FORWARD WITH GENERAL STRIKE! – Dave Wiltshire calls for action at WRP May Day...

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DAVE WILTSHIRE, the Secretary of the All Trades Unions Alliance told the WRP’s May Day rally: ‘From this May Day meeting we send revolutionary...

GPs ANGRY OVER PENSIONS CAP!

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A JUDICIAL Review sought by the British Medical Association to challenge the government’s decision to cap the pensions of GPs will take place in...

OFFICIAL STRIKE CALL – Power strikes harden

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‘I call on every trade unionist around this country in the construction industry to come out on official action,’ Unite official Keith Gibson told...

Parliament pushes to bomb Syrian troops

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PUSHING for the UK to begin openly bombing Syrian army positions and to consider taking action against Russian aircraft, Tory MP for Sutton Coldfield,...

Tories Split Over Eu

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PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday defended his renegotiation of Britain’s terms of EU membership, as a number of his cabinet ministers lined up to call...
Demonstrators insist that those responsible for the Grenfell Tower inferno and its aftermath should face jail sentences

‘Those responsible must be jailed’ say Grenfell survivors

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‘WE HAVE been strong and we are not prepared to be walked over and we do want answers,’ Grenfell survivor Jaquie Hayes said yesterday. She...

US-Israeli Gaza ‘aid’ chief quits

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THE ‘GAZA Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF), created by the United States and Israel to manage the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, said it will start...
Teachers on the march to defend their national pay agreements and pensions – they are determined to defeat the coalition

Nut Strike Ballot Against Local Pay

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) Annual Conference in Torquay yesterday voted unanimously to ballot for strike action against any government move to attack...

1,000 WORKERS MARCH ON ORGREAVE ANNIVERSARY – Corbyn pledges Labour government inquiry!

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UP TO A thousand workers from both Yorkshire and across the country marched to the 35th Battle of Orgreave memorial rally on Saturday. They marched...
With a police car blocking the road protesters are searched and filmed a mile from their camp

Downing Street Warning To Climate Change Camp

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Police yesterday stopped and searched youth arriving for the Camp for Climate Change a mile away from the protest camp at the northern perimeter...
Greek riot police attack a young female demonstrator in Athens last Saturday. Photo credit: Left.gr

Greek riot police act as occupation army

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ARMED riot police unleashed a pre-planned pogrom of sheer violence against mass marches of mainly school and university students in all the main cities...

Loud, lively and big radiographers picket!

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THERE were loud and lively picket lines of striking radiographers outside hospitals around the country yesterday as the NHS workers continued their 48-hour strike...

‘We Want Action To Win’ Say Gourmet Workers

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GATE GOURMET strikers were on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday in high spirits, after their successful intervention at the TUC in Brighton...
Hospital workers march against the coalition’s NHS cuts

Cameron Pledges More Cuts!

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PM Cameron yesterday defended the government’s spending and welfare cuts, and pledged to continue them and to stop at nothing to defend British capitalism. However,...

Venture Capitalists Are Targeting Sainsbury!

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Venture capitalists Texas Pacific and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts are this week expected to bid for the supermarket group, J Sainsbury. Their take-over will mean sackings,...
Unite leader LEN McCLUSKEY addressing striking BA cabin crew earlier this year

McCLUSKEY AND CROW MISS CAMERON MEETING

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TUC general secretary Brendan Barber led a delegation of union leaders to meet with Tory-LibDem coalition prime minister Cameron yesterday midday....
Greek postal workers march through Athens with a clear message in English: the postal service is ‘not for sale’!

Down With Privatisation!

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OVER 10,000 workers from the Greek state corporations and organisations (power and electricity, telecommunications, post-office, water authorities etc) took part in a militant and...

ISRAELI INVASION THREAT – Lebanese army will fight alongside Hezbollah says Defence Minister

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Lebanese Defence Minister Elias Murr yesterday pledged that the Lebanese army will stand and fight against an Israeli invasion. Murr warned: ‘The Lebanese army...

Labour calls to postpone Brexit

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LABOUR shadow secretary for Brexit Keir Starmer, for the first time in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, urged the Brexit Secretary and the...
Over 1,500 workers and youth attended a solidarity concert in Athens in support of the sacked ERT workers

ERT workers fight on

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OVER 1,500 workers and youth were present at a solidarity concert in Athens last Thursday evening for the sacked workers at ERT (Greek state...

Eu: ‘Moment Of Truth’ Near!

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THE PRIME Minister will ‘never agree’ to a permanent Customs Union with the EU, said 10 Downing Street yesterday. However despite Downing Street assurances...

3,439 firefighters dead after the 9/11 clean up – Thousands more dying of asbestos...

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US FIREFIGHTERS are dying from asbestos-related diseases as a result of being sent in to clean up after the collapse of the Twin Towers...

3rd Day of Palestinian hunger strike!

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OVER 100 Fatah-affiliated prisoners in Israeli jails entered their third day on hunger strike yesterday, prisoner representatives said. The 120 prisoners, all held in Nafha...

General Strike now to defend NHS! – call as 2,000 doctors converge on Downing...

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SEVENTY-FIVE thousand junior doctors began their 72-hour strike yesterday, they are continuing it today and are being joined by hundreds of thousands of teachers,...
Enthusiastic picket at the Lewisham site of Lewisham & Southwark College yesterday against the plan to cut 112 jobs

Lewisham & London Met Strike Action!

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LECTURERS were on strike at Lewisham and Southwark College yesterday over 112 sackings because of the closure of the Southwark site in Camberwell, southeast...
Nurses demonstrate outside Parliament against the one per cent pay cap – creating a shortage of nurses

Overwork & Low Pay Driving Nurses Out Of NHS!

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NURSES, midwives, doctors, paramedics and NHS staff are being driven out of the profession because of overwork and low pay... creating a ‘severe staff...

‘We continue to picket, despite the cold!’

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Locked Out Gate Gourmet workers are calling on all trade unionists to attend their Conference in London on Sunday the 29th of January. More than...

‘GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER’ – Private security firms in Iraq condemned

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War on Want has condemned the UK private military and security companies (PMSCs), ‘operating with impunity in Iraq’. The charity issued a briefing paper...

‘A BRIDGE TOO FAR’ – but Minister Gove remains in his job

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TEACHERS and heads unions yesterday welcomed education secretary Gove’s abandonment of plans to scrap GCSEs in key subjects in England and replace them with...

Hague Sued Over US Drone Attacks

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Foreign Secretary Hague is being sued over the alleged UK policy of handing over GCHQ-sourced intelligence to the CIA to aid US drone...

Miners Defy Police & March To Lonmin Mine

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THREE THOUSAND striking platinum miners marched to the Marikana Lonmin mine and forced the massed ranks of the riot police to retreat yesterday at...

Abolish ICE say US workers

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CROWDS continue to gather in Minneapolis to protest against federal immigration enforcement (ICE), after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz...

Special forces attack Athens seafarers

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HUNDREDS of Greek Coast Guards’ special forces and riot police raided striking seafarers’ pickets at the port of Piraeus at 3.30 Wednesday morning. During the...

Junior doctors strike 14-17th June! – and for 3 days each month until they...

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JUNIOR doctors in England will hold a three-day strike from 7am on Wednesday 14 June to 7am on Saturday 17 June, after rejecting a...
Nurses and junior doctors march against Hunt’s plans to smash the NHS

Plans to axe thousands of doctors and nurses!

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PLANS to axe thousands of nursing, doctor and NHS staff posts under the Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) were revealed yesterday by the Health...

British Soldiers Die In Basra

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Two British soldiers were killed and two others wounded, by a roadside bomb in Basra last Sunday evening, the Ministry of Defence revealed yesterday. The...

Tories ‘blithely sailing NHS towards an iceberg!’

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THE TORIES are ‘blithely sailing towards an iceberg’ with their plans for the NHS, the President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM),...

‘Stop shameful deportations!’ of people who came to the UK as children

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THE GOVERNMENT must end the deportation of foreign-born offenders who came to the UK as children, according to a draft report into the Windrush...

OUTPUT FALLS! – as food prices are set to rocket

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UK industrial output fell unexpectedly in June, the latest official figures revealed yesterday. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said industrial output fell 0.5 per...

The More You Sack – The Bigger The Bonus

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Media unions BECTU and the NUJ yesterday condemned ‘BBC fat-cat bonuses’ and called on BBC bosses to hand them back. They were responding to the...

Almost 1m killed by US-led wars globally

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THE US ‘war on terror’ has taken almost one million lives across the globe and has cost the country $8 trillion over the past two...
The 500,000-strong TUC demonstration on March 28 last year – the march called for October 20 this year is set to be even bigger

Smash The Pay Freeze!

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Shadow chancellor Ed Balls provoked the fury of the unions at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester yesterday with his refusal to pledge a...

Two British soldiers killed in Sangin Valley

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Two British soldiers were killed in action in Afghanistan on Monday night, the Ministry of Defence confirmed yesterday. A third soldier is in a critical...
Striking BA cabin crew marching at Heathrow on June 9. They are demanding indefinite strike action to win their dispute

BA Cabin Crew Want Indefinite Strike Action!

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‘I WANT an immediate ballot and indefinite strike action now. Let’s see them cope with that! I don’t want to wait until Christmas’, a...