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Protesters on Whitehall in London, as Chancellor of the Exch
Britain / 26 March 2025
Nationwide protests demand ‘Welfare not Warfare’
26 March 2025
Birmingham Council House
Britain / 24 March 2025
Local authority funding crisis could threaten essential statutory services to the most vulnerable, LGA warns
24 March 2025
A group shot of the CND protest in the town square in Barrow
Britain / 23 March 2025
Peace activists condemn Labour's commitment to militarisation, nukes and war
23 March 2025
A general view of Pentonville Prison, London, April 29, 2013
Britain / 17 March 2025
Prison population now higher than when the government came to power, study shows
17 March 2025
Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaigners s
Britain / 17 March 2025
Court showdown for Waspi women
17 March 2025
Police in anti-riot gear escorting picketers away from their
Britain / 16 March 2025
Government urged to meet election pledge to ‘uncover the truth’ of Orgreave attack
16 March 2025
Palestine action activists
Britain / 16 March 2025
Palestine Action targets Bristol HQ of Elbit Systems
16 March 2025
Unite flag
Britain / 21 February 2025
Sheffield residents rally in support of Veolia waste disposal workers
21 February 2025
Office workers at their desks in London
Britain / 27 January 2025
Future of work in Britain is the four-day week, campaigners predict
27 January 2025
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 27 January 2025
Poverty more rife in England last year than in the rest of Britain
27 January 2025
A person holding an energy bill
Britain / 27 January 2025
More than 40 per cent of adults expect their financial situation to worsen this year, according to a debt help charity
27 January 2025
The gatehouse of Auschwitz II, also known as Auschwitz II-Bi
Britain / 27 January 2025
Holocaust Memorial Day marks 80th anniversary of liberation of Nazis’ Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
27 January 2025
Worshippers taking part in Friday Prayers at the London Isla
Britain / 26 January 2025
New Muslim Council of Britain leader says condemns use of grooming gang scandal to smear all Muslims
26 January 2025
A view of £5, £10, £20 and £50 bank notes
Britain / 24 January 2025
Pregnant hairdresser wins almost £90,000 at employment tribunal after being demoted by bosses
24 January 2025
British one pound coins
Britain / 24 January 2025
Top 10% have more financial wealth than the other 90% combined, new figures show
24 January 2025
A general view of HMP Pentonville, north London
Britain / 21 January 2025
Inspectors warn of drugs and violence at Winchester prison
21 January 2025
A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardi
Britain / 20 January 2025
Welsh government accused of ‘delays, undelivered commitments and missed deadlines’ in nature efforts
20 January 2025
The Womens March in Sheffield
Britain / 19 January 2025
Women march across Britain against Donald Trump's inauguration
19 January 2025
SOLIDARITY ACROSS THE POND: This Abraham Lincoln statue in M
Features / 18 January 2025
How workers fought US slavery and earned Abraham Lincoln’s gratitude
18 January 2025
PETER LAZENBY reports on how trade unionists in Manchester are to celebrate the role of the city’s cotton industry workers in the fight for the abolition of slavery in the US civil war
A view of houses in Thamesmead, south east London
Britain / 18 January 2025
LGA warns that town halls cannot build social housing fast enough to replace homes sold under the right to buy scheme
18 January 2025
Shoppers in central London
Britain / 17 January 2025
Retail slump shows evidence of 14 years of attacks on wages
17 January 2025
Ambulances parked outside London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Britain / 13 January 2025
Student plans festival to raise funds to buy ambulances to send to conflict zones around the world
13 January 2025
The emergency department at Midland Metropolitan University
Britain / 12 January 2025
London hospital advertises for ‘corridor care’ nurses
12 January 2025
Royal College of Emergency Medicine says advertisement is ‘normalising’ patients being treated in the corridors
First Minister John Swinney giving a speech at Playfair Libr
Britain / 12 January 2025
Scottish Labour brands First Ministers' commitment to eradicate child poverty as ‘empty rhetoric’
12 January 2025
First Minister John Swinney (centre) and Health Secretary Ne
Britain / 10 January 2025
Britain's first safer drugs consumption room to launch in Glasgow next week
10 January 2025
A general view of medical equipment on a NHS hospital ward a
Britain / 10 January 2025
Cancer patients are waiting longer for assessment and treatment because of recruitment freezes, says new report
10 January 2025
First Minister John Swinney giving a speech at Playfair Libr
Britain / 6 January 2025
First Minister Swinney makes calls on Scottish parties to support SNP’s draft Budget
6 January 2025
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) hold a rally o
Britain / 6 January 2025
Teachers at sixth-form colleges to begin three-day strike action over pay
6 January 2025
British one pound coins
Britain / 6 January 2025
FTSE 100 chiefs will be paid as much by noon today than workers will make in an entire year
6 January 2025
A protester wearing a giant Donald Trump head, outside Holyr
Britain / 6 January 2025
Scottish government urged to shun Trump visit
6 January 2025
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby at Westminster Abb
Britain / 6 January 2025
Welby to step down at midnight tonight
6 January 2025
school children in a classroom
Britain / 6 January 2025
Royal Society of Edinburgh calls for Scottish education to be overhauled
6 January 2025
Protesters march in Huddersfield
Britain / 5 January 2025
First Palestine protests of 2025 take place across Britain
5 January 2025
Social care pic Hands of an elderly woman
Britain / 3 January 2025
75% of public back social tariff funded by energy firms to help elderly and disabled
3 January 2025
Grant Douglas pauses while evacuating as a wildfire reaches
Britain / 30 December 2024
‘This is climate breakdown, in real time’
30 December 2024
Governments must dramatically slash emissions and support the transition to a renewable future in 2025, UN says
A view of an entrance to an Accident and Emergency Departmen
Britain / 30 December 2024
Healthcare emergency
30 December 2024
A&E departments overwhelmed with minor cases as primary care sector struggles to keep up with demand
Mould Credit: Louis Reed / Creative Commons
Britain / 30 December 2024
One in five older people living in homes making them sicker, study shows
30 December 2024
David Lammy
Britain / 29 December 2024
Government ‘hypocrisy has rarely been stronger’
29 December 2024
Peace campaigners blast government for ‘aiding and abetting’ Israel's genocide in Gaza while announcing extra millions to prosecute Russian war criminals
The offices of the Italian arms giant Leonardo at 1 Eagle Pl
Britain / 29 December 2024
Palestine Action target arms manufacturer Leonardo's London office
29 December 2024
BP sign
Britain / 23 December 2024
Palestinian victims of Israel's bombing of Gaza launch legal action in Britain against BP
23 December 2024
a man carrying bags in the Broadmead shopping area of Bristo
Britain / 23 December 2024
Shop staff face ‘Christmas crime wave’
23 December 2024
The Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell speaks during a Chur
Britain / 23 December 2024
Victim of abusive priest calls on Archbishop of York to step down
23 December 2024
Picketers decorate a Christmas tree outside Rossington Colli
Features / 23 December 2024
1984: how the miners saved Christmas from Thatcher
23 December 2024
With solidarity coming in from across Britain and the world, PETER LAZENBY speaks to the people who made Christmas 1984 a celebration of working-class resistance in Britain’s striking coalmining communities
Just Stop Oil protesters (left to right): Gaie Delap, Luke E
Britain / 22 December 2024
77-year-old grandmother imprisoned for having wrists too thin for tag
22 December 2024
A preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks
Britain / 22 December 2024
Government accused of ‘cancelling Christmas’ over winter fuel and two-child cap
22 December 2024
A view of parking charges at Buckland Hospital in Dover, Ken
Britain / 21 December 2024
Hospital staff paid £70.5 million to park at work in 2023-24
21 December 2024
Social media apps on a mobile phone
Britain / 20 December 2024
West Yorkshire Police officers sacked over misogyny and racism in WhatsApp messages
20 December 2024
Metropolitan Police officers form a cordon at Parliament Squ
Britain / 20 December 2024
New film warns ‘police state tactics’ are being used to silence pro-Palestine activists
20 December 2024
A police officer from Greater Manchester Police on duty in t
Britain / 20 December 2024
Two men charged with assaulting police after a disturbance at Manchester Airport but no officers will face charges
20 December 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is filmed on a phone whilst
Britain / 16 December 2024
Local authorities could disappear under plans to devolve decision-making from Whitehall, councils warn
16 December 2024
Stephen Cottrell during his enthronement as the 98th Archbis
Britain / 16 December 2024
Archbishop of York facing calls to resign over failure to act against child-abusing priest
16 December 2024
People take part in the National march for Palestine in cent
Britain / 29 November 2024
Tens of thousands of Palestine supporters expected to march through London
29 November 2024
Britain / 29 November 2024
Councils should work with unions to improve vulnerable workers’ rights, according to study
29 November 2024
British one pound coins
Britain / 29 November 2024
Miners receive £29 a week increase in pensions
29 November 2024
A photo of school girls walking to school
Britain / 25 November 2024
Government must reform Child Maintenance Service to tackle child poverty
25 November 2024
The body of a child, a victim of an overnight Israeli air st
Britain / 24 November 2024
Campaigners welcome the ‘beginning of the end’ of Elbit Systems' presence in Britain
24 November 2024
The Israeli-owned arms manufacturer loses its biggest contract with the Ministry of Defence
a general view taken by drone of the British Steel Ltd steel
Britain / 22 November 2024
British Steel unions call on the government to honour its pledge to help the industry
22 November 2024
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 22 November 2024
Swathes of the social care market could collapse under £2.8bn cost pressures, warns Nuffield Trust
22 November 2024
Toilet sign
Britain / 19 November 2024
Workers face lack of access to toilets at work, unions warn
19 November 2024
A person holding an energy bill
Britain / 18 November 2024
Energy bills set to rise again in January, warns consultancy group
18 November 2024
Leader of Plaid Cymru Rhun ap Iorwerth stands outside the Se
Britain / 18 November 2024
Plaid Cymru calls for new Wales Bill to give it powers on par with Scotland
18 November 2024
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 12 November 2024
Thousands more people dying in poverty in Britain, research reveals
12 November 2024
Britain / 12 November 2024
Labour facing almost certain failure to cut NHS waiting lists to 18 weeks, bosses warn
12 November 2024
A hunt saboteur walks with the dog pack from a Boxing Day Hu
Britain / 11 November 2024
Illegal fox cub hunting on the rise, animal welfare charity warns
11 November 2024
NHS workers on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital,
Britain / 11 November 2024
Nurse shortages creating ‘perfect storm’ in NHS
11 November 2024
A stone a London’s Tavistock Square and (right) a rose gro
Britain / 10 November 2024
‘Remembrance Sunday must be about bringing peace, not glorifying war’
10 November 2024
Activists protest against Booking.Com in Manchester
Britain / 10 November 2024
Companies targeted by Palestine protesters in Manchester and London
10 November 2024
Unite members demonstrate in Sheffield
Britain / 8 November 2024
Striking refuse workers demonstrate over union recognition
8 November 2024
NHS workers on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital,
Britain / 7 November 2024
Nursing leaders warn mental health reforms will fail without more staffing
7 November 2024
protest
London / 3 November 2024
Protesters take to streets for Palestine
3 November 2024
Human Rights / 3 November 2024
Amnesty launches write for rights campaign
3 November 2024
Protesters during a Manchester Palestine Action demonstratio
Britain / 1 November 2024
Palestinian student wins case against deportation
1 November 2024
A general view inside HMP Brixton.
Britain / 1 November 2024
More than 10,000 prison officers attacked in England and Wales over last year
1 November 2024
An exhibition on the history of the white poppy at the Peace
Britain / 1 November 2024
Demand for white poppies has increased following Israel's war on Gaza, peace campaigners say
1 November 2024
A homeless couple sleep on a corner in Belfast city centre,
Britain / 28 October 2024
Young adults discharged from social care more likely to be homeless, charity warns
28 October 2024
Kaba family Downing St Oct 24
Britain / 27 October 2024
Family of Chris Kaba among hundreds marching for death of loved one 'in hands of the state'
27 October 2024
Aberdeen 27.10.24
Britain / 27 October 2024
Palestine supporters mobilise across Britain in weekend of protests
27 October 2024
Lynn Gibson (NWAPC Secretary), Heather Wood, Betty Cook and
Britain / 27 October 2024
Banners of Women Against Pit Closures raised to launch protests at Beamish Mining Museum
27 October 2024
Unite flag
Britain / 26 October 2024
Unions warn employers to take action as new sexual harassment at work laws kick in
26 October 2024
Cymdeithas yr Iaith caravan
Britain / 25 October 2024
Campaigners dump old caravan near Welsh government offices in protest against housing crisis
25 October 2024
PA Apco
Britain / 25 October 2024
Palestine activists blockade Apco offices
25 October 2024
Campaigners take part in a protest against the Government's
Britain / 21 October 2024
Campaigners to protest winter fuel allowance cuts in Leeds
21 October 2024
Unison Flag
Britain / 21 October 2024
Unison threatens strike action if money is not found to pay local government workers
21 October 2024
Pupils in a classroom
Britain / 21 October 2024
Teachers and parents call for action on school cuts
21 October 2024
Smoke rises following Israeli bombardment on the Gaza Strip,
World / 20 October 2024
Palestine supporters take to the streets as slaughter in Gaza continues
20 October 2024
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 20 October 2024
Government warned that plans to transform the NHS require more funding
20 October 2024
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 20 October 2024
Removing caps on benefits could save the government billions of pounds, study finds
20 October 2024
People during a pro-Palestine and pro-Lebanon protest on Whi
Britain / 18 October 2024
Palestine supporters to mobilise across Britain
18 October 2024
A preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks
Britain / 18 October 2024
Children from disadvantaged families ‘stigmatised’ by two-tier childcare system, study finds
18 October 2024
An Elizabeth Line train as it enters service travelling from
Britain / 18 October 2024
Rail unions call on London Mayor to bring Elizabeth Line and London Overground into public ownership
18 October 2024
DP World London Gateway, container port in Stanford-le-Hope,
Britain / 13 October 2024
Foreign firms warned to treat workers with dignity and respect amid P&O Ferries boycott call
13 October 2024
March for Palestine in Leeds
Britain / 13 October 2024
Thousands continue to take to the streets to demand an end to Israel's violence
13 October 2024
People during a pro-Palestine and pro-Lebanon protest on Whi
Britain / 11 October 2024
Nelson Mandela's grandson blocked from giving Palestine solidarity speaking tour of Britain
11 October 2024
stocks of food at a foodbank
Britain / 9 October 2024
Hunger and hardship reaches record levels
9 October 2024
A group of Muslim and Jewish women during a minute silence a
Britain / 7 October 2024
‘The need for a ceasefire is more pressing than ever’
7 October 2024
Vigils and protests staged across Britain in call for peace on the October 7 anniversary
Imam Sabah Ahmedi, who has said relations between Jewish and
Britain / 7 October 2024
British Muslim and Jewish communities' relationship ‘fractured’ by Israel's attacks on Gaza, leading imam warns
7 October 2024
Hospice bed
Britain / 7 October 2024
Hospices facing a £60m funding shortfall, charity warns
7 October 2024
Protesters across the world demand ceasefire ahead of first
Britain / 6 October 2024
Students occupy Manchester Uni over its links to Israel
6 October 2024
PA Video Grab of people taking part in a pro-Palestine march
Britain / 6 October 2024
Pro-Palestine groups target ‘complicit companies and institutions’ at weekend's huge protest
6 October 2024
An elderly woman counting loose change
Britain / 4 October 2024
Pensioners to mobilise against cuts to winter fuel payments
4 October 2024
school children in a classroom
Britain / 1 October 2024
Majority of teachers witness children in ‘hygiene poverty,’ survey finds
1 October 2024
Palestine Action activists
Britain / 30 September 2024
Former Tory ministers accused of colluding with police and courts to deal with Palestine Action activists
30 September 2024
Two police officers at Glenrothes Police Station, Fife, Scot
Britain / 27 September 2024
Victims of stalking at risk as police do not take issue seriously, review warns
27 September 2024
World / 27 September 2024
Trade Union calls for investigation into death of Irish journalist
27 September 2024
Unison Flag
Britain / 23 September 2024
Scottish government plans for social care will not tackle ‘prolonged crisis’, Unison says
23 September 2024
Staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London
Britain / 23 September 2024
Scottish social care plans will do nothing to solve ‘prolonged crisis’ in sector
23 September 2024
A stack of British one pound coins
Britain / 23 September 2024
Poverty in Britain ‘out of control’, Big Issue warns
23 September 2024
Two police officers at Glenrothes Police Station, Fife, Scot
Britain / 20 September 2024
British company run by retired police officers found promoting electric-shock torture equipment
20 September 2024