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Lib Dems Vote For Ananti-Brexit Coup!

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THE LIBDEMS voted for an anti-Brexit coup at their conference in Bournemouth yesterday, pledging to revoke Article 50, reversing their previous policy of campaigning...

‘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,...
On last Saturday’s TUC demonstration there was a great determination to defend the NHS. Picture shows a disabled campaigner  who blocked the road at Marble Arch to show her anger at the way disabled people are being treated by the coalition

GPs ‘stunned and angry’ at imposed contract changes

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GPs are angry that the government intends to impose changes to their contracts. There are huge implications in the Department of Health’s proposed imposed changes,...

‘NO TIME FOR NATIONALISM!’ – 5,000 car workers march to Antwerp plant

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5,000 European workers marched to the Opel plant in Antwerp yesterday afternoon to demand that it must not close as a result of the...

The return of the racketeer landlord! – over one million tenants are suffering says...

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NEW research released today has revealed that in the last year alone over a million – or one in eight – private renters across...

NHS AUSTERITY – planned by Department of Health

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THE government is already drawing up crisis measures to privatise the NHS. A ‘long list of possibilities’ is contained in a leaked Department of Health...
Enthusiastic Unison strikers at London Metropolitan University, Holloway Road, yesterday lunchtime

London Met Job Cuts Battle

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UNISON members at London Metropolitan University took strike action yesterday in the latest round of their struggle against job cuts, as the...
PCS members picket the Law Courts against government attempts to smash the pensions agreement

Private Pensions Robbery!

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UNISON yesterday called on private companies to act responsibly and provide decent pensions for their workers, instead of leaving individuals struggling to make complex,...

ROYAL MAIL SHARES ISSUE SHELVED – We’ve won a victory says London Region CWU

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‘The Royal Mail employee shares scheme shouldn’t be shelved, it should be scrapped altogether,’ Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) London Regional Secretary John Denton told...
Yesterday’s mass lobby outside the House of Commons demanding the prosecution of all those companies who have been involved in the blacklisting of workers

Prosecute Blacklisters!

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Blacklisted construction workers and their supporters, 200 strong, lobbied Parliament yesterday, demanding those who operated and used blacklists in Britain be prosecuted. In 2009 the...
Sacked Visteon workers picketing outside the company’s Basildon plant

Unite Refuses To Represent Belfast Visteon Occupiers

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THE legal attempt to remove sacked workers occupying the Visteon factory in west Belfast has been adjourned until Friday. ‘Whatever happens on Friday we won’t...
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...

Vauxhall And Cammell Laird Walkouts

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EVERY member of the GMB and Unite unions walked out last Friday evening at the Vauxhall car plant in Ellesmere Port in...

International support for UK rail workers!

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STRIKING RMT railway workers were boosted by the leader of the US Amazon Labour Union joining their picket line at Euston Station yesterday morning. ALU...

Sack Woodley and Simpson!

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ANGRY Rover workers yesterday slammed their betrayal by trade union leaders, Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley, and Amicus General Secretary...
NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet (second from right), and BECTU general secretary GERRY MORRISSEY (right) outside Broadcasting House with BBC journalists and technicians at noon yesterday at the beginning of a 12-hour national strike

Stop The Cuts, Stop The Bullying!

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BBC journalists and technicians walked out across the UK at noon yesterday at the start of a 12-hour strike over cuts and a ‘bullying...
Police confront students to try to stop their demonstration

Police confront students

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OVER 200 students from London universities and supporters from other universities demonstrating yesterday against police violence, were themselves confronted by Police. They marched from ULU...
PCS and NASUWT members marching in defence of their pensions on November 30 – they will not accept what they regard as a completely unfair tax

Another Unfair Tax!

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Trade unions yesterday condemned the Cameron government’s just-announced decision to press ahead with increasing the pension contributions of public service workers from April 2012. Teachers...

Gaza mass graves–hands tied behind their backs!

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GAZA Civil Defence Units have found mass graves of another 50 Palestinians at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, with many of the...

Assange Must Be Freed!

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ALMOST a decade after his WikiLeaks website enraged Washington by leaking secret US documents, a London court will begin hearings on Monday to decide...

Chancellor Is Slashing Jobs, Wages And Benefits!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne’s Autumn Statement to the House of Commons yesterday afternoon was a savage attack on the working class and the poor. Early in his...

Goodman letter released

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MPs have released a letter from journalist Clive Goodman, jailed for phone hacking, alleging senior News of the World figures knew what was going...

Corbyn tables motion of no confidence

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PM MAY’S EU deal was rejected by the House of Commons yesterday evening by 432 to 202 votes. The PM in a statement after the...
Mothers lobbying the Clinical Commissioning Group in April to demand that Ealing Maternity Department be kept open. The Group decided to postpone a decision on the closure until after the election

Save Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit

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BUSWORKERS bought their tickets for the June 16th meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday. Last month, the Ealing Clinical Commissioning...

UNISON INDUSRIAL ACTION WARNING – if NHS pay award is staged

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industrial action is inevitable if the government insists on paying the NHS pay award in stages, UNISON warned yesterday. ‘If there is no change of...
Workers who have lost their company pensions which were recommended by the government outside the House of Commons yesterday were demanding that Chancellor Brown pay up

BROWN SEES NO CRISIS! – while Cameron demands election

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A tense Chancellor Brown yesterday announced a £36bn increase in the sale of public assets (including Student Loans) and a two per cent Corporation...

Israel rejects ceasefire and pledges to flatten Gaza City

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ISRAEL has rejected another new ceasefire proposal that would have halted its genocidal war on Gaza, warning instead that it will flatten Gaza City...
Cameron has earned intense hostility of workers with his savage cuts policy

BRING DOWN COALITION IN 2013 – victory to World Socialist Revolution

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2013 Manifesto – STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings for the year 2013 to the...

Corridor care ‘unsafe, undignified, unacceptable’ says RCN

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‘CARE delivered in corridors and other non-clinical spaces is unsafe, undignified and unacceptable,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday in response to...

Dozens Injured By Israeli Forces

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DOZENS of Palestinians were injured in violent clashes across al-Tur and al-Issawiya neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday as Palestinians protested the death...

‘WE ARE LOSING IN IRAQ’ says US Senator Chuck Hagel

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Leading Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has warned the US is ‘losing in Iraq’. He slammed the George W Bush administration’s Iraq policy as ‘disconnected from...

Corbyn pledges–no anti-union laws–no zero hours contracts!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for right wing Labour MPs to ‘think again’ after reports that some are planning a ‘semi-split’ breakup of...

The Spanish state has been defeated!

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‘THIS is a result which no one can dispute,’ deposed Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont told a news conference in Brussels yesterday. ‘The Spanish state...

Coronavirus ripping through Belmarsh!

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BELMARSH High Security prison is suffering from an outbreak of coronavirus to such an extent that it is ‘barely functioning’, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has...

Parliament pushes to bomb Syrian troops

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PUSHING for the UK to begin openly bombing Syrian army positions and to consider taking action against Russian aircraft, Tory MP for Sutton Coldfield,...

Obama Expands The War Into Pakistan!

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US President Barack Obama yesterday announced a further 4,000 US troops will be sent to Afghanistan this summer, in addition to the 17,000 earmarked...

‘There will be absolutely no pay increases for doctors or nurses above 5%’ declare...

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TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay provocatively declared yesterday that there will be absolutely no pay increase for nurses or doctors above the 5% that...

DID YOU APPROVE A CHANGE TO SHOOT TO KILL? – Blair dodges reporter’s question

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‘Did you ever discuss or approve a change in the rules of engagement for British police to shoot to kill, shoot in the head...
Lively picket of midwives at King’s College Hospital on strike last Monday over the lack of a wage increase

NHS workers slam Hunt’s attack

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‘IF YOU want to talk about waste in the NHS, then stop outsourcing midwives and nurses to agency staff,’ Royal College of Midwives (RCM)...

PFI – catastrophic waste of money!

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‘THE game is up for PFI, it is a catastrophic waste of taxpayers’ money,’ the GMB union said yesterday responding to the National Audit...

‘A Major War Crime!’

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HAMAS yesterday condemned Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza City and relocate its population as a clear violation of international law. The Palestinian resistance movement warned that...
Over 20,000 workers, including GM workers from Germany, marched through Luton against the closure of thauxhall plant in 2001.

Luton Night Shift To Go!

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WORKERS at GMM Luton yesterday condemned the refusal of their union leaders to fight, as they waited the outcome of the General Motors board...
BMA Junior Doctors – fighting Tory attempts to dictate contracts will be demonstrating outside the BMA GP conference on  Saturday at 5.15pm at the Mermaid Centre, Puddle Dock, EC1

‘NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE!’ – GPs condemn the Care Quality Commission

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THE Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection regime aimed at GP practices is damaging patient care by diverting resources and GP time away from treating...

‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University’ say UCU strikers

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‘WE ARE STRONG, united and determined to win,’ and ‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University,’ University and College Union (UCU) strikers declared...

‘We’re here to stop the genocide!’ say UCL occupiers

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AROUND 50 students have occupied the entrance on the forecourt of University College London (UCL) since last Friday in protest at Israeli genocide in...