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Nut & Nasuwt To Take Strike Action

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The NASUWT and the NUT have now served notice to employers that NUT and NASUWT members in the North West of England are to...
Lively picket of midwives at King’s College Hospital on strike last Monday over the lack of a wage increase

NHS workers slam Hunt’s attack

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‘IF YOU want to talk about waste in the NHS, then stop outsourcing midwives and nurses to agency staff,’ Royal College of Midwives (RCM)...
Tamils during a sit-down opposite parliament last week held pictures to bring home the genocide against their people

Tigers Declare Unilateral Ceasefire

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In the face of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and in response to the calls made by the UN, EU, the governments of the US,...
Streatham Labour MP CHUKA UMUNNA, LISA LAWRENCE, LEE LAWRENCE, ROSEMARY SPENCER and CHARMAINE LAVILLE before handing the Groce family petition into No 10

Cherry Groce Family Demand Legal Aid!

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‘WE’RE here to hand in our petition with 130,000 signatures calling for legal aid to assist us and allow us to be active at...

PLO slams US-sponsored Bahrain conference

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THE PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) issued a statement slamming the US-sponsored conference in Bahrain on its second and final day yesterday: ‘The PLO Executive Committee...

SECRET JUSTICE AND SECRET HEARINGS – is now Coalition policy

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A SECRET Justice Bill could see people imprisoned without explanation, warned legal action charity Reprieve yesterday. Reprieve said: ‘The government this week confirmed that plans...

‘WE WILL STRIKE WITH NURSES!’ say Manchester bus strikers

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‘THE SUPPORT has been amazing,’ striker Peter Gleaves told News Line at the Queens Road Depot in Manchester yesterday, where Go North West bus...

Farmers Descend On Parliament!

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HUNDREDS of farmers descended on Parliament on their tractors yesterday, demanding ‘Save Family Farming!’ Having driven to the capital from as far afield as Exmoor,...

30% CUTS ON WAY – Consultants conference warns

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HOSPITAL consultants yesterday asserted their determination to defend patient care and oppose NHS privatisation. At the BMA Consultants Conference motion 5,...
While thousands of Palestinians have been injured on the Gaza border, Israeli air strikes have destroyed the Said al-Mishal Cultural Centre in Gaza

Destruction of Gaza Cultural Centre condemned by leading playwrights!

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IN A LETTER to the British press, fourteen leading UK playwrights and theatre directors, have condemned the destruction of the Said al-Mishal Cultural Centre...

TUC will not be considering a general strike says Nowak!

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NEW TUC leader Paul Nowak has insisted that tomorrow’s meeting of the TUC General Council in central London will not be considering calls for...

New European banking crash fears

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A FRESH European-wide banking crash has reared its head as the euro tumbled to a six-month low yesterday in reaction to the Italian crisis....
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addresses a huge crowd of supporters outside SOAS last Wednesday evening

McCluskey slams Blairite coupists – but calls on unions to broker a deal

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Unite leader Len McCluskey said yesterday that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been the victim of a ‘political lynching’ orchestrated by ‘sinister forces’,...

KBR FINED $402m IS TO BE POLICE PARTNER

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KELLOG, Brown and Root (KBR) is on the shortlist for the ‘Business Partnering for Police’ (BPP) project. It is the company which pleaded guilty before...
Postal workers marching in Wolverhampton against Royal Mail privatisation

ROYAL MAIL 20% JOB CUTS – ‘Conflict inevitable’ – CWU

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The Communication Workers Union yesterday warned that planned job cuts by Royal Mail will threaten services and downgrade staff to a part-time workforce. Plans seen...

JOINT ENTERPRISE–JURIES HAVE BEEN MISDIRECTED!– hundreds of appeals now expected

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JUDGES have misdirected juries in murder trials for thirty years, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that ‘joint...

BA PENSIONS CRISIS – work longer or pay more, workers told

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BRITISH Airways workers are being threatened again that they will either have to work longer or pay more to maintain the value of their...
Campaigners celebrate winning a judical review against Lewisham closure in July. Health Secretary Hunt has now lost his appeal against the judges’ decision

Hunt did act ‘illegally’ – in seeking to close Lewisham A&E and Maternity

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THE Court of Appeal yesterday upheld the decision of a Judicial Review not to proceed with the reconfiguration of Lewisham hospital, meaning that the...

POA urges TUC–‘Consider General Strike’

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THE TUC General Council is meeting in Brighton at 9.00am today to discuss a resolution calling for it to consider the practicalities of a...
Nurses demonstrating on the last TUC march on October 18th

NHS New Year’s Strike!

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AMBULANCE workers are to strike for 48 hours on January 29th 2015, across the whole of England and northern Ireland as their pay dispute...

Fresh Intifada erupts over Jerusalem

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RIGHT-wing Zionists who planned a march through Jerusalem yesterday were forced to call it off. They planned to mark the beginning of the occupation of...
Ambulance staff taking strike action at Deptford Ambulance Station were concerned at the way cuts were affecting the service

Ambulance Cuts Are Costing Lives!

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EAST of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) management operated a policy of downgrading target response times for 999 emergency calls from December 18th...
Large numbers of North Middlesex Hospital workers supported yesterday’s mass picket to defend the NHS and said they would be attending this Saturday’s demonstration at Chase Farm

North Middlesex Mass Picket A Great Success

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‘THE mass picket has gone very well,’ said Bill Rogers, secretary of the North East London Council of Action, outside the North Middlesex Hospital...

GM CRISIS DEEPENS – Vauxhall GM in danger

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Fears of job losses and plant closures at car maker Vauxhall grew at the weekend as three firms vied to buy GM Europe, ahead...

Southern guards strike today

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‘THE Southern guards strike will go ahead, despite any legal challenge,’ RMT Assistant General Secretary Mick Lynch said defiantly on the eve of...

Cameron won’t fire Hunt

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RUPERT Murdoch was questioned at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday about meetings held with prime minister Cameron before and after News Corporation’s June 2010 takeover...
The platform at Sunday’s News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance rally

UNIONS MUST TAKE BROWN ON – says News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance rally

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All the public sector trade unions must unite for action to bring down the Brown government and replace it with a workers government and...

Mahdi Army clashes with Iraqi puppet forces

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TWENTY-FIVE soldiers in the puppet Iraqi army were killed yesterday in fierce fighting with the Mahdi Army militia, which is opposed to the US-UK occupation of...
UNISON members and their families marching on the ‘NHSTogether’ demonstration on November 3rd in London – will not accept  pay increases of only two per cent for three years

BROWN ‘ON COLLISION COURSE WITH UNIONS’ – warns UNISON

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Prime Minister Brown is ‘on a collision course with the trade unions’, warned UNISON yesterday. A UNISON spokeswoman told News Line: ‘We want to make...

Government Launches Youth Forced Labour Scheme!

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YOUNG workers will be thrown off benefits if they refuse to go on a government-run six-month ‘work placement’ scheme, Labour Work and Pensions Secretary...
Junior doctor REBECCA OVENDEN who worked in the A&E department of Plymouth’s Derriford Hospital and for Devon Air Ambulance

Imposed Contract Stresses Junior Doctors!

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ANXIETY, stress and depression were to blame for nearly half the sick days taken by doctors in central Bristol last year, according to new...

‘We won’t sign rotten deal’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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YESTERDAY was the deadline for locked out Gate Gourmet workers facing compulsory redundancy to sign the ‘Compromise Agreement’, surrendering their claim for unfair dismissal...

Scrap Hinkley Point deal!

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THE City of London and the government were shaken yesterday after PM May postponed a decision to go ahead with the Hinkley Point nuclear...

Exercise Cygnus exposed! Tories were asked to simulate turning off all UK ventilators

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A CROSS Party ‘pandemic simulation’ carried out just three years before Covid-19 struck ‘played-out’ a scenario in which the health minister was asked to...
Family members gather around Stockwell shrine on 3rd anniversary of the the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday

STATE EXECUTION – 3rd anniversary of de Menezes murder

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FRIENDS and family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday marked the third anniversary of the young Brazilian’s killing by a police death squad who...
West Kensington and Gibbs Green estate tenants lobby Hammersmith & Fulham council against the demolition of their estates

Homeless Families Driven Out Of London

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15,795 HOMELESS Londoners have been forced into temporary accommodation outside their borough, a Freedom of Information request revealed yesterday. Representing a third of the 47,137...

£50,000 A Day To Strike Break

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Firefighters in Suffolk were angry yesterday as the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces set out to break their strike actions against plans...
Sacked Visteon workers picketing outside the company’s Basildon plant

Unite Refuses To Represent Belfast Visteon Occupiers

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THE legal attempt to remove sacked workers occupying the Visteon factory in west Belfast has been adjourned until Friday. ‘Whatever happens on Friday we won’t...

Airport Crisis – ‘This Chaos Is One Of Their Own Making’

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AS the crisis across UK airports deepens, the leading aviation union, Unite, is blaming businesses for taking public money but then slashing jobs during...
Protesters on Saturday’s “Tories Out’ march demand ‘Justice for Grenfell’

Flammable cladding No sprinklers! In tower blocks across UK

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CLADDING on 181 tower blocks in 51 areas of the country have now failed fire safety tests. Meanwhile it also emerged yesterday that there are...

NHS Being Driven Along Road To Ruin Says Gmb

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TRADE unions and Labour Party leaders yesterday condemned the government over cuts to the NHS that have put patients at risk. The were responding to...

‘A bonanza for unscrupulous landlords’ – MPs indict the Immigration Bill

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MPs have blasted the Tory coalition government’s proposal to force landlords to do immigration checks on their tenants, warning that it will lead to...

TUC must call a General Strike! – the message from CWU picket lines

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THE TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!' was the message from the CWU picket...

Hunt’s budget – a war on jobs and services! budget today!

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THE LOCAL Government Association condemned Chancellor Hunt’s attempt to dress up his budget onslaught on public services as a ‘war on woke’ yesterday, pointing...
Police have sealed off a major section of the Tottenham High Road in the wake of Saturday’s uprising

‘police Refused To Listen!’

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THE people of Tottenham were yesterday considering the implications of the explosive uprising that took place on Saturday night. The reverend Nims Obunge said: ‘I...