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Backstop ‘Non-Negotiable!’

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THE EU is ‘united’ over the negotiated Brexit deal, the bloc’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has responded, after the UK’s PM May said she...

‘TERRORISTS’ WERE UK CREATED – ex-MI5 Head tells Chilcot

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BLAIR’S invasion of Iraq ‘substantially’ increased the terrorist threat to the UK, the former MI5 Director General told the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq...
Wembley anti-academy campaigners at the Easter NUT annual conference where they were given full backing by the union

Academies Out!

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‘Academies are about Blair’s obsession with privatisation’, said NUT president Baljeet Ghale yesterday during a visit to the anti-academy occupation at the sports ground...
Health unions have warned that next year’s wage increase must match inflation

Food & Fuel Prices Soaring!

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HUGE petrol and food price increases have pushed up the UK cost of living, cutting workers’ wages and living standards. The Office of National Statistics...

STRIKE ACTION SPREADS TO 68 UNIS – more than 50,000 staff mandated to strike

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STRIKE action at UK universities spreads to 68 institutions today as more than 50,000 staff are mandated to strike and well over a million...

Private equity bosses ‘planned sackings’ – Dromey

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‘WE’RE sticking up for members who are the victims at the sharp end of what is a growing scandal,’ TGWU deputy-leader Jack Dromey said...

Entire RCN leadership sacked by membership – Members vote of no confidence at Extraordinary...

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THE ENTIRE leadership of the nurses union RCN has been sacked by the membership! A vote of no confidence at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM)...
Greek youth marching against austerity

Terms Of Greek Bail-Out ‘No Longer Apply’

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THE leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras stated on Tuesday ‘the expression of the public’s will has made the...

Defend Heathrow jobs rally today!

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HUNDREDS of British Airways workers are demonstrating outside the airline’s Heathrow HQ today against the outsourcing and offshoring of their jobs to Tata Consultancy...
Athens university students marching past the Greek Parliament building on May Day – are calling for capitalism to be overthrown

Greek Marchers Defy Eu & Imf

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TENS of thousands of workers and youth held strong anti-government marches and rallies in all Greek cities and towns on May Day. Seafarers, railway,...

Hunt was Murdoch’s ‘cheerleader’

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RUPERT Murdoch is to be questioned by the Leveson Inquiry today and tomorrow over the ‘appropriateness’ of his relationship with prime minister Cameron and...
Young Socialists Summer Festival 2019 - Postponed to Aug 3

Young Socialists Summer Festival [Postponed] – August 3rd, 2019

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Postponed a week until Saturday, 3rd August 2019 – Doors open from midday Near Hoxton Market at St. John’s Church, Pitfield Street, N1 6NP Great bargains Live...

Abbas orders flag to be flown at half mast! – 104 years since Balfour...

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has enacted a presidential decree ordering the national flag to be flown at half-mast today and tomorrow, and on November...

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...

Wages being slashed!

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PAY ‘nosedived’ last month, as the quarterly rate of earnings growth crashed to 0.7% from 1.9% the previous month. The government’s preferred CPI monthly inflation...
Carillion strikers at Swindon Hospital allege very bad treatment from their employer

Police-MI5 worked to blacklist trade unionists!

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It has emerged that the police, MI5 and other security services supplied information to a blacklist compiled for and funded by Carillion and...

‘I WILL NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE’ – Glenn Close says she’ll boycott Oscars

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ON STRIKE writers of US daytime TV dramas, short stories and online serials are set to host a special picket event, Daytime United, in...
Supporters of the Gate Gourmet sacked workers picketing the venture capitalist summit in Frankfurt on Tuesday which was attended by the Texas Pacific boss

Gmb Members Picket ‘Vulture Capitalists’

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GMB members yesterday went to Germany to demonstrate outside a gathering of the European Venture Capitalists Association (EVCA), at the same time as Prime...
MARIA OTONE DE MENEZES (centre) holds a picture of her son Jean Charles De Menezes on a march to parliament

‘I THOUGHT POLICE WERE FANATICS’ – tube driver tells Menezes inquest

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A Tube driver risked getting electrocuted and fled into a tunnel at Stockwell station because he was terrified that ‘fanatics’ had shot dead Jean...
Youth take part in a People’s Assembly meeting in Syntagma Square, Athens

Greek Revolution Statement

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STATEMENT BY THE REVOLUTIONARY MARXIST LEAGUE Athens, Saturday 27/6/15 For a strong class ‘NO’ vote in the referendum! No to the austerity accords! Out of EU, IMF and...

Mass austerity protests called in France for September 10th

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PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron gave his support to Prime Minister François Bayrou at a cabinet meeting yesterday, as France is bracing for fresh political turmoil...

‘EXTEND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP’ – LP Conference rejects Starmer line

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A MOTION from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite was passed at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday calling for ‘extending public...
MARIA OTONE DE MENEZES (right) holds a picture of her son Jean Charles de Menezes on the United  Friends and Families Campaign demonstration on October 25

Police Killers ‘Out Of Control’

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Firearms and surveillance officers hunting down Jean Charles de Menezes were ‘out of control’ when he was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station, a...

Increase of maternal deaths a tragic indictment of the lack of government investment!

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THE ‘STATISTICALLY significant’ increase in maternal deaths reported on Thursday by MBRRACE-UK is a tragic indication of a lack of government investment in maternity...

Israeli forces kill more than 71 Palestinians

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ISRAELI forces have killed more than 71 Palestinians in the 24 hours leading up to Thursday in Beit Lahiya, Rafah and Khan Younis, with...

State navies should break Israel’s siege of Gaza – says UN’s Albanese

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THE Israeli occupation forces (IOF) yesterday hijacked at dawn the Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen and kidnapped the activists on board. The vessel, operated by the...
Angry workers with a clear message on last October’s TUC demonstration against austerity cuts

‘Slowest recovery on record’ –says Bank of England chief Carney

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WHILE claiming that ‘a renewed recovery is now under way in the United Kingdom’, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said yesterday that interest...

JOHNSON URGES MPs TO SUPPORT HIS WAR ON RUSSIA!

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PRIME Minister Boris Johnson spent less than five minutes apologising over ‘Partygate’ to the House of Commons yesterday, before putting it to one side. He...
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’...

BA DEADLINE PASSES – but no strike call by Unite

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TALKS between Unite and British Airways passed the second deadline of 12 midday yesterday. This was after BA requested an extension when the first deadline...
West Kensington and Gibbs Green estate tenants lobby Hammersmith & Fulham council against the demolition of their estates

Homeless Families Driven Out Of London

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15,795 HOMELESS Londoners have been forced into temporary accommodation outside their borough, a Freedom of Information request revealed yesterday. Representing a third of the 47,137...

IMPOSSIBLE! – NUT condemns Kelly plan to close ‘failing’ schools after one year

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THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday accused Education Secretary Ruth Kelly of trying to impose ‘impossible’ targets on state schools that would lead...
Delegates at the CWU conference applaud the 77.5 per cent vote for strike action at Royal Mail to defend their pay and conditions

‘WE ARE CONFIDENT WE WILL WIN THIS DISPUTE’ – CWU chair O’Hara tells News...

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CWU MEMBERS working in Royal Mail have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action against Royal Mail’s attempts to cut pay, jobs and conditions. The...

‘IT’S GOING TO BE PAINFUL!’ Cuts must start this year – King to Osborne

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Bank of England governor Mervyn King yesterday warned that the next few years are ‘going to be painful’ and that ‘markets would expect a...
Part of the Vouli square with the DEH workers lorry-cranes at the back

Greek Workers Occupy Square!

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TENS of thousands of young people along with workers and their families staged an enormous rally last Wednesday evening in Athens, almost filling up...

Gaza mass graves–hands tied behind their backs!

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GAZA Civil Defence Units have found mass graves of another 50 Palestinians at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, with many of the...
Young Socialists in London last November at the end of their three week march for jobs and Free State Education

CAMERON BLAMES JOBLESS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT – says TUC’s Barber

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‘Long-term unemployment has doubled, not because of a sudden increase in work-shy scroungers, but as an inevitable result of economic policies based on cuts...
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...
BA cabin crew pickets think that the whole airport must come out in support to win their dispute

‘we Are Fighting For Our Lives’

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DESPITE the pouring rain, striking BA cabin crew maintained three lively picket lines at Heathrow Airport yesterday. They chanted: ‘Don’t blame it on the ash...

EUROSTAR NIGHTMARE CONTINUES! – passengers told to stay away

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Eurotunnel closed its shuttle car service to new arrivals yesterday, saying it was at ‘saturation point’, as travellers struggled to find alternative ways of...

Israel breaching ceasefire deal – only 10% of shelter gets in as storms...

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ISRAEL is violating the terms of the ceasefire by not allowing the agreed minimum amount of aid to enter the enclave, Gaza’s Government Media...
Syrians march in support of President Assad – Syrian Kurds in Afrin are now calling on the Syrian army to defend them

‘Send Troops’–Kurds Call To President Assad!

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KURDISH authorities in Syria’s Afrin district have called on President Assad and the Syrian government to send troops to help defend them from a...

Firefighters For NHS Front Line!

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FIREFIGHTERS are to fit face masks and deliver vital PPE and medical supplies to NHS and care staff. Fire and Rescue personnel have volunteered to...

China No! To North Korea Blockade!

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China has refused to search North Korean ships, throwing US attempts to enforce a blockade and sanctions into disarray. The United States is urging China...