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‘HISTORIC WIN’ FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS – tens of thousands entitled to Uber compensation

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THE GMB union scored an ‘historic’ win on Friday when the Supreme Court passed judgement in the union’s landmark workers’ rights case against Uber. This...
Demonstration in Lambeth highlighting the poverty that the Coalition has plunged the country into

January trade deficit at £10bn

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ANY talk of ‘recovery’ has been well and truly scotched by the revelation that Britain’s trade deficit widened more than expected in January,...

ASLEF & RMT TO STRIKE ON WED 1st FEBRUARY ALONG WITH CIVIL SERVANTS &...

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ASLEF and RMT railway workers are to strike on Wednesday 1st February, joining 100,000 PCS civil servants, 100,000 NEU teachers and tens of thousands...

‘Daily massacres part of Israel’s systematic policy of genocide!’

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sraeli aerial attacks hammered Gaza from north to south yesterday, killing at least 46 people by midday, with a strike on a school in...
Jaguar car workers demanding the Browns Lane Coventry factory stays open – another 5,000 jobs are facing the axe

Jaguar to axe 5,000 jobs

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JAGUAR Land Rover (JLR) announced yesterday it is cutting up to an eighth of its 40,000 strong UK workforce with up to 5,000 car...

Syrian government absolutely rejects allegations

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THE SYRIAN government absolutely rejects the allegations ‘that the army used in the past or uses now or will use in the future any...
Trump’s letter to Kim Jong-un

Trump cancels N Korean summit

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US PRESIDENT Trump released a letter yesterday afternoon which stated that the summit between him and North Korean President Kim Jong-un has been cancelled....

SACK ALL THE OLD LEADERS – demand Sri Lankan workers and youth

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SECURITY around Sri Lanka’s parliament building in the capital, Colombo, has increased, with armed and masked soldiers guarding the building and roads nearby closed...

Enthusiastic BEIS strike solid

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PCS members at the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) began their two-day strike for the London Living Wage at 3.00pm on...

Bedroom tax challenge is going ahead!

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DISABLED children and adults are challenging the legality of the coalition government’s ‘bedroom tax’ and have won the right to take their cases to...

‘WE ARE DETERMINED TO WIN’ – striking RMT workers tell News Line

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TRANSPORT union RMT members were on the picket line at Waterloo Station on Saturday morning as their strike carries on in defence of pay,...
Teachers marching to defend their pensions show that they understand just who the enemy is

IMF – British banks warning!

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THE IMF warned yesterday that the British banks have a ‘very large potential to originate global shocks’. As if that was not enough they added...

BACK ME AGAINST REBELS! – failure May appeals to people

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‘IF THIS deal doesn’t go through, we go back to square one,’ PM May said in her interview with Radio Five Live, where she...

Mass hospital closures! – Nuffield Trust warning

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A DRAMATIC one in three hospitals face closure, the Nuffield Trust has warned MPs. Many hospital trusts face severe and potentially unsustainable financial pressures, warns...

‘Blatant act of annexation’ – Ashrawi slams Israeli ‘nature reserve’ land grab

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ISRAEL is creating ‘nature reserves’ in the occupied West Bank and this is ‘a blatant act of annexation and land theft that violates international...
Thousands of postal workers and their families marched through Kingston in January to demand ‘Keep the Post Public’

9-1 Vote For Po Strike

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Post Office workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay, job security and the future of the Crown...

‘Reinstatement For All – And No Victimisations’

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TALKS are taking place between Gate Gourmet management and the Transport and General Workers Union today. Locked out Gate Gourmet workers told News Line on...

Balham PCS Strike Ballot Is Called!

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STAFF at Balham benefit centre are being balloted for strike action having been told that their office is due to close on 31 December. This...

Israel To Expand Offensive!

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Israel is to expand its offensive against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, Amir Peretz, the Israeli defence minister, has said, less than a day after its attack...

Boycott EuroVision

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‘WITH THE Eurovision Song Contest taking place on Saturday, the year-long campaign to boycott the competition in Israel is ramping up,’ Zoe Lawlor from...

‘Defend GP Practices’ – BMA

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THE BMA and GPs have condemned the way that NHS England and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are treating GP Practices. Dr...

$10 Trillion US Deficit Looms

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The US government is heading for a massive $10 trillion budget deficit over the next decade, analysts warned yesterday after the White House projected...
Jean Charles de Menezes’ cousin ALEX PEREIRA addressing a meeting outside Stockwell Tube six months after the murder of Jean  by a police shoot-to-kill squad on July 22 2005

SHOT WITHOUT WARNING BY POLICE! – press rumours about Forest Gate raid ‘absolute nonsense’

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ABDUL Kahar was shot without warning by police, not his brother, during last Friday’s 4am raid on his home in Forest Gate, east London,...

BUILD COUNCIL HOUSING – workers reject Brown package

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In a bid to prop up the banks and construction industry, prime minister Brown and chancellor Darling yesterday promoted a £1.6bn housing rescue package. This...

Vote ‘yes’ RCN urges 300,000 nurses as new strike ballot opens

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‘THIS IS unfinished business,’ said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen yesterday, urging members to vote YES as the union opened...
Young Socialists march from Manchester to London demanding jobs for youth with trade union rates of pay. Youth will not submit to being slave labour

MASSIVE PART-TIME WORKING – as young workers wages cut by 10%

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THERE are nearly one-and-a-half million workers and youth in the UK who want full-time work but are working part-time because they cannot find full-time...

B of E fears housing bubble

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HOUSE-BUILDING giant Baratt Homes’ share price crashed by ten per cent yesterday in an immediate response to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney’s announcement...
Chagos Islanders outside the Horsham County Court on Wednesday morning

Chagos Islanders Go To Court

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THE case against the Chagos islanders was adjourned for 14 days on Wednesday. They are being prosecuted for their campaign in Crawley for their right...
A section of the march in London on October 24 against the war on Afghanistan demanding troops out

More Than 20,000 Troops For Helmand Province

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced the UK is sending 500 extra troops to Afghanistan early this month. He revealed that, along with special forces operating...

115 Gaza deaths due to man-made famine

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THE Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza run by Hamas, yesterday said that the famine is worsening in the Gaza Strip, warning against false...
Visteon sacked workers on the march, they insist they are winning their struggle

‘DON’T BE FRIGHTENED OF A GENERAL STRIKE’ SAYS McDONNELL

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‘WHAT happened to us could have happened to anyone!’ This is what Visteon shop steward Raymond Dixon told the crowd in Trafalgar Square at the...

Starving Palestinians storm US-Israeli GHF ‘aid’ centre

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The first day of the Israeli-US ‘aid’ distribution mechanism in Gaza ended in abject failure yesterday. The ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF) distribution centre in Rafah...
In Dusseldorf yesterday morning two locked-out Gate Gourmet workers from London were welcomed at a mass picket by striking local Gate Gourmet workers

‘SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH!’ – Nurses reject Brown’s 2% pay offer

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Angry nurses are ready to refuse to do unpaid overtime if they don’t get a pay rise of at least three per cent, the...
London demonstration in May 2004 calling for an end to the occupation of Iraq

Hamas Landslide!

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Jubilant Palestinian masses were yesterday celebrating the historic election victory of Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas. The final results declared at 5pm yesterday saw Hamas take...
A section of the 4,000-strong ‘Not Fair Not Safe’ demonstration of Junior Doctors outside Leeds City Art Gallery on Wednesday

Mass support for doctors!

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OVER 4,000 junior doctors and their supporters staged a three-hour mass rally outside the City Art Gallery in the centre of Leeds on Wednesday...

PENSIONS STRIKES! – at 7 major UK airports in january

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WORKERS at BAA’s seven airports across the UK have voted for strike action to defend their final salary pension scheme. Results of the secret strike...
Youth marching in London insist that the NHS is not for sale

Big Business To Access Medical Records

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PATIENT confidentiality will be violated and open to abuse, Unite union said in response to plans to allow high street pharmacies like Boots,...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaigning at Hounslow bus garage yesterday where they received lots of support

Gate Courmet Campaign

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‘It’s shameful the way Gate Gourmet workers have been treated by both the company and the union,’ Hounslow local government UNISON assistant branch secretary...
The Workers Revolutionary Party-Young Socialists contingent marching on May Day for what workers want – a general strike to bring down the government and create conditions to bring in a workers government

Tories Plot ‘Regime Change!’

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CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday said he will take the Tories’ local elections disaster ‘on the chin’, as his own MPs were calling for his and...

Generals Demand Immunity From Prosecution

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THE generals who demanded a ruling from the Labour government’s Attorney General that war with Iraq was legal before they would send their troops...
Nurses on the march on Saturday’s 20,000-strong demonstration to defend the NHS

Take Action To Increase Nurse Numbers!

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TORY government plans to boost the number of trainee nurses in the wake of the Francis report into Mid Staffs are failing, the Royal...

Workers Kept In Dark Over Mandelson Visit

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Business Secretary Peter Mandelson is due at the GM Luton plant, Gate 2, at 9.30am this morning. He has been invited by the local Unite...

CHAGOS ISLANDERS PETITION No 10

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A delegation of six Chagos Islanders yesterday handed in to 10, Downing Street, two petition letters addressed to new prime minister Brown. Delegation leader, Hengride...

JUDGE BACKS WALSH DIKTAT! – ‘A disgraceful day for democracy’–Woodley

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‘It is a disgraceful day for democracy’, Unite joint general secretaries Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley declared after a High Court judge ruled the...
GPs demonstrating in Rugby against private polyclinics

Bma Slams Profits Before Patients

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday slammed pressures being put on GPs by private companies running out of hours services to cut down on...