Starmer aide McSweeney quits – who’s next?

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LABOUR leader and PM Keir Starmer’s position was further weakened yesterday as his Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney was forced to quit amidst the...

Unite rejects cutting NHS ‘sick notes!’

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GOVERNMENT proposals to force GPs to sign fewer sick notes for workers have been rejected by Doctors in Unite, which represents GPs and doctors...
Firefighters on the October 20 TUC march against cuts – more cuts are expected to be announced today

Osborne to make more cuts today!

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Chancellor Osborne will step up the Coalition’s attacks on public spending in his Autumn Statement today, while handing over another huge tranche of taxpayers...

Russian Ambassador In Talks With Al-Sadr

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The Russian ambassador to Iraq yesterday flew to Najaf and started talks with leading Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who led the uprising against US...
Picket line at Birmingham University on Tuesday morning

Massive Uni staff strike!

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TUESDAY’S strikes by staff in colleges and universities closed institutions and key learning facilities with hundreds of classes cancelled, the UCU said yesterday. The action,...

Royal Mail 97% YES for strike

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OVER 97% of members of the CWU (Communication Workers Union) working for Royal Mail, voted ‘YES’ for strike action, it was announced yesterday. Hundreds of...
Migrants on the ‘Right to Homes’ march demanding decent, affordable housing – the Tories want to evict refugees en masse

Tory eviction plan for refugees

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IN A further Tory attack on the working class, landlords will be expected to evict entire families, if they believe them to be ‘illegal...

£32 million cuts planned at NW London NHS – 400 jobs threatened

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The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust yesterday confirmed that it is looking to cut £32 million (ten per cent) from its budget over...
Rail workers demanding that fares be cut, not rail staff, and that the rail network be nationalised

Rail fares rising three times faster than wages! – 26.6% between 2008 and 2012

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RAIL fares have risen three times faster than wages since the slump began in 2008, according to a new analysis published yesterday by the...
Firefighters walk out at Euston fire station

Angry firefighters call for much bigger action!

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FIREFIGHTERS throughout England and Wales walked out of their fire stations at noon yesterday at the beginning of the Fire Brigades Union National Pensions...

PCS REJECTS ‘BULLYING’ OF THE POOR – as government plans four-week benefit cuts

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THE civil service union PCS said yesterday it was opposed to ‘punitive’ benefit cuts facing the unemployed, single parents and even the disabled, who...

Tories are now rushing to smash & privatise NHS!

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THE TORY goverment is now rushing to privatise the NHS, by using all means that are available for the task including the use of...
Defiant junior doctors at Downing Street on February 6th are determined to beat Health Secretary Hunt’s attempt to dictate their contract

Junior Doctors Will Not Accept Imposition!

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‘JUNIOR doctors cannot and will not accept a contract that is bad for the future of patient care, the profession and the NHS as...

80,000 Civil Servants Out!

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Up to 80,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), today begin a...
A section of last Saturday’s determined march against plans for a new immigration detention centre at Gatwick

‘End These Cruel Detention Centres’

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UP TO 500 protesters marched in Crawley on Saturday to demonstrate against the building of a new immigration detention centre at Gatwick Airport. The...

Fury over US health firms takeover of GP practices Doctors in Unite protest tomorrow

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A PROTEST against GP practices being taken over by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation – branded as ‘the accelerating privatisation of the NHS...
Angry students marching through central London demanding an end to all tuition fees, the restoration of grants and no privatisation

‘Organise and fight!’ – education must be free!

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STUDENT Unions (SU) across the country have slammed the National Union of Students (NUS) President Toni Pearce’s decision to pull out of today’s national...

‘cowardly’ Attack On Gadaffi Compound

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Libya condemned as ‘cowardly’ a series of NATO air strikes targeting Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s Bab al-Azizia compound in Tripoli early yesterday. Gadaffi’s whereabouts at...
A thousand POA members marched to Downing Street yesterday mid-morning to condemn the attack on their pensions

POA demands General Strike

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UP TO A thousand Prison Officers marched down Whitehall to a rally at Westminster on Budget Day yesterday. Prison Officer’s Association (POA) rep at HMP...

Over 250,000 workers and youth join the London Nakba march

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OVER a quarter of a million workers, students and youth joined the Nakba 78 March from the museums in Kensington to Pall Mall in...
Demonstration through liberated Aleppo declares ‘Goodbye USA’

Turkey-US Deal!

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ANKARA and Washington have reached an agreement to work together in their occupation of part of northern Syria, where the two NATO allies have...
Workers occupying the roof of the Visteon factory in Enfield yesterday

BAILIFFS DEFIED – Enfield Visteon workers maintain occupation

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THE Visteon car parts plant, in Enfield, once owned by Ford, is still occupied by over 100 workers who are defending their jobs and...

AN EPIDEMIC OF THE GREATEST EVIL – Fallujah bombings condemned

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‘It’s not only in Fallujah, but all over Iraq that there are child deformities. ‘I’ve been in the medical profession for 30 years, I’ve...

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...
The 500,000-strong TUC demonstration on March 26, with the lead banner insisting ‘cuts are not the cure’

JOBS CRISIS – WORSE TO COME – says TUC

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CLAIMS by Chancellor Osborne and Prime Minister Cameron that Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures showing 0.5 per cent growth is ‘good news’ were...

‘SLAVE-DRIVING GATE GOURMET’ says Jarnail Singh, locked-out workers branch secretary

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers’ branch secretary Jarnail Singh condemned the company for ‘slave driving’ yesterday. He said: ‘They made their plans a long time ago...

Birmingham massacre of service

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BIRMINGHAM city council is selling off its community centres and youth centres with millions of pounds of public property being auctioned off to housing...

Westbourne Park busworkers set to strike again!

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OVER 2,000 bus workers are gearing up to strike against attempts by London’s transport privateers to impose pay cuts and unacceptable new work schedules...

Israel’s ‘terrorism, threat and intimidation won’t frighten us!’ – says Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh

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THE agreement between Israeli Prime Minister-Designate Benjamin Netanyahu and extremist Itamar Ben Gvir is ‘a broad call for an escalation in the violence in...

1,000 Days Of Gaza Seige

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Protests against the crippling siege imposed on the Gaza Strip should spread across the world, said Palestinian lawmaker Jamalh Al-Khudari yesterday, as the blockade...

Junior doctors condemn PM Sunak for ‘trying to intimidate & bully them’

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AS JUNIOR doctors ended their latest five-day strike action yesterday morning, BMA Junior Doctors Committee spokesman Dr Tal Ellenbogen accused Tory PM Rishi Sunak...

4.3m UK CHILDREN NOW IN POVERTY! – RAISE CHILD BENEFIT DEMANDS COMMISSION

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THE SOCIAL Mobility Commission in its State of the Nation report 2021, published yesterday, has unveiled in detail the devastating impact of coronavirus on...

NUT to strike on July 5

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THE NUT has announced that members in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action to protect pay and working conditions. In the...
Guinness Trust tenants rally outside the office of the Trust and celebrate the halting of an eviction

Guinness Tenants Halt Eviction

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GUINNESS Trust tenants were celebrating a victory as the planned eviction timed for 10am yesterday morning was halted by a court hearing...

Stevens intervention slammed!

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NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens has intervened in the referendum debate to declare that leaving the EU could damage the NHS. Citing Bank of...

Warzone docs under attack

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HOSPITALS bombed by Saudi forces in Yemen murdering the staff inside, and doctors shot dead in Palestine treating the wounded on the Gaza border,...

Fight NHS Sackings

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‘We will do everything we can to avoid redundancies’, said UNISON south west regional organiser Chris Dayus yesterday, after the Royal...

Palestinian Red Crescent wants to know what happened to Hind Rajab!

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THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in the Gaza Strip has called on the international community to exert pressure on the Israeli regime to...

Hamas Rejects Presence Of Any Israeli Forces In The Gaza Strip Area!

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SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan has welcomed the general ceasefire plan proposed by US president Joe Biden, saying it contained ‘positive ideas’. Hamdan reiterated his...
Hospital workers marching last May against the sell-off of NHS services

Not Enough Doctors!

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Government cuts have seen two NHS hospitals call for Army medics to help them maintain an A&E service. NHS trusts in Yorkshire and Mid-Staffs cite...

Obama’s last-minute talks – US on the brink

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WITH Congress adjourned for the weekend, US President Obama was holding last-minute talks with Republican and Democratic leaders at the White House yesterday evening...

NO EXTRADITION! – demands rally for Assange outside Woolwich Crown Court

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s trial at Woolwich Crown Court began yesterday morning, where the Tory government is seeking to extradite him to the US...

All Out For Gate Gourmet Demonstration

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‘WE want all trade unionists and everyone who supports the working class to come to our march next Saturday,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Raksha...
Workers setting a European Union flag on fire at the ERT building in Athens

GREEK RADIO & TV HAS BEEN OCCUPIED – General strike called and Greek riot...

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TENS of thousands of Greek workers and youth rushed to the state Greek TV and Radio corporation (ERT) building on Tuesday afternoon following the...
A group of the locked-out Gate Gourmet workers outside the Employment Tribunal in Reading

GATE GOURMET SACKINGS ‘PREMEDITATED’ – union pfficial confirms

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APPEARING at the Gate Gourmet sacked workers employment tribunal yesterday was Brendan Gold, TGWU national secretary for civil aviation transport. He was also responsible at...