CWU members and their families in Corby fighting the Labour government’s attempt to privatise Royal Mail – they are now poised to take on the Tory-led coalition

DEFEND ROYAL MAIL! – against Tory-Lib Dem rush to privatisation

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‘THIS IS a match-fix for privatisation,’ the leader of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday, after the Tory-Lib Dem coalition announced it was...

US-Israeli Gaza ‘aid’ chief quits

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THE ‘GAZA Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF), created by the United States and Israel to manage the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, said it will start...
A mass lobby of parliament by nurses protesting against job cuts

NHS Staffing Concerns!

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NHS watchdog, the Healthcare Commission’s third annual survey of patients who stayed overnight in hospitals, reported that, overall, 92 per cent of patients said...
A section of the conference listening to the opening speech from BILL ROGERS Secretary of the North East London Council of Action

‘BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION’ – organise general strike to defend the NHS

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BILL Rogers the secretary of the North East London Council of Action welcomed 100 workers and youth to yesterday’s conference in Enfield...
Demonstration outside parliament yesterday celebrating the twenty fifth birthday of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) which was set up to support disabled people with the highest levels of support need to live in the community instead of being confined to

Coalition Cuts Target Disabled

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‘DISABLED people are getting into debt to pay for essentials. What’s the government’s response? It is cutting the very financial lifeline designed to help...

‘I can’t breathe!’ – Kevin Clarke’s death in police custody case to be reopened

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THE MOTHER of a mentally ill black man who died after being restrained by up to nine Metropolitan Police Service officers has said she...

Lloyd’s braced for euro collapse!

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LLOYD’S of London has made preparations for the collapse of the euro. Richard Ward, its chief executive, has publicly admitted that the world’s...

Petrol Prices Rocketing!

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SOARING fuel and domestic energy prices led to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate rising from 2.7% to 2.8% in February, the Office...
Demonstrators outside parliament commemorate the 60th anniversary of the ‘Nakba’ (catastrophe) and demand freedom for Palestine and the lifting of the siege of Gaza

‘We will return!’

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‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 800 protesters at a Nakba (Catastrophe) Day demonstration opposite Downing Street on Saturday. The protestors insisted that Palestinian refugees must have...

Palestine ‘Day Of Rage’

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FIERCE clashes erupted across the West Bank in Palestine during Friday’s ‘Day of Rage’ protests which were attacked by Israeli forces. Protesters marched in solidarity...
Striking Serco workers outside The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday on the second day of their 48-hour strike

Serco Workers Are Determined To Win!

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‘WE WANT a 3% pay rise. SERCO are making us work more for no extra money,’ Unite hospital worker Florence Kwao said yesterday on...
Students from Patras University at the Athens march last Thursday

Greek Students March Against Education Cuts

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Greek university students staged a militant march last Thursday in Athens against a government Bill that will impose huge spending cuts in education. Over 4,000...

CIA Drone Terrorism Targets Rescuers

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A REPORT published yesterday by Stanford University and New York University warns that the CIA’s drone campaign ‘terrorises men, women and children’ in North-West...

Fourteen Palestinian factions sign national unity agreement

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FOURTEEN Palestinian factions have signed a ‘national unity’ agreement aimed at maintaining Palestinian control over Gaza once Israel’s war on the enclave is ended. The...

‘Rogue bus service’ commits ‘illegal safety breaches’ – Unite

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THE ‘ROGUE bus service’ being operated by Go North West in the Greater Manchester area is under investigation for serial Covid-19 safety failures and...

Russia Rejects Brown Attack

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In comments published yesterday, prime minister Brown called for a ‘root and branch’ review of the EU and NATO’s relations with Moscow to prevent...

‘CRADLE OF DISEASE’ – 4,000 packed into ASOS warehouse

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JAM-PACKED ASOS clothing warehouse is a ‘cradle of disease’, terrified workers in the GMB union warned yesterday, calling for their entire operation to be...

Gadaffi Will Never Quit Libya

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LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi issued a defiant audio message which was aired by the Syrian Arrai television channel yesterday. Colonel Gadaffi said: ‘Youth are ready...

Eurozone Plummets

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INDUSTRIAL production in the eurozone plummeted dramatically in December with factory output falling by 4.1 per cent in the final month of the year...
Steel workers lobby parliament – they will take action to defend their jobs and the industry

TATA SACKING THOUSANDS – McCluskey praises Cameron and temporary nationalisation

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TATA Steel announced yesterday that it is getting out of Britain at once, threatening the jobs of 19,000 steelworkers in Port Talbot, Rotherham, Corby,...

Scrap Capability Assessments! – the cause of ‘needless misery’

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Damian Green is today set to announce a consultation on reforming the hated Work Capability Assessment Tests of claimants of...

£600m public sector Amazon contract! – ‘a sick joke’ says GMB

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INTERNET retail giant Amazon being awarded a £600 million contract to provide for our public services is a ‘sick joke’ given the company’s ‘record...

Truss Backing Call For UK Citizens To Fight In Ukraine

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TORY Foreign Secretary Truss and Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy were united in calling for an escalation of military and economic war against...

BENEFIT CUTS AND ‘WARTIME POWERS’ – in Queen’s Speech

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday warned that the ‘welfare reform’ plans announced in the Queen’s Speech ‘are the wrong proposals at...

Putting safety at risk! – Aslef & RMT accuse London Underground

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RAIL unions ASLEF and RMT yesterday accused London Underground of putting safety at risk in its determination to push through changes in working practices,...
Hackney Community College lecturers and students at the demonstration to defend ESOL courses on April 28th

DEFEND LECTURERS JOBS – mass picket of Hackney Community College

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students are being invited to join striking workers in a mass picket at Hackney Community College in east London today, to stop 25 lecturers...

Labour-Tory Pro-Eu Front Forming!

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LABOUR is ready to vote with Tory rebels to force PM Theresa May to agree a customs union with the EU, shadow Brexit Keir...

Corus 10% Wage Cut Plan

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One hundred Community, GMB and Unite trade union representatives from Anglo-Dutch steelmaker, Corus, were meeting in London yesterday to discuss company demands for a...

Mass Pickets Of Striking Junior Doctors Today!

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MASS PICKETS of striking junior doctors take place today from 8am-11am outside St Thomas’ Hospital opposite Parliament in central London, Queen Elizabeth Hospital in...

St Mungo’s 10 weeks on strike – as rough sleeping soars

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TEN weeks into their indefinite strike for a 10% pay increase, over 200 St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers and their supporters held a festival...
Libyan students and workers picketing Downing Street demanding the coalition stop the bombing of the Libyan people

HAGUE EXPELS THE LIBYAN DIPLOMATS –recognises Benghazi gang as government

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FOREIGN Secretary Hague announced the expulsion of all Libyan diplomats from the UK yesterday. He also announced that the counter-revolutionary NTC (National Transitional Council)...
Greek worker stands his ground against an attack by riot police

‘LAST CHANCE FOR GREECE!’ – Eurogroup President Juncker threatens Greeks

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‘IT’S the last chance – the Greek people need to know this.’ That was the threat of Eurogroup bully-boy President Jean Claude Juncker to the...
Junior doctors, members of the BMA, demonstrate against the government imposed Medical Training Application Service leaving thousands without posts. The latest government move threatens GPs

BROWN PRIVATISING GPs! – BMA leaders condemn policy

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday repeated its concerns that the government is out to privatise GP surgeries. A spokeswoman told News Line: ‘The BMA...

Rapidly rising support for ‘no deal!’

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WITH a ComRes poll revealing yesterday that public support for a no-deal Brexit is rapidly rising, up 6% since January and now standing at...

‘UNLIMITED NHS PRIVATISATION’ – health unions must act, says consultant

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Unison head of health, Karen Jennings yesterday slammed Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt’s claim that the district general hospital is out of date and no...
Postal workers supported by Young Socialists demonstrate outside the Royal Mail headquarters in Old Street yesterday at midday

STEP UP THE ACTION! – postal workers demand

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OVER 1,000 striking postal workers converged on the headquarters of Royal Mail yesterday to demand management enter ‘meaningful talks with the CWU (Communication Workers...

Mubarak ‘steps down!’ – swept aside by the revolution

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President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and fled from the capital, Cairo. Vice-President Omar Suleiman announced on Egyptian state television yesterday afternoon: ‘In these grave...

Royal Mail bosses threaten bankruptcy!

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ROYAL MAIL bosses are threatening to declare the company bankrupt and place it into ‘a special form of administration,’ leading to the sack for...

BMA & RCN condemn Starmer’s NHS ‘Plan for Change’

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PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service,...
Demonstration in January last year in Haringey against the imposition of Academy schools

‘We are a hideously unequal society’ says NUT leader Christine Blower

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‘IN a country like ours, how can it be that one in five children lives in poverty? How can it be that one in three...

STRIKE! – Don’t allow Royal Mail privatisation!

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POSTAL workers began balloting for strike action yesterday while the government, in a provocative move, chose the same day to announce they would float...

Record petrol price rises!

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Petrol prices yesterday hit a record average level of 121.76p for a litre of unleaded petrol. It is expected that fuel prices will rise daily...

CHILDREN GOING TO SCHOOL HUNGRY

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‘THIS report rightly blames the government’s austerity agenda, including cuts to support services and children’s centres, for limiting the educational potential of disadvantaged young...
Firefighters gather outside the Central Hall, Westminster after their rally to begin lobbying their MPs

FBU Will Fight Cuts & Sackings

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SEVERAL thousand firefighters from all over Britain, lobbied Parliament yesterday, to give notice that they and their union would not accept a 25 per...

Israeli army commits nine massacres in 24 hours!

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THE Israeli occupation army committed nine massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 92 civilians...