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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:...
Part of the huge crowd outside the ERT building

Greece In Revolution!

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TENS of thousands of Greek workers, youth and unemployed took part in a general strike rally yesterday in front of the occupied ERT (Greek...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaigning on Southall High Street with KIRAN GILL (extreme left) and THOMAS MURPHY

Big Support For Gate Gourmet Workers Meeting!

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Gate Gourmet locked-out workers were campaigning yesterday on Southall Broadway near Heathrow Airport for their public meeting on Sunday November 5th. The meeting is being...

Unemployment highest in 5 years!

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UNEMPLOYMENT in the UK rose to its highest rate in nearly five years at the end of 2025, official figures show. The unemployment rate climbed...

President Abbas meets Blinken in Ramallah!

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‘WE THANK the US for the support given to the State of Palestine,’ President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday at a joint press conference with...
Marchers in Enfield last November determined to defend the NHS and stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

62% Don’t trust coalition on NHS!

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A You Gov poll commissioned by Unison reveals that the majority (62 per cent) of the public do not trust the government to handle...

Rafah Warning – Israeli Attack Will Murder Thousands!

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THE GOVERNMENT Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip has warned of ‘a catastrophe and a massacre that could leave tens of thousands martyred...
London FBU members lobbying against fire service cuts

FBU Condemns Strike- Breaking Force!

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‘London Fire Authority are paying £12m over five years for what is in effect a strike-breaking force. ‘We are unequivocally opposed to it, it’s a...

Victory to the Crown Post Office strikers!

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‘THE 97.3% strike vote shows the anger of our members and their determination to defeat the pay freeze,’ Mole Meade, Communication Workers Union (CWU)...
The ERT is still not for sale

Ert Fight At Critical Stage

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THE occupation of the Greek State TV and Radio network building HQs (ERT) completed eight days and nights on Tuesday and has entered a...
Students from the Kareas Athens district stating ‘No to the government’s New School Bill’

School students march in Athens

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THOUSANDS of school pupils and student protesters in Athens tried to breach the barricades in front of the parliament building last Thursday. They faced...
Civil servants on the picket line during their national strike on January 31

20,000 Civil Servants On Strike Today!

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Approximately 20,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Identity and Passports Service (IPS)...

FBU issued cladding warning eight years before the Grenfell Inferno!

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THE government did not act on advice from the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to issue ‘a warning to housing providers’ about the danger of...

MARCH WITH US THROUGH SOUTHALL say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to join them on their march through Southall on Sunday December...

NHS rationing hitting the elderly – warn surgeons

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RATIONING is denying many thousands of patients much-needed surgery, leaving them in excruciating, unnecessary pain as NHS trusts proscribe certain procedures in unofficial ‘local...

Campaign to aid & rebuild Gaza Strip began Sunday

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MORE than 80 countries and institutions are participating in an international campaign to aid and rebuild the Gaza Strip, following the ceasefire that came...

‘NHS is in distress’

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‘OUR NHS is in distress’, Royal College of GPs (RCGP) Chair Dr Clare Gerada has warned. Addressing nearly 2,000 GPs and health professionals at the...
Students joined lecturers’ picket line during their strike action earlier this month

Gate Gourmet workers win support for march

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers are campaigning every day for their march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th March. Lakhinder Saran told News Line yesterday: ‘I went...

Israeli tank deliberately runs over an injured Palestinian mother!

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A GENEVA-based rights group has documented a new Israeli war crime in the Gaza Strip, where an occupation tank deliberately ran over an injured...

‘WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN!’ says Consultants Chair Vishal Sharma

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THE government made the final offer and said “no more talks”. We are united, stronger together. We cannot and will not back down,’ Consultants...

Go North West bus drivers strike against Fire & Rehire on lower pay

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Scores of striking Go North West bus drivers massed outside the company’s Queens Road depot in Manchester yesterday, on the first day of their...
Students joined lecturers on the picket line at Aberdeen University yesterday morning demanding the UCU does not capitulate – by 4pm the deal had been rejected

NO CAPITULATION! – proposed deal thrown out – strikes back on!

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A DEAL between the University College Union (UCU) leadership and University UK (UUK) has been thrown out and the lecturers strikes are back on! This...

Murdoch-Farage Out To Get Cameron

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FORMER Surrey Police officer Alan Tierney, 40, yesterday admitted selling information to the Sun newspaper. Tierney pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to two offences...
Sacked Visteon workers, retirees, and a delegation of sacked Gate Gourmet workers lobbying Unite head office yesterday

UNITE LOBBIED – by sacked Visteon and Gate Gourmet workers

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Over 80 sacked Visteon workers, Visteon retirees and a delegation of sacked Gate Gourmet workers lobbied the Unite union head office in Holborn, central...

Britain Has Plutonium For 17,000 Nuclear Bombs

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THE UK's civil stockpile of separated plutonium is now over 100 tonnes, enough for the production of 17,000 nuclear bombs. The stockpile has...
Sheffield GMB provided a smashing fish dinner and 100 per cent solidarity with the Young Socialist marchers yesterday mid-day

Students rise up against fees

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education had a great day in Sheffield yesterday. The day started with the marchers splitting up...

FRESH JUNIOR DOCTORS STRIKES ARE LOOMING! – as Tories exclude them from ‘pay award’

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THE BMA is to survey junior doctors on possible action to take following massive anger over their exclusion from the NHS ‘pay award’. The BMA...
UCU lecturers ‘Fair pay in FE’ lobby during their pay talks last month

Unions Go For One-Day General Strike!

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THE PCS trade union is having a consultative ballot asking members to back its ‘We all need a pay rise campaign.’ This calls for 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...

‘Closures Being Cynically Fast-Tracked’ Says Unite!

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THE CLOSURE of the Alexander Dennis (ADL) plant in Guildford this week after 125 years of vehicle building with the loss of 200 jobs...

International support for UK rail workers!

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STRIKING RMT railway workers were boosted by the leader of the US Amazon Labour Union joining their picket line at Euston Station yesterday morning. ALU...
Striking civil servants, school teachers and college lecturers on the march to defend pensions in June this year

‘Pensions Robbery’ – Challenge By Unions

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SIX unions have mounted a legal challenge on behalf of millions of public sector workers over what inflation index is used to increase their...
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...

‘Special Place In Hell’ For The Brexiteers!

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EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk dropped his mask of reasonableness yesterday in Brussels when he declared that there is a ‘special place in hell’...

Brady ready to support May deal

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SIR GRAHAM Brady, the chair of the Tories’ 1922 Committee, said yesterday, ‘the whole country is tired’ and that people should back the PM...

Steel Closure Is Devastating

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THE TORIES ‘must bring British Steel into public ownership’, Unite said after the devastating announcement that the industry fell into liquidation yesterday morning. Unite assistant...

CALL FOR £168bn OF CUTS – to reduce ‘Debt Time-bomb’

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THE Institute of Economic Affairs has called for draconian cuts by the government and has said that government spending will have to...
Athens Metro workers at a meeting to discuss the attempts of the government to make their trade union activities illegal

Emergency powers used against Greek Metro workers

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AT lunchtime yesterday the Greek Development Minister K Khatzidakis announced that the three-party coalition government has decided to place the striking Athens Metro workers...
The families of Rover workers demanding that the Longbridge plant stay open. It was closed after the May 2005 general election and most of the workforce are now working in very low paid jobs

SACKED! – one hour’s notice at BMW Oxford while Unite trade union just looks...

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Agency workers at BMW’s Mini plant in Oxford erupted in fury yesterday after 850 of them, a third of the Cowley plant workforce, were...

‘We won today in Court’ says Moris after Assange is granted Supreme Court appeal...

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‘MAKE no mistake we won today in court,’ Stella Moris, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s fiancee said to cheers outside the Royal Courts of Justice...

Coulson Leave To Appeal

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PRIME minister Cameron’s former press secretary Andy Coulson yesterday won a ruling that he can appeal against News International’s refusal to pay his legal...
Demonstration outside Hammersmith Hospital in west London on July 31. The A&E was closed on September 10, one of the reasons given by the Trust was that there was no full time A&E consultant cover

Emergency Consultants Quit Over Cuts Policies

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SAVAGE cuts policies are continuing to tear the heart out of the NHS! The entire consultant team, of four emergency consultants, running Accident and Emergency...

Gate Gourmet Pickets Join Terminal 5 Strikers

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WHILST out campaigning yesterday, Gate Gourmet workers, now locked out for almost six months, spoke out very angrily about the unsigned letter just received...

‘We’re going to strike!’ –real doctors are not fooled by spin doctors

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JUNIOR doctors told News Line yesterday that they were definitely voting for strike action and are very confident of winning the ballot which begins...