Peugeot workers from Ryton taking part in the May Day march in London

FRENCH AND BRITISH WORKERS UNITE – to keep Peugeot Ryton open

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‘Save Peugot Jobs!’ demanded over 400 French and British workers in Paris yesterday. Peugot workers and a delegation of Renault workers from across France joined...
A section of the early morning mass picket which will now take place daily from 9.00am to 2.00pm to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

Chase Farm Daily Picket

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MONDAY’S launch of the daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital, in preparation to occupy the departments threatened with closure, was a roaring success. The...
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...
Enthusiastic PCS picket at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) demanding the London Living Wage

BEIS STRIKERS Demand Living Wage

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STRIKING PCS members at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) were joined on the picket line early yesterday morning by their...
Doctors march in defence of surgeries in east London

194,941 sign ‘Sack Hunt’ petition

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PATIENTS and doctors still need answers on seven-day hospital services, Dr Mark Porter, the chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA), said yesterday. This follows...

‘Nationalise Land Rover & Jaguar’ – call at TGWU Conference

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THE Transport and General Workers Union Biennial Delegate Conference in Brighton yesterday heard a call for the nationalisation of Jaguar and Land Rover to...

Tories Big Council Losses!

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LABOUR PARTY leader Starmer said yesterday the Labour Party is on track to win the next general election, after taking control of key councils...

Hamas agrees 60-day ceasefire!

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HAMAS negotiators in Cairo have agreed a new proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, which calls for an initial 60-day truce and hostage release...
A busload of Care UK workers demonstrated on Wednesday outside Bridgepoint Capital private equity company that is seeking to slash their wages and jobs

Doncaster carers march today

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UNISON members working for Care UK are marching through Doncaster today at 2pm after 30 days of strike action against Bridgepoint Capital, the private...

Health Bill ‘is a Privateers Charter’ says Shadow Health Secretary Ashworth

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LABOUR said yesterday that it will oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill. ‘With more than one-in-10 people on waiting lists for treatment in...

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...
Watford postal workers outside the CWU conference in Bournemouth on Friday

‘WE ARE READY FOR A FIGHT’ – CWU postal worker delegates speak to News...

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Postal workers at the CWU Conference in Bournemouth said yesterday they are ready for a fight to defend their jobs, wages and the postal...

School nurses and health visitors – County Durham swings axe!

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THE THREAT to cut health visitor and community nurse jobs in County Durham, while Covid-19 is still widespread, was branded as ‘incomprehensible’ by the...

‘BEGGING WON’T MAKE A FUTURE FOR AFRICA’ –Gadaffi tells AU summit

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Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gadaffi yesterday urged African nations to stop ‘begging’. In a half-hour speech as host of the 53-nation African Union two-day summit...

250,000 UK Workers And Youth March For Liberation Of Palestine

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A QUARTER of a million, mainly young people, marched from Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park in London on Saturday afternoon, demanding trade union action...

Labour leader Starmer ‘should be backing staff not the bosses’ says UCU

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LABOUR Party leader Starmer ‘should be backing staff, not the bosses’, says the UCU trade union. The union was responding to Labour leader Keir Starmer’s...

110,000 Using Food Banks!

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THE NUMBER of people seeking emergency food aid in the UK has doubled in the past six months, the largest organiser of food...

‘Real value’ of pay in freefall

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THE ‘REAL VALUE’ of pay is in freefall, collapsing by 3% between April and June, according to the latest report from the Office for...

US-UK Backed Terrorists Bomb Damascus

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SYRIA’S deputy defence minister Assef Shawkat and security Chief General Hisham Ikhtiyar have been killed in a bomb attack on a security building in...

State navies should break Israel’s siege of Gaza – says UN’s Albanese

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THE Israeli occupation forces (IOF) yesterday hijacked at dawn the Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen and kidnapped the activists on board. The vessel, operated by the...

Unite launch nine-day ‘ghost strike’ against 24% pay cut

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BRITISH Airways Cargo workers begin nine days of strike action on Christmas Day, however their union, Unite, has called off all pickets. Under BA’s fire...

Police hostile takeover of fire service opposed

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‘THERE’S no support for it among firefighters and there’s no support for it among police officers, there’s no support among local communities and yet...
Striking CWU members in Hampstead, north west London, were in fighting mood yesterday

‘NO HIDING PLACE NOW!’ – ‘We need the rest of the country out’ say...

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POSTAL workers were out on strike throughout London yesterday, while Royal Mail drivers were also out in Essex and the Midlands; and Stoke on...
Pickets out on the second day of their two day action at the Harrow Job Centre

‘FANTASTIC SUPPORT’ for day one of work & pensions strike action

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Yesterday’s strike by benefits and pensions staff was a ‘fantastic success’ said the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). Jobcentres, benefit offices, pension centres and...

Zionists kill 10 sheltering at UNRWA school in Gaza!

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AT LEAST ten people in a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), located in the Rimal...

WAR AN OPTION – Rumsfeld declares on Iran

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United States defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that the military option against Iran was ‘on the table’. He said this would be...
Banner with a clear message on the 500,000-strong TUC demonstration against government spending cuts on March 26 this year

‘SHOW NHS NO MERCY’ – says Cameron advisor

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Prime minister Cameron’s adviser Mark Britnell has urged that the NHS be ‘shown no mercy’, adding that the government’s planned health ‘reform’ is a...
Angry students marching through central London demanding an end to all tuition fees, the restoration of grants and no privatisation

‘Organise and fight!’ – education must be free!

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STUDENT Unions (SU) across the country have slammed the National Union of Students (NUS) President Toni Pearce’s decision to pull out of today’s national...

BMA Council votes to call special conference

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The following motion was passed by a large majority at the BMA (British Medical Association) Council meeting in London yesterday. ‘This meeting recognises that legislation...

23 Russian diplomats expelled!

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‘MOSCOW had no motives for poisoning former GRU Colonel Sergey Skripal and his daughter, while those who are trying to push ahead with the...
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...

Royal Mail Xmas Strikes Against Mass Sackings

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NEW Christmas strikes have been called against the destruction of postal workers’ livelihoods Following further attacks on the terms and conditions of postal workers, the...

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...

Lib Dems Vote For Ananti-Brexit Coup!

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THE LIBDEMS voted for an anti-Brexit coup at their conference in Bournemouth yesterday, pledging to revoke Article 50, reversing their previous policy of campaigning...

‘We are meeting at the point of a worldwide explosion of capitalism’ – says...

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‘WE ARE meeting today in a period where the world crisis of capitalism has reached the point of explosion,’ All Trades Unions Alliance National...

Gaza death toll passes 39,000!

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THE GAZA death toll passed the 39,000 mark yesterday with the Health Ministry reporting at least 39,006 Palestinians have been killed and 89,818 wounded...

Tories in a crisis over state attack on Corbyn

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THE REVELATION that senior British civil servants have been briefing the capitalist press that Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is too sick and unfit to...

Birmingham Bin Strikers Stand Firm Against Up To £8,000 A Year Pay Cuts!

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AHEAD of talks with Unite negotiators aimed at ending the long-running binworkers strike yesterday, Birmingham Council Leader John Cotton claimed: ‘We’re in a position...

Circle to take £2m profit! –as it cuts and slashes Hinchingbrooke Hospital

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Public sector union Unison yesterday said that some of its worst fears are coming true over NHS privatisation. This came after it was revealed that...
Athens university students marching past the Greek Parliament building on May Day – are calling for capitalism to be overthrown

Greek Marchers Defy Eu & Imf

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TENS of thousands of workers and youth held strong anti-government marches and rallies in all Greek cities and towns on May Day. Seafarers, railway,...

Ward Closures And Bed Cuts At The Norfolk & Norwich

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THE Norfolk and Norwich University Foundation Trust (NNUH) has closed two and half wards, around 68 beds. The closures took place on Monday 15th August,...

XMAS DAY SACKINGS! – RMT pledges taking action

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RMT general secretary Mick Cash yesterday condemned as ‘disgraceful’ the Christmas Day sackings of 2,727 City Link workers. The announcement said that parcel delivery firm...

ROYAL MAIL SHARES ISSUE SHELVED – We’ve won a victory says London Region CWU

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‘The Royal Mail employee shares scheme shouldn’t be shelved, it should be scrapped altogether,’ Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) London Regional Secretary John Denton told...