UK committed ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ over Chagossians return

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THE UK committed ‘crimes against humanity’ by refusing to allow Chagos Islanders to return to their homes on the Chagos Islands, which is now...
The BMA demonstrating against the privatisation of the NHS

Banning Procedures On NHS – A ‘gamble With Patient Health’

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Banning NHS operations to save money will gamble with patients’ health, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons warned yesterday. John Black, one of...

Bring May into contempt – Labour tells Speaker Bercow

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‘I MAKE no bones about it I would have preferred to have seen a unilateral right of termination in this backstop,’ Tory Attorney General...
Police attack workers and youth in Athens – they have now been turned loose on immigrants

Armed Police Hunt For ‘Illegals’ In Athens

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GREEK armed riot police squads assisted by other police units yesterday continued, for the fourth day running, the biggest pogrom against immigrant workers and...

NATIONALISE VESTAS! –demand the 25 occupying workers

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Workers who have been occupying the Vestas turbine blade plant on the Isle of Wight for fourteen days over plans to cut 625 jobs...
Marchers opposed to the occupation of Iraq demonstrate in March 2005

‘REASONABLE CASE’ – For the slaughter of Iraqis

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Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith yesterday told the Iraq Inquiry, that he was not pressured into discarding his opposition to going to war without...

Corbyn makes May an offer

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in his speech to the party conference yesterday, made Tory PM May an offer: he said that Labour would give...
RMT Tube workers on the picket line earlier this year

RMT Control Staff Strike Action

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LONDON Underground control staff working on the Waterloo and City line are on strike for three days, following a 100% ‘YES’ vote, for strike...
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...
Young Socialists on yesterday’s march with the Justice for the Sacked Gate Gourmet Workers’ banner just behind them

FORWARD TO SOCIALISM – say May Day marchers

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Four thousand workers and youth marched for socialism through central London on May Day yesterday. Led by the May Day Organising Committee banner there were...

34 Tories quit government positions

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BORIS Johnson has insisted he will stay in office, despite a growing Tory revolt against his leadership. At Prime Minister’s Questions, he said he had...
Striking Bectu members on the picket line outside the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton on Friday morning

Ritzy Strike

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A LIVELY crowd of 50 Ritzy cinema workers attracted a lot of support in Brixton yesterday, shouting ‘pay the living wage’ and ‘living staff,...

Children In The Besieged Gaza Strip Live In Terror

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THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that children in the besieged Gaza Strip live in ‘constant terror due to Israeli bombardment’. UNICEF spokesperson...

Brown’s Record Deficit!

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The UK government borrowed a record amount in September, in a bid to boost its finances, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures published yesterday...
BMA junior doctors are getting ready for industrial action and will be assembling at Marble Arch at 2.00pm tomorrow to march to Parliament Square

Get ready for industrial action! says BMA

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THE BMA has urged junior doctors to update their place of work details by October 23 so that they can take part in...

UK Full Of Working Poor!

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THE ‘improved’ unemployment figures are a mask for a country that is working harder, and getting poorer, with more than 4.5...

TUC CALLS A NATIONAL RIGHT TO STRIKE DAY! on Wednesday February 1st

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FOLLOWING the moving of the new Tory anti-union legislation in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the TUC announced yesterday that it will hold...

Gate Gourmet anger over attack on BA stewards

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GATE Gourmet workers were very angry yesterday when they heard that BA has decided that three BA shop stewards are to face disciplinary...
Nurses outside Chelsea & Westminster hospital during the last NHS pay strike on November 24th

Less than 1% of the £700m emergency care reached A&Es

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LESS than 1% of the £700m allocated by the government for emergency care in England this winter ended up directly in A&E departments, according...
Fenland Foods workers and their families demonstrate outside Marks and Spencer Oxford Street store demanding their jobs be saved

1.82 MILLION OUT OF WORK – while Brown fawns on the bankers

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Official figures out yesterday showed that UK unemployment has hit an 11-year high, with the number of people out of work in the three...
Cabin crew at Heathrow in high spirits during their recent strike action

Strike Declared Illegal!

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The four five-day strikes by British Airways cabin crew were yesterday declared illegal by the High Court. The first set of strikes was due to...
Masses of firefighters took part in yesterday’s demonstration and showed their determination to beat this reactionary Tory-led government

‘We rescue people not banks’ say 4,000 firefighters marching in London

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OVER 4,000 firefighters marched through central London yesterday against attacks on their pensions and cuts to the fire service. The front banner read: ‘We Rescue...
Junior doctors on the picket line during their strike in 2015 – they are often exhausted says the General Medical Council (GMC)

Junior doctors ‘burned out’ GMC

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NEARLY a quarter of junior doctors say their work makes them feel ‘burnt out’, and almost one-in-three says they are often ‘exhausted’ in the...

Plan For Mayors To Run NHS Hospitals!

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MINISTERS are drawing up plans to give mayors significant new powers over hospitals and schools as part of a new wave of devolution that...
Gate Gourmet workers from Dusseldorf and Heathrow  join together to protest outside Texas Pacific offices – the parent company acific

Gg Dusseldorf Strikers In London Today

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers, at Heathrow Airport, are welcoming Gate Gourmet striking workers, from Dusseldorf Airport in Germany, to London today. The British Gate Gourmet...
Teachers and junior doctors united in struggle marched through central London last month demanding ‘No privatisation of the NHS, No privatisation of education!’

Tory Forced Academies Plan Ditched

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THE TORY government has been forced to make a fundamental retreat: their plans to force all of England’s schools to become academies have been...

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...

Tens of thousands strike in north of Ireland!

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THE north of Ireland was yesterday gripped by a 24-hour general strike by health, education, transport and civil service workers protesting against job...

Maternity Services Struggling To Cope!

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THE government is responsible for maternity services being overworked, understaffed and struggling to cope, warned the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday. Maternity unit closures,...
Young people defiantly lobby the TUC Congress. They insist that they are not going to work for nothing and are demanding a general strike

‘Coalition making life hell for workers & youth’

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YOUTH unemployment increased by 15,000 during the three months to June, reaching 973,000. ‘The coalition is making life hell for youth and it must be...

21st BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN

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ANOTHER British soldier has died in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed yesterday. The MoD said the soldier was ‘shot and...
GM Luton convenor GARY REA waves goodbye to Business Secretary Mandelson after their meeting in which Mandelson refused to guarantee jobs at the Luton plant – workers now expect a mass meeting

Magna To Send Business Plans To Mandelson

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Business Secretary Mandelson has signalled that the government may provide a bridging loan or loan guarantees to help finance the sale of GM...

The prince and the oligarch

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AN investment bank, led by an oligarch who collaborated with Prince Charles on charity work, managed a network of offshore companies moving billions out...
Young Socialists marching to kick out this Tory government – they will be lobbying the TUC on September 13th

Tories Plan Youth Boot Camps

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UNEMPLOYED youth are to be conscripted into ‘boot camps’ or face being thrown off benefits and onto the streets, in a ‘vindictive’ new Tory...
Young people marching to the Israeli Embassy in London to denounce Israeli war crimes in Gaza

Duma Forms Guard To Beat Back Settlers!

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RESIDENTS of the Palestinian village of Duma in the occupied West Bank are forming voluntary groups to guard against attacks by Israeli settlers. This is...
25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE

25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE

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Sunday 23rd January 2.00-6.00pm St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)

‘Osborne & Cameron must quit’

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TORY Chancellor Osborne refused to appear in parliament yesterday to answer an urgent question on the crisis surrounding last Wednesday’s budget, which cut disabled...
Nurses defending the NHS against bed cuts and hospital closures on May 6 when they lobbied parliament

NHS BEDS NOT SACRED! – says Managers NHS Confederation

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Health unions yesterday condemned NHS bosses’ plans to slash thousands of hospital beds to concentrate on care in the community. The proposition...

TUC must act to free Assange says father

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JOHN SHIPTON yesterday called for the TUC to take up the fight for the release of his son, Julian Assange, and prevent his extradition...

Teachers vote to fight SATs!

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Head teachers have voted overwhelmingly to boycott SATs tests, which unions condemned as ‘focusing on failure’. Teaching unions are also deeply opposed to the league...

£14,000 per year fast-track degrees!

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‘OUR universities must remain places of learning, not academic sweatshops,’ UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt warned yesterday. She was responding to the Tory plan to...

UK a bailiffs paradise!

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LOCAL councils should ‘back off’ from calling in bailiffs, after doing so an ‘excessive’ 1.8 million times in the last year, to collect debts...

Hamas denounces silence over Israeli raid on al-Shifa hospital!

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THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced the international community over its ‘shameful silence’ on the Israeli military’s raid against Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital where...
Teaching unions on the march. Teachers do a very large amount of unpaid overtime, they are very angry and there are  discussions taking place to form one very powerful teachers union

5.4m workers doing unpaid overtime says TUC

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EMPLOYEES across the UK worked a record amount of unpaid overtime last year, with over 5.4 million workers putting in around £640m worth of...
July 2006 mass picket against the threat to extradite Babar Ahmad to the United States

POLICE BUGGING INQUIRY – Labour MP spied on as he met US extradition target

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Justice secretary Jack Straw has had to order an inquiry into claims that police bugged Tooting Labour MP Sadiq Khan as he visited a...