Unite Warns On Wage & Job Cuts

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THE Unite union is warning that workers must not be expected to meet the costs of the disruption brought by the erupting Icelandic...

RCN leaders to stand down

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THE ENTIRE leadership of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) union have announced yesterday they are to stand down, following the results of the...

ISRAEL BOMBS QATAR! – targeting Hamas peace negotiators

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ISRAEL carried out a massive bombardment of the Qatari capital, Doha, yesterday with more than ten aerial munitions, aimed at assassinating the Hamas Movement’s...
Students and lecturers lobbied the Reading University Council meeting last Monday afternoon against the closure of the Physics Department

BACKWARD BRITAIN! – Reading University axes Physics

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Students and lecturers at Reading University yesterday condemned Monday’s decision to axe the university’s Physics Department. Philip Diamond of the Institute of Physics said the...

UCU votes to mount national fight for jobs

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DELEGATES at the UCU (University and College Union) Conference in Harrogate last week, backed an important step forward in the fight against the escalating...

NO PAY RISE IN 5 YEARS! – ASLEF strike expands

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ROLLING strike action and a national overtime ban by ASLEF members expands today, with train drivers employed by Northern and TransPennine Express rail privateers...

Food Prices To Double!

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Oxfam UK warned yesterday that the average prices of staple crops will more than double in the next 20 years leaving billions of people...

‘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...

‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University’ say UCU strikers

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‘WE ARE STRONG, united and determined to win,’ and ‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University,’ University and College Union (UCU) strikers declared...
Lecturers and students marching on May 5th from Kings College University against cuts

UCU demand a pensions ballot

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SEVENTY-ONE investment staff at the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) shared bonus payments of £2.89m in the year to the end of March 2010. The...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers at Southall station winning support campaigning for their conference

Gate Gourmet campaign team at Heathrow

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A CAMPAIGN team was out fighting for the locked out Gate Gourmet workers conference yesterday. They visited Heathrow Airport and saw British Airways checking staff,...

‘We hail the struggle of the Palestinian workers and youth’ editor Jonty Leff...

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NEWS LINE Editor Jonty Leff told the News Line 52nd Anniversary Rally on Saturday: ‘We hail the struggle of the Palestinian workers and youth. ‘We...

20,000 are threatened with eviction during corona crisis

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THE TORIES had promised a ‘complete ban’ on evictions from both council and private social housing. However, anger erupted yesterday as it emerged that...
Workers marching through Athens as anger erupted across Greece at the weekend when police shot dead a teenager in the country’s capital

Greek Workers March Against Police

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Throughout Saturday night thousands of youth attacked banks and department store buildings as well as police stations in Athens and in many other Greek...

Alive! Rescue By Xmas

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‘ALL 33 of us are fine in the shelter’. This was the message read out by the President of Chile, Sebastian Pinera, on...

‘We want to abolish poverty!’ – says Labour’s John McDonnell

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SPEAKING in Birmingham yesterday morning, Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said: ‘On Tuesday a new Shelter report found 135,000 children will be without a...
At their rally outside the House of Commons yesterday nurses made it very clear they they intended to smash the pay cap

‘SCRAP THE CAP!’ – ‘We deserve better’ say angry nurses

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‘SCRAP the cap!’ shouted thousands of nurses from all over the UK rallying in Parliament Square yesterday. The rally was organised by the Royal College...
Junior doctors leader JEEVES WIJESURIYA (2nd left) joins SERCO strikers yesterday on the picket line at the Royal London Hospital

‘We are determined to win a pay rise!’ say SERCO strikers

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‘WE ARE determined to have a pay rise,’ Unite shop steward Melissa Manso declared at a lively morning picket line outside the Royal London...

Sri Lankan governor and cabinet resign! – as masses defy curfew and protest

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THE CRISIS in Sri Lanka escalated yesterday as wild protests broke out on the streets over spiralling fuel and food prices, and daily blackouts...

Cabinet Minister Gove Broke The Law Rules The High Court!

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THE HIGH Court has ruled that the Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove broke the law by acting with ‘apparent bias’ in handing a £560,000...

Corbyn refuses to call for PM May to resign!

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TORY PM Theresa May hotfooted off to Brussels yesterday to beg the EU for concessions after ‘postponing’ the vote on her Brexit deal on...

‘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...
Enthusiastic support yesterday morning for the West London Council of Action picket to keep Ealing Hospital open

Defend Our NHS

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NHS London has allocated £115 million to organise the closure of A&E and maternity services at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield. Emergencies are to be directed...
Delegates at the TGWU biennial conference in Brighton

‘NO TO TWO TIER PAY & CONDITIONS’ – urges TGWU biennial conference

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DELEGATES at the TGWU Biennial Delegate Conference in Brighton yesterday gave their full support to Salford Council workers who will be taking more strike...

Tories Forced Back On Ealing & Charing Cross NHS Cuts

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The TORY government has been forced to back down over its hated ‘Shaping a Healthier Future’ (SaHF) NHS cuts and closure programme in north...

TORY PROTEST BAN ‘UNACCEPTABLE!’ – London marchers clash with police

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At least 36 people were arrested for ‘breaching Covid regulations’ after a march of thousands of protesters through central London came under attack by...

Cwu-Royal Mail Partnership Challenged

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CWU representatives yesterday concluded a two day briefing in Bournemouth on the Business Transformation 2010 agreement reached between the CWU executive and Royal Mail. On...
DAVID SCHOFIELD (2nd left) and  NIGEL PLANER (3rd left) amongst more than 500 actors demonstrating last Tuesday  in Piccadilly Circus, London, to protest at the huge cuts being made in the Arts budget

STOP THE AXE! DEFEND THE ARTS! – Norwich march today!

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‘It will be the biggest march against the funding cuts imposed by Arts Council England so far,’ organisers of today’s march through Norwich ...

BMA Council votes to call special conference

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The following motion was passed by a large majority at the BMA (British Medical Association) Council meeting in London yesterday. ‘This meeting recognises that legislation...

HUNT’S CLASS WAR BUDGET SCRAPS THE HOUSEHOLD SUPPORT FUND SEPT 30th

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TORY Chancellor Hunt delivered his class war Budget in the House of Commons yesterday, announcing that the Household Support Fund will be scrapped on...

Unite launch nine-day ‘ghost strike’ against 24% pay cut

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BRITISH Airways Cargo workers begin nine days of strike action on Christmas Day, however their union, Unite, has called off all pickets. Under BA’s fire...

SPECIALIST NURSES FEAR FOR THEIR JOBS – as the NHS heads for a £1.8...

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VACANCY freezes and fears of redundancy and downgrading are continuing to plague the NHS as it heads for a £1.8bn surplus, a Royal College...
50 Swindon striking hospital workers lobby the London headquarters of Carillion demanding an end to bullying, harassment and discrimination

‘Strike against bullying’

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A coachload of fifty Swindon striking hospital workers yesterday descended on the London Headquarters of Carillion in Euston with shouts of ‘Respect at work! They...

Labour Demanding Windfall Tax Vote!

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LABOUR is tomorrow demanding a vote in the House of Commons to introduce a windfall tax on oil and gas companies, with former leader...

Global Markets Total Carnage!

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THE GLOBAL economy nosedived as soon as markets opened yesterday morning with shares around the world haemorrhaging. Once more at the start of US trading,...
BA cabin crew pickets in high spirits at Heathrow yesterday morning

‘Walsh will never crush BASSA’

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‘THE rest of the British Airways workforce must be called out on strike to join us in our fight to beat Walsh,’ said striking...

Youth unemployment at 20% – in some parts of the UK: new ONS figures

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FIGURES released yesterday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the number of workers on UK company payrolls fell by 649,000 between...
The Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust campaigners on the NHS march – they successfully forced the withdrawal of a subsidiary company – now NHS Improvement has ‘paused’ the setting up of subsidiaries all over the country

‘A SIGNIFICANT VICTORY!’ – Health unions hail subsidiaries ‘pause’

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‘A SIGNIFICANT victory’ for health workers is how Unite described the decision by NHS Improvement to ‘pause’ the setting up of wholly owned subsidiary...

UK ECONOMY IS CRASHING! – facing its biggest ever slump

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TORY CHANCELLOR SUNAK yesterday said it is ‘very likely’ the UK is in a ‘significant recession’, as figures show the economy contracting at the...

ISRAEL USING BANNED WEAPONS – to kill children, men and women in Gaza

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‘It was a night of terror, we were terrified, we thought we were going to burn to death,’ said 27-year-old Fadia Al-Najjar from Khaza’a...

1,000 British-Danish Troops Attack Basra

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Five Iraqis were arrested yesterday after a massive pre-dawn assault on the city of Basra by a force of more than 1,000 UK and...
BMA delegates voting to defend the NHS at yesterday’s consultants conference in London

WE’LL STOP NHS PRIVATISATION – say BMA consultants

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‘WE will not let this government privatise the NHS,’ declared British Medical Association Consultants Committee Chairman Jonathan Fielden yesterday. In his keynote address to the...

Gadaffi Was Butchered!

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EVIDENCE collected by Human Rights Watch indicts Misrata-based militias for the execution of dozens of detainees following the capture and murder of Muammar...

Cameron Slapdown Over Syria!

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‘WE recommend that the government does not bring to the House a motion seeking the extension of British military action to Syria,’ the Foreign...
Unite busworkers marching in central London in September at the launch of their ‘Driving Up Pay’ campaign

London Bus Strike Today

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BUS workers across London are on strike today over an escalating battle over pay. The 24-hour strike is over the refusal of London’s 18 bus...