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Action Is Needed To Defend Royal Mail Jobs And Pensions

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CWU members working in Royal Mail are facing the greatest threats to their jobs and conditions in the entire history of the postal service. With...
Trade unionists and youth marching to defend the NHS last July – now all unions are agreed that the health bill must be stopped

NHS ‘Reforms’ Condemned!

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday moved to oppose the Health and Social Care Bill, arguing that serious concerns have not been addressed...
Unison members on strike point out that the cure for poverty is the living wage

Poor being hit hardest!

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BRITAIN’s Tax system ‘hits the poorest families hardest’. They are paying a staggering 47 per cent of their gross income in taxes, the TaxPayers...

More Welfare Cuts And Tax Rises On The Way

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FURTHER welfare cuts and tax rises ‘must be on the cards’ to make the government’s numbers in the Autumn Statement add up, the Institute...

Gate Gourmet workers demand hardship pay

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers said yesterday that they were very happy with their conference with the News Line on Sunday. Mrs Rajamy Sharma told...
The four Kenyan claimants with lawyer Martin Day outside the High Court before the start of yesterday’s hearing

MAU MAU HEROES! – take on British state

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The UK government must take responsibility for the torture of Kenyans under the 1950s British colonial government, one of the survivors, 82-year-old Wambugu Wa...
Protest demanding safe insulation and cladding – Grenfell families forced onto UC now face the prospect of not being able to heat their homes

Grenfell survivors forced onto UC by Xmas!

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SURVIVORS of the horrific Grenfell fire are to be forced onto Universal Credit just days before Christmas. Documents released ‘quietly on Budget Day’ show...
UNISON members and their families marching on the ‘NHSTogether’ demonstration on November 3rd in London – will not accept  pay increases of only two per cent for three years

BROWN ‘ON COLLISION COURSE WITH UNIONS’ – warns UNISON

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Prime Minister Brown is ‘on a collision course with the trade unions’, warned UNISON yesterday. A UNISON spokeswoman told News Line: ‘We want to make...

East Kent hospitals under threat

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EAST Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serving a population of more than 750,000 people across five different hospitals has been placed under special measures. ‘This...

‘Rampant Capitalism & Wage Robbery!’

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THE proposed merger between energy giants SSE and Npower is for the sole benefit of shareholders, with scant concern for the workforce and the...

NHS Crisis: 82 ‘Ghost Wards’ Contain 1,400 Empty Beds

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YEARS of savage Tory cuts to the NHS have created the unprecedented situation where there are not even enough staff to run wards. It...

Pressure Mounts On May To Resign

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Home Secretary Theresa May came under renewed pressure to resign yesterday, after former head of the UK Border Force Brodie Clark rebutted her claim...
2,500 march in Berne to support Gate Gourmet workers

‘parent Power’ To Defeat Trusts

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The leaders of Britain’s biggest teachers’ union, the National Union of Teachers, are appealing to ‘parent power’ to defeat the government’s ‘trust schools’...

White House pushing for Blair to be Gaza boss!

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THE WHITE House is pushing a proposal to instal former British prime minister Tony Blair as head of a so-called Gaza International Transitional Authority,...

Dr Bawa-Garba victory –‘a defining moment’

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DR BAWA-GARBA’s victory, in reversing the General Medical Council’s decision to strike her off the medical register over the death of a patient was...

Syriza Ready To Accept 70% Of Austerity Programme

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THE Eurogroup meeting of finance ministers on Monday evening ended without agreement between the EU and Greece, after the Greek Finance Minister...

Legal bid to halt Aslef strike

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SOUTHERN rail owner Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) yesterday launched a legal bid to stop ASLEF’s strike action. GTR issued proceedings at the High Court to...
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers speak with their TGWU shop steward outside the Heathrow plant at the weekend. They have been locked  out since August 10, demanding full reinstatement on their original terms and conditions

We want action not words from TUC

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LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers, boosted by their successful intervention at the TUC in Brighton on Monday, are calling for immediate reinstatement or action to...

Coronavirus–10,000 troops on the streets!

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‘OPERATION Broadshare’ has been launched by the military to put 10,000 troops on the streets. The military said that it will work alongside the...

Forced labour for ex-Calais children

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REFUGEE children sent from the demolished ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais are being used as forced labour in fruit farms, a charity has claimed. So far...
Firefighters from all over Britain marched through Merseyside almost a year ago against massive cuts to the fire service in the region. They warned cuts cost lives

‘WE COULD’T GET PEOPLE OUT!’ – Newquay pays the price for fire service cuts

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‘Lives were lost because there wasn’t enough equipment to get people out – it’s our fire service,’ said Chris Findon yesterday, the owner of...
A section of the over 200-strong lobby of Downing Street by parents, pupils and teachers of Sulivan Primary School demanding that their excellent school stay open and not be demolished for a free school

Sulivan teachers, pupils & parents lobby council

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Teachers, parents and pupils are lobbying a full Cabinet meeting of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, which starts at 6pm tomorrow at Hammersmith Town Hall,...

NHS Being Driven Along Road To Ruin Says Gmb

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TRADE unions and Labour Party leaders yesterday condemned the government over cuts to the NHS that have put patients at risk. The were responding to...

DON’T SCRAP TUBE SAFETY RULES – say rail unions

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THE largest rail union, the RMT, has written to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) to demand the withdrawal of plans to...

‘NEGOTIATION NOT IMPOSITION!’ – Unite calls BA cabin crew strike ballot

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The Unite trade union yesterday announced it is to ballot 14,000 British Airways cabin crew for strike action after weeks of talks over BA’s...

Hundreds more Gazans killed in hospitals and homes!

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THE Israeli occupation army carried out hundreds of aerial and artillery attacks on different areas of Gaza yesterday, massacring men, women and children in...

Fifth of PPE contracts were ‘red flagged for corruption’!

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A DAMNING report published yesterday entitled ‘Track and Trace’ by Transparency International has shone a light on the Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) scandal, where...

Three More US Marines Killed

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Three more US marines were killed in western Iraq on Monday, the US military confirmed yesterday. All three, from the 2nd Marine Division, were taking...

SCOTTISH TUC BOMBSHELL – General Council supports Labour in election by just one vote

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Labour has only very narrowly retained the formal endorsement of Scotland’s trades unions for May’s Holyrood and council elections. The General Council of the STUC...

‘We won’t pay £39bn divorce bill’ says Brexit Sec Raab

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IN A Sunday Telegraph interview, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab threatened to withhold the £39 billion ($51 billion) divorce fee from the EU,...
Demonstration in May this year for the release of Babar Ahmad – Home Secretary Charles Clarke has recently ordered his extradition to the US on trumped up terror charges which carry a death sentence

Gate Gourmet Admits 3-Stage Deal Defeated!

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GATE GOURMET, the firm that locked out over 700 of its workers in a pre-planned onslaught on August 10, admitted yesterday that the locked...

Publish austerity death rates!

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A PETITION launched by campaign group Change.org has called on the Courts and Tribunal Service to force the release of data on the number...
All over the country actions are being taken to stop the NHS from being shut down.  Picture shows demonstrators last Saturday in West London at the beginning of a convoy throughout the area against the closure of Ealing, Central Middlesex, Hammersmith and

Doctors Angry Over Lung Care Sabotage

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OVER 1,000 doctors involved in the care of people with lung disease have written to the new NHS Commissioning Board in England, expressing ‘grave...

Begg Offer To Help Refused

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FORMER Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg offered to help the British government in securing the release of hostage Alan Henning from Islamic State (IS)...
Police brutally arrest a demonstrator during last Saturday’s march against the Israeli  atrocities in Gaza

‘DAZED CHILDREN NEXT TO DEAD MOTHERS’ – UNRWA suspends Gaza operation

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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) yesterday accused Israel of failing to assist wounded Palestinians after finding four small children next to...
A very badly beaten Baha Mousa, an Iraqi hotel worker, tortured by British soldiers in Iraq

‘Baha Mousa is not the only Iraqi killed by British forces’

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The High Court yesterday gave the go ahead for a legal challenge over the torture of Iraqi civilians at the hands of UK troops. The...

Swinson – New Attack On Corbyn!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn risks jeopardising a vote of no confidence in the government by insisting he becomes caretaker PM, Lib Dems leader Jo...
Kentish Town firefighters in their recent strike action – the battle against cuts and closures is taking place all over the country

Cuts Will Devastate Tyne And Weir Fire Service!

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A PLANNED £5 million cuts will devastate Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service, say local firefighters. The Fire Brigades Union has warned that proposed...

Corbyn calls for Customs Union and Single Market

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‘IT IS TIME for Parliament to take control,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday, responding to Tory PM May’s statement to Parliament on the...

DVLA staff four-day strike begins today – Another Covid-19 outbreak feared!

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STAFF at the DVLA office in Swansea begin their four-day strike today after fears of a fresh Covid-19 outbreak as more than 2,000 people...

Labour proscribes Palestine Action!

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OVER 1,000 protesters demonstrated in Trafalgar Square yesterday as Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced that she intends to ‘proscribe’ protest group Palestine Action...
The junior doctors’ decision to ballot for action and to organise mass demonstrations has forced health secretary Hunt to drop his threat to impose a contract

Junior Doctors Strike Ballot Makes Hunt Think Again!

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THE THREAT of industrial action by England’s 50,000 junior doctors has forced Tory health secretary Hunt to think again over plans to impose a...

Israeli soldiers beat blind man

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ISRAELI soldiers have violently beaten up a blind and paralysed Palestinian man in front of his wife and children for no apparent reason in...

Series of 48 hour postal strikes

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POSTAL workers have announced a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, as workers will also hold a...

‘WE ARE WINNING!’ – cabin crew in determined mood on day 3

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The British Airways cabin crew strike is gathering strength as the management fails to keep the airplanes flying through the dispute. During the Saturday of...