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Bow busworkers out in force on their picket line yesterday morning won’t accept a wage freeze

East London Bus Strike Solid

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BUSWORKERS employed by East London Bus Group are continuing their 48-hour strike against a pay freeze and management onslaught on their terms and conditions...

Round the clock GPs slammed

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TORY leader Cameron is today unveiling measures to force GPs to open from 8.00 to 8.00pm and on Saturdays and Sundays. The hours change is...

Kent blood services not for sale!–Unite

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THE PRIVATISATION of the NHS blood samples service in Kent will put patients’ lives at risk, Unite warned yesterday, adding: ‘It must be stopped!’ A...

BALPA FIGHTING BA’s WAGE CUT PLANS

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BALPA (the British Airline Pilots Association) is going to the High Court in London on Monday to fight a British Airways (BA’s) strike ban. BALPA...
Trade unionists made their mind up about the role that Cameron and the Tory Party were playing a long time ago – picture shows placards from the October 2012 TUC demonstration against austerity in London

‘There’s something rotten at the heart of the Conservative Party’ – Miliband accuses Cameron

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LABOUR PARTY leader Miliband clashed with Prime Minister Cameron over political donors who held Swiss bank accounts with HSBC, during questions in the House...

Enthusiastic BEIS strike solid

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PCS members at the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) began their two-day strike for the London Living Wage at 3.00pm on...
BA cabin crew pickets at Heathrow yesterday determined to win their struggle

‘we Are Fighting Union-Busting’

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STRIKING British airways cabin crew are completing their latest five-day strike at midnight tonight and will be resuming their next five days action at...

Iran warns UK over ‘terror designations’

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THE UK is using ‘terror designations’ as a tool to criminalise grassroot support for Palestine,’ Iran has warned. Iran was reacting to Tory Home Secretary...

‘Nasty & repressive side of the government is revealed’ – Unite and GMB react...

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RESPONDING to yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, the Unite union’s general secretary Len McCluskey said: ‘This Queen’s Speech reveals the nasty, repressive side of this government. ‘The...

ADAMS-PAISLEY DEAL – UK devolved local government for North by May 8

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Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams yesterday agreed a May 8th date for the return of devolved local government in the north of Ireland, after...

‘We are marching to defend the NHS’ say striking junior doctors

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AMID a heatwave in the heart of London, hundreds of junior doctors converged at Tavistock Square for a march from BMA House to Parliament...

WITHDRAW FIXED PENALTY NOTICE! – Patsy Stevenson to issue proceedings against Cressida Dick

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PATSY Stevenson has warned the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in a pre-action letter that she intends to initiate legal proceedings against the Metropolitan...
Young Socialists lobbying the TUC Congress last September when it carried a resolution to discuss the ‘practicalities of a general strike’

TUC to discuss general strike – At April 24 meeting

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THERE was consternation yesterday when a leaked Unite document revealed that a union report going before the TUC General Council on April 24 is...
NHS health visitors on Saturday’s demonstration to defend the NHS – doctors are demanding £10.3bn extra funding for the NHS and social care

Doctors demand £10.3bn for NHS

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DOCTORS are calling for an extra £10.3bn to be put in to the NHS, ahead of Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond’s budget tomorrow. This, doctor’s union...

One million infected by disease in Gaza!

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GAZA’S Health Ministry has detected about one million cases of infectious diseases, but doesn’t have the medical capabilities to treat them, as the situation...

RMT Demanding No Slave Labour On Brexit Ferries

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AS the RMT protested at the Department for Transport yesterday, the Shipping Minister Nusrat Ghani has refused to agree that UK employment legislation such...

UK Threatened By Global Shocks – Says Bank Of England Report

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The UK economy is under threat of collapse from ‘global shocks’, and has no real independence and little room for manoeuvre. This subordination of...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the factory at Heathrow yesterday

Revolutionary Mass Action Defeats Chirac And Villepin

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FRENCH Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was yesterday forced to make a dramatic climbdown by withdrawing the hated CPE (Contrat Premiere Embauche) for youth. The...
Supporters of the Sussex occupation lobby the Royal Court of Justice

Students fight injunction against Sussex occupation

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OCCUPIERS at the University of Sussex are fighting a court injunction to forcibly remove them from the campus. Students at the university have been occupying...

CUTS FOR THE DISABLED AND THE JOBLESS – but there’s billions for the bankers

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown yesterday pledged to a gathering of businessmen in London to ‘intensify’ the government’s attacks on the Welfare State, whilst continuing...
Postal workers marching during the General Strike in Belfast on January 18 2001 sparked by the sectarian killing of a young postal worker

Belfast Cwu – Still Out!

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Striking Belfast postal workers yesterday told union representatives that they are not going back to work. Communications Workers Union spokesman, Owen Davey, said after...

Egypt Parliament: Put Under Seige!

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Tens of thousands of anti-Mubarak protesters gathered outside Egypt’s parliament yesterday, bringing business to a halt, just several hundred yards from the continuing mass...

20% VAT AND SAVAGE CUTS – imposed by Tory Lib-Dem Budget

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TORY Chancellor Osborne yesterday confirmed the government’s intention to savagely attack child benefits, disability benefits and housing benefits in his Emergency Budget, whilst pushing...

NHS is in all-year crisis says BMA

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DOCTORS’ leaders yesterday warned that the NHS in England is unlikely to recover from the pressure it faces during the winter, with trends suggesting...
Students marching in London on October 29  demand the abolition of fees

STUDENT RENTS UP 23% – Stop privatisation of university accomodation says the NUS

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THE COST of student accommodation is spiralling out of control, the National Union of Students (NUS) said yesterday, warning that private landlords were ‘setting...

‘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...

MAKE THE DISPUTE OFFICIAL!– call out the airport! – Locked out Gate Gourmet work

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Locked out workers at British Airways caterer Gate Gourmet demanded their dispute be made official as talks between the company and the Transport and...

Workers Revolution in Ukraine worries Putin

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PRESIDENT Putin said yesterday at a Moscow press conference that an unconstitutional coup and an armed takeover of power had taken place in Kiev. He...

Khan Elected Mayor!

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IN an overwhelming victory for Labour, Sadiq Khan has become the new mayor of London yesterday. Londoners were glad to see the back of Boris...

Strikes will grind Heathrow to a halt

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WORKERS at Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) are launching three 24-hour strikes over plans to fire and rehire its 4,000 workers on vastly reduced pay...

‘THIS DEAL WILL COLLAPSE’ – Gourmet pickets tell News Line

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‘A LOT of people feel the same as me. We believe this deal will collapse,’ Mr Singh told News Line on the Gate Gourmet...

Privateers will be handed £2bn to take NHS patients

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THE TORIES are in talks with private healthcare companies to deal with the backlog of thousands of NHS patients by farming them out, at...
Mothers from across the US marched into Washington DC on Saturday condemning the killing of unarmed black teenagers by police

‘Million Moms March’

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MOTHERS from across the United States poured into Washington, DC on Saturday, choosing Mother’s Day weekend to march for justice for the ‘epidemic’ of...
West London Council of Action picket outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning determined to keep the Maternity Department open

Women will give birth in A&E!

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‘I WORK in A&E and I have the feeling that we will actually get women coming into A&E to have their babies and it’s...
PCS members joined the RMT march against government spending cuts on October 23rd 2010

STRIKES WILL PROCEED DURING OLYMPICS – say unions

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UNIONS reacted angrily yesterday to threats by Arts, Media and Sports Secretary Hunt that public sector workers who strike during the Olympics should face...

BERNANKE READY TO ACT – to print hundreds of billions more dollars

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US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday that he is ‘ready to act’ on the US economy, hinting that the US is about...

5-year spending freeze – demands Tory MP Fox

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LEADING Tory MP, Liam Fox, has called for Osborne to announce a freeze on all public spending, which would cut spending by 2.5% a...
ASLEF Southern rail picket line – they have just rejected the sell-out deal

Aslef drivers stand fast–throw out GTR-TUC sell-out deal!

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ASLEF drivers have rejected the GTR-TUC proposed ‘resolution’ to the long-running dispute with Southern Railways. ASLEF said: ‘The following question was put to our driver...

Hamas demands that US must support the state of Palestine

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THE Hamas Movement has called on the US administration to rescind its proposals for Palestinian displacement and alternative homelands that align with Israeli plans...
Delegates at the UNISON conference in Brighton yesterday

DON’T GAG CONFERENCE! – UNISON delegates demand debate on coordinated strike action

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UNISON’s national delegate conference yesterday opened with a row over the refusal of the Standing Orders Committee to allow a debate on emergency motions...

Defend Chase Farm NHS!

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‘The consultation process has been an absolute sham’, said Save Chase Farm councillor Kieran McGregor ahead of this morning’s lobby of the NHS Independent...

Super-exploitation in Covid-infected meat factories!

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THE LINK between outbreaks of Covid-19 at meat processing plants and the sector’s widespread exploitation of migrant workers on low pay and insecure contracts...
Rock solid picket line outside Victoria station yesterday morning on the first day of the three-day Southern guards strike

Aslef Driver Only Strike Ballot

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TRAIN drivers in the ASLEF union are to join their RMT colleagues in an escalating struggle against Driver Only Operated (DOO) on Southern...

Capita Closing Third Of Offices

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OUTSOURCING firm Capita is to close over a third of its offices in the UK permanently – despite the Tory government launching a new...