Food And Clothes Prices Soar

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SOARING food and clothing prices saw the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate measure for March rising to 3.5% from 3.4% in February. The Office...

Britain Trains Saudi Snipers

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It emerged yesterday that the UK is training Saudi Army troops who are being used to suppress demonstrators against the feudal ...

Prentis Warns Labour

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UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday pledged ‘our union will bring together an alliance of all public service unions’ to defend jobs and public...

JCB AXES MORE JOBS! – despite £50 a week GMB wage cut deal

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more than 3,300 jobs were axed or came under threat yesterday as prime minister Brown held his much-heralded ‘jobs summit’ with bosses and union...
Palestinian-British schoolgirl Leanne Mohamad was crowned regional finalist in the ‘Speak Out’ Challenge has been barred from progressing further in the competition

Palestinian gagged after winning the ‘Speak Out’ Challenge!

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A PALESTINIAN-British schoolgirl Leanne Mohamad, who was crowned regional finalist in the ‘Speak Out’ Challenge has been barred from progressing further in the competition...

3 More Mass Graves Found At Nasser Hospital!

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MORE tragedy keeps unfolding in the city of Khan Younis, with more mass graves found inside the courtyard of Nasser Hospital. Medical staff and international...

Corbyn for second referendum!

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THE LABOUR Party yesterday tabled an amendment to the government motion to ‘break the Brexit deadlock and protect the UK from a No Deal...
Demonstration in Hammersmith against the closure of four A&Es in west London – meanwhile west London’s Imperial College NHS Trust aims to double its private income

Unions must strike to stop NHS closures

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CAMPAIGNERS against the closure of four west London hospital Accident and Emergency Departments expressed fury yesterday at the declaration by Imperial College Healthcare NHS...

‘Unfunded and unsafe!’ –BMA condemns Tory plan for 7 day working

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DOCTORS will not sign up to the Tory government’s proposals for a seven-day-a-week, 24-hours-a-day NHS service because the plans are ‘unfunded, undefined’, ‘wholly unrealistic’...

Tories knew NHS couldn’t cope with pandemic

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THE TORY government hid the outcome of an exercise it conducted on how the NHS would cope with a pandemic because it considered the...

French unions hold mass rally in Paris tomorrow

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SOPHIE Binet, general secretary of the CGT French trade union federation, has called for people to join the rallies on July 18 in front...

Sadiq Khan blocks £50 million Palantir police contract

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LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan has blocked a £50m Metropolitan Police contract with US surveillance technology company Palantir, citing a ‘clear and serious breach’ of...
The Blackpool Health branch of Unison marching against job cuts on the TUC demonstration on March 26

890 Ambulance Jobs To Go

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THE London Ambulance Service (LAS) announced yesterday that it plans to cut 890 jobs over the next five years. The LAS, which is making £53...

MATERNITY ‘REFORMS’ CRISIS – as Ministers oppose policy

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The crisis over government plans to axe A&Es and maternity units deepened yesterday as it emerged that at least a dozen Labour ministers are...

Junior Doctors fighting for NHS!

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‘ACTION now to defend the NHS!’ demand thousands of Junior Doctors as they begin another three-day strike at 7.00am today. At the end of it...

ASLEF & RMT TO STRIKE ON WED 1st FEBRUARY ALONG WITH CIVIL SERVANTS &...

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ASLEF and RMT railway workers are to strike on Wednesday 1st February, joining 100,000 PCS civil servants, 100,000 NEU teachers and tens of thousands...

Tories to hike up National Insurance – Youth will be hit hardest says Intergeneration...

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THE TORIES are pushing for a rise in the National Insurance rate, affecting over 25 million workers to pay for social care. For someone on...

NATIONALISE JLR AND CORUS – the only way to defend jobs

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Trade union leaders were yesterday impotent in the face of threatened mass sackings at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Corus by owner Tata of...

Corbyn stays silent over Second Referendum!

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn twice refused to rule out a second referendum yesterday when challenged during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons....
Behind bars and handcuffed without charge or trial – the essence of American justice

Don’t Extradite Babar Ahmad

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‘FREE Babar Ahmad,’ Babar’s father Ashfaq Ahmad told supporters outside the High Court in central London yesterday, ‘if Babar is extradited to America then...
Young Socialists lobbying the TUC General Council yesterday morning demanding they call a general strike

‘NAME THE DAY!’ – says RMT leader Crow

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YOUNG SOCIALISTS and trade unionists lobbied the TUC General Council yesterday morning to demand it call a general strike. Young Socialists kept up chants of...

‘Chemical attack 100% fabrication’ – says Assad

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‘NO one has investigated what happened that day in Khan Sheikoun,’ said President Assad yesterday. ‘As you know Khan Sheikoun is under the control...
‘Unity is strength’ – Scottish workers carrying the Dundee Trades Council banner marching alongside workers from England and Wales on the half-a-million-strong TUC demonstration against government cuts in March 2011

SCOTS WORKERS REJECT THE NATIONALISTS – Forward to socialism

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EARLY yesterday morning it was officially declared that the Scottish Nationalists were defeated as Scotland voted to stay in the United Kingdom after the...
FBU members and residents from the Buncefield area picketing 10 Downing Street on Wednesday night

Union solicitors urging members to sign deal

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‘WE are asking all trade unions and all trade unionists to join our march and rally in Hounslow on Saturday 25th of March,’ Sharanjit...

Kiev coupist Nuland visits Syriza leaders!

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LAST Tuesday, in a visit that was kept quiet, the American Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland (she oversaw...

Hunger strike to shut Yarl’s Wood

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A HUNGER strike was launched by 43 women at Yarl’s Wood Detention centre in Bedford yesterday against indefinite detention, forced removal and appalling conditions....

Suspend inquiry unless panellist immediately replaced say Grenfell campaigners

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THE SECOND phase of the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire began yesterday with families and friends of the 72 men, women and children...

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...

BA Pensions Ballot!

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Details emerged yesterday of a deal, yet to be agreed by workers, which means the end of final salary pensions at British Airways. The TGWU...

Busworkers launch a national health & safety campaign

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A POWERFUL busworkers march and rally was held in central London yesterday to launch a national campaign for better health and safety as well...

Unite supports the pro-Palestine boycott movement against Israel

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UNITE has declared its support for the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli regime, condemning the new legislation barring institutions...

CALL FOR OCCUPATION! – as South London Trust put into Administration

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HEALTH Secretary Lansley announced yesterday that he is putting South London Healthcare NHS Trust into administration. The trust was created by merging three hospitals –...
Greek workers remain completely opposed to the austerity measures and the betrayal of the Syriza government which has now resigned

Greek Election Crisis!

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SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras announced on Thursday evening that he was resigning as Prime Minister and has called an early Greek election. Tsipras, who was...
Junior doctors demonstrate against the government’s NHS ‘reforms’

PFI DAMAGES THE NHS – Private investors are draining away NHS funds say BMA

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Private investors are benefiting from Private Finance Initiative debts which are damaging the NHS, said the British Medical Association this morning. The BMA was responding...
Many of the 10,000 marchers who demonstrated last weekend to defend Ealing Hospital called for it to be occupied and kept open at all costs

DEFEND OUR HOSPITALS!– London BMA votes to support Enfield conference

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Dr Kevin O’Kane, chairman of the London Region BMA told its Annual Business Meeting on Thursday night that London Region felt let down and...
The sacked women cleaners contingent marching in Athens last September – they are demanding their jobs back

Athens Strike Illegal

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AN Athens court has declared ‘illegal’ the 48-hour national strike of the Wind telecom company workers but the strike went ahead on Wednesday and...

‘TAKE NO-ONE ALIVE!’ –Kiev junta’s order at Mariupol

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AS RUSSIA celebrated Victory Day over the Nazis with massive parades all over the country, Ukrainian troops using heavy weaponry and tanks in the...

‘RESTORE OUR HARDSHIP PAY!’ – Gate Gourmet locked-out workers urge TGWU executive

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‘WE are lobbying the TGWU national executive today to demand that it immediately restore our hardship pay, which has been stopped by Tony Woodley,...

‘Ceasefire agreement will hold!’ – insists Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya

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HAMAS leader and chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya said yesterday that he is confident the Gaza ceasefire agreement will succeed and hold. ‘We are determined to...

‘All NHS workers & their families must be tested!’ – demands BMA chair Dr...

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‘ALL health workers and their families must be tested immediately,’ Chair of the Council of the British Medical Association and GP Dr Chaand Nagpaul...

‘Defeat Trump’s international banditry’

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US ‘INTERNATIONAL banditry’ was condemned by Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian delegate, speaking at the United Nations Security Council in New York yesterday afternoon. He went...

‘PROSECUTE BOSSES’–TUC – who pay apprentices less than the legal minimum

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EIGHTEEN per cent of young people on slave labour apprenticeship schemes are illegally being paid less than the minimum wage, according to the government’s...

XMAS DAY SACKINGS! – RMT pledges taking action

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RMT general secretary Mick Cash yesterday condemned as ‘disgraceful’ the Christmas Day sackings of 2,727 City Link workers. The announcement said that parcel delivery firm...
UCU members, City & Islington College, on the picket line during the national strike on April 24th

London Lecturers’ Pay Strike!

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COLLEGE lecturers in London, members of the University and College Union (UCU), will take strike action on Monday (9 June). And further action across England...

New European banking crash fears

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A FRESH European-wide banking crash has reared its head as the euro tumbled to a six-month low yesterday in reaction to the Italian crisis....