Nigeria–Oil Shutdown Starts

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The general strike in Nigeria entered its fifth day yesterday, as talks between President Goodluck Jonathan and trade union leaders failed to end the...

Public support for nurses rising!

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PUBLIC support for a nurses strike has risen six months after first industrial action. A new poll by YouGov for the Royal College of Nursing...

Assault on Al-Aqsa is a ‘declaration of war’ on Palestinians!

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THE ASSAULT on the Al Aqsa Mosque is equal to a ‘Declaration of War on the Palestinians’, said the spokesman for the President of...

Gate Gourmet has to be central question for TUC Crow tells pickets

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THE Gate Gourmet mass picket at Heathrow airport was visited yesterday by RMT general secretary Bob Crow, along with a number of RMT executive...

ALL OUT STRIKE NEEDED ACROSS PUBLIC SECTOR! – to defend wages and jobs

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‘OUR members are eager to make their feelings felt and ready to strike Friday,’ a Communication Workers Union (CWU) spokeswoman told News Line yesterday...

NO EXTRADITION! – demands rally for Assange outside Woolwich Crown Court

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s trial at Woolwich Crown Court began yesterday morning, where the Tory government is seeking to extradite him to the US...
DAVID SCHOFIELD (2nd left) and  NIGEL PLANER (3rd left) amongst more than 500 actors demonstrating last Tuesday  in Piccadilly Circus, London, to protest at the huge cuts being made in the Arts budget

STOP THE AXE! DEFEND THE ARTS! – Norwich march today!

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‘It will be the biggest march against the funding cuts imposed by Arts Council England so far,’ organisers of today’s march through Norwich ...

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...

WE ARE GOING TO WIN! – say striking Grangemouth workers

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The 1,200 striking workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery yesterday made it clear they are determined to defend their pensions. Unite members walked out of...

Support floods in for Gate Gourmet conference

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THE locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow have stepped up their campaigning ahead of the News Line-Gate Gourmet conference in London this Sunday. On Wednesday...

Hounslow march on March 25th

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‘OUR march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th of March is very important, not just for us but for all trade union members.’ Locked-out Gate Gourmet...

No more wage cuts, pay up now! – demand striking resident doctors

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TENS of thousands of Resident Doctors began six more days of strike action yesterday, determined to defeat attacks on their pay and on the...

IT WAS MURDER! – Chris Kaba killing condemned

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‘IT WAS Murder’, leading campaigner for justice for Chris Kaba, Tye Davis, said – speaking outside Brixton Police Station on Thursday evening. More than 100...

PM HELD ILLEGAL DRINKS PARTY – while millions were under lockdown

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PM JOHNSON yesterday apologised for attending an illegal drinks party in the Downing Street garden while millions of people were under lockdown, and making...
Greek youth march against austerity and police state measures such as the pogrom on migrant workers and their families

7,500 migrants rounded up in Athens

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SINCE last Saturday the Athens-wide pogrom against immigrant workers, codenamed Xenios Zeus and carried out by thousands of armed police, has rounded up over...

18-59% food prices hike!

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The price of staple foods has shot up by between 18 and 59 per cent over the past three years, as world supply problems...
Over 40 black cabs descended on Hove Town Hall yesterday – they are demanding the end of the ‘Wild West’ app-driver companies

Black cabs challenge Uber

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‘WE WILL not have a Wild West situation,’ for drivers, Steve Garelick, GMB branch secretary for professional drivers for London, said yesterday. He spoke to...
All over the country actions are being taken to stop the NHS from being shut down.  Picture shows demonstrators last Saturday in West London at the beginning of a convoy throughout the area against the closure of Ealing, Central Middlesex, Hammersmith and

Doctors Angry Over Lung Care Sabotage

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OVER 1,000 doctors involved in the care of people with lung disease have written to the new NHS Commissioning Board in England, expressing ‘grave...

RISE UP! Imran Khan urges students

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‘My whole thing is that the students must rise up today,’ said Pakistan opposition leader Imran Khan yesterday. Khan emerged to give a brief news...

‘There Are No Safe Zones – They Are Zones Of Death!’

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THERE are no safe zones they are zones of death,’ UNICEF global spokesman James Elder said, as 700 Palestinians were slaughtered in Israel’s genocidal...
Syrians show their support for President Assad outside their embassy in London on March 17, the day after a terror bombing in Damascus killed 25

Syrian Armed Gangs Reject Annan Plan

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TURKEY scrambled six F-16 fighter jets near its border with Syria yesterday afternoon after Syrian helicopters came close to the border, but...

MASSACRED BY BRITISH TROOPS – Iraqis demand damages and a public inquiry

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Lawyers yesterday revealed shocking allegations about the behaviour of British troops in Iraq. Martyn Day, senior partner at law firm Leigh Day & Co, and Phil Shiner of Public...

Israeli forces intensify their bombardment!

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ISRAELI forces have intensified their military operations across the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, leaving a devastating toll in their wake. In the past...
A section of Saturday’s rally in Hammersmith against the closure of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospital’s A&Es Photo credit: BETA LUCIANO

NHS HUGE BEDS CRISIS! – as government readies for more savage cuts

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ENGLAND’S hospitals have been dangerously full of patients during the month of January, the Labour Party warned yesterday. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: ‘Too...

‘A SUSTAINED ATTACK ON THE POOR’ – Tories assault on council housing condemned

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Homeless charity Shelter yesterday condemned the planned ‘radical reform’ of council housing as ‘a deliberate attack on the poorest in society’. Announcing the measure, ...
Protest outside the BMA GPs conference last month, which voted against the introduction of charges

Crippling mental health beds crisis!

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A ‘CRIPPLING’ lack of beds for mental health patients has reached such a crisis point that patients are being sent home, told to camp...
The CWU has been campaigning against the privatisation of Royal Mail since the days of the last Labour government. The picture shows its campaign in Corby in 2009

Royal Mail sell-off begins!

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THE Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday slammed the government’s announcement that it plans to begin selling off Royal Mail in the next few...

‘We’re striking to defend the NHS from the Tories!’ say RCN pickets

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NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...
Young Socialst marchers got a great welcome and a tremendous meal at Bedford Hospital

Ys Marchers Arrive In Luton

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MARCHERS on the Young Socialists March for Jobs were greeted as they set out from Bedford yesterday morning by former Luton IBC plant worker...

Birmingham massacre of service

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BIRMINGHAM city council is selling off its community centres and youth centres with millions of pounds of public property being auctioned off to housing...

‘Don’t let the US drag you in!’ – Iran warns Europe

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FOREIGN Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei says Iran’s proposal for ending the recent war was reasonable, however, the United States continues to insist on ‘unreasonable demands’ shaped...
Workers from Huddersfield Royal Infirmary marching to 10 Downing Street to tell PM May that their hospital must remain open and fully functioning

NHS ‘CAN’T DELIVER WHAT IS REQUIRED!’ says Hopson

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‘WE FACE the greatest challenge in a generation,’ NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson told its annual conference in Birmingham yesterday. The just launched The...

Joint enterprise case quashed

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THE FIRST person to have a joint enterprise murder conviction quashed was released from prison yesterday in a landmark ruling against the controversial...
Junior doctors voted for action to restore free accommodation or get £4,800 compensation

Junior Doctors To Act Over 20% Pay Cut

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Angry delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) Junior Doctors Conference in central London on Saturday voted for action to restore free accommodation for...

‘Distortion of reality!’ – Iran condemns Rubio threats

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PRESIDENT Masoud Pezeshkian has emphasised that Iran makes no decision without the approval of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei. Pezeshkian made...

Tories withdraw infection control fund today!

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TODAY, the Tory government withdraws the infection control fund. This was support for those working in care to help them when they fall sick. Unison...
A section of Saturday’s demonstration against Israeli aggression outside the Israeli embassy in London

UN must end Israel’s illegal acts of violence – demands Hanan Ashrawi

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Three of six Israelis held over the abduction and killing of 16-year-old Palestinian teenager Muhammed Abu Khdeir last week have now confessed to his...

Johnson starts to do a ‘May!’

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EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk has said he has received ‘promising signals’ from Irish PM Leo Varadkar that a Brexit deal is still possible. His...

World Climate Strike!

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MILLIONS of youth supported by trade unionists walked out of their schools, colleges and universities yesterday, in one hundred and fifty countries across the...

PETROL £1 A LITRE – as economic crisis deepens

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The average UK price of unleaded petrol yesterday went over £1 per litre for the first time, as oil reached almost $100 a barrel...
Yesterday’s picket of Chase farm Hospital with Unison Regional officer DEREK HELYAR (at left of banner)

Unison picket at Chase Farm Hospital

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Unison – the biggest health workers union – yesterday staged a picket of Chase Farm Hospital against the threat to close the hospital’s A&E,...
The front of the 20,000-strong march in January last year to stop the closure of Lewisham Hospital

MILIBAND SUPPORTS US-LED BOMBING OF SYRIA – and pledges to repeal Health & Social...

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LABOUR leader Ed Milliband opened his speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday by throwing his full support behind the US-led bombing raids on...
Students from the University of Arts London have occupied Central St Martin’s College since Thursday last week

‘We support LSE occupation!’

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OVER 100 defiant occupying students at the University of Arts London (UAL) were joined by students from the LSE occupation and other universities and...
Cambridge and Norfolk firefighters took part in the 7,000-strong march through Liverpool on September 15 in support of striking Merseyside firefighters

£1,000 a year pay cuts! – threat to Cambridgeshire FBU

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CamBridgeshire Fire Brigades Union (FBU) warned yesterday that firefighters are ready to strike following a pay row which will see their wages being slashed...

Reject Plan To Close Hospitals!

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Health minister Ara Darzi’s plans ‘are a massive attack on hospital care in London’, warned consultant surgeon Anna Athow yesterday. Darzi is conducting...