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Balham PCS Strike Ballot Is Called!

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STAFF at Balham benefit centre are being balloted for strike action having been told that their office is due to close on 31 December. This...

Bolivian unions mobilise against ‘right-wing coup plotters’

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FELIPA MONTENEGRO the leader of the Bartolina Sisa Movement, which represents the rights of rural Indigenous women in Bolivia denounced that she and her...

Half A Million More Rely On Housing Benefits

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THE UK’s failure to build affordable homes has led to a soaring housing-benefit bill – with half a million more people now relying on...

3.1% rise in state pension but inflation is now rising twice as fast!

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A 3.1% RISE in the state pension and various benefits has now taken effect but charities have warned it fails to tackle an even...
Labour leader CORBYN (centre) with trade union leaders at a demonstration of steelworkers in London

Anti-Corbyn coup attempt!

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SEVEN right wing Labour shadow cabinet members quit yesterday, with more resignations expected, as a coup attempt got underway to remove Jeremy Corbyn as...

‘Withdraw UK troops from Iraq immediately’ – PCS conference decides

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‘Iraqi people do not want a foreign occupation of their country,’ Paula Kennedy, Equal Opportunities Commission, Manchester Branch, told the conference of the Public...

13 universities are on verge of bankruptcy!

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THIRTEEN universities face ‘a very real prospect’ of insolvency following the coronavirus crisis unless they receive a government bailout, a new report by the...

‘TRUST HAS BEEN BREACHED!’ – Ellwood demands ‘stock check’ on Johnson

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SENIOR Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has called on fellow Conservative MPs to assess whether Boris Johnson is still fit to be leader of the...

‘THE STRIKE IS STRONG – PUBLIC ARE STILL BEHIND US!’ says RMT

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‘The strike is strong, the public are still behind us and members are strong and want to continue,’ striking RMT London Area Council Rep...

Civil servants stop Ealing Tax Office

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TWO HUNDRED civil servants employed at the International House Tax Office in Ealing Broadway west London went on strike yesterday, determined to defend their...

Israel is conducting a fierce starvation campaign throughout the Gaza Strip

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THE EURO-Med Human Rights Monitor has issued a stark warning that Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, compounded by a total blockade and acute shortages...

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...

Tuc Launches March 3 Day Of Action

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DOCTORS, nurses, hospital cleaners, midwives and radiographers will be amongst the thousands of NHS staff marking a national day of action on March 3...

Irish Gross National Product Shrinks By 2.2%

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The continued austerity programme is costing jobs and making recovery almost impossible, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions said yesterday. Official figures released yesterday showed...

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...

Al Jazeera is to refer the killing of journalist Samer Abudaqa to the ICC...

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Al JAZEERA is to refer the killing of journalist Samer Abudaqa to the ICC (International Criminal Court). The Al Jazeera Arabic cameraman was killed by...

USDAW delighted at Tory defeat!

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SHOPWORKERS trade union leader John Hannett is delighted with the House of Commons vote that defeated the government and removed Sunday trading changes...

202 Palestinians killed & 5,588 are injured by Israeli aggression

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THE Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) announced on Sunday afternoon that a total of 202 Palestinians have been killed and 5,588 others injured by...

Derby schools 25% pay cut

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UNISON is accusing Derby City Council of inflaming tensions and escalating a dispute with school support staff who have seen their pay slashed by...
The front of the two million-strong demonstration in London on February 15 2003 against the war on Iraq

‘I MADE MY CHOICE . . . AND FULLY ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITIES’ says Straw...

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JUST before Jack Straw appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday, he released a 25-page memorandum which explained that his decision to support the Iraq...
Demonstration outside parliament yesterday celebrating the twenty fifth birthday of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) which was set up to support disabled people with the highest levels of support need to live in the community instead of being confined to

Coalition Cuts Target Disabled

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‘DISABLED people are getting into debt to pay for essentials. What’s the government’s response? It is cutting the very financial lifeline designed to help...

Riot police attack Spanish Miners

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RIOT police fired rubber bullets Wednesday at Spanish coal miners protesting in the streets of Madrid, along with tens of thousands of other workers. Hundreds...

‘COLOSSAL BA PROFITS!’ – while mixed fleet cabin crew fight for a living wage

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‘COLOSSAL profits confirm British Airways can easily afford to end the obscenity of cabin crew poverty,’ Unite said yesterday responding to BA’s announcement yesterday...

97% of teachers oppose SATs – National strike is looming

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NINETY seven percent of 54,000 primary school teachers polled are opposed to the SATs exams, their union the National Education Union reports today, the...

Ahead – ‘the Fight Of Our Lives!’

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DELEGATES to the TUC Conference in Manchester yesterday voted almost unanimously for Composite Motion 10, Defending public services and for Paragraphs 3.1 and 3.13...
Protesters outside the Culture Committee in July as Rupert Murdoch appeared

‘CHILLING AND UNBELIEVABLE’– News International tailed entire Culture Committee – allegation

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all members of the House of Commons Culture Committee were tailed by journalists or private investigators employed by the News of the World, it...
Firefighters from all over Britain marched through Merseyside almost a year ago against massive cuts to the fire service in the region. They warned cuts cost lives

‘WE COULD’T GET PEOPLE OUT!’ – Newquay pays the price for fire service cuts

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‘Lives were lost because there wasn’t enough equipment to get people out – it’s our fire service,’ said Chris Findon yesterday, the owner of...

‘Bring companies guilty of corporate murder to justice’

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ONE HUNDRED and forty four workers have lost their lives while on the job in 2017-18, with the GMB at its Annual Conference in...

‘Shameful Brown’ Wants To Sack Workers On The Cheap

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‘WHAT a shameful act by a Labour prime minister as possibly his final act – opening the door to the Tories to come in...

Australian doctors demand ‘humane stance’

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IN THE British Medical Journal today, a leading doctor is calling on the Australian government to stop constraining doctors in the care of asylum...
NHS Rationing ‘Widespread’

NHS Rationing ‘Widespread’

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Rationing of NHS treatments is becoming more widespread, a survey of GPs and hospital doctors for ‘Doctor’ and ‘Hospital Doctor’ magazines has found. Of the...
Over 150 RMT members demonstrated for train safety and the ending of Driver Only Operation outside Parliament yesterday

Keep Guards On Trains

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‘DOO Has to Go!’ chanted over 150 RMT members and their supporters from around the country outside parliament yesterday. On the national demonstration to mark...
ANNA ATHOW with students at the Enfield College picket line yesterday, a number pledged they would vote WRP

Vote Wrp – Keep The Tories Out

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Thousands of lecturers, supported by tens of thousands of students, were yesterday taking strike action against Labour government cuts and sackings at 11 colleges...

Academy bosses salaries – ‘verging on criminality!’ – while poorly paid teachers are being...

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THE NEW NASUWT president is to tell this weekend’s annual conference that trust bosses’ salaries are ‘verging on criminality’. The NASUWT will call for a...

NO TRIAL BY MEDIA! mass protest in support of Grenfell firefighters

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A MASS protest in support of the fire service took place outside Ladbroke Grove fire station on Monday night, by residents who live in...
25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE

25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE

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Sunday 23rd January 2.00-6.00pm St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)

Ingram misled parliament over Baha Mousa hooding

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ADAM Ingram – Armed Forces Minister during the British occupation of southern Iraq in 2003 – has admitted wrongly informing MPs that Baha Mousa...
A section of the 100,000-strong march against £9,000 tuition fees passing by Trafalgar Square on December 9 last year

STUDENTS’ ROBBERY! – to repay twice their fees and loans

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The University and College union (UCU) yesterday welcomed findings by the BBC, which it said shone a light on the real level of debt...
Thousands of demonstrators on Westminster Bridge on Sunday demanding the scrapping of the Tory coalition’s Health Bill

‘OPPOSE HEALTH BILL!’ – Unison urges

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UNISON yesterday called on peers to oppose the Health Bill today, during its second reading in the House of Lords today. The UK’s largest public...

£105 profit a customer – energy companies on the make

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Almost 10p in every pound of a gas or electricity bill is now going directly into the coffers of the privatised energy companies. Gas and...

Increase nurses pay! – top NHS manager on £211,249

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END the pay freeze for midwives and give them the same percentage pay increase as managers, the Royal College of Midwives has demanded, in...

‘Give It Back’ Huge Support For Strike To Restore 10% Pay Cut

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IN the first test of public opinion since British Airways check-in staff announced that they will take strike action to have their pay restored...
Immigrant workers show up to give their support at the cleaners’ camp outside the Finance Ministry in Athens

Threat To Conscript Greek Power Workers

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POWER workers and technicians trades union GENOP have been threatened with ‘conscription’ by the Greek government. They began ‘rolling’ 48-hour strikes from midnight last night...

Striking ASLEF train drivers defiant!

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ASLEF train drivers start another programme of rolling one-day strikes today, which will run alongside their nine-day overtime ban which began yesterday, having now...
Shop stewards from Luton GMM at the front of a fringe meeting at the TUC Congress to defend Vauxhall jobs. There was no union representation present at the meeting on Tuesday night when workers were told 354 would be sacked

LUTON 354 JOB LOSSES –announced by night shift management

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Night shift workers at the GMM van plant in Luton were summoned to a meeting with the General Manager, Paul Staes, on Monday night...