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Lively picket of Serco strikers marked the beginning of the second week of their two-week strike over pay, workload and job cuts

Serco strikers in high spirits

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THE SERCO workers marked the beginning of the second week of their two-week strike yesterday with a lively picket line outside the Royal London...
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...
100 Days Of Chase Farm Picket

100 Days Of Chase Farm Picket

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A lively picket took place outside Chase Farm Hospital to mark the 100th day of picketing to keep the hospital open.

Coulson detained and Cable reveals ‘threats’

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Prime Minister Cameron’s former director of communications Andy Coulson was detained by police investigating allegations of perjury yesterday. Coulson was detained at his home...
Nurse on the TUC march – working families are taking out credit cards to pay their bills, debt is rising, not wages

Credit Card Crisis!

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FAMILIES’ credit card debt is set to soar at two-and-a-half times the rate of wages, as families desperately take out credit to avoid starvation...
Greek dockworkers marching against privatisation and drastic changes in labour conditions

Greek dockers fight privatisation

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DOCKWORKERS of the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki have completed one month of strike action against privatisation and consequent dramatic change...

JOBS COLLAPSE – worst unemployment since crash

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THE NUMBER of jobs collapsed by 220,000 on the quarter, said the Office for National Statistics yesterday – the largest quarterly decrease since May...
Teachers lobbying the Department for Education earlier this month demanding a 5 per cent pay rise will be angry their 3.5 per cent pay rise is a pay cut

Tory pay rise is a pay cut!

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‘AFTER a decade-long pay cut we are asking ourselves: is this good enough? And of what we have seen, the answer is NO,’ senior...

‘IT’S TIME FOR THE UK SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!’ – Dave Wiltshire tells News Line Rally

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OVER 100 workers, students and youth attended the News Line Anniversary Rally at the Wheatsheaf Community Hall in Vauxhall, south west London on Saturday...
A group of nursery school teachers protesting on Monday night

‘Special measures’ against NHS

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ELEVEN NHS hospitals are being placed under special measures because of major failings, Health Secretary Hunt announced yesterday. Hunt said the trusts,...

BIG SOCIETY A BIG CON – says Unison

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PRIME Minister Cameron explained to an audience of ‘social entrepreneurs’ in London yesterday that the ‘Big Society’ means ‘opening up’ public services to being...

Britain Has Plutonium For 17,000 Nuclear Bombs

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THE UK's civil stockpile of separated plutonium is now over 100 tonnes, enough for the production of 17,000 nuclear bombs. The stockpile has...

Yashika Deportation Stopped!

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THE Home Office’s forced deportation of 19-year-old female Mauritian student Yashika Bageerathi was stopped yesterday after Air Mauritius refused to fly her. Yashika, who remains...
Marchers defending the NHS and making the point that one of the best ways to finance it would be to get rid of Trident

50,000 NHS Patients Being Left In Pain And Misery!

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IT WAS announced on Tuesday night that all operations during the month of January are cancelled, leaving over 50,000 patients in pain and misery. Also...

How the US government murdered Soleimani!

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NBC News has revealed details of Washington’s assassination of Iranian commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, saying the terrorist operation used Israeli intelligence and was...

‘WE WILL STRIKE TO DEFEND PENSIONS’ – UNISON leader Prentis pledges

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‘WE will take strike action, across all our sectors, to defend our pensions,’ UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis pledged at the union’s National Delegate...

‘Defend GP Practices’ – BMA

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THE BMA and GPs have condemned the way that NHS England and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are treating GP Practices. Dr...
A group of Gate Gourmet sacked workers outside the Employment Tribunal in Reading yesterday morning

Gate Gourmet Tribunal Opens

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THE first day of the Employment Tribunal for Gate Gourmet sacked workers took place yesterday in Reading, where they are challenging the company over...

‘Close Down Child Jails!’

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THE Howard League for Penal Reform yesterday responded to a written statement by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Michael Gove,...

CROW CALLS FOR GENERAL STRIKE! – no mandate for coalition cuts!

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THE RMT’s Bob Crow yesterday called for ‘general coordinated strike action allied to community direct action’ to resist the ConDem coalition government’s...

BEIS 3-day strike – ‘We demand Living Wage!’

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OUTSOURCED workers, who provide catering and cleaning services in government offices, took the first of three days of strike yesterday demanding the London Living...
Teachers and their supporters demanding ‘save our pensions’. More public sector workers are expected to join the struggle in the coming months

Pensions Strikes

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AHEAD of today’s TUC Congress, the leaders of two of the country’s biggest unions warned that their members’ anger over cuts in their jobs,...
Heavily armed police with sub-automatic MP4 weapons at Liverpool St station in central London

SAS deployed on UK streets

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HEAVILY ARMED special SAS forces were ordered onto the streets of the UK, yesterday and told to ‘shoot on sight’ suspected terrorists as the...
Firefighters at Studley road fire station in Luton, Bedfordshire, welcome the Young Socialists London-to-Liverpool March for Jobs. Jamie Newell, brigade secretary, said their station is also facing cuts

Cornish Firefighters Slam Dangerous Cuts!

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FIREFIGHTERS in Cornwall have slammed ‘dangerous’ plans to cut frontline cover which ‘will seriously affect public safety’ and demand that they are immediately withdrawn....

9 fresh strike dates at BA after talks collapse

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BRITISH Airways’ (BA) freight services at Heathrow airport are set for nine days of fresh strike action which will begin on Friday 22 January after...

Real wages 13.6% drop!

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THERE has been a 13.6% drop in the real value of average earnings of full time workers in employment in the UK between April...
Junior doctors picketing North Middlesex Hospital during their strike on February 10th – they are fighting an imposed contract for a safer NHS

A&E patients told ‘go home!’

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MANY http://www.wrp.org.uk/admin.php?op=adminStorypatients who had been waiting seven-hours in the A&E department at Edmonton’s North Middlesex Hospital were told on Friday night to go home...
A thousand-strong demonstration outside Downing Street on April 20th against Labour’s new legislation discriminating against doctors from the Commonwealth countries

MADNESS! – RCN condemns destruction of nurse training places

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday slammed as ‘madness’ the destruction of nurses training places. The RCN was responding to a survey by the...
Teachers marching through London at the end of last month demanded ‘Gove must go!’

Teachers Slam New Tory Curriculum

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FIVE-to-14-year-olds will be required to learn more ‘hard facts’ under the new National Curriculum announced by prime minister Cameron and Education Secretary Gove yesterday. The...

BA SUSPENSIONS ‘TEST OF THE UNION’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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THE GATE Gourmet mass picket at Heathrow airport was visited by Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley and the union’s General...
BOB CROW (centre) and a group of RMT cleaners lobbying the City Hall to demand that Mayor Livingstone refuses to accept ISS sackings

SACK PRIVATEERS NOT THE CLEANERS! – RMTs Bob Crow demands

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OVER 100 angry RMT members staged a lobby outside City Hall, Tower Bridge, yesterday, demanding an emergency meeting with London Mayor Ken Livingstone over...
News Line Anniversary Rally

News Line Anniversary Rally

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Sunday November 29th

Bakers and rail unions say ‘Leave’ – as TUC & Corbyn prop up Cameron

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‘OUR union has just reiterated its stance and that is that it is to vote to leave the EU,’ Ronnie Draper, General Secretary of...

Sirte Drives Back Nato Mercenaries

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LIBYAN government forces yesterday continued to heroically drive back the NATO- backed NTC counter-revolutionaries at Sirte, inflicting deadly blows on the mercenaries. Gadaffi loyalists have...
SUSAN ALEXANDER, mother of Azelle Rodney,  (centre, holding banner) and supporters outside yesterday’s hearing

‘WALL OF SILENCE!’ – Rodney inquiry adjourned

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A public inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney, 24 – who died after being shot six times at close range by police as...

Back to the workhouse! – new Tory policy for unemployed

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THE Tory coalition yesterday launched their latest scheme to drive unemployed people off benefits. The scheme, cynically entitled ‘Help to Work’, targets ‘long-term unemployed’ people...

Parents support Northolt teachers

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TEACHERS on a second day of strike action at the Alec Reed Academy in Northolt, west London yesterday, were joined in support outside the...

40,716 children held in cells overnight

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‘KEEPING a child in a cell overnight is not only inappropriate and distressing for the child concerned, but is a breach of their fundamental...

£150bn MORE FOR BANKS – as B 0f E starts printing money

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The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee yesterday cut interest rates from one per cent to a record low of 0.5 per cent. Interest rates...

Call Off The Talks!

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‘Our union executive should immediately call off the talks with Royal Mail until the threats of redundancy, total flexibility, and attacks on our pension...

‘RAPID FIRE JUSTICE’ – Liberty slams ‘super ASBOs

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Serious Crime Prevention Orders dubbed ‘ASBOs for suspected criminals’ were unveiled at a press briefing by Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker yesterday. The new civil...
Junior doctors taking strike action against an imposed contract said they were fighting to save the NHS. Now everybody must join this fight

Stop NHS privatisation! Stop bed cuts! Unions must act!

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THE GMB has demanded answers over a plan to privatise services at Barnsley Hospital in a desperate bid to save cash. The trust which runs...

BANKS MELTDOWN – Taxpayers to foot the bill

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The government yesterday extended its stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland to 70 per cent as RBS headed for a record UK £27bn-£28bn...

NHS workers immigration status victory – Home Office forced to U-turn yesterday morning!

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THE TORIES, under fire from all sides have had to make a U-turn on their policy over the immigration status of NHS workers. Until yesterday...
Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line earlier this week and looking forward to their demonstration on Sunday

END TORTURE FLIGHTS! – Liberty demands of Straw and police chiefs

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Yesterday human rights group Liberty called on Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to seek assurances in the next 14 days from the USA that it...