Some of the 300 demonstrators outside the Whittington Hospital yesterday lunchtime who are determined it will not be closed

Keep Whittington Open!

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Over 300 people rallied outside the Whittington Hospital, north London, yesterday lunchtime, against the closure of the hospital’s A&E and maternity departments. Organisers ‘Defend the...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet worker HARBINDER SINGH addressing the conference from the platform

Gate Gourmet workers support PCS strikers

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‘OUR conference will show the whole trade union movement that what the TGWU leadership has done to us is wrong,’ locked out Gate Gourmet...

Heathrow Strike Warning

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Changes to shifts and rosters at Scandinavian Airways at Heathrow (SAS), now to be known as Scandinavian Ground Services (SGS), may lead to industrial...
A small section of the march around the Durham Miners banner on Saturday

100,000 Turn Out At Durham Miners Gala

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UP to 100,000 workers and youth gathered at the 128th Durham Miners Gala on Saturday. Pride of place on the platform after the march through...

‘We oppose genocide – we support Palestine Action!’

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MORE than 130 prominent writers, scholars, and activists, including Sally Rooney, Greta Thunberg, and Brian Eno, have written to the Court of Appeal in...
Police attack demonstrators in Ladbroke Grove, North Kensington

Thatcher Used Riots To Boost The State!

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Margaret Thatcher considered arming the police during the riots of 1981, whilst a section of her government counselled that Liverpool should be abandoned to...

BA Talks Breakdown!

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British Airways has asked ACAS to mediate after failing to get the unions to agree to plans to cut thousands of jobs and freeze...
Some of the demonstrators who took part in the march through Lewisham on Saturday to keep south-east London hospitals open

KEEP LEWISHAM A&E OPEN – demand marchers

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AROUND 150 people marched from Blackheath past Lewisham Hospital to a rally in Ladywell Park on Saturday, against plans to shut the south London...
A section of the 2,000-strong demonstration outside the BBC in White City demanding that the BBC must not assist Sri Lanka  genocide against Tamils

Bbc Vetos National Appeal For Gaza

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THE BBC has blocked the nationwide broadcast of a fundraising appeal for Gaza by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) this weekend. The DEC comprises the...

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...

May Day March

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Monday May 1st MAY DAY MARCH
E15 Focus Mothers Group and their supporters outside the four empty flats on the Carpenter’s Estate which are now occupied

E15 Mums Occupy

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FIERCE local opposition has emerged on the Carpenter’s Estate, in the heart of Stratford’s Olympic Village, where tenants are being forced from their homes,...
A massive picket line of angry workers determined that their boss will not succeed in destroying the

ONSLAUGHT ON BASIC RIGHTS – Human Rights Act to be ammended

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday outlined new draconian measures to deport or jail people judged to be ‘glorifying terrorism’. He said ‘intensive meetings across government’ had...

‘Youth won’t accept slave labour’

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YOUNG Socialist editor Paul Lepper yesterday slammed the figures produced by the government for its welfare to work programme. He said: ‘These figures expose the...

Brown Rejects Withdrawal Timetable

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Gordon Brown has ruled out setting a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, saying they still have ‘an important job to...
The Secretary of the Greek Cinema and TV Technicians trades union Chrysa Daponte and her friends at the Syntagma rally. Daponte is showing the newspaper of the Revolutionary Marxist League, Greek Section of the ICFI, with the headline ‘for an indefinite p

Greek Workers March Against Merkel!

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OVER 60,000 workers and youth in angry and militant mood participated on Tuesday afternoon at a rally in front of the Vouli (Greek parliament)...

Inquiry into undercover police spies opens!

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THE Public inquiry launched yesterday into the Police Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) ‘will expose both creditable and discreditable conduct, practice and management’, Justice Pitchford...

450 jobs axed at BBC

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FOUR hundred and fifty jobs are to be axed at the BBC, it was announced yesterday. The cuts include the closure of the Victoria Derbyshire...
A section of the mass picket of the Balfour Beatty Crossrail site at Blackfriars Bridge early yesterday morning

Angry Sparks Demand Official Action

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ANGRY electricians fighting 35% pay cuts imposed by a ‘cartel’ of seven major building contractors led by Balfour Beatty, went on strike at construction...

Osborne War On Benefits

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‘WITH this abhorrent proposal, the Chancellor is saying that some children will be marked out from birth as second class citizens with their lives...

‘Unprecedented economic uncertainty in the UK’ BoE

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BANK of England (BoE) boss Andrew Bailey has said the UK faces ‘an unprecedented level of economic uncertainty.’ Britain’s economy shrank by 20% in the...

Wildcat Strike Spreads!

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Thousands of construction workers around the UK have walked out in support of 200 workers who began a wildcat strike on Tuesday at the...

Hamas condemns Israeli army’s criminal attacks on Palestinians!

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The Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli occupation army’s ongoing raids and crimes and its persistence in assassinating resistance fighters in the West...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers were joined by the TGWU executive council members on the picket line outside the factory yesterday

3,000 Junior Doctors Jobless!

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AS many as 3,000 junior doctors are unable to find posts and are being driven to seek work either abroad or outside the NHS,...

‘HAMMER BLOW TO FAMILIES’ – TUC condemns benefit cuts

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THE Trades Union Congress yesterday condemned cuts to housing benefit and other vital support, as sweeping changes to the Welfare State began to take...

£4bn claim against RBS – taxpayers will have to pay bill

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THOUSANDS of investors have launched a joint compensation claim for more than £4.0bn against Royal Bank of Scotland, claiming the 82% state-owned bank deliberately...
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...
Disabled claimants protesting in Norwich in February – new claimants now face a £30 a week cut to their benefit

Tories step up war on poor

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THE TORY government has launched an all-out assault on the poorest and most vulnerable sections of society, slashing disabled people’s money, cutting child tax...

GET TROOPS OUT NOW! says Rose Gentle

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‘We want Tony Blair to bring the troops out – not in six months but now, to prevent more loss of life’, Rose Gentle,...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC Gongress last month demanding action to win their reinstatement

NHS CRISIS – hits Chase Farm, North Middx & Grantham

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The leading orthopaedic surgeon at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield has handed in his notice after 30 years in the NHS, because ‘all managers...
Marchers in London on Saturday against poverty, war and about climate change

STOP AFGHAN WAR! – Rally US Embassy 2.00pm Wednesday

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50,000 youth and trade unionists marched against, poverty, unemployment, war and about climate change, tens of thousands more people are set to take to...
Travel Safe staff on strike against harassment and bullying of union members

We Have No Option But To Strike

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UP to a dozen travel safe officers yesterday lobbied a board meeting of Transport for London (TFL) at 197, Blackfriars Road, London. They told News...
Workers demonstrate at Heathrow during strike action by the cabin crew earlier this year. A new strike ballot is under way

Strike Ballot Starts For Cabin Crew

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Voting papers have been sent to more than 10,000 BASSA (British Airways Stewards and Stewardesses Association) members of Unite for a fresh strike ballot...

13-year-old Palestinian boy killed for letting off fireworks!

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THE ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) continued their genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank overnight on Tuesday and throughout yesterday. In...

STOP TUC TALKS WITH TORIES – Barber must be sacked!

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‘The TUC-Tory talks must stop’, Dave Wiltshire the All Trades Union Alliance Secretary told News Line yesterday. Wiltshire said: ‘Brendan Barner is discussing with Cameron...

Gaza hospitals remain under siege – while ‘Intercept’ says the US is ready to...

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NASSER Medical Complex and Al-Amal Hospital remains under Israeli military siege in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip said the Palestinian Red Crescent...
Yesterday’s march by lecturers and students heads towards Whitehall from the London School of Economics

500 universities & colleges strike! – to defend pensions and fight pay cuts

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MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at around 500 colleges and universities across the UK took strike action yesterday against changes to...

PCS Fights Tate Sackings

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A RALLY of over 200 PCS strikers from Tate Enterprises, employed at Tate Modern and Tate Britain galleries was held on Saturday outside the...
Walmart workers and Ferguson protesters picket a Walmart store in Atlanta

Ferguson Calls For A ‘Communist Revolution’

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‘WE need a communist revolution,’ shouted crowds of angry protesters outside Ferguson, St Louis, police station on Friday night. Hundreds of people gathered in the...
Syrian students on the mass march in central London against the UK bombing of Syria – Cameron wants another vote in parliament

Cameron wants parliament to decide air strikes on Syria

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Cameron wants parliament to decide air strikes on Syria Cameron lost the parliamentary vote to bomb Syria in 2013 and has so far refused to...

Mass hospital closures! – Nuffield Trust warning

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A DRAMATIC one in three hospitals face closure, the Nuffield Trust has warned MPs. Many hospital trusts face severe and potentially unsustainable financial pressures, warns...

British pilots flying US drones

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BRITISH pilots have been flying drones from a US base responsible for covert strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, considered by many to violate international...

TUC calls November 2 lobby of Parliament

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TUC leader Frances O’Grady welcomed delegates to the TUC Congress yesterday saying: ‘Welcome to the TUC, our parliament for working people. ‘Represented, here in the...

No limits Stop and Search! Youth chain gangs! – Sweeping police powers ‘discriminatory’ –...

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THE TORY government yesterday put forward proposals for even more sweeping police powers. They include taking off all restrictions on Stop and Search. Under the...
Water authority workers at the GSEE rally in Athens during last month’s general strike on May 3rd

Greece Set For Massive General Strike

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GREEK trade unions are set for a huge one-day general strike today against the government’s ‘Double Bill’ which destroys the state pension system, allows...