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The huge enthusiastic crowds that turned out to demonstrate and vote ‘NO’ shook the centrist Syriza leadership to its foundations

Tsipras Turning ‘No’ Vote Into ‘Yes’!

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GREEK Prime Minister and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras initiated a meeting of all the political parties’ leaders in Athens on Monday. A ‘joint statement’, issued...
A section of yesterday’s shop stewards lobby of the TUC against pension cuts

Pensions crisis–Coalition pays tribute to the TUC!

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JUST AS LibDem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Alexander was thanking the TUC in the House of Commons yesterday claiming that the public sector...

Gaza Protest Youth Being Jailed

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THE whole trade union movement must demand the immediate release of young protesters jailed over the Gaza demonstrations last year – and the dropping...
Nurses are very angry over pay! RCN nurses have already sacked their leadership over the issue

‘DON’T INTRODUCE REGIONAL PAY!’ – RCN warning for Chancellor Hammond

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REGIONALISING public sector pay would exacerbate the NHS recruitment crisis and leave parts of the country unable to provide safe care, the leader of...
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...

July deficit alarms City!

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THE UK government borrowed £600 million in July to cover the gap between spending and revenue, the ONS reported yesterday. The city is aghast...

Gate Gourmet Workers Confront Tony Woodley

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‘VICTORY to Gate Gourmet workers! TGWU sack Tony Woodley!’ shouted angry locked-out Gate Gourmet workers as they confronted TGWU leader Woodley before the...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing despite the cold weather

‘We fight on till we win’

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are furious that the TGWU’s head of civil aviation, Brendan Gold, has gone back on his promise to provide...

‘IT WAS MURDER’ – says De Menezes cousin

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Metropolitan Police firearms officers were issued with special ‘instant kill’ bullets to use against innocent young Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes on 22 July...

Nursing Loans Crisis!

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EIGHT hundred students of nursing and other health care courses were told last Friday that loan instalments expected this week will be reduced or...

BEIS indefinite strike!

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OVER 20 PCS catering workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark, walked out on indefinite strike...
There is massive support for a National Health Service that is free to everybody at the point of need – having a privateer in charge of NHS England will anger millions of workers

US privateer in charge of NHS England

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THE GLOBAL president of US private health giant United Health, Simon Stevens, has been appointed to head NHS England. Stevens will be employed by the...
Lobby of London Mayor Johnson’s office against the violent attack on all the emergency services in February

Firefighters Forced To Transport Patients!

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LINCOLNSHIRE Fire Brigades Union and the GMB trade union yesterday expressed concern over plans to use firefighters as A&E first responders. The FBU said it...
Teachers marching in London last November 30 during their strike action to defend their pensions

Tories In ‘Head-On Collision’ With Classroom Teachers

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Teachers have been ‘angered, alienated and attacked’ by coalition ministers who are determined to engage in a ‘head-on collision’ with the profession, delegates to...

Food Prices Leap By 10%

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AVERAGE global food prices leapt by ten per cent in the month of July, raising fears of soaring prices for the planet’s poorest, the...

Greek farmers are staging mass motorway blockades – as well as blocking customs entry

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GREEK farmers staged mass tractor motorway blockades on Thursday and Friday, while also blocking customs entry points into Greece from neighbouring Balkan countries, as...
Campaigners outside Epsom Hospital on Friday  morning demanding a halt to closure plans

Stop The NHS Cuts!

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THE battle to stop all NHS cuts is now raging up and down the country. However, the private predators are gathering. Near Horsham last Thursday night...

Mugabe Resigns!!

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‘ROBERT Mugabe has handed me his letter of resignation,’ the speaker of Zimbabwe’s Parliament announced yesterday, sparking wild celebrations. Cheers, singing, shouting and dancing erupted...
CT Plus busworkers on the picket line in East London on Friday in the second of four Friday strikes

Hackney Bus Workers Want Decent Pay!

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BUS workers were in high spirits yesterday on the second Friday out of four consecutive Fridays of strike action over low pay and management...
A section of the Tamil demonstration in Parliament Square yesterday afternoon

‘WE WERE ATTACKED BY SEVERAL HUNDRED POLICE’ say Tamil protesters

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ONE THOUSAND Tamil protesters congregated in Westminster Square yesterday afternoon, in defiance of Monday night’s violent Metropolitan Police attack on them in which at...

Shoddy Safety Measures

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TOWER block tenants on Camden Council’s Chalcots estate in north London are angry at the ‘shoddy’ safety measures carried out since they were ordered...

‘US Troops Must Leave Iraq’ Say 170 Lawmakers

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ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY IRAQI lawmakers have signed a draft bill, demanding the withdrawal of US military forces from the country following the assassination...
Young Socialists marching in Cambridge last November 14 for a socialist future

Hoon & Hewitt Stab Labour In The Back

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The House of Commons yesterday witnessed a Blairite revolt against Prime Minister Brown. Ex-cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt bolstered the Tories by calling...

Massive General Strike In Greece

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Some 100,000 workers demonstrated through the Athens city centre last Wednesday as part of the one-day general strike called by the GSEE (Greek TUC)...

CUTS AND FORCED LABOUR! – UNISON slams Tory and Labour reforms

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PUBLIC sector union Unison yesterday slammed the latest Tory and Labour attacks on disabled people and the unemployed. Tory leader Cameron announced a ‘big bold’...

Liberty to sell steel plant 5,000 jobs in the balance – Nationalise the entire...

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FIVE THOUSAND steel jobs hang in the balance as steel giant Liberty announced plans to sell its plant in Stocksbridge, Sheffield, as part of...

War on workers & youth – National Insurance 1.25% hike, UC cut £20...

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‘WE WILL FIX the long term problems of health and social care that have been so cruelly exposed by Covid,’ Tory PM Johnson said...

UCU is in dispute with 88 English College employers – ready for biggest ever...

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ENGLAND’S biggest-ever strike ballot is on the cards, confirmed the University and College Union (UCU) yesterday, after it entered into dispute with 88 English...
A march for homes to City Hall in London where thousands of families are living with a threat of eviction hanging over them

149,000 at risk of eviction in the last year!

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EVERY 90 seconds a renter in England is put at risk of losing their home, warns Shelter. Research by the housing and homelessness charity has...
A section of the over 120,000-strong march in London last Saturday against the Israeli onslaught on Gaza

Israel breaks ceasefire

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INTENSE clashes erupted yesterday morning between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in the southeastern Gaza Strip amid confirmed reports that an Israeli soldier has...

GATE GOURMET TACTICS! – GMB accuses Airfield Services

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The GMB trade union yesterday accused Stansted security contractor Airfield Services of Gate Gourmet tactics. It said that Airfield Services was showing gross irresponsibility in...
The GMB ‘Coach and Horses’ demonstrating in Charlton yesterday morning

GMB ‘Coach and horses’ victory

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THE GMB trade union yesterday won its first victory in the battle over trade union rights at Asda, on the eve of a five-day...

21 firefighters leave UK to help fight Greek wildfires

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TWENTY-ONE firefighters from the UK left yesterday evening for Greece to assist firefighters out there, in an international effort to tackle the raging wildfires. Tony...
Determined Metroline pickets at Willesden garage during their stike over pay on November 20

Buses: Spring Offensive On Pay And Hours

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Bus drivers have backed a call for a major cut in their driving hours. At a conference in Eastbourne organised by the Transport and General...

Wanted! An arrest warrant for Israeli Foreign Minister Sa’ar!

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AN ARREST warrant is being sought by two pro-Palestinian groups Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and the Hind Rajab Foundation for Israeli Foreign Minister...

SAUDI WAR IN YEMEN – US Senate insists US military assistance illegal

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THE US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a resolution clearly stating that US military assistance to Saudi Arabia in its war against neighbouring...

BBC spends £38m to enforce collection – Pensioners refusing to pay licence fee targeted

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THE BBC has threatened pensioners with bailiffs if they don’t pay the licence fee, after spending £38m on 800 staff to enforce collection. Bailiffs will...
Ambulance workers picket at Waterloo – four more years of 1%wage ‘rises’

SACK HUNT! –80,000 sign petition for action

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A PETITION to remove Tory Health Secretary Hunt from his post is already heading towards the 100,000 mark. Some 80,000 people have signed a petition...
Residents of Newham take to the streets to condemn the police shooting of Muhammad Abdul Kahar during an assault on the family home in the early hours of June 2 this year

Muslims Take Reid To Task

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HOME Secretary John Reid was denounced as a ‘tyrant’ on a visit to east London yesterday, where he delivered a speech against ‘Islamic extremism’. A...

MEDVEDEV WARNS GEORGIA –Insists US is still arming Saakashvili

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RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev warned yesterday that Georgia’s leadership will ‘pay the price’ for its attack on South Ossetia one year ago. He also condemned...
On the 70th anniversary of the NHS millions of workers who depend on the NHS must organise to bring down the Tories to save it!

Celebrate 70 years of the NHS! –by bringing down the Tories

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70 YEARS of the NHS are being celebrated with a mass demonstration today in central London supported by the TUC and 11 other health...

Priti Patel ramps up police enforcement!

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‘OUR police officers are now moving more quickly to issue fines where people are clearly breaching coronavirus regulations,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel said...
Civil servants and their children defending jobs and benefits in central London pointed out that there could be as much as £100 billion outstanding in tax fraud

Cameron ‘Bounty Hunters’ Condemned!

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The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) yesterday condemned the coalition government’s decision to use ‘bounty hunters’ to tackle alleged benefit fraud. The charity was commenting...

Tories unleash savage cuts on South Western Railway – RMT launches week of action...

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TRANSPORT union the RMT is stepping up its campaign today against ‘swingeing cuts’ on South Western Railway which will unleash an attack on rail...
NHS ambulance workers picket their London HQ over wages and jobs

PROBLEMS WITH SAFETY! – CQC warns on private ambulance providers

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THE Care Quality Commission has warned all private ambulance providers that, during its inspections, it found ‘problems with the safety’ of the care they...