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Area Curfews!

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HOME Secretary Theresa May yesterday announced plans for a National Crime Agency, training more riot police and area curfews. In a speech to an audience...
TSSA and RMT strikers on the picket line at Kings Cross Station yesterday morning – determined to defend jobs on the Tube

TOTAL SHUTDOWN! – Tube strike solid

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‘LONDON is on an almost total shutdown,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said yesterday during the 24-hour tube strike. Pickets were out in force at...
Sacked Tesco drivers protesting at their unfair dismissal at the Tesco AGM yesterday in London

Sacked Tesco drivers protest

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FORMER drivers, who used to work on the Tesco distribution contract in Doncaster, staged a demonstration yesterday at the Tesco AGM in London, protesting...

HAITI 200,000 DEAD! – one million people homeless

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ESTIMATES of the death toll in Haiti rose to more than 200,000 yesterday, with warnings of more people dying of hunger and disease following...
Chagos Islands Community Association chair HENGRIDE PERMAL addressing the News Line Anniversary Rally yesterday

Build Revolutionary Leadershp

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‘As ordinary trade union members are fighting for their jobs they must have a leadership with a policy of “not one job sold, not...
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC on Monday demanding action to win their jobs back seen here speaking to GMB general secretary PAUL KENNY

NURSES TAKE LABOUR TO COURT! –to stop the privatisation of NHS Primary Care Services

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday began a legal challenge to government plans to privatise the NHS by abolishing the role of Primary...

Bosses Call For Zero Wage Rises!

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CONSUMER price inflation fell in January, much less than was expected by the so-called experts. The Consumer Prices Index reached an annual rate of...

Thomas Cook workers freed after angry demonstration

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SIXTEEN workers, eight trade union representatives and the partner of one of the staff who were brought before the High Court after they refused...

Iran’s retaliatory operation dispells Israeli invincibility myth

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COMMANDER of the Iranian Army’s Ground Force, Brigadier General Kioumars Haydari, says Iran’s retaliatory operation against Israel has further dispelled the ‘threadbare myth that the...

Cuts Will Make 40,000 Families Homeless

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Labour is to put down an urgent question in Parliament this morning, after it emerged that Prime Minister Cameron was warned six months ago...
Demonstration in east London in July against the sell-off of GP surgeries

Halt NHS Privatisation!

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THE Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which Unite says places the NHS at ‘unique risk of being irreversibly privatised’, will not exclude healthcare,...
Police Riot In Athens

Police Riot In Athens

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GREEK workers and youth demonstrated in their hundreds of thousands last Wednesday throughout the country as part of a 24-hour general strike against the...
RMT and supporters demonstrate outside the House of Commons for passenger safety, insisting guards must be kept on the trains

RMT New Strike Actions

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THE RMT has announced strike action against two of the country’s rail privateers – a 48-hour strike on Virgin Trains East Coast and a...

Revolution In France

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IT is Tuesday, 3.00pm in Paris and people are still pouring into Place D’Italie for the start of the latest massive anti-government demonstration by...

14 Days Strike At 74 Universities!

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THE BLAME for the disruption to students’ education by strike action starting today lays squarely at the door of vice-chancellors, said the University and...
Health unions have warned that next year’s wage increase must match inflation

Food & Fuel Prices Soaring!

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HUGE petrol and food price increases have pushed up the UK cost of living, cutting workers’ wages and living standards. The Office of National Statistics...

20 Nations demand that Israel scraps West Bank occupation plans!

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ISRAEL’S approval of the E1 settlement scheme in the occupied West Bank has provoked condemnation from more than 20 countries, including several members of...
Last March a demonstration hit central London against spiralling rents, the destruction of council housing and mass evictions

Housing crisis: ‘national emergency’

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HOUSING has become a ‘national emergency’ as it emerged the proportion of home ownership has fallen to the lowest level since 1986 and, as...

Case Launched For A Single Inquiry Into UK Soldiers Abuse Of Iraqis

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Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) last Friday, 5 February, lodged papers to commence a judicial review on behalf of 66 Iraqis claiming torture and abuse...

Blood Cuts Will Harm Patient Care

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Patient care in West Yorkshire will be under threat if plans for swingeing cuts to the blood service in Leeds go ahead, the Unite...

3rd day of BEIS strike 100% solid

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PCS CATERING workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark were in confident mood on the third...

Hounslow Council Leader To Speak At Rally

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Gate GOURMET locked out workers were yesterday campaigning for their march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th March. At Hounslow Civic Centre, where the rally is...

DOCTORS ‘FEEL LIKE CANNON FODDER’ says Chair of Doctors’ Association UK

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Doctors ‘feel like lambs to the slaughter and cannon fodder’, said the chair of the Doctors’ Association UK yesterday morning, demanding that frontline NHS...

GP surgeries at breaking point

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‘GENERAL practice across England is under unprecedented pressure,’ was the BMA’s response yesterday to the news that hundreds of surgeries across the country applied...
Joint FBU-Justice4Grenfell march last Saturday – firefighters have been exonerated by fire experts at the Grenfell Inquiry

Refurbishment to blame for fire deaths – Fire expert tells Inquiry

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FIREFIGHTERS were not to blame for the stay-put strategy in the Grenfell Tower, fire expert Dr Barbara Lane told the Inquiry, it is...

Leeds child heart surgery closure is halted!

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CAMPAIGNERS fighting to keep child heart surgery in Leeds yesterday won a legal challenge to the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts’ (JCPCT) consultation...

END GAZA BLOCKADE! – UK agencies urge UK, US, Russia and UN

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UK agencies yesterday called on members of the Mid-East Quartet meeting in London (the US, EU, Russia and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon) to put...
Sacked News International print workers marching in Fleet Street with a defiant message during their bitter 1986-87 strike

BROOKS MUST GO! – insists Miliband

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Labour leader Ed Miliband said yesterday ‘it beggars belief’ that News International chief executive ‘Rebekah Brooks is still in her post’ and, ‘The least...
Members of the Royal College of Nursing with their banners demonstrating against mass sackings of NHS staff on March 26

RCN slams Health Bill

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Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr Peter Carter yesterday condemned ‘billions of pounds’ of NHS cuts, with thousands of nursing jobs being...
Greek workers battle with riot police

Greece under Franco- German occupation!

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THE European Commission has formed an enlarged Task Force of over 100 German and French technocrats to oversee the implementation of the conditions attached...

British Warplanes Bomb Nw Iraq

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British warplanes yesterday bombed vehicles and buildings in the northwestern Iraqi town of Karabila, close to the Syrian border. In what was considered a rare...

Mubarak ‘steps down!’ – swept aside by the revolution

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President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and fled from the capital, Cairo. Vice-President Omar Suleiman announced on Egyptian state television yesterday afternoon: ‘In these grave...

Landlords Can Grab The £400 Energy Bill Rebate

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LANDLORDS face a potential Tory cash bonanza with nothing to stop them holding on to the £400 energy bill rebate which the government is...

Prevention rather than cure! – Tories unveil 10-year plan to smash NHS

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‘THE NHS long term plan is as much about prevention, and early diagnosis, as treatment and recovery,’ PM May said speaking on The Andrew...

Labour Mounts Attack On Disabled

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Disability charities yesterday expressed concerns over Labour’s plans to introduce harsh work tests and force almost two million people off incapacity benefit. In his Budget...
Piraeus dockers and sacked cleaners demonstrating outside the Finance Ministry in November 2014 in central Athens – the  cleaners remain sacked depite the change of government

‘ECB STILL HOLDING ROPE AROUND OUR NECKS!’ says the Syriza leadership

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THE Eurogroup’s President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Tuesday that unless the Greek government implements immediately the promised ‘reforms’ – that is austerity measures –...

UKRAINE WAR BOOSTS INFLATION! – says World Bank President

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THE war in Ukraine is ‘a catastrophe’ for the world which will cut global economic growth and boost inflation, the president of the World...

130,000 homeless children this Xmas

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MORE than 130,000 homeless children will be living in temporary accommodation this Christmas in Britain, according to estimates by the homeless charity Shelter. In...

Back to Work regulations are ruled illegal!

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IN A LANDMARK decision yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal ruling of last February that the Regulations governing the government’s ‘Back...

Gp Services Buckling Under Tory Attack

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PATIENT care is ‘deteriorating’ in half of GP practices as GP services buckle under rising workload, a new BMA survey warned yesterday. More than half...

RMT demands inspection of all fire detection equipment

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TUBE union RMT is to leaflet rush-hour passengers at Euston station tomorrow morning, Wednesday, August 11 over cuts to safety and safety-critical jobs. This follows...

Johnson Leaves May Off Hook!

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FORMER Tory Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told MPs in his resignation speech: ‘It is not too late to save Brexit. We have time in...

Average Weekly Wage £13 Lower!

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AVERAGE weekly earnings in the UK are £13 lower than they were a decade ago, a think tank study has found. Job insecurity is...

Museum workers strike across UK

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STAFF from top science museums around the country launched strike action yesterday to demand the Living Wage. The dispute involves tourist attractions, including London’s Science...