mark the 25th birthday of the Independent Living Fund, which...

PALESTINIAN Arab and Bedouin residents in the Negev announced Sunday that they would be rallying against a legislative proposal to be put before the...

‘MULTIPLE local authorities’ are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts, MPs on the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned. The...

A legal opinion by a leading QC has found that the Government’s proposed changes to legal aid – for which the consultation closed this...

The NASUWT and the NUT have now served notice to employers that NUT and NASUWT members in the North West of England are to...

More than 80,000 new homes could be built in Britain each year if just half the total of £22,812m that was spent on housing...

CANADIAN Union of Public Employees (CUPE) school worker members in the City of Nanaimo’s Ladysmith school district, British Columbia, have voted overwhelmingly in favour...

The Turkish government split yesterday in the face of mass uprisings and a general strike by Turkish workers and youth. In Ankara, the Deputy...

AS THE mass uprising swept Turkey for a fourth day yesterday, Turkish trade unions called a three-day general strike against prime minister Erdogan’s AK...

YESTERDAY the Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, announced that the Labour Party has officially abandoned the principle of universal benefits in the interests of...

THE GMB yesterday condemned the forced transfer of nearly 700 northwest London NHS pathology service staff to a private company. The service carries out blood...

THE Irish trade union leaders are currently deciding whether to accept state control of their public sector trade unions, including control over wages,...

THE German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned a Paris conference of French, German and Italian leaders on Tuesday that youth unemployment of almost 25%...