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Demonstration outside Parliament against Universal Credit

LABOUR COULD VOTE WITH MAY SAYS THORNBERRY – who helped draw up Universal Credit

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LABOUR’S Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry confirmed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning that Labour could vote along with PM May on...

Israeli government committing genocide

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A GROUP of lawyers representing Palestinian victims of Israeli attacks on Gaza have filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC), arguing that...

Unite Urges Tories To Avoid Petrol Clash

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Unite has sent a letter to Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change yesterday, pleading with him to intervene in the...

Bring May into contempt – Labour tells Speaker Bercow

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‘I MAKE no bones about it I would have preferred to have seen a unilateral right of termination in this backstop,’ Tory Attorney General...

NO PAY CUTS FOR NURSES! – while BMA insists we need all our consultants

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Public sector union, UNISON said yesterday it will ‘strongly resist any attempt to cut nurses’ pay whether by moving to regional pay or by...

NHS workers vote to strike

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UNISON’s NHS workers, including nurses, occupational therapists, porters, paramedics, medical secretaries, cooks and healthcare assistants, have voted yes to industrial action in a dispute...

US says no to Hamas-Fatah government

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Aides to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas announced yesterday that he had frozen talks with Prime Minister Ismail Haniya on forming a unity government. This came...
The huge enthusiastic crowds that turned out to demonstrate and vote ‘NO’ shook the centrist Syriza leadership to its foundations

Tsipras Turning ‘No’ Vote Into ‘Yes’!

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GREEK Prime Minister and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras initiated a meeting of all the political parties’ leaders in Athens on Monday. A ‘joint statement’, issued...
Unite demonstration in London on July 7th in defence of the NHS

‘WITHDRAW BILL!’ – DEMAND GPs

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AS the Health and Social Care Bill undergoes its third reading, 400 GPs have signed a letter calling for a massive campaign to secure...

‘GET DIRTY AMBULANCES OFF THE ROAD!’ – demands UNISON trade union

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UNISON, the major UK health union, yesterday blamed the government for the crisis over dirty ambulances and issued a call ‘for urgent action to...

Police Spies – Met’s Unreserved Apology!

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THE Metropolitan Police has made an ‘unreserved apology’ and paid an undisclosed amount in compensation to seven women who were tricked into long-term relationships...
Forest Gate community turned out to condemn the massive armed police raid and shooting of Muhammad Abdul Kahar last June

POLICE GUNMAN EXONERATED – Scotland Yard arrests the victim

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yesterday the capitalist state exonerated the police gunman who shot and wounded Muhammad Abdul Kahar during the dawn police raid in Forest Gate last...

MASS HUNGER STRIKE! – began on Palestinian Prisoners Day

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MORE than 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody launched an open-ended mass hunger strike yesterday morning on Palestinian Prisoners Day, led by imprisoned Fatah...

Sri Lanka Tea Workers Arrested

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Thirty four civilians were taken into custody in a cordon and search operation conducted by the government security forces at Gampaha town from Saturday...

Boycott Hits 145 UK Universities!

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A MARKING and assessment boycott yesterday hit 145 UK universities as university staff are refusing to mark and assess work. The UCU lecturers’ union has...
Bristol health workers on the TUC demonstration last Saturday – there is to be a demonstration against local low-pay plans  outside the Bristol Royal Infirmary on Tuesday

Health workers fight local pay-cutting plan!

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HEALTH trade union members in Bristol will be protesting outside the Bristol Royal Infirmary on Tuesday, 30 October against plans by the South West...
Students joined a thousand-strong rally in Sheffield in support of striking lecturers fighting against the privatisation of their pensions

Sheffield students & lecturers mass rally

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ONE thousand striking lecturers, students and community supporters marched from Sheffield University to the City Hall yesterday to mark the end of four further...

Reject ‘John Lewis’ NHS!

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‘The GMB is opposed to a John Lewis partnership running the NHS, and so would the 1.4 million staff employed by the service,’ GMB...
Firefighters demonstrate in central London in July against the attack on pensions

Only one fire engine for Hove! – warns East Sussex FBU

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THERE will only be one fire engine based at Hove in East Sussex by April 2016 and just 12 firefighters to cover the whole...

Horrific Israeli massacre in Beit Lahia

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ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) committed a horrific massacre yesterday morning, bombing an apartment building in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip. An Israeli warplane...
Firefighters marching in London last month against the threat of mass sackings

Fire Talks Breakdown!

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‘The strikes on November 1st and November 5th will go ahead,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) London Region Official Paul Embery told News Line yesterday. He...
Southern Rail guards on the picket line at Brighton station yesterday morning

Big support for TUC lobby in Brighton

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DAVE Russell, GMB rep for council infrastructure at the Brighton and Hove refuse collection depot yesterday told News Line: ‘We are going to join...

Fury over US health firms takeover of GP practices Doctors in Unite protest tomorrow

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A PROTEST against GP practices being taken over by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation – branded as ‘the accelerating privatisation of the NHS...

London housing crisis is spiralling out of control!

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LONDON’S housing crisis is ‘spiralling out of control’, warns the Centre for London (CfL). Last Wednesday, the independent think tank hosted the London Housing Summit,...

GREEK GENERAL STRIKE – for workers’ rights against privatisation

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A massive strike wave is taking place against the Greek right-wing government this week as workers are staging national strikes, including a general strike...

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...
The giant adedy  trade union delegation in the square in front of the Parliament building. They were led away after ten minutes by their leaders – shortly afterwards the riot police attacked the remaining crowd

30,000 Workers Gather Outside Greek Parliament

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SOME thirty thousand Greek workers, youth and students held a rally on Thursday evening outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens. Inside, the Greek...

Israel steps up its Gaza genocide campaign!

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SCORES of Palestinian civilians were murdered and many others injured on Friday as the Israeli genocide campaign in Gaza continued for the 42nd day...
BMA banner on the march to keep Lewisham Hospital open – BMA is emphasising that council cuts do have a negative affect on heath

Cutting council funding will harm public health!

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FURTHER funding cuts to local councils will impact on long-term health outcomes, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. The government last week announced a...

Big Picket At Gate Gourmet!

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THERE was one of the biggest turnouts on the picket line at the Gate Gourmet dispute yesterday, with more than 200 locked out workers...
Jason, James, Kofi, and Mitchell, all students at Bedfordshire University,  Luton.

DEFEND GM JOBS! – JUNE 1st is bankruptcy day

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Car parts maker Magna International was yesterday reported to have reached an agreement in principle with General Motors to take GM Europe off its...

‘Brexit deal fails Labour’s six tests’ says Corbyn

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TORY PM May announced yesterday that a political declaration has been ‘agreed in principle’ between the UK and the EU outlining how trade, security...
5,000 residents and NHS workers marched through Nottingham last Saturday demanding that the trade unions take action to defend the NHS

Come Out This Sunday To Stop NHS Logistics Privatisation

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‘If the government doesn’t halt the transfer of NHS Logistics to DHL immediately, then action must be taken by the whole trade union movement...

New European banking crash fears

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A FRESH European-wide banking crash has reared its head as the euro tumbled to a six-month low yesterday in reaction to the Italian crisis....

GMB denounces May’s NHS plan

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‘How does the government expect to deliver everything promised in the plan without the staff to deliver the services,’ asked GMB union yesterday in...

Ukraine Ceasefire Agreed

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KIEV officials and representatives of the People’s Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk in southeastern Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire, as the contact group...
Youth in support of Palestine marching in London last May

Lifeline Convoy Sets Out For Gaza

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British Member of Parliament George Galloway left the UK on Sunday, December 6th with a convoy of humanitarian aid and will arrive in the...

‘Test Grenfell community for toxic contamination!’

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A TOXIC cocktail of benzene, hydrogen cyanide (HCN), as well as many known cancer-causing chemicals and fibres have been found in soil taken from...

KEEP NHS A&Es OPEN!

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The College of Emergency Medicine (CEM) yesterday warned that is it misguided to downgrade or close hospital Accident and Emergency departments. The college stressed that...

‘We’re NHS workers – bring us back in-house’! – demand striking St George’s staff

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STRIKING cleaners, domestic workers and hostesses employed by the public services privateer Mitie, got great support from local people as they held a powerful...
Over 4,000 marched through central London last week against the coalition’s privatising Health and Social Care Bill

MILLIONS WASTED ON PRIVATEERS –it will be worse if Health Bill is enacted warns...

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‘This is the danger of using the private sector to deliver our health services,’ a Unison spokeswoman told News Line. ‘We’ve always warned that the...
Junior doctors are putting the case that Hunt is assuming dictatorial powers to which he has no right and which are illegal

Hunt ‘assumed powers’ he never had

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TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to forcibly impose the new contract on the junior doctors was wrong because he does not have the...
The CT Plus picket line in Hackney on their fourth Friday of strike action

‘Our resolve is as strong as ever’

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‘OUR resolve is as strong as ever,’ said TGWU union rep Derrick Campbell, as five new days of strike action by Hackney CT Plus...

BA Talks Breakdown!

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British Airways has asked ACAS to mediate after failing to get the unions to agree to plans to cut thousands of jobs and freeze...

Hunt announces EU coalition to patrol Gulf

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‘COBRA emergency meetings were held this morning and throughout the weekend. We must now take appropriate action to support the safe passage of vessels...