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BA Pilots Ready To Strike

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The British Airlines Pilots Association (Balpa) has advised its members at British Airways (BA) to set aside £25,000 each to prepare for a long...

World-wide youth strike March 15th

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TENS of thousands of school students around the world are set to walk out of their schools again to join the world-wide ‘Youth Strike...
Syrians in London show their support for President Assad

MPs QUESTION AIR STRIKES!’

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PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday claimed it is ‘in our national interest’ for the UK to launch air strikes on Syria. He made a statement to...

Death by a thousand cuts! – teachers union leaders warning

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THE Labour government is threatening to hit schools with ‘death by a thousand cuts’, teachers leaders warned yesterday. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) reported...
Striking BA cabin crew on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday

CABIN CREW STRIKES CONTINUE – more action over Easter

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There were even more determined pickets at Heathrow Airport by striking cabin crew yesterday, in the last day of their current round of strike...
Firefighters demonstrate in central London in July against the attack on pensions

Only one fire engine for Hove! – warns East Sussex FBU

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THERE will only be one fire engine based at Hove in East Sussex by April 2016 and just 12 firefighters to cover the whole...

A ‘MASSIVE DESTRUCTIVE HAMMER! ’– GP leaders condemn Care Quality Commission

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THE Care Quality Commission (CQC) forcibly deregistered at least 14 GP practices last year, the highest number to date under its three-year inspection regime. The...
Gate Gourmet workers marching on May 1 – yesterday TGWU leader Tony Woodley admitted that their struggle was not over

PCS NATIONAL STRIKE THREAT – ‘You can’t tell Brown and Blair apart’ – Serwotka

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‘THE government could face a national strike by civil servants in a matter of weeks,’ PCS leader Mark Serwotka told a pre-TUC Congress press...

CALL THE WHOLE AIRPORT OUT! – to defend jobs, pay and conditions

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‘CALL the whole airport out to defend all jobs, pay and conditions,’ striking Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) worker, Jarnail Singh, said yesterday ahead of...
The Workers Revolutionary Party-Young Socialists contingent marching on May Day for what workers want – a general strike to bring down the government and create conditions to bring in a workers government

Tories Plot ‘Regime Change!’

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CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday said he will take the Tories’ local elections disaster ‘on the chin’, as his own MPs were calling for his and...
PCS contingent marching with health workers and their supporters in Leeds on Saturday

6,000 March In Leeds To Defend The NHS!

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MORE than 6,000 trade unionists and NHS supporters marched through Leeds last Saturday afternoon against Tory government cuts and the privatisation of the NHS...
Millions of trade unionists are fighting to defend their jobs, wages and pensions and are convinced that crisis-ridden capitalism must go

Banks New Quantitative Easing Fears

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PRESSURE is mounting on the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to consider another round of emergency Quantitative Easing (QE – printing money)...

‘STOP ISRAEL DISPLACING 500 PALESTINIAN FAMILIES!’ – urges Fatah

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THE Fatah Movement yesterday called upon the United Nations and the UN Security Council to fulfil their legal responsibilities and act against Israel’s imminent...
Mass march through London last year where tens of thousands demanded the trade unions take action to defend the NHS

‘Nurses Treating People In Car Parks!’

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‘WE HAVE seen nurses spending their entire shifts treating people in car parks because of backed up ambulances, we know the prime minister recognises...

Nurses and busworkers unite to bring down the Tory government

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RCN NURSES from King’s College Hospital in south London marched from their picket line to the Camberwell Abellio bus garage yesterday, to bring greetings...
Ealing residents pictured here with Charlie Chaplin (back, left) fought really hard to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital’s Charlie Chaplin Children’s ward in May 2016 – children’s departments are threatened across the country while doctors face ‘burnout

Children’s doctors face burnout

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EXTREMELY sick children will not receive the treatment they need if Scotland does not recruit over 100 extra consultants, the Royal College of Paediatrics...
Traditional Indian Dhol drum beat to the rhythm of the 50-strong picket’s chants of ‘Hands off Charlie Chaplin Ward! Save Ealing Hospital!’

Charlie Chaplin Children’s Ward Must Not Close!

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‘THE Charlie Chaplin Children’s Ward must not close!’ Jaswinder Pannu exclaimed yesterday morning. She spoke to News Line during the 50-strong mass picket of Ealing...
A determined picket outside Chase Farm hospital yesterday as anger mounts at the proposed closure of the A&E and maternity departments

CUTS COSTS LIVES! says Chase Farm mass picket

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Scores of health workers, youth, patients, pensioners and local residents took part in yesterday’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital, organised by North East London...
CWU members and officials lobbying the Unite head office displayed their giant postcard to Unite leaders Woodley and Simpson

STOP THE STRIKEBREAKERS – CWU tells Unite

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Over two hundred postal workers from London, Edinburgh and Crewe lobbied the Unite head office in Holborn yesterday, to demand Unite leaders Derek Simpson...
Hunger striker PARAMESWARAN SUBRAMANIYAN has decided he will not give up

HUNGER STRIKER ON 23rd DAY

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HUNGER striker Parameswaran Subramaniyan, is continuing his hunger strike for the 23rd day outside Parliament, surrounded by more than a thousand Tamil workers...
Greek workers marching on May Day with a banner reading ‘The bosses’ junta is not invincible’ referring to the European union

MERKEL DEMANDS POLITICAL UNION! –as the price for Spanish bailout

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THE Bank of England yesterday left UK interest rates unchanged at 0.5 per cent and announced no expansion to its quantitative easing (QE-printing money)...

Suspend Ofsted inspections demands teachers union NEU – Exams for 2021 cancelled in Wales...

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‘SUSPEND Ofsted inspections’ demanded Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) yesterday, responding to Ofsted’s second report into the...

CIA Drone Terrorism Targets Rescuers

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A REPORT published yesterday by Stanford University and New York University warns that the CIA’s drone campaign ‘terrorises men, women and children’ in North-West...
Sacked Greek Finance Ministry cleaners at the ERT rally. Their banner reads ‘We have taken up the gauntlet –  Re-employment now’

One year since Greek riot police broke up ERT occupation

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SACKED Greek ERT state TV and radio workers held a rally last Friday evening outside the main administrative and production building in a suburb...
Last September thousands marched in Ealing against their hospital closing – meanwhile the Treasury was pocketing very large amounts NHS cash

Treasury ‘stole’ £3bn from NHS – while hospitals close and services are slashed

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday angrily condemned the news that the Treasury has clawed back nearly...

Huge Bill Hikes!

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WATER, energy, TV licence and Council Tax bills went through the roof yesterday, with Citizens Advice warning that the finances of millions of people...
Rally in front of Ealing Hospital in May to defend children’s services

A&Es being slashed all over the country!

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THE Tories are proceeding with savage cuts to the NHS, with A&Es being scaled back or closed across the country. Just a few examples are...

Arconic warned of cladding fire risk a decade before Grenfell!

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THE COMPANY that made the Grenfell Tower cladding was warned of the risks of a building fire that would kill ‘60 to 70’ people...

‘BOMBING RAQQA WILL KILL LARGE NUMBERS OF CIVILIANS’ – warns Corbyn

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BOMBING Raqqa will see a large number of civilians killed, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn warned yesterday. He was asked by Andrew Marr: ‘What do...
Pickets outside passport office in Victoria, central London, yesterday on the first day of their three-day strike

Civil Servants Start 3 Day Strike

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CIVIL servants picketing the London Identity and Passport Service Office (IPS) by Victoria Station, in London, had run out of leaflets yesterday, such was...

PC Monk gets 8 years for Taser death – Dalian Atkinson’s family speaks out

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POLICE officer Benjamin Monk has been jailed for eight years after being sentenced yesterday. He was convicted of the manslaughter of ex-footballer Dalian Atkinson...
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...
Demonstrators outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, London demanding the immediate release of Binyam Mohamed from Guantanamo Bay

Stop Torture Bring Binyam Home

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A DEMONSTRATION outside the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square central London yesterday afternoon demanded the immediate release of Binyam Mohamed from Guantanamo Bay. ‘Binyam must...
Lecturers arriving for the mass rally at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster – they are demanding a rise in pay

Rock-solid college strike!

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‘THIS is a national one-day pay strike. We haven’t had a pay rise for six years – which represents a 17 per cent pay...

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! – Foreign Office tells UK nationals in Benghazi

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THE UK Foreign Office yesterday urged British nationals to leave Benghazi at once in response to ‘a specific and imminent threat’ to Westerners from...
Youth marching in London last October against any troops being sent to Syria or Iraq

BRITISH TROOPS FOR JORDAN! – Stop the War demands issue be put before parliament

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2,000 UK troops and a RAF spy plane are bound for Jordan to ‘combat ISIS’ it emerged yesterday. The UK will send the ‘specialist troops’...

GENERAL STRIKE IN PALESTINE! – Day of Rage today

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A GENERAL strike across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem was solid yesterday, with all Palestinian workers on strike and shops and businesses...

Carney warns on housing collapse

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BANK of England governor Mark Carney yesterday gave his strongest warning yet about the dangers to the UK’s capitalist economy posed by a collapse...

Notorious G4S Is To Be Brought Back!

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NOTORIOUS private security firm G4S, currently under investigation for fraud and three of whose employees are presently in court charged with manslaughter, is being...

Rolls Royce jobs massacre! – Unite calls for National Recovery Council with Tories

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THE UNITE trade union has responded to the news that Rolls Royce is to cut 9,000 jobs globally, 3,375 of them in the UK,...

Assad visits Damascus Catholic church

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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has made a visit to a Christian church in an eastern suburb of the capital Damascus as Christmas is approaching. Assad...
The NUT on the march through central London during their strike last year

Teachers Out Today!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers are striking against government attacks on their terms and conditions today, with mass marches planned in towns and cities...

Putin urges ‘Defend Arctic’

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his military leadership they should build up their forces in the Arctic as a priority. Commending the recent restoration...

632,000 child deaths since Saudi-led war on Yemen

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YEMEN’S Ministry of Public Health and Population has given a detailed report on the devastating effects the Saudi-led coalition war – which it launched...