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Media workers demand indefinite general strike

Media workers demand indefinite general strike

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GREEKjournalists, printers, technicians and media office workers staged a 100 per cent successful national strike on Monday against wage cuts and mass sackings, demanding...
The banner of the North-East London Council of Action on the July 5 march to parliament on the 63rd anniversary of the NHS

Brazen Cameron! Tries To Tough It Out

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PRIME Minister Cameron was repeatedly challenged yesterday over his hiring of Andy Coulson during the discussion on his statement over the News International crisis. Cameron...

Queen’s Speech delayed – as Tory crisis worsens

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SUCH is the developing crisis facing the Tory Party that the Queen’s Speech has now been delayed. It was due to be delivered on Monday...
Mothers demonstrate outside the House of Commons against government benefit cuts

Food Bank donations soar 1000% after Mail attack

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FOOD bank donations have soared 1,000% in response to the ‘utterly vile’ Mail on Sunday attack on food banks, a charity revealed yesterday. The Trussell...

‘Labour can’t be allowed to get away with it!’ – Unite’s Sharon Graham tells...

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Yesterday at the TUC Congress, moving a motion on council funding, Sharon Graham, Unite General Secretary, said: ‘We in the trade unions have enormous...
Unison leader PRENTIS with delegates from the Unison Health Conference joined the picket line at the Brighton General Hospital yesterday

Massive doctors picket lines –answer the Cameron-Hunt threats

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THE TUC must organise a national day of action in support of the junior doctors’ dispute and our NHS, the Public and Commercial Services...
Thousands marched in London last February demanding no cuts in NHS services

STOP WASTING BILLIONS ON THE HEALTH MARKET – Nagpaul to tell BMA ARM

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DOCTORS’ leader Chaand Nagpaul is today warning of an ‘all year’ crisis in the NHS as eight in ten doctors say underfunding is significantly...

Barristers Strike Growing In Strength

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HUNDREDS of striking criminal barristers held mass pickets outside the Supreme Court in London yesterday, as well as outside Preston, Plymouth and Birmingham Crown...
Marchers greeted by bakers and food workers union (BFAWU) who told them of the struggle the union had waged at Hovis where they kept out zero-hours contracts. The marchers were told that jobs for young people were one of the major concerns of the union

Manchester workers greet march!

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‘Victory to Palestine!’ rang out through the streets of Central Manchester on Day 15 of the Young Socialists March for Jobs to the TUC...

Greek seafarers win historic victory

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THE Greek seafarers’ trade union PENEN declared on Wednesday the victory of the 10-day solid strike on the ferries of the Italy-Greece line at...

TIME TO DEFEND NHS! say UNISON and the GMB

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‘We need an end to the privatisation of the NHS,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was responding to government backing for the...
North East London Council of Action march in Enfield against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

‘CUTS TO NHS ‘RISK TO LIVES’ – warns RCN leader

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‘We don’t comment on leaked documents but our concerns remain about the competitive elements in the government’s NHS reforms,’ a British Medical Association (BMA)...
NUT members on the TUC march demanding that education is defended – 6th form college members are on strike today

NUT strike is on!

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TODAY’S NUT 6th form college strike is on! The Tory government took the NUT to the High Court yesterday in an attempt to rule...

Israeli massacres across Gaza and West Bank

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‘THE Israeli occupation army has committed three massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, killing and injuring at...
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...

Labour Leads Anti-Brexit Coalition!

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TORY PM Theresa May attended a summit in Brussels yesterday, hours after 11 Tory rebels and almost the entire Labour Party and all the...
The lead banner at the anti-facsist demonstration last Saturday evening in Athens. It reads ‘Our class task is death to fascism’

6,000 youth march against Golden Dawn

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OVER 6,000 youth and workers demonstrated last Saturday evening throughout the Athens city centre against a rally organised by the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party....

200 Palestinian Prisoners Join Strike!

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MORE than 200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails joined on Sunday the over 1,800 hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, according to the...
Workers and youth turned out in their thousands last month to march against the planned closure of Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield

FIRST NHS TAKE-OVER – Heart of England Foundation Hospital swallows up Hood Hope NHS...

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This Sunday April 8th will mark the first takeover by a foundation trust hospital of a ‘bankrupt’ NHS hospital. Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust...

We shall never tolerate such crimes–Putin

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‘WE will never tolerate such crimes,’ Russian President Putin declared yesterday, after Turkish fighter planes shot down a Russian Su-24 on the Syrian border. Putin...

FBU strike ballot opens on December 5th!

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LAST week the FBU  said it would formally issue notice of ballot if ‘a substantial pay increase that takes into account the current level of inflation...
PCS delegation on a TUC demonstration against Tory government cuts

25,000 Civil Service jobs to be slashed by 6% cuts!

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TRADE unions yesterday slammed Tory chancellor Phillip Hammond’s instruction to government departments to find spending cuts of up to 6% as part of plans...

Barnet Strike Action Today

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UNISON’s Barnet branch members will be taking strike action on budget day, today, as part of their ongoing battle against the rampant privatisation of...

RCN warns ‘Patients are suffering!

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PATIENTS are suffering as the prime minister fails to tackle the waiting list crisis, RCN warns, as new analysis reveals decade of misery. The prime...
Greek workers remain defiant in the face of a Syriza regime that is now a puppet government for the Troika

Athens Court Finds ‘No’ Protesters Guilty

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AN Athens court has sentenced three marchers of the 15 July demonstration against austerity. They were accused of throwing petrol bombs at the riot...

‘TAKE STRIKE ACTION IN OUR DEFENCE!’ – urge Vestas occupiers

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‘we are calling for strike action in our defence,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith declared yesterday, after bailiffs turned up at the wind turbine...

Call NHS Day of Action! – urges consultant surgeon

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HEALTH unions yesterday slammed the government’s announcement of six new Private Finance Initiative (PFI) hospital projects costing £1.5 billion. Not only will the schemes...

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...
CWU members in Bow, east London, fighting to defend their jobs and stop the casualisation of Royal Mail

‘STRIKES WILL END’ says CWU leader Hayes

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Postal workers in delivery and collection offices around the country were out solid again on Saturday in defence of their union, the Communication Workers’...

Great Campaign In Ealing & Hackney

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‘EALING Hospital workers and patients are fully backing us over our confrontation with Tory Health Secretary Hancock here on Monday when he refused to...

TUC National Day of Action on March 15!

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There will be a National Day of Action on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak announced yesterday, as hundreds of...

Israeli occupation forces open fire on families!

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THE Israeli occupation forces yesterday morning opened fire and executed at least two displaced families who were taking shelter inside a school run by...

Medical Student Fees Could Reach £57,000 – Bma

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New medical students are likely to graduate with debts of £37,000 warns a new British Medical Association (BMA) report published today. The BMA says this...
Palestinian funeral – there are going to be many more after Israel’s barbaric attacks on the Great March of Return on the Gaza border

8 Killed & over 500 injured – by Israeli troops and tanks in Gaza

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ISRAELI forces opened fire on Friday afternoon at thousands of Palestinians who participated in the Great March of Return along Gaza borders, killing at...

‘DOCTORS WON’T TAKE IT ANYMORE’ – says BMA after 98% strike vote

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JUNIOR doctors in England have voted by an overwhelming 98% for strike action in their fight for pay restoration. Almost every junior doctor who cast...

Kiev ‘Terrorist Regime!’

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THE EXTREME right wingers making up as the self-declared ‘new Ukrainian authority’, yesterday issued an ‘arrest warrant’ for the President of the Ukraine, Viktor...

London housing crisis is spiralling out of control!

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LONDON’S housing crisis is ‘spiralling out of control’, warns the Centre for London (CfL). Last Wednesday, the independent think tank hosted the London Housing Summit,...

Mass Sackings In Greece!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of Greek workers, students and unemployed are expected to take part in rallies and demonstrations in Athens and Salonica on...

Capita Closing Third Of Offices

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OUTSOURCING firm Capita is to close over a third of its offices in the UK permanently – despite the Tory government launching a new...

Gate Gourmet Tribunals Are Completed

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THE Reading Employment Tribunal has dealt with the last 23 claims for unfair dismissal against Gate Gourmet London arising out of the mass sackings...
UNISON general secretary DAVE PRENTIS (centre)  at the NHS Together lobby of parliament on November 1st

STOP THIS CLOSURE! – Maidstone Hospital A&E threatened

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A senior consultant at Maidstone Hospital in Kent last Saturday publicly announced that he has resigned his managerial post because of plans to close...

‘Greetings to this fantastic show of strength’ says Mark Serwotka

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THERE were more than 40,000 teachers and other striking workers on the NEU demonstration on Wednesday 1st February – with the front of the...

Bring Private Care Homes Back In-House

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‘I STRONGLY believe that care homes should be taken back under local council control,’ GMB rep Dianne Wragg said yesterday. Wragg is the lead steward...
Confident striking BA cabin crew on the picket line last Thursday at Heathrow during the first of their five-day strike actions

‘WALSH WON’T BEAT US’ say cabin crew

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THERe was a family day event for the striking BA cabin crew at Bedfont Football Club yesterday, with bouncy castle, face painting and other...