JJB Sports striking GMB members lobbying the DTI in London yesterday with the ‘dog that did not bark’ to demand that the Employment Agencies Standards Inspectorate enforce the law in their dispute

‘Enforce the law’ against strikebreakers demand GMB

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STRIKING JJB Sports warehouse staff from Wigan went to London yesterday, to demand the government takes action to uphold the law against strike-breaking by...

COVID-19s BRUTAL IMPACT ON NHS says BMA leader Chaand Nagpaul

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Thousands of cancer patients have not received the care they need and their conditions have worsened owing to the focus on Covid-19, the British...
Trade unionists rally in Trafalgar Square to defend the welfare state on April 14

£85bn cuts and tax rises in budget!

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Labour leadership hopeful Ed Balls yesterday accused the Tories of wanting to take Britain back to the conditions of the 1930s. Trade unions are bracing...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the Hillingdon office of the TGWU urging all workers not to sign the notorious ‘Compromise Agreement’

Teachers Strike!

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TEACHERS in four schools in Calderdale, Greenwich, Newham and Doncaster will take strike action this week to protect salary levels following a review forced...
Soviet Red Army soldiers celebrate the end of the siege of Leningrad on January 27th 1944  Credit: Sputnik

75 years since Siege of Leningrad

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin laid flowers yesterday at a monument in the Leningrad Region commemorating warriors who died during the Nazi-led siege of Leningrad....
‘Back Bombardier – Save Our Jobs’ was the message from the trade unions outside parliament yesterday

Bombardier Workers Lobby Parliament

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TWO hundred Bombardier workers and their supporters descended on parliament yesterday to urge the Tory coalition ‘to save British train manufacturing’. The government has already...

Rolls-Royce 94% ‘YES’ for strike! – after threat to move entire operation to Singapore

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WORKERS at the historic Rolls-Royce plant in Barnoldswick have voted 94% ‘YES’ for strike action in opposition to plans to move the site to...

Sports Direct workers victory!

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SPORTS Direct has been forced to pay out £1 million after admitting it was not paying its workers the minimum wage, it was announced...
Palestinians all over the occupied territories and Gaza were rising up to defend their capital Jerusalem – see pages 6&7

US & Saudi Flags Burnt At Gaza Mass Rally

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PALESTINIANS have come out in force in the Gaza Strip to protest against US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s ‘capital’, burning ...
French youth rise up against Sarkozy, now the right-wing Presidential candidate

REVOLUTIONARY MAY DAY! – News Line Editorial Board Statement

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THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings on this May Day to the insurgent workers of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. The Iraqi insurgency...

Brown Denies Split With Bank Of England Head King

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Prime minister Brown yesterday attempted to play down reports of rifts with the Bank of England, and between the EU and the US...
Travel Safe workers lobbied City Hall yesterday against their treatment by STM Security Group UK

Travel Safe workers to strike for their rights!

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‘SLAVERY should go and our rights given!’ demanded London Overground workers who were lobbying the London Mayor’s office yesterday in preparation for their February...
Postal workers at Hanwell Sorting Office gave their full support for the march to and occupation of Ealing Hospital maternity department today

Workers support Occupation!

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EALING Hospital workers are ready to welcome the occupation of the maternity unit today. Today, the hospital management intends to commence turning away expectant mothers...
CWU pickets at Nine Elms Mail Centre in South London, determined to defend jobs and conditions

‘WE WANT NATIONAL STRIKE ACTION’ say London postal workers

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NATIONAL strike action by Royal Mail workers is imminent, after management continued to hit out at workers taking part in a series of local...
GMB members on strike in defence of pensions at St George’s Hospital in Tooting last November 30

97.3% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION! –at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital

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porters, theatre technicians, catering, cleaning and other NHS support workers, employed by private contractor Carillion at Great Western Hospital in Swindon, have voted by...

Arrest Factory Fire Culprits

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THE National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF) Bangladesh held a symbolic one-hour hunger strike last Friday and are taking continuous actions to establish garment workers...
French workers marching through Paris last week against the privatisation measures of the Sarkozy regime

Ports Stop Across Eu!

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Several thousand striking fishermen from across Spain, as well as some of their counterparts from France, Italy and Scotland, protested outside the Ministry of...
Kingston Hospital UNISON members demonstrate outside the hospital last month against cuts

Walk-Out At Unison Health Conference

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The UNISON Health Conference in Brighton yesterday gave environment secretary Hilary Benn a heated reception. He was booed and heckled when he tried to defend...

43,000 Jobless Rise!

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The number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 43,000 to 2.5 million during the three months to February, its highest level since...
Students and teachers join together in a Westminster demonstration last July against the coalition’s ‘Big School Fiasco’

School buildings axe challenged

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A Judicial Review into the government’s decision to scrap the Building Schools for the Future scheme opened yesterday at the Royal Courts of Justice. Six...

Lloyd’s braced for euro collapse!

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LLOYD’S of London has made preparations for the collapse of the euro. Richard Ward, its chief executive, has publicly admitted that the world’s...

Bring us back in-house now! – demand St George’s Hospital strikers

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St George’s Hospital workers employed by the public services privateer Mitie are escalating their action with a week-long strike commencing on Monday 20th June. On...
Teachers marching during the joint NUT/NASUWT strike in November with a clear message for Education Secretary Gove

52% of teachers have thought of quitting

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OVER half of all teachers have seriously considered leaving the profession in the last twelve months, a survey carried out for teaching union NASUWT...

Amazon dominates on-line market – while workers suffer an epidemic of workplace injuries

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AS AMAZON dominates online marketplaces and positions itself to become the largest retailer in the US, more and more people are finding out the...

Support grows for Sweeney!

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WRP parliamentary candidate Frank Sweeney’s campaign team were out meeting workers and youth at Bruce Grove in Tottenham yesterday. They met Ibrahim who told News...

100,000 besieged in northern Gaza!

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ABOUT 100,000 people are besieged in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza without medical or food supplies, the Palestinian Civil Emergency...

Heathrow – Unite steps up strike action

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WORKERS at Heathrow Airport will next week step up strike action in their increasingly bitter dispute over massive wage cuts that the company is...

‘Britain must provide war planes for Ukraine’ says Truss

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BRITAIN and other Western powers should provide warplanes to the Ukraine, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said last night at the Mansion House banquet, as...

PROSECUTE KILLER COMPANIES! – demands the GMB

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The GMB trade union says companies who kill employees will face private prosecutions if the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) ‘continues to fail workers’. The High...

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...

68 universities ballot for action

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PENSION cuts are prompting fears of two-tier pensions being imposed on academics Staff at some of the UK’s most selective universities will have pensions up...

Red Cross issues dire warning over Israel’s siege & starvation

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THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a dire warning that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is nearing total collapse, as...

Manchester fire service massacre! – 6 stations, 100 staff, 9 engines

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‘THE SAFETY of firefighters and our communities is the Fire Brigade Union’s greatest concern,’ Gary Keary, FBU Brigade Secretary for Greater Manchester, said yesterday,...

‘Grave concerns’ over Taser roll-out

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‘Grave concerns’ have been expressed over the wider deployment of Taser electro-shock weapons to police officers in ten forces across the UK which are...

Biden opts for super-inflation!

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US President Joe Biden has released his first annual budget – a $6tn (£4.2tn) spending plan that includes steep tax increases. The bumper proposal would...

Construction workers submit 10% pay claim

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TRADE UNIONS led by Unite, have submitted a pay claim to the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) seeking a 10 per cent pay increase in...

EUROSTAR NIGHTMARE CONTINUES! – passengers told to stay away

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Eurotunnel closed its shuttle car service to new arrivals yesterday, saying it was at ‘saturation point’, as travellers struggled to find alternative ways of...

86 violently arrested at Wormwood Scrubs

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POLICE violently arrested 86 people who were peacefully protesting at Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London on Saturday night. They had gathered in a show...

Referendum Dropped!

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PREMIER Papandreou told the Greek parliament yesterday that he was now adopting a ‘national position’ and was discussing with the right-wing...

Mass Sackings In Greece!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of Greek workers, students and unemployed are expected to take part in rallies and demonstrations in Athens and Salonica on...
UNISON head of health KAREN JENNINGS (centre) joined the 5,000-strong march in Nottingham against NHS cuts

Growing NHS Protests – New ‘Poll Tax’ Rebellion

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Health campaigners yesterday warned that NHS privatisation and cuts will be ‘Labour’s poll tax’. The warning came as the number of protests mushroomed around the...
Scott (second on the right) the WRP candidate for Acton and Ealing Central, plus supporters made a big impact in Acton yesterday

Miliband Doesn’t Blame The Banks

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LABOUR leader Ed Miliband yesterday pledged a Labour government would abolish the non-domicile rule that allows some wealthy UK residents to limit the tax...
Libyan women, proclaiming their right to defend their country against armed rebels, picketing the recent Contact Group meeting in London

RECALL PARLIAMENT! –demand MPs angry at regime change letter

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Five MPs yesterday urged a recall of parliament after the publication of a joint letter from US President Obama, French President Sarkozy and Prime...

Bring LT cleaners back in-house

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AS THE Omicron crisis grips the capital, Labour politicians yesterday called for public ownership of London Transport cleaning services. The MPs and peers made the...

Bank Given 2008 Libor Rate Warning

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US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged UK Bank of England governor Mervyn King in 2008 to reform the London interbank offered rate (Libor) process...