Youth on the TUC march last October demand an end to the attack on the Welfare State

Failing Universal Credit proceeds!

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THE disastrous Universal Credit scheme, despite being lambasted by the National Audit Office for wasting tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers...

ASDA takeover – 100,000 at risk

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THE GMB union has demanded assurances from the new owners of Asda over the future of over 100,000 workers as the supermarket chain was...
Students on yesterday’s march in Whitehall determined to end fees and get EMA grants back

Police Attack Peaceful March

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TENS of thousands of school, college and university students demonstrated against education cuts, tuition fees and the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)...

Hamas protecting aid convoys

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GAZA’S Government Media Office (GMO) has denounced Israel’s allegations of Hamas looting an aid truck in southern Gaza, as ‘entirely false and fabricated’. ‘This accusation...

Tube Strike Brings London To A Standstill!

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POWERFUL picket lines continue outside London rail depots this morning as the RMT Tube union completes this week’s first 24-hour strike at 12noon today,...

650 US military casualties!

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A SPOKESMAN for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said yesterday that more than 650 US military personnel were killed and wounded in the...

University of Maryland students denounce Gaza genocide & demonstrate for Palestine!

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STUDENTS at the University of Maryland on Wednesday joined ongoing pro-Palestine campus protests across the US demanding their school cease doing business with military...

‘Stop state-sponsored racism!’ – Take ‘hate vans’ off the streets

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DOREEN Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, has asserted that ‘racial profiling’ is being used in immigration police stop-and-check operations. She spoke out...

Israel escalates Gaza slaughter as the UN confirms GENOCIDE!

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AS the united Nations officially confirmed that the Israeli war on Gaza is a ‘GENOCIDE’ yesterday, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) massively escalated their...

‘We refuse to become informants’ – Doctors, nurses and teachers oppose Police Bill

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DOCTORS, nurses and teachers have warned that the Police Bill will turn them into police informants. The Bill, to be debated in the House of...
Greek riot police attack a young female demonstrator in Athens last Saturday. Photo credit: Left.gr

Greek riot police act as occupation army

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ARMED riot police unleashed a pre-planned pogrom of sheer violence against mass marches of mainly school and university students in all the main cities...
Campaigners to keep Lewisham Hospital open celebrate the High Court’s decision that Health Secretary Hunt was breaking the law with his decision to run down the A&E and other departments in the hospital

Hunt ‘No’ To Setting NHS Staffing Levels

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THE Unison trade union has welcomed the Cameron-commissioned Berwick Review of patient safety and said that the government should listen to it. Unison said:...

‘TUC GET OFF YOUR KNEES AND CALL A GENERAL STRIKE!’ – YS lobby gets...

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‘TUC GET OFF YOUR KNEES, CALL A GENERAL STRIKE!’ rang out outside the Brighton conference centre as the TUC three-day Congress opened yesterday. Hundreds of...
Jaguar car workers demanding the Browns Lane Coventry factory stays open – another 5,000 jobs are facing the axe

Jaguar to axe 5,000 jobs

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JAGUAR Land Rover (JLR) announced yesterday it is cutting up to an eighth of its 40,000 strong UK workforce with up to 5,000 car...
Students on the TUC demonstration on March 26 were angry that the bankers were being bailed out while they were being ruined

CRISIS BIGGER THAN 1931! – BofE Governor King opts for inflation

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BANK of England Governor Mervyn King has warned that the UK financial crisis is possibly the greatest ever crisis in the history of capitalism. He...
CWU members demonstrate in Corby last March against privatisation

POSTAL WORKERS STRIKE –against unacceptable changes

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OVER 12,000 postal workers across the UK will be striking today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and executive action by Royal Mail....

UK Refuses To Apologise For Balfour Declaration!

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PALESTINIAN ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, said yesterday that Britain has officially refused to apologise for the infamous Balfour Declaration, and instead has...

Occupy Tata Steel to save all jobs!

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COMMUNITY steel union representatives are meeting at the TUC today with the threat of closure hanging over the industry in the UK, with tens...

3 days of Tube strikes – being discussed by RMT & ASLEF executives

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TUBE unions’ national executives are meeting today and are expected to announce a further three days of strike action over the Night Tube and...
PCS national executive member ZITA HOLBOURNE letting everybody know that the PCS will not accept the government destroying their redundancy agreement

‘WE ARE DEFENDING OUR JOBS!’ – PCS pickets the High Court

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‘GORDON BROWN hear us say – our contracts are here to stay! shouted eighty Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members and officials outside...

Arab states condemn Netanyahu’s ‘Greater Israel’ plan

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THERE has been widespread condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments to an Israeli news channel on Tuesday night that he feels ‘very...

‘Open the borders – allow the refugees in!’ says Frank Sweeney

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A DESPERATE migrant threw himself, his wife and his child on to the train track in Hungary yesterday screaming that he would rather die...

Junior doctors out of their depth – Forced to make end-of-life decisions during pandemic

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MANY junior doctors feel out of their depth with the end-of-life decisions faced during Covid-19 pandemic In normal times, end-of-life care discussions are most commonly...
PCS delegation on a TUC demonstration against Tory government cuts

25,000 Civil Service jobs to be slashed by 6% cuts!

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TRADE unions yesterday slammed Tory chancellor Phillip Hammond’s instruction to government departments to find spending cuts of up to 6% as part of plans...

BA Boss Cruz Sacked

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ALEX Cruz, the author of the notorious BA ‘fire and rehire’ policy, has been sacked as chief executive and chair of British Airways with...
Up and down the country parents, teachers and pupils are marching to defend state education against the coalition’s ‘Free School’ bonanza for the rich, and the big business dominated academies

£2m ‘Free School’ with 68 pupils

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THREE thousand Beccles residents have demanded to know why £2m of taxpayers money is being spent on a ‘Free School’ with only 68 pupils. The...

STOP UNIVERSAL CREDIT CUT! – Labour insists maintain £20 uplift

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‘REDUCING Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit would be fundamentally the wrong decision. It would be a profound mistake and put millions of families...

Unite Demands 15% NHS Pay Rise

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NHS workers should receive an early pay rise of 15 per cent or £3,000, whichever is greater, the Unite union, said yesterday. Unite, which has...

Oxford Youth Workers Take Strike Action!

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Prime minister Cameron’s ‘zero tolerance’ attack on youth comes as government cuts are decimating youth services. Unite the union announced at the weekend that youth...
London Region FBU banner on the picket line outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. Most workers agreed that hospital and fire station closures should be stopped with occupations and a general strike

Stop hospital closures with occupations and a general strike!

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THE London Fire Brigades Union banner will be on today’s mass march to stop the closure of Lewisham Hospital. Yesterday it was outside Ealing...
GMB ex-Southwark council caretaker STEVE BARRETT (rear, left) with his family

HEARTLESS EVICTION! – GMB hires a lawyer for sacked school caretaker and family

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The GMB trade union yesterday revealed its fears that many more ex-Southwark council school caretakers could face the same frightening threats of eviction as...

University pickets call for a general strike!

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Over 20,000 staff at scores of universities are striking for five consecutive days this week in their fight for pay and working conditions and...
A section of Friday evening’s picket outside Downing Street

Israel Requests US Cluster Bombs

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Israel has asked the US government to speed delivery of short-range anti-personnel rockets armed with deadly cluster munitions, for use against the Hezbollah ...

Israel steps up genocidal war on Gaza and West Bank!

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AT least 21 Palestinian men, women and children were killed in Gaza yesterday, bringing the death toll to 41,226, with a further 76 wounded,...
Union leaders heading the March 26th 500,000-strong TUC march against coalition cuts

‘WE WANT THE HEALTH BILL SCRAPPED’ – Prentis tells Lansley

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Unison general secretary, Dave Prentis, yesterday pledged the union will ‘fight and fight’ until the Health and Social Care Bill is defeated and the...
Tens of thousands marched on September 12th to welcome refugees into Britain and demand that Britain must not bomb Syria

Powers Bill to be rushed in! –as Labour shifts ground over Syria attack

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THE British state yesterday stepped up security measures in the wake of Friday night’s terror attacks in Paris. Cameron held a Cobra emergency committee meeting...
A section of yesterday’s North East London Council of Action picket determined to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

‘We must keep Chase Farm open!’

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THERE was a lively picket of at least 40 workers and youth, including sacked Visteon workers, organised by the North-East London Council of Action...

Prentis And Woodley Praise Brown

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In a nationalistic speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday, prime minister Brown made sweeping promises to improve public services. Hardly mentioning the world capitalist...

Hamas intensifies its security campaign against collaborators

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HAMAS is intensifying its security campaign against armed gangs and militias in Gaza that collaborate with the Israeli military, officials say, aiming to restore...

DON’T PRIVATISE ROYAL MAIL – CWU tells Labour Party conference

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Hundreds of angry postal workers are lobbying the Labour Party conference in Brighton today against government plans to privatise Royal Mail. Communication Workers’ Union (CWU)...
BA cabin crew in confident mood on the picket line at Heathrow last March

Woodley announces strike ballot for BA cabin crew

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The Unite union for British Airways’ 11,000 cabin crew, yesterday confirmed that a fresh ballot for strike action at BA is soon to get...
Maria Otone de Menezes, the mother of Jean Charles de Menezes, is accompanied by Jean’s brother Giovani and a member of the Justice4Jean campaign to the Oval Inquest in south London yesterday morning, where police commander Dick gave evidence

We Did Nothing Wrong – Says Death Squad Commander Dick

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The family and friends of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday condemned Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick for her insistance that police ‘did...

Relentless killing of starving Gazans!

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AT LEAST 16 Palestinians, including seven aid seekers, were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza yesterday as the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued their...

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...
A section of the lively picket of teachers and school support workers outside Copland Community School in Brent

Powerful Copland picket

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THERE was a powerful picket on Wembley High Street yesterday morning as 150 teachers and 80 non-teaching staff went on strike at Copland Community...