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Tamils in Parliament Square on Monday demonstrate against the Sri Lankan Army genocide against the Tamil people

TAMIL LEADERS TREACHEROUSLY KILLED WHILE UNDER WHITE FLAG – Prabakaran still alive and fight...

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WHILE rejecting Colombo’s claim of the killing of LTTE leader V Prabakaran and assuring his safety and well-being, LTTE’s International Relations Head S...

Don’t carry out Tory NHS cuts! – Unison urges Northern Ireland NHS Trusts

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UNISON yesterday challenged all five Health Trust Boards in Northern Ireland to refuse to comply with a Tory government demand for cuts. In addresses to...

Parliament taking control from government!

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‘THE APPROACH to today’s business sets an extremely concerning precedent for our democracy,’ Tory leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom said yesterday,...
Teachers marching in London last November 30 during their strike action to defend their pensions

Tories In ‘Head-On Collision’ With Classroom Teachers

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Teachers have been ‘angered, alienated and attacked’ by coalition ministers who are determined to engage in a ‘head-on collision’ with the profession, delegates to...

‘If the NHS is to survive we must get a new government’ – striking...

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THERE was a very lively picket line at UCL Hospital yesterday in London’s Euston Road, with over 40 junior doctors waving placards, chanting and...
Enthusiastic support yesterday morning for the West London Council of Action picket to keep Ealing Hospital open

Defend Our NHS

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NHS London has allocated £115 million to organise the closure of A&E and maternity services at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield. Emergencies are to be directed...
Tenant Joan Elsby and her son Kevin with Crown Properties executive Nick Wood, BBC cameras looking on.

Haringey Tenants Evicted!

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FURIOUS tenants remaining at Connaught House in Muswell Hill vented their anger at bailiffs yesterday at 12 noon as evictions took place of families,...

Johnson ready to hand billions to bosses! – as unions refuse to demand nationalisation

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THE JOHNSON government is to pay out tens of millions of pounds to restart production of carbon dioxide at a key plant in the...
UAW members demonstrating on February 16 outside the Flint East Delphi plant demanding no wage cuts

From New Labour Spin To Union Busting

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GMB trade union members demonstrated yesterday against the union-busting propaganda for Asda Wal-Mart being supplied by public relations company Portland PR, which was set...

East Coast Railway Renationalised!

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RENATIONALISE the Railways now, the RMT, Aslef and Unite trade unions demanded yesterday, after Tory Transport Secretary Chris Grayling announced that East Coast Main...
A section of the 5,000-strong march through Nottingham determined to defend NHS jobs and A&E services

903 NHS COMPULSORY SACKINGS! – Trade unions must act

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‘We will be consulting our members on what action should be taken to defend these NHS jobs’, GMB trade union national officer Sharon...

Israel systematically violating ceasefire! – resume bombing Gaza now, orders Netanyahu

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday afternoon that he had ordered ‘immediate powerful strikes on Gaza,’ claiming that the corpse that Hamas had...

DOWN WITH GOVERNMENT OF MURDERERS! – shout 50,000 Greek workers and youth!

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‘DOWN with the government of murderers’ shouted over 50,000 enraged workers and students last Thursday in Athens in a most militant march on the...

Tories Launch Assault On Tata Pensions

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TORY Business Secretary Sajid Javid in his opening statement to parliament yesterday outlined the assault that he is organising on Tata steel workers’ pensions,...

Death toll from Israel’s genocidal war has now reached 48,329!

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DURING the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 14 martyrs, who had been reported missing during the war,...

GOURMET CRISIS! – Siegel flies back to the USA

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THERE WERE no talks yesterday between the TGWU and Gate Gourmet bosses after its chairman David Siegel flew back to the US for crisis...

Wages Fell In Year To June

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WAGES fell by 0.2% in the year to June was the shock news released by the ONS yesterday. Britain is now a nation of the...

EU deal ‘overwhelmingly unlikely’ – Merkel tells PM Johnson

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GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel poured buckets of cold water over Tory PM Boris Johnson’s attempts to get a Brexit deal with the EU when,...
Steelworkers from Port Talbot, Teesside, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire lobbied parliament on October 28th. Many of them called for occupations and a national strike to secure the nationalisation of the steel industry

NATIONALISE TATA! –Occupy to defend jobs and stop the sackings

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THE steel industry in the UK faces shut-down, as the capitalist crisis deepens. The demand that the trade unions must organise occupations to halt the...

Hamas condemns the ongoing Israeli massacres in Gaza! Strip

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THE Hamas Movement has condemned the ongoing Israeli massacres on the Gaza Strip, saying: ‘The Nazi Zionist enemy continues to brutally target civilians in...
Stoke CWU members from Burslem were victimised earlier this year – Stoke CWU is out indefinitely

Cwu Must Form Public Sector Alliance

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Another week of postal strikes begins today – affecting East Anglia, London, the South West and other parts of the UK, the Communication...

Generals Demand Immunity From Prosecution

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THE generals who demanded a ruling from the Labour government’s Attorney General that war with Iraq was legal before they would send their troops...
Saturday afternoon’s march through Enfield demanding the immediate reopening of Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E which won a huge response

Stop Clause 119 – Stop The Hospital Closures!

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THE government faces a revolt over Clause 119 of the Care Bill today. This clause would give health secretary Hunt and appointed officials powers to...

‘THE NHS IS BEING SOLD OFF AS WE SPEAK!’ – says Anna Athow,...

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday urged all Conservative Party leadership candidates to commit to excluding the NHS from any post-Brexit trade deals. In a...
Picturehouse cinema workers rally in Hackney during their strike action last October

Picturehouse Cinemas Strike Action Today!

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IN A REPEAT of one of the largest strikes in UK cinema history, that took place in February, five Picturehouse cinemas will be on...

Bank of England – Serious Fraud Office investigation!

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THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating allegations that the Bank of England rigged the way that money was ‘auctioned’ to banks during the...
Junior doctors in Norwich taking strike action – many are looking to the TUC to take action with them on October 5th

Tories Busting NHS!

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NHS leaders in England say they have reached a ‘tipping point’ and cannot maintain standards for patients on the funding they are getting. Chris Hopson,...

Over 8,500 GPs vote to strike!

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OVER 8,500 General Practitioners (GPs) across England have overwhelmingly voted in favour of taking collective action, including strike action, in response to mounting challenges...

Pm Johnson Facing Defeat On Foreign Aid Budget Cut

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THE JOHNSON government faces a substantial rebellion in the House of Commons today and it could be facing defeat, with more than 30 Tory...

Disabled Must Not Be Penalised!

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CHARITIES expressed concerns yesterday after Tory plans to force a million more sick and disabled people into work were floated by Work and Pensions...

BLOOD MONEY! – Police offer £600,000 to Menezes family

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The Metropolitan Police confirmed yesterday that Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Yates arrived in Brazil on Sunday for talks with the family of young electrician...

‘WE WON’T SIGN AWAY OUR RIGHTS’ says Gate Gourmet shop steward

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers received a report back yesterday morning on the picket line at Heathrow Airport from their shop stewards, of a...

Over 10,000 workers and youth rally for Palestinian state!

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OVER 10,000 workers, youth and their families rallied in Trafalgar Square on Saturday for a ‘day of action for Palestine.’ The rally was called by...
A section of the 200-strong News Line All Trades Unions Alliance Conference on Sunday

BRING DOWN BROWN – GO FORWARD TO SOCIALISM! – demands News Line-All Trades Unions...

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Two hundred trade unionists and youth attended the News Line & All Trades Unions Alliance (ATUA) conference in central London, yesterday. They discussed a resolution...

Greek Hauliers Defy Emergency Order

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Hundreds of striking lorry drivers and hauliers clashed with Greek police in Athens, all day yesterday. Truckers and their surporters have been lining the highways...

STOP THE UNION BUSTERS! – Irish Congress of Trade Unions calls Day of Protest!

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The General President of Irish trade union SIPTU yesterday welcomed the decision by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) Executive to back his...
Student nurses and midwives marching to demand that their bursary is restored – axing the bursary has worsened the staffing crisis

Maternity & midwife cuts – 1,000 stillbirths

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THE CLOSURE of maternity departments at hospitals up and down the country and the severe lack of midwives has created a situation where as...

Merkel Offers Gm 4.5 Billion Euro Loan

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Germany yesterday upped the pressure on US car giant General Motors to sell GM Europe, which includes Germany’s Opel and the UK’s Vauxhall, to...

Greek Workers To Stand Trial

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The Athens State Prosecutor ordered that 13 trade unionists, a pensioner and an unemployed worker who were arrested by riot police last Thursday morning...
Grenfell families greet firefighters’ Guard of Honour on the Silent March in North Kensington on May 14th

Litany Of Safety Breaches Led To Grenfell

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A LITANY of safety breaches which led to the horrific Grenfell Tower fire were revealed yesterday during the opening of the next stage...

RAAB GRILLED BY MPs

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TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab appeared before MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, where he was questioned about the end of the UK’s...
Over 50,000 marched in London and tens of thousands marched in other cities across the UK during the November 30 pensions strike

It’s Still Pensions Robbery!

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‘The new pensions proposals will hit the pockets of thousands of nurses, paramedics, occupational therapists and other key NHS staff hard’, Unison warned yesterday. The...

Kick The Tories Out Today!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday hit back at Tory PM May’s declaration that she will tear up the human rights laws, allegedly to combat...

Second Reprieve For Dale Farm

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DALE Farm residents won another reprieve in the High Court yesterday, after a judge ruled that Basildon Council hadn’t been sufficiently clear in its...
A section of demonstrating taxi drivers with their banner stating ‘No to the monopolies and cartels’

Greek ministries occupied!

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FOLLOWING the example set by school and university students, Greek civil servants carried out a mass occupation of ten ministries on Thursday morning. The...