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Young Socialists March for Jobs took part on Wednesday’s massive student demonstration in London where its policies won massive support

Ys March For Jobs Reaches Birmingham

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education marched from Wolverhampton to Birmingham yesterday. And last night they were staying at the Irish...

Huge food price rises!

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ALREADY soaring food prices are set to rocket as winter approaches, the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) warned yesterday, saying wheat yields in England are...

UK-US CRISIS – Washington to challenge Chinese investment in UK

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A CLAUSE in the newly signed UK-US trade agreement has provoked fierce criticism after it was revealed that Washington will be granted powers to...
The marchers got the full support of Unite’s Sainsbury’s National Committee for the Young Socialists March for Jobs to the TUC Congress

Unite workers support March

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JOE Morgan from the GMB yesterday morning treated the YS marchers to a hearty breakfast to fuel their journey from Birmingham out to Wolverhampton...
BEN GRIFFIN, an SAS trooper who refused to serve in Iraq addresses rally on the third anniversary of the attack on Iraq

Combat Troops For Afghanistan

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Britain is considering sending more troops to Afghanistan ‘as a matter of urgency’ Defence Secretary Des Browne told MPs yesterday. In a statement to the...

‘We strike to protect ourselves and our patients!’ – say Guy’s and St Thomas’...

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STRIKING Day Surgery nurses at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Trust are holding a demonstration at 2pm today at Guy’s Hospital entrance, St Thomas’ Road...

Junior doctors to vote ‘NO’!

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JUNIOR doctors urged their colleagues yesterday to vote ‘NO’ and reject the so-called ‘deal’ struck by Tory health secretary Hunt and the...

Panic As China Cuts Rates Again!

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CHINA cut its main interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 4.6% yesterday, for the fifth time since November, as it moved to try...
CHRISTINE O’DONNELL (holding  News Line) with a friend in Luton town centre

Support For Luton Occupation!

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Talks between German government ministers and GM and US government representatives are resuming in Berlin today to decide who will take over GM...

5th day of Haitian protests rage

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A fifth day of anti-government protests raged in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and other cities on Monday, paralysing much of the country amid rising...

REINSTATE ENFIELD GP – Haringey BMA condemns surgery closure

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A MEETING of Enfield and Haringey Division of the BMA yesterday stated that it was appalled by the treatment of Dr...

Resident Doctors striking to defend NHS! – – BMA leaders defy Streeting tirade

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Resident doctors in England have announced new strike dates, following the continuing refusal of the Labour government to make a credible offer on jobs...
Thousands of workers were in the ERT ground’s last Wednesday evening defending the occupation

‘Overthrow Junta!’ Greek Workers Ready To Act

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OVER 10,000 workers and youth gathered at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) grounds on Wednesday evening on the 9th day and night...

TPP pushed through!

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THE HATED anti-working class, pro-privatisation ‘Trans-Pacific Partnership’ deal was pushed through yesterday, in the teeth of opposition. Leaders from a dozen countries agreed the trade...

Fury over US health firms takeover of GP practices Doctors in Unite protest tomorrow

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A PROTEST against GP practices being taken over by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation – branded as ‘the accelerating privatisation of the NHS...
Left to right: Unite convenors LAURIE EVANS and GARY REA, GM UK Finance Director RICHARD MOLYNEUX with Lord MANDELSON and GM UK Chairman BILL PARFITT (far right)

GM CRISIS – Mandelson rules out Luton nationalisation

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BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson emerged from his meeting with union officials and the top General Motors management in Luton yesterday unable to guarantee the...

Chase Farm – Council Seeks A Judicial Review

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Enfield Council leaders have decided to mount a legal challenge to Health Secretary Johnson’s decision to close Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E and consultant-led Maternity...

Tories, Labour & SNP join forces to attack China!

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TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s latest attack on China – suspending the UKs extradition treaty with the country, was supported by all Parties, turning...
NUJ members picketing Bush House in May last year against cuts in the service

BBC STRIKE BALLOT – over job cuts, pensions and pay

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THE BBC is set to face strike action over job cuts, pensions and pay as unions declared a series of actions in the wake...

General strike across Palestine today! ‘Recall Israeli ambassadors’ – Palestinian PM Shtayyeh

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A GENERAL strike has been called for today across the whole of Palestine. The call began from Palestinians living and working in Israel and was...

Gaza death toll passes 39,000!

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THE GAZA death toll passed the 39,000 mark yesterday with the Health Ministry reporting at least 39,006 Palestinians have been killed and 89,818 wounded...
West London Council of Action campaigning to save Ealing Hospital’s A&E – picketing alongside junior doctors during their last strike

Tories use ‘winter crisis’ to scrap thousands of ops!

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THE TORY war on the NHS is continuing with thousands of operations to be cancelled and senior doctors diverted from operating theatres under the...

BANKS QUARTER PER CENT RATE CUT – Bosses warn ‘economic climate is worsening’

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Yesterday’s Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decision to cut interest rates from 4.75 per cent to 4.5 per cent, provoked worried reactions. The...
Unison conference delegates voting to oppose the coalition’s attacks on health, education and pensions

Prentis ‘Call To Arms!’

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UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday made a ‘call to arms’ at the union’s national delegate conference urging delegates to stand ready...

Blair’s Market – For Both Health And Education

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday announced plans for a ‘system of independent, self-governing state schools’, and an education ‘market based on choice’, with changes being...
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...

‘Grenfell must never happen again’ – 500-strong Silent Walk

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OVER 500 residents of north Kensington taking part in the 20th Silent Walk for Grenfell were joined by a large delegation of firefighters from...
Demonstrators in London last May determined to defend the NHS

BMA rejects NHS charging

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) is today warning against NHS charging. Responding to Lord Warner’s call to introduce charging patients a monthly fee to...

Cable tells Vauxhall plants . . . YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN!

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BUSINESS Secretary Cable has warned General Motors that the planned development of the Ellesmere Port and Luton car plants will not get government support. This...
Over 1,500 supporters of the occupation of Carnegie Library marched through Brixton on Saturday demanding it be kept open

1,500 march to stop library closures

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OVER 1,500 people marched on Saturday to oppose Lambeth Council’s closure of five of the ten libraries in the borough. The people from Carnegie...
Greek hospital workers demanding free health care for all. Their banner declares ‘All together we will win!’

Greek workers march against cuts and privatisation!

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THREE thousand hospital workers, Metro workers, primary school teachers and pensioners marched through Greece’s capital, Athens last Wednesday. The day of strike action was against...

‘SHOCKING ABUSE!’ – at the hands of the state

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PEOPLE who have fled to Britain, seeking help and refuge, are suffering horrifying violence at the hands of the British state, it was alleged...

Ambulance crisis! – caused by bed shortages

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HOSPITAL bed and staff shortages are causing suffering for patients in the West Midlands as ambulances cannot deliver patents for treatment, the area’s senior...
Postal workers from across the country marched on the Labour Party Conference on Monday against the Brown government’s decimation of postal services, their jobs and pensions

BANKRUPT BROWN – No policies to deal with crisis

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday revealed he has no policies to deal with the economic crisis in the interests of workers. In his keynote address to...

Uni Strike Suspension Condemned!

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THE SUSPENSION of national strike action across 150 universities by the UCU lecturers union was condemned by a leading London member of the union...
The front of the 20,000-strong march in January last year to stop the closure of Lewisham Hospital

MILIBAND SUPPORTS US-LED BOMBING OF SYRIA – and pledges to repeal Health & Social...

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LABOUR leader Ed Milliband opened his speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday by throwing his full support behind the US-led bombing raids on...

NHS – 15% Rise Now!

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PROTESTS took place outside hospitals yesterday morning after the call by unions to turn April 1st into a day of action for NHS staff...

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...

Rising Uni Drop-Out Rate

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RISING numbers of students from more disadvantaged homes are dropping out of universities in England before completing their studies, figures show. The proportion of youngsters...

Go to work tomorrow! says Johnson – but don’t use public transport

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‘WE SAID you should work from home if you can and if you can’t work from home not to work. We have now changed...

Sports Direct boss admits ‘illegal’ practice

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SPORTS Direct boss Mike Ashley admitted, during a grilling by a committee of MPs yesterday, that he was effectively paying warehouse workers less than...
Remploy workers and supporters campaigning in Brixton yesterday

HORRIFIC INJUSTICE! – Alder family will not give up

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LIBERTY this week asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to determine if Christopher Alder’s death in police custody has been properly investigated...
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....

The prince and the oligarch

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AN investment bank, led by an oligarch who collaborated with Prince Charles on charity work, managed a network of offshore companies moving billions out...

Family of Jean Charles de Menezes visit site of their son’s murder

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A distraught Maria Otone de Menezes visiting Stockwell tube station yesterday, the site of her son's murder. she called for her son, Jean Charles'...