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Cadbury workers fought against the Kraft takeover

Cadbury’s Jobs Blow!

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The Unite union yesterday angrily condemned plans by Cadbury’s new owner, US giant Kraft Foods, to move jobs out of the UK to ...

‘Army Engaged In Heroic Battle’ – Assad

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‘THE ARMY is engaged in a crucial and heroic battle . . . on which the destiny of the nation and its people rests,’...
Speakers address the occupation as part of the struggle for a ‘Liberated LSE’

‘LSE is occupied!’

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LSE occupation statement ‘Why we are occupying We have occupied the Vera Anstey Suite, the central meeting room of the university administration, to demand a change...

Graduating With £25,000 Debt

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The University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned against further increases to the cost of a university degree after a new survey revealed that...
The privateer Carillion was in a permanent war with its workforce to increase its profit margins

RBS & May knifed Carillion!

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‘IT’S A BROKEN system. As the ruins of Carillion lie around us, will the prime minister act to end the costly racket of the...

Savage attack on migrants – organised by PM Cameron

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PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday announced plans for a new raft of savage attacks on migrant workers. In a widely publicised speech given in a...

Farage Won’t Stand Against Tories

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THE Brexit Party, led by Nigel Farage, announced on Monday that it will not be standing candidates in the 317 seats won by the...
Part of the demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday afternoon condemning the Cameron-Clegg coalition and its budget

Answer Class War Budget With A General Strike

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CHANCELLOR Osborne’s class war budget yesterday introduced massive tax cuts for the rich and launched huge new attacks on the working class, the old,...
Strikers march in Athens on Saturday

Greek 2-day general strike!

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WORKERS in Greece staged a militant two-day general strike last Friday and Saturday against the government’s Pensions and Tax Reforms Bill that crushes the...

BofE & EU Central Bank are paralysed in face of crisis!

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THE BANK of England and the European Central Bank were yesterday paralysed in the face of the rapidly deepening crisis of the world capitalist...

£20bn of NHS cuts are – Turning nurses into cleaners

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THE Tory-LibDem Coalition’s £20 billion NHS budget cuts are leading to nurses having to clean toilets and mop hospital floors it emerged yesterday. A survey...

Portsmouth Uni to axe staff!

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THE University of Portsmouth is under fire over plans to axe more than half its English literature department. The university suspended the process in...

‘SYSTEM RIGGED FOR RICH!’ – says Labour leader Corbyn

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‘WE HAVE four weeks. Four weeks to take our message to voters to convince them Britain can be better,’ Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the...

Scrap Hinkley Point deal!

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THE City of London and the government were shaken yesterday after PM May postponed a decision to go ahead with the Hinkley Point nuclear...
The North East London Council of Action on the the recent march to defend Ealing Hospital and to stop the NHS from being privatised

HARMONI – ‘SHORT STAFFED AND UNSAFE’ – NHS privateer is slammed

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HARMONI, the out-of-hours GP services privateer, is often so short-staffed that it is unsafe. Managers regularly send out desperate texts to doctors and nurses...
RMT organises oil workers and insists that it is going to fight the big job cuts that they are facing in the North Sea

RMT pledges to fight cuts in oil workers’ jobs

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FOLLOWING a global collapse in the price of oil, oil giant BP yesterday announced it is to cut 300 jobs in its North...
Demonstration to defend the NHS marching from Bart’s Hospital on Thursday evening

NHS AT RISK! – warns Public Accounts Committee

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MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned that the disproportionate growth in spending on specialised services poses a risk to the financial...
Domestic workers marching against low pay on the May Day march in London

POOR HAMMERED! – by Osborne budget says the IFS

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CONTRARY to Tory Chancellor Osborne’s claims that his Emergency Budget is ‘fair’ and ‘progressive’, it is actually unfair and regressive, hitting the poorest hardest. That...
Students from the School of African and Oriental Studies joined Wednesday’s demonstration

‘We will not be intimidated’ –2,000 students march against police violence

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A MASS of students over 2,000 strong rallied outside the University of London Students Union (ULU) on Wednesday, to protest the arrest of 41...
Hand off our Horton campaign, one of the many fighting to defend the NHS

‘Women refused admission to Maternity! – Glasgow Health Board apologises

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THE GREATER Glasgow health board has apologised after women in labour were refused admission to a maternity unit because of overcrowding. NHS Greater Glasgow and...
Enthusiastic PCS picket at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) demanding the London Living Wage

BEIS STRIKERS Demand Living Wage

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STRIKING PCS members at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) were joined on the picket line early yesterday morning by their...
Striking civil servants, school teachers and college lecturers on the march to defend pensions in June this year

‘Pensions Robbery’ – Challenge By Unions

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SIX unions have mounted a legal challenge on behalf of millions of public sector workers over what inflation index is used to increase their...

BRING DOWN COALITION! –to defend jobs, benefits, the NHS & rights

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‘The coalition has got it wrong. By only having a strategy for cuts, it has no plans for growth and recovery.’ So warned Unison general...
Families marching through Enfield to defend the NHS and council housing, the two pillars of the welfare state that they rely on

Families going without food!

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Families with disabled children are going without essentials such as food and heating. This is the norm, not a temporary crisis brought on by the...
TUC leader FRANCES O’GRADY at the TUC Congress with firefighters, nurses, midwives and Ritzy cinema workers who have all been on strike this year

Preemptive strike to defeat Trade Union Bill!

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TRADE UNIONISTS have called for pre-emptive strike action to defeat the anti-union laws that the Tory government are attempting to push through parliament. The Trade...
Council tenants demonstrate against the sale of their homes on Heygate and Aylesbury estates in Southwark, south London

End The Cuts And Build Council Housing

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‘We look forward to see what the government’s economic recovery strategy is,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line yesterday. ‘Any measures that ease the pressure...

Hague Wary Of Russian Intervention

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UK Foreign Secretary Hague yesterday said there needed to be ‘urgent’ action to ‘stave off an even more serious economic situation’ in Ukraine. He...
May Day march!

May Day march!

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TUC call general strike to support junior doctors!

Refugees Attacked By Riot Police

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Refugee families at the Athens Railway Station and at the Diavata refugee camp outside Thessaloniki, northern Greece, were ferociously attacked by riot police last...

‘All bus workers must strike together’ – Renationalise now! – demands Harrow picket

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THERE was a strong picket line at Harrow bus garage yesterday morning despite the pouring rain. London Sovereign drivers were on their third day of...
Striking British Airways workers at Heathrow yesterday defiant against Walsh’ and BA’s attempt to cut their working conditions

‘No To A Race To The Bottom’

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‘Walsh isn’t interested in compromise. This is our eighth day on strike and it has gone on to a different level’. British Airway’s cabin...
Workers and young people march on a Tories Out! demonstration last year

Johnson & Davis Quit Cabinet

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BORIS Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary, the third minister to walk out of the May government rather than back Theresa May’s plans...
Boris Bikes strikers on the picket line in Islington, north London yesterday morning – they continue their strike until 10.00pm tonight

Boris Bikes Strike

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FOLLOWING a 100% strike vote, RMT members working on the Serco Barclays so-called ‘Boris bikes’ London cycle scheme began a 48-hour strike on Sunday...

Israel-Egyptian Military Seeking To Starve Gaza!

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With shortages of electricity, water, fuel, cooking gas and medicine, a lack of economy and no infrastructure, the masses of Gaza are in a...

SAUDI WAR IN YEMEN – US Senate insists US military assistance illegal

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THE US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a resolution clearly stating that US military assistance to Saudi Arabia in its war against neighbouring...
Striking junior doctors say that the NHS is everyone’s fight

‘Crude, expensive and dangerous’ – scrap referral management centres

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‘CRUDE, expensive and dangerous’ warned doctors yesterday, describing the privately run ‘Referral Management Centres’. They further warned that the Referral Management Centres act as...
Health workers show their angry opposition to the Tory coalition’s privatisation of the NHS

REFORMS ‘A THREAT TO NHS’ – GPs Conference resolution

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OVER half of GPs planning to retire in the next two years say NHS reforms are a reason for them going, according to preliminary...
Parents, children and teachers demonstrated against the cuts to schools funding last Saturday, organised by Kenmont primary school, and taking place in Tiverton Park, Paddington

Schools facing financial cliff edge! – warning from IFS

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THE GOVERNMENT’S new National Funding Formula will see schools facing a ‘financial cliff edge’, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) warned yesterday. It warned that...
Greek workers on the march fighting the dictatorship of the EU Central Bank – the struggle is now about to spread to Italy

Italy Hits The Rocks!

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Italian finance minister Giulio Tremonti was yesterday in talks with Jean-Claude Juncker, chair of the Eurogroup of finance ministers from the 17 eurozone countries,...
Ambulance workers marching on a TUC demonstration against cuts

A&E staffing levels crisis

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UNIONS warned yesterday that savage cuts to ambulance services and staffing levels are causing the A&E crisis to ‘spiral out of control’ and ‘will...

Assad Warns West

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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western nations will pay a ‘heavy price’ for supporting al-Qaeda in Syria, warning that the terrorist group...
Yesterday’s rally outside the QE2 Centre as Chilcot made his long awaited report public

Blair ‘the world’s worst terrorist!’

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‘There is one terrorist in this world that the world needs to be aware of and his name is Tony Blair, the world’s worst...