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The TUC has warned that public sector cuts, expected after May’s general election, are likely to impact hardest on women

Former Labour MEPs Glyn Ford and Neena Gill, who lost their seats in the European Parliament in last year’s elections, are both hoping to stand in the general election

The campaign to reform the House of Commons took a step forward this week as backbench MPs forced through reforms against the wishes of Labour and Tory frontbenches

The CWU and Royal Mail have reached a deal to end their long-running dispute without imposing compulsory redundancies

A refugee camp near Calais is to remain closed after a court judgement declared it was “not in the public interest”

Protestors including union leaders and Labour MPs have demonstrated outside the Colombian Embassy in London, to demand the freedom of over 1000 political prisoners held in the country

A new report argues that local government should use its financial clout to push for more environmentally sustainable local communities

Tension between Turkey’s secularist military and its moderate Islamist ruling party is reaching boiling point

Moscow’s top diplomat Sergei Lavrov has toured Latin America, in a further sign of the Kremlin’s push to extend its influence in the Western Hemisphere