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Jaguar workers–three day week until Xmas!

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JAGUAR workers have been put on a three-day week until Christmas! This affects as many as half of the two thousand workers at its...
Refugees at Wednesdsay’s march to the EU offices in Athens demanding ‘Freedom!’ Photo credit: voria.gr

Refugees March To Eu Offices Demanding ‘Freedom!’

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OVER 1,000 mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees marched last Wednesday through the Athens city centre to the EU Offices in Greece demanding free and...
Greek police marching against the cuts in Vouli square, opposite the parliament building

Greece – 10% Tax On Workers And The Poor

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FOLLOWING meetings on Thursday with the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank), the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos...

US, Japan & France to hold military drill to ‘send message’ to China

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JAPAN, France, and the United States are reportedly set to hold joint military drills for the first time in May next year, as part...

Cases of police sexual abuse are rising! – Warns Independent Office for Police Conduct...

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CASES of police abusing their role for sexual gain have risen sharply, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) warned yesterday, revealing the fact...
Whipps Cross strikers took their campaign to Rentokil head office in Victoria, central London, yesterday

STRIKE WAVE! – Firefighters, hospital workers and postal workers take action

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Firefighters, hospital and postal workers were manning picket lines yesterday as the working class stepped up action to defend jobs, wages and conditions. Over 1,100...

‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ condemns Washington’s role in Israeli genocide

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Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a US-based advocacy group, has unequivocally condemned Washington’s role in Israel’s genocidal violence against Palestinians. In a series of pointed...
Demonstration to defend Whittington hospital against cuts and closure

NHS trusts proceeding with £20bn cuts

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NHS bosses have started to implement the £20 billion savage cuts programme, officially described as ‘efficiency savings’, that the new Tory government insists must...
Young people marching through Crawley against detention without charge or trial

Goldsmith No To 42 Days

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Amnesty International UK yesterday welcomed a further statement by Labour’s former Attorney General, Goldsmith, opposing plans to extend detention without charge to 42 days. Amnesty...
25,000 workers and youth marched through Paris on Saturday against against new plans to impose racist immigration laws. A million-strong May Day march is expected today

‘WE’RE SUFFERING BUT WE WILL WIN’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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THE Gate Gourmet locked-out workers May Day campaign team got great support from fellow Transport and General Workers Union members in west London bus...
Thousands marched in London last February demanding no cuts in NHS services

STOP WASTING BILLIONS ON THE HEALTH MARKET – Nagpaul to tell BMA ARM

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DOCTORS’ leader Chaand Nagpaul is today warning of an ‘all year’ crisis in the NHS as eight in ten doctors say underfunding is significantly...
CWU leaders BILLY HAYES and DAVE WARD (centre) on the picket line at Mandela Way, south east London last Friday

‘NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO STRIKE!’ – CWU out for 24 hours from evening of...

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yesterday the Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced a further day of strike action commencing the evening of Thursday 12th July and continuing through Friday...

‘Hooded, shackled, with gun to my head’ – UK spies witnessed

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‘WE still don’t know the process of accountability,’ British citizen Moazzam Begg, previously held in Guantanamo Bay, said criticising the scope of an inquiry...

Campaign saved lives!

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‘THIS CAMPAIGN is a life saver!’ Devinder Bhambra told News Line on the mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning to celebrate the news...

Brown Calls May Election

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Prime Minister Brown confirmed yesterday that the general election will be held on Thursday 6th May. Flanked by the cabinet outside 10 Downing Street, following...
Visteon workers on the Enfield picket line yesterday stand together but the company is making different redundancy offers

Anger At Visteon Settlement!

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‘WE’VE been shafted,’ ex-Visteon Enfield Unite branch chairman Steve Parenti told News Line yesterday. He explained that sacked workers on Ford Mirror Contracts, which were...

‘cowardly’ Attack On Gadaffi Compound

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Libya condemned as ‘cowardly’ a series of NATO air strikes targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli early yesterday. Gadaffi’s whereabouts at...
A section of the 2,000-strong demonstration outside the BBC in White City demanding that the BBC must not assist Sri Lanka  genocide against Tamils

Bbc Vetos National Appeal For Gaza

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THE BBC has blocked the nationwide broadcast of a fundraising appeal for Gaza by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) this weekend. The DEC comprises the...

Greek Workers Want An Indefinite General Strike

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WORKERS in Greece are building up a tremendous multi-form action front, with occupations of ministries and state buildings, strikes and demonstrations, against the barbaric...

MASS DISMISSALS AND CLOSURES AT OPEL-VAUXHALL – predicts EEF GM forum

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GM Europe’s European Employee Forum (EEF) has made the most dire predictions in its February 16, 2009 report. It states that ‘GM’s “Renaissance” plan...

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW! – demands High Court protest

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THE ROYAL Courts of Justice in The Strand in central London were besieged by supporters of Julian Assange from early morning to late afternoon...

Bring us back into the NHS now! – demand Maudsley strikers as...

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‘BRING us back into the NHS NOW!’ strikers from SLaM (South London and Maudsley) mental health trust are demanding as they converge on Downing...

1,000 Barts workers voting to strike – no 2-tier NHS!

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Over 1,000 NHS workers at Barts Health NHS Trust in the City of London began voting for strike action yesterday in a fight against...

Bma Condemns ‘Junk Healthcare’

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GPs in the West Midlands are up in arms over plans to franchise out services along the lines of fast food outlets or estate...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on their successful 1000-strong march through Southall last December 4

SALE OF JOBS AND CONDITIONS – CWU signs deal with Royal Mail

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Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) leaders have signed a pay for jobs and ‘efficiency’ deal with Royal Mail. They are attempting to sell it to members...

UCU Strike Ballot To Fight Man Uni Sackings

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ONE hundred and forty staff working at Manchester University have been threatened with the sack prompting their union, the University and College...
Chagossians demanding the right to return to their homes in the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia marching alongside the West London campaign to keep Ealing Hospital open

Junior Doctors Still Being Left To Fight Alone

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OVER 10,000 trade unionists and youth took part in the London May Day march yesterday from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. As well as trade...

Wages Fell In Year To June

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WAGES fell by 0.2% in the year to June was the shock news released by the ONS yesterday. Britain is now a nation of the...

Parliament to forcibly evict Westminster rough sleepers

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HOMELESS people are to be forcibly evicted from the Westminister underpass, which leads to Parliament, by installing rolldown shutters blocking the shelter off. In December...
The NHS has now been going for over 60 years and nurses are determined that it will continue to flourish

25,000 MARCH TO DEFEND LEWISHAM A&E – ‘Take over hospitals and fire stations’ says...

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MORE than 25,000 angry workers, trade unionists, youth and local residents marched through Lewisham in south-east London on Saturday, determined to stop the closure...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers marching through Southall. Fellow TGWU members who worked at BA who came out on strike in support of them were told to return to work by the TGWU leaders because their supporting action was illegal

‘COORDINATE STRIKE ACTION’ – says PCS leader Serwotka

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‘WE are now about to move to ballot 270,000 members for industrial action, unless the government withdraws its threat of compulsory redundancies.’ This is what...

UAE & Israel ‘normalise’ relations!

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ISRAEL and the United Arab Emirates reached a deal yesterday that will lead to a full normalisation of diplomatic relations between the two, in...
Greek workers have been demanding ‘not one step backwards’ in the struggle against EU austerity

Workers angry at Syriza retreat!

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ON Wednesday morning, the Greek government announced that it will be making an application to the Eurogroup for an extension of the loan agreement,...
A section of the strikers from Gate Gourmet listening to a report from Tony Woodley on Monday afternoon in Southall

AS TALKS BREAK DOWN – Call out the airport say Gate Gourmet pickets

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‘Talks have, indeed, broken down as a consequence of Gate Gourmet wanting to selectively re-employ those who had been sacked, even though there is...
Greek riot police squads and buses block the road to demonstrating teachers last Thursday

Greek Riot Police Attack Demonstrators

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SACKED Finance Ministry cleaners demanding re-employment, occupied the Athens district tax office in Kallithea yesterday morning. At the same time, state teachers on the ‘mobility...

SERCO STRIKE – battle against low pay & exploitation

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HUNDREDS of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company Serco, will stage a two week strike across Barts Health NHS Trust in...

Crow Slams Hunt On NHS

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‘THIS government can’t wait to destroy the NHS,’ RMT general secretary Bob Crow told News Line yesterday. The rail union leader was responding to a...

Russia, Ukraine & US are set to talk in the UAE as the war...

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RUSSIAN, Ukrainian and US negotiators are set to hold talks in the United Arab Emirates, marking the first meeting involving all three countries since...

ASLEF & TSSA strike action ballot

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RAIL unions ASLEF and TSSA have announced that they will ballot their members for strike action on the railways. If the ASLEF ballot is successful...

Call NHS Day of Action! – urges consultant surgeon

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HEALTH unions yesterday slammed the government’s announcement of six new Private Finance Initiative (PFI) hospital projects costing £1.5 billion. Not only will the schemes...

Swinson – New Attack On Corbyn!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn risks jeopardising a vote of no confidence in the government by insisting he becomes caretaker PM, Lib Dems leader Jo...

Barts Trying To Force Through Contract Changes!

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INSULTED Barts Hospital patient transport staff are demonstrating at 12 noon at Newham Hospital in east London today against management’s poor treatment of staff...

‘WE HAVE PUNISHED THE AGGRESSOR’ – Medvedev tells Sarkozy

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PRESIDENT Dmitry Medvedev said in Moscow yesterday that he had ordered an end to the ‘peace enforcement’ operation in Georgia, after five days of...
The George Fox Six.  Photo credit: George Fox Six Supporters Group

Police threat to arrest Gate Gourmet pickets

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers were made to dismantle their picket tent and move from the Gate Gourmet factory gates by Heathrow Airport police yesterday. ‘I...

£20bn of NHS cuts are – Turning nurses into cleaners

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THE Tory-LibDem Coalition’s £20 billion NHS budget cuts are leading to nurses having to clean toilets and mop hospital floors it emerged yesterday. A survey...