Hunt in charge of health & social care

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HEALTH secretary Hunt was yesterday promoted by PM May with social care being added to his portfolio. The decision will infuriate health workers and...
Determined BA cabin crew on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday

Cabin Crew Determined To Win

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STRIKING British Airways cabin crew made it clear yesterday that they are determined to win their struggle in defence of jobs, wages and conditions,...
Postal workers lobbying the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday demanding no privatisation of Royal Mail

STOP THE CUTS! – Postal workers tell Labour Party Conference

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over 200 postal workers lobbied the heavily-fortified Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday, to demand the Labour government keeps the Royal Mail public and...
Chagos Islanders and their supporters lobbying Downing Street last November 10th

Chagos IslandS Community Association

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MEETING & FILM – Saturday March 15, 5pm @ International Student House, 229 Great Portland Street, W1 (next Great Portland St tube) speakers include: John...

Johnson ready to hand billions to bosses! – as unions refuse to demand nationalisation

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THE JOHNSON government is to pay out tens of millions of pounds to restart production of carbon dioxide at a key plant in the...

US jets bomb Syria hospital

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WARPLANES of the US-led international coalition shelled a hospital and perpetrated a new massacre in Syria on Saturday, claiming the lives of six civilians...

Weak Osborne declares ‘We are not powerless’ – as he demands EU Monetary Union

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Chancellor Osborne and Bank of England Governor King announced a massive £140bn emergency stimulus package for ailing British capitalism on Thursday night. Both were speaking...

£300m more arms for Ukraine – nothing for struggling households

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TORY PM Boris Johnson acted the buffoon yesterday as he described Ukraine’s war against Russia as the country’s ‘finest hour’, in a video address...

£50-£300 Fines For ‘Preventable Errors’

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The PCS union and Citizens Advice yesterday slammed government plans to claw back £60m from hundreds of thousands of benefit claimants who are expected...
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...
‘We’re not going to let them close our A&E in November’ say Enfield residents outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday

‘TOTALLY INADEQUATE!’ – unions condemn £500 A&E ‘bail-out’

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) and Unison yesterday dismissed as ‘papering over the cracks’, Cameron’s announcement of a £500m ‘bail-out’ over two years for...
On the first day of their two-week strike action Serco workers said they are determined to win the struggle

Serco Workers Begin 2 Week Strike

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HUNDREDS of ancillary workers employed by Serco at Bart’s Health NHS Trust began a two-week strike from 6am yesterday to 6am August 8th in...

Suspend Cqc Says Bma

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GP LEADERS at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) have called on the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to suspend its current inspection regime...

Fresh Rail Gourmet strikes called

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TRANSPORT union RMT confirmed yesterday that Rail Gourmet staff at Edinburgh Waverley will be going ahead with a new phase of strike action in...

Palestinians ready to break off all relations with the USA and to report Israel...

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Netanyahu earlier pledged to ensure the extension of Israeli sovereignty to the Jewish settlements of the Jordan Valley after US Secretary...

Public ownership of energy – urges Unite

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UNITE hit out yesterday at Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s announcement that he would halt new gas and oil production in the North Sea...

APPALLING CAPITA FAILURE! –fails to send screening letters to 48,000 women

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THE BMA has criticised the ‘appalling’ failure by health privateer Capita to send cervical screening letters to up to 48,000 women. It has written...

‘THE FIGHT FOR JOBS IS ON!’ – civil servants rally outside parliament

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Parliament Square yesterday reverberated with the slogans of hundreds of Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) workers who had joined hundreds of thousands of...
Unison Northhampton branch secretary STEVE BENNETT (second from left) with firefighters GARY MITCHELL and STEVE MASON next to him gave the YS march for Jobs a great reception

‘bring Coalition To Its Knees’

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‘THIS government will either bring the country to its knees or we will stand up and oppose them and bring them to their knees!’ That...

Athens Law School occupied!

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STUDENTS and unemployed youth have occupied the Law School building of Athens University in the centre of the city demanding the closing down of...
Teachers, parents and school pupils demonstrate in Bellingham in south east London against vicious education cuts

School funding cuts devastate a generation of children

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AS PUPILS return to school after the Christmas break, teachers’ unions warned yesterday that funding cuts are much worse than predicted, hitting working class...

Stop ‘bedroom tax’ evictions

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The Bedroom Tax will lead to massive rises in rent arrears and homelessness, hitting the poorest people the hardest, Margaret Hodge, Chairwoman of the...

Right Wing Racists Rule In Israel

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A NEW government, seen as the most right wing and racist in Israel’s history has been agreed, sealing Binyamin Netanyahu’s return to power. Netanyahu, who...

Another Huge Rise In Jobless

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There was another record increase in the unemployment rate to reach 2.38 million in the second quarter of 2009, according to the latest figures...
Enfield residents and trade unionists assemble on Thursday night before marching to Chase Farm Hospital, determined to keep it open

GPs ‘to be paid to keep patients out of hospital’

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GPs in England will no longer have to offer appointments lasting at least 10 minutes under changes agreed with the government. It is one of...
Junior doctors, members of the BMA, demonstrate against the government imposed Medical Training Application Service leaving thousands without posts. The latest government move threatens GPs

BROWN PRIVATISING GPs! – BMA leaders condemn policy

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday repeated its concerns that the government is out to privatise GP surgeries. A spokeswoman told News Line: ‘The BMA...

PCS REJECTS ‘BULLYING’ OF THE POOR – as government plans four-week benefit cuts

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THE civil service union PCS said yesterday it was opposed to ‘punitive’ benefit cuts facing the unemployed, single parents and even the disabled, who...
‘Father Christmas’ with Ethan and Larah Otoo on the picket line at Chase Farm Hospital where both the children were born

‘stop This Chase Farm Eviction!’

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A nurse working at Chase Farm hospital is facing an eviction notice that would leave her homeless by the new year. Gloria Ankrah is being...
Rock solid picket line outside Victoria station yesterday morning on the first day of the three-day Southern guards strike

Aslef Driver Only Strike Ballot

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TRAIN drivers in the ASLEF union are to join their RMT colleagues in an escalating struggle against Driver Only Operated (DOO) on Southern...

Warsi expenses row

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TORY party co-chair and Cabinet member, Baroness Warsi, has become involved in an expenses row. She has admitted failing to declare rental...
PCS delegates at TUC last month warn Brown ‘No Cuts’

BROWN SELL-OFF CONDEMNED! – ‘paying for the failures of the city’

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday accused the government of privatising and ‘selling off the family silver at a knock down price’...

Yemenis strike Saudi pipeline

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SAUDI Arabia have been forced to halt pumping oil through one of their major pipelines after a successful Yemeni drone strike yesterday afternoon. Saudi Minister of...

Young Socialists hold May Day meeting!

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THE ANNUAL May Day march took place on Thursday on the hottest day of the year so far. The march wended its way from Clerkenwell...

Obama Set To Slash US Budget

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US President Barack Obama unveiled his 2012 budget yesterday, describing the proposal as a ‘down payment’ on future cuts to the US budget...

Libyan militias hold and torture 7,000 – says UN report

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Some 7,000 people are being held and tortured in inhuman conditions in Libya, in detention centres controlled by militias, according to a leaked new...
300,000 marched on parliament on July 1st to demand ‘Tories Out!’– today with the Tory party in a huge crisis the Labour leaders are silent

Tories Move To Knife May!

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PM MAY, who had previously described her leadership as ‘strong and stable’, was yesterday struggling to keep her head above water as the Tory...
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers were still picketting the factory at Heathrow yesterday despite the deal by their union leaders for redundancies and worse terms and conditions

Withdraw UK Troops Now!

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OVER 100,000 will be gathering in central London today, on the eve of the Labour Party conference, to demand the withdrawal of British and...

May welcomes Trump victory

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EARLY on Wednesday morning Donald Trump’s Republican Party reached the all-important 270 electoral college votes, meaning that he had won the election to become...

Cuts begin as Starmer launches massive hike in arms spending!

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‘STARTING today, I can announce this government will begin the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War,’ Labour...

TGWU again refuses GG hardship payments

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers were yesterday angry that the TGWU leaders have once again refused to allow them any hardship pay. This is despite...

MPs REJECT ATTACK ON NO-DEAL BREXIT Starmer-Corbyn motion defeated

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MPs yesterday voted by 309-298 against a Labour-moved motion that sought to prevent a no-deal Brexit on October 31! The Labour-led plan was to force...

Assange Ecuador Protests

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ECUADORIANS have taken to the streets in the capital Quito against the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the country’s embassy in London. The...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers 2nd Anniversary Benefit

Gate Gourmet sacked workers 2nd Anniversary Benefit

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Sunday 14 October, 2-8pm Southall Community Centre Merrick Road, Southall (nr Southall station) Beat Gate Gourmet & other cheap labour bosses! Support our cases for racial discrimination against...
Workers occupying the Visteon factory in Enfield

Visteon Workers Occupying Till Victory

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Defiant Visteon workers are still occupying three factories in Enfield, Basildon and Belfast. Over 250 trade unionists and youth rallied in support of the...

No joint press conference in Luxembourg – ‘We’re ready for no-deal’ – Johnson

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TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday travelled to Luxembourg to meet EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and the country’s PM Xavier Bettel. After the meeting, Johnson...