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Determined BA cabin crew on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday

Cabin Crew Determined To Win

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STRIKING British Airways cabin crew made it clear yesterday that they are determined to win their struggle in defence of jobs, wages and conditions,...

Braverman condemned for rabid attack on the right to asylum!

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TORY Home Secretary Braverman came under fire for her rabid attack on refugees and asylum seekers yesterday, with charity ActionAid UK calling her comments...

GM withdraws Europe loan applications

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General Motors announced yesterday that Opel/Vauxhall ‘have decided to withdraw all applications for government loan guarantees across Europe’. The GM statement said: ‘There have been...

Syriza to impose austerity – with support from the right-wing

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IN A RADIO interview yesterday morning the Greek Minister for the Interior Nikos Voutsis said there must be an agreement reached this week between...

‘Deliberate execution!’ – Palestinian teenagers shot dead

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A SENIOR Palestinian official has accused Israel of the ‘deliberate execution’ of two Palestinian teenagers shot dead by border policemen in a clash in...
A section of the TUC march on October 20th showing its determination to defend the NHS and the public sector

34 NHS TRUSTS IN DEFICIT – while NHS made £2 billion surplus

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IN A devastating report published yesterday on the NHS crisis, the Public Accounts Committee of MPs revealed that 34 NHS trusts are broke. The report...
Protesters outside parliament yesterday on behalf of Grenfell tenants who died in the inferno

Toxic Grenfell Insulation Was Banned!

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MARKING eleven months since the tragic Grenfell Tower fire disaster, which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children, the community turned...

GREEK STUDENTS VICTORY! – Bill to privatise universities withdrawn

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ON the eve of last Thursday’s student demonstrations, the Greek right-wing government withdrew plans to table in the Vouli (Greek parliament) the reactionary Education...

Greek Workers Battle Riot Police

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ATHENS public transport workers were yesterday continuing for the fourth day running their ‘rolling’ strikes. The strikes were called against the government’s plans to transfer...

May undermines Parliament!

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‘WHAT I am setting out today is a simple democratic demand, it is not taking an opinion one way or the other of what...

‘Rogue bus service’ commits ‘illegal safety breaches’ – Unite

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THE ‘ROGUE bus service’ being operated by Go North West in the Greater Manchester area is under investigation for serial Covid-19 safety failures and...

STRIKE ON! ‘WALSH LOOKING FOR A WAR’ – says Unite leader Woodley

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British Airways cabin crew are taking three-days of strike action today, tomorrow and Monday and a further four-days strike action starting on March 27th. After...
Public sector workers on the march – they are already having their wages cut and now face massive electricity and gas price rises

NPOWER HUGE PRICE RISES – gas up 12.7% – electricity up by 17.2%

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Britain’s fourth largest supplier of gas and electricity, Npower, yesterday announced huge new energy price hikes for its four million domestic customers. The average increases...

Widespread Russian-Israeli cooperation revealed

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‘WE BELIEVE that the blame for the Russian Il-20 aircraft tragedy lies entirely with the Israeli Air Force,’ Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Major General...

RCN delegates strongly back Cullen’s YES vote call

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DELEGATES at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Annual Congress at the Brighton Conference Centre cheered and gave General Secretary Pat Cullen a standing...

RCN raises the alarm!

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THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is today (Thursday 30 December) raising the alarm over morale, sickness absence and the prospect of rising vacancies...

Eastern Ukraine refuses to vote!

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THERE were big demonstrations in Donetsk and other eastern Ukrainian cities yesterday in opposition to the presidential election that was called by the unelected...

Corbyn Calls For Pm May’s Resignation!

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LABOUR Party leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday called on Prime Minister Theresa May to resign for presiding over police cuts while Home Secretary. When asked if...

Johnson Leaves May Off Hook!

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FORMER Tory Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told MPs in his resignation speech: ‘It is not too late to save Brexit. We have time in...
The ‘Keep Ealing Hospital Open’ picket insists that only the WRP’s Arj Thiara will keep Ealing Hospital open

Vote Wrp – Vote Arj In Ealing

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THE VOTE Arj Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall campaign team got great support from Ealing Hospital, Greenford Bus Garage and Southall Mosques,...

Thousands of Nurses protest across USA! – against staff shortages in hospitals

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AMID a steep surge in Covid-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant, thousands of nurses on Thursday staged nationwide protests against staff shortage in...
Outside the Vouli on Thursday evening – young workers stand their ground against the riot police

40,000 Workers Defy Greek ‘police Terror’

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OVER 40,000 workers and youth congregated in the central Athens square outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) on Thursday night despite the riot police terrorist...
Tamil students are continuing their hunger strike to demand an end to the genocide in Sri Lanka

Tamils Continue ‘Death Fast’

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British Tamil Students Suratharsan Sarakumaraval aged 21 and Praranesuraran Subramanian aged 28, lie in a weakened state outside the Houses of Parliament vowing ‘Hunger...

TORY CRISIS DEEPENS AS SUNAK SET TO BORROW £598bn MORE

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CHANCELLOR Sunak began his Budget speech by drawing attention to the £280 billion already spent on Covid-19 rescue measures saying, ‘I said I would...

CROW CALLS FOR GENERAL STRIKE! – no mandate for coalition cuts!

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THE RMT’s Bob Crow yesterday called for ‘general coordinated strike action allied to community direct action’ to resist the ConDem coalition government’s...

Newham ambulance staff fighting to win!

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Ambulance staff demonstrated outside Newham Hospital in East London yesterday against the imposition of grossly inferior un-negotiated new contracts, and demanding that they be...

Eurozone Collapsing!

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Tory prime minister Cameron’s decision to veto an EU-wide treaty change over eurozone financial rules was ‘largely political’, Business Secretary Vince Cable said yesterday. He...

Tory ‘hit list’ for air strikes on Syria

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THE Tory government yesterday conceded that a ‘hit list’ of names of several ‘British jihadis’ were drawn up at the meeting of senior national...

FORD PLANNING CLOSURES – in Belgium, Germany and the UK

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FORD is planning to close its plant in Southampton which makes the Transit van and employs 500 workers. A meeting between Ford’s management and unions...

Palestine and Lebanon erupt as Bahrain conference opens ‘US conference is to plan Gaza/West...

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THE FUTURE of Palestine cannot be drawn up by the White House, Jared Kushner or anyone else, Palestinian presidential spokesman Abu Rudeineh insisted in...
‘One hundred per cent solid’ said pickets at the Princess Royal Distribution Centre in Willesden yesterday morning

GLASGOW WALKS OUT! – unofficial CWU strike action spreads to Edinburgh and Liverpool

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Around 5,400 postal workers walked out in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool yesterday in the face of management provocations. Glasgow Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) officials yesterday...
IBC banner on the Birmingham march to ‘Defend Jobs’ on May 16th – the Unite leaders are refusing  to take any action to defend their members jobs

MAGNA – NO COMMITMENT TO VAUXHALL WORKERS – Mandelson talks are a failure

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Business Secretary Mandelson yesterday admitted that he was unable to get any commitment from GM Europe’s preferred bidder Magna on saving jobs at the...
Whipps Cross Hospital strikers on the picket line last Wednesday determined to win their pay dispute

Whipps Cross – More Action Planned

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ON THE final day of their three-day strike, the Whipps Cross hospital workers were confident of beating the employer and getting the money they...

FLYBE BUST! Tories to blame – BALPA

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‘FLYBE staff feel disgusted at this betrayal and these broken promises,’ pilots union BALPA General Secretary Brian Strutton said yesterday as the news broke...
London FBU Strike Actions!

London FBU Strike Actions!

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London firefighters have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over changes to shift patterns, and have decided to begin their campaign with...
Junior doctors last month said gender inequalities that the contract imposes are as bad as the days of the Suffragettes

Hunt agrees to talks!–as junior doctors call to scrap new contract

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HEALTH Secretary Jeremy Hunt took a step back yesterday and said he is willing to pause the imposition of the junior doctors’ contract in...

‘Grenfell Tower was a death trap before any firefighter arrived!’ – says Matt Wrack...

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MATT WRACK, the FBU general secretary, said yesterday in response to the Grenfell Tower inquiry phase one report: ‘The Inquiry’s interim report must finally...

‘WE’VE SEEN OFF THE COMPROMISE AGREEMENT’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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‘THE Compromise Agreement is dead. We have seen it off’ said Nirmal Purewal TGWU shop steward and locked out Gate Gourmet worker. ‘This dispute...
Cleaners organised by the Transport and General Workers Union staged their first-ever strike at parl

PNA police attack Hamas

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‘The Palestinian Authority should seek to protect the Palestinian people, not the Israeli settlements,’ Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said yesterday, as gunbattles continued...
A section of the march of PCS strikers and supporters as they headed from the National Gallery’s Sainsbury wing yesterday

NO PRIVATISATION! – demand National Gallery strikers

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‘NO privatisation!’ chanted over 70 PCS strikers and their supporters yesterday as they marched off from a rally outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar...

HEALTHCARE WORKERS RISKING LIVES! – without ‘death in service’ benefits guaranteed says BMA

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THE BMA (British Medical Association) said yesterday that ‘frustration grows’ over the government’s failure to guarantee that the families of healthcare workers who lose...

Hague Sued Over US Drone Attacks

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Foreign Secretary Hague is being sued over the alleged UK policy of handing over GCHQ-sourced intelligence to the CIA to aid US drone...
Pickets at the East London Mail Centre on July 28 – they were all in favour of national strike action

CWU National strike ballot –as 25,000 postal workers strike

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Tens of thousands of postal workers will go on strike today, tomorrow and Monday as growing unrest has led to the Communication Workers...