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2,800 steel jobs set to go! – workers demand general strike, while the...

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TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak has begged Tory PM Sunak to stop Tata carrying out last Friday’s threat to sack 2,800 steelworkers in Port...

‘Trying to hide widespread criminality!’ MP Watson accuses Ex-NI advisor Crone

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THE former News International legal manager Tom Crone was yesterday accused by Labour MP Tom Watson of ‘trying to conceal widespread criminality’ at...
Marchers in London on July 1st demanding ‘Tories Out’!

May Being Urged To Risk Split And Sack Johnson!

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AN UNDER siege Theresa May was fighting for her political life yesterday as she suggested she would not shy away from sacking foreign secretary...

‘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...

Corona cases soar by 25% across UK!

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CORONAVIRUS infections have risen by 25% across the UK, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics, to more than 35,200...
London FBU members lobbying against fire service cuts

FBU Condemns Strike- Breaking Force!

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‘London Fire Authority are paying £12m over five years for what is in effect a strike-breaking force. ‘We are unequivocally opposed to it, it’s a...
Ritzy and Curzon cinema workers marching to City Hall yesterday afternoon demanding the London Living Wage of £8.50 an hour

Marching For A Living Wage!

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RITZY Cinema workers, on their ninth day of strike action, marched with 200 supporters and trade unionists from the British Film Institute (BFI) yesterday. What...
Workers from Marks and Spencer supplier Fenland Foods demonstrate with their children outside a London M&S store – the banking crisis poses a grave threat to millions of workers’ jobs

CRASH GOES WALL ST! – Capitalism over the brink!

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Wall Street shares fell 2.4% when trading opened in New York yesterday, in the midst of the financial turmoil caused by the bankruptcy of...
Junior doctors in the front line against imposed contracts, privatisation and not getting the number of staff that the NHS requires

Bma Slams Tories And Privatisation!

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IN his speech to the BMA’s ARM, Dr Mark Porter, BMA council chair, said: ‘The government is in denial. The chancellor says...

RMT will fight any new anti-union legislation

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RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch spoke out defiantly yesterday in response to Tory strike breaking threats to pass laws to ‘ensure minimum staffing levels...
Students and trade unionists march through Manchester last weekend, inspired by the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia to fight the savage cuts in jobs and services

THUGS ATTACK TAHRIR DEMO – hundreds injured while Mubarak’s army looks on

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TENS OF THOUSANDS of anti-Mubarak protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo were attacked by pro-Mubarak thugs and plain-clothes police yesterday afternoon, as Egyptian Army soldiers...

Labour Launches Anti-NHS Plan For Change!

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THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the Labour government’s ‘Plan for Change’ attack on the NHS which it is unveiling today. Professor Phil Banfield,...

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...
Remploy workers lobby last year’s TUC Congress demanding their support to stop factory closures

KEEP REMPLOY OPEN! – unions slam charities

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Trade unions are furious that six leading charities have backed plans to close dozens of factories which provide jobs for disabled people, on the...

‘Regime Change At Bbc’

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THE BBC must undergo a radical overhaul said chairman of the BBC Trust Chris Patten yesterday. Speaking in the wake of Saturday evening’s resignation by...

NO EXTRADITION! – demands rally for Assange outside Woolwich Crown Court

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s trial at Woolwich Crown Court began yesterday morning, where the Tory government is seeking to extradite him to the US...
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’...

Fight Steel Sackings

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‘THE time for talking is over, we need action’ Paul McBean, the Community union leader exclaimed as Tata Steel announced 1,200 job losses at...

Smash the Tory Anti-Strike Bill!

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THE TUC warned yesterday that the right to strike of 1-in-5 workers in Britain is at risk because of the Tory government’s Strikes (Minimum...

9-1 for strike action on Heathrow Express

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RMT members have voted by huge majorities across the Heathrow Express for strike action in response to a package of multi-million pound cuts which...

£2,000 A Year Price Rise For Meals-On-Wheels!

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HARROW Unison local government branch has launched a campaign against Harrow Council’s plans to increase its charges for its Meals on Wheels service by...

Syria Ejects Western Diplomats

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Syria declared the ambassadors and envoys from several western states unwelcome yesterday, ordering them out of the country. The move followed last week’s expulsion of...

Markets Shaken By Bank Losses

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Billions of pounds, euros and yen were wiped off European and Asian share prices yesterday as markets responded to Tuesday’s collapse on Wall Street...
The capitalist crisis and Tory austerity measures have thrust millions of workers and their families deep into debt

‘Perilous’ Levels Of Debt

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EVEN in a ‘good growth’ scenario, the number of UK households facing a debt crisis would almost double, warns the Resolution Foundation think-tank. It said...

NO MORE WAITING – demand Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet pickets said yesterday they were fed up with waiting. They poured scorn on a Transport and General Workers Union plea to British Airways...
Demonstration against Virgin Care’s takeover of NHS services – They have gained over £2bn worth of contracts in the last two years!

Drive Virgin and all privateers out of NHS

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VIRGIN Care has been awarded over £2bn of NHS contracts in the last five years alone, ringing alarm bells over the further privatisation of...

MAY’S SPECIAL MEASURES! – including calling in the FBI

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HOME SECRETARY May is set to bring in special measures to deal with British terrorists returning from Syria and Iraq, where they were allowed...
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...

SUPPORT GROWING FOR GATE GOURMET LOCKED-OUT WORKERS – as Gate Gourmet Australia forced...

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Gate Gourmet locked-out workers are campaigning for their monthly mass picket next Sunday from 11am to 1pm at the Beacon roundabout, Beacon Road, near...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaigning at Heathrow airport yesterday

Support mounting for Gate Gourmet meeting

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MANY Heathrow Airport workers, most of them Transport and General Workers Union members, bought their tickets yesterday for the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers pre-Tribunal...

‘Rebels’ Under The Control Of Foreign Intelligence Agencies

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AMMAN – The Jordanian newspaper Al-Arab al-Yawm website on August 1st wrote the following about the Syrian ‘rebellion’. ‘As the “decisive” battle for Aleppo rages...
‘No Blood for Oil’ chanted a lively picket of the Bank of England demanding the bank returns $1.3bn worth of gold to Venezuela

‘Give Venezuela back its gold!’

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‘BANK of England you’ve been told – Give Venezuela back its gold’ chanted a 60-strong picket line outside the bank yesterday lunchtime....

‘We’re striking to defend the NHS from the Tories!’ say RCN pickets

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NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...

Gambaccini ‘Coming For The BBC!’

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PAUL Gambaccini, the Radio 2 DJ, said he is ‘coming for the BBC’ after accusing the Corporation of being complicit in the child abuse...
Libyan students and workers picketing Downing Street demanding the coalition stop the bombing of the Libyan people

HAGUE EXPELS THE LIBYAN DIPLOMATS –recognises Benghazi gang as government

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FOREIGN Secretary Hague announced the expulsion of all Libyan diplomats from the UK yesterday. He also announced that the counter-revolutionary NTC (National Transitional Council)...
Grenfell Tower inferno survivors and local residents lobby a meeting of the Kensington and Chelsea council demanding it resigns

Glasgow Cladding Scandal

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HUNDREDS of residents have received letters confirming Glasgow tower blocks have the very same combustible cladding that rapidly spread the fire in the Grenfell...

CUTS FOR THE WORKERS – tax cuts for the rich

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TORY Chancellor Osborne delivered a class war Budget yesterday offering whole swathes of new tax breaks for the rich, while hammering benefits, public services,...
Unison leader PRENTIS with delegates from the Unison Health Conference joined the picket line at the Brighton General Hospital yesterday

Massive doctors picket lines –answer the Cameron-Hunt threats

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THE TUC must organise a national day of action in support of the junior doctors’ dispute and our NHS, the Public and Commercial Services...
Part of Sunday night’s rally against austerity in front of the Vouli

Monstrous Greek Betrayal!

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EARLIER on Monday the Greek Prime Minister and SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) leader Alexis Tsipras fully submitted to the Eurozone leaders’ diktats...
North East London Council of Action march in Enfield last month demanding that Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E be reopened

Chase Farm Land Sell-Off!

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THE Hampstead-based Royal Free Hospital NHS trust, which will take over Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield and Barnet Hospital this July, has confirmed its...

UK Troops For The Ukraine Says Shapps

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TORY Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that UK troops are to be sent to the Ukraine ‘to train Zelensky’s military on the ground’...

Childrens’ speech and language services slashed

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SPEECH and Language Therapy Services for children who have problems learning to speak have been severely cut by the Tories with a new report...

Labour supports key NHS role for health privateers!

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PRIVATE health trade body the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) has welcomed the cross-party consensus on the key role of the independent sector in...

Google handed private medical records

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PATIENTS, NHS workers and privacy campaigners alike are outraged that people’s private medical records are to be put on the internet without their consent...

Hotel where child fell from window was also fire risk!

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THE CUT PRICE hotel where Afghan refugee, five-year-old Mohammed Munib Majeedi, plunged to his death from a ninth-floor window had ‘multiple fire risks’ the...