Enormous numbers of workers demonstrating in Athens on Sunday against the austerity cuts

GREECE ERUPTS – against austerity cuts

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Hundreds of thousands of workers, youth and self-employed people staged a colossal rally last Sunday night in Athens outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) against...

Johnson surrenders – kneels before ‘Surrender Act’

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A SCOTTISH judge was to be asked yesterday to consider whether Boris Johnson could be jailed if he takes the UK out of the...
PCS strikers and their supporters on the picket line at the National Gallery on the first day of their indefinlte strike against privatisation

National Gallery indefinite strike

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NATIONAL Gallery workers were out in force on the first day of their indefinite strike against privatisation and victimisation yesterday. On the picket line outside...

Academy bosses salaries – ‘verging on criminality!’ – while poorly paid teachers are being...

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THE NEW NASUWT president is to tell this weekend’s annual conference that trust bosses’ salaries are ‘verging on criminality’. The NASUWT will call for a...
Syrians in London show their support for President Assad

NO UK SYRIAN INTERVENTION! – says Labour Party conference resolution

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THE Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday voted for an emergency motion moved by Unite calling for a United Nations Security Council resolution...
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...

University pickets call for a general strike!

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Over 20,000 staff at scores of universities are striking for five consecutive days this week in their fight for pay and working conditions and...
Remploy workers and supporters campaigning in Brixton yesterday

HORRIFIC INJUSTICE! – Alder family will not give up

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LIBERTY this week asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to determine if Christopher Alder’s death in police custody has been properly investigated...
The platform at yesterday’s News Line-ATUA Conference in London

BUILD REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP – forward to a workers’ government

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TWO HUNDRED trade unionists and youth attended the News Line-All Trades Union Alliance conference in Bethnal Green, east London, yesterday. Moving the main resolution, ‘After...
PCS strikers at the National Gallery yesterday morning, the second day of their second 5-day strike for the London Living wage and against privatisation

National Gallery strike against privatisation!

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‘PRIVATISATION No Way!’ a lively picket of at least 40 strikers, chanted outside The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square yesterday, on the second day...

Get Ready For Crisis Election

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STEPHEN Phillips Tory MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham quit as an MP yesterday. He had a majority of more than 24,000 over Labour in...
A lively picket line out yesterday afternoon at the Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre at Lanley, Slough

‘ALL OUT ACTION!’ – demand Langley strikers

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Yesterday workers at Royal Mail’s Heathrow Airport Worldwide Distribution Centre at Langley came out on 24-hour strike at noon, as part of the Communication...

Sajid Javid tells patients to ‘manage their own care!’

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ON Thursday, Sajid Javid, the Tory Health Secretary, made a euphoric speech to the Health Service Journal Digital Transformation Summit. He praised the Covid pandemic...

Youth unemployment at 20% – in some parts of the UK: new ONS figures

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FIGURES released yesterday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the number of workers on UK company payrolls fell by 649,000 between...

‘We are all tax avoiders’ says Tory Lord Fink

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‘I STAND by what I said in the House of Commons, that Lord Fink was engaged in tax avoidance,’ Labour leader Miliband said during...

Royal Mail bosses threaten bankruptcy!

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ROYAL MAIL bosses are threatening to declare the company bankrupt and place it into ‘a special form of administration,’ leading to the sack for...

End Croke Park talks–call a general strike!

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THE Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has warned that it will pull out of the corporatist Croke Park talks if the Government does not...

NHS Strike Ballot!

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MANY thousands of health workers have a chance from today to send a strong message of protest to health secretary Jeremy Hunt over...

ASLEF calls July 8 Tube strike

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ASLEF has announced a July 8 strike on London Underground after members voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over pay and...

Milwaukee uprising after police shooting

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CROWDS of protesters gathered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Saturday night after a police officer fatally shot a fleeing man. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett appealed for...

Coalition Split Widening

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THE split in the coalition government deepened yesterday, with Deputy Prime Minister Clegg absenting himself from the House of Commons as Prime Minister Cameron...
Young Socialists lobbied the TUC at its congress last year. This year they are going to demand that the TUC takes action to bring down the coalition

Young Socialists march to TUC Congress!

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THE YOUNG Socialists March for Jobs from London to Liverpool starts today outside the TUC HQ, Great Russell Street, near Tottenham Court Road, and...

MILIBAND ADOPTS ‘ONE NATION’ TORY POLICY! – and pledges full support for the private...

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LABOUR leader Miliband adopted the traditional Tory slogan of ‘One Nation’ at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester yesterday. ‘In this most difficult economic time...

Stop US Gp Take-Over

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The European arm of private US healthcare giant United Health is poised to take over two GP practices in Derbyshire covering 7,500 patients, one...

‘WE WILL WIN!’ – call for support at News Line-Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ conference

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‘WE MUST not allow the Gate Gourmet workers to be starved. ‘The whole trade union movement must rally round and provide the funds and make...

Osborne offers permanent cuts, benefit caps and poverty!

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TORY Chancellor Osborne’s class war Budget yesterday had at its centre a Welfare Spending Cap of £119.5bn for 2015-16. The limit on total welfare spending...

Ruling class moves to try to restore order

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THE Labour government is pushing through the Houses of Parliament a bill that will make desertion and refusal to serve in an occupied country...
The picket line at Bush House. Howard Zhang (centre) told News Line ‘They are forcing people out who don’t want to go.’

Nuj Defends Bbc Jobs!

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The National Union of Journalists held their second 24-hour strike yesterday against compulsory redundancies at the BBC. The action received massive support from...

Israel-Egyptian Military Seeking To Starve Gaza!

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With shortages of electricity, water, fuel, cooking gas and medicine, a lack of economy and no infrastructure, the masses of Gaza are in a...

UK citizen must be freed – being held illegally in Iraq by the British...

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Today, the case of a British citizen detained without charge in Basra by UK Forces since 10 October 2004 will be heard in the...
Labour Shadow Chancellor JOHN McDONNELL (right) alongside TOM WATSON supporting striking BA workers lobby of parliament

‘I want to transform Capitalism’ says John McDonnell as he disowns Marx

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LABOUR will not raise taxes for the vast majority of workers but will increase rates for those earning over £80,000, John McDonnell said yesterday. He...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and their supporters on the mass picket on February 10th – the six-month anniversary of the lock out

Gate Gourmet taking fight into the unions

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are taking their fight for reinstatement into the trade union movement and visiting Transport and General Workers Union and other...

RAIL STRIKE IS ON! – to defend safety

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Four days of national strike action against job cuts and in defence of safety were announced by the RMT and TSSA rail unions yesterday,...

Chancellor ignores the crisis!

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday that the NHS will get ‘whatever resources it needs’ to cope with a coronavirus epidemic. He alleged to the...

NATIONALISE GM – occupy Luton and Ellesmere Port to stop closures

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THE head of General Motors Europe warned yesterday that without government finance Vauxhall Luton and Ellesmere Port face immediate closure as ‘the obvious next...

‘Tortured on a daily basis’ – declare Palestinian prisoners

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PALESTINIAN Resistance Movement Hamas said that it made every effort to safeguard the lives of its captives in Gaza, the final 20 of whom were...
Construction workers picketing outside the Isle of Grain power station in Kent yesterday morning

Power Workers Call For National Jobs Action

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Over fifty power industry construction workers demonstrating outside the Isle of Grain power station in Kent yesterday morning demanded national action to defend jobs...

BofE cuts interest rates to 0.1%

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THE BANK of England cut its base rate to a record low of 0.1%, a sliver above zero, warning the coronavirus pandemic will result...

May’s Brexit crisis deepens

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‘WE are going through our potential financial commitments line by line,’ Tory PM Theresa May said in a statement to Parliament yesterday afternoon about...

Unite and GMB surrender to BA and mass sackings!

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BOTH the Unite and GMB trade unions have given up the fight to halt the mass sackings organised by British Airways, centring on Heathrow...

Over two million Palestinians face relentless bombardment

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THE humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza continues to escalate, with over two million Palestinians – half of whom are children – facing relentless bombardment by...
BOB CROW (right) with Thames watermen. He warned that a ‘dilution of safety’ would be met with industrial action

‘NO DILUTION OF SAFETY’ – Crow warns of Thames Waterway industrial action

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‘There must be no dilution of safety and if we find that our members are put in danger then there will have to be...
An enthusiastic crowd gathers at the start of yesterday’s Al Quds march outside the Saudi Embassy in central London

Thousands March For Palestine

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‘PALESTINE in its entirety must be handed back to the Palestinians, from the River to the Sea,’ Rasa Maxim spokesperson for IHRC said yesterday...
Sacked cleaners of the Greek Finance Ministry picketing the Vouli (Greek parliament) last Saturday

Sacked Athens cleaners daily pickets

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THOUSANDS of workers and students rally every evening to the ERT building (State TV and Radio corporation) in an Athens suburb demanding the withdrawal...