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Midwives and nurses taking strike action last month – they are not prepared to put up with permanent wage-cutting and pension busting

Cuts and more cuts from Osborne!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a class war Autumn Statement yesterday which revealed Tory plans to completely smash up the Welfare State. Starting with a gloomy assessment...

‘Unite Will Resist Compulsory Redundancies’ At Northern Rock

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Unite (Amicus section) yesterday expressed fears for the jobs of thousands of its members currently working at Northern Rock, as Chancellor Darling introduced emergency...

Israel Steps Up Jabalia Genocide

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QUADCOPTER drones equipped with loudspeakers instructed Palestinian families trapped inside a UN-run school in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza to flee yesterday,...

GATE GOURMET TACTICS! – GMB accuses Airfield Services

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The GMB trade union yesterday accused Stansted security contractor Airfield Services of Gate Gourmet tactics. It said that Airfield Services was showing gross irresponsibility in...

Students begin occupying UK universities in support of Palestinian Revolution!

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PRO-Palestinian students have occupied several university campuses in the UK, to protest against the Israeli war on Gaza. Students in Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester,...

NATIONAL RAIL STRIKE LOOMS – TSSA warns action over Tory job cuts

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THE TSSA union warned yesterday: ‘A national rail strike in 2022 is very much on the cards’ as the Tory government seeks to cut...
Nurses and other NHS workers on the 50,000-strong London march during the pensions strike last month

Industrial action not ruled out – over pensions says Scottish BMA leader

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A group of seven leading public health specialists, past presidents of the UK Faculty of Public Health, have called for the Health and Social...

Labour Adds 10% To NHS Deficits

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From today, NHS organisations are to be charged ten per cent interest on money they borrow when they run up deficits. The NHS Bank, run...

STOP THE THEATRE CLOSURES! – actors to march today from Piccadilly

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ACTORS will demonstrate in the centre of London today against a wave of threatened theatre closures. Actors in white masks will take part in today’s...

Bectu to strike

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The BBC unions announced yesterday that they will be targeting the Jubilee celebrations, following BBC management’s decision to write directly to members of staff...
A section of yesterday’s shop stewards lobby of the TUC against pension cuts

Pensions crisis–Coalition pays tribute to the TUC!

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JUST AS LibDem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Alexander was thanking the TUC in the House of Commons yesterday claiming that the public sector...
Part of a mass lobby of the Nigerian Embassy in London on Friday which insisted that the fuel subsidy must be reinstated

‘A FIGHT TO THE FINISH’ – Nigerian General Strike is launched

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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday called on workers and the rural poor to be ‘prepared for a fight to the finish’. This came as...

Israel Continues Gaza Strip Massacres!

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THE Israeli occupation army continued to commit massacres in the Gaza Strip yesterday, the second day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, killing and injuring...

Severe malnutrition in Gaza

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THE UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has accused Israel of obstructing the entry of essential supplies needed to save the lives of children suffering from...

Johnson ignores the crisis & praises USA!

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‘IT WAS CAPITALISM that ensured we had vaccines in less than a year,’ Tory PM Johnson boasted in his closing speech at the Tory...
The raising of the pension age hits the most needy says the TUC

‘DON’T RAISE PENSION AGE’ – urges TUC leader O’Grady

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‘THE government should abandon its plan to raise the state pension age in light of the new evidence on projected life expectancies,’ TUC General...

Balham PCS Strike Ballot Is Called!

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STAFF at Balham benefit centre are being balloted for strike action having been told that their office is due to close on 31 December. This...

Three new junior doctors strikes

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JUNIOR doctors in England have confirmed three further strike dates. In a BMA ballot of junior doctors last November, 98 per cent of those who...

Ambulance crisis! – caused by bed shortages

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HOSPITAL bed and staff shortages are causing suffering for patients in the West Midlands as ambulances cannot deliver patents for treatment, the area’s senior...

US FORCES WILL NOT ENGAGE IN UKRAINE! says President Biden

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PRESIDENT Biden has assured American lawmakers that US military personnel will not be taking part in the war in Ukraine, and not a single...

Israeli Forces Intensify Repression In Palestine

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ISRAELI forces intensified their campaign of repression across occupied Palestine on Thursday, carrying out violent raids and arbitrary arrests in the West Bank, while...

Trade unions must take action to restore the whip to Corbyn

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TWENTY seven Labour MPs have signed a statement from the Socialist Campaign Group describing Labour leader Keir Starmer’s decision not to readmit Jeremy Corbyn...

General Strike now to defend NHS! – call as 2,000 doctors converge on Downing...

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SEVENTY-FIVE thousand junior doctors began their 72-hour strike yesterday, they are continuing it today and are being joined by hundreds of thousands of teachers,...

3,000 Welsh JDs strike after 98% vote

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JUNIOR doctors across Wales began a three day strike over pay yesterday and continue until tomorrow, after almost every junior doctor (98%) who took...

GREEK BANK STRIKE – as coalition turns on immigrants

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THOUSANDS of Greek bank workers are continuing their strike against privatisation and will be joined by Postal Bank workers who are holding a one-day...
Parkside estate tenant CAROL SWORDS (second from left) with supporters outside the High Court yesterday morning

Parkside Tenants Picket The High Court

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TENANTS from the Parkside council estate in east London went to the High Court yesterday, demanding the cancellation of the estate’s transfer to a...
Delegates voting during the NUT conference in Harrogate at the weekend

Angry Teachers Vote For Strike Ballot Against Pay Cut

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Harrogate voted unanimously on Saturday for a one-day strike against a pay-cutting two per cent...

‘WINTER CATASTROPHE!’ warns RCN

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‘EMERGENCY departments should be places of safety for those in crisis, but this report shows they have become places of prolonged and unnecessary suffering.’ Royal...

Crabb–new disabled cuts

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NEW Tory Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb used his first major speech yesterday to state that he believes the employment rate for...

Tories Moving To Dump Truss!

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YESTERDAY, PM Truss was fighting for her political life against a Tory faction that is determined to ditch her as soon as possible, if...
Postal workers and their families marched against the closure of Crewe Mail Centre last month. Another large demonstration is expected in Milton Keynes today

Defend Milton Keynes Mail Centre!

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Hundreds of postal workers and their families are today joining the business community, politicians and members of the public in a march through Bletchley,...

Shell Tanker Drivers Out Solid!

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Pickets were out at twelve fuel depots from 6am yesterday as over 600 Shell tanker drivers empl-oyed by two companies, Hoyer UK and Suckling...

‘Dictator’ Hunt!

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THE BMA yesterday responded angrily to health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s ‘wholesale attack’ on doctors and the threat to impose seven-day working for consultants...

CRISIS AT THE BANK – Division over quantitative easing

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The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was divided over its ‘quantitative easing’ policy of printing money this month. The Minutes of the last...

NHS Unions Must Occupy North Mid Hospital

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THE General Medical Council (GMC) has threatened to close North Middlesex District General Hospital including its Accident & Emergency Department. The GMC, which regulates doctors,...

Junior doctors & nurses fight for their rights

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‘FOR students like me from a working class background, removing the bursary for nurses will mean that they cannot continue their studies,’ student nurse...

Gp Commissioning Fraud Is Exposed!

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GP commissioning will not in fact be GP commissioning. This was brought home in a Channel Four news item on Monday night which publicised GPs’...

Slump Grips UK

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Britain is falling deeper into slump, official figures revealed yesterday. The UK economy shrank by 0.3 per cent in the first three months of this...

International support for UK rail workers!

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STRIKING RMT railway workers were boosted by the leader of the US Amazon Labour Union joining their picket line at Euston Station yesterday morning. ALU...
Part of the 5,000-strong lively demonstration in Nottingham last Saturday demanding national trade union action to defend the NHS

‘There needs to be national action to stop privatisation’

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THERE should be national action to stop NHS Logistics being handed over to parcel firm DHL in a 10-year contract worth more than £3...

UK ‘on a war footing!’ – Sunak announces in Poland

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TORY PM Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that he is putting the UK defence industry ‘on a war footing’. Standing alongside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in...

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...

LUTON GM WAGE CUTS! – supported by Unite union leaders

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WORKERS at the General Motors Truck and Van plant in Luton were yesterday voting on a management offer that cuts their hours and pay. The...
Christmas under the Israeli occupation in Bethlehem

Pre-dawn raids in Palestine

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ISRAELI authorities issued administrative detention orders, without charge or trial, against 22 Palestinians on Wednesday, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported. PPS said that 16...

TUC Special Congress December 9th – call General Strike to smash Tory anti-union...

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THE TUC said yesterday it will hold a special Congress to discuss the next stage of the campaign against the Tories’ anti-strike laws. The event...