NUJ members picketing Bush House in May last year against cuts in the service

BBC STRIKE BALLOT – over job cuts, pensions and pay

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THE BBC is set to face strike action over job cuts, pensions and pay as unions declared a series of actions in the wake...
Heathrow Airport police on March 7 refused to allow the locked-out Gate Gourmet workers to continue their picket near the Beacon roundabout and dismantle their tent

‘Great support for march’

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are getting great support for their march through Hounslow on Saturday. Saturday’s march assembles at 1.00pm (see advert on this...
DES WARREN (front second from right) with RICKY TOMLINSON  (next to him holding poster) – both men were jailed as a result of the frame-up trial

Secret Shrewsbury papers to be revealed this week

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DOCUMENTS kept secret by the Cabinet Office that implicate former prime minister Edward Heath in a concerted attempt to influence the jury in the...
GPs demonstrating in Rugby against the privatisation of surgeries

BMA collaborating with Tory White Paper!

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Leaders of the British Medical Association (BMA) are pressing ahead with assisting GP commissioning, as outlined in the government’s White Paper to privatise the...

Mass Whipp’s Cross Strike Rally

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A MASS Rally of over 150 Serco strikers and supporters took place at Walthamstow’s Whipp’s Cross Hospital yesterday morning, as part of their two-week...

US TASK FORCE HEADS FOR HAITI says Admiral Mullen

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Aircraft carrier USS Vincent arrived off the coast of earthquake-hit Haiti yesterday as Admiral Mike Mullen announced a huge US task force. Speaking at a...

Iran’s retaliatory operation dispells Israeli invincibility myth

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COMMANDER of the Iranian Army’s Ground Force, Brigadier General Kioumars Haydari, says Iran’s retaliatory operation against Israel has further dispelled the ‘threadbare myth that the...
North East Lodon Council of Action pickets of Chase Farm Hospital said everyone was opposed to the closure

Chase Farm Picket Wins Big Support

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‘WE ARE having a successful picket again today,’ North-East London Council of Action secretary, Bill Rogers, told News Line outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. ‘Everyone...

LOCAL PAY! – Demanded by 31 NHS Trusts

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LABOUR is presenting new evidence to parliament today showing moves to break away from national pay in the NHS are spreading across England. A...
Postal workers lobbying the Labour Party Conference last month

76% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION – CWU must give 7 days notice of strike...

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‘If we don’t take a stand now, you will see the postal service in the UK destroyed for ever,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...

100 Tories rebel over ‘Plan B’

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JOHNSON’S ‘Plan B’ measures to attempt to slow the advance of the new Omicron strain of coronavirus only passed in Parliament yesterday with the...
Nora Egan being stretchered away and taken to Basildon General Hospital after being injured in the police-led raid on her home early yesterday morning

Police-led ‘ethnic cleansing’ at Dale Farm!

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HUNDREDS of riot police stormed through the rear perimeter fence into the Dale Farm compound at 7am yesterday morning, injuring female residents that they...
Youth and trade unionists stand together against pension cuts during last November’s National Pension Strike

Teachers & lecturers take action over Pensions!

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THOUSANDS of lecturers and teachers are striking against the government’s vicious onslaught on their pensions at universities, colleges and schools across London today. They...

Harland & Wolff in administration

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WORKERS vowed to continue their occupation and stop the closure of Harland and Wolff shipbuilding industry in Belfast, after the yard went into administration...

WE’LL STRIKE ON PENSIONS! say the rail trade unions

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TENS of thousands of rail workers in dozens of infrastructure and operating companies are to be balloted for strike action. This is after employers...

BofE & speculators drive £ down

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STERLING dropped sharply against the dollar and the euro yesterday, leading currency speculators to describe the UK economy as ‘stagnant’ and accuse the Bank...
Doctors on the NHS 70th Anniversary march rightly insist they will refuse to check the immigration status of their patients

Stop charging non-UK citizens for NHS – demands new report from Maternity Action

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‘THE GOVERNMENT should immediately suspend charging for NHS maternity care,’ for non-UK residents, concludes a new report released yesterday from Maternity Action. The report, called...

Labour Leads Anti-Brexit Coalition!

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TORY PM Theresa May attended a summit in Brussels yesterday, hours after 11 Tory rebels and almost the entire Labour Party and all the...

READY FOR GENERAL ELECTION says Labour leader Corbyn

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JEREMY Corbyn has put Labour activists on ‘permanent notice’ amid rumours in Westminster of another general election. He said he would ‘absolutely welcome’ a...
Students at Exeter University, one of a number of universities occupied to support striking lecturers

UCU Welcomes Oxford’s Pensions U-Turn

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THE VICE Chancellor of Oxford University withdrew her support for Universities UK’s attack on lecturers’ pensions yesterday, joining dozens of others, including Cambridge, to...

Oecd Issues Slump Warning

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US economic growth will slow sharply in the second half of the year and the risk of it going into a full-scale slump cannot...
Brighton Council workers on the picket line against £4,000-a-year wage cuts!

£14.4bn BLACK HOLE THREAT TO 70,000 MORE JOBS!

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A £14.4 billion funding black hole threatens to swallow public services, say the council leaders of the Local Government Association. A LGA statement said: ‘The...

END ISRAELI OCCUPATION! – the only road to peace

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said yesterday that security, stability, and peace in the region can only be achieved through ending the Israeli occupation...

Syrian forces seek to begin their withdrawal

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FRESH clashes broke out in Syria yesterday as the Syrian army attempted to withdraw its heavy weaponry from around several cities, while the ‘opposition’...

Williamson & Jenrick Sacked

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GAVIN Williamson was the first to go in Tory PM Johnson’s reshuffle yesterday as he was sacked from his post as education secretary. Then...

118 sites face privatisation demolition or ‘regeneration’ 8,000 London council homes under threat

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ONE hundred and eighteen council housing sites in London are facing privatisation, demolition or ‘regeneration,’ which will mean, according to council responses to a...

‘I will continue asking nursing staff to take strike action!’ – RCN leader responds...

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing has responded to the announcement of the new Prime Minister, Truss. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said:...

ALL OUT STRIKE NEEDED ACROSS PUBLIC SECTOR! – to defend wages and jobs

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‘OUR members are eager to make their feelings felt and ready to strike Friday,’ a Communication Workers Union (CWU) spokeswoman told News Line yesterday...
Heavily armed Greek anti-terrorist units confronted residents in the small coastal town of Ierissos – cr. Left.gr

Anti-terror units attack town!

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SQUADS of the Greek anti-terrorist units and riot police armed with automatic weapons, early on Thursday morning occupied the small coastal town of Ierissos...

US Airstrikes Kill 9 Aleppo Civilians

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US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria killed nine civilians in the east of the town of Mare, approximately 25 kilometres north of Aleppo yesterday. Meanwhile, the...

Palestinians Drive Israeli Tanks Out Of Gaza

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Palestinian resistance fighters took on Israeli tanks invading eastern Gaza City early yesterday morning and forced their withdrawal after hours of fierce clashes. Palestinians said...

5,500 Schools Face Years Of Financial Misery!

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THE TORY government has admitted that 5,500 schools face years of financial misery and that they are on the ‘funding floor.’ The Education Select Committee...

UK Industrial Production & The Euro Both Falling!

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UK industrial output fell by 0.1% in January compared with a month earlier, official figures have shown. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) also reported...

400 Exxonmobil workers sacked and locked out!

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MORE than 400 workers were sacked and locked out of the Exxonmobil petrochemical site in Fife, Scotland yesterday, as the company announced a plan...
Members and supporters of the North East London Council of Action mobilised 3,000 people to march for the occupation of Chase Farm Hospital to keep it open

Brown Threatens Universal Entitlement To NHS Care

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PREMIER Brown’s plans for the NHS to refuse to treat patients whose lifestyles are judged to be responsible for their illnesses...

Farage Won’t Stand Against Tories

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THE Brexit Party, led by Nigel Farage, announced on Monday that it will not be standing candidates in the 317 seats won by the...

INFLATION IS LET RIP! – to slash the wages of UK workers

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FIGURES released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) yesterday reveal soaring inflation, with the government’s preferred CPI rate hitting 4 per cent in...

BMA ‘WHITE PAPER’ CRISIS! – ditches its unconditional support

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THE mounting anger of GPs and consultants over the Lansley NHS White Paper has forced the British Medical Association (BMA) Council to retreat from...

Arrogant Osborne refuses to apologise – McDonnell calls for him to go!

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‘LET me say to him (Tory chancellor Osborne) I certainly think for the sake of this country that it is time for him to...
Firefighters demanding no cuts to the service outside yesterday’s meeting of the Fire Authority

Johnson’s Fire Service Cuts Rejected!

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OVER three hundred firefighters lobbied the Fire Authority meeting in SE London yesterday, where the decision was being made to defy Tory Mayor Boris...

Privatised Elderly Care Stinks

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The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s report on home care yesterday revealed shocking examples of how basic care for the elderly in their own...

COVID-19s BRUTAL IMPACT ON NHS says BMA leader Chaand Nagpaul

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Thousands of cancer patients have not received the care they need and their conditions have worsened owing to the focus on Covid-19, the British...

Trump threat to invade Cuba!

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has threatened Cuba, warning on Sunday: ‘THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I...

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...