Greek electricians and power workers marching in Athens last June – will answer the autocratic bankers with a socialist revolution

Greek bankers call for autocratic solutions!

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GREECE will either lower its standard of living, or it will exit the euro and turn decades back.’ This was the message from the...

Zimbabwe – Talks Break Up

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Talks in South Africa on Zimbabwe’s political crisis broke up yesterday with no power-sharing deal achieved between President Robert Mugabe and the ...

Hamas condemns Israeli army’s criminal attacks on Palestinians!

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The Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli occupation army’s ongoing raids and crimes and its persistence in assassinating resistance fighters in the West...

RATES KEPT ON HOLD – as production plunges

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THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday held interest rates at a record low 0.5 per cent after ignoring calls to head...
NE London Council of Action picket outside Chase Farm hospital last Tuesday against the threat to close the maternity unit

Johnson To Close Rochdale< Salford< Trafford & Bury Maternity Units

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Health unions yesterday expressed concern after health secretary Alan Johnson endorsed plans to close maternity units at four Greater Manchester hospitals in Rochdale, Salford,...

7,000 NURSING POSTS GONE! – in just two years of the coalition

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‘ONE by one, David Cameron has broken all the promises he made on the NHS. It is now struggling with his toxic medicine of...

Coventry Council sacks hundreds!

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THE UNITE union has described the decision of Coventry council to press ahead and fire and rehire its entire refuse collection workforce as totally...

‘Make the least unsafe decision!’ – Norfolk & Norwich hospital staff told

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STAFF at Norfolk’s biggest hospital , the Norfolk and Norwich, were told to make the ‘least unsafe decision’ last week, when the hospital had...

‘PENSIONS DEBACLE’ IS CONDEMNED – NASUWT refuses to sign deal

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The National Executive of the teacher’s union NASUWT, yesterday refused to sign up to the government’s ‘Heads of Agreement’ pensions plan. The NEC had met...

‘Inciting support for Hamas’ – Doctor pleads not guilty!

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NHS doctor Rahmeh Aladwan, 31, pleaded not guilty yesterday at Westminster Magistrates Court to charges of ‘inciting support for Hamas’ and ‘publishing material intended...

Sweeping emergency powers are unveiled! – Police given powers to arrest suspected corona...

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NEW emergency powers were outlined yesterday by the Tories as they published the Emergency Coronavirus Bill. The sweeping new powers which will last as...
GPs, local residents and trade unionists rally against the privatisation of St Paul’s Way surgery in Bow on January 31

GPs GIVEN AN OFFER THEY CAN’T REFUSE! – BMA condemns Labour dictatorship

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The British Medical Association has condemned the government for putting GPs into an impossible position and forcing them to choose between ‘two bad...
MPs who supported the recognition of Palestine outside parliament on Monday

‘A MOMENTOUS VOTE!’ says Palestinian Ambassador Hassassian

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‘A MOMENTOUS vote that is a stepping stone towards rectifying the historic injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people,’ Palestinian Ambassador Manuel Hassassian said...

Abolish NHS prescription charges! say GPs

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THE NHS prescription charge is ‘iniquitous’ and ‘outdated’ and should be scrapped, urge GPs in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB), edited...
The North-East London Council of Action marching to keep Chase Farm Hospital open – Tory-LibDem coalition plans spell

RISKY AND DISASTROUS! – warn health union leaders

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The scale and pace of the government’s planned NHS ‘reforms’, combined with £20bn cuts, is ‘extremely risky and potentially disastrous, warned the leaders of...

Inflation Leap!

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CONSUMER Prices Index inflation rose from 4.0 per cent to 4.5 per cent in April, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), reported yesterday. ‘It’s a...

Renegade Blair predicts a UK civil war!

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THE Former and completely discredited prime minister Blair, who took the UK into a war with Iraq that was based on lies and brought...

‘If the government refuses meaningful discussions we will carry on striking’ – say defiant...

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‘IF THE government keeps refusing to enter into meaningful discussions, or any discussions, we will be forced to carry on striking because we do...
RMT-led march on October 23 to the TUC headquarters where they called for the TUC to organise action against the coalition govenment’s just announced spending cuts

20% Vat Disaster!

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‘The VAT increase to 20 per cent, price rises and low wages are the ingredients for a disaster in the making for millions of...

‘You’re playing with fire’ – IMF tells Chancellor Osborne

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INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist Olivier Blanchard has warned UK Chancellor Osborne that he is ‘playing with fire’ with his fiscal policy. Blanchard also...
Young Socialists lobbied last year’s TUC conference opposing sanctions on benefits, zero-hour contracts and slave labour

Benefit sanctions ‘illegal’

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THE High Court has declared the Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013 incompatible with the right to a fair trial guaranteed by Article...

Uni Strike Suspension Condemned!

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THE SUSPENSION of national strike action across 150 universities by the UCU lecturers union was condemned by a leading London member of the union...
CWU members demonstrate in Corby last March against privatisation

POSTAL WORKERS STRIKE –against unacceptable changes

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OVER 12,000 postal workers across the UK will be striking today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and executive action by Royal Mail....
Demonstrators expressing their anger at the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon in July – police would like to criminalise slogans on placards they decide to be ‘offensive’

POLICE MUST NOT BE CENSORS – says Liberty

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Civil rights organisation Liberty yesterday urged the government not to give police powers to arrest demonstrators for ‘offensive’ chants and/or slogans on placards. This followed...
Fire Brigades Union general secretary MATT WRACK leads the 5,000-strong march to Central Halls, Westminster demanding the right to strike is defended

Scrap Trade Union Bill – 5,000 trade unionists descend on Parliament

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‘A GENERAL strike is the only way to defeat the Tory Trade Union Bill,’ Colin Knowles, Unison conveyor said yesterday. He spoke to News Line...

Starmer Mounts Labour Anti-Brexit Coup

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LABOUR’S shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer yesterday announced a major policy shift, supporting continued membership of the single market and customs union during an...

Sussex University Students Reinstated

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STRIKING lecturers and students at Sussex University celebrated yesterday when six suspended students were reinstated. The six were suspended by the university’s management for taking...
Waterford Crystal workers marching in Dublin in February last year demanding that the government act to defend jobs

150 IRISH HOTELS TO CLOSE – as Bank of Scotland (Ireland) shuts down down

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The Irish Hotel Federation (IHF) has claimed 150 hotels will be forced to close after the announcement that Bank of Scotland (Ireland) is to...

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...
July 2006 mass picket against the threat to extradite Babar Ahmad to the United States

POLICE BUGGING INQUIRY – Labour MP spied on as he met US extradition target

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Justice secretary Jack Straw has had to order an inquiry into claims that police bugged Tooting Labour MP Sadiq Khan as he visited a...
The front banners set the tone for the demonstration – solidarity with the Palestinians and Revolution is the Solution!

‘The Solution–Revolution’

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MORE THAN 25,000 students marched through London yesterday against the Tory led Coalition’s £9000 tuition fees and its plans to privatise education. Marchers proudly...
Doctors march in defence of surgeries in east London

194,941 sign ‘Sack Hunt’ petition

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PATIENTS and doctors still need answers on seven-day hospital services, Dr Mark Porter, the chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA), said yesterday. This follows...

Hamas leader is certain that the Israeli regime will be removed from all of...

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ISMAIL HANIYEH, head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ Political Bureau, has expressed certainty regarding the Israeli regime’s eventual removal from the entirety of...
Mr & Mrs Lawrence, Stephen’s parents, at a press conference in February 1999, following the release of the Macpherson Report

STEPHEN LAWRENCE – policeman and staff member arrested

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A retired police constable and a police staff member have been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice after claims that evidence...

GM mass meeting demand

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WORKERS are resuming work at GM Luton today none the wiser as to what Business Secretary Mandelson told their shop stewards when...

Labour launches EU election campaign

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‘LABOUR agreed to talks (with the Tories) because we believed it was the right thing to do to see if we could get a...

COUNCILS OUT! – 800,000 take strike action

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OVER 800,000 Unite and UNISON council workers in England, Wales and the north of Ireland are taking strike action today and tomorrow, furious at...

‘Labour could go extinct!’ – Sharon Graham

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‘LABOUR could go extinct,’ Unite union leader Sharon Graham told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg yesterday. She said: ‘The way people have seen it...
The Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists banner on the recent ‘Defend the Welfare State’ march

Blairites Joining Coalition!

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Former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott yesterday furiously lashed out at the queue of Blairite former ministers who are joining the Tory coalition. He...
SARAH and BEN NORRIS with their triplets EVE, LOLA and DYLAN took part In the march to defend Lewisham Hospital on November 26

Defend Our Hospitals!

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OVER 400 people lobbied Lewisham hospital on Thursday evening in response to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s announcement that the hospital’s A&E is to be...

Swee Ang defies BMA ban!

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OVER 200 people demonstrated outside the doctors’ union BMA head office in central London yesterday to protest against the ban on Dr Swee Ang...

‘WE ARE DETERMINED TO WIN’ – striking RMT workers tell News Line

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TRANSPORT union RMT members were on the picket line at Waterloo Station on Saturday morning as their strike carries on in defence of pay,...

‘Hospitals don’t have the capacity to cope’ says BMA

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HOSPITALS ‘do not have the capacity to cope’ said the British Medical Association (BMA) in response to Emergency Medicine Journal findings about longer waits...

Hamas-US in direct talks!

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THE White House has confirmed that the United States has engaged in direct negotiations with Hamas regarding American captives held in Gaza, despite Washington’s...

Luton Angry Over Gm Threat To Jobs

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General Motors yesterday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York, in a plan that seeks to allow the US auto giant to...