Port Talbot steelworks – Unite to defend every job

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PORT Talbot’s steelworks will be given up to £500m by the UK government in a bid to keep the plant open and produce steel...
Postal workers demonstrating outside the Royal Mail headquarters in Old Street on Friday July 13th

CWU STRIKES SUSPENDED! – secret talks till September 4th

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FOLLOWING a meeting held yesterday between Royal Mail and the CWU, a Joint Statement was agreed that means detailed discussions will take place on...

‘Devastating’ Oldham Redundancy Notices

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EIGHT hundred redundancy notices have been issued at Oldham Borough Council. Officials of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council have confirmed to the GMB that the council...

Six Palestinians killed overnight in Israeli drone strikes

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AT LEAST six Palestinians were killed overnight into Friday in Israeli drone strikes on police posts in central and southern Gaza, as Israel continued...
Nurses rally outside Downing Street demanding an end to cuts and for kicking privateers out of the NHS

‘Reject NHS Wage Cut Offer’– Gmb

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THE GMB is recommending that its members vote to reject the Tory government’s ‘jam tomorrow’ NHS pay offer. It says: ‘For long-serving NHS...

The prince and the oligarch

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AN investment bank, led by an oligarch who collaborated with Prince Charles on charity work, managed a network of offshore companies moving billions out...

‘Trying to hide widespread criminality!’ MP Watson accuses Ex-NI advisor Crone

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THE former News International legal manager Tom Crone was yesterday accused by Labour MP Tom Watson of ‘trying to conceal widespread criminality’ at...

COUNCIL TAX HIKE! –families’ bills set to rise by up to £600 a year

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LOW-INCOME families will see their council tax bills rise by up to £600 a year from April, warns a report by the Resolution Foundation. The...

Tories, Labour Unite To Beat The Unemployed

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The Brown government and the Tories yesterday joined forces to cane the unemployed. After Work and Pensions Secretary Purnell announced his ‘workfare’ Welfare Reform White...

Emergency debate on Parliamentary sleaze

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‘LAST WEEK was a very dark week for Parliament,’ speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle said in an extraordinary interview with...
The daily picket at Chase Farm Hospital fighting to keep the hospital open is opposed to privatisation and the £20bn of cuts brought in by the Labour government

STOP NHS SPENDING CUTS – says BMA Council member Anna Athow

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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg yesterday made it clear the coalition will press ahead with its Health and Social Care Bill, despite massive opposition...

TUC warns nurses of huge wage ‘hit!’ – says Johnson will impose 3% ‘rise’

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NURSES will suffer a huge wage ‘hit’ this year if the Government imposes a pay rise well below the soaring rate of inflation, unions...
Firefighters lobby the London Fire Authority against cuts and station closures

‘Thousands of firefighters face the sack!’ – thanks to Public Sector Pensions Bill

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‘THOUSANDS of firefighters face the sack’ as a result of the Public Sector Pensions Bill, which imposes a normal pension age (NPA) of 60...

Israel Planning Iran April Strike

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US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a ‘strong likelihood’ that Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear installations this spring, the Washington Post said...

A STEP TOWARDS POLICE STATE! – Tory move against anti-war movement condemned

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The Stop the War Coalition yesterday condemned amendments tabled by Monmouth Tory MP David Davies to the Policing and Crime Bill, currently going through...

Labour Stabs Iraq In The Back

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LABOUR leader Corbyn absented himself from the vote on Wednesday night when Labour and Tory MPs voted down an SNP motion condemning the ...
A section of yesterday’s lunchtime rally of striking staff and students outside London Metropolitan University yesterday

London Met University Strike Action

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OVER 100 staff, students and lecturers rallied outside London Met University yesterday lunchtime, to vow to halt the wave of hundreds of sackings taking...

Brexit: ‘There Is Pathway To Deal’

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THERE are ‘many issues’ still to be resolved before a Brexit agreement can be reached, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said, as talks continued yesterday. He...

Brexit crisis continues

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‘THE goverment’s priority at every stage following the European Union referendum has been to respect the outcome of that referendum and to ensure it...
Angry trade unionist taking part in the TUC march in October – they want to see the TUC taking action to bring down the government and bring in a workers government and socialism

CAMERON HUMILIATED! – Tories routed in Rochester

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UKIP has its second elected MP at Westminster after Mark Reckless won the Rochester and Strood by-election yesterday. Reckless took 16,867 votes, 2,920 more than...
Lecturers and students marching from Kings College in central London last May against job cuts and tuition fees

Graduate Tax Robbery!

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The cost of a university degree will rocket under proposals from business secretary, Vince Cable, to tax university graduates, according to figures released yesterday...
Greek public sector workers rally in Salonika in support of striking teachers

Police Attack Greek Teachers

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POLICE brutally attacked the large teachers’ rallies which were held in all major Greek cities on Monday, as the primary schools teachers entered the...
Busworkers & campaigners at Greenford Bus Garage yesterday – they are determined to occupy Ealing Maternity to keep it open

Ealing Maternity must not close – demand Greenford bus drivers

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‘THEY HAVE abolished capital punishment in this country, but closing Ealing maternity is a sentence of death for mothers and babies,’ Greenford Bus Garage...

Civil Service Mayhem

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PLANS reported yesterday morning to close all but a handful of HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) 160 remaining UK offices would be ‘devastating’ and...

COMPANIES TO LAUNCH MASS SACKINGS – following big cut in furlough payments

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ONE-IN-FIVE companies are planning to sack workers in response to yesterday’s cut in furlough payments, a British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) survey has found. From...

‘time For Apologies Over’ – Barclays Bank Boss Tells Mps

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THE Tory-LibDem coalition has given the banks an assurance that they are at liberty to continue to pay unlimited bonuses, with no government regulation. The...
Colonel Daoud Musa, father of Baha Musa (who was tortured to death by British troops)  outside the High Court with Public Interest lawyers in 2004

Iraqis killed, abused and tortured by British troops

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Scores of Iraqis were at the High Court in London yesterday demanding an Independent Public Inquiry into allegations that British interrogators abused, killed and...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday at Heathrow – determined to reject any deal which includes compulsory redundancies

Gate Gourmet Deal ‘Worthless’

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‘The deal done between the TGWU and Gate Gourmet is worthless, I’m going to apply to an Employment Tribunal for unfair dismissal,’ Mr A...

FOOD PRICES SET TO SOAR! – Gas privateers making huge profits

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Further heavy snowfalls are forecast today, piling more pressure on Britain’s already-stretched winter resources. Prime Minister Brown has convened the Cobra emergency committee as forecasters...
Health workers marching against Cameron’s health policies on the TUC’s March 26, 2011 mass demonstration

CAMERON COVERS UP! – as Hunt hands over his e-mails

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Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt yesterday said he will hand over private e-mails to his special adviser about the BSkyB takeover bid to the Leveson...
CWU representatives from Hertfordshire area outside yesterday’s meeting in Euston on Royal Mail pensions

NO PENSIONS SELL-OUT – demand CWU reps

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Communication Workers Union representatives from across the country yesterday slammed the changes to Royal Mail pensions that their leaders want to sign up to,...
Young Socialists marching through Norwich in June last year demanding an end to fees and the restoration of grants

STUDENT LOAN RATES HIKE! –scrap all student debt, demands YS

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Millions of graduates will now face paying interest on their student loans again as new interest rates came into effect yesterday. Payments to the Student...

Corbyn Calls For Pm May’s Resignation!

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LABOUR Party leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday called on Prime Minister Theresa May to resign for presiding over police cuts while Home Secretary. When asked if...
Demonstration against attacks on disabled people who are being hit hard by the new cuts to care

End 15 Minute Care Disgrace

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END 15-minute care visits, the Royal College of Nursing and Unison health unions demanded yesterday, after the scandal of the consequences of such rushed...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside Hounslow Civic Centre speaking to NUT member Bob Garnett

Workers sign up for August 20th rally

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TRADE unionists and Hounslow local people yesterday supported the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and bought tickets for their first anniversary march and rally in...

RCN: No fees! Restore bursaries! Cancel debt!

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‘FORCING student nurses to pay tuition fees has been a disaster,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday, demanding that all student nurses’...
‘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...
Chagos Islanders marching in Crawley, Sussex – they demand the right to return to their home islands

UN votes: UK must go to The Hague over Chagos

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THE UN General Assembly voted by 94 countries to 15 that Britain should go to the International Court of Justice (The Hague) over...
Striking junior doctors say that the NHS is everyone’s fight

‘Crude, expensive and dangerous’ – scrap referral management centres

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‘CRUDE, expensive and dangerous’ warned doctors yesterday, describing the privately run ‘Referral Management Centres’. They further warned that the Referral Management Centres act as...

Go to work tomorrow! says Johnson – but don’t use public transport

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‘WE SAID you should work from home if you can and if you can’t work from home not to work. We have now changed...

20% VAT AND SAVAGE CUTS – imposed by Tory Lib-Dem Budget

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TORY Chancellor Osborne yesterday confirmed the government’s intention to savagely attack child benefits, disability benefits and housing benefits in his Emergency Budget, whilst pushing...

‘They bang your head on a wall – then give you a hot meal’

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SHAKER Aamer, the last British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay, has spoken out about his treatment at detention centres in the US and Afghanistan,...
‘The Building Worker’ memorial in Tower Hill

Ruling Class Snob Attacks Builders

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CONSTRUCTION union UCATT, has reacted with fury after their memorial to construction workers killed in the building of London was criticised on The...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers at the TUC, demanding  union leaders who will fight, and action against the venture capitalists

RENATIONALISATION – demands TUC Congress

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DELEGATES to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) yesterday voted overwhelmingly to demand the re-nationalisation of public utilities, in opposition to the TUC leadership’s ‘reservations’. TUC...