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Striking British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday morning

BA Cabin Crew Fighting Poverty Pay!

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‘WILLIE, Willie, Willie – Out, Out Out!’ rang out on picket lines around Heathrow Airport in West London yesterday morning, as thousands of British...

CONSULTANTS TO STRIKE ON 2, 3, & 4th OCTOBER!

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CONSULTANTS in England ended two days of strike action at 7am today. In the absence of any progress in discussions with the government, they will...
North Kensington resident holds up charred insulation from the Grenfell Tower inferno – cladding used on the tower has been revealed to be more flammable than petrol

Grenfell cladding ‘more flammable than petrol!’

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THE REFURBISHMENT of Grenfell Tower ‘rendered it a death trap’ through the installation of cladding ‘more flammable than petrol,’ Stephanie Barwise QC told the...
North East Lodon Council of Action pickets of Chase Farm Hospital said everyone was opposed to the closure

Chase Farm Picket Wins Big Support

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‘WE ARE having a successful picket again today,’ North-East London Council of Action secretary, Bill Rogers, told News Line outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. ‘Everyone...

SACK ALL THE OLD LEADERS – demand Sri Lankan workers and youth

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SECURITY around Sri Lanka’s parliament building in the capital, Colombo, has increased, with armed and masked soldiers guarding the building and roads nearby closed...
Milton Keynes Mail Centre workers march to defend jobs. Royal Mail is threatened with privatisation

NATIONAL ACTION NEEDED! – to fight Royal Mail privatisation

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Postal workers yesterday expressed their anger at the government’s determination to part-privatise Royal Mail. ‘If Mandelson is determined to push this through, our only option...

Truss Condemns Militant Trade Unions & Nationalisation!

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PRIME MINISTER Truss declared war on ‘militant trade unions and nationalised industries’ in her speech at the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham yesterday morning. Her...
Busworkers on the picket line yesterday at greenford garage – determined to fight for the same pay for all busworkers

‘SORT OUT OUR WAGES!’ – demand London busworkers

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Over 6,000 bus drivers were out on a 24 hour strike yesterday to protest at the huge pay disparity between the eighteen London bus...
Northamptonshire postal workers demonstrating outside the surgery of Corby MP Phil Hope, after Hope reneged on a commitment to oppose the part-privatisation of the Royal Mail

Mandelson Threat To Jobs & Pensions!

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Postal workers yesterday reacted angrily to Business Secretary Lord Mandelson’s threat to their jobs and pensions if they did not give up their...

RMT Strike Action!

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TUBE UNION RMT went ahead with strike action by tube drivers on Friday night. The action is over the ripping up of existing agreements and...

Barking tower block inferno – wooden cladding spreads fire

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THIS FRIDAY marks two years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire, and local residents and firefighters are furious that no lessons have been learned...
Bodies of some of the large numbers of Palestinians slain in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in 1982 in Lebanon by Phalangists who were allowed into the camp by Israeli soldiers, the same year as an Israeli submarine sank a Lebanese refugee ship

Israel Admits Sinking Lebanese Refugee Ship

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ISRAEL has officially admitted that its military ordered a deadly attack on a Lebanese ship carrying refugees during the regime’s invasion of the country...

‘US is warmongering’ – President Maduro

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VENEZUELA President Nicolás Maduro called Donald Trump’s government a ‘gang of extremists’ and blamed the US for his country’s crisis in an interview with...

General strike sparked by demolitions in Palestine!

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A General strike was held in Rahat City in southern Israel yesterday, against Israel’s rampant demolitions of Palestinian homes in Israel. Israeli bulldozers demolished two...
Travel Safe workers are determined to win decent working conditions and defeat the lockout

Travel Safe Workers Locked Out!

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LOCKED-OUT Travel Safe workers demonstrated yesterday morning outside the headquarters of London Overground Rail Operations Ltd (just outside Swiss Cottage tube station) against...

Coulson detained and Cable reveals ‘threats’

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Prime Minister Cameron’s former director of communications Andy Coulson was detained by police investigating allegations of perjury yesterday. Coulson was detained at his home...

Boris Johnson & UK Are ‘Delusional’–Syria

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SYRIA says the UK is ‘detached from reality and delusional’ after the British Foreign Minister backed a proposal by President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents calling...

Afghan war a ‘lost cause’ – Glenton hands back his medal

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Most UK troops ‘thought it was a lost cause ten years ago’, ex-soldier Joe Glenton told a Westminster press conference yesterday before handing back...

‘Close Down Child Jails!’

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THE Howard League for Penal Reform yesterday responded to a written statement by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Michael Gove,...

UK’s crisis has only just begun Sunak tells parliament!

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CHANCELLOR SUNAK lifted a little of the lid off of the crisis of British capitalism yesterday when he told the House of Commons, in...

Israel steps up assaults and demolitions in both Gaza and the West Bank

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ISRAELI occupation forces have escalated assaults, demolitions, and settler-backed attacks across the occupied West Bank, causing widespread Palestinian casualties, mass arrests, and the destruction...
Striking UNISON and Unite members demonstrating in the centre of London yesterday

PAY CUTS – NOW WAY! say council strikers

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‘CUT our pay – no way!’, ‘Two per cent is rubbish, so is Gordon Brown!’ and ‘Come on, come on Gordon Brown – raise...
Thursday’s march in Athens. School and university students banner reads, ‘Cash to the banks – Bullets to the youth. This is the time for our days, fight for freedom and justice’

Greek Students Clash With Police

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THOUSANDS of Greek school and university students staged protest marches in Athens and 20 cities throughout the country last Thursday on the 10th anniversary...

Hunt’s budget – a war on jobs and services! budget today!

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THE LOCAL Government Association condemned Chancellor Hunt’s attempt to dress up his budget onslaught on public services as a ‘war on woke’ yesterday, pointing...

BLAIR MUST ANSWER FOR WAR LIES say Military families against war

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Rose Gentle, Susan Smith, Peter Brierley and Karla Hewett, whose sons and brother died in the Iraq war, set up a 24-hour Peace Camp...
North east London Council of Action demonstration in Enfield last June against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital and all cuts to the NHS budget

NHS BUDGET CUTS PLAN – condemned by UNISON trade union

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Public sector union Unison yesterday condemned government plans to incorporate donations from charities into NHS budgets. It is estimated the move will deprive cash-strapped NHS...
Campaigners fighting to stop the closure of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals at a lobby of the council last Wednesday

Halt NHS Privatisation By Stealth!

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THE Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has written to health minister Lord Howe expressing grave concern that the government is planning to privatise large...
RMT members on the second day of their strike action on the Wood Group Shell. Photo Credit: RMT

5 days of Govia strike action

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FIVE further days of strike action have been confirmed by train union RMT over the removal of all guards from Govia Thameslink trains. Driver...
Last September thousands marched in Ealing against their hospital closing – meanwhile the Treasury was pocketing very large amounts NHS cash

Treasury ‘stole’ £3bn from NHS – while hospitals close and services are slashed

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday angrily condemned the news that the Treasury has clawed back nearly...
Lecturers, staff and students marching out of the University of Manchester – they are out on strike Monday and Tuesday

Manchester University strike – 140 sackings

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MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) will walk out on strike on Monday and Tuesday against moves by the university to sack...

BRING OUT THE AIRPORT – urge Gate Gourmet workers

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‘We are calling for the whole airport to come out, not just to support us but to defend themselves,’ Jaswinder Phal told News Line...

ANNEXATION! – Israeli plan to carve up Palestine

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‘WE ARE already at the height of the process of mapping the area that, according to the Trump plan, will become part of the...

Bma Will Discuss Strike Action!

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The British Medical Association will put ‘absolutely everything’ on the table including strike action when members determine their response to the government’s...

ASLEF Strike Action Today

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TRAIN drivers belonging to ASLEF – the train drivers’ trade union which represents 96% of the train drivers in England, Scotland, and Wales –...

Over two million Palestinians face relentless bombardment

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THE humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza continues to escalate, with over two million Palestinians – half of whom are children – facing relentless bombardment by...
Disability Cuts Kill! was the message as a number of disabled workers lobbied the House of Commons yesterday. They condemned all the cuts in social care

Social Care In Crisis!

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DRAMATIC cuts to district nursing have left older people without care at home and turning to A&E, an independent report has found. Research by Christie...

2,500 march in Berne to support Gate Gourmet workers

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OVER 2,500 people marched in support of the locked out Gate Gourmet workers last Saturday in the Swiss capital of Berne. The march was...
EBZ factory workers demonstrating against closure and for payment of their wages on Monday in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. Photo credit: left.gr.

Greek Workers & Small Farmers Occupy!

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WORKERS and small farmers are in occupation for over a week now of the large state owned EBZ sugar-beets factory in Thessaloniki, northern Greece,...
While thousands of Palestinians have been injured on the Gaza border, Israeli air strikes have destroyed the Said al-Mishal Cultural Centre in Gaza

Destruction of Gaza Cultural Centre condemned by leading playwrights!

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IN A LETTER to the British press, fourteen leading UK playwrights and theatre directors, have condemned the destruction of the Said al-Mishal Cultural Centre...

Sweeping police powers extended for 6 months! – Labour votes with Tories to renew...

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THE CORONAVIRUS Act was put to Parliament for renewal yesterday, extending the sweeping police powers contained in it for a further six months until...

Call Off The Talks!

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‘Our union executive should immediately call off the talks with Royal Mail until the threats of redundancy, total flexibility, and attacks on our pension...

Stop The Bosses Plan To Smash Trade Unions – Recall The TUC To...

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PM Sunak yesterday accused RMT leader Mick Lynch of causing ‘misery for millions’ with the ‘cruelly timed’ pay rise walk-outs by rail workers. He...

LLOYDS HBOS MASS SACKINGS – as banks go for £17bn more bailout cash

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The Unite trade union yesterday urged Lloyds TSB and HBOS ‘to start thinking about the human consequences of this takeover’. It was responding to...
A police officer threatened to arrest the small picket outside the Middle East Energy Conference in London yesterday morning. The demonstrators were urging those coming into the conference to keep their hands off Iraq’s oil and that it must not be privati

Hands Off Iraq’s Oil!

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‘Hands Off Iraqi Oil’, read the banner of protest outside the Middle East Energy Conference in London yesterday. At the conference was Iraqi puppet Oil...

11bn euro loan to Ukraine – will mean savage cuts

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THE European Commission has offered Ukraine 11 billion euros, falling well short of the $35 billion needed to service immediate debt repayments and avoid...