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RATES KEPT ON HOLD – as production plunges

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THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday held interest rates at a record low 0.5 per cent after ignoring calls to head...

Essex’s Biggest Ever Cuts In Fire Service!

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FIREFIGHTERS and the general public are outraged as Essex fire authority has voted through the biggest cuts in the county’s history, which will see...

MPs VOTE TO BAN PRISON STRIKES

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The Prison Officers Association (POA) yesterday expressed anger and disappointment after MPs in the House of Commons voted by 481 to 46 to back...

Big Support for WRP Candidates

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WRP PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE for Kensington, Scott Dore campaigning outside the busy Ladbroke Grove tube station yesterday gained the support of local residents. Kathleen Jones who...

Labour Mounts Attack On Disabled

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Disability charities yesterday expressed concerns over Labour’s plans to introduce harsh work tests and force almost two million people off incapacity benefit. In his Budget...
Junior doctors defending the NHS from Hunt and the Tories

Government failing NHS – says BMA leader Mark Porter

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THE BMA doctors’ union and the RCN nurses’ union joined hands in denouncing the Tory government’s onslaught on the NHS yesterday, after the...

Poa Backing Corbyn

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The POA (Prison Officers Association) is backing labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his Shadow Cabinet ‘to come through the setback of the EU elections...

‘COLOSSAL BA PROFITS!’ – while mixed fleet cabin crew fight for a living wage

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‘COLOSSAL profits confirm British Airways can easily afford to end the obscenity of cabin crew poverty,’ Unite said yesterday responding to BA’s announcement yesterday...

30,000 March Against Cornish NHS Cuts

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The organisers of the biggest demonstration so far in defence of the NHS, a huge 30,000-strong march against NHS cuts in Cornwall, yesterday slammed...

Hamas denounces Israel’s plan to execute Palestinian prisoners

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The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval in its first reading of a bill that would permit the execution...
Firefighters marching through Aylesbury demanding the reinstatement of sacked colleague Ricky Matthews – after Maude’s statement they know that the biggest battle is directly ahead to stop the privatisation of the fire service and all public services

Privatise Fire Service & NHS plus wage & job cuts – Tory plan for...

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HOSPITALS and fire services will be run ‘outside the public sector’ Francis Maude, Tory Cabinet Office minister revealed yesterday, speaking to the Daily Telegraph. Firefighters...
CWU representatives from Hertfordshire area outside yesterday’s meeting in Euston on Royal Mail pensions

NO PENSIONS SELL-OUT – demand CWU reps

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Communication Workers Union representatives from across the country yesterday slammed the changes to Royal Mail pensions that their leaders want to sign up to,...

‘We can’t go on like this – government has lost control!’ Sir Keir Starmer...

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Sir Keir Starmer opened his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool yesterday by condemning the Truss Tory government’s mini-budget last week,...
Junior doctors demonstrating in central London last October – their strike is now on beginning Tuesday January 12th

Junior doctors strike is on!

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JUNIOR doctors will strike next Tuesday after talks with the government broke down at 4.45pm yesterday afternoon. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Junior doctors...

UNIONS AGREE WELSH NHS PAY DEAL! – Monday’s Welsh strike action cancelled

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HEALTH unions have agreed a separate deal on pay for NHS workers in Wales, meaning they will not be taking part in Monday’s four-hour...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers outside Hillingdon TGWU office on Friday insisting that their dispute is still on and that they need their hardship pay

Gmb Shop Stewards Decide On Strike Action Ballot At Asda

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The GMB trade union shop stewards at a meeting yesterday in Manchester voted unanimously to ballot for a national strike in Asda Wal-Mart. The GMB...
RMT AND TSSA members lobbying against rail privatisation earlier this year

STOP CAMERON ADDRESSING TUC! – RMT begins a national campaign

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THE RMT transport union confirmed yesterday that it is mobilising grassroots opposition amongst rank and file trade unionists to an invitation to Tory Prime...

Care cost dumped on the backs of the poor – by Tory amendment to...

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‘THIS IS daylight robbery,’ Labour’s shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth warned yesterday as the Health and Social Care Bill began its third reading. He was...

Abbas calls for emergency session of UN to discuss Israeli mass murder at the...

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the Israeli regime’s recent carnage in...

KING CRISIS WARNING –prepare for Eurozone break-up

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Bank of England Governor Mervyn King yesterday urged banks to brace themselves for a eurozone collapse. Introducing the latest financial stability report, King said: ‘Faced...

‘SHOCKING ABUSE!’ – at the hands of the state

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PEOPLE who have fled to Britain, seeking help and refuge, are suffering horrifying violence at the hands of the British state, it was alleged...

Only 2 junior doctors in charge of 436 patients!

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ONLY two junior doctors were left in charge to care for for 436 patients on a night shift which they have said was...
ASW workers who have lost their pensions after the company went bankrupt outside the High Court on Monday

CWU SHOCKED AND ANGRY – over withdrawal of final salary pension to new Royal...

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday reacted angrily to Royal Mail’s plan to end its final salary pension scheme for new employees....

Banker is new chairman of NHS England

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BANKER Richard Meddings has been appointed as the new chairman of NHS England. Meddings, who is also a non-executive director at Credit Suisse will replace...
Mass picket outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning – the day the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward was due for closure, putting children’s lives into jeopardy

Ealing mass picket condemns the closure of Children’s Ward

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A LOUD and angry mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning condemned the closure of the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward and the barring of...

HALT FAILING NHS POLICIES – doctors’ leader urges Blair

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The leader of the UK’s hospital consultants will today call for a halt to the government’s health privatisation policies that have ‘failed to improve...
Postal workers demonstrating outside the Royal Mail headquarters in Old Street on Friday July 13th

CWU STRIKES SUSPENDED! – secret talks till September 4th

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FOLLOWING a meeting held yesterday between Royal Mail and the CWU, a Joint Statement was agreed that means detailed discussions will take place on...
West London Council of Action picket of Ealing hospital determined to prevent the hospital from closing

‘We must stop the A&E closures’ – Doctors reply to Nicholson

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‘IT can’t be done’ Southwest London hospital consultant Dr Philip Howard told News Line yesterday in response to a call for more A&E closures...
Over 100,000 workers and youth demanded ‘Hands off the Lebanon’ on a march in London last Saturday

WE WILL KILL ANYBODY THAT MOVES – Israelis warn residents of Tyre

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Hezbollah fighters killed three Israeli soldiers in fighting along the southern Lebanon border yesterday. This was after a night of air attacks by Israeli jets...
The front of the 20,000-strong march in January last year to stop the closure of Lewisham Hospital

MILIBAND SUPPORTS US-LED BOMBING OF SYRIA – and pledges to repeal Health & Social...

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LABOUR leader Ed Milliband opened his speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday by throwing his full support behind the US-led bombing raids on...

Israel obstructs the ceasefire agreement

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ISRAEL has continued to obstruct the implementation of the ceasefire agreement by linking the reopening of the Rafah crossing and the entry of humanitarian...
Young Syrians join the thousands of protesters who took to the streets of London when ex-PM Cameron tried to get parliament’s approval for the UK to join a US-led war on Syria – he lost the vote and the UK and then the US were forced to pull back

Trump Beats War Drums!

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‘WE HAVE a lot of options militarily,’ US President Trump said yesterday banging the war drums against Syria, adding that a response would be...
Tory cuts to beds have created a major crisis where hospitals are attempting to operate at 100% bed occupancy

Nurses sleep on wards – as hospitals hit 100% capacity

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HOSPITAL staff are sleeping on hospital wards during this extreme weather to ensure that patients get treated. They are working in extremely...

Haiti Rises Up!

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PRESIDENTIAL candidate, Rene Preval, has condemned the ‘gigantic fraud’ during last week’s elections in Haiti, where an insurrection is taking place by his poverty-stricken...

‘Time Is Running Out!’ – Unison Health Conference Warns Pm Brown

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‘OUR time and patience is running out.’ This is the warning that Unison leader Dave Prentis is due to give to Prime Minister Gordon Brown...

TUC must call a General Strike to kick the Tories out now! – Hunt...

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Tory Chancellor Hunt declared that the entire cost of British capitalism’s crisis is to be dumped onto the backs of the working class yesterday. Hunt...

23 years since Ladbroke Grove disaster

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TWENTY-THREE YEARS after 31 lives were lost in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, RMT says that government policy is in danger of dragging the...

HUNT’S CLASS WAR BUDGET SCRAPS THE HOUSEHOLD SUPPORT FUND SEPT 30th

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TORY Chancellor Hunt delivered his class war Budget in the House of Commons yesterday, announcing that the Household Support Fund will be scrapped on...

‘IT WAS MURDER’ – says De Menezes cousin

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Metropolitan Police firearms officers were issued with special ‘instant kill’ bullets to use against innocent young Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes on 22 July...
Visteon workers on the picket line. Yesterday they kept agents of the liquidators, out of the plant

Visteon Talks Delay!

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SACKED Visteon workers yesterday said that they had stopped 17 employees of the liquidator, KPMG, entering the plant in the morning who were seeking...
Young Soialists demonstrating in Norwich demanding jobs for youth, free state education and an end to state repression of young people

Long-Term Youth Unemployment Up 41.9% In A Year

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THE number of young people in long-term unemployment has soared by 41.9 per cent in the last year, the latest unemployment figures from the...
Striking members of Amicus, Bectu and the NUJ at a lunchtime rally at the Television Centre, White City  on May 23 this year

Don’t sign the rotten ‘compromise’ deal

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Locked out Gate Gourmet workers are angry that TGWU officers are putting pressure on those who have been selected by the company for compulsory...
Local NUT members came to support CWU pickets at the Greenford Mail Centre in West London yesterday morning

‘we All Need To Strike Together’

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THE second series of strikes in the national postal dispute commenced yesterday morning, with Mail Centres walking out at the start of three days...

Sheikh Jarrah resident is threatening to blow up his home rather than leave it!

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ON MONDAY a Palestinian man carried a gas canister onto the roof of his home in occupied Jerusalem as his family faced eviction. The Sheikh...

Reeves scraps Winter Fuel Allowance – Pensioners to freeze in their homes

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NEW LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves dropped a bombshell on the working class across the UK in a statement in Parliament yesterday, announcing that she...