PCS REJECTS ‘BULLYING’ OF THE POOR – as government plans four-week benefit cuts

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THE civil service union PCS said yesterday it was opposed to ‘punitive’ benefit cuts facing the unemployed, single parents and even the disabled, who...

Unions unite to defend RIGHT TO STRIKE!

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OVER one hundred RMT members, along with members of the PCS, UCU and Unite rallied outside Parliament yesterday to defend the right to strike. This...

‘THIS IS STOP BREXIT WEEK!’ – says Sir Keir Starmer

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MPs WILL seek to bring forward legislation to stop Brexit this week, Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has said. He said the plan...
Members of Unite assemble for a demonstration in central London during national strike action by local government workers in July

Unions March Against ‘Breadline Britain’

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THOUSANDS of trade unionists – including members of Unite, the GMB and the CWU postal workers’ union – will demonstrate in Manchester today at...
Students joined lecturers’ picket line during their strike action earlier this month

Gate Gourmet workers win support for march

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers are campaigning every day for their march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th March. Lakhinder Saran told News Line yesterday: ‘I went...
Ambulance and patient transfer crews lobby South London Healthcare NHS Trust Board yesterday morning

Gmb Fights Privatisation

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Yesterday morning over 100 ambulance crew turned out to lobby the board of the South London Healthcare NHS Trust to warn them to stop...
French youth at he head of the one miilion-strong march against the CPE in Paris on April 4 – after the withdrawal of the CPE yesterday French youth are now determined to take the struggle forward to a socialist society

2,000 Nursing Posts Lost Last Month

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Student nurses are being used to plug staffing gaps as NHS trusts axe thousands of qualified nurses in the face of government-induced deficits, the...

Israeli tank fire kills scores of Gazans

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THE armed wing of Hamas, Qassam Brigades, hit an Israeli Merkava tank with two Yassin 105 anti-armour missiles near a mosque in the Tal...
Thousands demonstrated against the threat to close the A&E at Whittington hospital in north London in 2010 – Four A&Es in west London are facing the axe

Stop W London A&E closures! – MP Slaughter appeals

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THE government plans to close Hammersmith and Charing Cross A&Es, warns Labour MP Andy Slaughter, who is calling on everyone to demonstrate in Westminster...
Youth and trade unionists stand together against pension cuts during last November’s National Pension Strike

Teachers & lecturers take action over Pensions!

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THOUSANDS of lecturers and teachers are striking against the government’s vicious onslaught on their pensions at universities, colleges and schools across London today. They...
Capita Unite members during a strike in Reading – the BMA doctors’ union has called for Capita to be stripped of its NHS contract after 3,500 women did not receive their cervical screening letters

Strip Capita Of NHS Contract!

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STRIP private outsourcing giant Capita of its NHS contract, doctors’ union the BMA demanded after the shocking news broke yesterday that more than 3,500...

£70bn more Tory cuts!

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SHADOW Labour Chancellor Ed Balls said yesterday that the Tories are not even half way through their cuts, and that if elected they would...

Thousands of doctors march on Downing St – Kick the Tories out now!

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THERE was massive support for the hundreds of picket lines outside hospitals all around the country yesterday morning as 47,600 junior doctors began their...

Smash The Health Bill!

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‘CAMERON’S speech today, with the five fake pledges on the NHS, signify that the coalition government is going full steam ahead with the...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers demand the end of the  sell-out ‘Compromise Agreement’ on their march in Southall earlier this month

Only 137 have signed ‘Compromise’ deal

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LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line yesterday were determined that they will win their struggle to return to their jobs on their...

Labour Demanding Windfall Tax Vote!

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LABOUR is tomorrow demanding a vote in the House of Commons to introduce a windfall tax on oil and gas companies, with former leader...

‘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...
Doctors and medical students demonstrate outside the BMA ARM in support of Bahraini medical workers who are being jailed and tortured for fighting for their democratic rights

CQC NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE says BMA

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DOCTORS at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh have voted no confidence in the CQC (Care Quality Commission) and have declared the organisation...

Musa Ibrahim Reports From Libyan War Fronts

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MUSA Ibrahim, spokesman for Colonel Gadaffi, gave an interview to the Syria-based Al-Ra’y TV on the evening of September 18. He said: ‘We...

Big Workers Protest As Netanyahu & Tories Meet

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ON FRIDAY, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street in central London to protest the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was...

42-Day Detention Crisis For Brown!

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A number of Labour MPs have tabled an amendment to the government’s Counter-Terrorism Bill in a bid to block plans to extend pre-charge detention...

18,000 NURSES FACE SACK! – says RCN

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‘The impact of deficits on NHS services and staff shows no sign of slowing down, with posts at risk of being lost to the...

Parliament can stop UK leaving EU – says shadow chancellor John McDonnell

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PARLIAMENT can stop the UK leaving the EU without negotiating a deal, Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell claimed yesterday. He said he could ‘not countenance’...

‘We will appeal!’ –as High Court rules Bedroom Tax for disabled is legal

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OUTSIDE the High Court in London yesterday, lawyer Richard Stein said: ‘We, along with the other lawyers acting on behalf of adults with disabilities,...

Polio Epidemic In Gaza

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GAZA'S Health Ministry has declared a polio epidemic, blaming Israel’s genocidal military offensive for the spread of the deadly virus. In a statement yesterday, the...

‘Fast Track’ deportations illegal

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The Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling declaring the ‘Detained Fast Track’ system for asylum seekers to be unlawful and ‘potentially disastrous’. In...

Students unite with staff in pension battle

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THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with the University and College Union (UCU) in the fight for fair pay and...
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...

MAY SURRENDERS! READY FOR EU ELECTIONS! – Pledges to carry out indicative ballot

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ON FRIDAY, PM May wrote a grovelling surrender letter of complete capitulation to the EU President Donald Tusk, in which she agreed that the...
William Westwell (fourth from left, with witch-hunt placard) demonstrating outside the school before the first hearing

Reinstate victimised steward –demand Camden Unison

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ON Thursday July 12, the Camden Unison Children, Schools and Families shop stewards committee passed the following motion unanimously condemning the victimisation of Haverstock...
Tube staff picketing Finsbury Park station during one of their strike actions against staff cuts that endanger public safety

Reverse Tube staffing cuts! – after a fire under London Bridge escalator

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THE RMT has re-iterated its call for a reversal to Tube station staffing cuts in the light of a major fire-related incident at London...
Protest outside the US embassy in London on January 11 – five years since the first prisoners were inarcerated at Guantanamo Bay

HUNGER STRIKE – against Guantanamo Bay’s new isolation units

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A MASS hunger strike is being waged by inmates in America’s Cuban Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, against being transferred into ‘maddening’ new isolation units. Thirteen...
Athens University administration workers and their children marching on Saturday

7th week on strike for Greek admin workers

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ADMINISTRATION workers at eight Greek universities are continuing their strike for the seventh consecutive week against the government’s plan to sack some 1,500 of...

Gate Gourmet Tribunals Are Completed

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THE Reading Employment Tribunal has dealt with the last 23 claims for unfair dismissal against Gate Gourmet London arising out of the mass sackings...

Israeli occupation massacres families in the Gaza Strip!

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ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least...
Young Socialist marchers got a great reception from students at Northampton College

Marchers speak at Northampton College

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The Young Socialists March for Jobs set out from Northampton for Bedford yesterday morning. The marchers sent out an advance team to recruit new members...
NHS staff at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital strike for everybody to get a one per cent pay increase!

NHS Execs ‘Gravy Train!’

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DOCTORS’ and nurses’ representatives yesterday condemned last year’s £35m of massive pay rises for NHS trust chief executives, while NHS staff have suffered pay...

HBOS share price falls 50% in two days – as world crisis lets rip

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QUEUES formed around the Singapore offices of an AIG subsidiary yesterday, as the world’s biggest insurance company collapsed, losing 70% of its share price. At...
Bill Rogers, from the North-East London Council of Action, addresses the St Paul’s Assembly on Saturday evening

Assembly Supports Chase Farm Occupation!

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‘WE will defend Chase Farm Hospital with an occupation!’ was the message Bill Rogers, secretary of the North East London Council of Action, delivered...
Demonstration outside the US Embassy on February 17 by the successful campaign to get Binyam returned to Britain

MI5 WORKED WITH TORTURERS! – Binyam Mohamed exposes complicity

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MPs yesterday demanded a judicial inquiry into a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner’s claims that MI5 was complicit in his torture. In a ‘Mail on...

Corus 10% Wage Cut Plan

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One hundred Community, GMB and Unite trade union representatives from Anglo-Dutch steelmaker, Corus, were meeting in London yesterday to discuss company demands for a...

GM HANDED TO MAGNA! – 10.000 to be sacked

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GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel was first to announce yesterday that General Motors (GM) has chosen Canadian auto parts manufacturer Magna to buy Opel and...
Celtic supporters flew the Palestinian flag both outside and inside the ground last Wednesday evening

Celtic Flies Palestinian Flags

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CELTIC FANS displayed Palestinian flags in a demonstration against Apartheid Israel last Wednesday night, 17th August, during the Celtic v Hapoel Be’er Sheva match. Campaigners...