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Young Socialist March for Jobs and Free State Education gets to Clay Cross and a great welcome from local workers and youth

Great Support For Ys March For Jobs

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education from Manchester to London is campaigning in Stoke today, before moving on to Stafford. Speaking...
RMT Tube workers fighting London Underground’s plans to sack 800 workers are threatened by Tory coalition plans to provide free labour for employers

Forced Labour For The Unemployed

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Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith yesterday revealed plans to force unemployed benefit claimants into slave labour. TUC senior policy officer Richard Exell said...
BBC NUJ members out on strike outside Bush House, London, yesterday morning

Strike Rocks Bbc!

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Thousands of journalists across the BBC walked out at midnight Thursday in the first of two 48-hour strikes in protest at plans to devalue...
Young Socialists marchers welcomed at Sheffield GMB offices with a great fish and chips dinner

Sheffield hails March for Jobs

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The YS March for Jobs and Free State Education marched for 17 miles from Sheffield to Chesterfield yesterday. It is marching on to Mansfield and...
Sheffield GMB provided a smashing fish dinner and 100 per cent solidarity with the Young Socialist marchers yesterday mid-day

Students rise up against fees

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education had a great day in Sheffield yesterday. The day started with the marchers splitting up...

FBU Agrees To Limit Pickets

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The Fire Brigades Union yesterday gave an undertaking in the High Court not to hinder or intimidate emergency crews provided by private company AssetCo...
An enthusiastic welcome for the marchers when they arrived in Glossop

Great Welcome In Glossop For Marchers

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The Young Socialists March from Manchester to London for Jobs and Free State Education reached Sheffield late yesterday afternoon after a massive reception in...
Official TSSA picket at Rayners Lane yesterday where it was pointed out that the safety of passengers was the big issue

XMAS TRUCE ON THE TUBE – offer by TSSA & RMT

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A CHRISTMAS truce in the Tube dispute was offered today as millions of travellers faced another day of strike action. Speaking at...
The YS March for Jobs from Manchester to London . . . was cheered by youth at Stockport college yesterday

Great Reception For Ys March In Stockport

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YOUTH from Stockport College cheered as the YS March for Jobs and Free State Education set off on its latest leg from Stockport to...
Striking London firefighters demonstrated on Monday night outside the Southwark fire station where a number of attacks were made on them

‘SHOCKING VIOLENCE’ – against firefighters

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THREE members of the Fire Brigades Union were hit and hurt by speeding vehicles driven by strikebreakers on Monday. A statement by the FBU said...
A group of marchers with supporters, busworkers PHIL PEAK and RODNEY GARNER who said ‘The way that these young people are standing up for their rights is brilliant’

Marchers Win Big Support

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education spent yesterday in Stockport, campaigning, recruiting and selling tickets for the Greet the March...
FBU General Secretary MATT WRACK and pickets having words with a scab crew at the Old Kent Road fire station

Support The Firefighters!

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Firefighters in south east London confronted Assetco scabs outside Old Kent Road fire station, determined to defeat the strike breakers and the London Fire...
YS marchers assemble with local busworkers union official John Hughes before their march on Saturday

March For Jobs!

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education had its first leg from Manchester to Stockport yesterday. After a great march through Manchester...
The CT Plus picket line in Hackney on their fourth Friday of strike action

‘Our resolve is as strong as ever’

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‘OUR resolve is as strong as ever,’ said TGWU union rep Derrick Campbell, as five new days of strike action by Hackney CT Plus...

YS MARCH STARTS TODAY! –for jobs and free state education

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‘WE’RE calling on everyone to join our march from Manchester to London for jobs for youth, and for the smashing of all tuition fees...

‘THE GLOVES ARE OFF’ School staff support body is abolished

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‘THE gloves are off on deregulation of staff pay and conditions,’ said teachers union NASUWT yesterday. NASUWT General Secretary Chris Keates slammed the announcement by...
Firefighters marching in London last month against the threat of mass sackings

Fire Talks Breakdown!

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‘The strikes on November 1st and November 5th will go ahead,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) London Region Official Paul Embery told News Line yesterday. He...
FBU General Secretary MATT WRACK speaking to firefighters outside Euston fire station at the start of their strike last Saturday

FBU Steps Up Action!

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FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack has announced further London-wide strike action. The strike, which will take place from 10.00am on November 5th to 9.00am on...
Parents, especially single parents and their children are one of the main targets for the attack of the Tory LibDem coalition

110,000 Single Parents To Be Forced Into Work!

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‘Welfare changes starting today will see up to 111,000 single parents set up to fail as they are forced to seek work – or...

A BLOODBATH ON EVERY CORNER’ – Iraq puppets had licence to murder

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THERE was a ‘bloodbath on every corner’ in Iraq, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a press conference in London on Saturday. Website Wikileaks has revealed...
Firefighters lobbing the Fire authority last month demanding ‘No cuts’

London FBU Walk Out

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London’s 5,600 firefighters go on strike at 10am this morning, and will stay out until 6pm, after the London Fire Brigade sent them all...
A section of yesterday’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital demanding that it should be kept open

STOP CHASE FARM CLOSING! – says picket

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THERE was a lively picket of both gates at Chase Farm Hospital yesterday morning by the North-East London Council of Action, demonstrating to stop...

209,000 Miss Out On University

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Lecturers and students unions yesterday warned that increased fees will see even more youth denied higher education, as new figures confirmed that a record...
Osborne told firefighters yesterday that the service must agree to ‘substantial operational reform’

500,000 Public Sector Jobs To Be Slashed

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TORY Chancellor Osborne confirmed yesterday that the coalition government was pressing ahead with the most savage attack on the working class since the Second...
Unite members were at the lobby in force

10,000 Lobby Against The Cuts!

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UP TO 10,000 workers and youth supported the TUC lobby of Parliament yesterday. Many told News Line that they want trade union action to put...

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...

‘NO MORE RACIST STOP AND SEARCH’ – says Liberty

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Rights group Liberty has warned the government against draft police guidance that would allow race to be a basis for stop and search operations...
London FBU Strike Actions!

London FBU Strike Actions!

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London firefighters have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over changes to shift patterns, and have decided to begin their campaign with...
CT Plus busworkers on the picket line in East London on Friday in the second of four Friday strikes

Hackney Bus Workers Want Decent Pay!

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BUS workers were in high spirits yesterday on the second Friday out of four consecutive Fridays of strike action over low pay and management...
Maternity nurses marching in Enfield to save Chase Farm Hospital where the Maternity Department is currently ‘under review’

Maternity and A&E departments being cut and closed

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‘More than 30 maternity and A&E units have been shut down, downgraded or threatened with closure since May’s general election, despite the government’s promise...
A section of the 220,000-strong demonstration in Marseille against the Sarkozy government’s cuts

France – 3 Million Take Action

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Three and a half million took to the streets across France in the biggest anti-pensions law mobilisation yet on Tuesday, October 12 in 244...
CWU pickets outside East London Mail Centre in October last year

DEFEND ROYAL MAIL – action needed not words

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Postal workers called for action to defend their jobs and Royal Mail as a public service in response to yesterday’s publication of the...

GMM Luton–decision within 6 weeks

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A decision is to be made by GM within the next six weeks on whether the Luton GMM plant is to be closed in...
Birmingham students yesterday demonstrated against the coalition government’s decision to bring in unlimited university fees

‘THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN!’ Coalition’s unlimited fees plan condemned

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Student, lecturers and university staff unions yesterday angrily condemned former BP boss Lord Browne’s recommendation that universities in England should be able to charge...
BA cabin crew strikers march defiantly at Heathrow airport on the last day of their strike action, June 9

BA strike ballot cancelled – BASSA website is blacked out

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UNITE has cancelled its strike ballot of BA cabin crew stating that a new deal is now on the table, and the dispute could...

Gmm Profits Collapse!

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The future of the General Motors plant in Luton, IBC Vehicles, and its 1,000 workforce, is looking ‘doubtful’, despite assurances from GM bosses. GM says...
UCU lecturers and students were joined by other public sector unions to march against cuts at London Metropolitan University last year, it is now feared to face closure

Cable To Double Student Debt!

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Business and Universities Secretary Cable has confirmed his intention to lift the cap on tuition fees, as recommended in the Browne Review. Lifting the cap...

‘Devastating’ Oldham Redundancy Notices

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EIGHT hundred redundancy notices have been issued at Oldham Borough Council. Officials of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council have confirmed to the GMB that the council...
CT Plus busworkers on the picket line in East London yesterday

‘LOW PAY NO WAY’ say CT pickets

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Shouts of ‘Low Pay, No Way!’ rang out at a 50-strong, lively picket of busworkers outside CT Plus garage in Hackney in east London...
Women social security workers. Banner reads ‘We continue our struggle’

‘We Will Continue Our Struggle’ Say Greek Workers

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TENS of thousands of public sector workers demonstrated in all the Greek major cities last Thursday as part of a 24-hour national strike called...

THE GREAT PENSIONS ROBBERY! –But Labour leader Miliband opposes strikes

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FINAL salary pensions will be scrapped and public sector workers forced to work for longer, under plans unveiled yesterday by John (now Lord) Hutton. The...
SUSAN ALEXANDER, mother of Azelle Rodney,  (centre, holding banner) and supporters outside yesterday’s hearing

‘WALL OF SILENCE!’ – Rodney inquiry adjourned

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A public inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney, 24 – who died after being shot six times at close range by police as...

‘GP’s WILL BE STRETCHED TO BREAKING POINT’ – warns Royal College of GPs

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The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has warned that the scale and pace of change contained in the government’s health White Paper risks...
There was a very lively picket at Mile End station where pickets agreed that the big issue was safety

DEFIANT TUBE STRIKERS! –determined to defend safety and jobs

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London traffic was gridlocked during yesterday’s 24-hour strike, as Tube workers on picket lines expressed their determination to defend jobs and safety. At Mile End...
RMT and TSSA pickets at Rayners Lane depot during the strike on September 7th

Tube Jobs Strike!

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London Tube workers began walking out at 6.30pm last night at the start of a 24-hour strike in protest at plans to cut ticket...