BARNET NHS CRISIS – faces £31m cuts in 2006-07

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Hospital trade unions and patient groups are demanding that the management of Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust come clean on their plans...
Ambulance staff were among the many health workers lobbying MPs to defend public services last month

999 Ambulance Crisis

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‘Paramedics don’t have referral skills. ‘Andy Burnham is not redefining the health service and Patricia Hewitt got her facts wrong last year when she...

French General Strike!

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A NATIONWIDE general strike took place yesterday, as Air France workers joined striking railworkers, civil servants, power workers and rubbish collectors in a...

Ireland – ‘no desire’ to delay Brexit

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IRELAND’S deputy prime minister, Simon Coveney has said his country has ‘no desire’ to delay the UK’s Brexit talks. While Ireland was not looking for...
Teachers on the pensions strike with a message for Tory education secretary Michael Gove

‘FREE SCHOOLS A DISGRACE’ – says NUT’s Blower

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DISMANTLING our state education system and parcelling it off to unelected, unaccountable sponsors is a disgrace,’ Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union...

Doctors To Take Action Over 1% Pay Offer

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SENIOR doctors in England will be consulted on taking industrial action if the government’s 1% pay rise offer is not improved. The British Medical Association...
Hundreds of thousands of students have been denied their right to education by the Tories – a march for free education has been called for Saturday November 19

Student grants abolished!

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GRANTS were abolished yesterday leaving hundreds of thousands of poorer students with a stark choice: either spend the rest of your life in debt,...
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...

Blair – The Vultures Are Gathering Gathering!

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‘It’s true we have had people who got themselves into difficulty and ministers been dismissed. We’ve had huge problems on this front,’ Prime Minister...

‘The Israeli regime’s security myth has been shattered! Hezbollah is stronger than ever!’

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THE SPEAKER for the Iranian parliament has praised Iran’s retaliatory attack dubbed Operation True Promise II against the occupied territories on Tuesday night, stating...
Resident of North Kensington holds a piece of the charred cladding from the Grenfell Tower inferno – building materials will still not be rigorously tested to see if they are flammable as the Tories have refused to rule out ‘desktop assessments’

Building materials will not be fire tested!

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EVEN in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the government has refused to put an end to ‘light touch regulation’ and it still...

PSPOs criminalise homeless & youth

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‘IN KETTERING it is illegal to go out after 11 at night if you are under 18. In Hillingdon you cannot gather in...
London firefighters lobbying against cuts. They are now taking action against attacks on their working conditions

8,000 firefighters taking industrial action!

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Almost 8,000 firefighters in England, almost one in five, will be taking some form of industrial action from tomorrow, in a series of regional...

‘THE FIGHT FOR JOBS IS ON!’ – civil servants rally outside parliament

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Parliament Square yesterday reverberated with the slogans of hundreds of Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) workers who had joined hundreds of thousands of...

Biden leaves for Middle East!

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US PRESIDENT Biden left Washington yesterday evening for Tel Aviv, where he is to meet Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians before flying to Amman...

TUC’s Nowak condemns Israeli genocide of Palestinians!

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‘IN Gaza there’s a humanitarian crisis that shames the world. Thousands of starving civilians – women and children killed while queuing for food, hospitals,...

UBS fined for mortgage mis-selling

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UBS is paying a 700 million Swiss francs ($745 million) fine to settle a case over its mis-selling of mortgage-backed securities to Fannie Mae...
TUC leader FRANCES O’GRADY at the TUC Congress with firefighters, nurses, midwives and Ritzy cinema workers who have all been on strike this year

Preemptive strike to defeat Trade Union Bill!

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TRADE UNIONISTS have called for pre-emptive strike action to defeat the anti-union laws that the Tory government are attempting to push through parliament. The Trade...
Teachers on the march to defend their national pay agreements and pensions – they are determined to defeat the coalition

Nut Strike Ballot Against Local Pay

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) Annual Conference in Torquay yesterday voted unanimously to ballot for strike action against any government move to attack...

NEU teachers – Two further strike days!

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THE NATIONAL Education Union (NEU) has announced that its members in England will take two further days of strike action this term – on...
Ritzy and Curzon cinema workers marching to City Hall yesterday afternoon demanding the London Living Wage of £8.50 an hour

Marching For A Living Wage!

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RITZY Cinema workers, on their ninth day of strike action, marched with 200 supporters and trade unionists from the British Film Institute (BFI) yesterday. What...

Unite & GMB Take On Energy Giants!

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‘THERE is a real possibility that supplies of petroleum products could be affected,’ union leaders warned yesterday as Unite and the GMB unions announced...

Transport workers’ lives at risk – ‘Come into work’ TfL tells workers in S...

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TRANSPORT union RMT has blasted Transport for London (TfL) for calling on staff in South African variant postcodes to ‘come into work as normal’...

Milwaukee uprising after police shooting

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CROWDS of protesters gathered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Saturday night after a police officer fatally shot a fleeing man. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett appealed for...

JUDGE BACKS WALSH DIKTAT! – ‘A disgraceful day for democracy’–Woodley

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‘It is a disgraceful day for democracy’, Unite joint general secretaries Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley declared after a High Court judge ruled the...
Angry crowds massing outside Downing Street yesterday afternoon

Shut Down The Israeli Embassy– Demand Downing Street Crowds

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HUNDREDS of angry protesters gathered outside Downing Street at 2pm yesterday to condemn the Israeli massacre of 19 Freedom Flotilla volunteers. They demanded that ...
Yesterday afternoon’s angry protest against the Channel 4 programme ‘Benefits Street’ insisting that it be taken off the air

‘Take Benefits Street off the air!’

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PROTESTERS from across the UK gathered outside the offices of the production company behind Channel 4’s cynical ‘Benefits Street’ at 3pm yesterday, to protest...
Doctors, local residents and trade unionists demonstrating against the privatisation of GP surgeries in Tower Hamlets

Defend NHS With Occupations!

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THE government yesterday sought to head off an eruption of demonstrations and occupations against the closure of wards, A&Es, and maternity, children’s and...
The front of the two million-strong demonstration in London on February 15 2003 against the war on Iraq

‘I MADE MY CHOICE . . . AND FULLY ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITIES’ says Straw...

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JUST before Jack Straw appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday, he released a 25-page memorandum which explained that his decision to support the Iraq...

Milan cladding blaze on scale of Grenfell!

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A BLAZE on the scale of the Grenfell Tower Fire broke out around 5:30pm local time on Sunday at the Torre dei Moro building...

CIA Drone Terrorism Targets Rescuers

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A REPORT published yesterday by Stanford University and New York University warns that the CIA’s drone campaign ‘terrorises men, women and children’ in North-West...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing the company at Heathrow yesterday, despite the bad weather and police threats to arrest them

Police Stop Gg Picket Outside Plant

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were stopped from picketing the Gate Gourmet plant yesterday by the Heathrow Airport police and by the British Airports...

PM May assures Trump over trade deal with US

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‘WE WANT to trade with the UK, and the UK wants to trade with us. We are by far their biggest trading partner and...

‘Call off strikes or be sacked!’ – Southern rail managers declare war on staff

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IN AN unprecedented attack on the right to strike, Southern rail managers have given the RMT union the following ultimatum: call off all...

Case Launched For A Single Inquiry Into UK Soldiers Abuse Of Iraqis

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Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) last Friday, 5 February, lodged papers to commence a judicial review on behalf of 66 Iraqis claiming torture and abuse...

BROWN’S 2.5% VAT CUT – borrowing to be increased by £150bn

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Chancellor Darling is set to announce a 2.5 per cent cut in Value Added Tax (VAT) from 17.5 per cent to 15 per cent...
Campaigners outside the House of Lords yesterday

No Benefit Cuts!

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campaigners lobbied the House of Lords yesterday demanding ‘no going back to Dickensian days’. They also chanted ‘Defend Child Benefit for all’, ‘Oppose all benefit...

INJUSTICE! – Clarke orders Babar Ahmad extradition

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Babar Ahmad has called ‘for this injustice to be avenged’ after Home Secretary Charles Clarke ordered his extradition to America to face trumped up...

‘KEEP YOUR PROMISES’ – US unions tell Obama

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American trade unions who campaigned for Barack Obama’s landslide election victory, yesterday told the new US president to keep his promises to working families. Service...
Anti-Academy campainers lobbying parliament last month

COME CLEAN OVER ACADEMIES says GMB

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The GMB trade union, which represents thousands of school support staff across the West Midlands, has written to all schools calling on head teachers...

NO SHEIKH JARRAH EVICTIONS! – Settler shoots Palestinian outside High Court

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MASSES of people surrounded the Israeli High Court yesterday protesting against the eviction of families in the Sheikh Jarrah district of Jerusalem. Israel’s supreme court...

Iran’s retaliatory operation dispells Israeli invincibility myth

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COMMANDER of the Iranian Army’s Ground Force, Brigadier General Kioumars Haydari, says Iran’s retaliatory operation against Israel has further dispelled the ‘threadbare myth that the...

US refused to prosecute HSBC money launderers

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US officials refused to prosecute UK-based HSBC bank for money laundering in 2012 because of fears that it would cause a ‘global financial...

Maude threatens 120,000 civil service jobs!

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CABINET Office Minister Francis Maude launched a vicious onslaught on civil servants, their jobs and their trade union yesterday. He pledged to scrap up...
A section of yesterday’s 100-strong demonstration outside the offices of Maximus, the company taking over the work capability assessment from ATOS

‘Welfare Reform Kills!’

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UP TO one hundred trade unionists, disabled campaigners and their supporters demonstrated yesterday outside Maximus, the company who have taken over the work-capability assessment,...