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CAPITALISM IS SICK – admits Mandelson

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NEW Business Secretary Peter Mandelson admitted yesterday that he had checked in with his old boss Tony Blair before he agreed to take up...
WIL, MOHAMMED and RICARDO, three unemployed youth were fully in support of the defence of GM Luton jobs by an occupation

ANGER IN LUTON – over 20-hour week plan

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A MASSIVE anger is growing at GM Luton and throughout the town against the threatened closure of the car plant. Workers at GM Luton were...

‘A generalised attack on working people’ – RMT leader Lynch

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THE RMT rail union announced yesterday that it is to put a new offer from Network Rail to members in an electronic referendum with...
Mounted police charge at sacked printers marching to News International’s Wapping Fortress during the 1986-87 printers struggle for jobs and union rights

Coulson In Custody!

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Police investigating phone hacking and corruption allegations yesterday arrested former News of the World editor Andy Coulson. Former News of the World royal editor Clive...

Corbyn wants Customs Union & Single Market

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‘THERE is no deal which comes without a backstop and without a backstop there is no deal,’ Tory PM May said yesterday afternoon while...
Greek museum workers’ and secondary school teachers’ banners on the coordinated trade union march last Thursday

Greek workers and youth on the way to an unprising!

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ATHENS – Greek workers and youth are on the road to an uprising! Mass rallies and demonstrations are taking place throughout Greece as part of...
Residents of Newham take to the streets to condemn the police shooting of Muhammad Abdul Kahar during an assault on the family home in the early hours of June 2 this year

Muslims Take Reid To Task

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HOME Secretary John Reid was denounced as a ‘tyrant’ on a visit to east London yesterday, where he delivered a speech against ‘Islamic extremism’. A...
Demonstrators in London last May determined to defend the NHS

BMA rejects NHS charging

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) is today warning against NHS charging. Responding to Lord Warner’s call to introduce charging patients a monthly fee to...

Biden discussing plans to strike Iranian oil industry

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US President Joe Biden has stated that his administration is ‘discussing’ potential Israeli plans to strike Iran’s oil industry in response to the recent...
Striking BA cabin crew marching defiantly through Heathrow – are demanding that Unite names the dates for more strike actions to win their dispute

BAA MASSIVE STRIKE VOTE – as Cameron puts the boot in

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Unite union members working for British Airports Authority (BAA) have voted overwhelmingly for strike action, the union announced at a press conference yesterday afternoon. The...
Demonstrators show their determination to get wage rises that match or are bigger than the rate of inflation

‘Students and lecturers on the streets – this is just the start!’

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OVER 2,000 FE lecturers, staff and students marched through central London yesterday demanding fair funding for colleges. They demanded fair pay for FE lecturers,...

Millions of American workers fight health privateers and mass sackings

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OVER 46,000 US healthcare workers have gone on strike against private health provider Kaiser Permanente. 31,000 United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) members...
Grenfell Tower survivors demanding justice – many consider that they will not get it from the current establishment-dominated inquiry

‘THE NIGHTMARE IS CONTINUING!’ –‘Inquiry’ angers survivors

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‘THE NIGHTMARE continues as it was like the first night,’ Shah Aghlani, who lost his mother and aunt in the Grenfell fire, said...

‘We Need Our Hardship Pay’

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‘THE TGWU leaders are doing everything they can to try to make us give up the fight and sign the Compromise Agreement but we...
Part of Saturday’s 1,000-strong demonstration showed the determination to stop the closure of the Royal Brompton Hospital life-saving heart and lung disease services

Tory NHS plans = ‘mission impossible’ – ‘We fear for patients safety’ – Hopson

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NHS services in England are facing a ‘mission impossible’ to meet the standards required by the government, warns NHS Providers, which represents hospital, mental...

BA WANTS A WAR! – says Tony Woodley

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched a back-stabbing attack on the British Airways workers and their union, demanding that their strike planned to...

‘It’s Everybody’s NHS! All Unions Must Defend It!’

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NURSES were yesterday striking at many hospitals in England, all but one health board in Wales and the whole of Northern Ireland, for the...
Young Socialists members joined BMW carworkers on the picket line in Oxford during their last strike in April

BMW workers reject pension offer

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BMW car workers, in a ballot, the results of which were announced yesterday, have rejected the ‘pension offer’ which would see the closure of...

Hunt’s budget – a war on jobs and services! budget today!

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THE LOCAL Government Association condemned Chancellor Hunt’s attempt to dress up his budget onslaught on public services as a ‘war on woke’ yesterday, pointing...

BURNHAM RESIGN! – demand Mid-Staffs relatives

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CUTBACKS, implemented in order to comply with the government’s drive for Foundation Trusts, were to blame for the unnecessary deaths of more than 400...
Ten thousand turned out in Ealing on September 15 on the march to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital

Hunt signals more NHS cuts

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THE British Medical Association yesterday expressed concern for the future of the NHS, after Health Secretary Hunt signalled more savage cuts. A BMA spokesperson said:...
London Met demonstration fighting against cuts – it now faces closure with over 2,000 of its foreign students under 60 days notice of deportation

Don’t Deport Students

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THE NUS, UCU and Unison yesterday condemned the Home Office attack on London Metropolitan University and its international students, and demanded that not a...

Belgian General Strike

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‘A nation has been brought to a stop by the will of its workers and unions, who have today decisively rejected one-sided austerity measures.’ An...
Gate Gourmet pickets on the hill at Heathrow yesterday determined to defeat mass sackings

‘We’ve been sold out’ – say Gate Gourmet workers

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ANGRY Gate Gourmet workers were on the picket line yesterday after Wednesday’s sell-out deal between the Transport and General Workers’ Union leaders, TUC leaders...
Lively picket of Serco strikers outside the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, yesterday

Solid Support For Serco Strike

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PATIENTS, nurses, doctors and other hospital staff stopped to support the striking Serco workers on their picket line outside the Royal London Hospital in...

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...

STOP TEARING NHS APART! – UNISON tells Blair and Hewitt

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UNISON has called on Health Secretary Hewitt to ‘stop tearing the NHS apart’. Speaking ahead of yesterday’s publication of the government’s health White Paper, the...
World Against War demonstration in London in March this year, demanding immediate withdrawal of all British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan

Thousands of UK troops for Obama’s Afghan surge

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Defence Secretary Hutton has said that further increases in UK troop levels in Afghanistan cannot be ruled out. He said that Britain would consider...

52 Palestinians killed!

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ON THURSDAY alone, at least 52 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza. Eighteen were massacred in Jabalia when a residential home sheltering displaced...

UK Martial Law plan

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A REPORT published in error on National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) website and quickly taken down, has revealed a secret plan for the deployment...
Firefighters are defending their pensions, jobs and fire stations all over the country

‘We will stop these cuts!’ – Welsh FBU defending firefighters’ jobs

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MORE than 220 firefighters’ jobs in north Wales are threatened with being axed if £3.3m is not found over the next five years, the...

‘British government must issue medical visas for injured children from the Gaza Strip!’

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A PARLIAMENTARY session in Westminster has called on the British government to urgently issue medical visas for injured children from Gaza, enabling them to...

Junior Doctors 72-hr walk-out on March 13th

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THE BMA yesterday announced the dates for a 72 hour walk out by Junior Doctors in England, saying that Health Secretary, Steve Barclay has...
TGWU leader TONY WOODLEY was reminded by Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on May1st that their struggle was very much ongoing

MARCH WITH THE LOCKED-OUT GATE GOURMET WORKERS – through Southall on August 20

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THE Transport and General Workers Union yesterday issued a warning that one year after 800 workers were sacked at Gate Gourmet the ‘dispute could...
A section of the massive rally at Hyde Park. Over 200,000 took part in the march and many called for the trade unions to match their words with action

Palestinians examining 72-hour ceasefire proposal

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PALESTINIAN negotiators in Cairo said yesterday they were examining an Egyptian proposal for a new, three-day cease-fire with Israel. ‘There is a proposal for another...
Students on Saturday’s demonstration in Manchester against cuts and tuition fees demand that the government be brought down

Students And Unions March Against Fees

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TEN thousand workers and youth marched through the centre of Manchester to a rally in Platts Fields on Saturday, against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s...

Cable tells Vauxhall plants . . . YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN!

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BUSINESS Secretary Cable has warned General Motors that the planned development of the Ellesmere Port and Luton car plants will not get government support. This...

UNIONS AGREE WELSH NHS PAY DEAL! – Monday’s Welsh strike action cancelled

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HEALTH unions have agreed a separate deal on pay for NHS workers in Wales, meaning they will not be taking part in Monday’s four-hour...

RCN warns cuts could put patient safety at risk!

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) is warning that cuts to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) could put patient safety at risk and undermine the...

St Mungo’s 10 weeks on strike – as rough sleeping soars

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TEN weeks into their indefinite strike for a 10% pay increase, over 200 St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers and their supporters held a festival...
15,000 teachers on yesterday’s march determined to save state education by bringing down Gove and Tory-led coalition

GOVE MUST GO! – demand 15,000 teachers

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‘GOVE must go!’ was the common chant of tens of thousands of teachers taking part in a second series of joint NUT-NASUWT regional strikes...

‘No depths to which P&O will not sink!’ says RMT’s Mick Lynch

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‘THERE are no depths to which P&O and their Dubai owners at DP World will not sink to extract the maximum profit from ferry...

‘The government needs to make a credible offer!’ says Junior Doctors Chair Rob Lawrenson

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‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to sit down and make a credible offer so we have a health system that works,’ BMA Junior Doctors Committee Co-Chair,...
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...

Immediate, unconditional, permanent ceasefire! – demand 25 countries including the UK!

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THE UK and 24 other countries issued a joint statement yesterday calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza, declaring: ‘We, the...