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Delegates hold silence and call for normalising of LGBT love
Supporters gather on what would’ve been MP’s 42nd birthday
Comrades stage solidarity protest in Dundee
Prefect blames ‘security concerns’ in statement
Activists express their anger at media framing of Orlando shooting as part of conflict with Isis
Zero-hours blight just the tip of the iceberg
Report reveals doctor refused to treat patient without chaperone
UVW members walk out indefinitely after ‘unlawful’ sackings
Unite lodges claim with employment tribunal
Student finds investment rules don’t cover research income
Health staff rally over bursary cuts as poll finds two-thirds of nurses would be priced out...
Britain’s High Street loses second big name in matter of days
Ahmed-Sheikh goes public over harassment
Foreign Secretary beats war drum in Middle East
McDonnell lauds the ‘left opportunity’ of Camp Remain
UCL students in ‘unbearable’ living conditions given back 20% of rent
Amnesty demands full probe after bombs found in Yemen
Disabled activists protest in streets against deadly cuts to their benefits planned by Crabb
Underpaid cleaners refuse to stymie action in face of employer’s intimidation
Hillsborough ‘shows how vital Act is to us’
Top peer warns people would take to the streets over charter
Protests erupt around Britain against detention
Resistance of teachers, parents and MPs pays off as Morgan admits no love for key policy
‘It’s just banter’ whine caught-out Conservatives
Conference delegates vent fury at company’s former owner
Usdaw’s John Hannett says the news is ‘devastating’ for 11,000 workers
Corbyn: Labour and the unions can protect each other
Lobbyists: Quit Colombian coal horror
People flock to Downing Street incensed at Panama Papers revelations
As Cameron is hit by yet more questions over tax affairs, Labour launches plan to clean out havens
Lambeth Labour gets court approval to throw buds of tomorrow into street
- Condemned by your own MPs
- Collapsing public confidence
- A festering mess on everything from health to education
- An economy in the doldrums
- And now your own tax affairs are a national embarrassment
Foreign Secretary lambasted by panel of MPs
ECHR says decision not to charge any Met Police officers was justified
Labour’s Powell lays into Morgan’s ‘top-down academisation drive’
Stress levels at an all-time high, survey finds
Angry disabled activists take on Osborne’s vicious attacks on the vulnerable
Cruel welfare cuts lead to 39% rise
Friends speak up for student leader under threat
An informative book on the scandal which is private-sector renting doesn’t go far enough for JOANA RAMIRO
Elias Apetsi detained just hours after NUS election
Feminist campaigners block entrance to Treasury in protest
Politicians join demo to stop cruel Bill
TUC pledges national demonstration support after hearing sex-for-rent and eviction atrocities
Young mothers take home 15% less than childless women
Parents and children take to streets to save their homes
81-year-old sectioned and removed following fights with council over eviction
Cuts will see ‘more kids living in absolute poverty’
Tory challenges bedroom tax victory in Supreme Court
Lord Browne warns Trident will be vulnerable to cyber attacks
Court orders them to do community service
Medical report wins 92-year-old brief reprieve
‘A gift to dictators round the world,’ says new Amnesty report
Campaigners argue minimum income for British spouses ‘wrong’
Butterfields residents booted from sale by security staff
GMB reveals extent of greedy landlords’ hold
Cameron’s ban on councils’ ethical policies comes under fire
Forensic clues examined to trace man who attacked Dover protest activists
London tenants stage march on Downing Street
Loudmouth Hopkins also in with a shout
‘We want 40% cut after 56% rise since 2009’
Tory proposals to kill off council housing and end secure tenancies reach the House of Lords for second reading
Labour top team demands action for refugees while Cameron jets off on jollies
Colour of doors attracted vandalism by racists
Activist Kate Wilson wins payout for undercover relationship
Tories take another swipe at poor with cuts to HE grants
If everyone in Birmingham and Bradford vanished tomorrow would there be an outcry? That’s how many claimants – 1.5m – the DWP ‘lost’ last year in the biggest welfare shutout since WW2.
Calls for firm to be stripped of youth offender facilities role
Lead campaigner reduced to tears following investigation
Callous Government Policy Will See One in 10 Cancer Patients Face Homelessness
Social housing campaigners lobby Parliament on hated Bill
Thatcherite scheme blasted for subsidising the better-off
Parents swap heating and clothes for rent
Labour activists head to streets for the homeless
Activists cry foul as police and heavies besiege Royal Mint
PM worried teens might learn about ‘risky sex’
Declassified papers show Cameron ally rejected plans to fight urban poverty
by Joana Ramiro in Madrid
Rally marks 25 years since first democratic poll
Burgon slams those claiming war criminal is a ‘moderate’
Group points to history of being proved right on British wars
Housing trust wants to chuck out campaign minutes from pricey street
Children of impoverished parents go hungry
Stats reveal widening gap in austerity Britain
Emergency food requests rise by almost 14,000
McDonnell defends new politics and the right to protest
Protesters launch rallies against Syria bombing
Hundreds lack support as council struggles
Heartless Home Office put grandmother at risk
UCL forced to pay out over living conditions
Broadwater Farm estate ‘targeted for demolition’ under regeneration project
Bosses say authorities are at tipping point
Campaigners slam dodgy outsourcing jamboree celebrating Tory privatisations free-for-all
Labour: We must stand with both French and Syrian victims of Isis
Hungarian had been arrested but not charged
RSPB warns that climate change is squeezing habitats and setting seasons out of kilter
MP calls proposed strike ‘appalling’
Groups cancel over London mayor's ‘failure to understand occupation’
Alliance between the Socialist Party, Communist Party, Greens and the Left Bloc presents a vote of no confidence in PM Pedro Passos Coelho
Border staff try to intimidate activists after trip to refugee camp
Pro-Palestine activists blockade Dept of Business over exports
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell joins students
US has finger on button, soldier says, as Eagle dismisses Scots Trident vote
Nicky Morgan says Osborne is ‘in listening mode’ ahead of Lords vote
People share their stories of how the tax credit cuts will drive them deeper into poverty
New backbencher in passionate attack on Osborne’s policy
Protesters launch solidarity demos after killings
Safety struggle goes on for under-attack firefighters
Group recalls India PM’s role in 2002 massacre
Council won’t help resolve refugee’s housing crisis
Economists urge more action against low pay
End to Shell’s Arctic drilling delights delegates
Greens disagree over flagship policy
Disabled father and four kids thrown out of their home
Conservative Torbay Council faces backlash for spending more on beach huts than social homes
Thousands turn out to back refugees’ march
FRANCES O'GRADY tells the Star the TUC and the hundreds of thousands of workers it represents won’t take a bad Bill lying down
Jeremy Corbyn’s first act as Labour Party leader is to stand in solidarity with those seeking safety
Assisted Dying Bill rejected 330-118
But Blairite throwback warns Labour that Corbyn offers nothing new
Blair impersonator leads efforts to stop sales to violent regimes
Party members furious as they get caught up in witch hunt for ‘entryists’
Plane Stupid condemns Heathrow runway plan
Calais migrant solidarity initiative overwhelmed with gifts from a public that won’t buy alarmist press slurs
Former top Lib Dem faces assault trial after democracy demo
Campaigners celebrate after lawyers confirm the failure of estate’s final eviction
Biggest Yarl’s Wood detention centre protest hears from the women held inside
Council denies disabled father new house after rent difficulty
The Londoners have raised nearly £3,000 in 36 hours for their delivery of essential items
Tories scrap support for anti-capital punishment projects
Rally called for end to migrant deaths on line
Celebration of East End women replaced with murderer
Corbyn backed on Woman’s Hour
Locals trying to resist eviction arrested
Lawyers rally demanding Gove scrap planned cuts
Shocking estimations revealed in university study into FGM
Campaigners regroup for demonstration after weekend entry scheme foiled
Union members and residents help father of disabled child
Disabled activists arrested during peaceful Westminster protest
Couple near retirement tell of being hit hard by tax credit cut
Four cleaners and porters sent home after demo outside HQ
Campaigners mourn the death of vital independent living fund
Small band of activists injects politics back into parade
Party’s bigotry makes it unsuitable, TUC hears
LGSM activists set to defy Pride organisers and march at front with trade unionists
Hundreds rally against ill-treatment of refugees
Eight arrested at ‘unregulated’ Runnymede Magna Carta event
Activists stage camp outside town hall after it tries to slap huge fines on homeless people
Cops investigate claims about Domino’s Pizza agency staff
Majid Ali fears for his life after an uncle and cousin were killed during a raid
Thousands ‘unnecessarily criminalised’
Hundreds-strong protests prompt better treatment
Muslim teacher got interview by posing as white Briton on CV
Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign gains widespread support
Joana Ramiro interviews Charlotte Church
8.7 per cent now unable to afford meat every other day
Turkish workers sacked for joining a union
Thousands head to Downing Street to protest against ruthless plans laid out in Queen’s Speech
Sweets Way community occupies Barnet Homes HQ after it washes hands of vulnerable family
O’Grady delivers rallying call to disabled workers
Tenants face threat of eviction to make way for fancy flats
Pickets take place across Britain as workers call for pay rise
Campaigners celebrate landmark case win
Police: Not enough evidence to convict campaigning mum
Mass arrests and violence reported as police respond to first demonstrations against the new government
Hardest-hit speak out against Tory cuts
Activists demand end of first past the post
Tory Barnet Council ‘ knows landlords abuse those kicked out of social housing’
Occupy Democracy targets Parliament Square
Youth unemployment: Black up 50 per cent, white down 2 per cent
Organiser Mihaj one of five reps targeted by anti-union firm
Campaigners call for end of national scandal after 149 die on the capital’s streets in 2014
Fast food workers rally across Britain and the US for a better wage
Bosses agree to deal after month-long protest
Estate’s remaining families found homes
34 arrests as nuclear base blockaded
Sharing intimate pictures without consent now carries two-year jail term
Focus E15 Mums occupy flat after Newham Council kicks woman out of her home of 21 years
Runnymede squatters plea for celebrations protection
Toxic Blair praises Miliband for refusing vote on Europe
Sweets Way residents refuse to give up estate
Windsor Castle wardens ballot for action over living wage let down
Occupy activists take over lobby of right-wing rag publishers News UK
Goldsmiths is the fourth London university to be occupied by students angry at cuts
University students occupy campuses across central London in protest against mass cuts
Striking primary teachers win kids’ solidarity against privatisation
East End campaigners step up the fight to stop Britain from sending two profoundly deaf kids to their estranged parents in Bangladesh.
Equalities conferences kick off with rousing tale of victory
Real Media campaign launches week of action
Protesters head back following controversial police raid
Justice Minister Chris Grayling humiliated by MPs’ findings
Campaigners hit out at the practice revealed in HMIC report
Family battered by gentrification take comfort in Sweets Way occupation
University of London’s Senate House occupied
Judges defend 90-year-old peacenik’s place on ‘domestic extremism’ database
Tenants slam ‘new face of social cleansing’
Council ‘denies’ Sweets Way kids housing
Housing activists turfed out onto street to keep former luxury hotel empty
Social housing campaigners picket £4,000-a-head ceremony
Emboldened hunting gang cover their faces to unleash violent rampage against animal rights activists
Gentrification drive sees estates replaced by luxury flats
Outrage as prosecution is dropped despite serious injury to victim
Royal Opera House cleaners picket millionaires’ annual bash over refusals to award decent pay
Activists to fight gentrification in court today
Official stats hide real cost of Con-Dem cuts
Mayor fingered for role in homes shortages
Thousands prepare to hit London over rocketing rents and posh purchases
Soho occupiers manage to resist eviction
Music venue squatters served with notice
JOANA RAMIRO reports from Athens on the port workers stripped of their rights and praying for renationalisation
Joana Ramiro speaks to workers who have had enough of attacks on their living standards
Four students win compensation from ‘incompetent’ university management
‘Repressive approach’ to campaigners claim
Feminist campaigners celebrate interim victory after 44 objectifying years
Evicted family left stranded by notorious Newham
Cuts to legal aid have shut dozens of contact centres which help children maintain relationships with separated parents
Game of Thrones's Maisie Williams leads the charge for youth participation
Charities to lobby parties on housing during election campaign
Splintering far right gives way to new wave of teenage fascists
Damning report slams treatment of young offenders
But cracks could appear on immigration policy
London mayor under fire for gag on peaceful Occupy demos
Officers turn batons and tear gas on peaceful protest
Squatter demands government step into crisis
Famous strikers demand wage transparency
Judges shoot down callous Lord Chancellor’s bid to deprive immigrants of legal aid
Protester at anti-racism demo allegedly told she could only leave station if she took off her hijab
Watchdog methods slammed as ‘part of the problem, not part of the solution’
Campaigners demand more than an apology from the disgraced company
Firm withdraws ‘disgusting’ Christmas cards painting people living on estates as workshy, thieving drunks amid widespread outrage
Cheers ring out as internal inquiry opens into officers’ conduct – but activists fear whitewash
New Lambeth College staff employed on inferior terms
Warwick turns out against 'disproportionate and unprovoked' policing
Education sector unimpressed with Osborne's credit solution
Campaigners storm universities' headquarters in battle for free education
Privateer guard told activists 'I'm going to go out there and punch them'
Taxpayers face shelling out for £116bn losses
18,200 winter deaths laid at the door of big energy fims
Brown vigil turns into march bringing traffic grinding to a halt
Sam Middleton struck by Newham Council guards at anti-eviction protest
Government profits from the sale of military licences
International day of action turns violent
London mayor effigy up in flames as activists highlight segregated housing disgrace
Companies accused of neglecting the disabled
Campaigners attack unacceptable conditions facing workers
Liberty demands end to GCHQ snooping
Students disgusted by last-minute about-face
Charities warn court case could set dangerous precedent
Female workers effectively unpaid for the rest of the year compared to men
Female activists take the lead on housing, pay and austerity at STUC Women’s Conference
Activists look to Germany - where fees have been defeated - for inspiration
3m families struggle with school costs like meals, books and uniforms
Occupy Democracy activists determined to continue the fight for real democracy
Metropolitan Police tries to close off green to Occupy activists
Our selfie-seeking reporter befriends union leaders
Activists lay homes shortage blame at the door of super-rich real estate 'investors'
Devastated family vow to continue the fight
Housing crisis ignored as councils schmooze with developers
Police force venue to welcome racist thugs before march
Group says Britain is breaking international law
E15 Mums celebrate victory as court delays eviction date
Court backs Met decision to block resignation
THE highly controversial “human zoo” Exhibit B exhibition closed down on its first night after campaigners physically blocked the Barbican’s entrance.
Infamous warmonger believes air support insufficient for country he 'helped fracture'
Focus E15 Mothers group says plenty of available homes in local area
Thousands take to the streets ahead of the UN’s climate change summit
Rents reach £761, with one in 13 people unable to pay on time
One in three are victims of sexual advances as campus lad culture grows
British socialist luminaries inspired by resurgent European comrades
Cinema union Bectu leader Gerry Morrissey hails 'creative, musical and determined' workers for their tenacity
Campaigners turn out nationwide against cruel Tories
Leader Natalie Bennett says party will tackle Britain's 'persistent inequality and poverty'
Programme of changes includes board-level diversity champions and new interview training
SCOTTISH members of transport union RMT backed a Yes vote on independence yesterday in a shock ballot result
Arms trade activists slam war minister for anti-welfare rant
Family of man condemned to US jail demands apology
#IfTheyGunnedMeDown started after the shooting of Michael Brown
Legal firm Slater & Gordon shows nearly half of bosses are wary of the family aspirations of women in their twenties and thirties
Toddler to go into theatre following recovery from journey, says charity Chain of Hope
Decision to send 15 NHS staff to help decimated Palestinian community 'good, but not enough,' say Cornish activists
Protesters target Staffordshire drone factory in action against murderous deals with Tel Aviv
Protesters target Staffordshire drone factory in action against murderous deals with Tel Aviv
Outgoing Foreign Office minister says 'morally indefensible' policies will negatively impact reputation 'internationally and domestically'
Peace activists demand end to warmongering on 100th anniversary of the start of WWI
Mark Harper's former cleaner put on a flight to Colombia
Vulnerable young woman evicted from homeless hostel after benefits slashed
Andy Slaughter tried to rally against hospital demolition
Reprieve legal directors says there is 'no doubt' of British responsibility for torture and rendition of Yunus Rahmatullah
Supporters of Isabella Acevado vow to 'be more vigilant' as authorities issue new deportation notice
Palestine Solidarity Campaign urges PM David Cameron to stop massacre undertaken with 'support of the British government'
Actions taken in solidarity with victimised anti-privatisation protesters
Generation Rent campaign group denounces 'exploitative financial thumbscrew'
Group recruits teens to serve in brutal Israeli armed forces
Alexander Zeldin’s Beyond Caring paints a grim picture of the human cost of zero-hours contracts, says JOANA RAMIRO
Newham boss launches violent rant against housing activists
Tens of thousands show solidarity as bloodshed continues
Large demonstrations held in London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Cardiff over pact that could spell the end of public services
Cops target people fighting for lifeline independent living fund
Labour MP Stella Creasy leads calls for high-interest loans company to be charged
Russell Brand tells protesters, 'Power is here!'
Anti-fascist group release details of Britain First racists terrorising communities
Evidence of mass surveillance exposed by Privacy International, Liberty and other groups
'Demented warmonger' Blair is 'wrong, wrong, wrong' to call for more Western intervention in decimated Iraq, says giant of the peace movement
Public toilet cuts make late night streets 'a clear risk to health,' says Unison leader Dave Prentis
Revellers relieving themselves in the streets lead to a big hygiene problem
UK Uncut returns to shame multinational for reported £6bn tax write-off
Work and Pensions official tells Trussell Trust it could be closed if it continues to criticise government austerity policy
FBU members in England and Wales walk over change to retirement age
Lambeth College principal gets biggest pay rise in London despite cuts to staff sick and holiday pay
UCU trade union research shows college principal leading attacks on teachers’ conditions has awarded himself the largest pay rise of all colleges in London
Picket line boosted by support from students and unionists
New manifesto unites public and private-sector renters in bid to solve shameful homes legacy
Court victory for RMT rep accused of 'intimidation'
Members furious at election disaster, as party loses 250 councillors
A new history of young women offers a lucid account of continual cultural and political struggle, says JOANA RAMIRO
Oxford university students have voted to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students as dissatisfaction from both left and right mounts across Britain
Staff lose full day’s wage after two-hour strikes
Campaign Against Arms Trade members travel to Farnborough in Hampshire to disrupt the BAE Systems AGM in protest against its dire record of flogging weapons to tyrants
London Underground negotiators 'sparked strike with demand RMT drop campaign on network'
Leaked letter shows Tories hoarded details of improved scheme as firefighters embarked on industrial action
Boris Johnson boasts of draconian new laws limiting industrial freedoms
International Workers’ Memorial Day ceremony attended by construction workers and union staff
As thousands mark Workers' Memorial Day, trade unions take the government to task over fatal occupational illnesses, cuts to health and safety and workers' rights
Retailer still refuses to back garment workers' rights 1 year after Rana Plaza disaster
Energy Minister Michael Fallon says Tories will scrap subsidies if they win
Factory collapse anniversary exposes retail giants’ shame as they refuse to pay compensation for victims’ families
Government department taken over in housing protest
Bectu members walked out after bosses repeatedly denied them the London living wage
Thousands of ambulance workers are considering leaving the profession due to increasing levels of stress
Those on insecure contracts earn on average £4 less per hour than fully contracted workers
Guantanamo Bay inmate diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder
Toni Pearce opens union's annual conference
Ethnic minority applicants 'would be fast-tracked' into positions
Survey finds most of Britain wants rid of Culture Secretary embroiled in expenses scandal
Cure Parkinson’s Trust sponsors experiments pumping primate brains full of harmful drugs
TUC welcomes Labour commitment to repeal Con-Dems' flagship anti-charity, anti-union Lobbying Act
Family and friends vow to fight for her right to return to Britain
40-year-old woman passes away in unconfirmed circumstances
Former health minister Lord Warner in conflict of interest after advocating a fee for using NHS
McVey reveals true Con-Dem agenda to inflict housing misery on the poor
Ministers announced plans to slap a 0.75 per cent cap on pension scheme charges
The entire family of a 19-year-old star pupil threatened with deportation may be sent back to Mauritius with her
The family say they fled Mauritius after being threatened by local gangs
Gap between rich and poor widened by 14%
Thousands of working people face being kicked out of their homes, warns Citizens Advice Bureau
Trade union leader and workers' hero Bob Crow is to be laid to rest today.
Over 40 people blocked a building's entrance as Westminster City Council tried to evict a single mother