Your Account Sign In
Support Us
Subscribe
Britain World Editorial Features Culture Sport
Britain World Editorial Features Culture Sport
Austerity Books Climate Crisis Far Right Gaza Kashmir Labour Women's Football Workers' Rights
Latest editorial
Labour retreats on war and welfare: redouble the pressure
Advertise Contact us Shop Subscribe Support us Daily Alert
Austerity Books Climate Crisis Far Right Gaza Kashmir Labour Women's Football Workers' Rights
Berny Torre
London protest
Gaza war / 23 May 2025
Pro-Palestinian Jewish bloc criticises the Met for failing to meet them
23 May 2025
Labour flag
Britain / 23 April 2025
Labour stops sharing membership data with the party’s national executive committee amid dwindling numbers
23 April 2025
Israel protest
Local politics / 23 May 2025
South East Labour chiefs block local debate on ending arms trade with Israel
23 May 2025
Employment / 23 May 2025
NHS hospital worker forced to return to work after miscarriage complications
23 May 2025

Unite call for employment changes after hospital worker forced to return to work after miscarriage

John McDonnell. Photo: Andy Aitchison/PCS
PCS Conference 2025 / 22 May 2025
McDonnell calls for second employment rights Bill if current legislation falls short
22 May 2025
(Left to right) GTFU general secretary Gawain Little, Billy Jordan, John Collins, Morning Star’s Bernadette Keaveney
Birmingham / 22 May 2025
Birmingham bin strikers say they aren’t being given a choice
22 May 2025
PCS Conference 2025 / 22 May 2025
Drop charges and free Palestine activists, PCS demands
22 May 2025
PCS conference
PCS conference / 21 May 2025
Civil servants vote for 10% pay rise and £18ph minimum wage
21 May 2025
starmer
Gaza / 21 May 2025
PCS says Starmer suspending trade talks with Israel is just ‘smoke and mirrors’
21 May 2025

Civil servants slam Starmer over continued support for Israel

mobiles
PCS conference / 21 May 2025
Labour’s AI plan will replace civil servants, PCS conference hears
21 May 2025

Civil servants fear for their jobs following pledges to expand AI use

(From left) Sarah Morton, Fran Heathcote, Martin Cavanagh, Angela Grant, Andy Mitchell
PCS Conference 2025 / 20 May 2025
Unions can defeat Labour's welfare cuts, PCS leader says
20 May 2025
Fran Heathcote speaks during a protest organised by the Rail
PCS Conference 2025 / 20 May 2025
Labour's 'deeply unpopular' attacks on working-class communities are why the party is losing support to Reform, PCS leader says
20 May 2025
Demonstrators hold flags as they cross Westminster Bridge during a demonstration in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza, in London, May 17, 2025
Britain / 18 May 2025
600,000 march for Palestine
18 May 2025

Thousands fill London streets on 77th anniversary of catastrophe as the Co-op supermarket AGM votes to stop selling Israeli goods

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (left) and Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom greet each other, ahead of their bilateral meeting at the 6th European Political Community summit, May 16, 2025 in Tirana, Albania
EU / 19 May 2025
Closer EU ties a 'no brainer' says TUC ahead of major summit today
19 May 2025
An elderly woman holding pound coins in her hands, in Poole,
Winter Fuel Payments / 18 May 2025
Fuel poverty campaigners welcome expected U-turn on winter fuel payments
18 May 2025
A fire engine leaves Bicester Motion in Oxfordshire where two firefighters and a member of the public have died, and two firefighters were also seriously injured, May 16, 2025
Bicester Motion Fire / 16 May 2025
Two firefighters and a member of the public die in former RAF base fire
16 May 2025
King Charles III reading the King's Speech in the House of Lords Chamber during the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster in London, July 17, 2024
Rich List / 16 May 2025
Labour must be 'a lot more energetic' tackling billionaire wealth after Sunday Times Rich List blip
16 May 2025
Lord Timpson. Photo: Jess Hurd
POA Conference 2025 / 15 May 2025
Prisons minister challenged after admitting two in three new jails will be privately run
15 May 2025
HMP Frankland in Durham
POA Conference 2025 / 15 May 2025
Prisons may need 'very different approach' after Abedi prison attack, HMPPS chief says
15 May 2025
Mick Whelan. Photo: Jess Hurd/POA
POA Conference 2025 / 14 May 2025
Unions don't agree with Labour's NIC rise, Mick Whelan says
14 May 2025
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch during her visit to Farleigh Hospice in Chelmsford, Essex, May 9, 2025
Britain / 12 May 2025
Reform and Tories 'insulting the public' by conflating pub banter with workplace harassment, TUC says
12 May 2025
Mental health pic Dev Asangbam / Creative Commons
Austerity / 9 May 2025
Coalition urges Starmer to tackle ‘root causes’ of mental health crisis
9 May 2025
NEU general secretary Daniel Kebede on a picket line
Education / 9 May 2025
Unions warn shortened teacher apprenticeships still need funding
9 May 2025
A new baby holding the finger of its mother
Usdaw Conference 2025 / 7 May 2025
Usdaw calls for eight week paternity leave
7 May 2025
Usdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis
Usdaw Conference 2025 / 7 May 2025
Usdaw’s Paddy Lillis on retiring on a high
7 May 2025
People take part in the National march for Palestine in cent
Usdaw Conference 2025 / 7 May 2025
Usdaw demands end to 'absolutely indefensible' Israel genocide
7 May 2025
Britain / 17 April 2025
NEU delegates call for work towards a single education union
17 April 2025
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
NEU general secretary Daniel Kebede
Britain / 17 April 2025
National Education Union threatens campaign against Labour over pay
17 April 2025
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
NEU Conference 2025 / 17 April 2025
Child poverty forcing schools to pay for pupils’ beds and pillows, education leaders warn
17 April 2025
NEU Conference 2025 / 17 April 2025
Unregulated social media fuelling ‘extreme’ violence in schools, NEU moves
17 April 2025
A general view of a sign displaying a ‘good’ Ofsted rati
NEU Conference 2025 / 16 April 2025
Teachers union slam Ofsted's ‘Nandos-style’ gradings
16 April 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage poses outside The Waterford Lo
Britain / 15 April 2025
‘Farage is just a pound shop Trump’
15 April 2025
National Education Union vows to fight Reform UK's election candidates and racist policies
A view of a BP petrol station sign
NEU Conference 2025 / 15 April 2025
Boycott of Science Museum over fossil fuel sponsorship backed by the NEU
15 April 2025
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) hold a rally a
NEU Conference 2025 / 15 April 2025
Teacher strikes as early as autumn if Labour fails to fund above-inflation pay rise, NEU moves
15 April 2025
People take part in a Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally in
NEU Conference 2025 / 15 April 2025
Schools and colleges must cut ties with arms companies, NEU says
15 April 2025
NEU delegate David Room speaks at the union’s conference i
NEU Conference 2025 / 15 April 2025
‘We demand that local authority services are back on the agenda’
15 April 2025
NEU conference urges Labour to fix school funding crisis by getting rid of academy bosses earning over £500,000
Pupils in a classroom
NEU Conference 2025 / 14 April 2025
Labour blasted for ramping up defence spending as Send crisis worsens
14 April 2025
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) hold a rally o
NEU Conference 2025 / 14 April 2025
Teachers to vote on preparing for pay strike as ‘austerity will be ended by deeds not words’
14 April 2025
(left to right) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, P
NEU Conference 2025 / 14 April 2025
NEU president slams Labour's renewed austerity
14 April 2025
A primary school teacher looking stressed next to piles of c
Britain / 14 April 2025
Nearly half of teachers say number of unfilled positions has worsened
14 April 2025
A general view of British Steel in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire,
Britain / 13 April 2025
Campaigners demand full nationalisation of British Steel after government seizes control of Scunthorpe plant
13 April 2025
HMP Frankland in Durham
Britain / 13 April 2025
Prison officers suffered serious injuries after attack by Manchester Arena bomb plotter, POA reveals
13 April 2025
Protesters hold a CND flag in Parliament Square in London, i
Britain / 13 April 2025
CND to blockade RAF Lakenheath after US exemption to British nuclear safety rules revealed
13 April 2025
Daniel Kebede, the General Secretary of the National Educati
Britain / 11 April 2025
Teachers' strikes to be debated at NEU annual conference
11 April 2025
The steelworks plant in Scunthorpe
Britain / 11 April 2025
Parliament recalled for MPs to vote on nationalising British Steel
11 April 2025
Furniture and uncollected refuse bags in the Sparkhill area
Britain / 11 April 2025
Unite leader asks why councillors are not facing a pay cut after Rayner backs ‘improved’ Birmingham bin strike deal
11 April 2025
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 11 April 2025
Black workers 50 per cent more likely to be employed on exploitative zero-hour contracts than white workers, TUC reveals
11 April 2025
Daniel Kebede general secretary of the National Education U
Britain / 10 April 2025
Teaching union leader backs legal ban on mobile phones in schools
10 April 2025