HALT FAILING NHS POLICIES – doctors’ leader urges Blair

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The leader of the UK’s hospital consultants will today call for a halt to the government’s health privatisation policies that have ‘failed to improve...
The mass meeting of postal workers at Mount Pleasant heard CWU leader Ward condemn the Labour Party for its treachery

Strike ballot vote will be a ‘game changer’

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COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) deputy general secretary Dave Ward yesterday pledged that the union will defend the terms and conditions of postal workers following...

‘More doctors needed, not less’

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THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the Labour government’s draft NHS England workforce plan, which embraces low staffing levels, and replaces doctors with...
Marchers got a great reception in Coventry city centre from some very generous supporters

Youth Being Treated Like Slaves

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POURING rain made the Young Socialist marchers even more determined and their chants of ‘Youth demand a future, Youth demand jobs’ even louder on...
Jaguar car workers demanding the Browns Lane Coventry factory stays open – another 5,000 jobs are facing the axe

Jaguar to axe 5,000 jobs

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JAGUAR Land Rover (JLR) announced yesterday it is cutting up to an eighth of its 40,000 strong UK workforce with up to 5,000 car...
Visteon workers occupied the Enfield plant last month after being sacked at six minutes notice

Ldv: No Jobs Guarantee

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Hundreds of workers at the Birmingham-based LDV van plant were yesterday warned there is no guarantee they will have a job after a...
Basic rights were under attack on all fronts yesterday. Picture above shows demonstration in support of the jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange outside Westminster Magistrates Court where he was bailed but not immediately freed

‘Kettling Is Illegal!’

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Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) yesterday commenced a legal case against the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. They are challenging the unlawful imprisonment, through kettling of...
Children joined the 50-strong mass picket outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning calling for strike action and occupation to save the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward

Keep Ealing Children’s Ward Open!

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‘CHILDREN can get meningitis. If they have to take a child all the way to Northwick Park Hospital they could die on the way!’...

Huge victory for Filton 24!

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Six Palestine Action protesters were cleared of aggravated burglary over a break-in at a UK subsidiary of an Israeli defence firm yesterday. Charlotte Head, 29,...
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Palexpo – June 6th & June 7th, 2019

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Involuntary Temporary Working Soars

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INVOLUNTARY temporary working is soaring in Britain, a labour force survey revealed yesterday, with involuntary temporary workers now outnumbering voluntary temporary workers by two...
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,...
French youth in Paris taking part in the April 2006 general strike

France Paralysed!

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France was brought to a halt yesterday as over a million state employees went on strike, joining a week-long stoppage by transport workers. Teachers,...

Unite union claims partial BA U-turn – draft agreement to be put to ballot

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UNITE union said yesterday that it welcomes what it has called British Airway’s ‘partial U-turn on fire and rehire’ but warns issues are ‘not...
Palestinians outside the Israeli Embassy in London demanding the release of all political prisoners held in Israeli jails

End occupation – endorse Palestinian state

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‘THIS YEAR marks 100 years since the Balfour Declaration when a British Foreign Secretary promised the land of Palestine to the Jewish people, my...

200 Palestinian Prisoners Join Strike!

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MORE than 200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails joined on Sunday the over 1,800 hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, according to the...
Sacked BBC canteen workers demonstrating outside Bush House in Central London yesterday

Bbc World Service Workers Back Caterers

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‘THE BBC says it subscribes to “BBC values”, but it would appear BBC Values do not apply to contractors such as Aramark.’ BECTU General Secretary...

43% of doctors have absolutely no eye protection! – Nurses have no face masks!

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NURSES are forced to ‘hold their breath’ because of inadequate face masks during dangerous operations, while doctors have absolutely no eye protection, it was...
Cleaners outside the blockaded Finance Ministry building in central Athens

Athens Cleaners Defiant!

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SOME 1,500 workers marched through the Athens city centre on Thursday evening, in a militant demonstration of solidarity with the nine-month-old fight of the...
Hamas members campaigning in the election which established a National Unity government

TALK TO HAMAS urges House of Commons Committee

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The UK House of Commons International Development Committee has called for dialogue with Hamas. The US, UK and EU refuse to speak to...

ICC MUST HOLD THE ISRAELI LEADERS AND SOLDIERS ACCOUNTABLE! says Human Rights Monitor

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A NEW report documenting several violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israel during its recent military attack on the Gaza Strip from 10-21...

Blair Loses Torture Appeal

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‘The Court of Appeal yesterday handed down a landmark judgment about the torture and abuse of Iraqi civilians in detention with UK Armed Forces...
Camden GPs marching against NHS privatisation. Meanwhile the Tory-led coalition says that under-5s don’t need anti-flu jabs

FEARS OVER CHILD FLU EPIDEMIC – as children return to school

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worried parents are fearful that a flu epidemic is set to explode from today, when ten million children return to school after the Christmas...
ATEF (left) and MANSOOR (right) both said that they would come on the march from Ealing Hospital on May 2nd

Vote Wrp – Says Scott Dore Campaign

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NEW young members joined the Vote Scott Dore WRP campaign team in West Ealing on Saturday afternoon. Atef Azeb, aged 17, said: ‘I don’t like...

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...
Supporters of the Sussex occupation lobby the Royal Court of Justice

Students fight injunction against Sussex occupation

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OCCUPIERS at the University of Sussex are fighting a court injunction to forcibly remove them from the campus. Students at the university have been occupying...
Remploy workers lobby last year’s TUC Congress demanding their support to stop factory closures

KEEP REMPLOY OPEN! – unions slam charities

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Trade unions are furious that six leading charities have backed plans to close dozens of factories which provide jobs for disabled people, on the...

Venezuela will defeat the USA

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ROCIO Maneiro, Venezuela’s Ambassador to Britain, yesterday launched a new booklet ‘Trump unblock Venezuela’, which details the economic blockade by the US against Venezuela...
Teachers, parents and school pupils demonstrate in Bellingham in south east London against vicious education cuts

School funding cuts devastate a generation of children

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AS PUPILS return to school after the Christmas break, teachers’ unions warned yesterday that funding cuts are much worse than predicted, hitting working class...

‘Putting out forest fires with water pistols’

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‘LIKE putting out forest fires with a water pistol,’ is the way the GMB union branded the Taylor Review released yesterday which looked into...

‘DOWN WITH TRAITORS’ – Declares defiant Saddam Hussein

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‘Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Death to the occupiers! Death to Israel! Death to the traitors!’ shouted a defiant Iraqi President...
ESOL lecturers and students presented a 15,000-signature petition to Downing Street yesterday

DEFEND ENGLISH CLASSES! – says UCU and students

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TEACHERS and students from across London went to Downing Street yesterday, to present a mass petition against the attack on the right to learn...
The front of the North-East London Council of Action demonstration by over 1,000 people to save Chase Farm in July

‘PEOPLE WILL OCCUPY’ – to stop Chase Farm closure

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‘People will not accept the loss of Chase Farm Hospital and will continue to fight to keep it open through occupation if necessary,’ north...

Gp Services Buckling Under Tory Attack

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PATIENT care is ‘deteriorating’ in half of GP practices as GP services buckle under rising workload, a new BMA survey warned yesterday. More than half...

Sweeping police powers extended for 6 months! – Labour votes with Tories to renew...

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THE CORONAVIRUS Act was put to Parliament for renewal yesterday, extending the sweeping police powers contained in it for a further six months until...

14 Marines Killed In Al-Anbar

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Fourteen US Marines and their civilian translator were killed by a roadside bomb blast in north-western Iraq early yesterday. The Marines were killed...
A section of the 2,000 strong rally on Saturday in Trafalgar Square

GETTING RID OF MUBARAK IS ONLY THE BEGINNING – Wasseem Wagdi tells rally

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Over 2,000 celebrated the ousting of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at a rally in Trafalgar Square, central London, on Saturday organised by Amnesty International...

‘Tories Out’ march this Sat ‘All members must turn out’ urge trade unions

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‘WE ARE asking members to support the major anti-cuts demonstration in central London on 1st July,’ civil servants union PCS said yesterday, referring to...
Ambulance workers on the picket line outside Deptford Ambulance Station striking over pay – there is a massive lack of ambulance staff, creating an enormous crisis

AMBULANCE CRISIS: Patients are dying!

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AN AMBULANCE staff shortage has reached such a critical point, GPs warn, that very young and elderly patients are dying before getting to hospital. This...

NORTHERN ROCK JOBS SHOCK! – Unite pleges to fight compulsory redundancies

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The Unite trade union yesterday told Northern Rock that they will oppose any plans for compulsory redundancies at the publicly owned bank. Following the announcement...

300,000 march on Downing St calling for Victory to Palestine!

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THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...

‘Mobilise to defeat this imperialist aggression’

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‘THE entire country must mobilise to defeat this imperialist aggression,’ the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela declared in a defiant statement yesterday. It said: ‘The Bolivarian...

Brutal Racism In Paris

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WORKERS groups in France are considering legal action, after a shocking video emerged of black women and children being brutally dispersed by police in...

£3bn of savage education cuts

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CHILDREN will pay a terrible price for £3 billion of savage Tory school budget cuts, education unions warned yesterday. State schools in England will have...