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A PLAN to move out-of-hours surgery from Cheltenham General Hospital seven miles away to Gloucester has been slammed by almost 60 consultants and senior...

LABOUR’S SHADOW foreign secretary Emily Thornberry joined hands yesterday with resigned Tory Transport Minister Jo Johnson in declaring for a second referendum to reverse...

IT EMERGED this week that the company hired by the Tories to test for flammable cladding on government and other public buildings in the...

HANAN Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), warned on Wednesday against attempts to impose an economic or humanitarian...

PALESTINIAN Arabic dailies on Friday highlighted the Israeli government’s approval of the construction of new settlement units in the heart of Hebron’s old city....

TRAIN drivers’ union ASLEF’s general secretary, Mick Whelan, has written an article reasserting the union’s commitment to withdrawing from the European Union. It was written...

As Putin, Merkel, Macron and Erdogan were meeting in Istanbul on Saturday evening to discuss the future of Syria, Israeli planes were bombing Gaza...

MORE THAN 170,000 workers marched through Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday, while tens of thousands of others marched through Sydney, Wollongong, Gladstone, Cairns, Mackay, Darwin,...

ITALY is now on a collision course with the EU. The European Commission has issued an ultimatum insisting that the country’s budget plan does...

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of ‘Remainers’ marshalled by the likes of billionaire George Soros and other speculators set out on Saturday to try to create...

OVER 2,000 FE lecturers, staff and students marched through central London yesterday demanding fair funding for colleges. They demanded fair pay for FE lecturers,...

LABOUR leader Corbyn, in his response to PM May’s Monday update to the House of Commons ahead of this week’s European Council, made it...

‘LABOUR’S plan is for Britain and the European Union (EU) to negotiate a permanent customs union to protect jobs and manufacturing,’ Labour leader Jeremy...

TEN Palestinians, including three children, were killed and 882 others have been injured by Israeli forces at the Gaza border during the past two...

THE TOTTERING Tory government of Theresa May was dealt another massive blow on Wednesday night when the ten Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs abstained...

LATEST figures show that 14 Palestinians, including four children, were killed and 1,434 injured by the Israeli forces during the demonstrations between September...

PALESTINE Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah told visiting members of the European Parliament on Monday that Israel should be forced to stop its violations against...

AFTER her ‘Dancing Queen’ performance at the Tory Party conference, which acted as an introduction to extreme grovelling to Labour’s right wing, praising...

THE TORY Brexiteers are starting to split with a number moving to support PM May and a Customs Union with the EU. The UK...

DEPUTY Labour Party leader Tom Watson yesterday urged Tory leader May to ‘come and talk to the Labour Party’. ‘If she cannot get...

OVER 1,000 head teachers from England and Wales gathered in Parliament Square at 11am on Friday before marching to Downing Street to protest at...

TO THE ALARM and anger of all those Labour supporters who voted to break from the EU, Labour is swiftly and openly becoming...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in his speech to the party conference yesterday, made Tory PM May an offer: he said that Labour would give...

Every single Greek state-owned building is being passed by the government over to the EU-IMF controlled EESYP (Greek Properties Company) to pay back...

THE BANKRUPTCY last January of Carillion, Britain’s largest construction company, is going to cost the working class more than £150 million on top of...

‘CONFERENCE, it is right that Parliament has the first say, but if we need to break the impasse our options must include campaigning for...

AFTER PM May’s Chequers deal was blown out of the water by the EU on Thursday evening, yesterday May ‘addressed the nation’ and said...

Israeli forces fired on Palestinian farmers as they were working on their lands east of Khan Younis on Monday morning. Khan Younis is a...

THOUSANDS of members of the United Steelworkers (USW) union from across the United States voted overwhelmingly last week to authorise their bargaining committee to...

TUC DELEGATES in Manchester yesterday waved Palestinian flags as they voted unanimously for Emergency Motion 4, ‘Cuts to UNWRA and the Nation-State Law.’ This...

‘ZERO hours contracts will be banned’ under a Labour government Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said yesterday in a keynote address to the TUC...

RMT leader Mick Cash hit out to oppose the TUC General Council statement on Brexit saying that it was a staging post to try...

THE ‘leader’ of the Trade Union Congress, Frances O’Grady yesterday stabbed millions of workers in the back when she declared on The Andrew Marr...

THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) demands that Markus Jooste, the former Chief Executive Officer of Steinhoff, be arrested and charged with...

IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has insisted that the Islamic Republic will continue to support Syria in its fight against terrorist groups. Zarif made...

School children in England are being put in ‘physically and mentally cruel’ isolation units for up to 7 hours a day at academy trust...

THE South African Federation of Trade Unions stands fully in support of the long-overdue introduction of a national health insurance (NHI) system, and welcomes...

AT this year’s annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) the right-wing of the trade union bureaucracy will attempt to commit the working...

BREXIT Secretary Raab announced yesterday that ‘Today, I want to set out the steps we in government and you in business, the public sector...

By Palestinian Ambassador Manuel Hassassian ‘JEREMY Corbyn’s principled stance has been watched with bated breath by all Palestinians in occupied Palestine and the diaspora. After...

ADALAH, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, warned on Monday that the Israeli government’s response to the petition, filed to the...

SAFTU (South African Federation of Trade Unions) is incensed at the report in the Mail & Guardian that there is a plan lay off...

AN EMERGENCY General meeting will be held by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in September, in response to a petition with over 1,000...

THE BOURGEOIS media and Labour’s right wing pro-Zionists have no shame, as their attempts to label Labour leader Corbyn an anti-Semite show – otherwise...

THE UK faces a ‘democratic crisis’ with voters being targeted with ‘pernicious views’ and data being manipulated, a parliamentary MPs committee warns. According to...