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US Vetoes Resolution For Gaza Ceasefire!

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THE US veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding a humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip is unjustifiable, says Zhang Jun, China’s...

OCCUPY ELLESMERE PORT says ATUA National Secretary

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Workers at the Vauxhall Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire are bracing themselves for today’s expected announcement by owners GM of 1,000 job cuts. Trade union...
At 6.30am yesterday morning, hospital staff and workers came in and immediately declared their solidarity with the occupation

Ealing Hospital Workers Welcome The Occupation!

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EALING Hospital staff members and patients welcomed the occupation of the entrance to the closure-threatened Maternity Unit yesterday. The occupation, to keep the unit open,...
TUC leaders and delegates launch a campaign for £10 an hour minimum wage at the TUC Congress in Manchester yesterday

‘Zero hours contracts will be banned’ under Labour! – McDonnell addresses TUC

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‘ZERO hours contracts will be banned’ under a Labour government Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said yesterday in a keynote address to the TUC...
RMT members demonstrate in July 2007 against Tube privatisation

END ‘RAIL FRANCHISE RIP-OFF!’ says RMT

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RAIL union RMT yesterday slammed the government for ‘presiding over a culture of private waste’ on the railways, calling for an end to the...

Defend West Hendon Homes!

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TENANTS and residents at the West Hendon Estate in Barnet, North West London, are holding a meeting, a march and a giant banner drop...

CWU votes to Boycott Private Mail!

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Members of the Communication Workers Union representing 160,000 employees in Royal Mail Group yesterday morning voted unanimously in favour of a mail boycott if...
Teachers and civil servants took strike action on June 30 against the vicious pension cuts that the Tory-LibDem coalition is trying to force through

Trade Unions Condemn The Great Pensions Robbery!

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‘The money is not going to any pension scheme, it is going to the Treasury. This increase isn’t about making the NHS pension sustainable...

Kent blood services not for sale!–Unite

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THE PRIVATISATION of the NHS blood samples service in Kent will put patients’ lives at risk, Unite warned yesterday, adding: ‘It must be stopped!’ A...
Unite members with their banner on the ‘Save Our NHS’ march against privatisation

Unite ‘reassures members’ over NHS pay claim!

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UNITE national officer for health Sarah Carpenter said yesterday: ‘A story appeared in The Guardian today (Friday 9 March) about an impending pay deal...
Libyan women took part in last Saturday’s TUC demonstration and urged British workers to stop the war on their country

Savage Air Attacks On Libya!

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‘THE crusader and colonial bombing campaign targeted inhabited areas in the city of Sabha at dawn on Monday, causing the destruction of several houses,’...

Johnson and EU agree new Brexit deal!

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YESTERDAY morning the President of the European Commission and Tory PM Johnson announced that they had agreed a Brexit deal. That deal now has...

Hunt turns his fire on the sick the disabled and the mentally ill –...

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TORY Chancellor Hunt turned his fire on the sick, the disabled, the mentally ill and the unemployed in his vicious, vindictive anti-working class Autumn...
CWU pickets at Tooting Delivery Office determined to defend jobs and conditions

‘THIS IS THE TIME TO HIT THEM’ –striking postal workers tell News Line

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LONDON postal workers taking strike action again yesterday at offices across the capital were angered by the offer of their union leaders to Royal...
Junior doctors are demanding further action to defeat Hunt’s contract imposition

5-day strike actions for Junior Doctors!

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AN ESCALATING programme of five-day strikes, every month until the end of the year, has been authorised by the BMA, as junior doctors take...
RMT members picket Transport for London demanding permanent employment

RMT Strike Action Vote

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TUBE drivers, cleaners and TFL electricians and engineers have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a series of disputes over attacks on agreements and...

BBC is urged to reinstate documentary on Palestine

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FIVE hundred professionals from the film, television, and media industries, including Gary Lineker, Ruth Negga, Juliet Stevenson, and Miriam Margolyes, have urged the BBC...
Thousands of postal workers and their families marched through Kingston in January to demand ‘Keep the Post Public’

9-1 Vote For Po Strike

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Post Office workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay, job security and the future of the Crown...

Public sector workers at breaking point!

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‘PUBLIC sector workers are at breaking point,’ the GMB union said yesterday after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that inflation has hit...

GP surgeries at breaking point

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‘GENERAL practice across England is under unprecedented pressure,’ was the BMA’s response yesterday to the news that hundreds of surgeries across the country applied...

Palestine hunger strikers PMQ protest

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OVER 50 supporters of the Filton 24 hunger strikers held in prisons across the UK demonstrated outside Parliament yesterday during Prime Minister’s Questions. ‘Free, Free...

‘People’s Convoy’ to rescue refugees! – 69,000 to march in London

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REFUGEES stood their ground yesterday in Hungary, defied the police and refused to go to a ‘refugee camp’. They said that they had purchased rail...
Thousands of Tamils poured into Parliament Square yesterday, after police broke up their overnight sit-down protest on Westminster Bridge

Police Attack Tamils

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Hundreds of Tamils demonstrated in Parliament Square yesterday after a sit-in of thousands on Westminster Bridge was broken up by riot police. The protesters alleged...

Cuts begin as Starmer launches massive hike in arms spending!

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‘STARTING today, I can announce this government will begin the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War,’ Labour...

‘No return to northern Gaza!’ as Israel attacks the West Bank!

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THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...
March around Sussex University Campus during the occupation on 25th March 2013 – they have now resumed their occupation

Birmingham Occupation Spreads To Sussex

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THE occupation by University of Birmingham students of the Aston Webb building is continuing in defiance of the High Court Injunction secured by the...

ISRAELI INVASION THREAT – Lebanese army will fight alongside Hezbollah says Defence Minister

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Lebanese Defence Minister Elias Murr yesterday pledged that the Lebanese army will stand and fight against an Israeli invasion. Murr warned: ‘The Lebanese army...
Greek workers and youth confront riot police outside the Vouli in Athens

Greek Workers Reject Austerity Government

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Workers and youth in Greece delivered an historic death blow to the present bourgeois parties and to the whole political two-party system in Sunday’s...

‘Summary Powers!’

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday unveiled his viciously anti-working class ‘Respect Action Plan’ at a press conference. Announcing his ‘ActionPlan’ Blair said: ‘Anti-Social Behaviour law imposed...
Greek ‘Delta’ riot police beating up students who were protesting at the drowning of migrants

Greek Riot Police Attack Youth

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THE ‘Delta’ mobile Greek riot police units arrested 47 protesting students last Thursday outside the private office of the Merchant Marine Minister M Varvitsiotis...

CHARGE POLICE – demand the Menezes family

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‘It could not have been more wrong what has been done to Jean,’ said a cousin of the young Brazilian man Jean Charles de...

Coalition Split Widening

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THE split in the coalition government deepened yesterday, with Deputy Prime Minister Clegg absenting himself from the House of Commons as Prime Minister Cameron...
Bovingdon residents lobbying Downing Street on March 2nd are angry that their firefighter heroes’ reward is the closure of their station

Israeli Missile Attack On Gaza

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Yesterday afternoon, Israeli military forces attacked Gaza from the land, sea and air. Aircraft launched two missile strikes against the Palestinian presidential headquarters in Gaza...

Hamas condemns Israel repeatedly targeting Palestinians at food aid centres

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THE Hamas Movement has condemned the repeated targeting of civilians at food aid distribution centres in the Gaza Strip, calling it a war crime...

Palestinian prisoners plan open-ended hunger strike for March 24th

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BY KHALED TAYEH EVER since Israeli Jewish supremacist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, became officially a part of the new Israeli far-right government, he...

CWU WILL TAKE STRIKE ACTION – if Coventry Mail Centre is shut

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COVENTRY postal workers are preparing for strike action to defend their jobs and their mail centre, a leading CWU officer said yesterday. Royal Mail is...

‘We will make Britain a defence industrial superpower’ says Reeves – NHS budget...

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‘WE WILL make Britain a defence industrial superpower,’ Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves declared in the House of Commons yesterday, as she revealed that military...

£50-£300 Fines For ‘Preventable Errors’

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The PCS union and Citizens Advice yesterday slammed government plans to claw back £60m from hundreds of thousands of benefit claimants who are expected...

‘Under Immense And Continuous Stress!’ – Doctors Tell Bma

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IN TESTIMONIES provided to the BMA, one doctor said that ‘we are under immense and continuous stress’. While another doctor said: ‘What has been...

‘We refuse to become informants’ – Doctors, nurses and teachers oppose Police Bill

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DOCTORS, nurses and teachers have warned that the Police Bill will turn them into police informants. The Bill, to be debated in the House of...
Doctors stand up to the Home Office refusing to shop confidential information to immigration officials – they refuse to be used as border control – St Mungo’s however have co-operated with immigration squads who target homeless people for deportation

Immigration squads target the homeless

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WHILE helping identify homeless people at risk of freezing to death on the streets, homeless charity St Mungo’s has admitted to co-operating with ...

RCN: ‘Not a single unoccupied bed!’

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‘ON EVERY day except Friday last week, several hospitals across England didn’t have a single unoccupied bed,’ Donna Kinnair, Director of Nursing, Policy and...
National Union of Journalists banner on the anti-Iraq war demonstration last March

COVER UP! – no action over the killing of journalist Terry Lloyd

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The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) yesterday condemned the British state’s refusal to prosecute US Marines over the ‘unlawful killing’ of ITN journalist Terry...
‘KEEP THE NHS FREE’ demonstrators greet delegates to the GP conference in York – delegates voted for that policy

GPs discuss primary care crisis

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THE crisis in primary care was the topic of an open microphone discussion at the LMC GPs conference in York yesterday morning. Speaker after...

‘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...