‘CALL A PUBLIC SECTOR STRIKE’ – says London CWU rep

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FIVE thousand Royal Mail workers in north, east and south-east London are striking today, after voting overwhelmingly in ballots to fight ‘executive actions’ by...

More London bus strikes

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THOUSANDS of London bus workers will take strike action next Thursday 5th July followed by action on Tuesday 24 July in a dispute over...
Southern rail picket line at Victoria Station yesterday morning

Southern guards remain rock solid

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‘RMT guards on Southern Rail remain rock solid and absolutely determined in their action in defence of rail safety,’ General Secretary Mick Cash said...

Sadiq Khan blocks £50 million Palantir police contract

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LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan has blocked a £50m Metropolitan Police contract with US surveillance technology company Palantir, citing a ‘clear and serious breach’ of...
Celebrations outside the ERT station after the Greek High Court ordered the ending of the closure

‘A Victory at ERT’ – workers determined to bring down Samaras

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THE leaders of the eleven TV, Radio and newspaper media trade unions issued a ‘Victory at ERT’ (Greek State TV and Radio network) statement...

Infection out of control – ‘Isolation exemptions will spread Covid-19’ – BMA stark warning!

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STAFF isolation exemptions are absolutely the wrong answer to the government’s failure to control spiralling infection rates, says doctors’ union the BMA. Responding to news...
Confident pickets at Whitechapel – determined to defend the service

‘THE EXISTENCE OF THE CWU IS AT STAKE’ – CWU calls national ballot for...

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CWU leaders Billy Hayes and Dave Ward announced the timetable for a national postal strike ballot to a meeting of 500 Communication Workers Union...
March to London’s City Hall demanding more council housing to solve the homeless crisis

RECORD NUMBER OF HOMELESS ATTENDING AT A&Es

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THE NUMBER of visits to hospital accident and emergency departments by homeless people has more than trebled under Tory governments since 2011, the BMA...
Palestinians marching in London for Justice – Israel is now preparing another intervention into Lebanon

‘Don’t invade Lebanon!’ – Hezbollah warns Israel

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A SENIOR official of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says the group is ready for any military scenario, amid indications that Saudi Arabia is...
The North East London Council of Action has organised a large number of demonstrations and pickets to demand that Chase Farm Hospital remains open with all its departments functioning properly

OCCUPY CHASE FARM! –defend A&E & Maternity departments

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‘We are prepared to occupy before any closures are implemented,’ said North East London Council of Action Secretary Bill Rogers yesterday. Commenting on news that...

Stock Market Panic!

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AS panic gripped investors on the world’s stock markets, it emerged yesterday that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment company has sold more than 245...

Reverse Palestine march ban!

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THE threat by the Metropolitan Police to ban Saturday’s National March (PSC) for Palestine from assembling at the BBC in Portland Place as arranged...

GPs ANGRY OVER PENSIONS CAP!

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A JUDICIAL Review sought by the British Medical Association to challenge the government’s decision to cap the pensions of GPs will take place in...

Israel’s Gaza Genocide Goes Over 25,000!

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AT LEAST 25,105 people have now been killed and 62,681 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that as...

GPs OPPOSE DISABLED WORK TESTS

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GPs at their annual conference in Liverpool yesterday voted in favour of a motion calling for the end of the work capability assessment. The doctors,...

RCN warns ‘Patients are suffering!

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PATIENTS are suffering as the prime minister fails to tackle the waiting list crisis, RCN warns, as new analysis reveals decade of misery. The prime...

Fierce Fighting In Sirte

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FIERCE fighting continued on the outskirts of Sirte yesterday, with Gadaffi loyalists dealing deadly blows against the counter-revolutionary ‘NTC’ mercenaries, while NATO warplanes pounded...
Local government workers of the Paiania local council. Their banner reads ‘For a movement to overthrow government and  troika – not a movement of compromise and submission’

48-hour rolling strikes in Greece

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THE Executive Committee of YENOP (the trades unions federation of the Public Electricity Board), the biggest trade union federation in Greece, decided last Friday...
Police surround Stockwell tube station after armed officers brutally executed Jean Charles de Menezes on July 22, 2005

BLAIR SACKED! – in the second week of the de Menezes inquest

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Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair, who presided over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes and supported the right of police to shoot to...

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...

3,700 Palestinians killed in 60 days

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THE Israeli military has continued its intensive land, air and sea aggression on northern Gaza for 60 days now, during which 2,400 of the...

‘We Need A National Strike To Win This Now’

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‘WE need a national strike to win this now,’ striking Birmingham binworker Dean Harris, Unite Rep at the Atlas refuse site picket line told...

‘NO-ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW’ – Blair-Goldsmith indicted by judgement

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‘We believe that no-one should be above the law, not arms dealers, not Saudi princes, not government ministers’, said Symon Hill of Campaign Against...

‘SHAME ON YOU TOWER HAMLETS’ – workers fighting mass sackings and wage cutting

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‘TOWER Hamlets, shame on you!’ shouted the 40-strong picket of striking council workers outside Albert Jacob House on Roman Road in east London yesterday...

GREEK BANK STRIKE – as coalition turns on immigrants

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THOUSANDS of Greek bank workers are continuing their strike against privatisation and will be joined by Postal Bank workers who are holding a one-day...
Young Socialists lobbying the TUC on Sunday demanding jobs for youth with trade union rates of pay

Co-ordinated strike action – unanimous vote at the TUC Congress

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DELEGATES at the TUC Congress 2012 in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for composite Motion 1, which calls on the TUC to give its full...
A section of yesterday’s conference of the Central Consultants and Specialists Committee of the BMA

DEFEND DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITALS – decides NHS Consultants conference

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The British Medical Association consultants conference yesterday voted overwhelmingly to ‘mount the strongest defence of integrated District General Hospitals’. In his keynote speech to the...

Massive 97% NO vote! – 400 Birmingham binmen reject pay cuts

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STRIKING Birmingham bin workers have overwhelmingly rejected, by 97%, the council’s ‘totally inadequate’ offer, with hundreds of members of the Unite union voting against...

Palestine Action occupy Elbit factory in Oldham

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PALESTINE Action scaled the roof of another Israeli arms factory yesterday, morning holding ‘Shut down Elbit’ banners. They announced: ‘We’ve taken to the roof of...
The Young Socialists marched from London to Liverpool to demand the TUC call a general strike  to bring down the Cameron government

Cameron Plans Youth Slave Labour

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CAMERON closed the crisis-dominated Tory Party Conference in Birmingham yesterday by announcing that if the Tories are elected next May they will cut taxes,...
Marchers demand the building of more council homes

‘Housing crisis requires building council homes’ says Labour’s shadow housing secretary Healey

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‘WE SIMPLY can’t fix the housing crisis without more council homes,’ Labour Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey told News Line yesterday, responding to...
UCU lecturers ‘Fair pay in FE’ lobby during their pay talks last month

Unions Go For One-Day General Strike!

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THE PCS trade union is having a consultative ballot asking members to back its ‘We all need a pay rise campaign.’ This calls for a...

HEATHROW – McDonnell suspended

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‘I don’t feel I should apologise,’ said Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday after being ordered out of the House of Commons...

‘DOWN WITH TRAITORS’ – Declares defiant Saddam Hussein

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‘Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Death to the occupiers! Death to Israel! Death to the traitors!’ shouted a defiant Iraqi President...
CWU branch secretaries and area reps at Friends Meeting House in London yesterday

Royal Mail Deal Sell-Out!

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‘IT’S A bad deal. I think it should be thrown out.’ That was the reaction of one delegate, Tam Dewar from Scotland, after a national...

‘A SMOKESCREEN!’ a handful of aid trucks let into Gaza as babies starve

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THE few aid trucks let into Gaza are ‘ridiculously inadequate’ and nowhere near sufficient to meet Gaza’s vast needs, instead they serve as ‘a...

‘BACK TO THE DAYS BEFORE THE NHS’ – Consultants leader slams the Health Bill

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‘Very deliberately the government wishes to turn back the clock to the 1930s and 1940s, when there were private, charitable and co-operative providers of...
The march of more than 3,000 people organised by the North East London Council of Action last November against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield. The Council of Action has called for another mass march on July 26

TIME TO DEFEND NHS! – message for BMA ARM

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DOCTORS will be challenging the government’s privatisation of the NHS at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh, which starts today. On this...

‘Impossible to avoid long strike’ at Delphi

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UAW President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Richard Shoemaker have issued this statement on Delphi’s announcement that it will file Section 1113 and Section...

Israeli navy halts the Gaza freedom Flotilla

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ORGANISERS of the international ‘Flotilla of Resilience’ announced Thursday afternoon that the Israeli navy intercepted 40 out of 44 boats carrying activists and humanitarian...

Action Ballot At Asda Wal-Mart

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THERE will be ballots for industrial action at ASDA Wal-Mart, after talks with senior managers in the shops on Wednesday 8th, and depots on...

Tax Credit Revolt Threatens Tories!

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‘TORY MPs could lose their seats at the next General Election if they support George Osborne’s tax credit cuts,’ said Seema Malhotra MP, Labour’s...

Second referendum amendment defeated

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AMENDMENT H calling for a second referendum was resoundingly defeated in parliament last night by 249 votes, with just 85 MPs voting for and...

Hand over redacted UK torture material! – MPs committee tells US administration

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THE House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee is to request that the US hands over any material documenting the UK’s role in the...

‘WE’VE SEEN OFF THE COMPROMISE AGREEMENT’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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‘THE Compromise Agreement is dead. We have seen it off’ said Nirmal Purewal TGWU shop steward and locked out Gate Gourmet worker. ‘This dispute...