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Marcus Barnett
Britain / 27 February 2020
College lecturers strike for rise in government funding
27 February 2020
Current city mayor of Salford Paul Dennett attending and tak
Britain / 27 February 2020
Unions welcome ‘no-cuts budget’ passed by Salford's left-wing Labour council
27 February 2020
Britain / 27 February 2020
London bus drivers warn transport bosses in last chance saloon
27 February 2020
Britain / 26 February 2020
Teachers call for a ‘sea change’ in admissions policy
26 February 2020
Lloyds Banking Group head offices in London
Britain / 26 February 2020
Job losses at Lloyds Bank to send ‘shock waves’ through communities
26 February 2020
CWU General Secretary Dave Ward
Britain / 25 February 2020
CWU members break their own record for ‘gate meetings’ in support for new strike ballot
25 February 2020
A basket of tinned goods at a foodbank
Britain / 25 February 2020
Students starving in rent crisis
25 February 2020
Leeds Beckett University’s students’ union launches foodbank after being inundated with appeals from impoverished students
Britain / 25 February 2020
Station cleaners fighting for living wage
25 February 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel
Britain / 24 February 2020
Patel denies anonymous intelligence agency claims she can't be trusted with sensitive information
24 February 2020
CWU general secretary Dave Ward
Britain / 20 February 2020
Dave Ward re-elected as CWU general secretary
20 February 2020
Mountain Rescue team members attempt to rescue a man from hi
Britain / 18 February 2020
Johnson has ‘let down’ Wales by not calling for an emergency meeting over floods, Plaid Cymru says
18 February 2020
Britain / 18 February 2020
Unite seeks urgent talks with HSBC over plans to cut thousands of jobs
18 February 2020
Britain / 17 February 2020
Rail workers welcome support of prospective Labour candidates
17 February 2020
Britain / 17 February 2020
Boris Johnson facing growing rebellion over BBC suggestions
17 February 2020
Debbie Abrahams
Britain / 17 February 2020
British MP who criticised the government’s decision on Kashmir was denied entry into India
17 February 2020
Soldiers from The Highlanders, 4th Battalion, the Royal Regi
Britain / 16 February 2020
Government must not ‘shrug their shoulders’ at flood defences, Labour warns
16 February 2020
Britain / 16 February 2020
RMT threatens to name and shame corrupt bosses
16 February 2020
Labour leadership hopeful Rebecca Long Bailey
Britain / 14 February 2020
Long Bailey lays out plans to ‘deliver the dreams, hopes and expectations’ of the working class
14 February 2020
Bishop Auckland MP Dehenna Davison (centre) with (left) Andr
Britain / 14 February 2020
Anti-racists call on Johnson to take action against Tory MP
14 February 2020
Pictures emerge of Bishop Auckland MP Dehenna Davison with well-known far-right activists
Soldiers based at Catterick Garrison in the grounds of Richm
Britain / 12 February 2020
Labour MPs call for an inquiry into death of soldier whose body went undiscovered for three weeks
12 February 2020
Britain / 11 February 2020
Union: robot report has ‘forgotten the humans’
11 February 2020
Britain / 11 February 2020
Thousands of college staff on strike against cuts
11 February 2020
Labour leadership candidate Rebecca Long-Bailey leaves after
Britain / 10 February 2020
Stockport MP hits out at 'unhealthy' anonymous briefings against Labour left
10 February 2020
Newly elected MP Navendu Mishra urges colleagues to ‘get behind’ whoever wins
Britain / 10 February 2020
London bus drivers move closer to strike action
10 February 2020
Britain / 10 February 2020
Rail privateer accused of pushing taxpayers to pay for £20m bailout for its troubled franchise
10 February 2020
Britain / 9 February 2020
Anarchists take over abandoned police station
9 February 2020
Britain / 9 February 2020
Labour report members of Keir Starmer's campaign team to Information Commissioner over alleged hack
9 February 2020
Britain / 9 February 2020
Postal workers urge Royal Mail to sit down seriously
9 February 2020
Britain / 7 February 2020
North 'hit hardest by Tory cuts,' John McDonnell tells Labour north-west conference
7 February 2020
Britain / 7 February 2020
Manchester refuses to fly Union Jack for Prince Andrew’s birthday
7 February 2020
Labour MP Yvette Cooper (left) and Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns
Britain / 7 February 2020
Conservative activist sentenced to jail for threatening Labour's Yvette Cooper had ‘his heart in the right place,’ Tory MP says
7 February 2020
BP or Not BP? activists bring a a Trojan Horse into the Brit
Britain / 7 February 2020
Environmental activists criticise British Museum's BP sponsorship deal with Trojan Horse protest
7 February 2020
Acorn activists outside Property Plus estate agents in Brigh
Britain / 6 February 2020
Housing activists play Monopoly in estate agents in protest against forced eviction
6 February 2020
Britain / 6 February 2020
Bus funding promise a ‘drop in the ocean,’ say unions
6 February 2020
Prince Andrew and Boris Johnson attend the annual Royal Brit
Britain / 6 February 2020
Liverpool refuses to fly the union flag for Prince Andrew
6 February 2020
The Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left) and Sir David Attenb
Britain / 5 February 2020
Corbyn labels Johnson a climate sceptic
5 February 2020
The Labour leader demanded the government stop ‘failing so spectacularly to measure up to the scale of the climate crisis’
Britain / 4 February 2020
Scottish engineering workers vote 'overwhelmingly' for strike action
4 February 2020
A red London bus in central London
Britain / 4 February 2020
London bus drivers tell boss to stop ignoring ‘degrading’ and ‘intolerable’ conditions
4 February 2020
Britain / 31 January 2020
Power is in our hands
31 January 2020
Unions call for working people to head off the threat of a Tory evisceration of labour rights post-Brexit
A Dial-a-Ride service at Ladbroke Grove Sainsbury's
Britain / 31 January 2020
Dial-a-Ride workers stage 24-hour strike in protest over ‘undignified’ pay cut
31 January 2020
Crossrail engineers inspect completed tracks in October 2018
Britain / 31 January 2020
Cortes demands Crossrail inquiry
31 January 2020
Former Crewe & Nantwich MP Laura Smith addressing the meetin
Britain / 31 January 2020
Laura Smith selected to contest Crewe seat
31 January 2020
Britain / 30 January 2020
Long Bailey backed for Labour leadership by Communication Workers Union
30 January 2020
500 delegates overwhelmingly backed her for leader and Angela Rayner for deputy, the Star understands
UVW members strike outside St Maty's hospital
Britain / 30 January 2020
‘Historic victory’ for United Voices of the World as over 1,000 hospital workers brought back in-house
30 January 2020
Cleaners, caterers and porters employed by outsourcers Sodexo at hospitals run by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust are to be transferred to direct employment
Britain / 30 January 2020
Firms told their greed killed fire’s 72 victims
30 January 2020
Britain / 30 January 2020
Security staff at Harrods ballot to strike
30 January 2020
Britain / 30 January 2020
‘What planet is Tory Rail Minister Heaton-Harris living on?’
30 January 2020
Rail workers perplexed by minister's claim that train fares, which have risen 40% since 2010, are ‘not bad value’
Britain / 29 January 2020
Outsourced London Underground cleaners demand end to privatisation
29 January 2020
Northern Rail will be taken back into public hands
Britain / 29 January 2020
Unions demand government nationalises Britain's ‘broken, privatised railways’
29 January 2020
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps
Britain / 28 January 2020
Rail unions brand the Tories' reversal of the Beeching cuts as ‘PR spin’
28 January 2020
Britain / 26 January 2020
Friends and fans celebrate communist singer’s birth
26 January 2020
Britain / 26 January 2020
Mehra resigns from Grenfell inquiry
26 January 2020
Britain / 24 January 2020
Grenfell survivors ask Benita to go
24 January 2020
Britain / 24 January 2020
NEU demands fraud inquiry
24 January 2020
Britain / 24 January 2020
We need certainty surrounding HS2, say unions
24 January 2020
Britain / 24 January 2020
Unions strike deal with Chinese firm to save British Steel
24 January 2020
A mushroom cloud
Britain / 23 January 2020
Doomsday Clock moves even closer to midnight
23 January 2020
Britain / 23 January 2020
Shutdown threat sparks strike ballot
23 January 2020
Britain / 23 January 2020
Tube workers tired of growing violence on underground
23 January 2020
Britain / 23 January 2020
TSSA pleased about pay offer
23 January 2020
Britain / 22 January 2020
Government a puppet for the rail companies
22 January 2020
Rebecca Long Bailey
Britain / 22 January 2020
Long Bailey calls for 'democratic revolution' in Labour
22 January 2020
Labour chairman Ian Lavery
Britain / 22 January 2020
Ian Lavery urges Keir Starmer to step aside to ensure Labour gets its first female leader
22 January 2020
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and MP Laura Pidcock in Geraldin
Britain / 21 January 2020
Pidcock urges people to join the People's Assembly and commit to ‘rebuilding resistance to the Tories’
21 January 2020
Pipe bands and banners parade through Durham during the Durh
Britain / 21 January 2020
Durham miners would rather be ‘dead in a ditch’ than invite Johnson to the Gala
21 January 2020
Labour MP Zarah Sultana (left) with leadership hopeful Rebec
Britain / 20 January 2020
Labour's Sultana calls on Tories to ‘look her in the eye’ and explain fairness of ‘crippling student debt’
20 January 2020
Britain / 20 January 2020
Leaked report reveals HS2 could cost £106bn
20 January 2020
Britain / 20 January 2020
Tube workers protest over workplace safety
20 January 2020
Richard Burgon, Shadow Justice Secretary, speaking during a
Britain / 10 January 2020
Our ‘resilience’ will ‘sow the seeds of future Labour victories,’ Burgon say
10 January 2020
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps visits Leeds Train Station
Britain / 9 January 2020
Rail unions call on government to stop companies ‘bleeding Britain's railways dry’
9 January 2020
Britain / 8 January 2020
Tenants kick off new year in Manchester with victory over ‘rogue landlord’
8 January 2020
A TransPennine Express train at Leeds train station
Britain / 8 January 2020
Manchester mayor calls for deadline on TransPennine Express to improve services
8 January 2020
Labour's Andy Burnham tells bossess he's ‘not prepared any longer’ to put up with the company's ‘misery’
Britain / 8 January 2020
Unions call for more power to report underpayment
8 January 2020
TSSA leader Manuel Cortes
Britain / 7 January 2020
TSSA slams Northern Rail flash ticket sale gimmick
7 January 2020
A general view of HMP Winchester
Britain / 7 January 2020
Winchester prison officers demand action on ‘increased’ violence
7 January 2020
Britain / 7 January 2020
Oftsed claims schools are stuck in poor performance
7 January 2020
The race to succeed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has begun
Britain / 6 January 2020
Lurch to the right is no route to recovery, socialists warn as Labour leadership race begins
6 January 2020
Two workers walk through a Crossrail tunnel in London
Britain / 6 January 2020
Trade unionists call for inquiry into Crossrail
6 January 2020
Labour general secretary Jennie Formby in November
Britain / 6 January 2020
Jennie Formby announces cancer treatment has worked
6 January 2020
A Northern train travels along the High Level Bridge which c
Britain / 2 January 2020
Tories accused of attempting to bury news of rail ticket price hikes
2 January 2020
Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey
Britain / 30 December 2019
Labour's Long Bailey sets out stall to replace Corbyn and fight for a socialist Britain
30 December 2019
Stockport MP Navendu Mishra
Britain / 29 December 2019
Labour can't go back to 'failed status quo,' warns new MP Navendu Mishra
29 December 2019
Britain / 27 December 2019
Sir IDS would be a disgrace, slams DPAC
27 December 2019
Britain / 27 December 2019
Sharon Osbourne outs herself as a monster
27 December 2019
Britain / 27 December 2019
CMA to investigate Amazon buying a stake in Deliveroo
27 December 2019
Britain / 27 December 2019
Jolyon Maugham reveals sinister side after beating fox to death
27 December 2019
Britain / 23 December 2019
St Mungo's boss urged by union to resign for ‘shameful’ email
23 December 2019
Britain / 23 December 2019
Sofa surfing having "horrific" effects on peoples wellbeing
23 December 2019
Britain / 20 December 2019
Wikipedia pauses edits to senior Sun hack
20 December 2019
Britain / 20 December 2019
Manchester Victoria trains stop as staff strike
20 December 2019
Britain / 19 December 2019
POA to fight £210,000 fine
19 December 2019
RMT members outside Parliament
Britain / 19 December 2019
Rail workers call for ‘partisans of workers’ to fight ‘side by side’ with them
19 December 2019
Members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) stand on the picket
Britain / 18 December 2019
Firefighters claim victory over the Tories as tribunal orders reversal of pension ‘robbery’
18 December 2019
Britain / 18 December 2019
Rail workers strengthen calls for disability access at stations
18 December 2019
Britain / 17 December 2019
Nightmare before Christmas - factory closure to leave 100 workers jobless
17 December 2019
Britain / 17 December 2019
Cancer care still fails to meet goals in Scotland
17 December 2019
Britain / 17 December 2019
Boris Johnson has issued declaration of war on railway workers, unions warn
17 December 2019
Britain / 17 December 2019
London Fire Brigade too slow to implement changes after Grenfell, watchdog claims
17 December 2019
Ken Loach on stage at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in Lo
Britain / 15 December 2019
Film director Ken Loach urges European socialists to ‘clarify’ their stance on the EU
15 December 2019
Anti Brexit protestor Steve Bray attempings to appear in sho
Britain / 15 December 2019
It's ‘wilful blindness’ to deny Labour lost because of Brexit, Unite leader says
15 December 2019
Britain / 13 December 2019
SWR strike to save guards resumes
13 December 2019
NATIONALISTS: Tommy Robinson with Katy Hopkins as he arrives
Britain / 13 December 2019
Anti-Islam activist ‘Tommy Robinson’ announces he's joined the Tories
13 December 2019
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks to supporters durin
Britain / 12 December 2019
Prominent left-wing figures back Labour and Jeremy Corbyn's vision in Open Letter
12 December 2019
David Morris MP
Britain / 11 December 2019
Tory candidate asked a parliamentary question about a company that donated £10K to him
11 December 2019
Labour's Ian Lavery (centre) campaignig during the 2017 gene
Britain / 11 December 2019
Labour chairman vows to campaign for a ‘radical’ Brexit deal
11 December 2019
Britain / 10 December 2019
3rd-class tickets? Not even Virgin dared try that
10 December 2019
Britain / 10 December 2019
Britain’s economy set to suffer if Tories win election
10 December 2019
Matt Hancock with Tory candidate for Warrington North Wendy
Britain / 10 December 2019
Tory candidate shares smears about sick boy
10 December 2019
Wendy Maisey promoted conspiracy that tragic image of a child on hospital floor was staged ‘to sway election’
Britain / 10 December 2019
Tory candidate ‘shamed’ for implying foodbank users are freeloaders
10 December 2019
Britain / 8 December 2019
Tory underfunding blamed for 5,000 deaths in hospital
8 December 2019
Britain / 8 December 2019
Ex-Thomas Cook workers face a grim Christmas
8 December 2019
Labour's Rebecca Long Bailey
Britain / 6 December 2019
Small businesses say Britain needs ‘massive change’
6 December 2019
Labour's shadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey told the Star the party would ‘reform the whole system’
A Virgin train at Central Station in Glasgow
Britain / 6 December 2019
Rail workers blast ‘same old privatised nonsense’ as another privateer takes over West Coast Mainline
6 December 2019
Britain / 5 December 2019
Tax workers down pens over office closures
5 December 2019
(left to right) Annunziata Rees-Mogg, Lance Anisfeld, Lucy H
Britain / 5 December 2019
Brexit Party MEPs quit to back the Tories
5 December 2019
Britain / 3 December 2019
Strikers call for SWR to get around the table
3 December 2019
Britain / 3 December 2019
Labour vows to end ‘rip-off Britain’
3 December 2019
Britain / 3 December 2019
Corbyn in solidarity with striking uni workers
3 December 2019
Britain / 2 December 2019
Labour to save rail commuters £1,000 a year
2 December 2019
Flowers laid for the victims of a terrorist attack on London
Britain / 1 December 2019
‘You can’t keep people safe on the cheap,’ Corbyn warns after London Bridge attack
1 December 2019
The Labour leader said cuts to public services had led to authorities struggling to effectively tackle terrorism and extremism
A view of blocks of flats in a council estate in south east
Britain / 1 December 2019
Johnson accused of holding ‘hatred and contempt’ for Britain's working-class people
1 December 2019
Labour's Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said the PM has ‘no idea what life is like for people who don’t have everything handed to them on a plate’
Britain / 1 December 2019
SWR workers to begin 27-day strike to keep guards on trains
1 December 2019
Britain / 29 November 2019
Unite vows to fight to save Npower jobs
29 November 2019
Britain / 29 November 2019
Rail workers condemn government's £86m ‘bailout’ for SWR
29 November 2019
Britain / 28 November 2019
Teachers and Labour slam 7-year shortage of trainees
28 November 2019
Students take part in a protest in Leeds city centre, to sup
Britain / 28 November 2019
Momentum calls on Labour members to join striking lecturers' picket lines
28 November 2019
Britain / 28 November 2019
Posties lose appeal against High Court decision to block Christmas strike action
28 November 2019
Britain / 28 November 2019
Maritime workers to protest in Portsmouth
28 November 2019
Britain / 27 November 2019
Durham students given green light to campaign for Labour again
27 November 2019
Britain / 27 November 2019
Miners welcome plans to set up specialist clinics
27 November 2019
Britain / 27 November 2019
Hundreds demand University Hospital Lewisham becomes a living-wage employer
27 November 2019
Britain / 27 November 2019
Blacklisted workers back Labour’s manifesto
27 November 2019
Britain / 25 November 2019
Uber loses licence to operate in London after a ‘pattern of failures’
25 November 2019
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (centre) on stage with col
Britain / 25 November 2019
Over 500 artists, filmmakers, playwrights and writers pledge their ‘full support’ for Labour
25 November 2019
Britain / 24 November 2019
Labour launches its youth manifesto
24 November 2019
Labour's candidate for North East Derbyshire Chris Peace
Campaign of the Week: / 22 November 2019
Jobs and justice in North East Derbyshire
22 November 2019
Britain / 21 November 2019
Firefighters welcome Labour's pledge to halt service cuts
21 November 2019
Britain / 21 November 2019
Labour promises a guard on every train
21 November 2019
RMT general secretary Mick Cash welcomes 'modern, transformational policy that will provide real change, especially for disabled and vulnerable passengers'
CWU general secretary Dave Ward
Britain / 20 November 2019
CWU lodges appeal against High Court judgment
20 November 2019
Britain / 18 November 2019
Campaigners call for benefit assessment ban after man dies in jobcentre
18 November 2019
Britain / 18 November 2019
Charges dropped against Unite convenor
18 November 2019
Britain / 17 November 2019
Bank workers launch campaign against closures
17 November 2019
Eric 'Winkle' Brown
Britain / 17 November 2019
Eric 'Winkle' Brown 'fought with the Spanish Republic'
17 November 2019
The fire at The Cube building in Bolton last week, as firefi
Britain / 17 November 2019
High-rise residents face 'cladding lottery,' warn northern politicians after Bolton blaze
17 November 2019