4.8m WORKERS EARN LESS THAN LIVING WAGE

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THERE are 4.8 million workers earning below the so-called living wage, according to new research from the Resolution Foundation. The figure, equivalent to 20% of...
Police escort resident to his door in Lansdown Road, Forest Gate, yesterday midday, with number 46 hidden by plastic sheeting

Raid Police Broke Into Neighbour’s Home

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) issued an update yesterday on its investigation into the Forest Gate police shooting of 23-year-old Abdul Kahar. The IPCC...
Striking lecturers marching on Thursday in London as part of their national strike action in defence of pensions and in opposition to wage cuts

Bring Down The Coalition!

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Today’s massive London march against the coalition government will be the biggest since the two million-strong march against the Iraq war under the Blair...

‘FAIR PAY NOW! BRING US BACK IN HOUSE AT ONCE!’ – demand hundreds of...

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‘FAIR pay now! Bring us back in-house!’ demanded hundreds of Heathrow Airport workers as they marched to the Compass Centre headquarters of Heathrow Airport Limited...

Budget Signals Countdown To The General Election

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CHANCELLOR Alastair Darling yesterday delivered his Budget speech in the middle of the civil servants’ strike action, starting it by claiming that the UK...

ASLEF & TSSA strike action ballot

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RAIL unions ASLEF and TSSA have announced that they will ballot their members for strike action on the railways. If the ASLEF ballot is successful...

Publish austerity death rates!

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A PETITION launched by campaign group Change.org has called on the Courts and Tribunal Service to force the release of data on the number...
25,000 people marched in Lewisham on January 26 to save their hospital – they will be very angry at Hunt’s remarks that savage cuts will save 100 lives

Lewisham cuts will not save 100 lives – Hunt claim denounced

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LEWISHAM Hospital consultant John O’Donohue has denounced Health Secretary Hunt’s claim last week that the closure plan for the Lewisham A&E and Maternity departments...

Gatwick Airport Faces Default!

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GATWICK Airport is in talks with bank lenders to try to avoid defaulting on multi-million pound loans, as Covid restrictions contribute to huge losses. The...
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...
BMA delegates voting to defend the NHS at yesterday’s consultants conference in London

WE’LL STOP NHS PRIVATISATION – say BMA consultants

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‘WE will not let this government privatise the NHS,’ declared British Medical Association Consultants Committee Chairman Jonathan Fielden yesterday. In his keynote address to the...

Palestinian aid worker killed in Israeli air strike

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INTERNATIONAL alarm over Israel’s genocide in Gaza heightened this week after the killing of a widely known Palestinian aid worker in an Israeli air...

NO FIRE ESCAPE! Tory fire safety guidance fails

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NEW GOVERNMENT fire safety guidance fails to include escape plans, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) warned yesterday. RIBA insist that the government’s guidance...
TSSA and RMT strikers on the picket line at Kings Cross Station yesterday morning – determined to defend jobs on the Tube

TOTAL SHUTDOWN! – Tube strike solid

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‘LONDON is on an almost total shutdown,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said yesterday during the 24-hour tube strike. Pickets were out in force at...

Tuc Condemns Attack On Single Parents

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The TUC and single parent charity Gingerbread yesterday condemned the Work and Pensions Secretary Purnell’s decision to press ahead with ‘welfare to work’ plans...

BA ‘Rambo’ Walsh Returns To Talks

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MASSIVE, worldwide support for the British Airways cabin crew yesterday forced BA boss Walsh back to the negotiating table with the Unite union. Aviation unions...
Campaigners took to the streets in London last November on the day Osborne announced permanent austerity in his Autumn Statement

Tory Cuts & Closures –A ‘Lethal Cocktail’

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‘I HAVE a very clear warning: last year was the worst for global growth since the crash and this year opens with a dangerous...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday

MASS PICKET – a huge success say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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AROUND 150 locked-out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters – including members of the PCS, CWU, UNISON and Amicus trade unions – staged a...

Westbourne Park busworkers set to strike again!

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OVER 2,000 bus workers are gearing up to strike against attempts by London’s transport privateers to impose pay cuts and unacceptable new work schedules...
An enthusiastic crowd gathers at the start of yesterday’s Al Quds march outside the Saudi Embassy in central London

Thousands March For Palestine

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‘PALESTINE in its entirety must be handed back to the Palestinians, from the River to the Sea,’ Rasa Maxim spokesperson for IHRC said yesterday...

Decanted families warehoused in office blocks

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FAMILIES are being ‘warehoused’ inside an office block in Harlow, Essex after being decanted from their local boroughs, with tenants forced to eat, drink...

‘WOODLEY SHOULD RESIGN OVER GATE GOURMET’ says RMT member

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A team of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers campaigned on Southall High Street yesterday. They spoke to Warish Singh an RMT member from Earls Court tube...
Dale Farm residents defying bailiff and police moves to evict them yesterday

Eviction Reprieve – At Dale Farm

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DALE Farm residents won an injunction late yesterday, restraining police and bailiffs from dismantling structures on the site until a hearing at the High...

Halt Zionist settlers’ heinous crimes in Palestine says PM Shtayyeh

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Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday denounced the ‘heinous crimes’ committed on Sunday by Zionist settlers in the northern West Bank town of Huwara...
RCM midwives came out on strike in Belfast in April 2015 for the first time in their history – they will shortly be out again, fighting for a living wage increase

NHS unions demand pay rise!

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THE RCN and other unions representing health service employees in the UK yesterday called on the NHS pay review body to recommend an above-inflation...
Local government workers lobbying over their pay last month – facing Labour imposed wage cuts and inflation – while Labour MPs live off the fat of the land

MPs GRAVY TRAIN EXPOSED

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Former Deputy Prime Minister Prescott claimed £4,000 in a year expenses to purchase food, while his former boss Blair even...
Teachers on strike at Alec Reed Academy where standards have fallen since it became an academy

‘Standing up’ to a bullying employer

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TEACHERS were on strike at Alec Reed Academy in Northolt, west London for the third day yesterday, with three more days of strike action...

Grangemouth Pensions Fight Is On!

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Sunday’s two-day strike by 1,200 workers at Grangemouth oil refinery will go ahead, said Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley yesterday. Speaking before addressing a...

AFGHAN MASSACRE – 80 civilians killed in US/UK air strikes

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EIGHTY Afghan civilians were murdered in US and British air strikes last Friday in the Gereshk district of Helmand province in Afghanistan. Three...

Israeli trade unions call a general strike!

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THE head of Israel’s Histadrut labour union has called a general strike today to pressure the government into reaching a deal to return Israeli...
The anti-union laws that Tory Premier Heath introduced were smashed when the mass movement for a general strike forced the release of five imprisoned dockers – picture shows BERNIE STEER and VIC TURNER being liberated from Pentonville Prison

POA CONDEMNS INJUNCTION! – as Trade Union Act becomes law

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The POA (Prison Officers Association) has condemned an injunction secured by the Tory government from judges banning its industrial action planned for yesterday. ‘The POA...
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...
GMB Acting General Secretary PAUL KENNY speaking to a delegation of Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC on November  2nd

Unison Condemns NHS ‘Health Rationing’

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Britain’s biggest public sector union, UNISON yesterday condemned the decision of three Suffolk Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to deny operations to overweight patients. ‘It’s against...

‘Army Engaged In Heroic Battle’ – Assad

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‘THE ARMY is engaged in a crucial and heroic battle . . . on which the destiny of the nation and its people rests,’...

Syriza Surrenders To Troika!

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THE GREEK government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in a treacherous U-turn has turned the landslide ‘NO’ to austerity vote in last Sunday’s referendum,...

Five US Marines Killed

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Five US Marines were killed by a roadside bomb in Ramadi, western Iraq, on Saturday, the US military said in a statement yesterday.   Their armoured...

Arab states condemn Netanyahu’s ‘Greater Israel’ plan

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THERE has been widespread condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments to an Israeli news channel on Tuesday night that he feels ‘very...
Delegates applauding the demonstration by Vestas sacked workers who were demanding that the plant be nationalised

‘FIGHT FOR JOBS!’ – London Met delegate tells Congress

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THE TUC Congress in Liverpool was brought alive yesterday by a passionate call to fight for jobs with occupations by Mark Campbell of the...

British Gas – 500% Profits Rise

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‘This greed has got to be stopped and the government should step in now and levy a windfall tax on the company,’ said UNISON...
Witham Emergency 999 control operators are on eight days of strike action against draconian imposed changes to their working practices

Essex 999 Operators Strike!

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ESSEX emergency 999 control operators began eight days of strike action yesterday morning against imposed changes to their shifts which makes family...

200 at South Kensington ICR rally

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AROUND 200 workers rallied at the the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) near South Kensington Tube station yesterday, on their final day of strike...
Marchers on their way to the TUC Congress demanding ‘set the date for the General Strike!’

‘Name the date for the general strike!’

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THE Young Socialists completed the final leg of their 248-mile March For Jobs from London to the TUC Congress in Liverpool yesterday mid-day. Birmingham and...
A determined picket outside Chase Farm hospital yesterday as anger mounts at the proposed closure of the A&E and maternity departments

CUTS COSTS LIVES! says Chase Farm mass picket

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Scores of health workers, youth, patients, pensioners and local residents took part in yesterday’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital, organised by North East London...
Protest demanding safe insulation and cladding – Grenfell families forced onto UC now face the prospect of not being able to heat their homes

Grenfell survivors forced onto UC by Xmas!

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SURVIVORS of the horrific Grenfell fire are to be forced onto Universal Credit just days before Christmas. Documents released ‘quietly on Budget Day’ show...