FOURTH DAY OF FUEL PROTESTS IN IRELAND – as prices rocket by 50%

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FUEL protests entered their fourth day across Ireland yesterday, with blockades at the country’s only oil refinery and major ports forcing Taoiseach Micheál Martin...

Tory war on welfare, trade unions must act

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Last week it was revealed that the number of people forced onto the new scheme by the end of next year is now estimated...

Stock Market Falls Continue

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FRIDAY saw stock markets around the world collapse further, following on from the dramatic slump in shares on Thursday, triggered by fears that the...
Labour leader CORBYN marching with steelworkers in London in May

Labour Right Wing Ready For Breakaway!

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150 LABOUR MPs are plotting to form a breakaway party codenamed ‘Continuity Labour’ when Jeremy Corbyn wins the leadership battle. Pontypridd Labour MP Stephen Kinnock...
Greek secondary school teachers march in Athens – banner reads ‘We want proper jobs-no to flexible working conditions-slavery has ended!’

Greek Riot Police Attack March

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GREEK riot police attacked last Friday, with tear gas, a 3,000-strong Athens march of teachers and university students who were demanding the staffing of...
Enthusiastic picket at the Lewisham site of Lewisham & Southwark College yesterday against the plan to cut 112 jobs

Lewisham & London Met Strike Action!

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LECTURERS were on strike at Lewisham and Southwark College yesterday over 112 sackings because of the closure of the Southwark site in Camberwell, southeast...

‘ISSUE A CALL TO ARMS AND ORGANISE A GENERAL STRIKE!’ – airport workers urge...

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‘UNITE said they were going to call a strike and they should have gone ahead with it. They said they were going to, but...

£550m PRE-PAY TAKEN FROM POOR

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The GMB trade union yesterday condemned the huge profits being made out of the poorest customers by gas and electricity companies. New watchdog Consumer Focus,...

University wages strike ballots

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UCU members at Coventry University are being balloted for industrial action in a row over pay. The ballot opened yesterday and closes on Tuesday...

Syria rejects rebel ‘peace plan!’

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THE Syrian government has dismissed a peace proposal from the umbrella group representing Syria’s US and UK backed political and armed opposition. The opposition’s High...

NHS contracts to be imposed

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NHS England Medical Director Keogh has announced that hospitals are to be forced to change the consultant contract and institute so-called ‘seven day working’...

‘Greetings to this fantastic show of strength’ says Mark Serwotka

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THERE were more than 40,000 teachers and other striking workers on the NEU demonstration on Wednesday 1st February – with the front of the...

NURSES READY TO STRIKE – Against pay cut

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Nearly two-thirds of nurses would be willing to take industrial action if they receive an unsatisfactory pay deal this year, said the Royal College...
Mixed fleet cabin crew are starting a three-day strike today against poverty pay. Picture shows picket line at Heathrow on Tuesday January 10th

BA Cabin Crew Out Today

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BRITISH Airways mixed fleet cabin crew are striking against poverty pay today in the first day of a 72-hour strike. It follows last week’s two...

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...

RMT Pickets Call For A General Strike To Win Their Pay Dispute!

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RMT pickets yesterday morning called for a general strike to win their dispute by bringing down the government. Wale Agunbiade, RMT Branch Secretary at Liverpool...

BMA SLAMS DIRECT PAYMENTS – Healthcare as a commodity’

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The Health Bill introduced by the government yesterday ‘undermines the founding principles of the NHS’, warned Unison – while the BMA said the bill...
Huddersfield Royal Infirmary protest – one of the thousands of demonstrations against the cuts in the NHS

‘Patients dying prematurely’ DOCTORS TELL MAY SHE HAS FAILED THE NHS!

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SENIOR doctors in charge of more than 60 hospital emergency departments have written to the prime minister warning of ‘very serious concerns’ about patient...
Eighteen year-old UMARO DA SILVA campaigning for the WRP

Vote Wrp In Hackney – Defeat Tory Cuts

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‘THE GOVERNMENT must not cut the funding for education, the NHS or council housing because these are the things that matter to us,’ Carla...
A strong and angry picket of New Scotland Yard yesterday after the CPS refused to prosecute the policeman responsible for the deadly assault on Ian Tomlinson at G20 protest last year

COVER UP! 5 years after de Menezes killing – another policeman escapes trial

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UPSET and angry relatives reacted bitterly to the news yesterday that there will be no charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson during the...

‘Dictator’ Hunt!

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THE BMA yesterday responded angrily to health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s ‘wholesale attack’ on doctors and the threat to impose seven-day working for consultants...

Fight Honda Sackings

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THE Unite union yesterday called Honda’s decision to cut 800 jobs at its Swindon plant a ‘hammer blow’ to UK manufacturing and the local...
One of the many families on the march from Enfield Green to Chase Farm Hospital

Unions must defend NHS!

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‘SAVE Chase Farm Occupy Now! Whose hospital? Our Hospital!’ More than 200 marchers chanted these slogans as they moved onto the Chase Farm Hospital site...

27 Palestinians killed on West Bank in 2013

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ISRAEL killed 27 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in 2013, making it the deadliest year for Palestinian fatalities since 2008, Israeli rights group...

‘We are on the verge of a conflict involving the whole continent’ says...

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‘WE ARE on the verge of conflict which would involve the whole continent,’ Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said yesterday at a joint press conference...
Nurses on the march against any pay cap – they are certain to make their point very forcibly at September’s EGM

Nurses fury over pay deal! – EGM called for September 28th

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THE RCN Council has called an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) which will take place on 28/09/18 at 11.00 am at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre,...

30,000 March Against Cornish NHS Cuts

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The organisers of the biggest demonstration so far in defence of the NHS, a huge 30,000-strong march against NHS cuts in Cornwall, yesterday slammed...

UCL Condemned For Going To The Law Courts!

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‘UCL Stand for Justice’ has condemned the north London university for going to the courts and smearing its campaign in support of Palestine and...
Weary looking Blair came under fire at GMB conference

POLICE QUESTION LEVY AGAIN – Blair expected to be interviewed under caution

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Lord Levy, Prime Minister Blair’s chief fundraiser and close political ally was questioned for a second time yesterday by police investigating the ‘cash...
Witham Emergency 999 control operators are on eight days of strike action against draconian imposed changes to their working practices

Essex 999 Operators Strike!

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ESSEX emergency 999 control operators began eight days of strike action yesterday morning against imposed changes to their shifts which makes family...

Chancellor warns of ‘significant disruption!’

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £30bn Budget package to try to keep UK capitalism from being bankrupted and broken apart by the...

BROWNE ACCEPTS BLAME – but admits Blair knew of decision to sell stories

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Defence secretary Des Browne yesterday said he takes ‘full responsibility’ for decisions which allowed the fifteen UK sailors and marines held by the Iranians...
Blacklisting protest – the police and Special Branch have been illegally making lists of workers to be blacklisted for the bosses

‘CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS!’ – Police drew up blacklists for the bosses

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GMB, the union for construction workers, has described the Metropolitan Police’s admission of their role in the blacklisting scandal as a constitutional crisis which...
Tenants marching on London’s City all demanding more council homes

Housing Benefit Tenants Being Turned Away

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LETTING agents are discriminating against tenants on housing benefit, an undercover investigation has found. Shelter and the National Housing Federation found one-in-ten agents in England...

Israeli forces target Khan Younis school for onslaught

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Israeli forces targeted a school in Khan Younis that was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians, critically injuring at least eight people yesterday. ‘We heard from...

London Bombings Linked To Iraq War

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Former Labour cabinet minister Clare Short yesterday insisted she ‘had no doubt’ the July 7th London bombings were linked to Iraq and Palestine. Short...
On the front line – courageous youth march to remember the murder of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos who was killed by police a year ago

Tens Of Thousands Of Youth March In Greece

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Tens of thousands of Greek school and university students, young workers and unemployed youth participated on Sunday in mass and militant rallies in all...
The GMB ‘Coach and Horses’ demonstrating in Charlton yesterday morning

GMB ‘Coach and horses’ victory

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THE GMB trade union yesterday won its first victory in the battle over trade union rights at Asda, on the eve of a five-day...

‘Kill off no deal, kill off May’s deal forward to 2nd referendum’ – John...

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‘FIRST thing is we will vote against Theresa May’s deal,’ John McDonnell Labour Shadow Chancellor said yesterday about her Brexit deal, after the government...
The families of Rover workers demanding that the Longbridge plant stay open. It was closed after the May 2005 general election and most of the workforce are now working in very low paid jobs

SACKED! – one hour’s notice at BMW Oxford while Unite trade union just looks...

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Agency workers at BMW’s Mini plant in Oxford erupted in fury yesterday after 850 of them, a third of the Cowley plant workforce, were...

BA SHUT DOWN! – Walsh rejects T&G goodwill gesture

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‘We don’t want macho management or macho trade unionism, we want an honourable compromise,’ said Transport and General Workers Union general secretary Tony Woodley...

FINANCIAL CRASH! – bankers warning over ‘risky loans’

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Risky loans are leading to a financial crash, leading bankers warned yesterday. William Rhodes, senior vice chairman of Citigroup warned: ‘Lenders all too often, are...
EARLY Thursday morning a large group of police escorting over a dozen bailiffs, arrived at the council estate on Benhill road, Camberwell south London to make a second, surprise attempt to evict Aminata Sellu and her three children.

42,728 evictions in 2015!

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42,728 evictions in 2015 are ‘clear proof of the devastating impact that welfare cuts and the chronic shortage of affordable homes are having on...

‘This Summer’s Exams Should Be Regraded’ – Nut

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FOLLOWING the GCSE results fiasco, the National Union of Teachers is demanding the regrading of all results. Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the NUT,...

TPP pushed through!

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THE HATED anti-working class, pro-privatisation ‘Trans-Pacific Partnership’ deal was pushed through yesterday, in the teeth of opposition. Leaders from a dozen countries agreed the trade...