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‘WITHDRAW HEALTH BILL’ – urge Public Health Doctors

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An emergency meeting of public health doctors has called for the withdrawal of the Health and Social Care Bill and for other medical Royal...

Ukraine compromise offer – as right wing gunmen mass in Kiev

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UKRAINIAN President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday announced early presidential elections and a compromise agreement with the pro US-EU ‘opposition’. He said that the constitution of 2004,...
NUJ General Secretary MICHELLE STANISTREET (6th from left) on the picket line at Broadcasting House, central London, yesterday told News Line ‘It’s a brilliant, solid turnout’

Nuj Stops Bbc Over Sackings

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‘WE will be balloting for further action, this issue is not going to go away,’ NUJ General Secretary Michelle Stanistreet told News Line yesterday. Speaking...

Free School–‘financial misconduct’

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KINGS Science Academy in Bradford, one of the government’s flagship free schools, has been accused of serious financial mismanagement. An Education Funding Agency (EFA) report...

No sprinklers in car park inferno

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‘CLEARLY the fact that there were no sprinklers had its affect,’ Chief Fire Officer of Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, Dan Stephens said yesterday. He...
TGWU leader TONY WOODLEY was reminded by Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on May1st that their struggle was very much ongoing

MARCH WITH THE LOCKED-OUT GATE GOURMET WORKERS – through Southall on August 20

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THE Transport and General Workers Union yesterday issued a warning that one year after 800 workers were sacked at Gate Gourmet the ‘dispute could...

Putin turns to right with privatisation programme

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RUSSIA’s Stalinist leadership is lining up at least seven state companies for privatisation because of the collapse of the oil market...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers discussing with Unite union co-leader Derek Simpson who said ‘if there is injustice I am very concerned’

Tuc Delegates Support General Strike Call

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ON the opening day of the TUC conference in Manchester yesterday a lively 50 strong lobby of Workers Revolutionary Party and Young socialists members...

Barclays to sack 12,000 – while bonus pool for 2013 rises to £2.38bn

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BARCLAYS bank yesterday announced plans to sack 12,000 bank workers and in the very same breath announced whopping bonuses for its top bankers. The...

Maudsley CEO joins strikers on the picket line!

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STRIKING catering, cleaning and other support staff working for South London & Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM) were joined on their picket line at Maudsley...
Grenfell resident holds up a piece of charred cladding which had fallen during the Grenfell Tower inferno

Only three towers re-clad out of 160!

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ONLY three out of 160 social housing towers have been reclad since the Grenfell fire, over seven months ago, leaving tens of thousands of...
Nurses on the Save the NHS march last month are now preparing all-out strike action over wages

270,000 Nurses consider taking strike action!

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MORE than a quarter of a million nurses could be balloted in May for immediate strike action to smash the Tory pay freeze. The...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers  on Southall Broadway yesterday campaigning for their march on Sunday

All Out For Gate Gourmet Rally!

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‘WE ARE marching for a future where no employer can sack 800 workers by megaphone at a minute’s notice and where trade union leaders...

‘We’re NHS workers – bring us back in-house’! – demand striking St George’s staff

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STRIKING cleaners, domestic workers and hostesses employed by the public services privateer Mitie, got great support from local people as they held a powerful...

Airlines ‘Staring Bankruptcy In The Face’ – Balpa

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BALPA the pilots trade union yesterday called on the government to rescue the air industry with the ‘same approach that kept the banks afloat’....
Local Enfield residents are determined to keep their local Chase Farm hospital open and will be marching today

‘we’ll Keep Chase Farm Open’

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‘I AM confident that we will see thousands on today’s march to keep Chase Farm Hospital open’, said Bill Rogers secretary of the...

‘Thousands will back tanker drivers!’

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PEOPLE'S fuel lobby leader Andrew Spence yesterday said: ‘Thousands will back a Unite tanker driver members strike’. He told News Line: ‘It’s not just truck...
Unite members outside the High Court yesterday demonstrating for jobs and opposing the attempt to jail the leaders of the Enfield occupation

Unite Pledge To End Occupation

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KEVIN Nolan and Piers Hood, the Unite convenor and deputy-convenor at the Visteon plant in Enfield, appeared in the High Court in the Strand...
Strong TGWU picket line of DHL Exel workers who deliver from the Iceland distribution depot in Enfield  yesterday and had to face harassment, threats and intimidation from gangs of security guards

Strikebreakers Repelled!

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Striking drivers and warehouse workers at the Iceland distribution depot in Enfield told of brutal attempts yesterday to break their strike by contractor DHL...

Obama OKs murder of US citizens by drones

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A JUST-LEAKED United States Justice Department memo gives details of the ‘legal basis’ for authorising unmanned drone strikes to kill American citizens abroad. The document,...
Postal workers at Hanwell Sorting Office gave their full support for the march to and occupation of Ealing Hospital maternity department today

Workers support Occupation!

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EALING Hospital workers are ready to welcome the occupation of the maternity unit today. Today, the hospital management intends to commence turning away expectant mothers...
Part of the huge general strike rally last Thursday on the duel carriageway outside the occupied ERT in Athens

Ert Occupation Is A Centre For The Greek Revolution!

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TENS of thousands of Greek workers and youth are congregating every day and every night at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) building...

HALT RM PRIVATISATION! – industry making £900,000 a day profits

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‘We have to be bold and honest in our fight to stop Royal Mail privatisation,’ Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region Secretary Paul Moffat...

Airport workers support Sunday’s march

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday got great support for their march this Sunday for reinstatement for all sacked workers on their original terms...

UK will not return to normal says PM Johnson

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‘THE STATE must step back and let the private sector get to work,’ Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared in his virtual Tory Party...
Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line earlier this week and looking forward to their demonstration on Sunday

END TORTURE FLIGHTS! – Liberty demands of Straw and police chiefs

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Yesterday human rights group Liberty called on Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to seek assurances in the next 14 days from the USA that it...

JCB AXES MORE JOBS! – despite £50 a week GMB wage cut deal

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more than 3,300 jobs were axed or came under threat yesterday as prime minister Brown held his much-heralded ‘jobs summit’ with bosses and union...
Northamptonshire postal workers demonstrating outside the surgery of Corby MP Phil Hope, after Hope reneged on a commitment to oppose the part-privatisation of the Royal Mail

Mandelson Threat To Jobs & Pensions!

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Postal workers yesterday reacted angrily to Business Secretary Lord Mandelson’s threat to their jobs and pensions if they did not give up their...
Striking PCS civil servants rally outside the House of Commons last Wednesday denouncing Osborne’s Budget

£9 bn of tax rises ahead – after next election says IFS

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TAX rises of up to £9 billion could be imposed on British households and businesses after the next general election in 2015, leading economic...

Abbas calls for emergency session of UN to discuss Israeli mass murder at the...

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the Israeli regime’s recent carnage in...

Brady ready to support May deal

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SIR GRAHAM Brady, the chair of the Tories’ 1922 Committee, said yesterday, ‘the whole country is tired’ and that people should back the PM...
Unite Tesco supply workers protest outside a store in central London – 9,000 jobs are threatened as the company seeks to save £1.5bn

Tesco confirms 9,000 job cuts!

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TESCO confirmed yesterday that 9,000 jobs are to be axed, as the supermarket giant looks to scrap the fresh food counters, including the in-store...
Campaigners celebrate winning a judical review against Lewisham closure in July. Health Secretary Hunt has now lost his appeal against the judges’ decision

Hunt did act ‘illegally’ – in seeking to close Lewisham A&E and Maternity

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THE Court of Appeal yesterday upheld the decision of a Judicial Review not to proceed with the reconfiguration of Lewisham hospital, meaning that the...
This year’s huge February 24th anti-war march setting off from Hyde Park

MPs QUESTION ROLE OF UK FORCES IN BASRA

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‘If there is still a role for UK Forces in Iraq, those Forces must be capable of doing more than just protecting themselves at...

Call Off The Talks!

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‘Our union executive should immediately call off the talks with Royal Mail until the threats of redundancy, total flexibility, and attacks on our pension...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside Hillingdon T&G office yesterday are insisting that their union leaders pay their hardship money

Locked-Out Gg Workers To March At Tolpuddle

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‘THE Tolpuddle Martyrs were called troublemakers and were transported to Australia. ‘We were called troublemakers and sacked,’ Parmjeet Sidhu said at the Gate Gourmet locked-out...

RBS BANK CRASHES! – from £5bn pfofit down to £802m loss

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The Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday revealed a half-year net loss of £802 million, the second biggest in British banking history. This was after...

UK servicing Saudi jets in Yemen – admits Tory MP

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BRITAIN is providing ‘engineering support’ for UK-supplied aircraft operated by the Royal Saudi Air Force, responsible for killing innocent people in Yemen, a British...
Mass picket of hospital workers in Norwich on the national NHS strike over pay on October 13

Labour Pledges Repeal Of Health & Social Care Act!

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THE NHS ‘cannot survive a second term of Tory-led government,’ the Labour Party’s Chair of General Election Strategy, Douglas Alexander, said yesterday. He was echoing...

BMA rejects NHS privatisation

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ALMOST every single doctor voted to oppose the introduction and imposition of an insurance-based healthcare system into the UK. The almost unanimous vote...

Putin urges ‘Defend Arctic’

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has told his military leadership they should build up their forces in the Arctic as a priority. Commending the recent restoration...
Teaching unions marching – in the front line of defending national pay agreements

Defend National Pay Rates

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GOVERNMENT plans for ‘postcode pay in the public sector’ are unfair and would be bad for NHS patients and schoolchildren in poorer areas, according...

Spending cut by £3,000 a year

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AHEAD of the Budget, each household has reduced their spending by over £3,000 a year on average since 2007, revealing a devastating blow to...

UN Cuts Aid To Palestinians!

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HAMAS yesterday urged the United Nations to reconsider its suspension of food aid for Palestinian refugees, imposed after protesters stormed a UN depot in...

Fourteen Palestinian factions sign national unity agreement

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FOURTEEN Palestinian factions have signed a ‘national unity’ agreement aimed at maintaining Palestinian control over Gaza once Israel’s war on the enclave is ended. The...