$30bn FEDERAL AID FINANCES BEAR STEARNS ‘RESCUE’ – first time since 1930s slump

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Billions of dollars, euros, pounds and yen were wiped off the world’s stock markets yesterday, as they reacted to the emergency bail-out of US...

‘WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK!’ – March with locked-out Gate Gourmet workers this Sunday...

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‘WE have got more and more support for our fight to get our jobs back’, locked out Gate Gourmet worker Palmjit Bains told News...
Care UK workers lobbying the company offices in London during their strike action over their atrocious conditions – a quarter of the country’s 2,500 homecare providers are at risk of going bankrupt while almost 70 have closed down in the last month

Social care–brink of collapse!

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THE TORIES are ‘papering over the cracks in social care funding leaving services at breaking point,’ the GMB union said yesterday. The comments come as...
Riot police attack with tear gas spray gun a protesting student outside the central Athens office of the Finance Ministry’s Secretary on Thursday. Photo courtesy left.gr

Greek Youth Unemployment Now Over 61.7%

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GREEK Statistics Authority (ELSTAT) announced catastrophic unemployment and recession figures in its monthly report on Thursday. ELSTAT stated that youth unemployment (15-24 years old) reached...

South African Strike Wave Spreads

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THE strikes that have halted work at seven of South Africa’s gold and platinum mines have spread to the chrome sector. It emerged yesterday that...

Greek Students & Workers March Against Private Universities!

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TENS of thousands of Greek university and school students, along with teachers and universities’ staff, participated in protest marches in all major cities against...
School students marching in Athens the banner reads ‘They have killed Alexis, they are stealing our life – struggle for their overthrow!’

‘We Will Have The Last Word’ Say Greek Youth

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THOUSANDS of school students in all Greek cities participated in militant mobilisations against the government’s austerity laws and police violence on Thursday, the fourth...

Bow Bus Strikers Walk Out!

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BUS drivers from Bow bus garage walked out on strike from 5am yesterday over exhausting schedules, inadequate rest breaks, and systematic disregard for their...

Pm May Refuses To Debate!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn said in the House of Commons yesterday that workers ‘cannot trust’ PM May. He spoke before the vote...

10,000 Tube strikers fighting 600 job cuts

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10,000 TUBE workers took strike action yesterday after London Underground (LU) bosses refused to rule out job cuts and detrimental changes to pensions. Under the...
Part of the 20,000-strong audience at the ExCeL Centre in Docklands yesterday afternoon celebrating Tamil Heroes Day

‘WE SEEK A PEACEFUL SOLUTION’ – Piraparahan tells the world

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THE Tamil Tigers leader V Piraparahan yesterday addressed the Tamil people and the world on the occasion of ‘Great Heroes Day’. He said it was...
Junior doctors rally in Westminster last Monday

Medical students support Junior Doctors

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MEDICAL students’ leaders yesterday defended final year medical students against threats to their careers if they demonstrate against the government ...

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...
The railway tunnel collapsed as a result of the new Tesco superstore being built in the area near Ge

VOTE NO TO ID CARDS – Trade unions and Liberty urge MPs

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Yesterday claims were made that the government was in discussions with businesses on the sale of personal information that will be contained in the...

Nablus under siege for two weeks!

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A DELEGATION of five ministers from the Palestinian cabinet visited the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Monday to investigate the ongoing Israeli...

Scrap Capability Assessments! – the cause of ‘needless misery’

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Damian Green is today set to announce a consultation on reforming the hated Work Capability Assessment Tests of claimants of...
Nurses defending the NHS against bed cuts and hospital closures on May 6 when they lobbied parliament

NHS BEDS NOT SACRED! – says Managers NHS Confederation

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Health unions yesterday condemned NHS bosses’ plans to slash thousands of hospital beds to concentrate on care in the community. The proposition...

‘WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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Locked out Gate Gourmet workers insisted to News Line yesterday they want their jobs back. On the picket line at Heathrow Airport Jarnail, said: ‘I...

Abolish ICE say US workers

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CROWDS continue to gather in Minneapolis to protest against federal immigration enforcement (ICE), after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz...

Gaza hospitals remain under siege – while ‘Intercept’ says the US is ready to...

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NASSER Medical Complex and Al-Amal Hospital remains under Israeli military siege in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip said the Palestinian Red Crescent...
Greek hospital workers demanding free health care for all. Their banner declares ‘All together we will win!’

Greek workers march against cuts and privatisation!

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THREE thousand hospital workers, Metro workers, primary school teachers and pensioners marched through Greece’s capital, Athens last Wednesday. The day of strike action was against...

KICK PRIVATEERS OUT OF NHS! – Unison condemns Hinchingbrooke privatisation

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‘THE National Audit Office (NAO) report into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital by private company Circle, should act as a warning of the dangers...
The whole trade union movement must be mobilised to stop the destruction of the NHS

Lansley pledges NHS privatisation!

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Health Secretary Lansley yesterday outlined coalition plans to step up the privatisation of the NHS, announcing the White Paper titled Liberating the NHS. In his...

Teuta Hoxha – on Day 45 of her hunger strike! She may die...

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The 17-year-old sister of a pro-Palestine prisoner who is now on day 45 of her hunger strike says she fears she may die in...

Brown outlines police state proposals

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced his ‘four options’ for extending the period that police can hold ‘terror suspects’ without charging them. He is ‘considering’...
BILLY HAYES (left), CWU leader said the CWU will be taking strike action in October

‘CWU to strike in October!’ – Billy Hayes

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COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) General Secretary, Billy Hayes, told his pre-Congress press conference yesterday that the CWU will be taking strike action in October. He...

Ealing Children’s Ward Must Be Re-Opened Urges Xmas Picket

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THE WEST London Council of Action got a huge response at their Xmas picket at Ealing Hospital, yesterday morning. Shaihin, a paediatric nurse at Ealing...
Pickets at the East London Mail Centre on July 28 – they were all in favour of national strike action

CWU National strike ballot –as 25,000 postal workers strike

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Tens of thousands of postal workers will go on strike today, tomorrow and Monday as growing unrest has led to the Communication Workers...

Food Prices To Double!

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Oxfam UK warned yesterday that the average prices of staple crops will more than double in the next 20 years leaving billions of people...
Marchers greeted by bakers and food workers union (BFAWU) who told them of the struggle the union had waged at Hovis where they kept out zero-hours contracts. The marchers were told that jobs for young people were one of the major concerns of the union

Manchester workers greet march!

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‘Victory to Palestine!’ rang out through the streets of Central Manchester on Day 15 of the Young Socialists March for Jobs to the TUC...
Doctors march in defence of surgeries in east London

194,941 sign ‘Sack Hunt’ petition

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PATIENTS and doctors still need answers on seven-day hospital services, Dr Mark Porter, the chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA), said yesterday. This follows...

Workers ‘will pay for recovery’ says Sunak

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‘I HAVE to be blunt with you, our recovery comes with a cost,’ Chancellor Rishi Sunak told the Tory Party conference yesterday outlining his...
Southern picket at Victoria yesterday morning supported by Disabled People Against Cuts demanding safety and accessibility on all trains. Photo: RMT

3 Train Strikes

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TRAIN workers at three Rail companies across the country, Northern, Southern and Merseyrail were on strike simultaneously yesterday. Northern rail staff were on the last...

Canadian grocery workers strike

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THE employees of a Your Independent Grocer (YIG) franchise – in Cornwall, Ontario – have been on strike since November 23rd, as employer and...
Determined Rolls Royce workers during yesterday’s ‘Manufacturing Lobby of Parliament’ organised by the Unite union

Gordon Brown ‘You’Ve Let US Down!’

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Hundreds of workers took part in the Manufacturing Lobby of Parliament yesterday with Rolls Royce workers marching to the House of Commons chanting...

UK DEBT NOW EXCEEDS £2tn!

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UK GOVERNMENT debt has risen above £2 trillion for the first time amid heavy spending to support the failing capitalist economy amid the coronavirus...
Barristers and solicitors demonstrated outside Parliament during a strike last year against legal aid cuts

Barristers strike against legal aid cuts!

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‘THOSE who cannot afford to pay for a solicitor, and those who are denied legal aid, are suffering at the hands of the government’,...

74 Universities – 14 Days Of Strike

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STAFF at 74 universities across the length and breadth of the country and in the north of Ireland are to strike in February and...

Italy Vote Sends Shudders Through Markets

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EUROPEAN stock markets fell sharply yesterday, with the election result in Italy producing no government, but marking a massive vote against austerity. Italy’s FTSE MIB...

NHS Bosses Using Election To Gag Staff – Gmb

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NHS bosses are trying to ‘gag’ staff during the general election, GMB Union revealed yesterday, warning that health service workers are being told they...
GMB General Secretary PAUL KENNY (centre) at yesterday’s press conference with Marks and Spencer ‘whistleblower’ Tony Goode (left) and his representative MARIA LUDKIN (right)

UNIONS ON THE MARCH! – but General Council to oppose POA resolution

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CIVIL service union PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday announced that the union will be balloting 270,000 members across the civil and public services...

3-month-old Reem’s family slaughtered – Netanyahu blocking ceasefire deal – reports NYT

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A BABY girl was the sole survivor of an overnight Israeli attack on a family home in Khan Younis which killed 10 people yesterday. The...

3-million-strong Tehran rally!

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IRAN’S President Masoud Pezeshkian yesterday hailed the ‘magnificent and epic’ presence of millions of Iranians in nationwide rallies on Monday. In a message to the...

‘Horrific intentionally repeated crime’

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GAZA’s Government Media Office yesterday accused Israel of ‘a horrific, intentionally repeated crime’, having lured starving Palestinians to aid centres run by the Gaza...
Tamils demonstrating outside the BBC over its silence while the Rajapakse regime in Sri Lanka continues the killing and bombing of Tamil areas, which is causing casualties on a daily basis and forcing more people to flee their homes

Sla Killing Civilians

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said yesterday she was deeply concerned by reports of the rapidly deteriorating conditions facing a quarter...