RMT and TSSA strikers on the picket line at Harrow on-the-Hill yesterday morning

No Safety Cuts Says RMT-Tssa

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RMT and TSSA members staged their latest 24-hour strike against mass sackings on London Underground yesterday. At Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station, Simon Feldman, a striking signal...

‘NO CUT PRICE SACKINGS’ – PCS massive strike action

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‘Over 250,000 of our members have turned out on strike today, the biggest strike in the civil service since 1987,’ PCS General Secretary...

UNIONS MARCH AGAINST MACRON – day after French election

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TRADE unions, students and youth marched through the streets of Paris yesterday against Emmanuel Macron’s proposed ‘Labour Reforms’ on the very next day...
Junior doctors, health workers and supporters joined the mass picket outside St Thomas’ Hospital during the January 12th nationwide strike – they are out again on February 10th

Junior doctors strike on!

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THE JUNIOR doctors strike, on Wednesday February 10th will go ahead, doctors union the BMA announced yesterday. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Despite the...
Barts and Royal London staff and supporters marched against mass sackings last month

Barts To Cut Nurses!

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Barts and London NHS Trust is planning to reduce the proportion of qualified nurses on its wards as part of a two-year programme of...
A small section of the march around the Durham Miners banner on Saturday

100,000 Turn Out At Durham Miners Gala

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UP to 100,000 workers and youth gathered at the 128th Durham Miners Gala on Saturday. Pride of place on the platform after the march through...

JOINT ENTERPRISE–JURIES HAVE BEEN MISDIRECTED!– hundreds of appeals now expected

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JUDGES have misdirected juries in murder trials for thirty years, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that ‘joint...
UNISON head of health KAREN JENNINGS (centre) joined the 5,000-strong march in Nottingham against NHS cuts

Growing NHS Protests – New ‘Poll Tax’ Rebellion

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Health campaigners yesterday warned that NHS privatisation and cuts will be ‘Labour’s poll tax’. The warning came as the number of protests mushroomed around the...

‘ABHORRENT BEYOND WORDS!’ – RCN & BMA condemn Farage threat to deport thousands

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‘THREATENING to sack thousands of migrant nursing staff is abhorrent beyond words,’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola...

US READY TO BOMB IRAQ – but Straw rejects Hersh warning as ‘nuts’

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Yesterday two warnings were given as to the critical situation in Iraq and of US plans to use tactical nuclear weapons against Iran. Award-winning US...

Haiti Rises Up!

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PRESIDENTIAL candidate, Rene Preval, has condemned the ‘gigantic fraud’ during last week’s elections in Haiti, where an insurrection is taking place by his poverty-stricken...
Labour Shadow Chancellor JOHN McDONNELL (right) alongside TOM WATSON supporting striking BA workers lobby of parliament

‘I want to transform Capitalism’ says John McDonnell as he disowns Marx

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LABOUR will not raise taxes for the vast majority of workers but will increase rates for those earning over £80,000, John McDonnell said yesterday. He...

Warmongers meet in Wales!

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WESTERN leaders yesterday criticised Russia for its ‘destabilising’ influence on the crisis in Ukraine, at the start of a Nato summit in Wales. Nato and...

NO TRIAL BY MEDIA! mass protest in support of Grenfell firefighters

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A MASS protest in support of the fire service took place outside Ladbroke Grove fire station on Monday night, by residents who live in...

‘Special Place In Hell’ For The Brexiteers!

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EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk dropped his mask of reasonableness yesterday in Brussels when he declared that there is a ‘special place in hell’...

‘Circling to take over NHS’ – TUC warns US healthcare companies

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US healthcare companies circling to take over the NHS are now ‘on notice’, says the TUC. Speaking after meeting EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht...

‘Strike action rock solid’

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‘I CAN report that the strike action this morning is rock solid across the Southern Rail network as we fight to put rail safety...

Greek Teachers Strike Continues

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THE indefinite strike of Greek state nursery and primary school teachers, who are demanding higher salaries, is continuing. The leader of their umbrella organisation,...
35 Years Since Orgreave

35 years since Orgreave – June 15th, 2019

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March & Rally 12 noon, Saturday June 15th 2019 Orgreave Lane, Sheffield S13 9NE Remember those who were attacked and who lost their lives in the miners...

RMT Demanding No Slave Labour On Brexit Ferries

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AS the RMT protested at the Department for Transport yesterday, the Shipping Minister Nusrat Ghani has refused to agree that UK employment legislation such...

‘WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN!’ says Consultants Chair Vishal Sharma

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THE government made the final offer and said “no more talks”. We are united, stronger together. We cannot and will not back down,’ Consultants...
Picket in May last year demanding the release of Babar Ahmad, faced with being extradited to the US

Action Needed To Defend NHS

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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS plans to axe 720 healthcare workers across three hospitals, out of a 4,500 workforce, in a bid to save £30...
A thousand POA members marched to Downing Street yesterday mid-morning to condemn the attack on their pensions

POA demands General Strike

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UP TO A thousand Prison Officers marched down Whitehall to a rally at Westminster on Budget Day yesterday. Prison Officer’s Association (POA) rep at HMP...
Junior doctors insisting they are taking action to defend the NHS against Hunt’s attacks

Hospital doctors blow whistle on patient care standards!

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‘HOSPITAL doctors are blowing the whistle on sliding standards in patient care – wards are full and without the staff to cope,’ the leader...
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...
Banner with a clear message on the 500,000-strong TUC demonstration against government spending cuts on March 26 this year

‘SHOW NHS NO MERCY’ – says Cameron advisor

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Prime minister Cameron’s adviser Mark Britnell has urged that the NHS be ‘shown no mercy’, adding that the government’s planned health ‘reform’ is a...

Locked-out workers demand action as French unions strike against BA

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GATE GOURMET workers were yesterday calling for action to win their jobs back while, at the same time, BA was opening up a second...
‘Christmas Pigs’ demonstrated outside four hospitals yesterday lunchtime against private company ISS’ ‘workhouse’ conditions

‘VICTORIAN WORKHOUSE’ – ISS cleaners, porters & security staff take action!

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‘SANTA pigs’ demonstrated outside four south London hospitals yesterday against the bullying of cleaners by managers of the private company they work for, ISS. Under...
Marchers demand the building of more council homes

‘Housing crisis requires building council homes’ says Labour’s shadow housing secretary Healey

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‘WE SIMPLY can’t fix the housing crisis without more council homes,’ Labour Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey told News Line yesterday, responding to...

TAKE GOVIA INTO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP demands RMT

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A NEW RMT hotline exposes 33 examples of Govia Thameslink cancelling trains due to ‘staff shortage’ or other excuses when a full crew of...

Brown Beefs Up Secret State

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced to MPs that ‘the security service is to double in size to 4,000 personnel’. In a statement to the House...

Patel responds to drownings by stepping up her attacks on refugees

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IN RESPONSE to the drowning of 27 people in the Channel on Wednesday, Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel yesterday pushed her Nationality and Borders...
Young Socialists marching in Norwich last Saturday against unemployment and cheap labour

Heading for 1.18m youth unemployed

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Youth unemployment is set to more than treble over the next two years, research group, the Centre for Cities predicts in a report published...

Teenage Suspect Charged

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A seventeen-year-old boy arrested by police in connection with an alleged plot to blow up airliners has made a second appearance in court. The...
Ealing Hospital Christmas picket – the hospital’s Charlie Chaplin Children’s Ward is one of many paediatric departments closed around the country

Nursing shortage shuts cancer units

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CHILDREN’S wards and cancer units are closing hand over fist across the entire country with the nurses union RCN warning that ‘skeleton staffing’ means...
PCS delegation at the TUC Congress this year greeted Prime Minister Brown with the demand ‘No cuts’

PENSION CAPS AND PAY CUTS – in Darling’s pre-Budget speech

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Chancellor Darling yesterday confirmed that VAT will be restored to 17.5 per cent on January 1st, and that inflation will rise to 3.0 per...

The Hague rules UK must ‘relinquish Chagos ASAP’

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THE INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice (ICJ) known as ‘the Hague’ ruled yesterday that Britain’s ‘decolonisation and displacement’ of the Chagos Islanders from the Indian...

GREEK STUDENTS VICTORY! – Bill to privatise universities withdrawn

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ON the eve of last Thursday’s student demonstrations, the Greek right-wing government withdrew plans to table in the Vouli (Greek parliament) the reactionary Education...

Thousands of teachers lobby today

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THOUSANDS of angry teachers, lecturers and support staff are lobbying Parliament today against the Tory-LibDem Coalition Government’s onslaught on their pensions. The unprecedented joint action...
Friends and families of those who have died in police custody marching last October –  co-chair of the campaign, Stephanie Lightfoot-Bennett said the new police tactics will lead to more innocent citizens’ deaths

Police will shoot to kill drivers – ‘carte blanche to kill innocents’ says United...

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ARMED police have adopted a new shoot-to-kill tactic: fire sub-automatic assault rifles at moving vehicles to ‘neutralise’ the driver, sparking fears that many more...

NATIONAL RAIL STRIKE LOOMS – TSSA warns action over Tory job cuts

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THE TSSA union warned yesterday: ‘A national rail strike in 2022 is very much on the cards’ as the Tory government seeks to cut...

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...

Tens of thousands of Greek workers march against privatisation!

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TENS OF thousands of workers and students participated in mass and militant rallies and marches throughout Greece on Wednesday, during a 24-hour national strike...

Clashes and gunfire! Thousands protest Sudan military coup

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THOUSANDS took to the streets of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum yesterday, to demand the release of the political leaders amid reports of clashes and gunfire....
Junior doctors and nurses are battling to defend the NHS from the attacks of the Tories led by health secretary Hunt

Austerity has produced the healthcare crisis says BMA

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THE GP funding crisis is seeing patients in the most deprived areas of England facing poorer levels of care due to an over-reliance on...