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PRESCOTT INQUIRY –visited US billionaire tycoon seven times

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PARLIAMENTARY Commissioner Sir Philip Mawer yesterday announced a full investigation into Deputy Premier Prescott’s relations with US tycoon Phillip Anschutz, focusing on his...

‘We will appeal!’ –as High Court rules Bedroom Tax for disabled is legal

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OUTSIDE the High Court in London yesterday, lawyer Richard Stein said: ‘We, along with the other lawyers acting on behalf of adults with disabilities,...

120,000 children homeless this Xmas

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ONE hundred and twenty thousand children will wake up homeless this Christmas across Britain, Shelter warned yesterday. Shelter has launched an urgent appeal after...

‘WE HAVE HAD MASSIVE SUPPORT FROM PUBLIC’ – ASLEF representative tells News Line

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‘WE HAVE had massive support from the public,’ the ASLEF rep Lucio Buffone told News Line when he spoke out on the well-attended picket...

Postal Workers Will Not Accept Their Livelihoods Being Destroyed!

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THOUSANDS of postal workers have voted in favour of more strikes in the long-running dispute over pay. More than 95% of staff who voted in...

Halt Zionist settlers’ heinous crimes in Palestine says PM Shtayyeh

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Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday denounced the ‘heinous crimes’ committed on Sunday by Zionist settlers in the northern West Bank town of Huwara...

‘Indefinite strike to win’ – demand striking bus drivers

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‘INDEFINITE strike action to win it quick and win it now,’ Hounslow bus garage driver and Unite member Stoyan Ivanov demanded yesterday. More than 2,000...

CUT FARES NOT STAFF! – demand protesters outside stations across UK

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PASSENGERS protesting against rail fare increases of 3.5 per cent, many of whom were also demanding the urgent renationalisation of the railways, were joined...
Over 50,000 marched in London and tens of thousands marched in other cities across the UK during the November 30 pensions strike

It’s Still Pensions Robbery!

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‘The new pensions proposals will hit the pockets of thousands of nurses, paramedics, occupational therapists and other key NHS staff hard’, Unison warned yesterday. The...

Right Wing Racists Rule In Israel

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A NEW government, seen as the most right wing and racist in Israel’s history has been agreed, sealing Binyamin Netanyahu’s return to power. Netanyahu, who...

Murdoch targets unions & BBC

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News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch yesterday made it clear that he had taken a decision to smash the print unions when he provoked the...
NHS workers marching in defence of the NHS stressing it is not about profit

ABOLISH PRESCRIPTION CHARGES – urges the BMA

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England should follow the example of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, and abolish all prescription charges, the British Medical Association (BMA) said today. The Department...
Students demonstrating at Sussex University yesterday will be coming up to the ULU demonstration this afternoon

Unison & UCU condemn ULU police violence

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UCU and Unison have condemned the police and management attacks on students and staff at the University of London Union (ULU) which is...

Private companies are screening GP referrals

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PRIVATE companies are acting as a barrier between GPs and the NHS, putting patients’ lives at risk. Millions of pounds are being spent on privately-run...
During the last Tube strike there was a strong picket at King’s Cross

TWO 24hr TUBE STRIKES

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RMT pickets were out at all key locations yesterday morning as the strike action over the threat to jobs, safety and services was solidly...
Trade unionists in chains outside the House of Commons yesterday afternoon demanding support for the Trade Union Freedom Bill

Bbc Unions To Go For Strike Ballot

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BBC journalists, technicians and production staff and electricians will be balloted for strike action if the BBC proceeds to call for ‘voluntary redundancies’ today,...

Corbyn will not have the whip restored! – now not officially a Labour MP

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FORMER Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will not have the party’s whip restored, his successor as Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer has announced. The shock...

1,000 British-Danish Troops Attack Basra

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Five Iraqis were arrested yesterday after a massive pre-dawn assault on the city of Basra by a force of more than 1,000 UK and...
CWU members and officials lobbying the Unite head office displayed their giant postcard to Unite leaders Woodley and Simpson

STOP THE STRIKEBREAKERS – CWU tells Unite

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Over two hundred postal workers from London, Edinburgh and Crewe lobbied the Unite head office in Holborn yesterday, to demand Unite leaders Derek Simpson...
Freedom Flotilla volunteers back from a Zionist prison leading the Athens march

Greek Workers March Against Zionist Piracy

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Over 5,000 workers and students demonstrated through Athens city centre on Thursday evening against the Zionist pirates and their murders of the Freedom...
Young immigrants at the Corinth concentration camp protest against their imprisonment

Immigrant Children Held In Greek Jails!

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ATHENS – Greek state officials delivered shocking reports on the treatment of immigrant children held in jails, at a meeting last Friday of the...

Bank of England raises rates to make workers pay for the crisis

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THE Bank of England yesterday raised its interest rate from 4.5% to 5%, the highest level for 15 years, in a declaration of war...
Trade union banners on a demonstration on October 20, the day the coalition’s Comprehensive Spending Review  was announced

Food, Fuel And Fares Prices Hike!

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The anger of workers is set to explode at the cost of food, fuel and fares, now soaring to unaffordable levels. Commuters...
Royal Mail workers marching through Milton Keynes against plans to close their Mail Centre and condemning the Brown government for its privatisation policies

BILLIONS FOR BOSSES AND BANKERS – while its the sack and wage cuts for...

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Chancellor Darling yesterday handed more billions to business in his pre-budget report, while making it clear the working class will be expected to pay...
Fire Brigades Union general secretary MATT WRACK leads the 5,000-strong march to Central Halls, Westminster demanding the right to strike is defended

Scrap Trade Union Bill – 5,000 trade unionists descend on Parliament

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‘A GENERAL strike is the only way to defeat the Tory Trade Union Bill,’ Colin Knowles, Unison conveyor said yesterday. He spoke to News Line...

PCS & Prospect take action at the British Museum

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‘Kick ancient pay out of our museum’ said placards carried by 300 British Museum staff out yesterday against what amounts to a public sector...

‘CALL THE AIRPORT OUT’ – demand Heathrow strikers

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FOUR thousand Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) workers are taking the fourth of four days strike action today against the company’s imposition of twenty-five per...
A big part of the 60-strong picket at Chase Farm Hospital yesterday

March to save Chase Farm today!

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YESTERDAY’S 60-strong mass picket to save Chase Farm Hospital drew big support from patients and local residents who all said they would join today’s...

Largest School Cuts For A Generation!

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TWO National Union of Teachers (NUT)/YouGov polls of parents and teachers reveal the growing crisis in schools, the NUT said yesterday. The polls found: ...

GOLDSMITH REFUSED TO BACK IRAQ WAR – in March 2008, 2002 letter to Hoon

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THE Chilcot Inquiry yesterday published a previously classified letter from the Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith to Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, in which he refused to...

GOURMET LOCKOUT COSTS BA £100m

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FURIOUS locked-out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday slammed Transport and General Workers Union officials for demanding British Airways workers, who came out on strike in...

25 Colleges strike over pay

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OVER 300 striking teachers from sixth form colleges around the country demanded the government honour their £700 million funding ‘invoice’ which was signed by...

Anger erupts outside Chauvin murder trial!

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AS THE murder trial of officer Derek Chauvin continued for the killing of George Floyd, anger erupted outside the Court House where masses of...

NHS Is Reeling As Staff Sickness Grows

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THE NHS is reeling under the weight of staff absences, with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine warning that up to a quarter of...
PCS delegation on a TUC demonstration against Tory government cuts

25,000 Civil Service jobs to be slashed by 6% cuts!

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TRADE unions yesterday slammed Tory chancellor Phillip Hammond’s instruction to government departments to find spending cuts of up to 6% as part of plans...

Tax Hikes & Cuts Come In

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TODAY, April 1, the first day of the new financial year, a barrage of vicious cuts and hikes come in attacking the living standards...

Colleges Going Bust!

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SIXTH Form Colleges ‘cannot survive on starvation rations.’ One third say that they will go bust and shut down by 2020 if the massive...

Palestine welcomes the call for an immediate ceasefire!

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THE Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates yesterday welcomed the initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, in calling for...

3,700 Palestinians killed in 60 days

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THE Israeli military has continued its intensive land, air and sea aggression on northern Gaza for 60 days now, during which 2,400 of the...
Lecturers and students on the picket line at Imperial College during last years’ strikes over pay and pensions

143 UK Universities Being Balloted For Strike Action

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AROUND 70,000 members of the University and College Union (UCU) in 143 UK universities are being balloted for strike action in a row over...
Demonstration against the TV documentary ‘Benefits Street’ which vilified the poor. The abolition of Council Tax Benefit is driving thousands more into debt

COUNCIL TAX DEBT SOARING – reports Citizens Advice

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COUNCIL tax debt is the fastest-growing form of debt, Citizens Advice reported yesterday, revealing that it has now become the number one debt problem...
A group of cheerful and determined pickets on the grass verge near the Gate Gourmet factory on Tuesday morning

‘WE WANT THE TRUTH’ – say Menezes family lawyers

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Lawyers for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday said they wanted the truth, and answers to ‘lies that have been told’ about...

RCN leaders to stand down

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THE ENTIRE leadership of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) union have announced yesterday they are to stand down, following the results of the...

Law Lords Deny Elderly Rights

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Yesterday’s House of Lords judgement fails vulnerable older people, says Help the Aged. The charity was responding to the decision by the House of Lords in YL v Birmingham...
Part of the huge crowd outside the ERT building

Greece In Revolution!

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TENS of thousands of Greek workers, youth and unemployed took part in a general strike rally yesterday in front of the occupied ERT (Greek...