Firefighters lobbied the London Fire Authority showing their determination to defend the fire service against the most vicious attacks ever

Defend The Fire Service

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ON Monday 25 February the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will be holding a budget meeting at 10.00am at City Hall, at which his...
The long campaign by thousands of working people who have been oppressed by the Bedroom Tax and benefit cuts won a big victory yesterday in the Court of Appeal

Verdict A ‘massive Blow’ At Bedroom Tax!

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THE Tory government’s flagship Bedroom Tax was delivered a ‘massive blow’ yesterday when Court of Appeal judges declared it to be ‘discriminatory’. The judges’...
Workers on the roof of the Visteon plant in Enfield are becoming more determined to win with every hour of their occupation

Massive Support For Visteon Occupiers

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the occupied Visteon factories received massive support from workers in their areas yesterday, as workers in Belfast, Enfield and Basildon struggled to defend their...
Junior Doctors demonstrating on Monday September 28th against the Tories and their attempt to impose a 90-hour working week.  Photo credit: Steve Eason

‘Unsafe for patients’ – Junior doctors confront Hunt

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‘DOCTORS working unsocial hours must not have their pay cut,’ was the demand in a letter to Tory health secretary Hunt signed by...

‘No end to austerity’ – Hammond

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NEW Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond made it absolutely crystal clear yesterday that there would be no end to austerity under his watch. Speaking to the...

Starmer Trashes Labour Renationalisation Policy

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LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves trashed the party’s renationalisation policy yesterday. In a speech in Liverpool, with a back-drop bedecked...
Pathology strikers deliver their message from the picket line at St Thomas’ Hospital on Westminster Bridge

‘We want to work for NHS!’ – say striking pathology staff

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PATHOLOGY staff struck for 24 hours yesterday, at King’s, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals in a determined struggle against venture capitalist encroachment in the...

Mass mega picket support for Birmingham bin workers

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‘There must be 300 here today easily and that is replicated at the other four sites. There are no wagons going out at all...

Homeless Children Housed In Containers!

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TENS of thousands of homeless children in England are ‘temporarily’ housed in converted shipping containers and office blocks, freezing in winter, sweltering in the...
PCS Judge’s clerks got plenty of support from passing motorists outside Southwark Crown Court yesterday morning

PRIVATISATION HAS TO STOP – Serwotka & prentis pledge to fight the government

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‘If the government don’t give us what we want we will take this campaign further,’ PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka pledged to a packed...

‘If Iran is attacked it will be all-out war!’ – warns Zarif

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IRAN’S foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned yesterday that any attack on his country after a series of missile strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil...

Doctors’ strike out solid for pay and to save NHS

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Resident doctors and their supporters were on the picket line at St Thomas’ hospital on the first day of their five days of strike...
Dave Prentis, UNISON General Secretary, taking part in the demonstration against privatisation at Kingston Hospital

Massive Support For NHS March!

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THE ‘I LOVE THE NHS’ march and rally is attracting widespread celebrity support from the world of music, sport, TV, comedy and literature. ...
Single mothers and disabled families lobby the High Court over benefit cuts

20 million on food banks!

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BENEFIT cuts have created a kind of famine’ one of the over twenty million people who have visited food banks this year said,...

Starmer right-wing move causing ‘chaos’ in Labour Party – warns Unite

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THE THREE-DAY Labour Policy Forum (LPF) held in Nottingham over the weekend was ‘chaotic’, Unite said yesterday, with the Starmer party leadership seeking to...

Deputy leader Watson condemns Labour EU policy

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LABOUR members’ ‘hearts are Remain’ Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson claimed yesterday addressing the Centre for European Reform. He went on to insist that...

Goodman letter released

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MPs have released a letter from journalist Clive Goodman, jailed for phone hacking, alleging senior News of the World figures knew what was going...
Southern rail workers during their strike to keep the guard on the train picketing outside Brighton station earlier this month

Rail Strikes Spread

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RAIL strikes are spreading with RMT announcing yesterday a 24 hour strike action on Virgin trains East Coast over the threat to nearly 200...

CANADIAN POST UNION OPPOSES ‘US-BACKED COUP’ IN VENEZUELA

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CANADA’S postal workers union, the CUPW, has condemned the government of Canada’s decision to recognise Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the legitimate president...

Cotton Goes – Savage Fire Cuts In Surrey

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LONDON Fire Brigade Chief Dany Cotton is to leave the service four months early. Cotton, 50, previously announced she was standing down from the London...

Surrey Fire Services Facing Brutal Cuts!

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THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has branded proposed further cuts to Surrey fire and rescue service as ‘incomprehensible’, just months after a government inspection...
Masses of students marching on parliament last December were joined by trade unionists who backed their fight against tuition fees. Now the government is planning a showdown with the trade unions in the summer

TORIES PREPARE SUMMER WAR – Organising tens of thousands of strike breakers

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Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has been overseeing ‘war games’ in preparation for a General Strike this summer. Following orders from the Cabinet...

Palestine PM Shtayyeh calls to establish state and impose sanctions on Israel

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that the international consensus on establishing the State of Palestine must be translated into practical steps that...

PUT BUSH AND BLAIR ON TRIAL – urges just-freed Binyam Mohamed

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UK resident Binyam Mohamed, recently freed from Guantanamo Bay, has called for ex-US President Bush to be put on trial over his rendition and...
RMT members emphasising cuts cost lives

RMT STRIKE BANNED! –Ruling class justice at work

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THE High Court yesterday followed up its decision to ban strike action at British Airways at Christmas by banning strike action at Network Rail...

Workers to get 67% of wages – bosses to get free labour under Sunak...

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TORY CHANCELLOR Sunak set out yesterday more massive support for businesses forced to close by law, with much tighter virus rules expected in England...

Assad Visits Moscow!

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SYRIAN President Bashar Assad visited Moscow on Tuesday to extend thanks to the Russian authorities and people for helping to preserve the unity and...

NO TUBE AND RAIL CUTS! – ‘Franchising system in its death throes’

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ENDING damaging staff cuts, bringing all of London’s Tube back into the public sector and getting the network’s upgrade back on track are more...
Students joined a thousand-strong rally in Sheffield in support of striking lecturers fighting against the privatisation of their pensions

Sheffield students & lecturers mass rally

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ONE thousand striking lecturers, students and community supporters marched from Sheffield University to the City Hall yesterday to mark the end of four further...
Students battling to defend NHS bursaries – Cameron has just pledged even more savage cuts if workers vote to leave the EU

Cameron threatens savage cuts!

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PRIME Minister Cameron and Chancellor Osborne have threatened more savage cuts in spending on pensions, the NHS and defence if the UK votes to...

Unite Leader Graham Condemns Barclay For A ‘Blatant Lie!’

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STRIKING ambulance workers and their union leaders responded with fury at Tory Health Secretary Barclay’s article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, in which he...

BEIS 3-day strike – ‘We demand Living Wage!’

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OUTSOURCED workers, who provide catering and cleaning services in government offices, took the first of three days of strike yesterday demanding the London Living...
Anti-ARK Academy protest outside the company’s offices in London

‘Stop Wandsworth asset-stripping!’

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THE GMB union is calling on the public in the south London borough of Wandsworth to support a campaign to stop the sale of...

DEFIANT SADDAM – refuses to recognise stooge court

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Saddam Hussein yesterday insisted he was the president of Iraq, and refused to recognise the US appointed court, declining to give his name or...
Polish workers’ banner on the 100,000-strong march in Dublin last December in support of the Irish Ferries workers’ occupation against cheap labour crews

‘CUT THEIR BENEFITS!’ – Hutton threatens the unemployed

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Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton yesterday declared war on the unemployed, saying Labour will cut off benefits from those who reject...

NHS Backlog Plans Delayed

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A LAST minute intervention in Whitehall delayed plans to tackle the backlog of patients on hospital waiting lists in England. Details of the NHS England...
PCS members on strike against moves to privatise jobs at Caxton House, part of the DWP

80,000 vote for strike action!

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The 80,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have voted two to...

Johnson Faces Calls To Resign

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‘I REPEAT that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken,’...

‘WE’VE SEEN OFF THE COMPROMISE AGREEMENT’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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‘THE Compromise Agreement is dead. We have seen it off’ said Nirmal Purewal TGWU shop steward and locked out Gate Gourmet worker. ‘This dispute...
Mass picket of hospital workers in Norwich on the national NHS strike over pay on October 13

Labour Pledges Repeal Of Health & Social Care Act!

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THE NHS ‘cannot survive a second term of Tory-led government,’ the Labour Party’s Chair of General Election Strategy, Douglas Alexander, said yesterday. He was echoing...

Turkey set to join war on Syria

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TURKEY is poised to join the US-led war to remove the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, as well as having its own agenda...
Unite members blacklist protest outside a Capita HQ – Unite say privateers ‘short-change the taxpayer’ and services must be taken back in house

Kick Capita out of NHS! ‘Patients’ lives at risk’– NAO report

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PRIVATE outsourcing firm Capita has ‘put patients at risk of serious harm’ a damning report by the National Audit Office (NAO) states, which...

‘Day of Rage!’ Mass pension strike shuts France down!

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FRANCE was totally paralysed yesterday with flights, trains, the Metro and buses all cancelled during the mass ‘Day of Rage’ over President Emmanuel Macron’s...
WRP candidate JONTY LEFF (right) talking to students at Hackney Community College who were all determined to fight against the cuts to their college and get rid of all university fees

Hackney students support WRP’s Leff

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STUDENTS at Hackney Community College in Shoreditch, east London joined the campaign yesterday to elect Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch...

MI5 carrying out serious crimes is lawful rules Judicial Tribunal

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FIVE judges of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal have given a divided ruling over a secret MI5 policy allowing security service agents to commit...