Students demanding that the right to free state education be restored and fees abolished along with the massive student debt

‘Come clean over tuition fees’ – UCU tells Labour

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‘IT’S time for Labour to come clean on university fees,’ the University and College union (UCU) said on Friday, as it called for education...
Striking school meals staff at Haggerston school were supported by teachers and pupils who refused to cross their picket line yesterday

School Strike Solidarity

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ELEVEN school dinner ladies and men from Haggerston school in Hackney, east London, went on strike yesterday against poverty pay. They were joined by over...
Riot police confront thousands of Greek youth who marched on December 6th to remember the assassination of 15-year-old  Alexandros Grigiropoulos who was shot dead in cold blood on December 6th 2008

Greek general strike against tax hikes & labour laws

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SOME 15,000 workers, youth and students marched through the Athens city centre last Thursday morning in two different demonstrations as part of the one-day...
Traditional Indian Dhol drum beat to the rhythm of the 50-strong picket’s chants of ‘Hands off Charlie Chaplin Ward! Save Ealing Hospital!’

Charlie Chaplin Children’s Ward Must Not Close!

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‘THE Charlie Chaplin Children’s Ward must not close!’ Jaswinder Pannu exclaimed yesterday morning. She spoke to News Line during the 50-strong mass picket of Ealing...
Demonstration against the hated ‘Bedroom Tax’ in Norwich

Landlord seeking ‘Benefit Cap’ possession orders!

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HOMELESS charity Crisis yesterday condemned letters telling tenants in Haringey that ‘social landlord’ Genesis is starting eviction proceedings because it does not think they...

University fees & loan hikes rushed through!

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LEGISLATION has been raced through Parliament before it breaks up for the general election which allows universities to raise tuition fees every year until...

London Bombings Linked To Iraq War

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Former Labour cabinet minister Clare Short yesterday insisted she ‘had no doubt’ the July 7th London bombings were linked to Iraq and Palestine. Short...

‘the Unions Must Act To Win This Struggle’

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‘WHEN we went to the TUC in Brighton last month, they voted unanimously to support our struggle now we need that support to be...
Cousins VIVIAN FIGUEIREDO, ALEX PEREIRA (speaking) and ALLESANDRO PEREIRA (right) with chair ASAD REHMAN at yesterday’s press conference

‘SHAMEFUL COVER-UP!’ say Jean Charles de Menezes’ cousins

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‘We waited a year and now they tell us this. It’s a shame,’ said Alex Pereira, the cousin of the young Brazilian, Jean...
Residents of Newham take to the streets to condemn the police shooting of Muhammad Abdul Kahar during an assault on the family home in the early hours of June 2 this year

Muslims Take Reid To Task

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HOME Secretary John Reid was denounced as a ‘tyrant’ on a visit to east London yesterday, where he delivered a speech against ‘Islamic extremism’. A...

£850 million to pay for NHS sackings

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The government will spend more than £850 million in redundancy payments to NHS managers and staff to pave the way for the privatisation of...
Tenants and residents at the all-day picket and protest against evictions on the West Hendon estate in Barnet

‘I will never give up my home’

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200 RESIDENTS and their supporters took part in an all-day picket and protest at West Hendon housing estate in north west London yesterday, where...
Northamptonshire postal workers demonstrating outside the surgery of Corby MP Phil Hope, after Hope reneged on a commitment to oppose the part-privatisation of the Royal Mail

Mandelson Threat To Jobs & Pensions!

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Postal workers yesterday reacted angrily to Business Secretary Lord Mandelson’s threat to their jobs and pensions if they did not give up their...

Israel’s Blockade Has Collapsed Healthcare

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ISRAEL’S ongoing blockade of northern Gaza has brought the healthcare system to near-total collapse, with almost no remaining services, according to the World Health...

Parliament reopens after Supreme Court ruling

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‘IT HAS no moral right to sit on these green benches here. It is a dead Parliament! Parliament is not worth a candle. It...
The world’s media is starting to take a much greater interest in the struggle of the Diego Garcia Islanders to return to their homeland – picture above shows South Korean television interviewing HENGRIDE PERMAL

‘We will not be silenced’ say Diego Garcia Islanders

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‘WE will not be silenced’ is the message from Diego Garcian islanders who will be marching to Crawley Town Hall today, to protest against...

Downing Street didn’t tell truth about Pincher says former senior civil servant

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DOWNING Street did not tell the truth when it said Boris Johnson was unaware of official complaints about Chris Pincher’s misbehaviour, a former senior...
Marcher with a clear message on the two million-strong demonstration in London on February 15 2003 against the war on Iraq

CHILCOT INQUIRY– ‘COME THE DAY YOU’LL BE THERE’ – Rumsfeld was sure that...

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‘NO matter how many times you said to senior American officers, and indeed Mr Rumsfeld, that we were not committing our forces until we...
Domestic workers demonstrating outside Parliament demanding ‘No return to slavery’

Forced Labour Challenged!

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Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) have begun a legal action challenging the coalition government’s ‘Mandatory Work Scheme’ which it argues amounts to unlawful forced labour....

Father of Yellow Vest whose hand blown off to sue

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THE FATHER of the Yellow Vest protester who had his hand blown off by a gas grenade in Paris on Saturday says he plans...

Bmw Ready For Strike Ballot!

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Workers at BMW’s Mini plant in Oxford have overwhelmingly rejected a ‘strings attached’ pay offer, raising the prospect of the first strike since 1984. In...
Travel Safe staff on strike against harassment and bullying of union members

We Have No Option But To Strike

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UP to a dozen travel safe officers yesterday lobbied a board meeting of Transport for London (TFL) at 197, Blackfriars Road, London. They told News...

‘WE REJECT WAGE CUTS!’ – say UNISON & GMB spokeswomen

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‘We reject public sector pay cuts,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday. She was responding to remarks by chancellor Darling yesterday, where...

‘We will balance the books’ Tory Chancellor indicates tax hikes & cuts to come

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YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak, speaking at the Tory Party conference, assured the party that his main objective is to get the debt under...

Deputy leader Watson condemns Labour EU policy

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LABOUR members’ ‘hearts are Remain’ Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson claimed yesterday addressing the Centre for European Reform. He went on to insist that...

Portsmouth Uni to axe staff!

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THE University of Portsmouth is under fire over plans to axe more than half its English literature department. The university suspended the process in...

Joint strike action agreed – at the TUC Congress

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THE TUC Congress yesterday instructed the TUC General Council to support and coordinate joint strike action against attacks on jobs, pensions, pay and public...

Tories to sack 91,000 civil servants – National strike action certain say union leaders

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THE GOVERNENT wants to sack 91,000 civil service jobs to save money, the UK’s top civil servant says. The aim is to return to 2016...
Scottish power workers fighting to stop BiFab from closing – the proposed £16bn nuclear power station in Wales has been shelved

Plug pulled on £16bn Welsh power station Hitachi suspends all work

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‘IT IS foolish to rely on foreign companies and foreign governments to keep Britain’s lights on and our economy powered when we could easily...

Eurozone In Recession!

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The economy of the 15-nations eurozone has slumped into recession for the first time ever, EU data released yesterday revealed, with GDP falling 0.2%...

104 Palestinians killed as Israel attacks ‘food aid’ queue in Gaza!

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AT LEAST 104 Palestinians, gathered in anticipation of receiving food aid amidst a severe hunger crisis, were killed and another 760 injured in a...

Palestinian leaders condemn Trump-Netanyahu Gaza plan!

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HAMAS is studying the 20-point plan for Gaza which US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu published on Monday evening. Trump claimed yesterday that...
The front of the North East London Council of Action demonstration in Enfield in June 2009 demanding no cuts and closures in the NHS

NHS FRONTLINE SERVICES CUT! says Royal College of Nursing

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Almost 10,000 NHS posts in England, the equivalent of a large teaching hospital, have been earmarked for cuts, the Royal College of Nursing revealed...

US Airstrikes Kill 9 Aleppo Civilians

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US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria killed nine civilians in the east of the town of Mare, approximately 25 kilometres north of Aleppo yesterday. Meanwhile, the...

220,000 disabled to win back payments

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DISABLED people were thrown off benefits in their hundreds of thousands by private assessors Atos and then Capita, and left penniless to face eviction...
RMT leader BOB CROW addressing the Durham Miners Gala called for ‘a new party of labour’

McCluskey praises Miliband while Crow calls for a new Labour Party at the Durham...

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OVER a hundred thousand workers and youth took part in the Durham Miners Gala on Saturday and heard Unite’s McCluskey declare his allegiance...

Union Leaders Warn King

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BANK of England Governor King’s insistence that nothing must be done to prevent the squeeze in living standards down to 1920s levels, has...

Russia & China Use Veto Over Syria

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RUSSIA and China yesterday vetoed a UK-US UN Security Council resolution threatening the Syrian government with sanctions and regime change. The vote came a...

Tories plan NHS destruction

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OPERATIONS and drugs will be rationed in a ‘trade-off with improving care in other areas’, Head of NHS England Simon Stevens said yesterday,...

DEFY THE BAN! – Join Saturday’s National March for Palestine!

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TRADE UnIONS, MPs and celebrities have condemned the attempt by the Metropolitan Police to ban this Saturday’s National March for Palestine from assembling outside...

‘We’re striking to defend the NHS from the Tories!’ say RCN pickets

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NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...

Warsi expenses row

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TORY party co-chair and Cabinet member, Baroness Warsi, has become involved in an expenses row. She has admitted failing to declare rental...

CONGRATULATIONS’ – Hunt texts Murdoch

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CULTURE secretary Jeremy Hunt sent a congratulatory text message to News Corp executive James Murdoch just hours before he was asked to oversee the...
Lecturers on the picket line  at West London College in Hammersmith yesterday morning – fighting job cuts

West London UCU strike action!

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UCU members at West London College sites in Hammersmith, Acton, Ealing and Southall were on strike yesterday against job losses. Fourteen staff face loosing their...
One of the many demonstrations to defend the NHS against the government’s Health & Social Care Bill

We are fighting to continue child heart surgery

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THE fight goes on to continue child heart surgery at London’s Royal Brompton, Leeds General Infirmary and Glenfield Hospital, Leicester. An NHS review concluded...