THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS STILL TRAPPED IN DANGEROUS BUILDINGS says the Fire Brigades Union

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FIREFIGHTERS yesterday slammed the government and building owners as an HCLG Committee cladding survey highlighted widespread safety failings. The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG)...
Striking Southern rail guards on the picket line yesterday morning at Victoria station – they are out again today and tomorrow

Guards Strike Solid!

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‘WE WANT all trade unions to come out in our support if any of our members is sacked. Behind this is a threat to...

Sunak plans to throw the sick and disabled off benefits – to fund tax...

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to throw the sick and disabled off benefits to fund tax cuts for the rich! He spent the weekend...

‘More NHS cuts will harm patients’

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THE British Medical Association yesterday warned that further NHS cuts will compromise patient care. It was responding to the publication of a review into NHS...

Israeli fury signals Iran’s victory

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IRAN’S President Masoud Pezeshkian says Israel’s anger over the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Iran and the United States clearly signals the success and...

Assad requests Russia’s assistance –anti-IS air strikes begin

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THE Russian Federation Council has unanimously granted permission to President Putin to use the nation’s military force in Syria, Kremlin chief of...

Brexit vote Friday

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THE NEW Tory government with its majority of 80, plans to ask MPs to vote on PM Johnson’s Brexit bill as early as this...

Israel’s permanent occupation of Gaza plan ‘deeply alarming’

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THE NETANYAHU-led Israeli regime’s just-announced plan for the permanent occupation of the Gaza Strip and permanent expulsion of Palestinians from it has been widely...
Young workers marching against the Tory-LibDem coalition. Mass sackings and cuts to services are causing mass unemployment

Jobless Shock!

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TRADE unions slammed the government’s mass sackings and cuts to services as being directly responsible for the shocking unemployment figures released yesterday. These showed that...

Tory rights ‘smash and grab’ – threat to ban support for Palestine

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‘THE UK government’s extremism definition is a smash and grab on our human rights,’ Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International Chief Executive, said yesterday. He was speaking...

Tube workers out solid again

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Picket lines were mounted at depots and stations across London yesterday as RMT members walked out for the second time this week in their...

UK’s Shrinking Economy!

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THE UK economy shrank by 0.2% in the last three months of last year, according to figures released by the Office of National Statistics...
Striking PCS members on the picket line outside the Equality and Human Rights Commission in central London yesterday

TORIES PLAY RACE CARD – as Queen’s Speech lashes workers

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VICIOUS attacks on workers, especially immigrant workers, were at the centre of the Tory-LibDem Coalition’s Queen’s Speech delivered at the State...

Vaccine passport trials beginning in mid April!

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VACCINE passport trials will begin from mid-April, Tory PM Johnson announced at the 5pm briefing yesterday. When asked he said: ‘Obviously we are looking at...
Trade unionists demonstrating outside the Zimbabwean embassy in London against the repression being meted out against the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions

ZIMBABWE UNION LEADERS ARRESTED – as COSATU supports April 3 general strike

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Zimbabwean riot police arrested opposition leader Morgan Tzvangirai when they prevented a mass anti-government protest yesterday. Police rounded up dozens of opposition activists and trade...

Mail Centres Take Strike Action Today

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Postal workers at five mail centres – Bolton, Coventry, Crewe, Oxford and Stockport – are striking today against plans to close them and to...
Two thousand BA cabin staff shout ‘Out with Walsh’ at the end of their mass meeting that decided on a series of three-day strike actions

96% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION – By British Airways cabin crews

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A 96 per cent vote by British Airways cabin crew to strike over management by imposition and the breakdown of respect and industrial relations...
Police attack youth trying to march to Parliament to protest about the plan to raise tuition fees to £9,000 a year – Photo by Gareth Jukes

Police Mass Arrests!

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Tuesday’s student demonstration in London ended in a mass arrest of 144 people, being described by students and legal groups as an exercise in...
A section of the 250,000-strong demonstration on June 20th which showed that workers had had enough of austerity,  Tory or Labour

‘Popular uprising’ against anti-union laws urges Prentis!

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UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis has called on the labour movement to organise a ‘popular uprising’ against the Trade Union Bill. He delivered his call...

Labour Opens Door To Super Exploitation!

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TWO young Polish women, Marta and Kaisia, yesterday told a TGWU-organised briefing in the House of Commons of their experiences as cheap labour agency...

ACT! or you become irrelevant – Palestinian Ambassador warns UN

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‘ACT, you have resolutions, ACT, you have power, ACT, or you become irrelevant, ACT, according to the power given to you by the Charter...

‘Horrific intentionally repeated crime’

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GAZA’s Government Media Office yesterday accused Israel of ‘a horrific, intentionally repeated crime’, having lured starving Palestinians to aid centres run by the Gaza...

‘WE NEED NEW LEADERS’ – say Gate Gourmet workers

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LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers were very angry on the picket line at the weekend after many of them had received special delivery letters informing...

Labour loses control of Oldham Council because of its support for the US-UK’s war...

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THE Labour Party has lost control of Oldham Council after losing seats to Independents who support Palestine and are against the Israeli war on...

‘Time Is Running Out!’ – Unison Health Conference Warns Pm Brown

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‘OUR time and patience is running out.’ This is the warning that Unison leader Dave Prentis is due to give to Prime Minister Gordon Brown...

24,000 Jobs Under Threat

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Over 24,000 manufacturing jobs are at risk over the next three months as UK firms struggle with falling orders, bosses warned yesterday. The latest Regional...
Friends and family of Paul Coker outside Plumstead police station on Tuesday evening – one month after he died. A minute’s silence was held as a mark of respect

‘FIGHT FOR EVERY JOB!’ say Gate Gourmet pickets

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ANGRY Gate Gourmet strikers told News Line yesterday that Transport and General Workers’ Union head of civil aviation, Brendan Gold, had visited them on...
CAM STOCKS (far right in hat) joins junior doctors, nurses and supporters on the picket line outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London during last Tuesday’s strike

Junior doctors strike suspended by BMA

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THE BMA has suspended next week’s 48-hour junior doctors strike. In a statement, the BMA said: ‘The decision comes as ACAS talks continue this week...

Academy Expenses Scandal!

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AN INVESTIGATION into academy schools has revealed that huge sums of public money are being spent on expenses claims for academy bosses. The investigation, which...
‘The NHS is not for sale’ – trade unionists with a clear message in London on March 26 this year. They will march again today against the Health Bill

Action Needed To Defend The NHS!

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‘The unions need to mobilise joint industrial action to defeat the Health and Social Care Bill and see off this Tory coalition government.’ This...

Capita Closing Third Of Offices

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OUTSOURCING firm Capita is to close over a third of its offices in the UK permanently – despite the Tory government launching a new...

Grenfell – Schmidt says not his priority to understand fire safety tests!

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CLAUDE SCHMIDT, president of Arconic that made the Grenfell Tower cladding, has said it was not his ‘priority’ to understand fire safety tests and...
London Tube workers on a picket of Downing Street during the recent struggle of collapsed privateer Metronet

Safety Fears Halt Tube Lines!

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EMERGENCY brake problems that led to the suspension of the Hammersmith and City, Circle and District lines were first raised on Tuesday, London Underground’s...

Watson and Starmer move against Corbyn

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DEPUTY Labour leader Tom Watson and Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer, along with union leaders, are pushing for a second referendum in a move...

UK committed ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ over Chagossians return

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THE UK committed ‘crimes against humanity’ by refusing to allow Chagos Islanders to return to their homes on the Chagos Islands, which is now...
Nurses, patients aand hospital staff marched through central London opposing the privatisation of the NHS

Hinchingbrooke Hospital privatisation disaster

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CIRCLE HOLDINGS, the first privateer to take over the running of an NHS hospital, quit the management of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire yesterday, leaving...

SA miners continue with strike action! –ANC & Zuma are condemned

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SOUTH African platinum miners were yesterday continuing their strike, and their wives are occupying the entrance to the British-owned Lonmin Marikana mine. Lonmin has given...
Demonstration against the TV documentary ‘Benefits Street’ which vilified the poor. The abolition of Council Tax Benefit is driving thousands more into debt

COUNCIL TAX DEBT SOARING – reports Citizens Advice

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COUNCIL tax debt is the fastest-growing form of debt, Citizens Advice reported yesterday, revealing that it has now become the number one debt problem...

Abolish pensioners’ bus passes and triple-lock pensions! – urges Stephens & Health Secretary...

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HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stephens, has angered millions of workers with his suggestions that pensioners’ free bus passes and their triple-lock pension arrangements...
The GMB ‘Coach and Horses’ demonstrating in Charlton yesterday morning

GMB ‘Coach and horses’ victory

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THE GMB trade union yesterday won its first victory in the battle over trade union rights at Asda, on the eve of a five-day...

US-EU on collision course!

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THE EU has officially adopted measures to protect European companies working in Iran when the US reimposes sanctions against Tehran. The EU will...

KREMLIN ATTACK WAS ON WASHINGTON’S ORDERS – says Peskov

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RUSSIA is considering various options to respond to Kiev’s attempted drone attack on the Kremlin, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters yesterday. Moscow is well...

Johnson ignores the crisis & praises USA!

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‘IT WAS CAPITALISM that ensured we had vaccines in less than a year,’ Tory PM Johnson boasted in his closing speech at the Tory...
Two New Books Out Now

Two New Books Out Now

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Imperialism – the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin and Genesis of Capital by Marx have just been reprinted. These new editions cost just...

‘No depths to which P&O will not sink!’ says RMT’s Mick Lynch

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‘THERE are no depths to which P&O and their Dubai owners at DP World will not sink to extract the maximum profit from ferry...