UN Condemns The Israeli Genocide Of Palestinians

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A UNITED Nations special committee has declared that Israel’s warfare methods in the Gaza Strip amount to genocide, citing the regime’s deliberate use of...

‘GREEDY PRIVATEERS’ – slammed by RMT’s Bob Crow

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RMT General Secretary Bob Crow yesterday responded to the McNulty review of the UK privatised railway system by pointing the finger at privatisation as...
Relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes outside Downing Street recently to protest over his

COMMANDER DICK GAVE ‘AMBIGUOUS’ ORDERS – De Menezes inquest is told

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OPERATIONS commander, Cressida Dick, gave ‘ambiguous’ orders in the run-up to the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, the inquest into his death...
Two hundred Serco workers at Bart’s NHS Trust outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel last week – they begin their week-long strike today

Hospital workers – week strike begins

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A WEEK-LONG strike across four London hospitals begins this morning as hundreds of low paid cleaners, porters and security guards working for private company...

House price inflation reaches 8.4%

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RETAIL Price Index (RPI) inflation, which includes housing costs, grew by 2.8% in the year ending January 2014, up from 2.7% in December 2013. This...

Arab League Condemns US Veto!

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The Arab League has criticised the United States for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution that sought to condemn Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip. The...

42-Day Detention Crisis For Brown!

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A number of Labour MPs have tabled an amendment to the government’s Counter-Terrorism Bill in a bid to block plans to extend pre-charge detention...

Nurses Very Angry Over The Big Pay Sell-Out!

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THE HEAD of the Royal College of Nursing has apologised after nurses in England complained of being ‘misled’ over the new pay deal. The union...
Nurses demonstrating on the last TUC march on October 18th

NHS New Year’s Strike!

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AMBULANCE workers are to strike for 48 hours on January 29th 2015, across the whole of England and northern Ireland as their pay dispute...

Abolish pensioners’ bus passes and triple-lock pensions! – urges Stephens & Health Secretary...

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HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stephens, has angered millions of workers with his suggestions that pensioners’ free bus passes and their triple-lock pension arrangements...
Young Socialists marching in Cambridge last month against slave-labour wages

952,000 18-24’s OUT OF WORK

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‘AFTER falling for two successive months, today’s rise in youth unemployment is disappointing,’ said TUC leader Brendan Barber. Paul Kenny GMB General Secretary commented:...

US Jobless Crisis!

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THE US Federal Reserve has further scaled back its Quantatitive Easing programme of free money for the US banks by another $10bn to $65bn...
Picture shows the two refugees hanging from a tree in central Athens’ Victoria Square. They had been extremely depressed after  continual refusals to allow them to travel further into the EU

Refugees hang in Victoria Square, Athens

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TWO desperate refugees tried to commit suicide by hanging themselves in central Athens’ Victoria Square on Thursday. With the EU states bordering Greece...
Demonstration in Crawley last September against the building of a new Immigration Removal Centre near Gatwick Airport

Seven Mothers Are On Hunger Strike!

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Seven mothers on hunger strike in the family unit in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), near Bedford, yesterday managed to get a message...
A section of the massive rally at Hyde Park. Over 200,000 took part in the march and many called for the trade unions to match their words with action

Palestinians examining 72-hour ceasefire proposal

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PALESTINIAN negotiators in Cairo said yesterday they were examining an Egyptian proposal for a new, three-day cease-fire with Israel. ‘There is a proposal for another...

£11m BACK PAY FOR ASHLEY

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SPORTS Direct, the infamous zero-hours employer, is asking shareholders to approve £11m in back pay for Mike Ashley’s brother John. Unite assistant general secretary Steve...

Israeli booby-traps kill 37 and wound 3,000!

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LEBANON has accused Israel of committing war crimes after a series of deadly explosions involving booby-trapped communication devices killed at least 37 people and...
Demonstrators outside the High Court yesterday demanding the immediate release of youth jailed for demonstrating against Israel’s attacks on Gaza

Three Gaza Protest Youth Freed

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THREE youths were immediately freed yesterday after the Court of Appeal shortened two prison sentences and overturned one conviction. Four others had their sentences reduced,...

1,000 Days Of Gaza Seige

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Protests against the crippling siege imposed on the Gaza Strip should spread across the world, said Palestinian lawmaker Jamalh Al-Khudari yesterday, as the blockade...

No protection from unfair dismissal–for 7.5 million!

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THE TUC yesterday warned that millions of workers lack basic protections if they lose their jobs in the coming months. New analysis shows that 7.5...

Living Standards collapsing! – as disposable income plummets

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LIVING standards are collapsing for the majority of people in Britain today, with individuals having less disposable income to spend on average in the...
On November 30 workers made it clear they wanted their pensions defended – now some trade union leaders want to abandon that struggle

Stop Barber-Prentis Pensions Sell-Out

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AT last Thursday’s meeting of the TUC’s Public Service Liaison Group, TUC leader Brendan Barber urged trade unions to capitulate and sign up...

Israel Targets Families Trying To Leave Rafah

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A YOUNG girl was shot in the face as her family attempted to return to north Gaza on Sunday, footage posted on social media...

Greek workers fighting while Russia & China queue up to buy!

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THE Greek National Federation of Railworkers (POS) has expressed its ‘disappointment’ at the government’s intention to privatise TRAINOSE (Greek Railways). In a statement issued on...

‘Day of Rage!’ Mass pension strike shuts France down!

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FRANCE was totally paralysed yesterday with flights, trains, the Metro and buses all cancelled during the mass ‘Day of Rage’ over President Emmanuel Macron’s...

More Leaving Than Joining Nursing

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RESPONDING to the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) figures showing more nurses leaving than joining the profession, Janet Davies, Chief Executive and General...

Stop ‘Uberisation Of Universities!’

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OVER 300 striking lecturers, university staff and students rallied outside the Universities UK (UUK) HQ in Tavistock Square, central London yesterday shouting: ‘Hey, hey,...

Hounslow UNISON supports Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers yesterday won big support from UNISON members at Hounslow Civic Centre. Paul Gibbons, a student social worker, said: ‘I get irritated...

Bawa-Garba Victory

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DOCTOR Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was struck off the medical register, has won a further victory and will now be allowed to start working as...

Unite urges BA staff to accept pay cut

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THE UNITE union has sent a ‘GSS UPDATE 17 SEPT’ to its below-wing ground staff members working at Heathrow to try and persuade them...
Junior doctors joined by ambulance workers and supporters on a picket line in Norwich during their last strike on December 12th

Junior doctors march today

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TODAY thousands of junior doctors, health workers, student nurses, march through central London demanding ‘Victory to the junior doctors!’ At 8am next Wednesday morning (February...

Released prisoners reveal grim tortures in Israeli facilities!

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ON THURSDAY, Israeli authorities released 64 detainees from Gaza. Among the released were two women from Gaza, detained while accompanying patients in Israel. Of...

£850 million to pay for NHS sackings

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The government will spend more than £850 million in redundancy payments to NHS managers and staff to pave the way for the privatisation of...

Miliband rats on the unions

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LABOUR Party leader Miliband stepped up his attacks on the trade unions yesterday, announcing plans to end the automatic ‘affiliation’ fee paid by three...

‘YOU CAN’T PAY WORKERS LESS THAN THE MINIMUM WAGE!’ – GMB writes to Chancellor...

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IT IS A moral outrage to pay workers less than the minimum wage the GMB union told the Tory government yesterday. The union has written...

‘Under Immense And Continuous Stress!’ – Doctors Tell Bma

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IN TESTIMONIES provided to the BMA, one doctor said that ‘we are under immense and continuous stress’. While another doctor said: ‘What has been...

‘END THE OCCUPATION!’ urges the Hamas resistance

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HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement, has issued a call for an end to Israeli occupation and terrorism against Palestinians on the International Day of...

Answer Walsh’s War On Unite With A General Strike!

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BA BOSS Walsh’s war on the Unite trade union was stepped up yesterday when he turned down a Unite offer to suspend the strike...
Postal workers and their families marching in Crewe on October 25 demanding the Mail Centre be kept open

MARCH TO DEFEND MAIL CENTRE! – through Milton Keynes

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CWU postal workers and their families are marching through Bletchley, Milton Keynes on Saturday, against the planned closure of the Mail Centre. Paul Moffat,...

‘AN XMAS KICK IN THE TEETH FOR STUDENTS!’ – UCU & NUS condemn Brown...

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A ‘Christmas kick in the teeth’ for both staff and students is how the University and College Union (UCU) described yesterday’s slashing £398m...
Demonstration outside parliament yesterday celebrating the twenty fifth birthday of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) which was set up to support disabled people with the highest levels of support need to live in the community instead of being confined to

Coalition Cuts Target Disabled

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‘DISABLED people are getting into debt to pay for essentials. What’s the government’s response? It is cutting the very financial lifeline designed to help...

Zionists kill 10 sheltering at UNRWA school in Gaza!

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AT LEAST ten people in a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), located in the Rimal...
North East London Council of Action pickets determined to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

Big Support For Chase Farm Occupation

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THE North East London Council of Action organised a mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital yesterday to stop the closure of Maternity, Paediatrics and...

Train companies ‘trouser £1.3bn’

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THE TORIES have allowed train companies to ‘play the system’ collecting more than £1.3bn from the taxpayer for delayed services and passing only a...

RESTORE PUBLICLY PROVIDED NHS! – reverse all privatising legislation

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MEMBERS of Parliament are to debate a demand that the government restores England’s publicly provided NHS by reversing all privatising legislation, including ending private...