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Greek coach drivers strike ruled illegal

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A Greek single judge court on Sunday ruled ‘illegal’ a four-day national strike declared by the coach drivers’ federation of trades unions to demand...

TUC warns nurses of huge wage ‘hit!’ – says Johnson will impose 3% ‘rise’

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NURSES will suffer a huge wage ‘hit’ this year if the Government imposes a pay rise well below the soaring rate of inflation, unions...

Tories Refuse Additional Help To Gp Practices! – BMA

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GP LEADERS are dismayed as the UK Secretary of State refuses to give additional help to GP practices. The Health and Social Care Secretary is...

Energy Price Rise Bombshell

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UNISON leader Dave Prentis has warned that the massive 10 per cent price hike announced by the British Gas energy privateer yesterday will lead...
Visteon workers in a show of defiance on the roof before Unite officials got them to leave the factory at noon yesterday

UNITE END ENFIELD OCCUPATION – but Belfast stands firm

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The Unite trade union yesterday carried out its obligation to the capitalist court and at noon ended the occupation of the Visteon factory in...

COVER-UP – Grieving families condemn Network Rail

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PARENTS of two young girls killed on an Essex level crossing in 2005 accused Network Rail of a cover-up yesterday, after the rail privateer...

Tories have taken no action to stop another Grenfell

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NEARLY two years since the Grenfell fire, in which 72 people lost their lives, the government has done nothing to adequately prepare fire and...
Anti-cuts demonstrators in London in March this year demand: ‘Invest in housing’

HOUSING CRISIS! Middle classes will be on the streets

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HOMELESSNESS is spreading to the middle class, homelessness charity Crisis is warning, as mass sackings of public sector workers along with the government’s onslaught...

Upfront fees deter patients – Immigrants denied cancer treatment says BMA

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PATIENTS from other countries are failing to get the urgent cancer treatment they need, because of upfront fees. These fees are ‘deterring immigrants from...
Chagossians with their Community Association banner, demanding the right to return to Diego Garcia, outside parliament yesterday

GPs REJECT VIRGIN OFFER – of share of privatisation spoils

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GPs yesterday opposed plans by Virgin Healthcare to offer GPs 10% of the profits it plans to make from private services including dentistry, therapies...

Primark Slave Labour Claims

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The GMB trade union yesterday called for tougher enforcement of the National Minimum Wage in the wake of allegations that a Primark supplier in...
Saturday afternoon’s march through Enfield demanding the immediate reopening of Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E which won a huge response

Stop Clause 119 – Stop The Hospital Closures!

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THE government faces a revolt over Clause 119 of the Care Bill today. This clause would give health secretary Hunt and appointed officials powers to...

Ruling class moves to try to restore order

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THE Labour government is pushing through the Houses of Parliament a bill that will make desertion and refusal to serve in an occupied country...
Tens of thousands have marched through London determined to fight for a Palestinian victory

Israel demands Hamas disarm! – in attempt to undermine the ceasefire

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EGYPTIAN officials said yesterday that Israel was demanding that the Gaza Strip be ‘demilitarised’, and Hamas be disarmed, creating uncertainty over whether the...
Workers and their families outside the Stead McAalpin factory in Cummersdale yesterday

ANGRY STEAD McALPIN WORKERS RALLY

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OVER 50 sacked workers launched a 24-hour picket and demonstration yesterday morning outside the Stead McAlpin factory in Cummersdale, near Carlisle. Workers are angry that...

Police tasering mentally ill!

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TWO-THIRDS of all people Tasered by the police in England and Wales between 2010 and 2014 were identified as mentally ill. The figures were made...

Further Education Unions Demand 6 Per Cent

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The six trade unions – ACM, ATL, GMB, UCU, UNISON and UNITE – representing 250,000 further education staff yesterday submitted a pay claim for...

US in political crisis as Biden faces growing calls to quit!

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A ‘PERVASIVE sense of fear and uncertainty’ hangs over the US Democratic party as 81-year-old president Joe Biden faces increasingly strident calls for him...

Extreme torture inflicted on Palestinians

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NEWLY released accounts from detainees in Israel’s Naqab Prison reveal harrowing details of torture and dehumanisation inflicted by Israeli forces, underscoring a pattern of...

‘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...

‘Don’t make the student debt nightmare worse!’

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‘DON’T make the £141bn student debt nightmare worse,’ the University and College Union (UCU) warned yesterday ahead of a government spending review. University staff have...

Cut £72m agency spend! – to solve the midwife crisis

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CUTTING the amount the NHS spends on agency midwives would solve the midwife shortage, says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in a new...
Greek worker has a clear idea how to remedy the banking crisis

Greek Slump – Consumption Falls By 16.6%

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THE Greek economy fell further into deep recession in the first quarter of the year, according to the Greek Statistics Authority (EL.STAT.) who announced...

‘Grave concerns’ over Taser roll-out

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‘Grave concerns’ have been expressed over the wider deployment of Taser electro-shock weapons to police officers in ten forces across the UK which are...

Syriza Surrenders To Troika!

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THE GREEK government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in a treacherous U-turn has turned the landslide ‘NO’ to austerity vote in last Sunday’s referendum,...

de Menezes Inquest ‘a Whitewash’

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THE FAMILY of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday vowed to continue their struggle for justice, and while denouncing the conduct of the coroner at...

Grenfell families rehoused in ‘high fire-risk’ building

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KENSINGTON and Chelsea council have re-housed Grenfell survivors and their families in a block found to have a ‘high risk’ of fire! A fire risk...
RMT General Secretary BOB CROW at a demonstration against the rail privateers outside Waterloo station on August 14

RENATIONALISE! – ‘end privatisation chaos once and for all’ says Crow

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‘RENATIONALISE West Coast and all the other franchises under one single umbrella, and end the profiteering and chaos of rail privatisation once and for...

SA miners continue with strike action! –ANC & Zuma are condemned

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SOUTH African platinum miners were yesterday continuing their strike, and their wives are occupying the entrance to the British-owned Lonmin Marikana mine. Lonmin has given...

PRESCRIPTION CHARGES UP BY 25p

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An increase in NHS prescription charges in England of 25p, putting them up to £7.65, came into effect yesterday, despite objections from the British...

Russia for negotiated ceasefire! – ‘There will be no joining NATO!’

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THE RUSSIAN Ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, held a press conference in New York yesterday during which he made it clear that...

TUC outlines conditions for a safer reopening of schools!

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THE TUC on Friday published a joint statement that was sent yesterday evening to the Secretary of State for Education, on behalf of unions...

Raab Refuses To Give End Of Lockdown Date

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FOREIGN Secretary Dominic Raab rebuked the Covid Recovery Group (CRG) of rebel Tory MPs yesterday, insisting that the government won’t be held to an...

LIFT SIEGE OF PALESTINIANS – Oxfam urges Quartet

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International aid agency Oxfam said on Wednesday that conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are close to melt-down. It called on members of the EU,...
Members of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists with their placards marching against cuts in Nottingham

PATIENT CARE AT RISK! – BMA slams ‘rushed-through reforms’

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‘Rushed through reforms’ to doctors’ training will see ‘risks to patient care’, warns the British Medical Association. The BMA said that under the government’s ‘Modernising...
The Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust campaigners on the NHS march – they successfully forced the withdrawal of a subsidiary company – now NHS Improvement has ‘paused’ the setting up of subsidiaries all over the country

‘A SIGNIFICANT VICTORY!’ – Health unions hail subsidiaries ‘pause’

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‘A SIGNIFICANT victory’ for health workers is how Unite described the decision by NHS Improvement to ‘pause’ the setting up of wholly owned subsidiary...

JAIL TIME FOR BANKERS – raised at parliamentary committee

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EX-Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond was asked point blank yesterday if he believed bankers who broke the law should be jailed. He was asked the...

‘Beaten And Shocked’ – Say Freedom Flotilla Supporters

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‘OUR ship carried two desalination machines, bricks and roof-tiles, 250 electric vehicles for disabled persons, a forklift truck donated by the Elefsina dockworkers and...

STOP THE THEATRE CLOSURES! – actors to march today from Piccadilly

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ACTORS will demonstrate in the centre of London today against a wave of threatened theatre closures. Actors in white masks will take part in today’s...

Rcn Demands Immediate 12.5% Pay Rise For Nurses!

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HOUSE prices rose six times faster than NHS nurses’ pay in last decade. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) says nurses’ wages are left in...

‘WE’RE READY TO FIGHT FOR VICTORY’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet shop stewards went to a meeting at the Trades Union Congress in central London yesterday with leaders of their union, the TGWU,...
The front of the  Young Socialists march in Swindon for Jobs for Youth at trade union rates of pay

Out With Slave Labour!

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UNEMPLOYED youth will be forced to work unpaid for three months before they can claim benefits under plans announced by London Mayor Johnson and...

Ambulances waiting crisis!

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About 300,000 ambulances were left queuing outside hospitals last year, with patients waiting up to eight hours, or even longer, to be transferred into...
Sacked Stead McAlpin and Birtwistle workers outside John Lewis offices in London yesterday

‘WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK!’ – McAlpin sacked workers tell John Lewis

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A COACHLOAD of sacked workers from Stead McAlpin and J H Birtwistle factories, formerly owned by John Lewis, yesterday lobbied the John Lewis Partnership...

Sweden to re-open Assange investigation

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YESTERDAY Sweden’s deputy director of public prosecutions, Eva-Marie Persson, announced that an investigation into a rape allegation made against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange in...