Victory to the Crown Post Office strikers!

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‘THE 97.3% strike vote shows the anger of our members and their determination to defeat the pay freeze,’ Mole Meade, Communication Workers Union (CWU)...
London demonstration last July showing support for Hezbollah

One Million Lebanese Take To The Streets

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over one million Lebanese crowded the streets around the office of Lebanese Prime Minister Fu’ad Siniora in central Beirut yesterday, calling for his...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and their campaign team won big support on Southall High Street and from postal workers at Greenford Mail Centre yesterday

Postal workers back Gate Gourmet rally

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POSTAL workers from the Greenford Mail Centre, one of the biggest in the country, are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ first...
Camden GPs marching against NHS privatisation. Meanwhile the Tory-led coalition says that under-5s don’t need anti-flu jabs

FEARS OVER CHILD FLU EPIDEMIC – as children return to school

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worried parents are fearful that a flu epidemic is set to explode from today, when ten million children return to school after the Christmas...

‘No credible route to a zero Covid UK’ says Johnson setting out ‘road map...

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‘THERE IS no credible route to a zero Covid Britain or indeed a zero Covid world,’ Tory PM Johnson told Parliament yesterday, setting out...

Police Corruption Review Over Lawrence Murder

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HOME Secretary, Theresa May has ordered a new ‘QC-led review’ into allegations that police corruption hampered the original failed investigation, nineteen years after the...
Part of the mass lobby of the law courts by 100 firefighters midday yesterday to stop Mayor Johnson’s savage cuts

100 firefighters picket courts! – to stop closure of 10 London fire stations and...

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OVER 100 firefighters picketed the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday against the decision to close ten fire stations in London and cut 552 jobs...

‘Covered In Blood Up To Their Elbows’

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PRESIDENT Putin’s press spokesman Dmitriy Peskov told journalists on Saturday that Moscow was getting thousands of calls from people in Ukraine’s southeast: ‘People...

GM decision this week – says German Economy Minister

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General Motors is expected to make a ‘fundamental decision’ this week about selling GM Europe, which includes Germany’s Opel and the UK’s Vauxhall, threatening...
Locked -out gate Gourmet workers during their successful lobby of the TGWU Executive meeting earlier this month

‘WE ARE STRONG AND WE WILL WIN’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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‘NOW that Eric Born (managing director Gate Gourmet UK and Ireland) has admitted that only 137 have signed the Compromise Agreement, it shows that...

20 Nations demand that Israel scraps West Bank occupation plans!

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ISRAEL’S approval of the E1 settlement scheme in the occupied West Bank has provoked condemnation from more than 20 countries, including several members of...
Junior doctors defending the NHS from Hunt and the Tories

Government failing NHS – says BMA leader Mark Porter

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THE BMA doctors’ union and the RCN nurses’ union joined hands in denouncing the Tory government’s onslaught on the NHS yesterday, after the...
Brighton Council workers on the picket line against £4,000-a-year wage cuts!

£14.4bn BLACK HOLE THREAT TO 70,000 MORE JOBS!

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A £14.4 billion funding black hole threatens to swallow public services, say the council leaders of the Local Government Association. A LGA statement said: ‘The...
The Friday night occupation of the Vouli (parliament) square in Athens

‘GET OUT OF HERE!’ – Athens Vouli Popular Assembly tells Papandreou

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FOR the fourth successive night, tens of thousands of youth and workers congregated in the main square of Athens outside the Vouli (Greek parliament)...

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...
Local government workers of the Paiania local council. Their banner reads ‘For a movement to overthrow government and  troika – not a movement of compromise and submission’

48-hour rolling strikes in Greece

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THE Executive Committee of YENOP (the trades unions federation of the Public Electricity Board), the biggest trade union federation in Greece, decided last Friday...

Brown Coalition Bid – Ready To Go

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GORDON BROWN offered the Liberals a coalition yesterday evening, and his resignation as PM by the time of the Labour Party conference. Brown, speaking outside...
Southern rail guards and their supporters lobbying Parliament last November

RMT Southern 24Hr Strike Action

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THE RMT rail union announced yesterday that guards and drivers on Southern Rail will strike for 24 hours next Wednesday, and Tube drivers will...

‘Only come in if you’re dying’ – Suffolk A&E

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NHS Suffolk warned patients not to visit A&E over the Bank Holiday weekend unless they are dying. The primary care trust said it stood...
Two of the protesters outside the embassy of Ecuador who have ideas about making big changes in the UK

Bradley Manning must be released says Assange

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THE head of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, yesterday afternoon thanked supporters for ‘turning out in the middle of the night’ when ‘police were storming up...

KREMLIN ATTACK WAS ON WASHINGTON’S ORDERS – says Peskov

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RUSSIA is considering various options to respond to Kiev’s attempted drone attack on the Kremlin, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters yesterday. Moscow is well...

HOME OFFICE CAN’T STARVE REFUGEES – Law Lords reject Blunkett’s law

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Homeless charity Shelter and the Refugee Council yesterday both welcomed the Law Lords’ unanimous rejection of the controversial law pushed through by former Home...

TORTURE NO CRIME! – no action against MI5

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); will not prosecute an MI5 officer over the torture of UK resident Binyam Mohamed in Pakistan in 2002, Director...

NURSES ANGRY! – ready for industrial action

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ROYAL College of Nursing members in England will be asked next Monday if they favour a ballot for strike action to force the government...

Robots to replace nurses treating dementia!

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PLANS were pushed forward yesterday to drive patients out of hospital, see their GP via the internet rather than face-to-face and even have robots...
Students join lecturers on the picket line outside Imperial College in west London on the second day of their nationwide strike

‘LECTURERS ARE WINNING FIGHT’ – 15 Vice-Chancellors urge ‘peace talks’

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THE UNIVERSITY lecturers’ strikes are having a a massive impact, and, with the overwhelming support of the vast majority of students, the Vice-Chancellors...

Junior Doctors – nine more strike dates

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JUNIOR Doctors are to strike for three days before Christmas and six early in the New Year following five weeks of fruitless talks between...
CWU branch secretaries and area reps at Friends Meeting House in London yesterday

Royal Mail Deal Sell-Out!

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‘IT’S A bad deal. I think it should be thrown out.’ That was the reaction of one delegate, Tam Dewar from Scotland, after a national...

Tories withdraw infection control fund today!

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TODAY, the Tory government withdraws the infection control fund. This was support for those working in care to help them when they fall sick. Unison...
RMT and TSSA on a ‘Ghost Train’ protest in Hammersmith against the closure of every ticket office across London Underground and the sacking of 1,000 staff

Tube Strike Tonight!

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TUBE workers are walking out on the first of two 48-hour strikes tonight over plans to close all 278 of the capital’s Underground ticket...
PAUL KING, stepson of Ian Tomlinson, addressing the press outside the office of the Crown Prosecution Service yesterday

G20 Policeman To Face Manslaughter Charge

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‘We welcome today’s decision to bring a charge of manslaughter against the officer,’ said newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson’s stepson Paul King on behalf of...

100 TORY MPs READY TO REBEL

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THE TORY civil war is continuing with reports yesterday that as many as 100 Tory MPs are preparing to rebel against PM...

Allies warn Russia to stop bombing ISIS

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TURKEY, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have called on Russia to stop its air strikes in Syria,...

END GAZA BLOCKADE! – UK agencies urge UK, US, Russia and UN

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UK agencies yesterday called on members of the Mid-East Quartet meeting in London (the US, EU, Russia and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon) to put...
A section of the mass picket outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday

Occupy Chase Farm To Stop It Closing

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Patients, staff and Enfield and district residents yesterday welcomed the mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital by the North East London Council of...
The front of last November’s 3,000-strong march through Enfield against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

‘We won’t let Chase Farm close’

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ENFIELD residents told News Line yesterday: we won’t let Chase Farm close! Stuart Hasler, a young Enfield resident, who joined in the campaigning and gave...
CWU strikers on the picket line at the Wimbledon Delivery Office

Cwu-Royal Mail Talks

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has been in ‘intermittent’ talks with Royal Mail for weeks, CWU London Regional Secretary John Denton confirmed to News...

MI5 chief urges war on liberty! – ‘blank cheque for unlimited surveillance’

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FOR the first time ever, the serving director of MI5, Andrew Parker, yesterday gave a live BBC interview in a bid to push MPs...

‘A Leave Population And A Remain Parliament!’

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TORY International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has accused pro-Remain MPs of trying to ‘in effect steal Brexit’. He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show...

May postpones vote on Brexit!

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‘ON ONE issue on the Northern Ireland backstop there remains widespread and deep concern. As a result, if we went ahead and held...

Kent blood services not for sale!–Unite

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THE PRIVATISATION of the NHS blood samples service in Kent will put patients’ lives at risk, Unite warned yesterday, adding: ‘It must be stopped!’ A...

‘Dreadful Outlook For Wages!’

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LIVING standards are the worst since the last war ‘if not since the 1920s’, the leader of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) declared...

READY FOR GENERAL ELECTION says Labour leader Corbyn

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JEREMY Corbyn has put Labour activists on ‘permanent notice’ amid rumours in Westminster of another general election. He said he would ‘absolutely welcome’ a...

Israeli warships approach the Gaza-bound flotilla!

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AS THE the Global Sumud Flotilla neared the Gaza coast yesterday an Israeli warship approached the leading Alma vessel, causing a disruption in communications...

OCCUPY GM! – defend every job says ATUA Secretary Wiltshire

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German workers are holding ‘warning strikes’ today over General Motors scrapping the sale of GM Europe, which includes Opel and Vauxhall, to Magna. The GM...