May hands Parliament power to delay Brexit

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TODAY a motion is to be put to Parliament where MPs will vote on the sequence of events leading up to Brexit. On the eve...

Pathology Privatisation Fiasco

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The Serco-led public-private partnership which runs London’s St Thomas’ and Kings College hospitals’ path labs, GSTS Pathology, has run into trouble having made a...
Part of the Vouli square with the DEH workers lorry-cranes at the back

Greek Workers Occupy Square!

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TENS of thousands of young people along with workers and their families staged an enormous rally last Wednesday evening in Athens, almost filling up...

EXTRADITION HALTED! ‘A victory for Julian’ – Stella Moris addresses Assange supporters outside Old...

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‘TODAY is a victory for Julian! Today’s victory is the first step towards justice in this case,’ Stella Moris, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s fiancee...

MORE GAZA MASSACRES! – as Israel intensifies bombardment

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Israel early yesterday ignored a UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for an ‘immediate, durable and fully respected cease-fire, leading to the full withdrawal...
A section of Wednesday’s march in Athens

24-Hour Greek Nationwide Strike

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DOCKERS, seafarers, railway and Athens Metro workers participated 100% in a private-sector-only 24 hour national strike on Wednesday called by the GSEE (Greek TUC)...
Tata steel workers march through London in defence of their jobs

Tata Steel – pension cuts and no jobs guarantees!

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THE DEAL, struck between unions and Tata Steel, which guarantees no compulsory redundancies at Port Talbot for five years and accepts the end of...

A&E Visits Halved By Virus Outbreak

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A&E VISITS in England have halved since the coronavirus outbreak started, dropping to their lowest level since records began. Before the pandemic, more than 2.1m...

BANKERS PANIC! – It’s the survival of the fittest as bankers call in debts

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There is a real panic setting in in the capitalist world’s financial system with the main world banks beginning to act to secure themselves...
Student nurses marching in London on Saturday demanding that their bursaries be maintained

‘Don’t cut our bursaries!’ say student nurses

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‘BURSARIES or bust! Jeremy bite the dust!’ chanted over a thousand student nurses as they marched to Downing Street on Saturday in their campaign...

‘Tory Sleaze Bigger Than Ever!’

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‘TORY SLEAZE is bigger than ever,’ Labour’s Shadow Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster Rachel Reeves said yesterday after senior Tory MP Bernard Jenkin...
Cadbury’s workers in London last December to fight for their jobs

MASSIVE JOBLESS RISE – greatest since 1992

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Responding to yesterday’s unemployment figures, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘Today’s figures show that unemployment is starting to accelerate and it now...

Lancs biomedics refuse shift work – as part of month-long strike

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BIOMEDICAL scientists, who have been on the frontline of Covid-19 testing at a Lancashire NHS trust, will stop doing night, weekend and late shifts...

436 Killed In Gaza Yesterday – Half Of Them Children!

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THE NUMBER of people killed in Gaza since 7th October rose to 5,087 yesterday – an increase of 436 since Sunday, the Health Ministry...

10,000 Tube strikers fighting 600 job cuts

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10,000 TUBE workers took strike action yesterday after London Underground (LU) bosses refused to rule out job cuts and detrimental changes to pensions. Under the...

P&O SACKS 800! – RMT instructs crews to stay on board and refuse to...

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P&O FERRIES has fired 800 seafaring staff with immediate effect. However, crews defied orders and refused to leave their ships, as their union the...

Labour MPs rebelling against Starmer’s brutal austerity cuts programme

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LABOUR’S top brass is facing a mounting backlash against its campaign of intimidation aimed at forcing MPs to fall in line behind a brutal...
Electricians union banner on the Athens march last Friday demanding no property tax on electricity bills!

Greek anger over EU diktat

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Greek workers and youth are infuriated with the leaked German government document which proposes that an EU ‘Budget Commissioner’ should be installed in Greece...
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...
Save Kensal Rise Library campaigners were joined by local children outside the library yesterday morning

Kensal Rise library picket!

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Save Kensal Green Library campaigners are maintaining their round-the-clock presence outside their local library. Outside the library yesterday morning campaigner Phil O’Shea explained: ‘This campaign...

Corbyn calls emergency shadow cabinet meeting

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn is to hold an emergency shadow cabinet meeting next Monday to discuss alleged anti-Semitism within the party. The meeting was called...

MACRON OUT! – demands 287,000 workers

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MORE than 287,000 people attended marches and clashed with police across France again on Saturday, wearing yellow vests to oppose tax rises on fuel...

1,000 NEWLY QUALIFIED GPs ARE FACING DEPORTATION!

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‘Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) is utterly appalled that up to 1,000 newly qualified GPs face deportation despite having completed their GP training in the...

NO OPTION BUT TO STRIKE! – say the teaching trade unions

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THE two largest teacher unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, yesterday confirmed the next phase of their jointly...

Government Refusing To Disclose Torture Evidence

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A BRITISH Court yesterday ordered an expedited hearing on whether the British government can ignore the plea by London man Binyam Mohamed for evidence...
Palestinians emerge through clouds of teargas fired by Israeli troops at the Gaza border on the 6th Friday demonstration yesterday

Plo Suspends Recognition Of Israel!

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AT LEAST 37 Palestinian protesters and three journalists were injured by live shots or suffocated from tear-gas inhalation on Friday as Israeli forces attacked...
At a rally last Friday at the Department for Communities and Local Government a resident from north Kensington holds up a piece of charred cladding that had fallen from Grenfell Tower during the blaze

600 Combustible Cladded Towers!

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‘MANY in the fire service and the fire safety sector have been raising issues about regulation, issues like cladding, for many years and we...

Hand all academies & free schools back

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CHIEF Inspector of Schools Michael Wilshaw has criticised the heads of some academy chains for being paid vast salaries, up to £225,000 a...
Hospital staff and local residents marching to save Whittington Hospital in February. There is massive opposition to NHS cuts

‘BUILD ALLIANCE TO FIGHT ATTACKS!’ – Prentis urges health conference

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‘WE will build alliances needed to fight future attacks’ Dave Prentis, the Unison leader, told its Health Conference in Brighton yesterday. Addressing health workers, including...
Doctors, nurses and NHS staff stopped to support the extremely determined picket to save Ealing Hospital

Re-open maternity & children’s wards – demands Ealing mass picket

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DOCTORS, nurses and NHS staff on hearing the demands blasting out of the megaphone ‘Re-open Maternity! Re-open the Charlie Chaplin childrens’ ward!’ stopped to...

Assad Forces Go On The Offensive

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SYRIAN government troops late on Sunday repulsed an attack by an armed gang on a police school in the northern city of Aleppo. This came...
Gate Gourmet workers marching on May 1 – yesterday TGWU leader Tony Woodley admitted that their struggle was not over

PCS NATIONAL STRIKE THREAT – ‘You can’t tell Brown and Blair apart’ – Serwotka

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‘THE government could face a national strike by civil servants in a matter of weeks,’ PCS leader Mark Serwotka told a pre-TUC Congress press...
North East Lodon Council of Action pickets of Chase Farm Hospital said everyone was opposed to the closure

Chase Farm Picket Wins Big Support

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‘WE ARE having a successful picket again today,’ North-East London Council of Action secretary, Bill Rogers, told News Line outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. ‘Everyone...
Teachers marching in London on Tuesday against the Coalition’s attacks on their jobs, pay and conditions

Tens of thousands of teachers strike – ‘We are defending education’

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TENS of thousands of teachers across the North West took strike action yesterday. This was a further step in the NASUWT and NUT teacher unions’...

Death toll in Gaza continues to rise!

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THE DEATH toll from Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip has reached 72,317, Gaza’s health ministry reported yesterday, as fresh attacks killed a 13-year-old...

4.3m UK CHILDREN NOW IN POVERTY! – RAISE CHILD BENEFIT DEMANDS COMMISSION

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THE SOCIAL Mobility Commission in its State of the Nation report 2021, published yesterday, has unveiled in detail the devastating impact of coronavirus on...

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...
Demonstrators with their placards as they assembled opposite the House of Commons before Monday’s vote on the ID cards bill

SADDAM DEFIANT – as witness refuses to testify

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The ‘trial’ of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein collapsed into into chaos minutes after it was resumed again yesterday. After boycotting the ‘trial’, Saddam arrived saying...
TONY WOODLEY (centre) enjoying a joke with bosses’ leader Lord DIGBY JONES who wants to see workers on a two-day week

‘MOTOR INDUSTRY FACING ARMAGEDDON’ states Tony Woodley –Vauxhall could be gone by end of...

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THE car industry in Britain is facing ‘Armageddon’, with GM Vauxhall set to close by the end of April unless it gets immediate financial...

Patients to be turned away from A&E – Hancock outlines NHS 111 First

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YESTERDAY in Parliament, Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that less serious cases would be turned away from A&E and only the most serious...

CWU defiant and fighting Royal Mail asset-stripping

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ROYAL MAIL is to seek a High Court injunction on Tuesday to stop a postal strike. The company said it woulmake a formal application on...

Firefighters March With Grenfell Families & Supporters

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HUNDREDS of firefighters from fire brigades across the UK marked the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell disaster yesterday by participating in the silent walk...

Steel Closure Is Devastating

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THE TORIES ‘must bring British Steel into public ownership’, Unite said after the devastating announcement that the industry fell into liquidation yesterday morning. Unite assistant...

Teachers fury at Labour’s ‘inadequate & unfunded’ 2.8% offer!

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DELEGATES at the annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU) in Harrogate yesterday voted for districts, branches and school groups to ‘immediately prepare’...