Firefighters on a national march through Liverpool in support of the struggle against cuts in the fire service in the north west

Firefighter Heroes

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East Sussex Chief Fire Officer Des Pritchard yesterday paid a moving tribute to the two fire crew who died, and the nine firefighters, one...
HENGRIDE PERMAL (centre) leader of the Chagos Islands Community Association lobbying the House of Lords in October 2008

Chagos Fury – Over Cable Betrayal!

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THE Chagossian community in Crawley have reacted with fury after an offer from the coalition government and Vince Cable to allow the islanders...

£50,000 A Day To Strike Break

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Firefighters in Suffolk were angry yesterday as the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces set out to break their strike actions against plans...
TGWU region No 1 banner  on the march against the war on the Lebanon last Saturday

Hezbollah Uses Longer Range Missile!

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Hezbollah fighters yesterday repulsed sporadic attempts by Israeli forces to control the town of Bint Jubayl two miles inside south Lebanon. A number of Israeli...

New York Amazon Unionised!

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WORKERS erupted in celebrations across the US on the news that Amazon workers forced the tech giant to recognise a trade union in America...

BERNANKE READY TO ACT – to print hundreds of billions more dollars

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US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday that he is ‘ready to act’ on the US economy, hinting that the US is about...

Labour Government votes for disability cuts!

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THE WELFARE Bill, slashing benefits from the disabled and mentally ill, was passed by 335 votes to 260 in the House of Commons yesterday...

Itv Strike Ballot!

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ITV staff are to ballot for strike action over pay. BECTU said: ‘Union officials at ITV have rejected the company’s latest pay offer for 2015...

260 DEAD IN KENYAN FIGHTING – after Presidential election rigged

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As the death toll rose to 260, EU monitors yesterday cast doubts on the results of Kenya’s disputed presidential vote. This stepped up the pressure...

School And Market Targeted As Israeli Genocide Escalates

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‘BOMBARDMENT is overwhelming the entire Gaza Strip, with no respite since the early hours of this morning,’ Palestinians reported from Gaza yesterday. At least nine...

LORRYLOADS OF PAPERS! – shredded by the Met Police

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‘LORRYLOADS’ of documents were shredded by the Metropolitian police over the course of two days, including documents relating to the Stephen Lawrence case,...

SOARING INFLATION – as bankers demand billions more from Brown

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Soaring factory prices have seen UK producer inflation reach its highest rate, 6.2%, in nearly 17 years in March. Annual ‘output price inflation’ at 6.2%,...

BBC will defend against Trump law suit

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THE BBC said yesterday that it will defend a $10bn (£7.4bn) lawsuit filed against it by US President Donald Trump over an edit of...

Fires burn across Kuwait’s largest refinery for 2nd day

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FIRES burned across Kuwait’s largest oil refinery for a second consecutive day as Iran widened its strikes on Gulf energy infrastructure, while Tehran warned...

Refugees left to freeze!

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‘EVERY day counts,’ Jean-Claude Junker, President of the European Commission said. ‘Otherwise we will soon see families in cold rivers in the Balkans perish...
The front of last Friday’s school students’ march in Athens. The banner reads, ‘We live today to fight for tomorrow’ signed by ‘Anti-state power school students’

‘We’ll have the last word’ say Greek youth

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THOUSANDS of Greek school and university students took part in militant anti-government and anti-police marches in all the major cities last Friday to commemorate...
At a rally last Friday at the Department for Communities and Local Government a resident from north Kensington holds up a piece of charred cladding that had fallen from Grenfell Tower during the blaze

600 Combustible Cladded Towers!

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‘MANY in the fire service and the fire safety sector have been raising issues about regulation, issues like cladding, for many years and we...

Countdown to March 29th

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PRIME Minister Theresa May has written to the European Union to ask for a three-month delay to Brexit. The UK is leaving the EU next...
Young Socialists lobbying the TUC demanding the abolition of zero-hours contracts – Balls refused to deal with the issue in his speech to the Labour Party Conference

Balls to means-test pensioners!

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LABOUR Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls, yesterday made it crystal clear that if elected, Labour would continue Tory policy to to make pensioners, workers,...

RUN ON NORTHERN CONTINUES! – double digit inflation on the way says Greenspan

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YESTERDAY morning frantic savers once again laid siege to Northern Rock bank branches, determined to withdraw their savings, following the scenes over the weekend,...

EUROZONE: unemployment soars, manufacturing collapses!

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Unemployment in the eurozone soared to 11.1% in May, while the manufacturing collapse continued and is set to accelerate, according to official statistics produced...

NATO striking schools, hospitals, homes

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MUSA IBRAHIM, the spokesman for Colonel Gadaffi, has accused NATO of carrying out air strikes against ‘schools, hospitals and residential areas ...
Delegates gave Unison leader Prentis a standing ovation after he declared that 9,000 employers were going to be informed of the Unison members’ strike ballot to defend pensions

4 MILLION TO BE BALLOTED FOR PENSIONS STRIKES – Congress calls for immediate...

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OVER four million public sector workers are set to strike over pensions this November, after trade union leaders announced at the TUC congress yesterday...
Local government workers of the Paiania local council. Their banner reads ‘For a movement to overthrow government and  troika – not a movement of compromise and submission’

48-hour rolling strikes in Greece

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THE Executive Committee of YENOP (the trades unions federation of the Public Electricity Board), the biggest trade union federation in Greece, decided last Friday...

Croydon NHS demands Covid sick pay!

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WORKERS at Croydon Hospital are staging a protest on January 31st to demand Covid sick pay. Porters and cleaners at the south London hospital are...
Low paid Serco workers are having to battle like hell for a 30p pay rise

PUBLIC SECTOR IS ‘OVERPAID’ – Hammond tells Tory Cabinet

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CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond yesterday refused to deny that he said at last Tuesday’s Tory Cabinet meeting that public sector workers are ‘overpaid’. Hammond was repeatedly...

‘The worst public health response in UK history’ – No test & trace –...

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THE TORY government’s failure to do more to stop Covid spreading early on in the pandemic was one of the ‘worst public health failures’...

Kiev coupist Nuland visits Syriza leaders!

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LAST Tuesday, in a visit that was kept quiet, the American Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland (she oversaw...
BA cabin crew fighting resolutely against another bosses’ and government attack

Tuc To Lobby Tories!

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TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday warned that the coalition’s cuts ‘not only threaten services but risk economic recovery’. He was speaking ahead of the...

STOP HINCHINGBROOKE PRIVATE TAKE-OVER – defend NHS demands Unison

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UNISON, the biggest health service trade union, yesterday called for Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire to remain in the public sector. The union condemned plans to...

800,000 fire-risk dryers in UK homes – Whirlpool admits to Parliamentary committee

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WHIRLPOOL admitted, when grilled by a Parliamentary committee yesterday, that as many as 800,000 recalled dryers known to be prone to sparking potentially lethal...
ABUL KOYAIR and his wounded brother MOHAMMED ABDUL KAHAR after giving a press conference in Forest Gate yesterday

THE POLICE ACTED LIKE ARMED ROBBERS – they will do it to another family...

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THE two brothers released without charge after the massive state terror operation in Forest Gate told a press conference yesterday how they thought they...

Homeless squatters are ‘criminals’

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SQUATTING in a residential building in England and Wales has become a criminal offence, meaning squatters would face six months in jail, a £5,000...
Police confront students to try to stop their demonstration

Police confront students

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OVER 200 students from London universities and supporters from other universities demonstrating yesterday against police violence, were themselves confronted by Police. They marched from ULU...
The battling junior doctors showed every worker that the Tories were determined to smash the NHS

Defend The NHS! Kick Tories Out!

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THE government’s hospital closure programme could be derailed if masses of people take to the streets, said Chris Hopson, the leader of NHS England’s...

On-line GP consultations dangerous & ineffective

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BUCKETS of cold water have been poured on Tory plans for patients to see their GP over the internet rather than face-to-face. The pilot...

‘GREEDY PRIVATEERS’ – slammed by RMT’s Bob Crow

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RMT General Secretary Bob Crow yesterday responded to the McNulty review of the UK privatised railway system by pointing the finger at privatisation as...
John McDonnell took the lead after the 2017 general election to organise a demonstration to Parliament to bring the Tories down, urging ‘Not One Day More ’

McDonnell advocates Customs Union pact with PM May!

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LABOUR’s plan for a permanent customs union with the EU after Brexit can secure a Commons majority, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said yesterday. He called...
Civil servants marching in Whitehall against the onslaught on their jobs

2.03m JOBLESS – Bring down Brown and nationalise

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UK unemployment has risen above two million for the first time since Labour came to office, official figures revealed yesterday. During the three months to...

Police take full responsibility for unlawful killing

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THE Metropolitan Police has apologised to the family of Ian Tomlinson and reached an out-of-court settlement over his ‘unlawful killing’ by a police officer...

Labour lets May & Gove off the hook!

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THE LABOUR opposition let both Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove and Home Secretary Theresa May off the hook by failing to call for their...

PRESCRIPTION CHARGES UP BY 25p

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An increase in NHS prescription charges in England of 25p, putting them up to £7.65, came into effect yesterday, despite objections from the British...
Tea plantation workers weighing the tea that they have picked. They earn the equivalent of 66p a day and if they don’t pick 44lbs of tea a day, their wages are halved

‘throw Out Stinking Gourmet Deal’

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‘WE want a hands up vote at the mass meeting tomorrow, and we want the provisional agreement between Gate Gourmet, the TGWU and the...
Newham residents demonstrate last June against the police anti-terror raid on their community

WHITEWASH! – Forest Gate victim slams IPCC report

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‘It’s a whitewash,’ Forest Gate victim Mohammed Abdul Kahar said yesterday after the IPCC report on the 2 June 2006 police raid said it...
Part of the rally outside the EU Offices in Athens on Tuesday evening

‘US-Eu Stop Supporting Nazi Coup!’

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SOME 300 members of the Athens Ukrainian community, including relatives of the Greek-Pontus minorities in the Ukraine and the Crimea, along with contingents of...