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Mortgage holders and public sector workers to be hit and hit again – say...

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PRIME Minister Sunak made clear in his interview on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme yesterday morning that mortgage holders and public sector...
CWU members and officials lobbying the Unite head office displayed their giant postcard to Unite leaders Woodley and Simpson

STOP THE STRIKEBREAKERS – CWU tells Unite

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Over two hundred postal workers from London, Edinburgh and Crewe lobbied the Unite head office in Holborn yesterday, to demand Unite leaders Derek Simpson...

Famine is tightening its grip on Gaza

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THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned yesterday that Gaza’s food system has completely collapsed, as famine tightens its...
Marchers in London urging: defend the NHS and stop privatisation – the GMB is now fighting an attempt to privatise an elderly people’s service contract in Cambridge which is being presented as a £1bn deal

Stop £1bn NHS privatisation!

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THE GMB trade union is calling on members and the community to join the lobby of the Clinical Commissioning Group in Cambridge from 1pm...

REPORT MINIMUM WAGE CHEATS – GMB warns Virgin Media contractor Cobra

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THE GMB trade union yesterday called on workers being cheated of the national minimum wage to contact their local GMB office to enforce their...

Fight Steel Sackings

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‘THE time for talking is over, we need action’ Paul McBean, the Community union leader exclaimed as Tata Steel announced 1,200 job losses at...
Amicus and TGWU members campaigning to defend jobs at Peugeot’s Ryton plant were joined by Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside the International Motor Show in east London

Call a Day of Action to defend jobs and services!

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GATE GOURMET locked out workers joined the Amicus and TGWU campaign to save Peugeot jobs at the International Motor Show in Docklands, east London...

Sri Lankan Workers Determined To Continue The Revolution

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SRI Lanka’s prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as acting president, while the country reels from the economic crisis and the developing...
North East London Council of Action march in Enfield against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

‘CUTS TO NHS ‘RISK TO LIVES’ – warns RCN leader

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‘We don’t comment on leaked documents but our concerns remain about the competitive elements in the government’s NHS reforms,’ a British Medical Association (BMA)...
WRP candidate ANNA ATHOW found that her stand to defend the NHS and keep all hospitals open is very well supported

OUR HOSPITALS MUST NOT CLOSE! – Voters tell Enfield WRP candidate Anna Athow

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Enfield North WRP election candidate Anna Athow and her campaign team received a big response on the High Street yesterday. Anna, a consultant surgeon, has...
Osborne told firefighters yesterday that the service must agree to ‘substantial operational reform’

500,000 Public Sector Jobs To Be Slashed

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TORY Chancellor Osborne confirmed yesterday that the coalition government was pressing ahead with the most savage attack on the working class since the Second...

BMA’s Nagpaul opposes PM’s plan to ease the ‘lockdown!’

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‘THE Government has five tests it has said must be met to ease lockdown – the first of which is “making sure the NHS...

Police state attack on the press!

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UK NEWSPAPERS have warned that if a government bill authorising police to seize journalists’ notebooks, photos and digital files is passed today, it could...

Livingstone Is To Appeal Against Suspension!

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FORMER Labour Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has announced that he is to appeal against his two-year suspension from standing for office or representing...

Tory borrowing breaks all records

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GOVERNMENT borrowing broke all records soaring to historic heights in November, figures released yesterday show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said borrowing hit £31.6bn...

UN Reafirms Palestine Support

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UNITED Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has reaffirmed the organisation’s commitment to supporting the Palestinian people and their inalienable rights, including the right to live...
Pickets out on the second day of their two day action at the Harrow Job Centre

‘FANTASTIC SUPPORT’ for day one of work & pensions strike action

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Yesterday’s strike by benefits and pensions staff was a ‘fantastic success’ said the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). Jobcentres, benefit offices, pension centres and...

Israeli strike on Gaza City kills seven & wounds 20!

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AN Israeli strike on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood killed at least seven people and wounded 20 others yesterday. Islam al-Jaidi, a resident and a...
Tens of thousands marched in April against the planned closure of four west London A&Es. Ex-Labour Health Secretary Hewitt supports closing NHS hospitals and sending patients to India

NHS CRISIS – SEND THE PATIENTS TO INDIA says Hewitt

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TRADE unions yesterday slammed plans for NHS trusts to make money out of India. This came after the former disgraced Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt...

Call For Day Of Action At The Bma

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A FIERY and chaotic debate took place at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) on Labour’s health policy yesterday. At it the ARM representatives strongly...
Dale Farm residents defying bailiff and police moves to evict them yesterday

Eviction Reprieve – At Dale Farm

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DALE Farm residents won an injunction late yesterday, restraining police and bailiffs from dismantling structures on the site until a hearing at the High...

Fearful Kiev ‘warns’ Russia

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THE SELF-STYLED Ukrainian interim President Olexander Turchynov yesterday warned Russia against any ‘military aggression’ in Crimea. He said Russia’s troops from its Black Sea Fleet...

Self defence forces take action!

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SELF DEFENCE forces have confirmed they attacked a Ukrainian military helicopter at an airfield in eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk. A plume of smoke...

Regional benefit cuts next!

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UNISON has condemned calls by a right wing ‘think tank’ for benefit cuts for all claimants living outside of London, and for child benefits...

Tortured Iraqis Seek Judicial Review!

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FOLLOWING their previous threat of proceedings against the government, 34 Iraqi victims of hooding today issued judicial review proceedings against the government to challenge...

Tahrir Square Uprising

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Tens of thousands of protesters flooded into Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday, demanding the immediate removal of the Egyptian military regime. As the square filled up...
Up to 200 people took part in yesterday’s picket of the Zimbabwe embassy despite rain

Hundreds picket Zimbabwe embassy

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UP TO 200 trade unionists from Britain, including leading officials of the TUC and its affiliated unions, including UNISON, the TGWU, Amicus, Prospect and...

Labour Condemns ‘Deep Savage NHS Cuts!’

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LABOUR’S shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth yesterday hit out at Tory cuts, saying the NHS winter crisis ‘was entirely predictable and indeed entirely preventable.’ He...
Heathrow Airport police on March 7 refused to allow the locked-out Gate Gourmet workers to continue their picket near the Beacon roundabout and dismantle their tent

‘Great support for march’

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are getting great support for their march through Hounslow on Saturday. Saturday’s march assembles at 1.00pm (see advert on this...
TUC march to defend the Welfare State in April last year

BENEFITS BLITZ! – Tory coalition to make 33% cuts

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Campaigners have slammed government plans to proceed with moving people off incapacity benefit and onto the dole. The government plans to move all incapacity benefit...
A section of the 200-strong Libyan lobby of the Lancaster House conference in London yesterday

Hands Off Libyan Oil!

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Libyan government forces stopped the pro-imperialist assault on Muammar Gadaffi’s home town of Sirte and drove back the counter-revolutionary forces yesterday. A Pentagon spokesman in...

‘No depths to which P&O will not sink!’ says RMT’s Mick Lynch

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‘THERE are no depths to which P&O and their Dubai owners at DP World will not sink to extract the maximum profit from ferry...

Brown Wants 3 Years Of Wage Cutting

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THE GMB and PCS unions came out against Prime Minister Brown and Chancellor Darling’s plan to impose three-year pay settlements on public sector workers...

Thousands of teachers march on Downing Street! – ‘TUC will defend right to strike’...

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THOUSANDS of teachers, students, and supporters gathered in London yesterday on the fifth day of strikes this year, organised by the National Education Union...

COVER-UP – Grieving families condemn Network Rail

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PARENTS of two young girls killed on an Essex level crossing in 2005 accused Network Rail of a cover-up yesterday, after the rail privateer...

Teachers no! to 6pm finish

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TEACHER union leaders have condemned Education Secretary Gove’s plan to open schools until 6pm for 51 weeks of the year. Gove has made a submission...

RCN delegates strongly back Cullen’s YES vote call

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DELEGATES at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Annual Congress at the Brighton Conference Centre cheered and gave General Secretary Pat Cullen a standing...
Marchers with Luton MP KELVIN HOPKINS who voted against tuition fees in Parliament in 1997

Luton Mp Greets Ys March For Jobs

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education started the day yesterday with an effective early morning campaign outside the Luton GMM...

Gate Gourmet Pickets Join Terminal 5 Strikers

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WHILST out campaigning yesterday, Gate Gourmet workers, now locked out for almost six months, spoke out very angrily about the unsigned letter just received...

Trump Declares Trade War – On The Eu, Canada & Mexico

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THE CAPITALIST world was rocking yesterday after President Trump’s declaration of a trade war on his European Union, Canadian and Mexican rivals. The US...

Eu Appoints The Italian Government!

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FACING calls for his impeachment, Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella yesterday appointed former International Monetary Fund official Carlo Cottarelli as interim Prime Minister. Known as...

LABOUR RENEGADE AUSTIN REFUSES TO DENY HE’LL VOTE TORY

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IAN AUSTIN, MP for Dudley North in the West Midlands, who quit the Labour Party yesterday, said that he will not call a by-election,...
The four Kenyan claimants with lawyer Martin Day outside the High Court before the start of yesterday’s hearing

MAU MAU HEROES! – take on British state

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The UK government must take responsibility for the torture of Kenyans under the 1950s British colonial government, one of the survivors, 82-year-old Wambugu Wa...
Workers throught the UK have had enough of Tory coalition austerity – time for action has come

A FRENZY OF BENEFIT CUTTING! – Coalition goes for the poor

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THE Coalition and its supporters are engaged in a frenzy of benefit cutting which is victimising and pauperising the working class and many sections...
Large numbers of parents and pupils picketed alongside teachers during the dispute the Alec Reed Academy

Teachers & parents win at Alec Reed Academy

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TEACHERS, parents and pupils have won a victory at the Alec Reed Academy in Northolt. ‘Management at Alec Reed Academy has agreed our terms for...