PCS members on the picket line outside the National Gallery yesterday, determined to defend their pay and conditions

Mass Picket At The National Gallery

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THE opening of the long-awaited Velázquez exhibition was disrupted yesterday, as 140 non-shift attendants walked out for the first one-day strike in the 200-year...

Barking tower block inferno – wooden cladding spreads fire

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THIS FRIDAY marks two years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire, and local residents and firefighters are furious that no lessons have been learned...

24,000 schools are under Tory state control

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THE Education system is ‘sleepwalking towards centralisation’ with up to 24,000 schools and governing bodies accountable solely to the Secretary of State. New research, conducted...
GMB Carillion members on strike at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon – unions are calling for all contracts to be brought back in-house

INTERSERVE SHARES COLLAPSE 70% ‘Toxic bandit capitalism’ – RMT

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‘ONCE AGAIN, we see the reality of bandit capitalism and its toxic impact on our public services,’ Transport union RMT said yesterday, calling for...

NHS Staffing Crisis!

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing have warned of a ‘woeful lack’ of trained nurses as it emerges that untrained care assistants are ‘putting patients...

Hundreds more Gazans killed in hospitals and homes!

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THE Israeli occupation army carried out hundreds of aerial and artillery attacks on different areas of Gaza yesterday, massacring men, women and children in...
NUJ members picketing Bush House in May last year against cuts in the service

BBC STRIKE BALLOT – over job cuts, pensions and pay

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THE BBC is set to face strike action over job cuts, pensions and pay as unions declared a series of actions in the wake...
As military chiefs called for ‘boots on the ground’ in Syria and Iraq thousands marched in the rain in London on Saturday against the war

Ex-Army Chiefs Beating War Drums

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FORMER senior military commanders are runnng a campaign to strengthen the British army for a war in Syria. The former head of the armed forces...

JOINT ENTERPRISE–JURIES HAVE BEEN MISDIRECTED!– hundreds of appeals now expected

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JUDGES have misdirected juries in murder trials for thirty years, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that ‘joint...

RCN to hand 160,000-strong petition into Downing Street! – demanding 12.5% pay rise now

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing is taking the nurses pay claim campaign to the heart of government as its ballot opens on industrial action...

FISCAL CRISIS STATEMENT DELAYED! – as UK government consults with bankers

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CHANCELLOR Hunt has announced that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed by...
During the last Wednesday ‘s General Strike the Deimitra factory banner read ‘Permanent struggle - our answer to  the troika, government, and plutocracy’

Greek Finance Ministry occupied

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WORKERS at the Greek Finance Ministry early on Tuesday morning occupied the Finance Ministry building in central Athens. They are protesting against huge wage cuts...

‘Cold War mentality’ – China slams UK, US & Australia’s new imperialist alliance

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THE UK, US and Australia have announced a security pact in the Asia-Pacific, to step up their war against China. China’s embassy in Washington...

Senior Hamas delegation in Turkey to discuss ceasefire

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A senior Hamas delegation led by Dr Khalil al-Hayya met on Wednesday with Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin in Istanbul to discuss ceasefire developments...

CWU to boycott privateers! – demands decent pay & conditions across sector

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday launched a campaign to highlight the threat to the UK’s universal postal service and jobs. Calling for the postal...

Pm May Is Canvassing For Labour, Lib-Dem & Snp Votes

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JACOB Rees-Mogg Tory MP for North East Somerset yesterday warned that ‘Brexit is being watered down to the extent where you couldn’t really tell...

‘Stop NHS medical records sale to Capita!’ urges Unison

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CHRISTINA McAnea, Unison National Secretary for Health, has written to Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt about the proposed transfer of Primary Care Support services...
Confident CWU pickets at the Peckham Delivery Office, south east London, last Saturday

STOP STRIKEBREAKING – postal workers tell Unite leaders

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The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) is lobbying the Unite head office in Holborn, central London, at 11.30 this morning to demand it stops its...

‘THEY WILL NOT FORGET–THEY WILL NOT FORGIVE’ – Tory MP warns over the Grenfell...

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IN THE House of Commons on Wednesday, Conservative MP Royston Smith said the housing market was at risk of partial ‘collapse’, with many leaseholders...
A section of the steel workers’ march on its way to parliament

NATIONALISE! – Steel workers demand

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‘SAVE Our Steel!’ shouted over one thousand steel workers as they marched through central London from the Embankment to Parliament yesterday afternoon. They were joined...

Big Picket At Gate Gourmet!

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THERE was one of the biggest turnouts on the picket line at the Gate Gourmet dispute yesterday, with more than 200 locked out workers...

LOCKED IN FLOODED CELLS! – Harmondsworth inquiry demand

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On Monday, 23 June, the High Court will respond to a Liberty demand for an independent investigation into the treatment of detainees at Harmondsworth...

US ground forces for Syria

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THE US has indicated that it intends the imminent deployment of troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria, without holding a vote in...

‘You’re playing with fire’ – IMF tells Chancellor Osborne

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INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist Olivier Blanchard has warned UK Chancellor Osborne that he is ‘playing with fire’ with his fiscal policy. Blanchard also...

9 shot dead In Nakba intifada

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Nine people were killed and hundreds injured by Israeli forces during protests demanding the right of return for Palestinian refugees, as tens of thousands...

West Bank Explodes As Abu Diyak Dies In Israeli Jail!

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HEEDING the calls by political factions, mainly President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement, thousands of Palestinians rallied in several West Bank city centres to protest...

The More You Sack – The Bigger The Bonus

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Media unions BECTU and the NUJ yesterday condemned ‘BBC fat-cat bonuses’ and called on BBC bosses to hand them back. They were responding to the...

Scores of constituencies will vote for my point of view says Galloway

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SUNAK and the Tory government are ‘so bereft of public support that they cower in fear’ of calling a general election, while the Starmer...

Strike Action Sweeping Heathrow

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HUNDREDS of Border Force workers at Heathrow Airport began four days of strike action yesterday against Tory attacks on their working conditions. The more than...
A section of the delegates at the Torquay  conference

Bma Row!

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AT a stormy morning session of the BMA Annual Representative Meeting yesterday, Birmingham BMA demanded the resignation of the chairman and deputy chairman...
A section of the strikers from Gate Gourmet listening to a report from Tony Woodley on Monday afternoon in Southall

AS TALKS BREAK DOWN – Call out the airport say Gate Gourmet pickets

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‘Talks have, indeed, broken down as a consequence of Gate Gourmet wanting to selectively re-employ those who had been sacked, even though there is...

‘I WILL NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE’ – Glenn Close says she’ll boycott Oscars

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ON STRIKE writers of US daytime TV dramas, short stories and online serials are set to host a special picket event, Daytime United, in...

Midwives Launch Action Ballot

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THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched only its second ballot on industrial action in England and its first in Wales in its...

Lavrov Calls Cameron A Liar

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MOSCOW – In an interview to the Ekho Moskvy radio station as part of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...

Starmer delivers his anti-working class programme!

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STANDING in front of a huge Union Jack with a banner atop it declaring ‘Change Begins....’ Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed the Labour Party...

Westbourne Park busworkers set to strike again!

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OVER 2,000 bus workers are gearing up to strike against attempts by London’s transport privateers to impose pay cuts and unacceptable new work schedules...
A section of Saturday’s 25,000-strong ‘Gaza Flotilla March’ makes its way towards the Israeli Embassy in Kensington

‘Break The Siege’ Call From Gaza

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A call has come from the University Teachers’ Association, the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel and 31 other Gaza civil...

Hundreds of students join lecturers’ struggle at Goldsmiths!

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HUNDREDS of students have joined their lecturers at Goldsmiths University fighting the cuts to education and the introduction of casual labour. The students and lecturers...

Barristers Are On Indefinite Strike!

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HUNDREDS of barristers demonstrated outside courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London and Manchester yesterday, on the second day of their indefinite strike. Over 100...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing yesterday morning on the hill near the factory

NO TO A ROTTEN COMPROMISE! sayGate Gourmet workers

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TGWU members on the picket line yesterday condemned the ‘Compromise Agreement, reached between Gate Gourmet and the TGWU leaders. Mr Sangha said: ‘The company...

‘Let’s get our act together!’ –TUC leader O’Grady appeals to the Tories

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TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said yesterday that the jobs market is on ‘red alert’, with thousands of firms set to go ‘over a...

Benefit cutter ATOS faces strike action

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ATOS, an Olympics sponsor at the centre of the government’s controversial cuts to disability benefits, faces industrial action during the Games by Public...

Israel Bombs Unrwa Hq!

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PALESTINIAN Legislative Council member Mustafa al-Barghouti challenged the head of the United Nations to personally go into Gaza, after Israel shelled the UN’s humanitarian...

‘cowardly’ Attack On Gadaffi Compound

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Libya condemned as ‘cowardly’ a series of NATO air strikes targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli early yesterday. Gadaffi’s whereabouts at...
An enthusiastic response from patients, staff and passers-by to yesterday’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital

CHASE FARM WILL NOT CLOSE! say residents and nurses

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ON DAY 13 of the daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital, which has been called to prepare for occupation to stop its closure,...