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Nissan Opens!

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NISSAN is piloting new safety measures which will see around 50 staff return to work at Britain’s biggest car plant today, with the support...
BMA members marching on the NHSTogether demonstration in London on November 3rd

BMA CONDEMNS SECOND CLASS PRIVATISED GPs!

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Government plans to introduce a new type of GP practice involving the commercial sector could leave patients in deprived areas with a second class...
Immigrant workers show up to give their support at the cleaners’ camp outside the Finance Ministry in Athens

Threat To Conscript Greek Power Workers

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POWER workers and technicians trades union GENOP have been threatened with ‘conscription’ by the Greek government. They began ‘rolling’ 48-hour strikes from midnight last night...

Hewitt Prepares To Close Bart’S

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LABOUR’S Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt said yesterday that London’s St Bartholomew’s Hospital could face closure. She was being interviewed about her decision to carry out...

Tuc Refusing To Smash Tories Anti-Union Law!

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TIM SHARP, the TUC senior policy officer for employment rights, has published an article entitled ‘Fighting the Anti-Strike Law’. He states: ‘The government is attempting...
BMA delegates to the 2009 Annual Representative Meeting launch their ‘Look After Our NHS’ campaign against privatisation

Doctors To Ballot For Pensions Action

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Doctors and medical students will be asked to vote on changes to their pensions at the conclusion of negotiations with the government, the British...
‘Defend Lewisham Bridge School’ campaigners joined by students from Goldsmiths College demonstrating against Brown yesterday

HANDS OFF OUR SCHOOLS! – parents lobby Brown

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ANGRY parents occupying the roof of Lewisham Bridge Primary School and students from Goldsmiths College demonstrated against Prime Minister Brown when he arrived...

Chase Farm – Council Seeks A Judicial Review

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Enfield Council leaders have decided to mount a legal challenge to Health Secretary Johnson’s decision to close Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E and consultant-led Maternity...
‘We all support Colonel Gadaffi’ demonstrating Libyan students insisted outside Downing Street yesterday

LIBYA DEFIANT! – After Gadaffi assassination attempt fails

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‘DOWN, DOWN Cameron, Down, Down Sarkozy, Down Down Obama,’ chanted hundreds of angry Libyan students outside 10 Downing Street yesterday afternoon, holding up pictures...

‘They are liars–they want to destroy everything!’ – Nasser Hospital doctor reports on raid

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‘DO you think they need any reason to attack this hospital? What kind of reason? They are liars! liars! They just want to destroy...

1,800 will spend Christmas in an immigration detention centre!

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UK GOVERNMENT figures show that over 1,800 people in Britain will spend the Christmas holiday incarcerated in immigration detention centres, prompting calls to end...

BA DEADLINE PASSES – but no strike call by Unite

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TALKS between Unite and British Airways passed the second deadline of 12 midday yesterday. This was after BA requested an extension when the first deadline...

One million infected by disease in Gaza!

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GAZA’S Health Ministry has detected about one million cases of infectious diseases, but doesn’t have the medical capabilities to treat them, as the situation...

STOP ARMING ISRAEL! RECOGNISE PALESTINIAN STATE NOW! – say 100,000 marchers

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OVER 100,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through central London on the 17th London National March for Palestine on Saturday. Speakers at the...

Tory NHS Funding Scandal

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THE TORY government’s claim that it is injecting an extra £10bn into the NHS in England over the next five years is simply ‘misleading,’...

STRIKE ON! ‘WALSH LOOKING FOR A WAR’ – says Unite leader Woodley

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British Airways cabin crew are taking three-days of strike action today, tomorrow and Monday and a further four-days strike action starting on March 27th. After...

Figures expose NHS winter crisis

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NEW FIGURES exposing the escalating winter crisis in the NHS were published yesterday morning by NHS England, forcing Tory PM May to apologise for...

Revolution In France

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IT is Tuesday, 3.00pm in Paris and people are still pouring into Place D’Italie for the start of the latest massive anti-government demonstration by...

Amnesty Condemns Bush

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Human rights organisation Amnesty International has hit back at US president George W Bush’s criticism of its annual report which said the USA was...

PRIVATISATION DRIVE – being stepped up by Brown

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‘It is appalling that this Labour government is now more obsessed with selling off our public services to put profits in the pockets of...

Palestinian mothers are witnessing children’s deaths

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IN THE Gaza Strip, under the shadow of a 175-day blockade and relentless hostilities, Palestinian mothers are engulfed in a state of fear and...

Britain must recognise state of Palestine!

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THE 25th National March for Palestine assembled outside Green Park in Piccadilly in central London on Saturday morning, with 50,000 demonstrators chanting: ‘From the...

Justice For Chris Kaba – Abolish Met Police!

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SATURDAY’S demonstration of over 3,000 workers and youth following last Monday’s police killing of young black rapper Chris Kaba assembled at 11.30am at Parliament...

‘British government must issue medical visas for injured children from the Gaza Strip!’

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A PARLIAMENTARY session in Westminster has called on the British government to urgently issue medical visas for injured children from Gaza, enabling them to...
Athens University students marching on the May Day demonstration

Greek Decree For Mass Sackings & Wage Cuts

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The Greek government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou has unveiled the contents of a Presidential Decree which would allow for mass sackings, at half...

INSURERS GRAB FOR WELFARE STATE – TUC ‘concerned’

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The Trade Union Congress yesterday expressed ‘serious concerns’ at proposals for private insurance companies to take over the payment of benefits such as unemployment...

Fallon Wants Lawless Army!

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UK DEFENCE Secretary Michael Fallon yesterday called for withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph he...
Demonstration against ARK taking over schools and turning them into academies

PLAYING FIELDS SELL-OFF! – an absolute disgrace say GMB

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WANDSWORTH Council’s plan to sell off four acres of playing fields at Elliot Secondary School in Putney is an absolute scandal, said the GMB...

Bosses Call For Zero Wage Rises!

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CONSUMER price inflation fell in January, much less than was expected by the so-called experts. The Consumer Prices Index reached an annual rate of...

Hunt announces EU coalition to patrol Gulf

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‘COBRA emergency meetings were held this morning and throughout the weekend. We must now take appropriate action to support the safe passage of vessels...

Israel Attacks Gaza Flotilla! – Italian Navy Intervenes!

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ISRAEL launched multiple intimidatory attacks on ten ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla overnight on Tuesday night-yesterday morning, while they were sailing 30 nautical...

Gaza – All Power Cut Off

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GAZA’S electricity cut out at 1pm GMT yesterday, when its sole power plant ran out of fuel, leaving the Palestinian territory without electricity after...
Tenants demanding social housing and protesting at rent rises that are converting them into the working poor

‘RENTQUAKE!’ –tenants face unaffordable rents

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‘RENTQUAKE’ has hit middle England as rents race above wages in market towns, said housing charity Shelter yesterday. Rents have risen 60% faster than...

120-strong Gate Gourmet picket

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THERE was a large picket of about 120 sacked Gate Gourmet workers yesterday. Daljit said: ‘We are waiting to see if British Airways sign ...

Trump to chair Gaza Board of Peace!

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THE GAZA ‘Board of Peace’ has been announced, with US President Donald Trump as its veto-wielding chairman, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio...

EXECUTING AFGHAN CIVILIANS – SAS unit is accused

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A unit of the British Army’s Special Air Service (SAS) has been accused of carrying out night missions in which they executed civilians in...

15-Year-Old On Work Experience Lost In North Sea

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‘We are all deeply shocked by this terrible tragedy,’ Amicus Regional Officer, Graham Tran, said yesterday. Tran was commenting on the deaths of seven men...
Thousands of Tamils demonstrated outside the House of Commons for the 45th day yesterday

Tamil Youth Defend Their Flag Against Police

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‘Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner! Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner!’ This is what young Tamil workers chanted having just prevented the police from...
Workers Revolutionary Party General Secretary FRANK SWEENEY addressing yesterday’s News Line Anniversary Rally

‘World Crisis Opening Up Socialist Revolution’

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‘This world capitalist crisis is opening up the door to socialist revolution to millions of working class people round the world.’ So said Workers Revolutionary...

Stop Gaza Massacre!

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THREE Palestinians were killed near midnight on Monday in an Israeli attack on a United Nations school that was housing people displaced by the...

Israeli forces intensify their bombardment!

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ISRAELI forces have intensified their military operations across the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, leaving a devastating toll in their wake. In the past...
Protesters outside parliament yesterday on behalf of Grenfell tenants who died in the inferno

Toxic Grenfell Insulation Was Banned!

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MARKING eleven months since the tragic Grenfell Tower fire disaster, which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children, the community turned...
Over 1,000 postal workers rallied at the Central Hall in Westminster yesterday mid-day to fight the plan to privatise Royal Mail which threatens 30,000 jobs

SHOCK JOBLESS RISE TO 2.5m

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The latest official unemployment figures published yesterday show an unexpected increase of 35,000 in the three months to October. The number of young people...

Nationalise Jaguar Land Rover – to save workers’ rights and jobs

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THERE HAS been confirmation that Jaguar Land Rover will build a new all-electric model at its Castle Bromwich plant. Unite said yesterday that the announcement...