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In June Swindon Young Socialists marched through the town demanding a future for youth including jobs at trade union rates of pay and the restoration of free state education

1800 YEARS OF JAIL! – for youth charged over Duggan assassination riots

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PRISON sentences totalling more than 1,800 years have been handed to youth following the uprising after the police ‘assassination’ of Mark Duggan, in Tottenham,...

Tory war on welfare, trade unions must act

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Last week it was revealed that the number of people forced onto the new scheme by the end of next year is now estimated...

CROW CALLS FOR GENERAL STRIKE! – no mandate for coalition cuts!

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THE RMT’s Bob Crow yesterday called for ‘general coordinated strike action allied to community direct action’ to resist the ConDem coalition government’s...

Tories won’t address NHS pay and workforce crisis!

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CLEARLY the Tory government is determined NOT to address the drastic workforce and pay crisis in the NHS which is at the centre of...

Starmer warmongering ‘doomed to failure’ warns Moscow

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‘IT IS high time to make it clear to London that its efforts to ignite a conflict are doomed to failure,’ the Russian Foreign...

Unlimited Stop & Search Powers For Police!

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TORY PM Johnson’s new police state measures allowing police unlimited stop and search powers have been condemned by Stopwatch, while Shadow Home Secretary Diane...

Junior Doctors and Consultants begin 3 days of strike action

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JUNIOR Doctors and Consultants begin three days of joint strike action at 7am this morning, determined to defend the NHS and defeat the Tory...
Defiant picket line at West London Mail Centre in Paddington last Thursday morning

Royal Mail Centres Out 3.00 Am Today

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Postal workers at Mail Centres across the UK are taking 24-hour strike action from 3am this morning in the second week of rolling...
Health workers, trade unionists and youth marching to defend the NHS on its 63rd birthday in July this year demanded ‘Scrap the Health Bill!’

NHS TO BE 49% PRIVATE! – workers and poor to be shown the door

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THE HEALTH and Social Care Bill has been revised to allow nearly half of foundation hospital income to be raised from private patient beds...

UK Huge Wages Fall!

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WAGES in the UK have seen one of the largest falls in the European Union since the coalition came to power, according to official...

MAY’S WAR ON MIGRANTS! – condemned by Institute of Directors

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‘WE MUST work to control immigration and put Britian first,’ Tory Home Secretary Theresa May said yesterday, stepping up her war on refugees. The economic...
Defiant junior doctors at Downing Street on February 6th are determined to beat Health Secretary Hunt’s attempt to dictate their contract

Junior Doctors Will Not Accept Imposition!

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‘JUNIOR doctors cannot and will not accept a contract that is bad for the future of patient care, the profession and the NHS as...

PM JOHNSON DUMPS PLAN B! – in a desperate attempt to remain PM

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AFTER A DAY of plots, counter plots and demands that he go, PM Johnson, in his lunchtime statement to the House of Commons, attempted...

May’s project fear – ‘Reject my deal and the only certainty will be uncertainty!’

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SPEAKING in Grimsby last Friday May peddled her  own ‘project fear’ line before the new vote on her deal with the EU tomorrow in...

‘INTIMIDATION!’ –Labour threat to impose costs on Reprieve

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Legal charity Reprieve has accused the Brown government of attempting to intimidate it into dropping legal action on behalf of torture victims. Reprieve said in...

Don’t Expel Indian Doctors

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THE Royal College of Physicians, the BMA and all the leading medical organisations yesterday demanded the immediate withdrawal of a sudden, and ‘blatantly...
Marchers in central London last Saturday demanding ‘End the siege of Gaza’ cheered the resignation of Foreign Office Minister Warsi

SECOND MINISTER QUITS – Another considering his position

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A SECOND Foreign Office Minister, Mark Simmonds, has resigned from the government, 10 Downing Street said yesterday. His resignation follows that of Foreign Office Minister...

‘Rate rise adds insult to injury’ says Unison

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THE BANK of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday raised interest rates for the first time in more than ten years. The official bank rate...

Private treatment centres harm NHS

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TREATMENT Centres run by the private sector are much more likely to have an adverse effect on their surrounding NHS trusts, finds new...
The front banner of the mass march by workers and youth in Athens on Thursday following Wednesday’s general strike in Greece, which reads: ‘Down with the government of murderers, of the IMF and of terrorism’

‘GOVERNMENT MURDERERS!’ Greek workers condemn regime

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Some 10,000 workers, students and youth marched through Athens city centre last Thursday evening against the Greek government’s violence in last Wednesday’s general strike...

DOUBLE TROOP NUMBERS IN HELMAND – demands British commander

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THE commander of British forces in Afghanistan yesterday said he needs double the number of soldiers in Helmand Province to cope with the increasingly...
The GMB’s PHIL DAVIES confronts Work and Pensions Secretary  PETER HAIN about the Remploy crisis at the TUC Congress

28 Remploy Factories To Close

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The GMB trade union yesterday slammed ‘failed Remploy management’ over plans to close 28 factories for disabled workers. Responding to proposals from Remploy management, GMB...
Hospital defence campaigns marched on Downing Street in October to demand an end to NHS cuts and closures

STPs TO CLOSE 19 HOSPITALS!

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THE NHS is facing its biggest shake up in a generation with 19 hospitals marked for closure, and care from cradle-to-grave put through a...
Left to right: Unite convenors LAURIE EVANS and GARY REA, GM UK Finance Director RICHARD MOLYNEUX with Lord MANDELSON and GM UK Chairman BILL PARFITT (far right)

GM CRISIS – Mandelson rules out Luton nationalisation

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BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson emerged from his meeting with union officials and the top General Motors management in Luton yesterday unable to guarantee the...
GMB members marching to defend the NHS – the GMB is playing a leading role in the fight against the privatisation of Barnsley Hospital

Stop Barnsley Hospital Being Privatised Says Gmb

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BARNSLEY Central MP Dan Jarvis has backed a GMB campaign against the privatisation of Barnsley hospital. Demonstrators are expected to gather outside the hospital today...
Palestinian funeral – there are going to be many more after Israel’s barbaric attacks on the Great March of Return on the Gaza border

8 Killed & over 500 injured – by Israeli troops and tanks in Gaza

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ISRAELI forces opened fire on Friday afternoon at thousands of Palestinians who participated in the Great March of Return along Gaza borders, killing at...

Williamson readmitted to the Labour Party – split widens as 90 MPs oppose his...

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LABOUR MP Chris Williamson was allowed back into the party yesterday morning after an investigation into comments he made about the party’s handling of...

SUPPORT BUILDS UP FOR LEFF – as Labour brings out its Regional Manifestos

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‘I SUPPORT Jonty Leff,’ Gideon Woldeslassie said yesterday morning, referring to the campaign to elect the Workers Revolutionary Party candidate as MP for Hackney...
BMA members marching against Tory cuts and privatisation

BMA opposes ex-Tory minister in charge of NHS!

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DOCTORS’ leaders yesterday spoke out against appointing former Tory health minister Lord Prior as Chair of NHS England. Prior, who served in the Tory...

‘Kill off no deal, kill off May’s deal forward to 2nd referendum’ – John...

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‘FIRST thing is we will vote against Theresa May’s deal,’ John McDonnell Labour Shadow Chancellor said yesterday about her Brexit deal, after the government...
The demonstration outside the House of Commons yesterday afternoon demanding that the UK and US keep their hands off Syria

Cameron ‘fits up’ Syria – War just a matter of judgement

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PM Cameron yesterday disclosed that the government’s legal advice over an imminent attack on Syria was that it would be legal since it...
Sacked schools’ guards, part of the 10,000-strong workers’ protest outside the Greek parliament that defied the European Central Bank and shouted ‘We will not be blackmailed’

‘We will not be blackmailed’–Athens workers

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SOME 10,000 workers and their families gathered outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) last Thursday evening in Athens in protest against the European Central Bank’s...

Class Size Clash Looms!

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Teachers are heading for a conflict with the government over class sizes. The National Union of Teachers is to vote at its annual conference in...
Steelworkers from plants across the UK demonstrating outside parliament in October last year

RENATIONALISE STEEL – demand workers as 1,050 jobs go

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‘OCCUPY the Port Talbot plant and demand that the government renationalise the steel industry immediately,’ Robbie Wheatley, Community union Branch Secretary at Lackenby...
Council workers marching to defend wages and jobs. After the Iceland banks crash some councils may not have enough money to pay wages

DEBT CRISIS! – UNISON writes to all local councils

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UNISON has written to all local councils demanding to know what steps they are taking to recover cash invested in Iceland banks and how...

Right to attend your A&E being ended!

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NHS England (NHSE) is pressing ahead with setting up a new emergency care system, under the guise of reducing crowding in A&E departments. Patients will...

PROSECUTIONS NOW! – demand Grenfell survivors

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GRENFELL survivors and supporters marched in North Kensington on Tuesday evening demanding ‘Prosecutions now!’ ‘Today we are changing our tone, we are demanding change, enough...

Renationalise the railways – Demand unions as fares hike announced

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RAIL fares are to rise by 1.9% in England, Scotland and Wales it was announced yesterday, with unions, campaigners and Labour leader Jeremy...

Fight Barking NHS Jobs Massacre!

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THE UNISON public sector union yesterday reaffirmed it will back strike action to defend NHS jobs. It was responding to the news that the huge...

PASSENGERS AT RISK! – if BA uses strikebreakers

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The Unite union yesterday warned that British Airways’ passengers could be put at risk by inexperienced strike-breaking cabin crew. As BA began its conversion courses...

VICTORY as pregnant Palestinian released!

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ANHAR AL-DEEK, the Palestinian woman who was set to give birth in an Israeli prison, has been released to house arrest in a victory...

Hamas celebrates ceasefire & pays tribute to ‘steadfastness’ of the Palestinian people

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HAMAS has celebrated the ceasefire agreement ending the Israeli regime’s genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip, describing it as a testament to the resilience...
Libyan women took part in last Saturday’s TUC demonstration and urged British workers to stop the war on their country

Savage Air Attacks On Libya!

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‘THE crusader and colonial bombing campaign targeted inhabited areas in the city of Sabha at dawn on Monday, causing the destruction of several houses,’...

£6bn PENSIONS DEFICIT EXPLOSION!

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THERE has been a £6 billion explosion in the pensions scheme deficit ‘black holes’ of Britain’s major retailers since the beginning of the year,...

Young Socialists hold May Day meeting!

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THE ANNUAL May Day march took place on Thursday on the hottest day of the year so far. The march wended its way from Clerkenwell...