Firefighters lobbied the London Fire Authority showing their determination to defend the fire service against the most vicious attacks ever

Defend The Fire Service

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ON Monday 25 February the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will be holding a budget meeting at 10.00am at City Hall, at which his...
At a rally last Friday at the Department for Communities and Local Government a resident from north Kensington holds up a piece of charred cladding that had fallen from Grenfell Tower during the blaze

600 Combustible Cladded Towers!

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‘MANY in the fire service and the fire safety sector have been raising issues about regulation, issues like cladding, for many years and we...

LIFT SIEGE OF PALESTINIANS – Oxfam urges Quartet

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International aid agency Oxfam said on Wednesday that conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are close to melt-down. It called on members of the EU,...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside Hounslow Civic Centre speaking to NUT member Bob Garnett

Workers sign up for August 20th rally

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TRADE unionists and Hounslow local people yesterday supported the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and bought tickets for their first anniversary march and rally in...

‘IT IS OVER’ SAYS WALLACE – as UK leaves nationals behind in Kabul

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‘IT IS OVER,’ Tory defence secretary Ben Wallace admitted yesterday over the UK’s Afghan debacle. He added: ‘It is with deep regret that not everyone...

Halt NHS privatisation! – no consent from the people

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LABOUR’S shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has called for NHS privatisation to be halted until after the 2015 general election. Speaking yesterday Burnham said ‘privatisation...

Gaza Hospital Superbug Epidemic

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AN EPIDEMIC of an antibiotic-resistant superbug is spreading throughout the hospital system in Palestine’s Gaza City, with doctors warning of a ‘global health security...

Israeli occupation forces and colonists escalate attacks on the West Bank

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Israeli occupation forces and colonists have escalated their attacks across the occupied West Bank, injuring Palestinian civilians, destroying agricultural land, and intensifying efforts to...

UK Refuses To Apologise For Balfour Declaration!

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PALESTINIAN ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, said yesterday that Britain has officially refused to apologise for the infamous Balfour Declaration, and instead has...
Campaigners fighting against cuts to the Herts fire service outside Radlett fire station in Ocober

Bovingdon Battle!

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HERTFORDSHIRE fire crews are appalled at the way two community action groups in Bovingdon and Radlett are being treated by local politicians over the...

Tory free school ‘lunacy!’

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THE Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition is cracking up, with the latest row breaking out over free schools and school places funding in England, with allies...

Bed shortages ‘threat to patient care’ says the RCN!

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WINTER hospital bed shortages pose a ‘real threat’ to patient care, the Nuffield Trust warned yesterday. On average, about 95% of English hospital beds were...

Israel & US starves PLO of funds

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AHMAD Majdalani, of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, has warned that Israel is attempting to destroy the Palestinian Authority through more financial...

26 Labour MPs condemn Mahmood appeal plan

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A GROUP of 26 MPs and peers have written to the government condemning its plan to appeal against last Friday’s High Court ruling that...

NHS preparing sweeping healthcare services cuts

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THE NHS is preparing to implement sweeping cuts to essential healthcare services, with thousands of frontline jobs at risk, and critical treatment pathways facing...

Chancellor Is Slashing Jobs, Wages And Benefits!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne’s Autumn Statement to the House of Commons yesterday afternoon was a savage attack on the working class and the poor. Early in his...
Enthusiastic Unison strikers at London Metropolitan University, Holloway Road, yesterday lunchtime

London Met Job Cuts Battle

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UNISON members at London Metropolitan University took strike action yesterday in the latest round of their struggle against job cuts, as the...

‘The government needs to make a credible offer!’ says Junior Doctors Chair Rob Lawrenson

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‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to sit down and make a credible offer so we have a health system that works,’ BMA Junior Doctors Committee Co-Chair,...

123 Palestinians killed, 3 children starved to death in 24hours

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AT LEAST 123 Palestinians, including 21 aid seekers, were killed and 437 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in 24 hours, the Gaza Health...

Sixth Forms strike: ‘urgent funds now!’

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A LONDON march and rally marking the fifth day of strike action in over 30 Sixth Form Colleges took place yesterday, with union leaders...
Young Tamils are leading the fight for a permanent ceasefire in Sri Lanka. PARAMESWARAN SUBRAMANIYAN (centre) is continuing his hunger strike

We Want Permanent Ceasefire

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‘I’M THE best friend of Parameswaran Subramaniyan,’ 22-year-old Tharmini Tharmaraja told News Line on the edge of Westminster Green yesterday. Hundreds were demonstrating opposite the...
Camden Unison’s picket outside Haverstock School yesterday

No Victimisation!

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Camden Unison held a demonstration outside Haverstock School, north London yesterday in support of the school’s Unison shop steward William Westwell who has been...

Scrap The Bill!

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Public sector union Unison said yesterday that the NHS Future Forum’s report shows a Health Bill beyond repair and that it should be scrapped. The...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaigning at Hounslow bus garage yesterday where they received lots of support

Gate Courmet Campaign

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‘It’s shameful the way Gate Gourmet workers have been treated by both the company and the union,’ Hounslow local government UNISON assistant branch secretary...

Bank of E fears Barclays exposure to EU debt

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UK banks do not have enough capital to withstand an escalation in the eurozone crisis, the Bank of England’s risk regulator has warned. The minutes...
Teamsters leader JAMES HOFFA (centre) standing with Unite leader LEN McCluskEy, emphasised  that US and UK workers are struggling against the same bosses

‘Together we’re stronger!’ – Hoffa urges US-UK working class unity

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TEAMSTERS Union leader James Hoffa stood side by side with the UK’s Unite trade union in Birmingham yesterday mid-day against National Express, the...

Over 10,000 workers & youth march to Trafalgar Square!

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OVER ten thousand workers, students, and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on the TUC May Day march in London yesterday afternoon. There...

Aziz Defends Saddam

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IRAQ’s former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz took the witness stand Wednesday to defend Saddam Hussein and his associates from charges that they massacred...

CWU BT Group to ballot all members for action!

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THE Telecoms & Financial Services Conference voted yesterday to serve legal notice to BT Group of the union’s intention to ballot all appropriate members...
Palestinians marched with the WRP and the Young Socialists supporting the hunger strikers and demanding that the UK apologise for the Balfour Declaration and recognise Palestine

Get the Tories out! Victory to Palestinian hunger strikers! say London May Day marchers

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UP to 10,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched on May Day in London from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square, carrying banners and...
The anti-union laws that Tory Premier Heath introduced were smashed when the mass movement for a general strike forced the release of five imprisoned dockers – picture shows BERNIE STEER and VIC TURNER being liberated from Pentonville Prison

POA CONDEMNS INJUNCTION! – as Trade Union Act becomes law

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The POA (Prison Officers Association) has condemned an injunction secured by the Tory government from judges banning its industrial action planned for yesterday. ‘The POA...
ESOL lecturers and students presented a 15,000-signature petition to Downing Street yesterday

DEFEND ENGLISH CLASSES! – says UCU and students

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TEACHERS and students from across London went to Downing Street yesterday, to present a mass petition against the attack on the right to learn...
UNISON members and their families marching on the ‘NHSTogether’ demonstration on November 3rd in London – will not accept  pay increases of only two per cent for three years

BROWN ‘ON COLLISION COURSE WITH UNIONS’ – warns UNISON

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Prime Minister Brown is ‘on a collision course with the trade unions’, warned UNISON yesterday. A UNISON spokeswoman told News Line: ‘We want to make...

Labour Failing Homeless

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Homelessness charity Crisis yesterday called on the government to make public services more accessible to homeless people. Crisis said: ‘Public services are failing homeless people. ‘Public...
Yesterday’s rally outside the QE2 Centre as Chilcot made his long awaited report public

Blair ‘the world’s worst terrorist!’

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‘There is one terrorist in this world that the world needs to be aware of and his name is Tony Blair, the world’s worst...

Ni NHS In Crisis!

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THE financial crisis facing the North of Ireland’s Health Trusts is so severe that four out of five Trusts have failed to break even...

TUC gives its full support to Sunak

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ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...

ISRAELI INVASION THREAT – Lebanese army will fight alongside Hezbollah says Defence Minister

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Lebanese Defence Minister Elias Murr yesterday pledged that the Lebanese army will stand and fight against an Israeli invasion. Murr warned: ‘The Lebanese army...

Nationalise Jaguar Land Rover – to save workers’ rights and jobs

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THERE HAS been confirmation that Jaguar Land Rover will build a new all-electric model at its Castle Bromwich plant. Unite said yesterday that the announcement...

Sri Lankan Troops Caught In Tiger Booby Traps

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COLOMBO – TamilNet reports that last weekend more than sixteen Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops lost their legs after being caught in...

STOP THE AIRPORTS! – smash the strikebreaking bosses

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YESTERDAY the Gate Gourmet picket lines were buzzing with the latest revelations concerning the way that the bosses had provoked a strike in order...
Callum Hurley and Katy Moore and supporters challenging the government over tuition fee rises yesterday at the High Court

Tuition Fees Challenged In High Court

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TWO students began a high court battle against the government yesterday challenging the rise in tuition fees as unlawful as it breaches the equality...
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...
NASUWT members marching in London – the union has condemned the latest attack on teachers

‘Don’t witch-hunt teachers!’

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Teachers’ union leader Chris Keates yesterday slammed a BBC Breakfast programme claim that there are an estimated 15,000 incompetent teachers in schools. The NASUWT general...

Tories slam door on child refugees

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THE TORY government issued a written Home Office statement on Wednesday saying it is closing the door on child refugees at the end of...