Power to shut Parliament approved if No-Deal Brexit

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LABOUR Party MPs, supported by other opposition parties and some Tory MPs, pushed through an amendment to the Finance Bill last night which gives...

Hamas agrees 60-day ceasefire!

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HAMAS negotiators in Cairo have agreed a new proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, which calls for an initial 60-day truce and hostage release...

Doctors defy Starmer’s ‘48 hours to call off strike’ threat

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THE British Medical Association has responded defiantly to Labour PM Starmer’s threat to break his pledge to train 1,000 new doctors unless the union...
Teachers lobbying the Department for Education earlier this month demanding a 5 per cent pay rise will be angry their 3.5 per cent pay rise is a pay cut

Tory pay rise is a pay cut!

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‘AFTER a decade-long pay cut we are asking ourselves: is this good enough? And of what we have seen, the answer is NO,’ senior...

Tuc Condemns Attack On Single Parents

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The TUC and single parent charity Gingerbread yesterday condemned the Work and Pensions Secretary Purnell’s decision to press ahead with ‘welfare to work’ plans...

British Columbian longshore workers overwhelming strike vote

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Longshore workers in British Columbia have overwhelmingly voted to authorise industrial action, raising the prospect of a strike at the Port of Vancouver, Canada’s...

‘Spectre of Iraq’ hangs over debate!

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PRIME minister Cameron repeatedly refused to apologise, as he opened the debate on bombing Syria, for calling Labour MPs who oppose the bombing ‘a...

33 INSURGENTS FREED – in daring raid near Baquba

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Iraqi insurgents freed 33 of their comrades in a daring pre-dawn raid on a puppet authority jail north of Baghdad yesterday. At least 18 puppet...

RCN warns cuts could put patient safety at risk!

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) is warning that cuts to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) could put patient safety at risk and undermine the...

I’m Staying Put Says Brian Haw

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‘I’M NOT going to be shut up. I want the whole people of Britain to raise their voice against this,’ said peace campaigner...
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STRIKE TO DEFEND PENSIONS! – FBU delegates demand

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‘This union is not crushed, this union is not defeated, this union is united and it will be ready for a fight on pensions,’...

New York Amazon Unionised!

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WORKERS erupted in celebrations across the US on the news that Amazon workers forced the tech giant to recognise a trade union in America...

‘No return to northern Gaza!’ as Israel attacks the West Bank!

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THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...
Gate Gourmet workers yesterday – determined that they will return to work together

‘A TERRIBLE INJUSTICE’ – CPS finds Stanley murder to be ‘resaonable’

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‘I feel a terrible injustice has been done to me and my family’, Irene Stanley, the widow of Harry Stanley told News Line yesterday. She...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers on the May Day 2006 march demanding their rights

Gate Gourmet Sacked-Workers’ Lobby Tgwu Biennial Conference

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A COACHLOAD of sacked Gate Gourmet workers is lobbying the TGWU’s Biennial Conference in Brighton this morning. They are currently taking forward a large...

Pupils miss out! Primary schools at bursting point

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PARENTS found out yesterday if their child got into the primary school of their choice, while at their annual conference, the National Education Union...
Labour Party march to get the Tories out in July last year –  many Labour MPs now consider Labour leader Corbyn to be their main enemy

Labour MPs lose no confidence votes!

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TWO Labour MPs who lost no-confidence votes among local party members have told constituents they will not quit. Former minister, and chair of Labour...

Police Kept Quiet Over Mobile Phone Hacking

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The Metropolitan Police yesterday were investigating why the police had not told high-profile figures that their mobile phones were being hacked into, and why...

3 unions reject BA’s offer – strike looms!

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THREE unions – BALPA, Unite, and GMB – representing 25,000 British Airways workers have rejected the company’s latest pay deal meaning that a major...

Prosecute Netanyahu For Fraud Demands Tel Aviv Mass Rally

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Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday against moves by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to secure immunity from prosecution on fraud...
UNISON members taking strike action to defend their terms and conditions of service

Vote For Strike Action Urges Prentis

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UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis is urging a big ‘yes’ vote for strike action by its local government worker members in the ballot over...

‘Make May Day a day of struggle for Palestine’ – Hamas

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HAMAS has called on human rights and humanitarian organisations around the world to fulfill their responsibilities in exposing the escalating Israeli crimes and violations...

Cuts Will Make 40,000 Families Homeless

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Labour is to put down an urgent question in Parliament this morning, after it emerged that Prime Minister Cameron was warned six months ago...
Tower Hamlets doctors, local residents and trade unionists demonstrate against the privatisation of GP surgeries in the borough

Privatisation drive stepped up! – Competition panel formed for NHS

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In a new attack on the NHS, the government is driving Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to implement so-called ‘World Class Commissioning’, which involves selling...

No date for next meeting – Merkel

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TORY PM May was slapped down again yesterday as German Chancellor Merkel said that no progress was made on Brexit and that a date...

Russia Rejects Brown Attack

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In comments published yesterday, prime minister Brown called for a ‘root and branch’ review of the EU and NATO’s relations with Moscow to prevent...

STOP TEARING NHS APART! – UNISON tells Blair and Hewitt

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UNISON has called on Health Secretary Hewitt to ‘stop tearing the NHS apart’. Speaking ahead of yesterday’s publication of the government’s health White Paper, the...

PENSIONS ROBBERY – Rolls-Royce strike today

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ROLLS-ROYCE workers walk out on strike this morning as the struggle over the great ‘pensions robbery’ escalates. 3,500 car workers across the German car...
CWU pickets last Wednesday  at Hampstead Delivery Office determined to defend the postal service

Massive Cwu Day Of Action Friday!

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THOUSANDS of postal workers across the UK will be striking and demonstrating on Friday, July 17 against continuing cuts and executive action by...

Agencies ripping off schools – NUT supply teachers conference today

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‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to take urgent action on supply teaching. Agencies have been ripping off schools for years and have no place in the...

Union Leaders Helping Bosses Say Gourmet Workers

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angry Gate Gourmet workers told News Line over the weekend that they want their union, the TGWU, to provide them with information on who...

Warsi expenses row

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TORY party co-chair and Cabinet member, Baroness Warsi, has become involved in an expenses row. She has admitted failing to declare rental...

TORTURE! MURDER! & tens of thousands displaced in Cameron’s ‘free Libya’

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Armed militias operating across Libya are committing widespread human rights abuses with impunity, warned Amnesty International in a new report released yesterday. The report, Militias...
Unison members demonstrating against government plans for local pay on the TUC march last October 2012. Such protests could be criminalised under the Lobbying Bill

The Lobbying Bill is a ‘massive attack on trade union rights!’

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THE government’s Lobbying Bill is an ‘outrageous attack on freedom of speech worthy of an authoritarian dictatorship’, the TUC said yesterday. The TUC is seeking...

‘WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK!’ – March with locked-out Gate Gourmet workers this Sunday...

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‘WE have got more and more support for our fight to get our jobs back’, locked out Gate Gourmet worker Palmjit Bains told News...

LIBYAN CEASEFIRE! – but imperialists proceed with war plan

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Libyan Foreign minister Moussa Koussa yesterday announced: ‘My country will do its best to deal positively with this resolution’, in the wake of Thursday...
The ‘Defend the Welfare State’ march in London on April 11 with the central issue to the fore of stopping the privatisation of the NHS

‘INTO THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY WITH THE PFI’ says GP’s chairman Buckman

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THE BMA’s GP Chairman Dr Laurence Buckman yesterday outlined, at the GPs conference, areas of the NHS which should be cut or reviewed. With NHS...

Paying Mortgage By Credit Card!

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More than two million people have used credit cards to pay their mortgage or rent, an increase of almost 50 per cent in a...

Syrian local elections ‘prove the failure of our enemies’ – President Assad

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SYRIAN president Bashar al-Assad said that holding local council elections on time proves the strength of the Syrian people and the state. In a speech...

GPs reject privatisation

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AT THE BMA Local Medical Committees (England) conference yesterday, GPs voted against a proposal to allow privatised GP services in England. The motion stated:...
BMA Junior Doctors Committee member YIANNIS GOURTSOYANNIS taking a leading part in Tuesday night’s lobby of 10 Downing Street to denounce the cuts expected in Osborne’s Autumn Statement

Join Our Picket Lines Urge Junior Doctors!

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MORE than 100 demonstrators were outside 10 Downing Street on Tuesday night to protest against Osborne’s Autumn Statement of £20bn more cuts...

Government Rushes To Placate Angry Generals

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THE government has ruled that millions of pounds of compensation will be paid to British troops wounded in Iraq after May 2003, when the...

Docklands strike illegal!

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THE rail union RMT yesterday called off the Docklands Light Railway 48-hour strike after it was declared illegal by the judiciary. In a message to...

Sunak halved school rebuilding budget!

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cut the schools repair budget in half in 2021 when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, it emerged yesterday...