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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...
Ritzy cinema workers striking for a living wage

‘WAR ON LOW PAY!’ – launched at Unite conference

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‘WE are launching a war against low wages’ Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner announced yesterday on the second day of their annual conference. Unite...

END GAZA BLOCKADE NOW! – 2.4m facing starvation and dehydration

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THE GAZA STRIP has entered a dangerous phase due to the blockade and border closures, the Government Media Office (GMO) warned yesterday. The GMO reviewed...

‘Get rid of all privatised companies’ urge the striking Junior Doctors

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Junior doctors manned a lively and determined picket outside the Maudsley Hospital in south London yesterday, determined to defend their patients and the NHS. Laith...

Obama Set To Slash US Budget

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US President Barack Obama unveiled his 2012 budget yesterday, describing the proposal as a ‘down payment’ on future cuts to the US budget...

Kenyan Torture Victims Testify Today

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THREE victims of alleged torture at the hands of the British government during the Kenya Emergency in the 1950s and 1960s give evidence in...

Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed of Palestine Action remain on hunger strike

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HEBA Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed, activists linked to Palestine Action, remain on hunger strike in prison and say they will continue until their demands...
A section of the huge students contingent at the Athens Polytechnic march on Sunday

60,000 MARCH to commemorate 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising

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AS a result of the huge austerity rocking the Greek economy, this year’s march to commemorate the Athens Polytechnic student uprising was the biggest...

INTERSERVE HANDED £660m MONTHS BEFORE COLLAPSE!

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INTERSERVE was handed £660 million worth of public contracts in the months before facing collapse, GMB Union has revealed. The company is set to go...

3rd day of BEIS strike 100% solid

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PCS CATERING workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark were in confident mood on the third...
Doctors, local residents and trade unionists demonstrating against the privatisation of GP surgeries in Tower Hamlets

Defend NHS With Occupations!

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THE government yesterday sought to head off an eruption of demonstrations and occupations against the closure of wards, A&Es, and maternity, children’s and...
Gourmet pickets earlier this month – calling the whole trade union movement to join their march in Southall on December 4

Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers to march through Southall

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LOCKED OUT Gate Gourmet workers are to march through Southall on Sunday December 4th to demand that the TGWU makes their dispute official and...

GPs at breaking point! – While big pharma fleece the NHS

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THE ROYAL College of GPs (RCGP) has sounded the alarm over the crisis in general practice, calling yesterday for an urgent emergency rescue plan. Professor...

‘FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!’ – 600,000 workers march...

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MORE than half a million workers, students and youth held a powerful march for Palestine in central London on Saturday, marking two years of...
A strong picket line at Middlesex University yesterday saw the students union supporting members of Unite and the UCU who were striking to defend their jobs

Strike Action To Defend Uni Jobs

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STRIKE action took place yesterday across the three campuses of Middlesex University with lecturers and staff picketing every entrance against the threat of 300...

London Tube Staff To Walk Out

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TUBE staff have called for urgent talks with London’s mayor to avert a strike expected to cause severe disruption. Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union...

Tory ‘hit list’ for air strikes on Syria

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THE Tory government yesterday conceded that a ‘hit list’ of names of several ‘British jihadis’ were drawn up at the meeting of senior national...

‘IT WAS MURDER!’ – says Sophie Hurndall after Israeli soldier guilty of manslaug

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‘It should have been a murder case’, said Sophie Hurndall, the sister of Tom Hurndall yesterday. She was speaking to reporters just after her brother’s...

Unite & GMB Take On Energy Giants!

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‘THERE is a real possibility that supplies of petroleum products could be affected,’ union leaders warned yesterday as Unite and the GMB unions announced...
Junior doctors, NHS workers and supporters outside Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital on the second day of strike action

‘Strike until we win!’ – Junior Doctors strike solid

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THOUSANDS of junior doctors, NHS workers, trade unionists and supporters took to picket lines across the country yesterday, as the junior doctors took their...

Tories ask Iraq ‘let UK troops remain!’

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JOHNSON’S Tory government has urged Iraq to allow UK troops to stay in the country following the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani...
Horton Hospital campaigners demonstrate in London against the closure of the hospital’s maternity department

SEVERE FUNDING CUTS CLOSED NEARLY 50% OF MATERNITY UNITS – during 2016

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NEARLY half of England’s maternity units were forced to close to new mothers at some point during 2016 because of severe funding cuts, the...

Pupils miss out! Primary schools at bursting point

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PARENTS found out yesterday if their child got into the primary school of their choice, while at their annual conference, the National Education Union...
National Union of Journalists protest in March against Murdoch domination of the media

Brooks Arrested! – ‘Timing Stinks’ Says Dowler Family Lawyer

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FORMER News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was yesterday arrested ‘on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications’ and on ‘suspicion of corruption allegations’. In a...

Allies warn Russia to stop bombing ISIS

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TURKEY, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have called on Russia to stop its air strikes in Syria,...

Health Secretary Barclay hits out at Junior Doctors!

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TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay hit out against the NHS’s junior doctors again yesterday ahead of their five-day strike later this month, and on...

‘Get ready for a General Election’ says Corbyn

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‘TODAY we put ourselves on notice. Labour is preparing for a general election in 2017,’ said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn concluding his hour-long speech...

The Met to investigate Downing Street parties

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THE METROPOLITAN police are investigating allegations surrounding parties at Downing Street and in Whitehall, M-et Chief Cressida Dick said yesterday, with the Sue Gray...
Gate Gourmet workers sacked by Texas Pacific condemn the sell-out of their struggle by TGWU leader Woodley at last year’s May Day demonstration in London

T&g Backs Sainsbury Family Against Texas Pacific Raiders

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The Transport and General Workers Union yesterday issued a statement backing ‘the Sainsbury family’s hostile position to the private equity bid for the supermarket...

‘SECRET NHS CUTS WILL CAUSE UPROAR’ – says the BMA doctors union

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DOCTORS have warned that new plans for savage NHS cuts are ‘shrouded in secrecy’ and will ‘cause uproar’, the BMA says in a...

Abbas calls for emergency session of UN to discuss Israeli mass murder at the...

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the Israeli regime’s recent carnage in...

‘Last Ditch Talks’ Over NHS Pay

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Health unions yesterday warned the government that if it fails to improve on its pay-cutting offer they will proceed with strike ballots. UNISON said: ‘New...

‘Tories out of control!’ says Labour as pound crashes

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‘THEY'VE lost credibility, they’re losing confidence, they’re out of control,’ Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves told the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool as the pound...

‘RESTORE OUR HARDSHIP PAYMENTS’ – demand Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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Gate Gourmet locked out workers are calling on all trade unionists to act in their support. The TGWU members are fighting for reinstatement on their...

OUTSOURCING FOR TORTURE – House of Commons Committee demands investigation

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THE House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has called for an investigation into whether the British Labour government outsourced British nationals to countries such...
Queue outside the Northern Rock bank in Harruw on Tuesday of savers determined to take out their money

NORTHERN ROCK CRASHES – as gold reaches $726 an ounce and oil $82 a...

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SHARES in Northern Rock slumped yesterday leaving the Brown government contemplating the £28 billion guarantee it has given to secure its deposits. Financial markets around...
Demonstrators in London last year demanding the ending of Musharraf’s military regime

‘MUSHARAFF MUST STAND TRIAL!’ – demand Pakistan workers and youth

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Jubilant Pakistanis danced in the streets, waved flags and fired shots in the air, and called for President Pervez Musharraf to be put on...

Scores of people killed in Israeli air strikes!

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SCORES of people, including many women and children, were killed in Israeli air attacks on two UN-run schools in northern Gaza on Saturday –...
Junior doctors last Saturday joined forces with student nurses who are determined to defend bursaries and defeat tuition fees

Trade unionists to join junior doctors picket lines

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TRADE unionists are flocking to the junior doctors picket lines this morning. Matt Wrack, general secretary at the Fire Brigades Union, said: ‘Our people...

‘Kill The Bill’ Demos Nationwide!

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‘KILL the Bill’ mass demonstrations took place against the Tory government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in cities around the country on Friday...
Greek Army conscript soldiers on Thursday’s march in Athens

Police Attack Athens Poly March

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TENS of thousands of students, youth and workers demonstrated last Thursday in Athens, and in all Greek cities and towns, on the 38th Anniversary...

POLICE SPIES SCANDAL – undercover officers used dead children’s IDs

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A secret police squad stole the identities of dead babies and children, using them to attempt to infiltrate political groups and parties, it was...

Locked-out workers ‘disgusted’ with TGWU leaders

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‘I am hurt very badly when I see that report in The Guardian,’ locked-out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News Line. ‘The union refused...

86,000 vacant nhs posts! –between January & March 2017

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MORE than 86,000 NHS posts were vacant between January 2017 and March 2017, figures for the NHS in England suggest. Today’s NHS Vacancy Statistics England...
Irish workers march through Dublin against the cost of bailing out the banks

IRISH BANKING CRISIS! – Helping to undermine the euro

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A FRESH banking crisis is developing, with the credit ratings agency Moody’s reducing the Anglo-Irish bank’s debts to just above junk status. It is estimated...