Voters Reject Tories And Warn Labour

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THURSDAY’S by-elections saw voters completely rejecting the Tories, destroying the LibDems and giving the Labour Party a very stiff warning. UKIP gained its first elected...

‘A TOTAL DECLARATION OF WAR’ – Nigerian unions slam doubling of fuel price

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THE Nigerian trade unions have called for a mass mobilisation of ‘strikes, street demonstrations and mass protests across the country’ in response...

‘We are asking for the pay that we lost to be returned to us!’...

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ANGRY NHS workers on strike outside Barnsley hospital in South Yorkshire spoke to News Line yesterday. Ellen Newberry, deputy chair of Junior Doctors Committee (BMA),...

EU crisis meetings over Greece

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GREEK Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is holding meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande this week, in a bid...

60 Years Since The ‘Catastrophe’

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On the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) last Thursday, agriculture minister Dr Mohammed Al-Agha strongly criticised international institutions for not...

‘Time Is Running Out!’ – Unison Health Conference Warns Pm Brown

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‘OUR time and patience is running out.’ This is the warning that Unison leader Dave Prentis is due to give to Prime Minister Gordon Brown...

PROSECUTE P&O FERRIES – RMT condemns Tories for refusal to act

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SEAFARERS union RMT has written to the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, to demand a meeting to discuss the government’s failure to...
Many of the 10,000 marchers who demonstrated last weekend to defend Ealing Hospital called for it to be occupied and kept open at all costs

DEFEND OUR HOSPITALS!– London BMA votes to support Enfield conference

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Dr Kevin O’Kane, chairman of the London Region BMA told its Annual Business Meeting on Thursday night that London Region felt let down and...

‘Don’t use anti-strike laws against us!’ – FBU leader Matt Wrack urges fire chiefs

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THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has called on all fire service employers to refuse to implement the government’s new minimum service levels, condemning the...

GREEK GENERAL STRIKE – for workers’ rights against privatisation

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A massive strike wave is taking place against the Greek right-wing government this week as workers are staging national strikes, including a general strike...
Union leaders heading the March 26th 500,000-strong TUC march against coalition cuts

‘WE WANT THE HEALTH BILL SCRAPPED’ – Prentis tells Lansley

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Unison general secretary, Dave Prentis, yesterday pledged the union will ‘fight and fight’ until the Health and Social Care Bill is defeated and the...

GAMBLING WITH PEOPLE’S LIVES – 700 Blood Service job cuts condemned

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Health unions yesterday accused the government of a ‘reckless gamble that could risk people’s lives’ over plans to close centres and axe 700 Blood...

Police state attack on the press!

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UK NEWSPAPERS have warned that if a government bill authorising police to seize journalists’ notebooks, photos and digital files is passed today, it could...

BUS WORKERS TAKE STRIKE ACTION – stand to lose £2,500 a year

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DRIVERS employed by the RATP bus privateer begin strike action today against £2,500 pay cuts, with 2,200 workers striking at Edgware, Epsom, Fulwell, Harrow,...

World Climate Strike!

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MILLIONS of youth supported by trade unionists walked out of their schools, colleges and universities yesterday, in one hundred and fifty countries across the...

GPs sent instead of ambulances!

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NURSES and GPs in County Durham are being told to act as first responders ahead of ambulances as North-East paramedics struggle to cope with...

‘Labour won’t be able to spend its way out of the mess!’ – Starmer...

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LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer said yesterday that Labour ‘won’t be able to spend our way out’ of the ‘mess’ left by the Tories. While...
The badly beaten face of Baha Mousa

AITKEN ‘WHITEWASH’ – condemned by Daoud Mousa lawyers

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The report by Brigadier Aitken on British Army abuses of Iraqi civilians is ‘a complete red herring and a whitewash’, said lawyers Phil Shiner...

Vital local council services collapsing

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VITAL local services are collapsing, council workers have warned in a new survey conducted by their union, Unison. Unison warned that Tory cuts have...
Fenland Foods workers picketing Marks & Spencer in the struggle to keep their jobs

BANK OF ENGLAND FEELS ‘ECONOMIC CHILL’ – Governor King forecasts ‘painful’ years ahead

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‘There is a feeling of economic chill in the air,’ Bank of England governor Mervyn King said yesterday. Introducing the Bank’s latest monthly inflation report,...
Sheffield Central WRP candidate MIKE DRIVER campaigning in the city centre yesterday

Labour refuses to commit to stop hospital closures!

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‘EALING Hospital A&E and Maternity must not close and it’s a disgrace that the Labour candidate refuses to commit to this,’ Scott Dore, Workers...

US will fall off fiscal cliff

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THE US economy will fall off the ‘fiscal cliff’ when automatic spending cuts and tax increases kick in at the beginning of next year,...
Tamils continuing their demonstration outside Parliament yesterday against the slaughter of Tamils by the Sri Lankan armed forces

‘WE WILL NOT GIVE UP’ – say Tamil students

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‘We are not going to give up!’, declared the comrades of 23-year-old Parameswaran Subramaniyan who after 18 days on hunger strike is too weak...

Smash The Health Bill

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Public sector union Unison and the TUC have called a candle-lit vigil outside parliament at 9.30pm on September 7th, as the Health and Social...
Trade unionists made their mind up about the role that Cameron and the Tory Party were playing a long time ago – picture shows placards from the October 2012 TUC demonstration against austerity in London

‘There’s something rotten at the heart of the Conservative Party’ – Miliband accuses Cameron

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LABOUR PARTY leader Miliband clashed with Prime Minister Cameron over political donors who held Swiss bank accounts with HSBC, during questions in the House...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers at the TGWU office yesterday demanding that all locked-out workers get hardship pay

‘Pay us our hardship money’ – Gate Gourmet locked-out workers lobby TGWU

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were very angry yesterday at having to reapply at the Hillingdon TGWU union office for their February hardship payment, which...

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....

Tsipras visits Athens police HQ

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The leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras paid a long electioneering visit on Monday to the Athens area Police...

‘WE DON’T BACK NHS BILL!’ – 400 doctors warn House of Lords

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THE Tory-LibDem Health and Social Care Bill will cause ‘irreparable harm’ to the NHS, 400 leading doctors, consultants and public health experts have written,...

Unions Agree To Axe Steel Jobs And Sell Out Members

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UP to 500 jobs will be axed at British Steel with the trade unions agreeing to the axing. The union leaders have warned the takeover...

Sick Babies Besieged By Israeli Snipers!

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EVERY hospital in Gaza City is out of service, with 36 premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital facing death within 48 hours because there is...
Ecstatic crowds greet the ‘NO’ vote against the Troika’s austerity not knowing it will be betrayed by Syriza

Ruthless Troika has Syriza in its grip

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THE Greek Industry, Environment and Industry Minister Panos Skourletis stated on Tuesday that a general election could be called this autumn once the new...

Hysterical Witch Hunt Launched On Labour Leader Corbyn

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn’s opponents within the Labour Party have stepped up their hysterical witch hunt against him, accusing him of ‘stirring up’ his...

Stevens intervention slammed!

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NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens has intervened in the referendum debate to declare that leaving the EU could damage the NHS. Citing Bank of...

CHAGOS ISLANDERS PETITION No 10

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A delegation of six Chagos Islanders yesterday handed in to 10, Downing Street, two petition letters addressed to new prime minister Brown. Delegation leader, Hengride...
Water authority workers at the GSEE rally in Athens during last month’s general strike on May 3rd

Greece Set For Massive General Strike

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GREEK trade unions are set for a huge one-day general strike today against the government’s ‘Double Bill’ which destroys the state pension system, allows...

CORUS SHUTDOWN OUTRAGE – 3,000 jobs threatened

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Steel union, Community, yesterday expressed ‘outrage’ at the announcement to ‘mothball’ Teesside Cast Products with a threat to 2,000 jobs. The union said that move...

Myanmar Embassy in London – SEIZED BY MILITARY JUNTA

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THE MYANMAR military authorities have seized control of the embassy, leaving the ambassador out in the street and forcing him to sleep in his...

How the US government murdered Soleimani!

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NBC News has revealed details of Washington’s assassination of Iranian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, saying the terrorist operation used Israeli intelligence and was...

‘EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON EU!’ – says Labour’s shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott

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LABOUR, the LibDems, the SNP and pro-Remain Tories are set to vote against the government holding a 12th December General Election in the House...

Grenfell Tower council opted for flammable cladding

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KENSINGTON and Chelsea council turned down a proposal to clad Grenfell Tower in fire resistant material and instead opted for a cheaper option, allowing...

Heathrow workers back Gate Gourmet conference

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BRITISH Airways Terminal 4 workers yesterday gave great support to locked out Gate Gourmet workers campaigning at Heathrow for their conference on Sunday January...

‘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...

‘NO ERROR OF JUDGEMENT’ – Cameron defends hiring Coulson

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PRIME minister Cameron claimed yesterday that Andy Coulson, who had resigned as editor of the News of the World and who currently faces charges...
Marchers demand arrests and corporate murder charges over the Grenfell Tower inferno that killed large numbers of men, women and children

Grenfell Mass Protest Tonight

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ONLY a fraction of the donated £20 million has reached the survivors and families of the victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy which claimed...