CWU pickets at Stamford Hill Delivery office during the September 29th strike in North London

Cwu Offers Wage Cuts!

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THE Communication Workers Union has said it is prepared to ‘settle around inflation’ for the next two years. Given that ‘around’ means less, and that...

350 London Transit workers on two days strike over pay

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OVER 350 workers employed by London Transit bus company are taking strike action today and Monday after rejecting the company’s latest pay offer. ‘We are...

‘Dangerous consequences’ – Hamas warns Israel over executing prisoners

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THE Hamas Resistance Movement has warned of the ‘dangerous consequences’ of the racist law passed by the Israeli Knesset authorising the death penalty for...

‘WE WILL WIN OUR FIGHT’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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PASSING cars hooted in support as locked out Gate Gourmet workers picketed on the hill near Heathrow Airport yesterday. Avtar told News Line: ‘We will...

2nd wave more deadly than first! Labour pledges to push through Johnson’s national lock...

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DEATHS from coronavirus will be twice as high this winter than in the first wave of the pandemic, Tory PM Boris Johnson told Parliament...
Last September thousands marched in Ealing against their hospital closing – meanwhile the Treasury was pocketing very large amounts NHS cash

Treasury ‘stole’ £3bn from NHS – while hospitals close and services are slashed

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday angrily condemned the news that the Treasury has clawed back nearly...

Palestinian Killed At Point Blank Range

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VIDEO footage has emerged showing a Palestinian being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier at point-blank range despite lying motionless and severely...

Big Picket At Gate Gourmet!

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THERE was one of the biggest turnouts on the picket line at the Gate Gourmet dispute yesterday, with more than 200 locked out workers...
GABRIEL POLLEY being excluded from the UEA hustings on Thursday night – Charles Clarke was again looking on

WRP candidate excluded

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GABRIEL Polley, WRP candidate for Norwich South was prevented from speaking at the Election hustings at the University of East Anglia last Thursday. Gabriel...

NEW ECONOMIC CRASH WILL DWARF 2008! – warn 58 economists

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A GROUP of economists issued an open letter yesterday warning that Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s planned financial deregulation bill will lead to an economic...

School And Market Targeted As Israeli Genocide Escalates

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‘BOMBARDMENT is overwhelming the entire Gaza Strip, with no respite since the early hours of this morning,’ Palestinians reported from Gaza yesterday. At least nine...

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...
Workers at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, on the first day of their two-day strike in a bitter struggle against the privateer ISS

Woolwich Hospital two-day strike

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WORKERS at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich in south east London were on strike yesterday and are striking again today in a bitter struggle...

‘Schools can only remain open where it is safe for them to do so!’...

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Dr Patrick Roach, General Secretary of the NASUWT teachers union, has called on the government to take further action on school safety in light...

Tories slam door on child refugees

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THE TORY government issued a written Home Office statement on Wednesday saying it is closing the door on child refugees at the end of...
BMA GPs committee member BETH McCARRON-NASH, GPs committee chairman Dr LAURENCE BUCKMAN, GPs committee member Dr PRIT BUTTAR, and BMA Patient Liason Group member NATALIE TEICH before handing in a 1,236,085-signature petition to Downing Street

DARZAI MUST RESIGN! – says the GPs conference!

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FAMILY doctors yesterday expressed their furious opposition to privately-run polyclinics and voted to take ‘unprecedented action’ in response to ‘unprecedented political threats to general...
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...

150 Unis ballot for strike action!

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THE UCU (University and College Union) begins balloting members today for strike action at over 150 universities across the country, with higher education set...
Half a million public sector workers demonstrated in London against the Tory-LibDem coalition on 26th March 2011

No Fault Dismissals ‘a Bad Bosses Charter!’

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‘NO fault dismissal will allow employers to sack people where their faces don’t fit,’ Paul Kenny, leader of the GMB public service union warned...
A strong and cheerful mass picket at Chase Farm Hospital on Christmas Eve morning – more than ready to occupy the hospital in the event of closure

Trafford A&E closure plan

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THE Trafford strategic programme board has announced its support for closing the A&E at Trafford General Hospital, the hospital from which Nye Bevan launched...

Jenin refugee camp ‘completely destroyed’

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‘THE Israeli occupation has completely destroyed the Jenin refugee camp and forcibly displaced over 20,000 Palestinian residents, leaving behind their homes, personal documents and...

260 DEAD IN KENYAN FIGHTING – after Presidential election rigged

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As the death toll rose to 260, EU monitors yesterday cast doubts on the results of Kenya’s disputed presidential vote. This stepped up the pressure...
Marchers determined to stop the closure of the A&E and maternity services at Whittington hospital in north London

Bma Pensions Action Ballot!

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Doctors will be balloted on industrial action short of a strike, after the government failed to return to meaningful talks on NHS pensions, the...

Pathology Privatisation Fiasco

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The Serco-led public-private partnership which runs London’s St Thomas’ and Kings College hospitals’ path labs, GSTS Pathology, has run into trouble having made a...

Israel committing horrific Gaza massacres

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IN less than 12 hours, the Israeli occupation army committed horrific massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip, killing over 100 of them, including...

Israel Planning Iran April Strike

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US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a ‘strong likelihood’ that Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear installations this spring, the Washington Post said...
The government has rescued the bankers by making the lives of workers and students almost impossible

RBS TO SACK 2,000 –as economic crisis bites

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Panic gripped investors in the world’s stock markets yesterday as bank shares were hit hard. Share prices on the London stock market slumped...

‘We need to escalate the action’ say striking bin workers

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‘WE NEED to escalate the action,' striking Birmingham bin workers at their Perry Bar picket line told News Line early yesterday morning. The 370 striking...

Israel still obstructing vital supplies for Palestine!

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THE United Nations has renewed its call to expand humanitarian operations in the Gaza Strip, stressing that Israeli restrictions continue to block vital supplies...

‘TROUBLE AHEAD FOR MAY’ – warns the ERG’s Steve Baker

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TORY MP Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Eurosceptic group the European Research Group (ERG), warned yesterday there is ‘trouble ahead’ for May. He tweeted:...

REJECT JUNIOR DOCTORS CONTRACT! – says the Doctors’ Association

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THE Doctors’ Association (DAUK) has refused to endorse the junior doctor contract deal agreed by the BMA and the government, warning that some members...

Sick Babies Besieged By Israeli Snipers!

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EVERY hospital in Gaza City is out of service, with 36 premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital facing death within 48 hours because there is...

BLAIR THREATENS IRAN – as US battlegroups move into position

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PM BLAIR yesterday threatened that if the 15 Royal Navy personnel held by Iran for trespassing in Iranian waters are not released soon,...
Postal workers and local residents protest against the closure of Mill Hill Post Office in north London

Post strike warning – as 3,000 more jobs face axe

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Strike action ‘very close to the scale of the (1980s) miners strike, if not bigger’ is unavoidable – unless management withdraws attacks on the...

Free Palestine! No war on Iran! – demand 350,000 on London march

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OVER 350,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Downing Street on Saturday, in one of the largest demonstrations...

‘Overthrow government if you will!’ – Greek Finance Minister challenges opponents

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THE Greek Interior Minister, Christos Kastanidis, has issued a press release/edict stating that the wages of all local government workers would be withheld unless...

Halt arms sales to Israel

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LABOUR leader Corbyn, on Friday has called upon the UK to freeze arms sales to Israel and to condemn it for killing Palestinian civilians...

Newham ambulance staff fighting to win!

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Ambulance staff demonstrated outside Newham Hospital in East London yesterday against the imposition of grossly inferior un-negotiated new contracts, and demanding that they be...

Syria condemns Turkish piracy!

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SYRIAN transport minister Mahmoud Saeed yesterday accused Turkey of ‘air piracy’ over its forcing down of a Syria-bound passenger aircraft travelling from Russia. Turkish jet...
Part of a mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital on Tuesday to prevent its A&E and Maternity departments being closed

Bma Debates Call For Industrial Action

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The BMA Consul-tants Conference yesterday heard a call for trade union action to defend the NHS from cuts and privatisation. Moving Motion 138 from North-East...
A section of the Tamil demonstration in Parliament Square yesterday afternoon

‘WE WERE ATTACKED BY SEVERAL HUNDRED POLICE’ say Tamil protesters

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ONE THOUSAND Tamil protesters congregated in Westminster Square yesterday afternoon, in defiance of Monday night’s violent Metropolitan Police attack on them in which at...
Locked-out Vivergo workers from Hull marching in London last month for support for their struggle. One of their union officials has been arrested

GMB official arrested

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A GMB National Officer was arrested at the protest against the lockout of 430 workers at BP Saltend, in Hull yesterday morning. GMB national officer...

Labour’s warm welcome for May!

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THE ONLY MP in the House of Commons to call for Tory PM May to resign yesterday was a Tory. William Cash Tory MP for...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers speaking to TGWU EC member IGGY VAID who was victimised by the management after BA baggage handlers took unofficial strike action to support the locked-out workers on August 11th & 12th 2005

GG workers lobby TGWU leaders

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GATE Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the General Council of the TGWU yesterday morning. They called on their union leadership to reinstate their hardship payments,...
Tenants marching on London’s City all demanding more council homes

Housing Benefit Tenants Being Turned Away

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LETTING agents are discriminating against tenants on housing benefit, an undercover investigation has found. Shelter and the National Housing Federation found one-in-ten agents in England...