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Call an emergency TUC Congress to defy anti-strike laws – says FBU leader Matt...

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TRADE unions must build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament by the Tories, Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt...

CONSULTANTS 2 DAYS OF STRIKE ACTION! – and further action to follow

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CONSULTANTS in England are holding two more days of strike action today and tomorrow, demonstrating their commitment to fix consultants’ pay in order to...

Tories Transport Refugees To ‘Deathtrap Barge!’

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REFUGEE charity Care4Calais reported yesterday that it had managed to stop 20 asylum seekers from being forced aboard the Bibby Stockholm ‘deathtrap barge’ anchored...
Local government workers on the May Day march in Athens organised by the Coalition of the Radical Left

‘Peoples Of Europe Rise Up!’

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GREEK workers in the public and private sectors are preparing for today’s 24-hour general strike which is certain to be one of the biggest...

AMBULANCE CRISIS – Handover delays put patients at ‘catastrophic risk’ of harm

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PATIENTS are being put at ‘catastrophic risk’ of harm due to ambulance handover delays, NHS managers warned yesterday. West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) has raised...

10,000 Tube strikers fighting 600 job cuts

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10,000 TUBE workers took strike action yesterday after London Underground (LU) bosses refused to rule out job cuts and detrimental changes to pensions. Under the...
Postal workers marching during the General Strike in Belfast on January 18 2001 sparked by the sectarian killing of a young postal worker

Belfast Cwu – Still Out!

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Striking Belfast postal workers yesterday told union representatives that they are not going back to work. Communications Workers Union spokesman, Owen Davey, said after...

Warmongers meet in Wales!

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WESTERN leaders yesterday criticised Russia for its ‘destabilising’ influence on the crisis in Ukraine, at the start of a Nato summit in Wales. Nato and...

RMT SUPPORTS VESTAS OCCUPATION! – Crow calls for nationalisation

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RMT leader Bob Crow yesterday called for the nationalisation of the occupied Vestas wind turbine factory at Newport, Isle of Wight. In their occupation statement...
Pupils, parents and teachers demonstrated outside St Andrew & St Francis Primary School during a teachers’ strike against the school being forced to become an academy

Classrooms bursting!

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SCHOOL classrooms are at bursting point, with half a million pupils squeezed into classrooms with more than 40 in a class. Labour Party analysis highlighted...
Teachers on the front line of the struggle against savage Tory cuts

Basic funding too low to allow schools to operate!

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EVERY school in England will see budget cuts before 2020, even after new funding plans are put into place, Education Policy Institute (EPI) research...

Top Bosses Earn 120 Times A Worker’s Wage!

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THE HIGH Pay Centre’s ‘High Pay Day’ research, published Wednesday, is evidence that the government must rebalance the economy after Covid-19 to make it...

UK-UKRAINE ALLIANCE – ‘We are strategic partners’ – UK Defence Secretary

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THE UNITED Kingdom has finalised an agreement with Ukraine that allows Kiev to buy British warships and missiles to enhance its naval capabilities, a...

Reeves launches vicious war on all benefit claimants!

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CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves launched a vicious war on benefit claimants in her Budget yesterday, warning that she intends to take over the Tory ‘work...

UNIONS MUST TAKE ‘JOINT INDUSTRIAL ACTION’ – PCS leader Serwotka tells press

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown laid down the gauntlet at the weekend to this week’s TUC Congress, being held in Liverpool. Downing Street has released excerpts...
Youth from Forest Gate demonstrating outside New Scotland Yard yesterday afternoon

‘WE SUFFERED A NIGHTMARE’ says sister of jailed men

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,?her innocent family should be forced to go through the same nightmare we went through,’ said Humeya Kalam, the sister of brothers Abdul Kahar...

Sunak scraps HS2 project and praises the Ukraine!

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GIVING the closing speech at the Tory party conference in Manchester yesterday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was introduced by his billionairess wife, Akshata Murthy. Speaking...

One Demonstrator Dead – Girls Taken Away In Handcuffs

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Around 200 G20 protesters yesterday lunchtime mounted a vigil-assembly at the Bank of England demanding an independent public inquiry into the death of a...

Scores of constituencies will vote for my point of view says Galloway

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SUNAK and the Tory government are ‘so bereft of public support that they cower in fear’ of calling a general election, while the Starmer...

LOTHIAN PAYING £1.4m A MONTH FOR HOSPITAL IT CANNOT USE!

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A health board is paying over a million pounds a month to a private consortium for a hospital it cannot use. The new children’s hospital...
Ealing Hospital workers on their picket line yesterday made clear that they want negotiations for a living wage, sick pay and improved annual leave

Ealing Hospital strike action!

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MORE than 100 Ealing Hospital porters, domestic, catering and help desk workers took their first day of strike action from 6am-6pm yesterday and are...

KHAN CALLS FOR NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT – Corbyn only one of the options

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LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for the Labour Party to consider backing the creation of a government of ‘national unity’ to stop Brexit. He...

OCCUPY GM! –Fiat takeover threat to plants

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‘Vauxhall workers should occupy to defend their jobs’, Belfast Visteon convenor John McGuire told News Line yesterday. He was responding to news that Fiat...

King And Darling Take Panic Measures!

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‘A painful adjustment faces the global banking sector over the next few months as losses are revealed and new capital is raised to repair...

School Youth Climate Change Demo

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HUNDREDS of school youth staged a strike for climate change in Parliament Square yesterday. Lana Daly came with friends from west London and said: ‘The...

BofE cuts interest rates to 0.1%

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THE BANK of England cut its base rate to a record low of 0.1%, a sliver above zero, warning the coronavirus pandemic will result...
Junior doctors at St Thomas’ Hospital in central London during the first day of last month’s 48-hour strike

Hunt refuses BMA offer –TIME FOR THE TUC TO TAKE ACTION

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THE BMA wrote to Tory health secretary Hunt yesterday with a clear offer: lift the imposition of the new contract and junior doctors will...

500 arrested in Trafalgar Square for opposing genocide!

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NEARLY 500 people were arrested in Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday for holding up posters declaring: ‘I oppose Genocide – I support...
Part of the delegation of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC yesterday morning. The whole delegation was angry at the TGWU leaders  who would not allow them to have visitors credentials

BIG SUPPORT FOR GG LOBBY – But TGWU leaders refuse locked-out workers visitors credentials

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TRADE unionists from many unions backed the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ lobby of the TUC in Brighton yesterday morning. A lobby of over 100 workers...
Unite and Unison members march to defend their pensions – on Thursday’s strike they will be joined by other public sector unions

Unions Rebut New Tory Strike Ban Threat

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UNITE and Unison rebutted threats issued by Cabinet Secretary Francis Maude yesterday morning, in which he poured Tory vitriol on this Thursday’s mass one-day...

Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital Under Siege!

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AT LEAST 20 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza yesterday morning, with the houses of...

Starmer eager to work with the bosses and the military

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LABOUR Party leader Keir Starmer followed up his refusal to support the £15-an-hour motion carried by the conference on Monday by boasting in his...
A section of the 20,000-strong march in London on Saturday demanding that the UK apologise for the Balfour Declaration and recognise the state of Palestine

‘WE HAVE INTENSE SECURITY COOPERATION’ – says PM Netanyahu

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‘ISRAEL stands out as a beacon of democracy,’ Israel’s PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, arrogantly claimed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday. This came when Marr challenged...

‘Special Place In Hell’ For The Brexiteers!

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EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk dropped his mask of reasonableness yesterday in Brussels when he declared that there is a ‘special place in hell’...

No NHS ‘Stealth’ Privatisation!

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THE UNITE union will be making ‘a vigorous and well-argued response’ to the consultation on the future of wholly owned subsidiaries set up by...
Official TSSA picket at Rayners Lane yesterday where it was pointed out that the safety of passengers was the big issue

XMAS TRUCE ON THE TUBE – offer by TSSA & RMT

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A CHRISTMAS truce in the Tube dispute was offered today as millions of travellers faced another day of strike action. Speaking at...

Heathrow Conflict Is Set To Widen

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New British Airways Chief Executive Willie Walsh, who takes up his post this weekend, plans to sack 6,000 out of BA’s 46,000-strong workforce, starting...

BA ‘Rambo’ Walsh Returns To Talks

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MASSIVE, worldwide support for the British Airways cabin crew yesterday forced BA boss Walsh back to the negotiating table with the Unite union. Aviation unions...
‘Defend Lewisham Bridge School’ campaigners joined by students from Goldsmiths College demonstrating against Brown yesterday

HANDS OFF OUR SCHOOLS! – parents lobby Brown

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ANGRY parents occupying the roof of Lewisham Bridge Primary School and students from Goldsmiths College demonstrated against Prime Minister Brown when he arrived...
The struggle of the Egyptian workers is an inspiration to the workers of the world

‘A MILLION TO MARCH TODAY’ – as Suleiman appeals for 200 days of calm

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EGYPTIAN anti-government protesters yesterday fought the regime to a standstill and pushed the supporters of President Hosni Mubarak out of the streets near...
Trade unionists march on Parliament last July demanding ‘Tories Out!’ – The TUC leadership is now collaborating with them

Tuc Joins Tory Taskforce!

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THE TUC has joined the Tory government’s new National Taskforce on Carillion. In fact it had launched the call for May to form the taskforce. The...
'The ugly faces of occupation' by Mats Svensson

‘The ugly faces of occupation’ by Mats Svensson

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See photo gallery for feature by Mats Svensson of demolition of two houses in Silwan, Jerusalem last week

Met Commissioner Dick given 2-year extension – ‘Kick Dick out! Disband the police!’

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THE TORY government have offered the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, a two-year extension to her term in office with campaigners for justice furious...

Thousands turn out to save Honda car factory!

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SWINDON residents turned out in their thousands on Saturday’s march to save the Honda car factory and stop its closure. There were 6,000 on the...

‘The Israeli regime’s security myth has been shattered! Hezbollah is stronger than ever!’

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THE SPEAKER for the Iranian parliament has praised Iran’s retaliatory attack dubbed Operation True Promise II against the occupied territories on Tuesday night, stating...