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...
Students on the NUS and UCU joint demonstration last November – they oppose the Tory move to charge different fees at each and every university dependent on the ‘quality of education’

Parents remortgage to pay uni fees

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PARENTS are being forced to remortgage their homes in order to pay for their sons’ and daughters’ tuition fees. ‘My Home Move’ analysed figures which...

‘Free Sudanese journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ – NUJ

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‘SUDANESE generals must free journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland demanded yesterday joining calls from...

End Middle East wars says Corbyn!

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‘THE WAR on terror isn’t working,’ Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, said in his first speech since the Manchester terror attack. The speech...

Take to the streets to defend Gaza! urges Hamas

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‘TAKE to the streets in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Jerusalem, and in defence of Aqsa Mosque this Friday, Saturday and Sunday,’...

SHELL TANKER DRIVERS OUT – from 6am Friday June 13th

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SIX HUNDRED Shell tanker drivers are to take four-day strike action from 6am on Friday, fighting for a £2,000 pay rise and a minimum...

NHS Hit List!

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday slammed the government for ‘treating health care like a business opportunity’. It was responding to news that the government...

Rcn Warns Tories

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TORY changes to immigration rules, will mean thousands of NHS nurses being driven out of the UK ‘causing chaos’, the RCN nurses’ union...
Student nurses and midwives marching to demand their bursaries are restored – on A-level results day figures reveal student applications for nursing have plummeted

Students driven out of university

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AXING student grants while hiking up university fees to an eyewatering £9,500 a year has driven tens of thousands of students out of education,...

Starmer Calls For A Ban On Russia Today

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‘WE MUST do more to defeat Putin’s campaign of lies and disinformation,’ Labour leader Keir Starmer told the House of Commons yesterday at PMQs. ‘Russia...

21 firefighters leave UK to help fight Greek wildfires

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TWENTY-ONE firefighters from the UK left yesterday evening for Greece to assist firefighters out there, in an international effort to tackle the raging wildfires. Tony...
Ambulance workers on the picket line outside Deptford Ambulance Station during Monday’s nationwide NHS strike to demand a decent pay rise

PUBLIC SECTOR ERUPTS! – TUC call a General Strike now!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of public sector workers from across the UK, joining the TUC demonstration through central London today, are furious that while rent,...

MAY GOES TO GROUND! – Johnson & Gove are battling for her job

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PM MAY was holed up in crisis talks with senior Tories including Boris Johnson and Michael Gove at Chequers yesterday, with rumours that a...

Coulson Leave To Appeal

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PRIME minister Cameron’s former press secretary Andy Coulson yesterday won a ruling that he can appeal against News International’s refusal to pay his legal...

‘A bonanza for unscrupulous landlords’ – MPs indict the Immigration Bill

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MPs have blasted the Tory coalition government’s proposal to force landlords to do immigration checks on their tenants, warning that it will lead to...

9-1 for strike action on Heathrow Express

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RMT members have voted by huge majorities across the Heathrow Express for strike action in response to a package of multi-million pound cuts which...

Lecturers attacked on eve of their strike

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‘TREATING staff with such contempt only hardens their resolve,’ University and College Union (UCU) general secretary Sally Hunt said in response to a new...

UN condemns Tories

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THE United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has condemned the Tory government for illegally ‘extinguishing the right to seek refugee protection in the UK’. The UNHC...
An abductee of Jaish al-Islam terrorist group, freed by the Syrian army in Douma, is reunited with his family

DIRE CONSEQUENCES! – Moscow warns against Syria intervention

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‘ANY military interference in Syria conducted under far-fetched or fabricated pretexts’ would be ‘absolutely unacceptable’ and could lead to ‘dire consequences,’ warned Russia yesterday....

University fees & loan hikes rushed through!

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LEGISLATION has been raced through Parliament before it breaks up for the general election which allows universities to raise tuition fees every year until...

Tory war on teachers and their unions

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THE TORY government issued details about how it intends to use its Minimum Service Levels (MSL) anti-strike laws to wage war against education workers...

RAGE OF WORKERS AND YOUTH THREAT TO GREEK GOVERNMENT – thousands defy police teargas...

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THE RAGE of youth and workers in Greece over last Tuesday’s horrific rail crash is now threatening to overthrow the right-wing government of Prime...
Greek youth march against austerity and police state measures such as the pogrom on migrant workers and their families

7,500 migrants rounded up in Athens

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SINCE last Saturday the Athens-wide pogrom against immigrant workers, codenamed Xenios Zeus and carried out by thousands of armed police, has rounded up over...

‘The Tories leave us no choice but to strike!’ – junior doctors action begins

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A FIFTH round of strike action by junior doctors in England begins this morning, from 7am today until 7am on Tuesday 15 August. There will...

Ring before going to A&E! Dangerous triage system launched in Wales tomorrow! –...

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A DANGEROUS phone triage scheme for A&E at Wales’ largest hospital is to be launched tomorrow in which patients are expected to ring before...

Pm May Refuses To Debate!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn said in the House of Commons yesterday that workers ‘cannot trust’ PM May. He spoke before the vote...

Mass Marylebone RMT protest

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THERE were 200 drivers, guards and engineers in RMT and Aslef outside Marylebone Station in London from 9am-10.30am yesterday morning protesting against Chiltern Railways’...

ASLEF calls July 8 Tube strike

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ASLEF has announced a July 8 strike on London Underground after members voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over pay and...
A section of the 200-strong Libyan lobby of the Lancaster House conference in London yesterday

Hands Off Libyan Oil!

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Libyan government forces stopped the pro-imperialist assault on Muammar Gadaffi’s home town of Sirte and drove back the counter-revolutionary forces yesterday. A Pentagon spokesman in...

Tories Setting NHS Up For Worst ‘Winter Crisis’ Ever

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THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has warned that the Tory government is setting the NHS up for the its worst ‘winter crisis’ ever. Last Friday,...

PRESCRIPTION CHARGES UP BY 25p

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An increase in NHS prescription charges in England of 25p, putting them up to £7.65, came into effect yesterday, despite objections from the British...

Palestine PM Shtayyeh calls to establish state and impose sanctions on Israel

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that the international consensus on establishing the State of Palestine must be translated into practical steps that...

Unions Reject More ‘Reforms’

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Health and education unions yesterday responded angrily to Prime Minister Blair’s policy review that signals a stepping up of Blair and Brown’s privatisation drive...

Halt NHS privatisation! – no consent from the people

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LABOUR’S shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has called for NHS privatisation to be halted until after the 2015 general election. Speaking yesterday Burnham said ‘privatisation...
Supporters of the Carnegie Library in Lambeth gather outside on Saturday night in support of the round-the-clock occupation inside the building

Carnegie Library in Herne Hill is occupied

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CARNEGIE Library in Herne Hill, south London, is occupied. Over 30 people, including campaigners, supporters and local people have been in occupation since Lambeth...
Rally next to St Paul’s Cathedral yesterday by crowds of people camping there and supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement

‘We’re here to stay’ say London occupiers

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Over 600 people were yesterday massed at the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral, holding a popular assembly after hundreds had camped out overnight following...

NATIONALISE! – to save jobs says ATUA national secretary

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‘Industries must be nationalised under workers control and with no compensation to the failed former owners,’ said All Trades Unions Alliance national secretary Dave...

NO MORE WAITING – demand Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet pickets said yesterday they were fed up with waiting. They poured scorn on a Transport and General Workers Union plea to British Airways...
Royal College of Midwives president Lesley Page with midwifery students on vintage cycles yesterday demanding 5,000 more midwives

5,000 More Midwives Needed

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midwifery students on vintage bikes converged on College Green opposite Parliament yesterday afternoon, to highlight the Royal College of Midwives’ e-petition for 5,000 more...

Austerity forever! – Osborne

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TORY Chancellor Osborne yesterday delivered a Budget that continues the savage austerity war on the working class, while handing billions to big business and...
Greek workers remain absolutely defiant while the Syriza leadership is desperate to achieve a non-existent compromise with the EU

Tsipras Pleads With Eu Bankers

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THE Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoke at the European Parliament on Wednesday morning stating that he was seeking an ‘honourable compromise’ with the...
Leeds heart unit campaigners are determined that their children’s heart unit should remain open

‘WHITEWASH!’ –Leeds heart surgery report is condemned

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‘WHITEWASH!’, said the furious parents of extremely sick children yesterday, as they branded a long overdue report into the decision to suspend children’s...

Cwu-Royal Mail Partnership Challenged

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CWU representatives yesterday concluded a two day briefing in Bournemouth on the Business Transformation 2010 agreement reached between the CWU executive and Royal Mail. On...
Part of the 20,000-strong audience at the ExCeL Centre in Docklands yesterday afternoon celebrating Tamil Heroes Day

‘WE SEEK A PEACEFUL SOLUTION’ – Piraparahan tells the world

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THE Tamil Tigers leader V Piraparahan yesterday addressed the Tamil people and the world on the occasion of ‘Great Heroes Day’. He said it was...

Strike against 30% cuts

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‘WE HAVE to take strike action where and when we can and as much as we can,’ Sharon Hutchinson, northwest regional organiser and equalities...