‘Horrific intentionally repeated crime’

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GAZA’s Government Media Office yesterday accused Israel of ‘a horrific, intentionally repeated crime’, having lured starving Palestinians to aid centres run by the Gaza...

THREE MILLION FEAR FOR JOBS – TUC must act, says ATUA

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‘The TUC leaders must act to defend jobs or make way for those who will,’ Dave Wiltshire, national secretary of the All Trades Union...

Rise Up! No To US Missiles In The UK

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‘The trade union and Labour movement must rise up and oppose Blair’s proposal to ensure Britain becomes the aircraft carrier for Bush’s nuclear ambitions,’...
Yesterday’s picket at Chase Farm Hospital making the point that Enfield residents are ready to occupy their hospital to keep it open

Stop Chase Farm Closing!

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HOSPITAL workers, patients, and local residents in Enfield, said yesterday they would join the march through Enfield on December 4th to stop the closure...
Young female Tamil Tigers have played a big role in defending the Tamil people against the Sri Lankan army

Tigers Condemn Sri Lankan Genocide

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The Tamil Tigers yesterday vowed to drive back an advance by government troops in the east of Sri Lanka and accused the Sri...

Aziz Defends Saddam

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IRAQ’s former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz took the witness stand Wednesday to defend Saddam Hussein and his associates from charges that they massacred...

DETROIT GOES BUST – Democracy suspended! says US union leader Saunders

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US federal and local government workers union AFSCME President Lee Saunders has slammed Michigan Governor Snyder for ‘suspending democracy’ in Detroit and filing for...
Very determined road haulage workers gathering at Marble Arch before proceeding to Downing Street to hand in a letter

BLOCKADES IN A WEEK! – road hauliers give Brown 7 days notice

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ANGRY road hauliers yesterday spelled out exactly what they will do when the government tries to ignore their huge protest convoys against soaring fuel...

Legal bid to halt Aslef strike

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SOUTHERN rail owner Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) yesterday launched a legal bid to stop ASLEF’s strike action. GTR issued proceedings at the High Court to...
Tens of thousands marched on September 12th to welcome refugees into Britain and demand that Britain must not bomb Syria

Powers Bill to be rushed in! –as Labour shifts ground over Syria attack

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THE British state yesterday stepped up security measures in the wake of Friday night’s terror attacks in Paris. Cameron held a Cobra emergency committee meeting...

Abusive MI5 agent’s identity cannot be revealed says judge

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THE BBC is to be prevented from naming a man it says exploited his status as an MI5 agent to abuse a partner and...

LONDON FACES STANDSTILL! – as thousands of Metroline busworkers vote to strike

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LONDON is set to be brought to a standstill after thousands of bus workers employed by the privateer Metroline have voted overwhelmingly for strike...
Protesters outside the special adminstrator’s press conference yesterday

Mass sackings & A&E closures – proposed in South East London NHS

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PROPOSALS for mass sackings and closures of local A&E and Maternity units were yesterday revealed at a press conference called by the government-appointed administrator...

50 GP surgeries in north of Ireland face closure! – Tories step up war...

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FIFTY GP surgeries in the north of Ireland are threatened with closure, the British Medical Association (BMA) warned yesterday. Sixteen surgeries have handed contracts back...

Saudis systematically targetting Yemen’s water infrastructure

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WHILE a United Nations panel has found that the daily Saudi-led air raids on Yemen have caused more than 18,000 civilian casualties since 2015,...

‘We’re fighting a land grab of our conditions’ says Mick Whelan

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‘THE people behind me haven’t had a pay rise for half a decade,’ ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan said yesterday, speaking on the picket...
Crawley residents and hospital staff demonstrate to save the vital shuttle service between Crawley and Redhill hospitals

‘SAVE OUR SHUTTLE’ say Crawley residents

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ANGRY residents, health campaigners and NHS trade unionists demonstrated outside Crawley hospital yesterday, next to the shuttle bus that takes patients and workers to...

Teachers battling ‘fire and rehire’ tactic to slash their pensions!

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THE NEU National Education Union’s 2021 Annual Conference yesterday debated calls from members working in the independent sector for a national campaign to protect...
Junior doctors were out on strike time and time again, rightly insisting that the new contract imposed on them by Tory health secretary Hunt was making them work so many hours that they were extremely tired – a danger to patients and themselves

Doctors at risk from fatigue!

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LACK of sleep resulting from long hours and excessive workloads is jeopardising patient safety and doctors’ health, the BMA has warned, while reports...

Greenspan Lashes Bush

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Alan Greenspan, the former head of the US Federal Reserve has released his memoirs, ‘The Age of Turbulence’, just as the economy goes into...

Murder in Syria was for ‘self-defence of Iraq’–claims ambassador

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FOLLOWING the uproar questioning the legality of the UK drone assassination of a British citizen in Syria, a letter to the UN casts doubt...
Teaching unions on the march. Teachers do a very large amount of unpaid overtime, they are very angry and there are  discussions taking place to form one very powerful teachers union

5.4m workers doing unpaid overtime says TUC

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EMPLOYEES across the UK worked a record amount of unpaid overtime last year, with over 5.4 million workers putting in around £640m worth of...

‘Don’t fear Red Top Assassins’ – Labour MP Watson tells house of Commons

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the House of Commons Standards and Privileges committee will investigate phone hacking by newspapers. This follows fresh allegations against the ‘News of the World’ and...
PCS strikers and their supporters on the picket line at the National Gallery on the first day of their indefinlte strike against privatisation

National Gallery indefinite strike

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NATIONAL Gallery workers were out in force on the first day of their indefinite strike against privatisation and victimisation yesterday. On the picket line outside...

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...

ISRAEL SET TO THUMB NOSE AT OBAMA – over settlements

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Netanyahu was yesterday set not to extend the moratorium on settlement building in the West Bank, thumbing his nose at both...

Black Schoolgirl Was Strip-Searched By Met Police

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A BLACK schoolgirl was strip-searched by police after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis. The ‘traumatic’ search by Metropolitan Police officers took place without another...
RMT pickets at Victoria Station emphasising what the Southern rail strike is all about

Grayling wants to bust unions – RMT condemns Tory witch-hunt

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‘THIS is an industrial dispute about safety, we are not trying to bring the government down,’ RMT general secretary Mick Cash insisted yesterday. He was...
RMT delegation with Gate Gourmet pickets yesterday morning. All agreed that the TUC should take action to win the dispute

Extra Troops Sent To New Orleans

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THE New Orleans river front was hit by a massive blast yesterday morning, with fires raging in the area. The blast at a chemical plant...
Syrian President Assad breaks his fast during Ramadan with Syrian troops

Trump-Putin To Discuss Crisis In Syria

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin have met for the first time, shaking hands at the start of a G20 summit in...

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...
Local government workers – their banner reads ‘Overthrow the government and the Troika, No to a movement of compromise and submission’

RISE UP! – shout Greek workers!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, youth, self-employed and small shopkeepers took part last Wednesday in the mass and militant demonstrations throughout Greece as part...

Go Forward To The State Of Palestine!

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THE UN Security Council committee has not reached a consensus on Palestine’s latest application for full United Nations membership, despite substantial support. Meeting in New...

Amazon ‘work till you drop!’

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AMAZON workers have their toilets breaks timed, are paid as little as 7p per item they pack and are working as much as 55...

Cladding Lobby

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TENANTS came from all over the country to lobby Parliament yesterday demanding that the tower blocks they live in are immediately stripped of flammable...
One of the big demonstrations in London during the 14 days of strikes – the employers have now made an offer

UCU – New Pensions Offer

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UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) branch representatives will meet at 11am on Wednesday 28 March to discuss members’ feedback on a new pensions offer...

CORUS INDUSTRIAL ACTION POSSIBLE say steel union leaders

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‘WE don’t rule out industrial action,’ Michael J Leahy, General Secretary of Community, the steelworkers’ union said yesterday. This was after the Tata...

John Breen 1938-2010

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We are very sad to announce the sudden death of John Breen on Monday 15 February. He was a lifelong member of what became, SOGAT,...

‘INDUSTRIAL SCALE ILLEGAL ACTIVITY’ by Murdoch press – says Charlotte Church

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MURDOCH'S News Group Newspapers (NGN) ‘are not truly sorry, only sorry they got caught,’ Charlotte Church insisted in a devastating statement outside the High...
Wembley anti-academy campaigners at the Easter NUT annual conference where they were given full backing by the union

Academies Out!

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‘Academies are about Blair’s obsession with privatisation’, said NUT president Baljeet Ghale yesterday during a visit to the anti-academy occupation at the sports ground...

Strip Capita!

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A DEVASTATING ‘blunder’ that saw 160,000 patient records wrongly archived is the latest unacceptable failing from Capita, doctors union BMA (British Medical Association) said...

Legal Action Against French Police State Violence

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THE family of a 73-year-old French woman injured in a police charge at a protest are taking legal action. Geneviève Legay fell and hit her...

PAY UP NOW! – demand striking healthcare assistants

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HEALTHCARE assistants whose jobs were wrongly graded are at ‘breaking point’, as managers at Epsom Hospital, St George’s in Tooting and St Helier refuse...
Palestinians demonstrate in Jerusalem against President Trump’s decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

Three Killed And Hundreds Injured In Palestine

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AT least two Palestinians have been killed and almost 300 others have sustained injuries when clashes broke out between Palestinians demonstrating in protest against...

‘We’Re Not Signing Compromise Agreement’

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‘WE are not signing the Compromise Agreement. It’s one big con. It’s daylight robbery. There’s no other word for it.’ ‘I sent in my application...