Members of the E15 Focus Group occupying an empty property in East London demanding council housing not evictions

Millions fear eviction!

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OVER three million people fear missing rent or mortgage payments this January because of ‘sky high housing costs’, putting them at risk of...

Osborne plans £20bn more cuts

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SEVERE Tory spending cuts are putting the future of local government, children’s services, health care and care for the elderly at risk of collapse,...
Health professionals on the march in February demand the government grant overseas doctors visas to come and work in the NHS where they are desperately needed

A&E beds & doctors crisis – May blocks 100 Indian doctors’ visas

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A SEVERE shortfall of both A&E doctors and hospital beds must be tackled, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said in response...

GMB denounces May’s NHS plan

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‘How does the government expect to deliver everything promised in the plan without the staff to deliver the services,’ asked GMB union yesterday in...

NIGERIA SHUT DOWN! on Fourth Day Of General Strike

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THE GENERAL strike in Nigeria over the removal of gasoline subsidies, now in its third day, has shut down most shops and businesses, cut oil...

‘WE WON’T SIGN AWAY OUR RIGHTS’ says Gate Gourmet shop steward

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers received a report back yesterday morning on the picket line at Heathrow Airport from their shop stewards, of a...

CWU BT Group to ballot all members for action!

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THE Telecoms & Financial Services Conference voted yesterday to serve legal notice to BT Group of the union’s intention to ballot all appropriate members...
CWU strikers on the picket line at the Wimbledon Delivery Office

Cwu-Royal Mail Talks

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has been in ‘intermittent’ talks with Royal Mail for weeks, CWU London Regional Secretary John Denton confirmed to News...

US shoots down Syrian warplane

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US MILITARY shot down a Syrian military plane last Sunday. Up until yesterday, all sides had agreed to the framework of the Memorandum on...
Pickets and supporters outside the Enfield Visteon plant – they are determined to win this struggle for jobs

BELFAST CONVENOR EXCLUDED – from talks with Visteon managers

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THE Visteon Belfast factory’s Unite convenor, John Maguire, said yesterday that he was being excluded from the meeting with the Visteon management. He...

Watson and Starmer move against Corbyn

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DEPUTY Labour leader Tom Watson and Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer, along with union leaders, are pushing for a second referendum in a move...

Theatre Nurses Picket St Thomas’ Hospital!

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THEATRE nurses, members of Unite, were yesterday picketing on the second day of their current strike action at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge. Some of...

‘One rule for them and another for us!’ – unions condemn Grenfell surrender

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ATTORNEY General Suella Braverman’s undertaking that evidence given by contractors at the Grenfell Inquiry will not be used to prosecute them constitutes ‘One rule...
Southern rail workers during their strike to keep the guard on the train picketing outside Brighton station earlier this month

Rail Strikes Spread

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RAIL strikes are spreading with RMT announcing yesterday a 24 hour strike action on Virgin trains East Coast over the threat to nearly 200...
PCS workers picket line outside the National Portrait Gallery earlier this year

Museums taking strike action

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Strikes by workers at museums and galleries across the country today kick off a long weekend of action against government cuts. The Public and Commercial...
The demonstration to back the Orgeave Justice Campaign’s call for a full inquiry into the police attack on thousands of striking miners at Orgreave thirty two years ago

Orgreave ‘never forget, never forgive’

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OVER 700 trade unionists, former miners and determined supporters, demonstrated on Saturday in Sheffield to back the Orgreave Justice Campaign’s call for a full...

‘WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO PICKET’ – now TGWU must make the strike official

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GATE Gourmet strikers, at Heathrow, were jubilant yesterday after the High Court verdict that they had the right to picket the company which sacked...

‘COMPLETE DEADLOCK!’ – Barnier will not recommend further progress

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‘ON THIS basis I am not able, in the current circumstances, to recommend to the European Council that we should start discussion on the...

‘Russia will finish the demilitarisation of Ukraine!’ says Dmitry Peskov Kremlin spokesman

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RUSSIA will finish the demilitarisation of Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview yesterday, underlining that the Ukraine must stick to a...

NO LIFTING OF LOCKDOWN! – until Covid infections fall to less than 1,000 a...

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TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...

DEFEND NHS BEDS! – Managers confederation urges axe thousands

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The latest hospital trust to announce staff cuts, St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, has said it plans to axe up to 150 jobs. The trust,...
Unite leader LEN McCLUSKEY addressing striking BA cabin crew earlier this year

McCLUSKEY AND CROW MISS CAMERON MEETING

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TUC general secretary Brendan Barber led a delegation of union leaders to meet with Tory-LibDem coalition prime minister Cameron yesterday midday....

‘END THE OCCUPATION!’ urges the Hamas resistance

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HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement, has issued a call for an end to Israeli occupation and terrorism against Palestinians on the International Day of...

Corbyn stays silent over Second Referendum!

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn twice refused to rule out a second referendum yesterday when challenged during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons....

Junior doctors determined to win their pay battle!

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JUNIOR DOCTORS at Homerton hospital were yesterday determined to win their struggle and save the NHS from privatisation. Johnny Denphy junior doctor at Homerton hospital...
There have been a series of massive demonstrations in London in support of Palestine

‘A TOTAL ARMS & TRADE EMBARGO ON ISRAEL’ – says PCS

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THE PCS trade union responded to the breakdown of the ceasefire in Gaza with a declaration that ‘We support the trade unions enforcing a...
Postal workers from across the country marched on the Labour Party Conference on Monday against the Brown government’s decimation of postal services, their jobs and pensions

BANKRUPT BROWN – No policies to deal with crisis

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday revealed he has no policies to deal with the economic crisis in the interests of workers. In his keynote address to...

Royal Mail lands an anti-union blow at the High Court

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ROYAL MAIL has won a legal battle against the CWU to prevent a postal strike over Xmas after the High Court backed its application...

‘People are supporting our demand to reopen all closed NHS services!’

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‘PEOPLE are really supporting our cause to reopen all the closed services at Ealing Hospital,’ Ealing Southall WRP general election candidate Hassan Zulkifal said...
Over 100,000 marched in London to demand that refugees be welcomed to the UK – May wants to see them deported

SPEED UP DEPORTATIONS –May demands of EU!

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HOME Secretary Theresa May has called for an overhaul in the EU asylum rules saying the bloc must speed up deportation of ‘economic migrants’...
Stop the War Coalition picket of Downing Street on Friday evening

Arab League Opposes Bombing Of Libya!

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Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa yesterday issued a statement opposing the bombing of Libya. He said: ‘This is not imposing a no-fly zone. We...

‘work Experience’ On A Hospital Ward!

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MOVES by a Midlands hospital trust to recruit unpaid ‘jobseekers’ to clean wards and ‘support patients through their hospital experience’ were condemned by a...
Members of the Royal College of Nursing with their banners demonstrating against mass sackings of NHS staff on March 26

RCN slams Health Bill

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Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr Peter Carter yesterday condemned ‘billions of pounds’ of NHS cuts, with thousands of nursing jobs being...
Nora Egan being stretchered away and taken to Basildon General Hospital after being injured in the police-led raid on her home early yesterday morning

Police-led ‘ethnic cleansing’ at Dale Farm!

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HUNDREDS of riot police stormed through the rear perimeter fence into the Dale Farm compound at 7am yesterday morning, injuring female residents that they...

‘Unite Will Resist Compulsory Redundancies’ At Northern Rock

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Unite (Amicus section) yesterday expressed fears for the jobs of thousands of its members currently working at Northern Rock, as Chancellor Darling introduced emergency...

Eurozone ‘tearing Itself Apart’

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BANK of England Governor King admitted yesterday that risks to the UK economy from ‘difficulties facing the euro area’ are ‘impossible to quantify’. King was...

Labour government ‘willing to let hunger strikers die’!

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THIS Labour Government is ‘willing to let the hunger strikers die’, Coventry South MP Zara Sultana warned on New Year’s Day. ‘It’s the first day...

Tories Split Over Eu

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PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday defended his renegotiation of Britain’s terms of EU membership, as a number of his cabinet ministers lined up to call...

‘The Tories crashed the economy while working people are taking the hit’ – TUC

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TRADE union leaders on Thursday gave their response to Chancellor Hunt’s austerity war on workers in his Autumn Statement. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:  ‘The...

CWU defiant and fighting Royal Mail asset-stripping

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ROYAL MAIL is to seek a High Court injunction on Tuesday to stop a postal strike. The company said it woulmake a formal application on...

‘Withdraw UK troops from Iraq immediately’ – PCS conference decides

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‘Iraqi people do not want a foreign occupation of their country,’ Paula Kennedy, Equal Opportunities Commission, Manchester Branch, told the conference of the Public...

Met Police accused of ‘institutional corruption’ – over murder of Daniel Morgan

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AN independent panel has accused the Metropolitan Police of ‘a form of institutional corruption’ for concealing or denying failings over the unsolved murder of...
Hackney Community College lecturers and students at the demonstration to defend ESOL courses on April 28th

DEFEND LECTURERS JOBS – mass picket of Hackney Community College

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students are being invited to join striking workers in a mass picket at Hackney Community College in east London today, to stop 25 lecturers...