2,200-strong bus drivers strike solid – Bus drivers demand renationalisation

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THE BUS strike by 2,200 Unite members employed by the privateer RATP at eight London garages was solid yesterday, with strikers demanding that the...

Darzai Private Nursing Plans

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The GMB trade union yesterday expressed serious concerns over plans for a nurse-led privatised NHS contained in health minister Lord Darzi’s review, due to...
Junior doctors from Remedy UK outside the High Court yesterday before the start of their judicial review over ‘MTAS’

ABSOLUTE CHAOS! – doctors training crisis continues

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JUNIOR doctors went to the High Court yesterday in a bid to get the online Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) ruled ‘unlawful’, warning...

‘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...
A section of the two million-strong demonstration in London on February 15 2003 on the eve of the war against Iraq

Campbell Defends All Of The ‘dodgy Dossier’

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ALASTAIR Campbell yesterday defended ‘every single word’ of the notorious ‘sexed up’ dodgy dossier of September 2002, that was used by a desperate Blair...

Call general strike! Bring down coalition! Forward to workers government!

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TODAY’S march called by the TUC must not be just another mass demonstration against the drive by this coalition to bail out the banks...
French workers marching through Paris last week against the privatisation measures of the Sarkozy regime

Ports Stop Across Eu!

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Several thousand striking fishermen from across Spain, as well as some of their counterparts from France, Italy and Scotland, protested outside the Ministry of...

St Mungo’s 10 weeks on strike – as rough sleeping soars

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TEN weeks into their indefinite strike for a 10% pay increase, over 200 St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers and their supporters held a festival...

Unions recommend Tata deal – despite pension cuts and no job guarantees

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UNITE, Community and GMB trade unions yesterday called on Tata steel workers at Port Talbot to vote ‘YES’ when the...
Masses of firefighters took part in yesterday’s demonstration and showed their determination to beat this reactionary Tory-led government

‘We rescue people not banks’ say 4,000 firefighters marching in London

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OVER 4,000 firefighters marched through central London yesterday against attacks on their pensions and cuts to the fire service. The front banner read: ‘We Rescue...

‘REOPEN ERT STATE TV!’ –Greek workers demand of Syriza

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The sacked ERT state TV and radio workers’ union POSPERT has called a mass rally in Athens for Wednesday 11 February. They are demanding that...
Police escort resident to his door in Lansdown Road, Forest Gate, yesterday midday, with number 46 hidden by plastic sheeting

Raid Police Broke Into Neighbour’s Home

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) issued an update yesterday on its investigation into the Forest Gate police shooting of 23-year-old Abdul Kahar. The IPCC...
Greek workers completely rejected the EU but their leaders crumbled– a lesson for British workers

Arrogant Barnier to ‘teach British a lesson!’

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EU COMMISSION chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, gave a master class in arrogance yesterday as he looked down his nose at the UK...

TAKE ON GM! – urges ATUA National Secretary

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The 900 Vauxhall Ellesmere Port workers told yesterday they are being sacked in August have been abandoned by their trade union leaders and the...

‘JULIAN ASSANGE WILL BE A FREE MAN!’ says his wife Stella Assange

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JULIAN ASSANGE will ‘be a free man’ once a plea deal with the US is ‘signed off by a judge’, his wife Stella Assange...

‘cowardly’ Attack On Gadaffi Compound

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Libya condemned as ‘cowardly’ a series of NATO air strikes targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli early yesterday. Gadaffi’s whereabouts at...

‘We Won’t Let You Close Lewisham Hospital’

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LEWISHAM East Labour MP Heidi Alexander handed in a 22,000 signature petition to Downing Street yesterday against plans to axe Lewisham Hospital’s A&E and...

Sharma refuses to sign petition to reopen Ealing paediatrics and maternity

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EALING Southall Labour MP Varindra Sharma refused to sign the West London Council of Action petition to reopen maternity and paediatrics at Ealing Hospital...
Journalist JOHN PILGER (centre) joins HENGRIDE PERMAL (left of centre) and OLIVIER BANCOULT (third from the right, front row) in a demonstration against the House of Lords ruling yesterday

HOUSE OF LORDS RULES FOR US IMPERIALISM! – Abolishes the right to return of...

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‘WE WILL return to the Chagos Islands – it’s our right!’, ‘We will return to Diego Garcia – it’s our right!’ shouted more than...

Thousands join BBC unions to take strike action!

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The BBC was gripped by the biggest strike in ten years yesterday, as over 11,000 journalists and technicians from all three BBC unions –...

‘If the doctors strikes are banned the TUC must call a general strike and...

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‘IF THEY ban the doctors strikes the British Medical Association must call on the other unions to come out with them. If doctors strikes...
Convenors, shop stewards and Unite officials at Parliament Square awaiting the arrival of the nine-car ‘drive-by’ yesterday

‘NATIONALISATION IS NOT APPROPRIATE’ – for GM plants says national officer Osborne

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NINE Vauxhall cars and vans from the 1960s to the present day came to London yesterday for a ‘drive-by’ of parliament ‘to showcase the...
Greek workers during general strike action in Athens in May

Greek Hospitals Collapse!

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THE Greek government have stopped financing hospitals and the result is that patients cannot receive even the most elementary of treatments due to a...
Christmas under the Israeli occupation in Bethlehem

Pre-dawn raids in Palestine

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ISRAELI authorities issued administrative detention orders, without charge or trial, against 22 Palestinians on Wednesday, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported. PPS said that 16...

Infected blood scandal – 72 died from contaminated drug at single school

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A PUBLIC inquiry yesterday heard from students and parents after more than 120 ex pupils at a school for disabled children were caught up...

‘CHILD Q’ STRIP-SEARCHING – new guidelines are to be introduced

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MUCH tougher guidelines will be introduced in response to the ‘hugely distressing’ strip-searching of a black schoolgirl referred to as Child Q, the education...

Brown Savages Sick And Poor

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Prime minister Brown signalled more attacks on workers, the sick, unemployed and disabled people in his speech to MPs yesterday, outlining the government’s draft...

May Put On 3 Days Notice

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THE LABOUR, Tory, LibDem, SNP alliance of pro-EU MPs yesterday afternoon delivered another blow on behalf of the European Union against the 2016 referendum...

NO TRIAL BY MEDIA! mass protest in support of Grenfell firefighters

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A MASS protest in support of the fire service took place outside Ladbroke Grove fire station on Monday night, by residents who live in...

GREEK RIOT POLICE ATTACK PROTEST! – thousands march against Police State Bill

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FROM NICK AXARLIS IN ATHENS SCORES of Greek armed riot police attacked thousands of workers and students with tear-gas and noise-smoke grenades last Thursday night...
Demonstrators with their placards as they assembled opposite the House of Commons before Monday’s vote on the ID cards bill

SADDAM DEFIANT – as witness refuses to testify

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The ‘trial’ of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein collapsed into into chaos minutes after it was resumed again yesterday. After boycotting the ‘trial’, Saddam arrived saying...

Universities strike ballot opens today!

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STRIKE ballots will open at 143 universities across the UK from today in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions. The University and College Union...

ACUTE MALNUTRITION! – being suffered by one third of Gaza infants

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ONE million children in Gaza are in critical need of life-saving health services and supplies, UNICEF’s West Asia and North Africa regional director warns...
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...

Junior doctors be warned over the new GPs contract!

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JUNIOR doctors be warned. A historic new GP contract has been quietly negotiated by the BMA and NHSEngland, designed to catapult NHS healthcare into...

‘WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS’ says Gate Gourmet Branch Secretary

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‘THE union solicitor is filing our cases for employment tribunals. The cases must be filed before 90 days, we’ve waited for the company to...
The funeral of Musaab al-Tamimi in the village of Deir Nitham, northwest of the city of Ramallah, to his last resting place. Photo credit: Tamer Bana/WAFA

Funeral procession of Musaab al-Tamimi attacked

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A NUMBER of Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli forces, including a critical injury, during clashes in the Ramallah-district village of Deir Nitham...

Syria To Get S-300 Anti-Aircraft Missiles

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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says Russia is going ahead with deliveries of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to the Syrian army. The arms will help...

Gate Gourmet Pickets Join Terminal 5 Strikers

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WHILST out campaigning yesterday, Gate Gourmet workers, now locked out for almost six months, spoke out very angrily about the unsigned letter just received...
Police attack workers and youth in Athens – they have now been turned loose on immigrants

Armed Police Hunt For ‘Illegals’ In Athens

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GREEK armed riot police squads assisted by other police units yesterday continued, for the fourth day running, the biggest pogrom against immigrant workers and...
Banner with a vivid message on the powerful 20,000-strong march against the closure of Lewisham Hospital last November

OCCUPY LEWISHAM HOSPITAL! – Administrator threatens closure

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Unions and local campaigners responded with fury yesterday after the Coalition’s ‘special administrator’ Matthew Kershaw called for the winding up of the South London...

London Tube Staff To Walk Out

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TUBE staff have called for urgent talks with London’s mayor to avert a strike expected to cause severe disruption. Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union...
Cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, PATRICIA DA SILVA ARMANI leading last Saturday’s United Families and Friends Campaign annual march against deaths in state custody

Met Police Guilty In de Menezes Killing

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THE Cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, Erionaldo da Silva said yesterday: ‘I have spoken to Jean Charles’ mother Maria, in Brazil and she...
Armed policeman in central London

January conference for locked-out Gate Gourmet workers

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DEFIANT Gate Gourmet locked out workers were standing on the picket line in the freezing cold yesterday determined to win their jobs back and...