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GREEK BANK STRIKE – as coalition turns on immigrants

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THOUSANDS of Greek bank workers are continuing their strike against privatisation and will be joined by Postal Bank workers who are holding a one-day...
Young Socialists lobby of the TUC Congress in Brighton last year demanded an end to cheap labour for youth

LABOUR PLEDGES £10 AN HOUR FOR ALL WORKERS! – lower youth rate to be...

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LABOUR yesterday pledged to end the ‘unprecedented’ squeeze on wages with a Labour government introducing a ‘Real Living Wage’ of £10 per hour for...
Sacked 2 Sisters workers demonstrating outside Marks & Spencer’s ‘flagship’ store in Oxford Street. Unite assistant general secretary JACK DROMEY (centre) pledged ‘We will win the jobs back of these 59 workers’

‘2 sisters’ sacked workers picket M&S

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FIFTY-NINE sacked workers from the 2 Sisters poultry processing factory in Birmingham travelled to London yesterday, determined to win their jobs back. They demonstrated outside...

Blair at Inquiry on Monday

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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to appear before the Leveson Inquiry into media standards on Monday. Under-pressure Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will give evidence...

Patients to be turned away from A&E – Hancock outlines NHS 111 First

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YESTERDAY in Parliament, Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that less serious cases would be turned away from A&E and only the most serious...
RMT picket line during their strike to defend jobs and to keep ticket offices open

48-Hour Tube Strike

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A 48-HOUR London underground strike is to take place next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, tube workers union RMT said yesterday. RMT said that the strike...

£11.5bn of cuts & wage cuts – at the centre of Osborne’s budget

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CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a massive onslaught on public services and public sector pay in his budget yesterday, imposing billions more in cuts as well...
The E15 Campaign fights for social housing against the policy of social cleansing

‘Uprooting homeless families now the norm in London!’

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HOMELESS charity Shelter yesterday condemned the practice of ‘out-of (London)-borough placements’ as ‘unacceptable’. This came as Labour-run Luton Borough Council, Bedfordshire, is considering legal action...

Released prisoners reveal grim tortures in Israeli facilities!

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ON THURSDAY, Israeli authorities released 64 detainees from Gaza. Among the released were two women from Gaza, detained while accompanying patients in Israel. Of...
Fast food workers rallying outside McDonald’s in Leicester Square, central London yesterday demanded ‘Fair Pay Now!’

‘McStrike’ demands £10 an hour

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‘WHAT do we want – fair pay! When do we want it – now!’ shouted hundreds of striking McDonald’s, TGI Fridays, Wetherspoons, and UberEats...

PROSECUTIONS NOW! – demand Grenfell survivors

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GRENFELL survivors and supporters marched in North Kensington on Tuesday evening demanding ‘Prosecutions now!’ ‘Today we are changing our tone, we are demanding change, enough...

Turned away from A&E!

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GP SURGERIES will start receiving referrals from A&E departments under a new set of measures proposed by NHS England which were announced yesterday. The plans,...

Splitters should stand down & fight by-election – demands McDonnell

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‘THE HONOURABLE thing, the usual thing for them to do now, is to stand down and fight by-elections, back in their constituencies,’ shadow chancellor...
GMB members on strike in defence of pensions at St George’s Hospital in Tooting last November 30

97.3% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION! –at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital

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porters, theatre technicians, catering, cleaning and other NHS support workers, employed by private contractor Carillion at Great Western Hospital in Swindon, have voted by...

BA 98% Vote For Strike!

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CARGO workers at British Airways have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in the bitter dispute over the company’s plans to fire and...

Tory plan to replace school meals with ‘25p breakfasts’ slammed!

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TORY plans to replace free school lunches with free ‘breakfasts’, costed at 25p, for primary school children have been lambasted by the...
Nurses marching in Nottingham last month against cuts and sackings in the NHS

A&E VISITS 1 MILLION UP! – while Labour embarks on A&E...

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Official figures revealed yesterday that there were one million more visits to Accident and Emergency departments in 2005-2006 as the government prepares to ‘reconfigure’...

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...

Government rides roughshod! – Cameron excludes health professionals

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‘DON’T you dare lie to me!’ angry pensioner June Hautot shouted at Health Secretary Lansley as she confronted him at the entrance to Downing...
PCS members joined the RMT march against government spending cuts on October 23rd 2010

STRIKES WILL PROCEED DURING OLYMPICS – say unions

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UNIONS reacted angrily yesterday to threats by Arts, Media and Sports Secretary Hunt that public sector workers who strike during the Olympics should face...
Barts and Royal London staff and supporters marched against mass sackings last month

Barts To Cut Nurses!

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Barts and London NHS Trust is planning to reduce the proportion of qualified nurses on its wards as part of a two-year programme of...

KBR FINED $402m IS TO BE POLICE PARTNER

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KELLOG, Brown and Root (KBR) is on the shortlist for the ‘Business Partnering for Police’ (BPP) project. It is the company which pleaded guilty before...
Health workers march through the centre of London to defend the National Health Service

Decide on action to defeat Tory NHS Bill – urges BMA London Regional Assembly

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London doctors have made it clear they are opposed to the government’s plan to slash and privatise the NHS – and want action to...
Young mother GLEISA LIMA with her one month-old baby Victoria joined the West London Council picket of Ealing Hospital to demand the hospital’s Maternity Department be reopened

Reopen Ealing Maternity!

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‘MY BABY Victoria was born at Ealing Hospital and is one month old today,’ said mother Gleisa Lima outside the hospital yesterday morning. She...

NO TUBE AND RAIL CUTS! – ‘Franchising system in its death throes’

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ENDING damaging staff cuts, bringing all of London’s Tube back into the public sector and getting the network’s upgrade back on track are more...

Merseyside FBU 8-Day Strike

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‘It seems management are hell-bent on taking on the FBU and cutting 120 jobs’, Merseyside Fire Brigades Union Brigade Chairman Mark Dunne told News...
Nurses are very angry over pay! RCN nurses have already sacked their leadership over the issue

‘DON’T INTRODUCE REGIONAL PAY!’ – RCN warning for Chancellor Hammond

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REGIONALISING public sector pay would exacerbate the NHS recruitment crisis and leave parts of the country unable to provide safe care, the leader of...

Shock Inflation Rise!

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THE Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rate of inflation rose to 1.5 per cent in October, up from 1.1 per cent in September. As...
RMT leader BOB CROW and his delegation demand that Blair go

Tuc Delegates Reject Blair

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THE RMT railworkers union delegation demonstrated and walked out in protest at the presence of Tony Blair at the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday. They...

‘Failure to inform’ charges challenged

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Lawyers for Umar Hussain and his brother Mehran Hussain, yesterday said ‘we will be making a challenge’ to charges made against the brothers...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers SURINDER DHARIWAL and SUKHWINDER MUNDY  outside the TGWU London regional office yesterday

MASSACRE! – Inquiry into 15 civilian deaths in Haditha

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The United States military is investigating whether US Marines who killed 15 civilians, including women and children, near the western Iraqi town of Haditha...
RMT members and supporters demonstrating outside the Department for Transport yesterday morning – later on in the afternoon the government conceded there would be talks at Acas

EUROSTAR 7 DAY STRIKE! –as government agrees to ACAS talks over Southern dispute

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EUROSTAR rail unions RMT and TSSA are coming out on strike for seven days this month in a dispute over unsocial hours and...
Firefighters lobbied the London Fire Authority showing their determination to defend the fire service against the most vicious attacks ever

Defend The Fire Service

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ON Monday 25 February the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will be holding a budget meeting at 10.00am at City Hall, at which his...
Victorious dancing in the square in front of the Vouli as the Papandreou government falls

Greek General Strike Topples Government!

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THE massive united action of workers and youth in Greece, unleashed in the enormous one-day general strike last Wednesday, has toppled the hated government...
Marchers in London on July 22 condemn the Israeli crimes in Lebanon and Palestine

HEZBOLLAH HITS BACK – 300 rockets into north Israel

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The Lebanese resistance, Hezbollah, yesterday hit back after Tuesday night’s Israeli commando raid on Baalbek – by firing up to 300 rockets into Israel. One...

Barristers strike gains support

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‘OUR CRIMINAL justice system is in crisis, it’s no exaggeration to say it’s in meltdown,’ Criminal Bar Association (CBA) Chairman Jo Sidhu QC told...

9 fresh strike dates at BA after talks collapse

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BRITISH Airways’ (BA) freight services at Heathrow airport are set for nine days of fresh strike action which will begin on Friday 22 January after...

Tories ‘concealed building safety risks’ – Grenfell inquiry hears

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THE GRENFELL Inquiry heard yesterday that the government ‘concealed the risks of building safety’ and that deregulation ‘should be regarded as one of the...

Lancs biomedics refuse shift work – as part of month-long strike

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BIOMEDICAL scientists, who have been on the frontline of Covid-19 testing at a Lancashire NHS trust, will stop doing night, weekend and late shifts...

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT – the decision to suspend Palestinian aid

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The decision to suspend aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency by several Western countries is a ‘collective punishment’, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said...

‘Don’t blame me’–if ‘Remain’ loses says Corbyn!

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ASKED if he would take the blame if Britain votes to leave the EU tomorrow, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn replied: ‘I’m not going...

Evacuate within 24 hours or else face Israeli invasion – US & Israel tell...

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ISRAEL has ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate the area within 24 hours, in what is viewed as a precursor of a ground...
Busworkers on the picket line yesterday at greenford garage – determined to fight for the same pay for all busworkers

‘SORT OUT OUR WAGES!’ – demand London busworkers

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Over 6,000 bus drivers were out on a 24 hour strike yesterday to protest at the huge pay disparity between the eighteen London bus...

Irish Gross National Product Shrinks By 2.2%

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The continued austerity programme is costing jobs and making recovery almost impossible, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions said yesterday. Official figures released yesterday showed...

Sunak’s £6,000 grants ‘are too little too late’ – as pubs and restaurants face...

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‘WE HAVE responded, I think generously today, the grants that we have outlined, up to £6,000 are comparable to the grants that we provided...