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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...

Midwives Launch Action Ballot

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THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched only its second ballot on industrial action in England and its first in Wales in its...

Failed Labour leaders quit!

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APOLOGISING to his party, Labour leader Miliband resigned yesterday mid-day following his party’s wipe-out in Scotland compounded by losses in England. He told supporters: ‘Earlier...
Part of the audience at the recent TUC Public Services rally in Westminster applauding calls for public sector-wide strike action

Unison Vote For Sustained Strike Action

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UNISON’s local government members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have voted by 55% to 45% for a programme of sustained strike action over...

Military Testing In Three Towns!

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THREE UK towns are to have hundreds of British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force military personnel mobilised onto their streets organising mass...
Junior doctors demonstrating in central London last October – their strike is now on beginning Tuesday January 12th

Junior doctors strike is on!

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JUNIOR doctors will strike next Tuesday after talks with the government broke down at 4.45pm yesterday afternoon. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Junior doctors...

Rail Companies Are Paying Massive Dividends Says RMT

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NEW RMT research has revealed that the private companies responsible for supplying trains to the railways have been paying massive dividends to their shareholders...

‘NO SPARE CAPACITY IN HOSPITALS’ warns BMA

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PATIENTS are suffering as pressure on the NHS reaches a historic high, the BMA warned yesterday. Tthe publication of NHS England’s ‘winter health check’...
Tenants from the Ledbury estate in south east London furious after finding out to their horror that their tower blocks were at risk of collapse

Hundreds of towers at risk of collapse!

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HUNDREDS of tower blocks across the UK are be at risk of collapse, threatening multiple disasters on the scale of the tragedy at Grenfell...
Trainee Health Care Assistants at Ealing Hospital, NADINE, LORRAINE, BETH, PAULA and FALIANE with WRP candidate SCOTT DORE

‘We’re marching to save Ealing Hospital’

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‘WE ARE marching on Saturday 2nd May to defend Ealing Hospital A&E and Maternity Departments,’ Scott Dore, Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Ealing Central...
Ritzy Cinema strikers battling for a living wage – they have voted by an overwhelming 92% for more strike action

Ritzy Cinema 92% Strike Vote

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CINEMA workers demanding the Living Wage have overwhelmingly re-newed their mandate for strike action, their union BECTU announced yesterday. Cinema workers at selected Picturehouse Cinemas...

TsIpras rebuffs coalition call

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Despite immense pressure the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), Alexis Tsipras, refused to join or support a ‘grand coalition’ government...
TUC Congress delegates voting for co-ordinated strike action to defend jobs and pensions on Monday

‘We Will Defeat The Health Bill!’

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DELEGATES passed motion 51 on ‘Southern Cross and the Care Sector’ yesterday morning at the TUC. It called for ‘robust regulation’, ‘all care homes to...

Britain must recognise state of Palestine!

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THE 25th National March for Palestine assembled outside Green Park in Piccadilly in central London on Saturday morning, with 50,000 demonstrators chanting: ‘From the...
RMT members picket Transport for London demanding permanent employment

RMT Strike Action Vote

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TUBE drivers, cleaners and TFL electricians and engineers have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a series of disputes over attacks on agreements and...

655,000 iraqis have died as a result of 2003 invasion – says Lancet magazine

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AN estimated 655,000 more Iraqis have died as a consequence of the March 2003 military invasion of Iraq than would have been expected in...

Kurds raided by counter-terrorism police – ‘an unjust & heavy handed operation’

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THE Kurdish Community in London have written a statement ahead of a march in central London tomorrow against the arrest of Kurdish demonstrators in...
Postal workers marching through Wolverhampton last weekend against privatisation of Royal Mail

Cwu Marches To Defend Royal Mail

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) are hosting a march and rally in Corby, Northamptonshire, today against the privatisation of Royal Mail. The March will begin...

‘We won’t sign rotten deal’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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YESTERDAY was the deadline for locked out Gate Gourmet workers facing compulsory redundancy to sign the ‘Compromise Agreement’, surrendering their claim for unfair dismissal...

Seafarers will be criminalised for saving refugees lives says RMT as Patel launches Borders...

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SEAFARERS’ union RMT has raised alarm over government legislation criminalising seafarers for saving lives at sea. The proposals, contained in the government’s Nationality and Borders...

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...
Rail workers lobbying the House of Commons yesterday to defend their pensions

Blair Refuses To Name Day!

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday refused once again to name the day when he will begin the transfer of office to his successor, who is...

UK ECONOMY NOSEDIVES! – biggest fall in modern times

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THE UK economy nosedived by a record 9.9%, the biggest slump in modern times, with the contraction in 2020 ‘more than twice as much...
Striking junior doctors pointed out that they were defending the NHS against a Tory onslaught and that it needed saving

Reading’s massive STP cuts!

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READING Borough Council has become the latest local authority to publish the NHS’s Draft Local Sustainability and Transformation Plan for its...

Figures expose NHS winter crisis

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NEW FIGURES exposing the escalating winter crisis in the NHS were published yesterday morning by NHS England, forcing Tory PM May to apologise for...

600,000 workers take part in nationwide protests in France! – CGT union opposes savage...

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NEARLY 600,000 people participated in nationwide protests across France on Thursday, according to the CGT union, responding to a strike call by trade unions...

Corbyn woos CBI bosses

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn began his speech to the CBI yesterday by declaring his loyalty and enthusiasm for business. He said: ‘And if a Labour...
Waterford Crystal workers marching in Dublin in February last year demanding that the government act to defend jobs

150 IRISH HOTELS TO CLOSE – as Bank of Scotland (Ireland) shuts down down

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The Irish Hotel Federation (IHF) has claimed 150 hotels will be forced to close after the announcement that Bank of Scotland (Ireland) is to...
UNISON Head of Health KAREN JENNINGS (left) with other UNISON members handing in the UNISON prescription for the NHS to the Department of Health yesterday mid-day

CABINET REELING – from massive constituency health cuts

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Public sector union, UNISON, yesterday published a new report showing that each of the 21 elected cabinet ministers in the government faces severe health...
Part of the huge crowd outside the ERT building

Greece In Revolution!

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TENS of thousands of Greek workers, youth and unemployed took part in a general strike rally yesterday in front of the occupied ERT (Greek...

End Franchise Farce!

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RAIL unions demanded the immediate renationalisation of the railways yesterday after the Stock Exchange announced that the Virgin Trains privateer is to be asked...

Arrogant Osborne refuses to apologise – McDonnell calls for him to go!

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‘LET me say to him (Tory chancellor Osborne) I certainly think for the sake of this country that it is time for him to...

Chronic NHS Staff Shortages At Guy’s And St Thomas’

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CHRONIC staff shortages, concerns about patient safety and plunging morale at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust are the key findings of a...
Angry residents demonstrate against the Forest Gate police raid

Second Forest Gate Inquiry

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) announced yesterday it is to conduct a second inquiry into last month’s armed police raid in Forest Gate. The...

A Privateers Manifesto!

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday launched the Labour Party’s election manifesto – which pledged to cut billions from public spending, whilst ‘securing the recovery’. Brown...

‘The Police Have Tried To Silence US!’

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OVER 3,000 people massed around the Clapham Common bandstand on Saturday afternoon for a vigil in respect of Sarah Everard who was abducted and...

RELEASE MIGUEL ROLDAN! –Spanish firefighter faces jail for rescuing refugees

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UK FIREFIGHTERS protested outside the Italian embassy in London on Thursday in support of a Spanish firefighter facing prison for rescuing refugees....

Trump Puppets Johnson & Farage Fall Out!

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THE TORY government has defended its proposed Brexit deal with the EU, following criticism from President Trump, who suggested a Johnson-Farage alliance. Trump told LBC...

March of the 4-year-olds demands no test

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SOME of the youngest protesters ever rose up yesterday in the ‘march of the four-year-olds!’ where over 200 parents accompanied an army of children...

Bosses Come First Says Brown

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown attacked the RMT trade union yesterday, saying whatever its reason, the Tube strike is ‘unjustifiable’. Answering questions at his second monthy...

Hundreds protest in Chicago against Israeli raids

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HUNDREDS of protesters took part in a rally at Wells & South Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago in the United States yesterday, in protest...
Nurses demanding wage rises – the NHS budget is being squandered on purchasing staff from private agencies who are making huge profits

Agency staff costing NHS £2.5bn a year!

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A FAILURE to train enough staff in the NHS is leading to an over-reliance on agency staff, locums and overseas recruitment which is wasteful...

High Court move to ban UK arms sales to Israel!

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LAWYERS seeking an order to prevent the United Kingdom government from continuing to grant arms export licences to UK companies selling arms to Israel...
BMA banner on the march to keep Lewisham Hospital open – BMA is emphasising that council cuts do have a negative affect on heath

Cutting council funding will harm public health!

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FURTHER funding cuts to local councils will impact on long-term health outcomes, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. The government last week announced a...
A group of marchers with supporters, busworkers PHIL PEAK and RODNEY GARNER who said ‘The way that these young people are standing up for their rights is brilliant’

Marchers Win Big Support

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education spent yesterday in Stockport, campaigning, recruiting and selling tickets for the Greet the March...