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The London Ambulance Service (LAS) was branded inadequate and unsafe by the Care Quality Commission in a report released last week. It was the first ambulance trust to be put into “special measures”. The findings came as no surprise to any of us who work there.

Workers across Greece were set to walk out for a general strike on Thursday of this week.

The Tories want savage new cuts—but activists can take advantage of their divisions, writes Tomáš Tengely-Evans

Driving examiners began a two-day strike today, Thursday, against bosses’ plans at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) to increase their working day to fit in more tests.

There is no library service in Lambeth today, Wednesday. Staff at all ten libraries across the south London borough have walked out in protest at the Labour-run council's cuts plan.

The general strike in Greece today, Thursday, was a bigger success than anyone expected. No boats, no trains and no planes moved. In Athens the Metro stopped all day, as did buses in the morning and evening.

Voting in the Unison union general secretary election opened on Monday of this week.

Hated Tory millionaire Iain Duncan Smith insists his attacks on benefit claimants are about helping them find jobs.

Walkouts by dockers last week were the beginning of a new wave of strikes in Greece.

The House of Lords vote to delay tax credit cuts shows the Tories are far from unstoppable, says Judith Orr

Thousands  of people are determined to defend Jeremy Corbyn and his anti-austerity policies from the Labour right’s attacks and backroom plotting.

Tory chancellor George Osborne was left red-faced after the Lords threw back his cuts to tax credits on Monday of this week.