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Tuc Joint Statement With Cbi And Eu Bosses!

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AHEAD of this week’s European Council meeting, the Directors General of Business Europe and the CBI, Markus Beyrer and Carolyn Fairbairn, and the General...
STEPHEN POUND MP (centre) speaking at yesterday’s fourth anniversary rally, with sacked Gate Gourmet workers also on the platform

‘we Want Leaders Who Fight For The Workers’

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‘OUR trade union leaders did nothing for us,’ sacked Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told a 200-strong fourth anniversary rally for the sacked workers...

Students planning action!

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STUDENTS across the country are planning marches, student strikes and occupations to support Tuesday’s nationwide lecturers strike over pay. At Sussex University in Falmouth near...

‘Open the borders – allow the refugees in!’ says Frank Sweeney

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A DESPERATE migrant threw himself, his wife and his child on to the train track in Hungary yesterday screaming that he would rather die...

Trump Supporter Shot Dead In Portland

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A MAN was shot dead in Portland, Oregon as a large demonstration of supporters of President Trump clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters. The city...

‘Devastating’ Oldham Redundancy Notices

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EIGHT hundred redundancy notices have been issued at Oldham Borough Council. Officials of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council have confirmed to the GMB that the council...

Mass austerity protests called in France for September 10th

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PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron gave his support to Prime Minister François Bayrou at a cabinet meeting yesterday, as France is bracing for fresh political turmoil...

Hamas fighters in fierce battles with Israeli army in Jabalia!

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The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported yesterday that it has treated numerous Palestinians, including children, injured in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, even...

A DATABASE FOR ALL – Blair plans ultra modern police state

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday urged support for ID cards, and a national database on everyone, for ‘less than £30’ above the cost of new...

Gm Launches Crisis Plan

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TEN THOUSAND Opel and Vauxhall sackings were announced by General Motors Europe Chief Executive David N (Nick) Reilly and Executive Director Reinald Hoben, yesterday. They...

UN condemns school slaughter!

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ISRAEL killed at least 19 Palestinians sheltering in a school in Gaza’s biggest refugee camp early on Wednesday morning, despite repeated warnings that thousands...

‘Last Ditch Talks’ Over NHS Pay

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Health unions yesterday warned the government that if it fails to improve on its pay-cutting offer they will proceed with strike ballots. UNISON said: ‘New...

EMERGENCY SPECIALISTS NOT POLYCLINICS – urges College of Emergency Medicine

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THE College of Emergency Medicine yesterday urged the government to invest in more emergency medicine specialists rather than polyclinics. Dr John Heyworth, incoming President of...
Postal workers lobbying the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday demanding no privatisation of Royal Mail

STOP THE CUTS! – Postal workers tell Labour Party Conference

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over 200 postal workers lobbied the heavily-fortified Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday, to demand the Labour government keeps the Royal Mail public and...

Unite Pleads With Tories To Extend Job Retention Scheme!

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UNITE and over 100 MPs have joined forces to plead with Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the job retention scheme (JRS) for the aviation...

BRING ARMY INTO SCHOOLS! – urges Chief of Defence Staff Guthrie

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Chief of Defence Staff Lord Guthrie yesterday gave his backing to a call from right wing think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, for ex-servicemen...

Life Terms Like ‘confetti’

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THE Howard League for Penal Reform and the Prison Reform Trust yesterday expressed concern over mandatory life sentences being extended to crimes other than...
MPs and Bombardier workers outside the House of Commons where the workers demanded that the government defend their jobs

17,000 jobs rely on Bombardier!

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‘AT THE end of the day this is being portrayed as a trade war, but it’s workers who will be suffering, thousands of them...
Confident CWU strikers at the Greenford Mail Centre in west London yesterday morning

THIS A WAR WE HAVE TO WIN! – postal workers tell News Line

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THE programme of rolling strike action by the Communication Workers Union – in opposition to Royal Mail’s plans to cut wages, add five years...

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...

Agencies ripping off schools – NUT supply teachers conference today

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‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to take urgent action on supply teaching. Agencies have been ripping off schools for years and have no place in the...
Nurses are battling on all fronts – yesterday their vote against charges greatly strengthened the struggle to defend the NHS

Rcn Rejects NHS Charges!

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NURSES at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Annual Congress in Liverpool voted by a massive 91% majority against NHS charging yesterday. Delegates at the...

SANDERS TO STAND

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US Senator Bernie Sanders announced yesterday that he will run again for president in 2020, making a second attempt to win the Democratic Party’s...
Palestinians all over the occupied territories and Gaza were rising up to defend their capital Jerusalem – see pages 6&7

US & Saudi Flags Burnt At Gaza Mass Rally

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PALESTINIANS have come out in force in the Gaza Strip to protest against US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s ‘capital’, burning ...
Supporters joined Southern rail striking guards on the picket line outside Victoria Station yesterday. ‘All the rail unions should take action together’ – Steve Hedley

Triple Strike To Keep Train Guards

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TRAIN drivers and guards were on strike in three parts of the country simultaneously yesterday, with Southern, Northern and Merseyside RMT drivers and guards...

‘COME AND TALK TO LABOUR PARTY’ – Watson urges May!

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DEPUTY Labour Party leader Tom Watson yesterday urged Tory leader May to ‘come and talk to the Labour Party’. ‘If she cannot get...

20 Nations demand that Israel scraps West Bank occupation plans!

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ISRAEL’S approval of the E1 settlement scheme in the occupied West Bank has provoked condemnation from more than 20 countries, including several members of...

QUIT IRAQ NOW AND BOYCOTT ISRAELI GOODS – decides biennial conference of TGWU

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THE TGWU conference yesterday passed Composite Motion 29 with just one delegate voting against it. This called ‘for the immediate withdrawal of UK troops from...
Students marching for a future show they understand what has to be cut

Buy A University Place Fury!

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THERE was massive anger yesterday after the Tory-led coalition announced its plan to enable the rich to purchase a university place for...

French police smash up refugee camp! – as Polish forces attack refugees

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FRENCH police have smashed up a large refugee camp on its northern coast where increasing numbers of people hoping to reach the UK had...
A section of the mass picket of the Balfour Beatty Crossrail site at Blackfriars Bridge early yesterday morning

Angry Sparks Demand Official Action

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ANGRY electricians fighting 35% pay cuts imposed by a ‘cartel’ of seven major building contractors led by Balfour Beatty, went on strike at construction...
Calais Action volunteers waiting for the truck to arrive that will take their aid to refugees in the Greek island of Samos

Calais Action Volunteers Ready To Go!

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VOLUNTEERS from Calais Action yesterday loaded a truck to take aid for refugees to the Greek island of Samos. Calais Action founder Libby Freeman...

Tories, Labour & SNP join forces to attack China!

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TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s latest attack on China – suspending the UKs extradition treaty with the country, was supported by all Parties, turning...
NUT teachers campaigning outside the TUC Congress. They have been engaged in a ‘Stand Up for Education’ campaign that has gained significant support from parents and the general public

‘IT’S TIME TO MAKE A STAND!’ – Unison’s Prentis tells TUC Congress

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DELEGATES at the TUC Congress yesterday unanimously voted for Composite Motion 7 on Public Sector Pay and Living Standards. This includes the call on the...

‘Smiling Assassin’ Sacks 800 At Grangemouth

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GRANGEMOUTH’S owner Ineos announced yesterday the closure of its petrochemical plant, while also keeping the oil refinery closed and perhaps re-opening it if a...

‘LAST FRIDAY IT WAS LIKE WAR ON THE STREETS OF PARIS’ Yellow vests tell...

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TWO coachloads of French ‘Gilet Jaunes’ (Yellow Vests) joined the Committee to Defend Julian Assange ‘Bastille Day’ protest outside Belmarsh prison in south east...

14 US soldiers killed in Iraq – as US General says British army must...

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Fourteen American soldiers were killed in northern Iraq yesterday when their Blackhawk transport helicopter came down during a pre-dawn flight, US command said in...

Abbas Suspends Contact With Israel

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Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas yesterday suspended the ‘peace negotiations’ and contacts with Israel until the Israeli ‘criminal aggression’ on Gaza stops. An emergency meeting of...

Schoolchildren to be served smaller portions!

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SCHOOL caterers will have to serve children smaller portions or use cheaper ingredients, they were warned yesterday. Andrew Selley, boss of Bidfood, one of the...
Capita Unite members during a strike in Reading – the BMA doctors’ union has called for Capita to be stripped of its NHS contract after 3,500 women did not receive their cervical screening letters

Strip Capita Of NHS Contract!

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STRIP private outsourcing giant Capita of its NHS contract, doctors’ union the BMA demanded after the shocking news broke yesterday that more than 3,500...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC demanding action to win their jobs back

No compulsory redundancies say Gourmet workers

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ON the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday Gate Gourmet workers told News Line that they were not going to accept compulsory redundancy. Mr Gurbaksish...
PCS members say they are on the front line in fight against ‘union bashing’

Pickles ‘out to smash union’

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A LIVELY PCS lobby yesterday of the Royal Courts of Justice took place as the union took the Department for Communications and Local Government...
CWU pickets at the Hampstead Delivery Office – determined to keep Royal Mail as a public service

POSTAL WORKERS CONDEMN MANDELSON – TUC must support us!

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BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson yesterday afternoon attacked London postal workers in particular for not accepting the government and Royal Mail plans to...
Nurses on a demonstration fighting against the cutting of nurses bursaries – there is now a shortfall of 35,000 nurses

Restore student nurses bursaries

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NHS England has launched what they called ‘their biggest recruitment drive in history’ in an attempt to fill the 35,000 shortfall in nurses. However,...
PCS delegation at the TUC Congress this year greeted Prime Minister Brown with the demand ‘No cuts’

PENSION CAPS AND PAY CUTS – in Darling’s pre-Budget speech

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Chancellor Darling yesterday confirmed that VAT will be restored to 17.5 per cent on January 1st, and that inflation will rise to 3.0 per...