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Great Gold Rush Underway

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THE GREAT gold rush has begun! Gold surged 5% on Thursday to a five-year high as plummeting world markets have driven investors to search...

Labour Budget Hits Out At The Low Paid

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced National Insurance (NI) and income tax thresholds will be frozen for an extra three years beyond 2028 in her...
GMB members working for NCP demanding union recognition yesterday outside the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane

3i UNION BUSTERS – will be beaten says GMB

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‘DESPITE five days of strike action by 55 members of the GMB, NCP, owned by private equity group 3i, is refusing to recognise the...

Dismissal of consultant is unacceptable says BMA

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THE BMA says the dismissal of a consultant from Hampshire for whistleblowing is unacceptable and further highlights the need for cultural and legal reform...
Conference to defend the NHS

Conference to defend the NHS

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THIS Sunday, 23 September, NE London Council of Action have called a Conference to discuss national action to defend the NHS. It is being...

Benefit Cuts Revolt!

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A TORY disability campaigner has handed in his party membership and sabotaged a Tory Party website in protest over brutal disability benefit cuts. Graeme Ellis,...

McDonnell pledges £500bn investment – as deputy leader Watson quits

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‘WE STAND in the best tradition of British socialism,’ Shadow Chancellor Labour’s John McDonnell said to cheers, outlining yesterday Labour’s economic policy for the...

Court finds against Labour Party democracy

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THE Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Labour Party right wing and against Labour Party democracy yesterday afternoon, when it banned...

OIC condemns Israel for rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state!

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THE Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has strongly condemned the Israeli Knesset’s approval of a bill rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state, viewing...

Labour leader Corbyn for second referendum!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn insisted yesterday that whatever Parliament decides, Brexit should be put to a ‘popular vote’, and that Labour is still campaigning...

DETROIT GOES BUST – Democracy suspended! says US union leader Saunders

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US federal and local government workers union AFSCME President Lee Saunders has slammed Michigan Governor Snyder for ‘suspending democracy’ in Detroit and filing for...
Refugee family – trying to keep alive from cold in a flimsy shelter. Photo credit: Panos Papanikolaou

Greek workers battle cuts–while refugees freeze

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ALL this week, poor Greek farmers intensified their struggle against the government’s policies of high taxation and pension cuts by setting up dozens of...

Poor Families Driven Out Of London

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HOUSING benefit cuts being debated in parliament today and set to come into force next April will see local authorities ‘decanting’ poor families out...
Firefighters walk out at Euston fire station

Angry firefighters call for much bigger action!

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FIREFIGHTERS throughout England and Wales walked out of their fire stations at noon yesterday at the beginning of the Fire Brigades Union National Pensions...

RATES KEPT ON HOLD – as production plunges

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THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday held interest rates at a record low 0.5 per cent after ignoring calls to head...
Riot police brought into the centre of Paris to confront an uprising by youth against the CPE cheap labour law that had to be abandoned by the government

YOUTH FOR REVOLUTION! – in Paris and Athens

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FRENCH university and high school students were called on to make this Thursday, November 22, a day of strikes and demonstrations against the law...

Nurses Work For Free!

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‘Nurses should not work for free,’ insisted Dr Peter Carter, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing yesterday. He was commenting on newly qualified...

‘It’s Time For A General Strike!’

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HAMMERSMITH and City Line Tube RMT branch secretary Ian Flatman, told News Line: ‘The strike here is absolutely solid. It’s time for a general...

‘Covered In Blood Up To Their Elbows’

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PRESIDENT Putin’s press spokesman Dmitriy Peskov told journalists on Saturday that Moscow was getting thousands of calls from people in Ukraine’s southeast: ‘People...
Teachers and their supporters demanding ‘save our pensions’. More public sector workers are expected to join the struggle in the coming months

Pensions Strikes

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AHEAD of today’s TUC Congress, the leaders of two of the country’s biggest unions warned that their members’ anger over cuts in their jobs,...

Hamas leader is certain that the Israeli regime will be removed from all of...

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ISMAIL HANIYEH, head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ Political Bureau, has expressed certainty regarding the Israeli regime’s eventual removal from the entirety of...

Largest police corruption probe in 40 years

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THE MET Police’s Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS), the body which is meant to ‘root out misconduct’, is itself under investigation for ‘serious corruption...

Israeli forces storm Gaza school and kill fifteen Palestinians!

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AT LEAST 15 Palestinians were killed when Israeli forces stormed a Gaza school sheltering displaced families, amid a wave of attacks across the besieged...

Brown Beefs Up Secret State

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced to MPs that ‘the security service is to double in size to 4,000 personnel’. In a statement to the House...

Kurds raided by counter-terrorism police – ‘an unjust & heavy handed operation’

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THE Kurdish Community in London have written a statement ahead of a march in central London tomorrow against the arrest of Kurdish demonstrators in...

Russia & China Use Veto Over Syria

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RUSSIA and China yesterday vetoed a UK-US UN Security Council resolution threatening the Syrian government with sanctions and regime change. The vote came a...
World Against War demonstration in London in March this year, demanding immediate withdrawal of all British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan

Thousands of UK troops for Obama’s Afghan surge

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Defence Secretary Hutton has said that further increases in UK troop levels in Afghanistan cannot be ruled out. He said that Britain would consider...
ERT TV station workers who have won their jobs back are saying that they will throw out the whole austerity programme

‘Down With Left Austerity’

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TENS of thousands of workers, youth, students and professionals demonstrated on May Day in over 80 Greek cities and towns. In all marches, the...

Maternity cuts despite baby boom

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HALF of the English regions have cut their spending on maternity services despite the ongoing baby boom, according to new figures obtained by the...

JERUSALEM NOT NEGOTIABLE – says Haniya

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‘No negotiator who would give up Jerusalem has a national mandate,’ Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniya has warned. Addressing guests at an iftar, a fast-breaking...
Enthusiastic Unison strikers at London Metropolitan University, Holloway Road, yesterday lunchtime

London Met Job Cuts Battle

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UNISON members at London Metropolitan University took strike action yesterday in the latest round of their struggle against job cuts, as the...

‘Pay up now!’ striking London lecturers demand

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UCU UNION lecturers at the CONEL (College of North East London) and City and Islington College, Blackstock Road, started eight days of strike action...

Go to work tomorrow! says Johnson – but don’t use public transport

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‘WE SAID you should work from home if you can and if you can’t work from home not to work. We have now changed...
Junior doctors, NHS workers and supporters outside Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital on the second day of strike action

‘Strike until we win!’ – Junior Doctors strike solid

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THOUSANDS of junior doctors, NHS workers, trade unionists and supporters took to picket lines across the country yesterday, as the junior doctors took their...

Inflation Leap Slashes Wages & Pensions

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‘DAVID Cameron and George Osborne’s political cowardice means they are presiding over an economic catastrophe’ said Unite leader Len McCluskey yesterday, commenting on the...
Workers on the TUC march last October making it clear they want a general strike now!

TUC must call – GENERAL STRIKE NOW!

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TODAY’S meeting of the General Council of the TUC must go beyond considering the practicalities of a general strike and actually call one, Dave...

MPs VOTE TO BAN PRISON STRIKES

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The Prison Officers Association (POA) yesterday expressed anger and disappointment after MPs in the House of Commons voted by 481 to 46 to back...

Families face debt crisis!

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2.5 MILLION children are living in families struggling with ‘problem debt’, said a shocking new report released yesterday. The report, aptly entitled ‘The Dept Trap’,...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers from Heathrow and Gate Gourmet strikers from Dusseldorf picket theTexas Pacific office in central London on March 24th 2006

TEXAS PACIFIC SELLS GATE GOURMET – Private equity on the run

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PRIVATE equity raider, the Texas Pacific Group has sold airline catering company Gate Gourmet to bankers Merrill Lynch. Gate Gourmet, which is based in the...

NHS Being Cut To Aid Private Sector!

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed concern over the cancellation by an Oxford hospital of a routine heart procedure because of lack of...
Cabin crew at Heathrow in high spirits during their recent strike action

Strike Declared Illegal!

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The four five-day strikes by British Airways cabin crew were yesterday declared illegal by the High Court. The first set of strikes was due to...

Leicester faces localised lock-down!

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HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel yesterday warned that the city of Leicester may be facing a localised lockdown after a rise in coronavirus cases. She said...
Unite members marching against pay cuts during July’s national strike by local government workers

STRIKE ACTION AGAINST LOW PAY! – at Gatwick and Stansted airports

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strike action against low pay was announced by Unite and the GMB unions at Gatwick and Stansted Airports yesterday. Unite head of Civil...

‘CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE’ – Gadaffi urges in his will

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THREE days after his death, a website has published the last will written by murdered Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi. In his will, the Libyan leader...

Labour Budget Will Drive 250,000 Into Poverty!

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered a vicious £4.8bn cuts onslaught on the working class and poor in her Spring Statement yesterday. According to the government’s...