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Corbyn’s customs union capitulation

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‘I APPEAL to MPs of all parties, be prepared to put the people’s interests before the ideological fantasies, join us in supporting the option...

‘Be ready for action this Autumn’ says NEU

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‘BE READY for action in the autumn term, with head teachers with us on the picket line – get ready for a general strike...
Kingston Hospital UNISON members demonstrate outside the hospital last month against cuts

Walk-Out At Unison Health Conference

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The UNISON Health Conference in Brighton yesterday gave environment secretary Hilary Benn a heated reception. He was booed and heckled when he tried to defend...

‘UN under attack by Israel on all fronts’ says Borrell!

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THE High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, said on Thursday that the United Nations is under...
Part of the audience at the recent TUC Public Services rally in Westminster applauding calls for public sector-wide strike action

Unison Vote For Sustained Strike Action

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UNISON’s local government members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have voted by 55% to 45% for a programme of sustained strike action over...
Marchers determined to stop the closure of the A&E and maternity services at Whittington hospital in north London

Bma Pensions Action Ballot!

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Doctors will be balloted on industrial action short of a strike, after the government failed to return to meaningful talks on NHS pensions, the...

Ryanair Pilots Down Tools!

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RYANAIR pilots have downed tools today causing huge cost to the company after Ryanair managers again refused to enter talks to end the long...

Pm Starmer Meets With Zelensky In Downing St

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PM KEIR Starmer yesterday met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Downing Street as Zelensky continues his diplomatic efforts to secure European backing for...

US terror raid on Libya!

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US WARPLANES launched a major airstrike in Libya early on Friday morning killing, 40 people in one hit. The terror raid was launched from the...
Part of the contingent of Gate Gourmet sacked workers with their historic banner outside the TUC Congress yesterday morning

Delegates At Tuc Congress Support Gate Gourmet Workers

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DELEGATES attending the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday spoke out strongly in support of the Gate Gourmet sacked workers, and the postal workers. This was...
Demonstrators outside parliament last Tuesday demanding no sell-off of the NHS Photo credit: BETA LUCIANO

Patient care must come first! –BMA & RCN slam ‘enforced competition’

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DOCTORS and nurses’ leaders are calling on the government to amend controversial NHS regulations to make it absolutely clear that patient care will have...
South-East London Council of Action members along with users of the ‘Peckham Spike’ community project  lobbying Southwark Town Hall on Wednesday evening

Mass Lobby Of Southwark Town Hall

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MORE than 100 people staged a mass lobby of Southwark Town Hall in south London on Wednesday night. The rain did not dampen their spirits,...

Tens Of Thousands March Against Athens Riot Police

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TENS of thousands of school and university students demonstrated last Friday in Athens and in all Greek major cities against the oppression and violence...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers on the May Day 2006 march demanding their rights

Gate Gourmet Sacked-Workers’ Lobby Tgwu Biennial Conference

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A COACHLOAD of sacked Gate Gourmet workers is lobbying the TGWU’s Biennial Conference in Brighton this morning. They are currently taking forward a large...
The demonstration to back the Orgeave Justice Campaign’s call for a full inquiry into the police attack on thousands of striking miners at Orgreave thirty two years ago

Orgreave ‘never forget, never forgive’

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OVER 700 trade unionists, former miners and determined supporters, demonstrated on Saturday in Sheffield to back the Orgreave Justice Campaign’s call for a full...

FAMILIES £40bn IN DEBT! – ‘alarm bells should be ringing’

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BRITISH public finances worsened in November, meaning that Tory Chancellor George Osborne will spectacularly fail to hit his budget deficit target for this year...
Ealing Hospital Medirest strikers on the picket line during their seven-day strike last month – they have now won a 16 per cent pay increase

Big victory for Ealing Hospital workers

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THE GMB trade union yesterday declared a massive victory for low-paid Ealing Hospital ancillary workers. The union called off strike action, due from yesterday by...

LABOUR WILL VOTE TO REVOKE ARTICLE 50 – rather than accept ‘No Deal’

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THE LABOUR Party would ‘consider very, very strongly’ voting to revoke Article 50 to block a no-deal Brexit this Friday, Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca...
Maternity Unit banner on a march in Enfield against the closure of the Chase Farm Hospital

‘STORM OF MATERNITY CUTS!’ – warns RCM leader

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‘There is no doubt that maternity care, like the rest of the NHS, is looking into a storm of possible cuts to services,’ said...

Arab League Condemns US Veto!

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The Arab League has criticised the United States for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution that sought to condemn Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip. The...
A section of the 220,000-strong crowd assembling for the march in Marseille yesterday

French General Strike

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PARIS – French workers are on strike again today and staging rallies to protest the government’s bid to raise the retirement age from 60...

Hezbollah denies responsibility for deaths!

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HEZBOLLAH issued a statement yesterday categorically denying Israeli allegations that it was responsible for the killing of 12 children on a football field in...
Teachers marching in London on the October 20 TUC demonstration against the Coalition’s austerity cuts

1.2 million miss out on daily school meal!

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THE Children’s Society is warning that 1.2 million children living below the poverty line in England miss out on a school meal each day. Some...
Demonstration outside the US embassy in London  last February calling for the immediate release of Binyam Mohamed

US ORDERED BINYAM TORTURE –accepted by Washington District Court

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‘THIS puts another nail in the coffin of the British government’s attempts to cover up its role’ in Binyam Mohamed’s treatment, Clive Stafford Smith,...

‘Spectre of Iraq’ hangs over debate!

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PRIME minister Cameron repeatedly refused to apologise, as he opened the debate on bombing Syria, for calling Labour MPs who oppose the bombing ‘a...

Vaccines for 12-15s – boosters for 50+ says Johnson

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‘I WANT to set out our plan for Covid this winter and in many ways the situation we face is even more challenging than...

Silence over whether MI6 tried to recruit Adebolajo

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THE official inquiry into the killing of Lee Rigby in 2013 has highlighted the contacts that MI5 and MI6 had with the two attackers Michael...

Midwives To Ballot!

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MIDWIVES in England and Wales are to be balloted on industrial action. The move was announced by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) at its...

Trump Declares Trade War – On The Eu, Canada & Mexico

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THE CAPITALIST world was rocking yesterday after President Trump’s declaration of a trade war on his European Union, Canadian and Mexican rivals. The US...

SCHOOLCHILDREN WALK OUT! – against Edinburgh closures

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Children at two Edinburgh schools yesterday staged a walkout of classes as part of a campaign against the planned closure of 22 schools and...

British drones may be used in illegal Yemen war

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DEFENCE Secretary Philip Hammond has refused to rule out the possibility that Britain will join the US’ covert drone programme in Yemen, despite...

Insufficient government spending pushing medical students into hardship!

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THE British Medical Association is warning that insufficient government funding for medical students in England for their lengthy degrees is pushing many into financial...
Delegates at the UNISON conference in Brighton yesterday

DON’T GAG CONFERENCE! – UNISON delegates demand debate on coordinated strike action

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UNISON’s national delegate conference yesterday opened with a row over the refusal of the Standing Orders Committee to allow a debate on emergency motions...
Pathology strikers deliver their message from the picket line at St Thomas’ Hospital on Westminster Bridge

‘We want to work for NHS!’ – say striking pathology staff

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PATHOLOGY staff struck for 24 hours yesterday, at King’s, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals in a determined struggle against venture capitalist encroachment in the...
A section of the 100-strong vigil outside the Syrian embassy on Friday evening in memory of the over 70 killed in the latest bombing in Damascus

Syrians Support Assad

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Around 100 Syrians and supporters held a vigil outside the Syrian embassy in London last Friday evening, to condemn last Thursday’s terrorist bombings in...
Local residents join forces with firefighters to demand ‘No Justice No Peace’ on a march last June – the North Kensington Law Centre claims that Grenfell survivors are being pressurised into accepting sub-standard housing, 150 families are still without h

Grenfell survivors pressured to take sub-standard homes – alleges North Kensington Law Centre

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KENSINGTON and Chelsea Council, rather than spend money doing up the 133 empty council-owned houses in the borough, has spent almost £30m on hotels...

Bloody Sunday only 1 prosecution

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‘WE WILL continue on and hopefully get the rest of the perpetrators to justice, because there are legal means to get them prosecuted and...
Unison members outside Parliament yesterday afternoon showing their determination to save the NHS

NHS Staff Face ‘intense Stress Levels’

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THE just published Unison NHS staff survey reveals the increased levels of stress being heaped on staff by a combination of government cuts, the...
Midwives and nurses taking strike action last month – they are not prepared to put up with permanent wage-cutting and pension busting

Cuts and more cuts from Osborne!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a class war Autumn Statement yesterday which revealed Tory plans to completely smash up the Welfare State. Starting with a gloomy assessment...

Starmer right-wing move causing ‘chaos’ in Labour Party – warns Unite

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THE THREE-DAY Labour Policy Forum (LPF) held in Nottingham over the weekend was ‘chaotic’, Unite said yesterday, with the Starmer party leadership seeking to...
Last month Unite, Community and GMB reps marched to the TUC headquarters in central London to discuss the steel crisis

Occupy to save steel jobs!

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TATA Steel could close down its remaining UK operations as soon as 28 May if a viable deal to sell the assets is not...

Barts & St Thomas’ solidarity action!

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UNITE Rep at Barts and Whipps Cross hospitals, Leonard Hockey spoke to News Line about the delegation that joined the St Thomas and Guy’s...
Workers who have lost their company pensions which were recommended by the government outside the House of Commons yesterday were demanding that Chancellor Brown pay up

BROWN SEES NO CRISIS! – while Cameron demands election

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A tense Chancellor Brown yesterday announced a £36bn increase in the sale of public assets (including Student Loans) and a two per cent Corporation...

BAILIFFS MOVE IN AT CRACK OF DAWN! – but Brent Academy protesters vow to...

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AT the crack of dawn bailiffs once again invaded the Wembley Park Sports Ground. No legal notice had been given to the G.R.A.S.S occupiers...

‘WE WILL STRIKE TO DEFEND PENSIONS’ – UNISON leader Prentis pledges

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‘WE will take strike action, across all our sectors, to defend our pensions,’ UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis pledged at the union’s National Delegate...