Ritzy cinema strikers were joined yesterday afternoon by TUC general Secretary FRANCES O’GRADY who also welcomed the Young Socialists March for Jobs starting on August 19th to the TUC Congress in Liverpool

‘Ministers keen on kicking struggling youngsters when they are down!’

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THE TUC said yesterday that young people not in full-time education are now less likely to be in work than people of other ages...

Stockholm Youth Uprising

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YOUTH in Stockholm have risen up in anger over the last three days and faced police attacks and racist abuse, following the police shooting...

632,000 child deaths since Saudi-led war on Yemen

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YEMEN’S Ministry of Public Health and Population has given a detailed report on the devastating effects the Saudi-led coalition war – which it launched...

Johnson blasts ‘gloomsters’

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THE NEW PM Boris Johnson, making his first speech outside the doors of 10 Downing Street yesterday at 4pm, denounced the ‘pessimists at home...

BIGGEST DAY OF STRIKE ACTION FOR DECADES! – over 500,000 workers strike

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MORE than half a million workers are striking today in Britain’s biggest day of strike action for decades. Hundreds of thousands of members of eight...

SAVE LEGAL AID! – first ever barristers strike today

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‘Save Legal Aid!’ barristers and solicitors are demanding as they take historic strike action today, starting with a 9.30-10.30am demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court,...
‘Defend Lewisham Bridge School’ campaigners joined by students from Goldsmiths College demonstrating against Brown yesterday

HANDS OFF OUR SCHOOLS! – parents lobby Brown

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ANGRY parents occupying the roof of Lewisham Bridge Primary School and students from Goldsmiths College demonstrated against Prime Minister Brown when he arrived...
Corus workers at the front of the recent Unite march in Birmingham – almost 3,000 of them face the sack. Both Corus and GM Luton must be nationalised

MASS LOBBY OF MPs NEEDED – to demand GM nationalisation

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‘What is needed is a mass lobby of parliament to demand nationalisation,’ former GM Luton TGWU convenor Arthur Lynn told News Line yesterday. Commenting on...
Members of the Royal College of Nursing with their banners demonstrating against mass sackings of NHS staff on March 26

RCN slams Health Bill

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Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr Peter Carter yesterday condemned ‘billions of pounds’ of NHS cuts, with thousands of nursing jobs being...

CGT warns French fascists will attack the trade unions

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‘ON THE EVE of a crucial election for our Republic,’ the CGT French trade union federation warned of the ‘alarming consequences for our freedoms...

West Thames College – 8th day of strike action for 5% pay rise

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PASSING lorries, cars and buses hooted in support along the busy London Road in Isleworth, west London, as University and College Union (UCU) members...
2,500 march in Berne to support Gate Gourmet workers

‘parent Power’ To Defeat Trusts

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The leaders of Britain’s biggest teachers’ union, the National Union of Teachers, are appealing to ‘parent power’ to defeat the government’s ‘trust schools’...
Nurses marching in Nottingham against the government’s drive to privatise the NHS

Staffs NHS Crisis Continues

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The staffing crisis is continuing at Stafford Hospital, senior consultant Dr Pradip Singh has alleged. This is three months after the publication of a damning...

Cameron Wants An ‘English Parliament’!

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THE SMITH Commission has announced recommendations that devolution be strengthened, with new powers for the Scottish Parliament to set income tax rates, benefits and...
Anti-academy protestors demonstrating outside the headquarters of ARK yesterday

Stop Ark Take Over Of State Schools

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ANTI-ACADEMY protestors demonstrated yesterday afternoon outside the central London headquarters of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), which is involved in the building of 12...

4,000 Greek students march in support of hunger striker

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SOME 4,000 students and workers marched in Athens on Monday night in the biggest demonstration so far in support of imprisoned hunger striker Dimitris...

Parliament in crisis over Taliban victory!

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THE HOUSE of Commons met on Wednesday morning at 9.30 am to discuss the implications of the major defeat suffered by both the US...

CORPORATE DEBT BUBBLE SET TO BURST

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THE CORPORATE debt mountain may trigger a devastating, self-feeding chain reaction of fire sales of junk bonds, threatening to collapse the entire financial system,...
Junior doctors marching in defence of the NHS in November last year  – face more sackings under Brown’s Blairite plan

Pm Brown Unveils ‘Self-Treatment’ By ‘Expert Patients’!

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Patients should ask ‘not what the NHS can do for you, but what you can do for the NHS,’ prime minister Brown warned yesterday. In...

UK turning a blind eye to refugees

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THE UK is turning a blind eye to suffering on its doorstep by failing to protect vulnerable refugees, who have been displaced by conflict,...

THREE MILLION FEAR FOR JOBS – TUC must act, says ATUA

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‘The TUC leaders must act to defend jobs or make way for those who will,’ Dave Wiltshire, national secretary of the All Trades Union...
The North East London Council of Action lobbied the Barnet Care Commissioning Group meeting demanding that Chase Farm must not close

CLOSING CHASE FARM IS ILLEGAL says Enfield Council

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‘AFTER taking legal counsel’s advice, the closure of Chase Farm Hospital would be unlawful,’ Enfield Council warned yesterday. This was its response to the decision...
Two of the students occupying SOAS yesterday in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza

BRING DOWN THE TORIES! – students marching today

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THE School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) was occupied yesterday in solidarity with the Palestinian masses of Gaza who are under murderous...

‘Grenfell Tower was a death trap before any firefighter arrived!’ – says Matt Wrack...

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MATT WRACK, the FBU general secretary, said yesterday in response to the Grenfell Tower inquiry phase one report: ‘The Inquiry’s interim report must finally...
Assange supporters demonstrating outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London against attempts to extradite Julian Assange

US Is Preparing Assange Charges

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THE US Justice Department is preparing charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose website published thousands of classified US government documents. US federal prosecutors inadvertently...

Birmingham bin men mark one year with mass protest

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A LIVELY picket of 200 bin men, came out in support of the bin strikers in Birmingham yesterday morning, marking one year of the...
Yesterday’s West London Council of Action picket to keep the Maternity open at Ealing Hospital

‘Keep Ealing Maternity open or A&E will be next!’

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‘WE ARE all very upset, my colleagues and I are being told to go and work elsewhere. We will support the meeting and the...

Truss To Lift Cap On Bankers’ Bonuses!

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PM TRUSS is determined to remove a cap on bankers’ bonuses as part of a post-Brexit shake-up of City rules, to really get the...
NHS campaigners from around the country lobbied Parliament against privatisation and cuts

NHS privatisation must be stopped!

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A LOBBY of Parliament called by the Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign, and backed by the Unite trade union, was held yesterday, midday. It was...

GM BOSS SACKED! – restructuring to be speeded up

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General Motors Board of Directors Chairman, Ed Whitacre, known for his asset stripping and merger programme at telecoms empire AT&T, has taken the helm...

MAY ‘A DEAD WOMAN WALKING!’ – says ex-Chancellor Osborne

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THE TORY Party was in increasing disarray yesterday in the wake of the general election, with former Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, calling PM May...
Demonstrators outside the Maudsley Hospital in south London yesterday said there would have to be action to stop the closure of its emergency clinic and the Felix Post Unit day hospital for the elderly

‘Take action to stop Maudsley closure’

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UP to sixty trade unionists, patients, local residents and youth demonstrated outside the Maudsley Hospital, south London yesterday, against planned cuts including the closure...

‘Unite, Rise Up And Resist The Invaders’

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President Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis to ‘unite, rise up and resist the invaders’, at his show trial yesterday. This prompted chief judge Rauf Abdel...

Mobilise Against Starvation And Genocide!

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THE Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported yesterday afternoon that 109 Palestinians were killed and 216 others injured in the escalating Israeli...

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...
Don't Let Junior Doctors Strike Be Defeated!

Don’t Let Junior Doctors Strike Be Defeated!

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THE decision to postpone the 48 hour strike action by junior doctors from 26 January without any attempt by the government to meet the...
Striking prison officers outside Brixton prison yesterday

ILLEGAL STRIKE! – POA takes Labour by surprise

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Prison Officers Association (POA) members defied the government yesterday and walked out for the first illegal strike against Labour over public sector...
Demonstrators in Athens on May 1st marching in support of immigrant workers

Greek Workers & Youth Will Fight New Bourgeois Regime Of Papandreou!

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The Greek working class and youth have delivered a deadly blow against the conservative government of Kostas Karamanlis and his neo-liberal policies in Sunday’s...
Delegates at yesterday’s BMA Consultants Conference in London, where they voted to fight to defend pensions

ACTION OVER PENSIONS – BMA Consultants Conference decides to ballot

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HOSPITAL doctors at the BMA Consultants Conference yesterday voted with just three against to ‘ballot the consultant membership regarding all forms of industrial action’...
Students battling to defend NHS bursaries – Cameron has just pledged even more savage cuts if workers vote to leave the EU

Cameron threatens savage cuts!

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PRIME Minister Cameron and Chancellor Osborne have threatened more savage cuts in spending on pensions, the NHS and defence if the UK votes to...
The Young Socialists lobbying the TUC Congress in Brighton, leading the fight for a General Strike to kick out this government and stop the pauperisation of the working class

Coalition plans to slash benefits!

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IN A MOVE to devastate the finances of some of the poorest people in the country, the Coalition Government is planning to break the...

NHS Faces ‘Worst Ever Winter!’

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THE LATEST ‘catastrophic’ NHS performance figures have sparked fears that the health service is on track for the ‘worst ever’ winter, the BMA doctors’...
Labour Shadow Chancellor JOHN McDONNELL (right) alongside TOM WATSON supporting striking BA workers lobby of parliament

‘I want to transform Capitalism’ says John McDonnell as he disowns Marx

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LABOUR will not raise taxes for the vast majority of workers but will increase rates for those earning over £80,000, John McDonnell said yesterday. He...
South Tyneside local government workers marching in London on November 3rd in defence of the NHS

DON’T SHORT CHANGE WORKERS! – UNISON warns council chiefs

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Public sector union UNISON has warned councils in England not to short change workers when they plan their budgets for 2008. ‘Our members won’t settle...