The PAME strike rally in Athens

Greek Tuc Scabs On General Strike Action

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THOUSANDS of Greek workers and students took part in rallies and demonstrations last Thursday in a one-day general strike called by several trade unions...

‘We’re here for battle with our union’

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‘WE’RE here to meet the general secretary Tony Woodley regarding the mis-handling of the dispute with an anti-union employer, ICTS UK,’ sacked Belfast International...

Tuc Condemns Attack On Single Parents

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The TUC and single parent charity Gingerbread yesterday condemned the Work and Pensions Secretary Purnell’s decision to press ahead with ‘welfare to work’ plans...
Student nurses and midwives marching to demand their bursaries are restored – on A-level results day figures reveal student applications for nursing have plummeted

Students driven out of university

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AXING student grants while hiking up university fees to an eyewatering £9,500 a year has driven tens of thousands of students out of education,...

Greek police fire teargas at 200,000 workers

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Greek police fired teargas and attacked 200,000 workers and youth outside parliament yesterday who were seeking to prevent MPs entering parliament to vote on...

BMA ‘WHITE PAPER’ CRISIS! – ditches its unconditional support

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THE mounting anger of GPs and consultants over the Lansley NHS White Paper has forced the British Medical Association (BMA) Council to retreat from...

Greek Students Stage A Huge National March!

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GREEK students staged a huge national march in Athens last Thursday against a government Bill to establish private universities while shutting down or merging...
The picket line yesterday morning at Chase Farm – there was a very good response to the proposal to occupy to stop closure

Occupy To Keep Chase Farm Open

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MATERNITY staff at Chase Farm Hospital joined the North East London Council of Action picket yesterday to demand paediatrics, A&E and maternity services are...

COUNCIL TAX HIKE! –families’ bills set to rise by up to £600 a year

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LOW-INCOME families will see their council tax bills rise by up to £600 a year from April, warns a report by the Resolution Foundation. The...

Half A Million Are Starving In Gaza!

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MORE than half a million people are starving in Gaza, the United Nations Relief Works and Agency (UNRWA), World Food Programme (WFP) and Gaza’s...
NHS trade unionists marching in London on November 3rd to defend the NHS against the privateers

£300 TO CHANGE A SOCKET! – unions slam ‘obscene’ PFI profits

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Public sector unions yesterday condemned the huge fees being charged for making ‘operational changes’ to contracts by PFI privateers. This followed a National Audit Office...

Turkish workers strike – as deputy PM Arinc apologises

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The Turkish government split yesterday in the face of mass uprisings and a general strike by Turkish workers and youth. In Ankara, the Deputy...

Fire cuts hampering flood response

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FIRE and rescue services currently responding to the floods in northern England are hampered by the unprecedented cuts they have suffered over the...

Saddam Lynching Anger Silences Blair

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ONE WEEK after the execution of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Prime Minister Blair has again refused to comment on the lynching. He said yesterday, trying...

Support floods in for Gate Gourmet conference

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THE locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow have stepped up their campaigning ahead of the News Line-Gate Gourmet conference in London this Sunday. On Wednesday...
The North East London Council of Action is continuing to fight for the reopening of Chase Farm A&E whose closure has already cost lives

HOSPITALS WILL CLOSE AFTER 2015 ELECTION! – warns King’s Fund charity

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THE NHS will face an unprecedented financial crisis in 2015-16,, just after the general election, the King’s Fund charity warned yesterday. In its quarterly...
Students and lecturers marching in London last November against the introducton of £9,000 tuition fees

Pension Strikes At 63 Universities

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‘Well over a million students at 63 UK universities will be hit with strike action this month unless a dispute over changes to staff...

NO LIFTING OF LOCKDOWN! – until Covid infections fall to less than 1,000 a...

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TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...

‘Patients treated on trolleys’ – crisis intensifies

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‘TREATING patients on corridor trolleys should belong to a bygone era. Ministers must stop us heading back there at all costs. ‘It’s undignified and less...
Kherson engineering workers have called on workers throughout the Ukraine to support their struggle

Kherson workers occupy – call for workers councils

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The labour collective occupying the Kherson engineering factory has issued a decree appealing to the ‘Workers of Ukraine’. The decree says: ‘We understand that we...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the TGWU office in Hillingdon yesterday demanding that they get their promised hardship pay. On the right mrs Mundy is forced to struggle into the office on crutches following a knee operation in order to register

Pay Up Hardship Money

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MORE Gate Gourmet locked-out workers went to the Hillingdon Transport and General Workers Union Region One office yesterday to register their claim for February’s...

193 Palestinians killed in 24hrs by Israeli forces!

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A TOTAL of 193 Palestinians were killed in 16 massacres perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces over the last 24 hours in the Gaza...

ASLEF calls July 8 Tube strike

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ASLEF has announced a July 8 strike on London Underground after members voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over pay and...

Braverman Calls To Use Full Force Of The Law Against Hamas Supporters

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TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman called for the police to ‘use the full force of the law’ against displays of support for Hamas yesterday. Braverman...

160,000 CWU members take action & government collapses – A great day!

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SOME 160,000 CWU members took action at thousands of UK workplaces on Thursday, other unions visited our lively pickets and the government collapses into...

Russia accuses the West of using sanctions to steal its gold and foreign exchange...

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RUSSIA has accused Western countries of using sanctions to steal the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves amid the raging war in Ukraine. Asked about...

750,000 Homes At Risk! – From Housing Benefit Cuts

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More than 750,000 people are at risk of losing their homes in London and the south east because of caps being introduced on housing...

‘Hormuz unbearable for the US’ – ‘Marines will end up in an abattoir’

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IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned yesterday that the situation in the Strait of Hormuz is becoming ‘unbearable’ for the United States, while...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers at the TUC, demanding  union leaders who will fight, and action against the venture capitalists

RENATIONALISATION – demands TUC Congress

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DELEGATES to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) yesterday voted overwhelmingly to demand the re-nationalisation of public utilities, in opposition to the TUC leadership’s ‘reservations’. TUC...
The Young Socialists Students Societies taking part in yesterday’s march against fees

‘All-out strike to make education free’

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‘STUDENTS and lecturers must go out on strike, in fact, I am for an all-out strike, to ensure education is free,’ said Dalia Giuaballa,...

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...

Greek Hauliers Defy Emergency Order

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Hundreds of striking lorry drivers and hauliers clashed with Greek police in Athens, all day yesterday. Truckers and their surporters have been lining the highways...

Refugees unlawfully imprisoned in Napier – High Court rules Home Office broke the law!

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IN A CRITICAL and damning judgment, the Home Office’s decision to house asylum seekers who had made it across the Channel in a ‘squalid’...
Picket line outside the Gate Gourmet factory yesterday morning

800 sacked – Given 3 minutes notice at Gate Gourmet

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‘Eight hundred workers at the gate gourmet airline catering company have been sacked,’ Tony Woodley told a press conference at the TGWU offices in...
A section of the mass lobby of the TUC General Council yesterday, who had been asked by the PCS and FBU to call a Day of Action in support of junior doctors

Take Action To Support Doctors!

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‘VICTORY to the junior doctors – kick the Tories out! TUC get off your knees – call a general strike! No privatisation – defend...

90 Birmingham bin strikers rally outside Parliament – won’t accept any pay cuts

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NINETY Birmingham bin strikers came down on a double-decker bus to London to a Unite union rally outside Parliament yesterday afternoon. Strike leader Mike Masters...
Ritzy and Curzon cinema workers marching to City Hall yesterday afternoon demanding the London Living Wage of £8.50 an hour

Marching For A Living Wage!

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RITZY Cinema workers, on their ninth day of strike action, marched with 200 supporters and trade unionists from the British Film Institute (BFI) yesterday. What...

Postal Workers Demand Action – As Junior Minister Resigns

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‘We are fighting the government and business now,’ said Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region No.6 branch secretary Paul Olden yesterday. Commenting on the government’s...

Nurses Ready To Strike Over Pay–Ballot Shows

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THE VAST majority of nurses are prepared to strike over pay, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday as it announced a ‘summer...

Birmingham Labour Council attacks striking binworkers

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‘IF the council take out an injunction we have to stand strong. They are trying to kill our spirit,’ striking Birmingham binworker Ali Chidodo...
With their mouths bound with white cloth, Tamil workers and youth continued their daily struggle outside Parliament to get the Labour Government to broker a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, this time with a ‘protest of silence’

Hospital Hit For Third Time In A Week

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TAMILNET reports that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) have fired artillery shells into the makeshift hospital in Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal East, killing at least...
Some of the 300 demonstrators outside the Whittington Hospital yesterday lunchtime who are determined it will not be closed

Keep Whittington Open!

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Over 300 people rallied outside the Whittington Hospital, north London, yesterday lunchtime, against the closure of the hospital’s A&E and maternity departments. Organisers ‘Defend the...
A section of the RMT demonstration to the TUC on October 23 last year demanding action against the coalition government’s cuts

‘WE WILL NOT CHANGE COURSE’ – Cameron challenges trade unions

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Prime Minister Cameron yesterday refused to rule out increases in fuel duty, and said the VAT increase to 20 per cent is here to...

BAGHDAD REJECTS WALL! – as US and Iraqi puppets continue to build it

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IRAQI opposition to the US plan to build a sectarian wall in a Baghdad district hardened yesterday, with street protests taking place in both...
Labour has already shut down 30 Remploy factories, putting large numbers of disabled workers out of a job

LABOUR, THE BANKERS FRIEND – turns on the unemployed

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‘With the economy slowing down, and many commentators expecting unemployment to rise, now is not the time to start blaming the victim,’ said TUC...