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Nut Reject Three-Year Pay Cutting Deal

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday rejected a proposed three-year pay deal for teachers as a pay cut and warned there will be...
Tamils in Parliament Square on Monday demonstrate against the Sri Lankan Army genocide against the Tamil people

TAMIL LEADERS TREACHEROUSLY KILLED WHILE UNDER WHITE FLAG – Prabakaran still alive and fight...

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WHILE rejecting Colombo’s claim of the killing of LTTE leader V Prabakaran and assuring his safety and well-being, LTTE’s International Relations Head S...

Sanctions Linked To Foodbanks!

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NEW University of Oxford research confirms there is a strong link between increased benefit sanctions and higher foodbank use. The University of Oxford researchers analysed...

Coalition Split Widening

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THE split in the coalition government deepened yesterday, with Deputy Prime Minister Clegg absenting himself from the House of Commons as Prime Minister Cameron...
BMA junior doctors are getting ready for industrial action and will be assembling at Marble Arch at 2.00pm tomorrow to march to Parliament Square

Get ready for industrial action! says BMA

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THE BMA has urged junior doctors to update their place of work details by October 23 so that they can take part in...
Teachers at the march in Athens calling for ‘full pension and health rights’

Greece – 24 Hour National Strike

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Greek civil servants, teachers, local government and hospital workers took part in a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday, in defence of their pensions rights...

‘Boycott General Motors’ Demands Unifor’s Dias

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UNIFOR National President Jerry Dias, speaking during a press conference, has asked for all Canadians and Americans to boycott all General Motors vehicles that...

500,000 sanctioned in 12 MONTHS

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CAMPAIGNERS will be protesting outside Jobcentres in over 70 towns and cities across the UK on Wednesday (9 March 2016) as part of...
School chair of governors Laws was unable to convince the young strikers to give up their action opposing an Academy

No Academy Here!

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YESTERDAY students at Crown Woods School in Eltham were on strike against management’s decision to turn the school into an academy. Students gathered outside the...
Greek museum workers’ and secondary school teachers’ banners on the coordinated trade union march last Thursday

Greek workers and youth on the way to an unprising!

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ATHENS – Greek workers and youth are on the road to an uprising! Mass rallies and demonstrations are taking place throughout Greece as part of...

Assange Supporters Picket Media Conference

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AN angry protest by supporters of Julian Assange yesterday morning denounced a Tory government conference titled ‘Defend Media Freedom’. Maxine Walker from the Julian Assange...
NUT and ATL members determined to defend state education lobbying against the mass forced academisation of schools

Hard-Pressed Schools Face Savage Cuts

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‘THE government plans the biggest real-term cuts in school funding since at least the late 1970s,’ warns the National Union of Teachers. The NUT has...
The privateer Carillion was in a permanent war with its workforce to increase its profit margins

RBS & May knifed Carillion!

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‘IT’S A BROKEN system. As the ruins of Carillion lie around us, will the prime minister act to end the costly racket of the...

JAIL TIME FOR BANKERS – raised at parliamentary committee

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EX-Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond was asked point blank yesterday if he believed bankers who broke the law should be jailed. He was asked the...

UKRAINE WAR BOOSTS INFLATION! – says World Bank President

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THE war in Ukraine is ‘a catastrophe’ for the world which will cut global economic growth and boost inflation, the president of the World...
Engineers and construction workers demonstrated in Parliament Square during the February dispute in the industry

STOP THE COUNTRY! – to beat union busters

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The GMB trade union yesterday accused senior managers of provoking the unofficial dispute at Lindsey oil refinery by the sacking of 51 workers in...

RMT calls National Rail Strike!

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THE RMT has called a National Rail Strike on Tuesday June 21st, when over 50,000 railway workers, including Network Rail, 13 train operating companies...
Palestinian homes in Al Zutan destroyed by the Israeli army

SHOOT-TO-KILL POLICY STAYS And more innocents may die says Commissionair Blair

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‘I feel unsafe,’ Alex Alves Pereira, the cousin of the unarmed Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, killed by the Met police, told News Line...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside Hillingdon T&G office yesterday are insisting that their union leaders pay their hardship money

Locked-Out Gg Workers To March At Tolpuddle

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‘THE Tolpuddle Martyrs were called troublemakers and were transported to Australia. ‘We were called troublemakers and sacked,’ Parmjeet Sidhu said at the Gate Gourmet locked-out...
A section of yesterday morning’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital

Battle On To Stop Chase Farm Closure

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‘WE’RE having a good picket today,’ said Bill Rogers, secretary of the North-East London Council of Action, outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. The Council of...

Strike now across Britain and globally to defeat Netanyahu’s Gaza plan!

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MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched through London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday on the 29th National March for Palestine...

Food Inflation – Highest For Fourteen Years!

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SOARING milk, cheese and egg costs have pushed food inflation to its highest level for 14 years, with millions of UK families heading into...
Junior doctors, health workers and supporters joined the mass picket outside St Thomas’ Hospital during the January 12th nationwide strike – they are out again on February 10th

Junior doctors strike on!

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THE JUNIOR doctors strike, on Wednesday February 10th will go ahead, doctors union the BMA announced yesterday. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Despite the...

Tories in crisis attack youth – bring them down!

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THE Tory Party Conference opened in a massive crisis in Birmingham yesterday, after two top Tories resigned from their positions in the preceding two...

Bank cuts rate to 4.25% – its second cut this year

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THE BANK of England has reduced interest rates to 4.25 per cent, marking its second cut this year, as it warned that escalating global...

Palestinian leaders condemn Trump-Netanyahu Gaza plan!

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HAMAS is studying the 20-point plan for Gaza which US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu published on Monday evening. Trump claimed yesterday that...

‘We will make Britain a defence industrial superpower’ says Reeves – NHS budget...

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‘WE WILL make Britain a defence industrial superpower,’ Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves declared in the House of Commons yesterday, as she revealed that military...

‘CRUEL PUNISHMENT’ OF POOREST PEOPLE! – Xmas Universal Credit to be stopped

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TENS of thousands of low paid workers on Universal Credit may not be paid over the festive season or may get a reduced payment. Those...

ICC seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Yoav Gallant

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THE United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and dozens of organisations and countries are striving to block or delay an arrest warrant by the...

‘No breakthrough’ in Russia/Ukraine talks

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RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke yesterday about his talks with the Ukraine regime’s Foreign Minister, earlier that morning. At a press conference, attended...
The fuel tax convoy arrives in Westminster on Tuesday

Cut Fuel Duty Now! Demand Hauliers

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HAULIERS hit by record fuel prices and taxes converged on Westminster in their lorries on Tuesday, to demand an immediate rebate to save them...

HBOS share price falls 50% in two days – as world crisis lets rip

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QUEUES formed around the Singapore offices of an AIG subsidiary yesterday, as the world’s biggest insurance company collapsed, losing 70% of its share price. At...

East Kent hospitals under threat

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EAST Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serving a population of more than 750,000 people across five different hospitals has been placed under special measures. ‘This...

Assange fights extradition in court

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange appeared in court in London yesterday looking very unwell after spending months languishing in Belmarsh Prison where he has been...

1,000 WORKERS MARCH ON ORGREAVE ANNIVERSARY – Corbyn pledges Labour government inquiry!

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UP TO A thousand workers from both Yorkshire and across the country marched to the 35th Battle of Orgreave memorial rally on Saturday. They marched...

Biden deploys record troop numbers to Jordan

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A NEW report to the US Congress reveals that the Biden administration has deployed a record number of US troops to Jordan as the...

Brown Calls May Election

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Prime Minister Brown confirmed yesterday that the general election will be held on Thursday 6th May. Flanked by the cabinet outside 10 Downing Street, following...

200 days of Israeli war crimes in Gaza

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ISRAEL’S genocidal war on Gaza entered its 200th day yesterday, with the Health Ministry saying that the IOF (Israeli Occupation Force) had committed three...
A section of yesterday’s mass demonstration of student and school youth marching to demand that either the CPE first job contract must go or the government will be brought down

Blair Savaged!

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THE Prime Minister was savaged at his monthly press conference yesterday after the emergence of the ‘donations for peerages’ scandal and the fact that...
Tea plantation workers weighing the tea that they have picked. They earn the equivalent of 66p a day and if they don’t pick 44lbs of tea a day, their wages are halved

‘throw Out Stinking Gourmet Deal’

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‘WE want a hands up vote at the mass meeting tomorrow, and we want the provisional agreement between Gate Gourmet, the TGWU and the...

Claimant Count Rises To 1.58 Million

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UNEMPLOYMENT benefit claimant numbers soared in October with the number of people claiming benefit rising by 10,100, the largest increase since September 2011, the...
Campaigners against the scrapping of the Independent Living Fund lobby the High Court

Disabled defend Independent Living Fund!

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Over 50 disabled people demonstrated outside the High Court in London yesterday demanding the government maintain the Independent Living Fund (ILF). Mary Laver from Newcastle...

ISS hospital workers demand Living Wage

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OVER 30 GMB members held a lively picket of the private contractor ISS at the company’s HQ in the South Quay Building, Canary Wharf,...

SAVE OUR POST OFFICES – CWU announces week of actions

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday announced a week of action against the closure of Post Offices. The week of campaigning by the ‘Future for...
Busworkers & campaigners at Greenford Bus Garage yesterday – they are determined to occupy Ealing Maternity to keep it open

Ealing Maternity must not close – demand Greenford bus drivers

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‘THEY HAVE abolished capital punishment in this country, but closing Ealing maternity is a sentence of death for mothers and babies,’ Greenford Bus Garage...