The South-East London Council of Action marching to defend council tenants on the threatened Heygate Estate, Elephant and Castle

Labour May End Secure Tenancies – Attack On Council Housing Condemned By Ucatt And...

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CONSTRUCTION union UCATT has labelled proposals by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), to end secure tenancies and all other current council tenancies in...

Record top grades for private schools – huge social gap in education

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THE FORMER schools ‘catch-up tsar’, Sir Kevan Collins, says he is worried about the vast gap in in the just announced A-level results between...
GPs campaigning in east London to stop the closure and privatisation of GP surgeries

Cut emergency admissions or face elderly care cuts! – GPs told

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GPs have been told by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) they will have to hit targets for cutting emergency admission rates. If they do not they...
One of the six lively picket lines of UCU strikers at Imperial College with students showing their support for the strike

64 Universities Pensions Strike

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‘WHAT do we want? Fair pensions! How do we get it? Strike! Strike! Strike!’ students and lecturers at Sheffield University shouted yesterday while taking...
Youth on the Gaza border with Israel determined to liberate the whole of Palestine

‘We Will Liberate Palestine!’

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THE HAMAS resistance movement says it will not agree to the creation of a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip, warning that US President...

Defend West Hendon Homes!

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TENANTS and residents at the West Hendon Estate in Barnet, North West London, are holding a meeting, a march and a giant banner drop...

‘International community must make a stand’

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IN the wake of the unlawful US aggression against the peaceful Iranian nuclear sites, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday called on the international...
25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE

25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE

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Sunday 23rd January 2.00-6.00pm St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)
Teachers and their supporters demanding ‘save our pensions’. More public sector workers are expected to join the struggle in the coming months

Pensions Strikes

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AHEAD of today’s TUC Congress, the leaders of two of the country’s biggest unions warned that their members’ anger over cuts in their jobs,...

Widespread winter blackouts! – nine power stations are to close

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WITH nine power stations closing, the GMB warned yesterday about government ‘complacency’ and potential ‘widespread power blackouts’. The government’s secret plans, called ‘Operation Black Start’,...
Demonstration to defend the NHS marching from Bart’s Hospital on Thursday evening

NHS AT RISK! – warns Public Accounts Committee

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MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned that the disproportionate growth in spending on specialised services poses a risk to the financial...

Thousands of Sudanese marching in London!

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THOUSANDS of Sudanese workers and students are marching in London today demanding an end to the war in Sudan. In a statement, ‘London for Sudan’...
Unite banners assemble on London’s Embankment at the front of Saturday’s 150,000-strong march

150,000 marchers demand action to kick out Tories!

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150,000 WORKERS, trade unionists, students and youth marched from Embankment to Hyde Park in central London on the TUC’s ‘Britain Needs a Pay Rise’...
Gambians told News Line there were still 80 people on death row in their country awaiting execution by order of the President

Gambians March On Downing Street

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OVER 200 Gambians and supporters marched from Parliament to the Commonwealth Headquarters in Pall Mall calling for the ousting of President Alhaji JJJ Jerehmeh...
A section of last Friday’s 10,000-strong demonstration outside the Israeli embassy in London demanding an end to the Israeli onslaught on Gaza

Rafah school shelled!

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TEN Palestinians were killed on Sunday after Israeli shells hit a UN school in Rafah where thousands of people were sheltering from the ongoing...

Doctors dangerously tired! BMA launches ‘Sleep Charter’

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DOCTORS must have at least 46 hours rest after a string of night shifts in order to combat fatigue at work, according to a...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers discussing with Unite union co-leader Derek Simpson who said ‘if there is injustice I am very concerned’

Tuc Delegates Support General Strike Call

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ON the opening day of the TUC conference in Manchester yesterday a lively 50 strong lobby of Workers Revolutionary Party and Young socialists members...

Elderly Health Care Is Not Good Enough!

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Eight out of ten doctors believe healthcare services for older people are not good enough, according to a British Medical Association (BMA) survey...

Farage Won’t Stand Against Tories

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THE Brexit Party, led by Nigel Farage, announced on Monday that it will not be standing candidates in the 317 seats won by the...

Scottish Water 2-Day Strike Action

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WORKERS employed by Scottish Water are staging a two-day strike amid a continued dispute over pay. Members of the unions Unite, GMB and Unison are...

Very Unconvincing Military Accuses Iran

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BRITISH military chiefs yesterday once again put their soldiers in the front line, this time to face the world’s media to try to explain...

NHS 50,000 Doctors Short!

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THE NHS is 50,000 doctors short new British Medical Association (BMA) re-search released yesterday has found. The number of doctors in England has fallen even...

‘US aggression will not force open the Strait of Hormuz’

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IRAN’s Army spokesman has warned the United States that no measure of American aggression will force the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, following Tehran’s...

Gaza’s Children Going Back To School

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EDUCATION is resuming for 300,000 Palestinian students in the Gaza Strip after two years of the Israeli genocide war, with 8,000 teachers coming back...
North East London Council of Action demonstration in Enfield last June demanding that Chase Farm Hospital be kept open

ONE IN THREE A&Es TO CLOSE

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One in three NHS accident and emergency departments could close across London, documents seen by the BBC have revealed. Eleven A&E units are under threat...
Lively and determined London Underground workers picketing Mayor Johnson’s City Hall offices demanding their jobs back

Justice For The 33!

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‘WE ARE here to stand up for the hard working people, we are abused and refused, we have been roundly abused numerous times,’ Hared...

TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE – Corbyn slams pre-trial no jury courts

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Government plans for secret no-jury ‘pre-trial’ trials before ‘security cleared’ judges are ‘totally unacceptable’ Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn told News Line yesterday. He added: ‘All...

G8 WILL NOT MAKE POVERTY HISTORY – admits Blair

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‘Blair is no saviour for the African people,’ G8 Alternatives movement spokesman Mike Arnott told News Line yesterday. He was responding to Blair’s statement on...
Seafarers with their union banner calling for a ‘block to fascism’ at the head of Thursday’s march in Kokkinia, Athens

Greek Teachers Vote For 5-Day Strike

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GREEK teachers voted on Thursday by clear majorities for another five-day national strike starting Monday. The final decision will be taken by the OLME (teachers’...

TUC must call a General Strike! – the message from CWU picket lines

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THE TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!' was the message from the CWU picket...
Up to 100 members and supporters of the Pakistan Peoples Party gathered outside the Pakistan embassy yesterday afternoon. They told News Line that the Musharraf regime and its agents were responsible for the murder of Benazir Bhutto

‘WE WILL TAKE REVENGE ON RULERS!’ – Nawaz Sharif tells crowds

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At least thirty people were killed as President Musharraf yesterday called out the army to restore order in the cities as violent protests spread...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers marching during their Xmas picket at Heathrow last Sunday

BUNCEFIELD INQUIRY – prohibition notices served on oil companies

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THE Health and Safety Commission (HSC) yesterday announced the official inquiry into the Buncefield oil depot fire. HSC chairman Bill Callaghan told a press conference...

Notts College Industrial Action Ballot

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MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at Nottingham College began balloting for industrial action yesterday as part of a row over new...
Teachers marching in London on Tuesday against the Coalition’s attacks on their jobs, pay and conditions

Tens of thousands of teachers strike – ‘We are defending education’

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TENS of thousands of teachers across the North West took strike action yesterday. This was a further step in the NASUWT and NUT teacher unions’...

Workers Rise Up Over Gm Magna Plans

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• 20,000 march in Zaragossa • Thousands mass in Antwerp today • 1400-1800 jobs to go in UK TODAY tens of thousands of angry GM workers and...
Pensioners and trade unionists at a Trafalgar Square rally. They are determined to defend all public services

‘MANIFESTO TO BREAK UP PUBLIC SERVICES’ – as Southern Cross goes bust

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‘This is nothing less than a manifesto to break up our public services, smuggled out while all attention is focused on the misdeeds of...

Worst US unemployment since Great Depression – 3.3 million Americans jobless

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FIGURES released yesterday show that 3.3 million Americans have filed for unemployment, the worst jobless figures since the Great Depression of the 1930s after...
Supporters of the Carnegie Library in Lambeth gather outside on Saturday night in support of the round-the-clock occupation inside the building

Carnegie Library in Herne Hill is occupied

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CARNEGIE Library in Herne Hill, south London, is occupied. Over 30 people, including campaigners, supporters and local people have been in occupation since Lambeth...
Greek worker has a clear idea how to remedy the banking crisis

Greek Slump – Consumption Falls By 16.6%

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THE Greek economy fell further into deep recession in the first quarter of the year, according to the Greek Statistics Authority (EL.STAT.) who announced...
CWU pickets in Luton yesterday morning

PCS Offers ‘full Support’ To Royal Mail Strikers!

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THE PCS General Secretary and National President sent a message of solidarity to striking CWU members in the Royal Mail yesterday. Their message, to CWU...

Euro Crisis Crunch Time

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US TREASURY Secretary Timothy Geithner held emergency meetings with German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi yesterday. Markets had...

Nurses Very Angry Over The Big Pay Sell-Out!

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THE HEAD of the Royal College of Nursing has apologised after nurses in England complained of being ‘misled’ over the new pay deal. The union...
A section of the 220,000-strong crowd assembling for the march in Marseille yesterday

French General Strike

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PARIS – French workers are on strike again today and staging rallies to protest the government’s bid to raise the retirement age from 60...

US Bombers Kill 70 Iraqis

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US warplanes and helicopter gunships have carried out punishment raids on two villages near Ramadi, killing at least 40 Iraqi civilians. In a statement yesterday,...