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BOB CROW (centre) and a group of RMT cleaners lobbying the City Hall to demand that Mayor Livingstone refuses to accept ISS sackings

SACK PRIVATEERS NOT THE CLEANERS! – RMTs Bob Crow demands

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OVER 100 angry RMT members staged a lobby outside City Hall, Tower Bridge, yesterday, demanding an emergency meeting with London Mayor Ken Livingstone over...

Go Forward To The State Of Palestine!

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THE UN Security Council committee has not reached a consensus on Palestine’s latest application for full United Nations membership, despite substantial support. Meeting in New...

Hancock Refuses To Sign To Reopen Ealing Maternity!

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EALING SOUTHALL WRP candidate Hassan Zulkifal confronted Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. Hancock claimed: ‘We’ve saved the A&E and now...

BBC strike action by Xmas!

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BECTU and the NUJ yesterday warned that BBC plans to cut 2,000 jobs would provoke strikes by Xmas. The BBC intends to reshape its TV...
Civil servants demonstrating outside parliament against wage cuts and mass sackings by the Brown government

HUGE JOBLESS RISE! – warning of 3 million unemployed

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The number of unemployed people in the UK rose by another 164,000 between June and August, to 1.79 million, according to the latest government...
A section of the 10,000-strong student march as it approached Trafalgar Square yesterday

Police Attack Sparks –As 10,000 Students March

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Over 10,000 students and a number of trade unionists marched through central London yesterday against £9,000 fees, education cuts and privatisation. The protest was organised...

UK turning a blind eye to refugees

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THE UK is turning a blind eye to suffering on its doorstep by failing to protect vulnerable refugees, who have been displaced by conflict,...

Prosecute Netanyahu For Fraud Demands Tel Aviv Mass Rally

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Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday against moves by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to secure immunity from prosecution on fraud...

Over 10,000 workers and youth rally for Palestinian state!

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OVER 10,000 workers, youth and their families rallied in Trafalgar Square on Saturday for a ‘day of action for Palestine.’ The rally was called by...

BA Pensions Ballot!

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Details emerged yesterday of a deal, yet to be agreed by workers, which means the end of final salary pensions at British Airways. The TGWU...

ENERGY BILLS SET TO RISE! – economy is heading for a 2008-style crash

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UK ENERGY bills are set to rise even higher, with suppliers warning of a ‘nationwide crisis’ and a 2008-style financial crash. Several ‘providers’ including Good...

CONSULTANTS TO STRIKE ON 2, 3, & 4th OCTOBER!

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CONSULTANTS in England ended two days of strike action at 7am today. In the absence of any progress in discussions with the government, they will...

‘Drop commitment to Trident and save £205bn’ – McDonnell urged!

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THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday supported the call by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell for ‘an emergency Budget for our public services’. The...
On the front line – courageous youth march to remember the murder of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos who was killed by police a year ago

Tens Of Thousands Of Youth March In Greece

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Tens of thousands of Greek school and university students, young workers and unemployed youth participated on Sunday in mass and militant rallies in all...

British Warplanes Bomb Nw Iraq

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British warplanes yesterday bombed vehicles and buildings in the northwestern Iraqi town of Karabila, close to the Syrian border. In what was considered a rare...

Motor Bosses Threaten Thousands Of Jobs!

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‘We have made it clear that yesterday’s announcement was a good start but it will not in itself be quick enough to offset potentially...

Nurses Union Slams Low Pay Plan!

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THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that local pay will harm patient care. It did so as it slammed the plan by 20...
Guinness Trust tenants rally outside the office of the Trust and celebrate the halting of an eviction

Guinness Tenants Halt Eviction

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GUINNESS Trust tenants were celebrating a victory as the planned eviction timed for 10am yesterday morning was halted by a court hearing...

‘IRRESPONSIBLE AND RASH’ – Primary Academies plan slammed

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TEACHERS and heads yesterday condemned Cameron’s announcement that 400 ‘failing’ state primary schools will be forced to become privately-run academies. National Union of Teachers General...

BAILIFFS MOVE IN AT CRACK OF DAWN! – but Brent Academy protesters vow to...

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AT the crack of dawn bailiffs once again invaded the Wembley Park Sports Ground. No legal notice had been given to the G.R.A.S.S occupiers...

Blair Has Questions To Answer

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THE question and answer session with Prime Minister Blair at the GMB conference yesterday just illustrated the unbridgeable gulf between him and the working...

Israeli forces storm Gaza school and kill fifteen Palestinians!

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AT LEAST 15 Palestinians were killed when Israeli forces stormed a Gaza school sheltering displaced families, amid a wave of attacks across the besieged...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line at Heathrow – want the TGWU leaders to fight to win their reinstatement

SAVAGE CUTS – coming to Norfolk County Fire Service

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Norfolk County Fire Service faces savage cuts as a result of the County Council being starved of cash in the Blair government’s ...

Heathrow – Unite steps up strike action

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WORKERS at Heathrow Airport will next week step up strike action in their increasingly bitter dispute over massive wage cuts that the company is...

Syria Condemns Turkish Intervention!

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SYRIA has ‘strongly condemned’ the ‘flagrant Turkish aggression’ on the city of Afrin, calling on the international community to take steps to stop it...
TGWU leader TONY WOODLEY surrounded by locked out Gate Gourmet workers at the May Day demonstration in London

VOLUNTARY REDUNDANCY IS REJECTED! – by Vauxhall workers

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Vauxhall Ellesmere Port workers voted unanimously at a mass meeting yesterday morning to reject the voluntary redundancy package put forward by General Motors. They were...

Fierce Fighting In Sirte

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FIERCE fighting continued on the outskirts of Sirte yesterday, with Gadaffi loyalists dealing deadly blows against the counter-revolutionary ‘NTC’ mercenaries, while NATO warplanes pounded...

EUROZONE CRISIS – Economy to shrink in 2013

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THE European Commission (EC) yesterday admitted that the eurozone economy would contract in 2013, saying it will shrink by 0.3%. The EC warned that Spain,...
Over 200,000 people demonstrated in London on Saturday to demand an immediate halt to Israel’s attacks on Gaza and the withdrawal of Israeli troops and tanks. There were demonstrations in towns and cities across Britain, from Aberdeen to Norwich

900 KILLED IN GAZA – as Israel uses phosphorous weapons

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TWENTY-THREE Gazans were killed on Sunday morning and dozens injured by illegal weapons that ensure the incineration of buildings and people hit by...

Assault On Sick

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The government is planning a new savage assault on the sick and disabled. A government-commissioned review by Professor Carol Black and former head of the...

Student Fees Anger!

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the National Union of Students (NUS) is lobbying Parliament today against a threatened unlimited hike in university top up fees. The NUS has called the...

Imf Dictates NHS And Pension Cuts!

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The IMF has warned the British government it must make savage cuts in NHS spending and carry out pension ‘reforms’ to cut its debt...

‘keep The Privateers Out Of The NHS’

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‘The plan to make patient data available to private companies is all about using the NHS as a treasure trove for profits for private...

Means tests for pensioners says Balls

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LABOUR will bring in a means test for winter fuel payments for the elderly if they win the next general election, Shadow Chancellor Ed...

Israel Guilty Of Apartheid Crime!

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ISRAEL is carrying out ‘the crime of apartheid against Palestinians’ and must be held accountable for treating them as ‘an inferior racial group’, Amnesty...

Israel still obstructing vital supplies for Palestine!

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THE United Nations has renewed its call to expand humanitarian operations in the Gaza Strip, stressing that Israeli restrictions continue to block vital supplies...

PCS put on war footing!

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FORMAL backing for more than a quarter of a million civil and public servants to join a public sector-wide strike on November 30 puts...

‘Unite Must Call All Of Its Members Out!’

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‘CALL the airport out!’ striking worker Carlos Rodriguez said at the rally outside the union Unite’s headquarters on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport yesterday. 4,000...

750,000 Homes At Risk! – From Housing Benefit Cuts

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More than 750,000 people are at risk of losing their homes in London and the south east because of caps being introduced on housing...

‘Dreadful Outlook For Wages!’

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LIVING standards are the worst since the last war ‘if not since the 1920s’, the leader of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) declared...

Picked On ‘Because He Is Black’

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A black tourist has been paid £7,500 for wrongful imprisonment and discrimination in Maghaberry jail, near Belfast. Frank Kakopa who is originally from Zimbabwe was...

Hamas to launch legal action against Tories! –After UK Parliament designates Hamas a ‘terrorist...

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THE PALESTINIAN organisation that governs Gaza, Hamas, announced on Sunday that it will take legal action against the United Kingdom, which recently listed it...

Tories refuse to repeal draconian corona laws

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MORE THAN 50 people have been ‘unlawfully arrested’ under the ‘draconian’ Coronavirus Act, it emerged yesterday, yet the government are insisting that the laws...

General strike needed to support hunger strikers!

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THE hunger strikers are ‘losing the ability to speak and stand’, according to Prisoners for Palestine, with the four remaining hunger strikers adding additional...

7 UK soldiers charged with war crimes

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The family of Baha Mousa who was tortured to death and eight other torture victims yesterday welcomed the announcement that three British soldiers from...