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EIGHT UNIONS SUPPORT VESTAS OCCUPATION! – as police crack down

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Workers staging the third day of a sit-in protest at the Vestas Wind Systems wind turbine factory in Newport Isle of Wight, yesterday said...
West London Council of Action picket at Ealing hospital determined to keep it open and calling for a big turnout for Sunday’s ‘Big Bike Ride’

Join Our Big Bike Ride!

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‘CALLING all cyclists – join our Big Bike Ride from Ealing Hospital to Charing Cross Hospital on Sunday morning. And if you’re not...
Members of the MS Nurses campaign delivered their petition against cuts to Downing Street yesterday

‘This Government Wants To Take Ms Nurses Away’

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‘This despicable government wants to take Multiple Sclerosis nurses away,’ wheelchair-bound retiree George Goodger told News Line yesterday after handing in a petition to...

THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS STILL TRAPPED IN DANGEROUS BUILDINGS says the Fire Brigades Union

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FIREFIGHTERS yesterday slammed the government and building owners as an HCLG Committee cladding survey highlighted widespread safety failings. The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG)...

Right-wing beaten at Labour Conference

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LABOUR right-wingers were resoundly beaten yesterday in their attempt to reject Brexit and push the Labour Party conference to accept that Britain should remain...

House Prices ‘a Long Way To Fall’

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UK Mortgage approvals fell sharply again in October, the Bank of England reported yesterday, confirming fears that house sales and prices have a lot...

‘Bring companies guilty of corporate murder to justice’

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ONE HUNDRED and forty four workers have lost their lives while on the job in 2017-18, with the GMB at its Annual Conference in...
BA cabin crew pickets think that the whole airport must come out in support to win their dispute

‘we Are Fighting For Our Lives’

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DESPITE the pouring rain, striking BA cabin crew maintained three lively picket lines at Heathrow Airport yesterday. They chanted: ‘Don’t blame it on the ash...

NEW ‘MEDICAL TRAINING DISASTER’ – warning from BMA

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‘Unsatisfactory’ government proposals mean a new junior doctors ‘medical training disaster’ is looming, warned the British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday. Commenting on the proposals to...

Palestinian mother & child arrested

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ISRAELI forces detained at least seven Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank overnight, including a mother and her 14-year-old child. Local and security...

Heads Heckle Education Secretary Greening

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ANGRY head teachers heckled Education Secretary Justine Greening yesterday as she told the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) conference about government plans...

‘A DIFFICULT AND DANGEROUS SITUATION!’ – Brown pledges to work on the side of...

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‘THIS is a difficult and dangerous situation for the world economy,’ Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday in an interview for the ‘Observer’ newspaper. Brown...
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,...

North Sea Oil Jobs Axe!

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UNITE yesterday warned of ‘a dangerous and quickening race to the bottom’ in the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry as oil giants Shell...
Teachers and school support staff united against the savage attacks on state education by the Tory-LibDem coalition government

Nut – National Strike Ballot

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The NUT ballot of members for national strike action in defence of teachers’ pensions commenced yesterday, and will close at midday on Tuesday June...

Refugees left to freeze!

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‘EVERY day counts,’ Jean-Claude Junker, President of the European Commission said. ‘Otherwise we will soon see families in cold rivers in the Balkans perish...

CALL FOR OCCUPATION! – as South London Trust put into Administration

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HEALTH Secretary Lansley announced yesterday that he is putting South London Healthcare NHS Trust into administration. The trust was created by merging three hospitals –...
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...

‘A Perfect Storm’ Of Pressures Engulfing Social Care!

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A PERFECT storm of pressures risks engulfing health and social care services in England in the coming months, a comprehensive analysis by the RCN...
Riot police confront thousands of Greek youth who marched on December 6th to remember the assassination of 15-year-old  Alexandros Grigiropoulos who was shot dead in cold blood on December 6th 2008

Greek general strike against tax hikes & labour laws

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SOME 15,000 workers, youth and students marched through the Athens city centre last Thursday morning in two different demonstrations as part of the one-day...

Big Gains For Labour In Local Elections

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THERE WERE big gains for Labour in Thursday’s English and Welsh local elections. Neither incumbent Boris Johnson nor Labour’s Ken Livingtone achieved 50 per cent...
Greek hospital workers demanding free health care for all. Their banner declares ‘All together we will win!’

Greek workers march against cuts and privatisation!

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THREE thousand hospital workers, Metro workers, primary school teachers and pensioners marched through Greece’s capital, Athens last Wednesday. The day of strike action was against...

Seven Gazans Killed In Israeli Air Raids

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Seven Palestinians were killed in Israeli air raids in several parts of the Gaza Strip yesterday and on Wednesday. Five of the victims were activists...
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...

Police tasering mentally ill!

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TWO-THIRDS of all people Tasered by the police in England and Wales between 2010 and 2014 were identified as mentally ill. The figures were made...

A&E diverts cause death

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A SCHEME to divert patients away from A&E resulted in a patient’s death, prompting NHS officials to launch a national review of the ‘front-door...

Mass Strikes Bring Paris To A Halt

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FRENCH Minister of Labour, Xavier Bertrand has told the striking rail unions that they must return to work before he will...
Youth on a march against austerity, benefit cuts and in-work poverty – 800,000 workers are on zero hours contracts

‘Workless’ families fall – child poverty soars!

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THE PROPORTION of households in the UK where no-one is working is at its lowest point for over 20 years, the Office for National...
Up to 1,000 workers and young people turned up to picket the Israeli Embassy yesterday afternoon and were faced by large numbers of police

‘IT’S LIKE HELL HERE NOW’ – Doctor Mads Gilbert condemns Israeli invasion

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Fifteen Palestinian civilians were killed yesterday and at least 40 others were wounded when Israeli shells hit Gaza City shopping centre. Among those killed by...

DEFUSE CONFRONTATION WITH IRAN – urges Baradei

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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief inspector Mohamed El Baradei yesterday warned that the ‘brewing confrontation’ with Iran over its nuclear ambitions ‘must be...

Five surgeons resign over £20bn NHS cuts!

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The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) is to review surgical services at Barts and Royal London hospitals, east London after five surgeons submitted their...

‘GP’s WILL BE STRETCHED TO BREAKING POINT’ – warns Royal College of GPs

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The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has warned that the scale and pace of change contained in the government’s health White Paper risks...
Family of Jean Charles de Menezes visit site of their son's murder

‘The whole airport must come out’ demand Gate Gourmet workers

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‘THE whole airport must come out to win our jobs back and to defeat the victimisation of BA workers who took sympathy strike action...
Teachers from Sunny Hill school in Southwark joined striking junior doctors on the picket line at Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell yesterday

Junior doctors confident of victory!

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A GOOD picket of junior doctors turned out at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital at 8am. They were in good spirits despite the wind...
Tamils continuing their non-stop demonstration against Sri Lankan army atrocities outside parliament yesterday

Tamil Protests To Continue Until Permanent Ceasefire

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‘Ceasefire Now! Stop the Genocide! Tamil Tigers – Freedom Fighters!’ shouted Tamils demonstrating in support of brave hunger striker Parameswaran Subramaniyan yesterday. Around 1,000 were...
Unison nurses’ banners on the recent massive demonstration by 500,000 workers against the coalition government and its assault on public services

Nurses Angry Over Cuts!

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With anger over job cuts and NHS ‘reforms’ due to dominate the Royal College of Nursing’s Annual Congress in Liverpool this week,...

‘We’re striking to defend the NHS!’ – Junior Doctors

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‘WE’RE striking to defend the NHS,’ doctors said on the over 200-strong rally of junior doctors outside University College Hospital in central London yesterday. There...

Gambaccini ‘Coming For The BBC!’

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PAUL Gambaccini, the Radio 2 DJ, said he is ‘coming for the BBC’ after accusing the Corporation of being complicit in the child abuse...

Massive Victory For Asda Staff!

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THE GMB has hailed a ‘massive victory’ for 40,000 Asda workers in their equal pay claim after the Supreme Court ruled in their favour...

The BMA has never been as strong as today for full pay restoration!

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OVER 1,000 striking junior doctors rallied in Whitehall outside Downing Street on Friday afternoon, at the beginning of another four-day strike to defend the...
A section of the rally following the 1,500-strong march in Sutton demanding no cuts to the St Helier Hospital

‘NHS needs 50% more consultants’

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There needs to be a 50 per cent increase in the number of hospital consultants by 2010 to ensure ‘a safe service’, the President...

BROWNE HANGS ON! – as establishment closes ranks

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Yesterday afternoon the establishment closed ranks to prop up the wobbling Labour government and its defence secretary Des Browne. Following Browne’s statement to the House...
Athens university law department occupation banner calling for ‘Education law must be overthrown – in the streets we fight the government-IMF-EC policies’

Greek Workers Occupy! Against Government & Eu Attacks

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GREEK workers have embarked on a series of occupations of state and municipal buildings as well as mass marches. The actions follow the announcement by...

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...