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UCU members marching in north east London to stop the attack on adult education

UCU ‘No’ To Campus Spies

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UNIVERSITY and college lecturers yesterday morning voted unanimously to reject government plans to instruct university staff to report students for ‘extremism’. The controversial proposals,...

NHS care to be shifted out of OUR hospitals!

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UNDER plans unveiled by the government, NHS care in England will be significantly shifted out of hospitals and into newly proposed ‘neighbourhood health centres’. Prime...

MOAT FAMILY TO PAY FOR 2nd POST-MORTEM

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The family of Raoul Moat are to pay for a second post mortem, after the first investigation failed to record taser injuries. They say...

UK Tax Havens Scandal

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‘The UK is responsible for one in five of the world’s tax havens – that’s more than any other country,’ stated Tax Justice Policy...

200 Palestinian Prisoners Join Strike!

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MORE than 200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails joined on Sunday the over 1,800 hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, according to the...

Johnson Hands Power To Decide To Bosses

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‘WE ARE going to give employers more discretion, and ask them to make decisions about how their staff can work safely,’ Tory PM Johnson...

‘Britain must provide war planes for Ukraine’ says Truss

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BRITAIN and other Western powers should provide warplanes to the Ukraine, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said last night at the Mansion House banquet, as...
Clashes between Greek workers and the capitalist state are taking place around the clock every day as workers defend their rights

Ecb Plan Sets Off Germany’s Alarm Bells!

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THE euro strengthened to a two-month high against the US dollar yesterday, as investors’ euphoria overflowed at the ECB’s plan to purchase bonds from...

Gchq Was Listening To Omagh Bombers

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THE Cheltenham-based electronic spying agency, GCHQ, recorded mobile phone exchanges between the Omagh bombers on the day of the attack in 1998. The...
Demonstration outside St Helier Hospital against the closure of the maternity unit at the Epsom Hospital, the A&E and the cuts due to take place in surgery

Save Epsom Maternity!

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Over 60 people protested outside St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, Surrey, yesterday morning, against the ‘downgrading’ of its sister Epsom Hospital. The protest was called...
Pickets and supporters outside the Enfield Visteon plant – they are determined to win this struggle for jobs

BELFAST CONVENOR EXCLUDED – from talks with Visteon managers

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THE Visteon Belfast factory’s Unite convenor, John Maguire, said yesterday that he was being excluded from the meeting with the Visteon management. He...
Gazan victim suffering massive bullet wound in his leg

Gaza patients: fist- sized bullet wounds

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WORKING in Gaza on patients hit by Israeli fire, medical teams noted ‘the injuries include an extreme level of destruction to bones and soft...

NIGERIA SHUT DOWN! on Fourth Day Of General Strike

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THE GENERAL strike in Nigeria over the removal of gasoline subsidies, now in its third day, has shut down most shops and businesses, cut oil...

10,000 dead in Israel’s month-long Gaza genocide!

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MORE than 10,000 Palestinians have been slaughtered in Israel’s month-long genocide since October 7th, Gaza’s Health Ministry announced yesterday, with 10,022 people, including 4,104...
A number of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers outside their Employment Tribunal in Reading yesterday morning

STAFF ‘LOCKED IN THE GATE GOURMET CANTEEN’ – sacked shop steward tells Employment Tribunal

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THE Gate Gourmet locked out workers’ employment tribunal in Reading continued yesterday with the case for the sacked workers. First to appear was Sajit Sandu,...

‘We’ll picket until we get our jobs back’

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GATE Gourmet workers on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, said their lobby of the TUC General Council on Wednesday had been...
Friends and relatives of Jean Charles marched to Stockwell

DE MENEZES KILLING! – Second Anniversay

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RELATIVES and friends of young Brazilian man Jean Charles de Menezes went to Stockwell Tube station yesterday, to hold a vigil at the scene...
Celebrations outside the ERT station after the Greek High Court ordered the ending of the closure

‘A Victory at ERT’ – workers determined to bring down Samaras

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THE leaders of the eleven TV, Radio and newspaper media trade unions issued a ‘Victory at ERT’ (Greek State TV and Radio network) statement...

Nurses Ready To Strike Over Pay–Ballot Shows

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THE VAST majority of nurses are prepared to strike over pay, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday as it announced a ‘summer...
Police chief Blair must resign says Maria Otone de Menezes

NHS Staff Face Privatisation!

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The coming clash between the trade unions and the Labour government over plans to step up the privatisation of the NHS was yesterday...
Convenors, shop stewards and Unite officials at Parliament Square awaiting the arrival of the nine-car ‘drive-by’ yesterday

‘NATIONALISATION IS NOT APPROPRIATE’ – for GM plants says national officer Osborne

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NINE Vauxhall cars and vans from the 1960s to the present day came to London yesterday for a ‘drive-by’ of parliament ‘to showcase the...

26 Labour MPs condemn Mahmood appeal plan

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A GROUP of 26 MPs and peers have written to the government condemning its plan to appeal against last Friday’s High Court ruling that...
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TODAY! Gate Gourmet sacked workers 5th anniversary rally

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Gate Gourmet sacked workers are holding their 5th Anniversary rally this Saturday, 2 October at Beaconsfield Primary School, Beaconsfield Road, Southall at 3.00pm

Corbyn makes May an offer

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in his speech to the party conference yesterday, made Tory PM May an offer: he said that Labour would give...

DNA DATABASE ‘BY STEALTH’! – 40,000 innocent children among 4 million on base

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The Brown government was yesterday accused of building up a national DNA database ‘by stealth’ by retaining profiles of nearly 40,000 children never...

FLYBE BUST! Tories to blame – BALPA

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‘FLYBE staff feel disgusted at this betrayal and these broken promises,’ pilots union BALPA General Secretary Brian Strutton said yesterday as the news broke...
Demonstrators expressing their anger as they passed the US embassy in London on the 30,000-strong march demanding an end to the Israeli attack on the Lebanon

Hezbollah Battles Israel To A Standstill

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HEZBOLLAH forces have battled Israel to standstill. After over four days of fierce fighting, Israeli forces were still struggling to take control of the Lebanese...
Armed policeman in central London

January conference for locked-out Gate Gourmet workers

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DEFIANT Gate Gourmet locked out workers were standing on the picket line in the freezing cold yesterday determined to win their jobs back and...
Workers demonstrate outside the Bank of England in 2009 – they are still paying the price for the bankers’ crash

Workers still paying for 2008 crash says GMB

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‘SINCE the great crash of 2007/8 the twin features of inflation of 27% and little or no pay rises have taken a heavy toll...
Students on yesterday’s march in Whitehall determined to end fees and get EMA grants back

Police Attack Peaceful March

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TENS of thousands of school, college and university students demonstrated against education cuts, tuition fees and the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)...
Health workers, trade unionists and youth marching to defend the NHS on its 63rd birthday in July this year demanded ‘Scrap the Health Bill!’

NHS TO BE 49% PRIVATE! – workers and poor to be shown the door

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THE HEALTH and Social Care Bill has been revised to allow nearly half of foundation hospital income to be raised from private patient beds...

Investors Dump Stocks As Capitalism Crashes!

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INVESTORS dumped stocks worldwide for a fourth day yesterday, ahead of US President Donald Trump unveiling a fresh round of tariffs, and mounting concerns...
Workers at Greenford bus garage supporting Wednesday march on Ealing Hospital

Ealing Gmb To Take Action!

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EALING Hospital workers are stopping work for two hours next Wednesday 1st July and joining the march and occupation to save the hospital’s maternity...

British Steel on the Brink – 4,500 jobs threatened

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BRITISH Steel is seeking a further loan off the taxpayer of a whopping £75m as it teeters on the brink of collapse, with the...

Tories Starve The Disabled!

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DISABLED people in Scotland are being starved by the Tory government, with some people waiting as long as 15 months without receiving a single...
Teamsters Local 814 members and Transport Workers Union Local 100 members outside Sotheby’s in New Bond Street on Thursday night

Teamsters & TWU picket Sotheby’s

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'WE want a fair contract,’ shouted locked out Teamsters from New York as they and supporters picketed Sotheby’s in New Bond Street on Thursday...

New UCL rent strike –against rat and insect infestation

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INSECTS and rats have infested UCL students’ halls of residence sparking a new rent strike against the terrible conditions students are expected to live...

Chagossians Lobby Mauritian Embassy

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OVER 60 Chagossians lobbied the Mauritian Embassy in London yesterday to ask what had happened to all of the compensation paid by the British...

No agreement over Brexit

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‘IT is not possible for us to reach an agreement today,’ Jean Claude Juncker, EU Commissioner said at a press conference yesterday as the...
A strong and angry picket of New Scotland Yard yesterday after the CPS refused to prosecute the policeman responsible for the deadly assault on Ian Tomlinson at G20 protest last year

COVER UP! 5 years after de Menezes killing – another policeman escapes trial

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UPSET and angry relatives reacted bitterly to the news yesterday that there will be no charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson during the...
The marchers got a tremendous response from the Stafford Hospital occupiers who gave them huge support

Great weekend for YS March for Jobs!

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THE YS March for Jobs had a great weekend as it won massive support in Stafford and Stoke on Trent. ‘Whose hospital, our hospital!’ rang...

More Savage Budget Cuts!

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TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond has signalled more savage cuts in Wednesday’s Budget, saying he will not be having a public sector ‘spending spree’. Writing...
GMB members and supporters outside the Great Western Hospital in Swindon yesterday to show their support for the Carillion workers

Victimisation At Carillion

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Carillion workers were supported by Unite workers from Honda and BMW and officials from GMB yesterday lunch time, outside The Great Western Hospital in...
The world’s media is starting to take a much greater interest in the struggle of the Diego Garcia Islanders to return to their homeland – picture above shows South Korean television interviewing HENGRIDE PERMAL

‘We will not be silenced’ say Diego Garcia Islanders

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‘WE will not be silenced’ is the message from Diego Garcian islanders who will be marching to Crawley Town Hall today, to protest against...