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PCS strikers and their supporters on the picket line at the National Gallery on the first day of their indefinlte strike against privatisation

National Gallery indefinite strike

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NATIONAL Gallery workers were out in force on the first day of their indefinite strike against privatisation and victimisation yesterday. On the picket line outside...

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...
Campaigners for the release of the Stansted 15 –  convicted of ‘terrorism offences’ they now face lengthy prison sentences for non-violent defence of refugees

Anti-deportation heroes charged with ‘terrorism’!

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FIFTEEN protesters who locked themselves around a plane at Stansted Airport, successfully stopping those aboard from being deported back to countries where they...
Enthusiastic picket at the Lewisham site of Lewisham & Southwark College yesterday against the plan to cut 112 jobs

Lewisham & London Met Strike Action!

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LECTURERS were on strike at Lewisham and Southwark College yesterday over 112 sackings because of the closure of the Southwark site in Camberwell, southeast...

ROYAL FREE BED CUTS! – 100 beds and a number of wards to go

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London UNISON health convenor Geoff Martin yesterday slammed plans by the Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust to slash up to 100 beds and close...

Tory Civil War Rages!

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THE TORIES’ civil war over Brexit continued to rage yesterday after PM May received a letter from 30 Tory MPs. The letter...

Barristers strike gains support

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‘OUR CRIMINAL justice system is in crisis, it’s no exaggeration to say it’s in meltdown,’ Criminal Bar Association (CBA) Chairman Jo Sidhu QC told...

WAR AN OPTION – Rumsfeld declares on Iran

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United States defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that the military option against Iran was ‘on the table’. He said this would be...
Junior doctors out in force on the picket line at Hammersmith Hospital in west London – they are escalating their strike against the Tories’ imposed contract

Tories throw down gauntlet to junior doctors

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THE Tories have ruled out any fresh talks with the junior doctors and in doing so have thrown down the gauntlet for a fight...

Tory Plan To Use Troops To Break NHS Strikes Condemned

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NHS TRADE unions, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Unison and Unite condemned Tory Party Chairman Nadhim Zahawi’s announcement yesterday morning that he is...
Mr & Mrs Lawrence, Stephen’s parents, at a press conference in February 1999, following the release of the Macpherson Report

STEPHEN LAWRENCE – policeman and staff member arrested

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A retired police constable and a police staff member have been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice after claims that evidence...

Democrats Shaken By Trump Vote

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THE US presidential election is on a knife edge, with Republican President Trump and his Democrat rival Joe Biden both claiming to have won. Trump...

‘Hospitals a thing of the past’ – vicious Tory attack on NHS

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HOSPITALS as we know them will become a thing of the past ‘over the course of the next decade’, with patients being treated...

Downing Street didn’t tell truth about Pincher says former senior civil servant

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DOWNING Street did not tell the truth when it said Boris Johnson was unaware of official complaints about Chris Pincher’s misbehaviour, a former senior...

End Eurozone Austerity!

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UNEMPLOYMENT in the eurozone will rise by another 4.5 million in the next four years under the current austerity programme, the International Labour Organization...

Merkel Angers Greek Parties

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s telephone call to the Greek President Karolos Papoulias last Friday, when she asked for a referendum to be held on...
Huddersfield Royal Infirmary workers demand  a united fight to stop all NHS hospital cuts and closures

NHS Patient Care Is Under Threat

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THE quality and safety of patient care in general practice in England is under threat from rising workload pressures according to a major new...
HELEN PANKHURST, great-granddaughter of suffragette founder, Emmeline (centre left, in hat) next to RACHEL HOLMES  (centre, author of ‘Eleanor Marx: A Life’) with the crowd at the ‘Walk in Her Shoes’ rally

Walking in the shoes of the suffragettes

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LEADING stars, joined crowds at a rally and march yesterday morning, led by two generations of the historic suffragette Pankhurst family in London on...

MAY SURRENDERS! READY FOR EU ELECTIONS! – Pledges to carry out indicative ballot

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ON FRIDAY, PM May wrote a grovelling surrender letter of complete capitulation to the EU President Donald Tusk, in which she agreed that the...
Marchers in London last Saturday condemned US-backed Israeli terror bombing

AIR WAR – Israel vows to flatten Lebanon

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THE Israeli Cabinet decided yesterday it was not going to wage a ground war in Lebanon in the face of the disastrous reverses at...
Health workers marching to defend the NHS, demanding no cuts, no closures and no privatisation

London NHS Rationing Plans ‘Are A Disgrace!’

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‘MASS rationing of operations to London’s patients’ is being planned under the London Choosing Wisely Programme, which was launched by the Healthy London Partnership...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers lobbying the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton earlier this month. TGWU officials kept them out of the Congress – after they were given a hero’s welcome at the same conference a year earlier, shortly after the start o

TGWU LEADERS TO PAY ‘HUSH MONEY’ – while locked-out GG workers get no...

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IT was revealed yesterday by the Guardian newspaper that it has seen a TGWU agreement which shows that the two BA shop stewards, who...

Supreme Court rejects Julian Assange extradition appeal!

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THE UK Supreme Court yesterday rejected WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s appeal of the decision to extradite him to the US, where the WikiLeaks co-founder...

Ford’s Bridgend closure ‘a hammer blow’– GMB

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‘WE’RE HUGELY shocked by today’s announcement. It’s a real hammer blow for the Welsh economy and the community in Bridgend,’ GMB’s Regional Organiser Jeff...

Hospital consultants to strike on 20 & 21 July!

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HOSPITAL  consultants in England will go on strike on 20th and 21st July if their ballot, which closes at the end of June, is...

HBOS share price falls 50% in two days – as world crisis lets rip

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QUEUES formed around the Singapore offices of an AIG subsidiary yesterday, as the world’s biggest insurance company collapsed, losing 70% of its share price. At...
Junior doctors condemn Hunt and his campaign to impose a contract and impose 7-day working without 7-day funding

May keeps Hunt as NHS Secretary

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TORY Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and ex-Education Secretary Michael Gove were both sacked from the Tory cabinet yesterday as new Tory PM Theresa May...

Farage Won’t Stand Against Tories

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THE Brexit Party, led by Nigel Farage, announced on Monday that it will not be standing candidates in the 317 seats won by the...

Another mass picket at Gate Gourmet

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THE mass picket of over 100 Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow Airport yesterday were angry at capitalist press revelations that at least two of...

New Expenses Crisis!

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THE Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Sir John Lyons, has opened an inquiry into expense claims by the Culture Secretary Maria Miller. This follows a complaint...

LABOUR POLICY TO BANKRUPT NHS TRUSTS say UNISON delegates

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Delegates at the UNISON National Delegate Conference in Glasgow yesterday said it was ‘government policy’ to drive NHS trusts into the red. Delegates slammed Labour...

May Preparing Indicative Votes To Try & Smash Brexit

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10 DOWNING Street is preparing to allow parliament to vote on seven alternative EU options next week amid their growing fears that PM May...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing the company at Heathrow yesterday, despite the bad weather and police threats to arrest them

Police Stop Gg Picket Outside Plant

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were stopped from picketing the Gate Gourmet plant yesterday by the Heathrow Airport police and by the British Airports...

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...

Israeli terrorism widely condemned!

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HEZBOLLAH stressed yesterday that it will go ahead with its pro-Gaza strikes against the Israeli enemy, describing Tuesday’s deadly pager attacks as ‘another reckoning...

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...

‘Don’t underestimate workers strength of feeling!’

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TUC leader O’Grady has cautioned new PM Truss not to underestimate the strength of feeling among workers who have endured pay stagnation and real...

British Warplanes Bomb Nw Iraq

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British warplanes yesterday bombed vehicles and buildings in the northwestern Iraqi town of Karabila, close to the Syrian border. In what was considered a rare...

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...
Bereaved families lobbying parliament yesterday. LINZI HERBERTSON is third from left and LINDA WHELAN is sixth from left

JAIL THE BOSSES! – who cause the deaths of workers

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‘I feel as though they killed my son and the government is covering up for them. It is one big cover up,’ Linda Whelan...
Last April’s mass march calling for the defence of the Welfare State and all public services

Labour Hits Out At Welfare State!

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LABOUR'S Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Liam Byrne yesterday attacked the Welfare State and those claiming benefits. Byrne’s piece, printed in the Guardian...

Labour’s Winter Fuel cut has plunged pensioners into poverty

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall openly admitted on Tuesday that the Labour government cut the £300 Winter Fuel Payment to 10 million pensioners...

Stop Israel’s Crimes Against The Palestinians Says PM!

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that the world should take a clear stand and do what is necessary to stop Israel’s crimes...

209,000 Miss Out On University

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Lecturers and students unions yesterday warned that increased fees will see even more youth denied higher education, as new figures confirmed that a record...