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Two Gate Gourmet  locked-out workers from London’s Heathrow airport were given a warm reception at Dusseldorf airport on Wednesday when they visited striking local Gate Gourmet workers

In London and Dusseldorf – ‘WE FIGHT ON UNTIL VICTORY’

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers from Heathrow received a warm welcome at Dusseldorf Airport yesterday morning when they were met by Gate Gourmet strikers...

Gate Gourmet workers support French strikers

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Locked out Gate Gourmet workers, on their picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, spoke out in support of the French airport workers who are...

‘Nationalise Land Rover & Jaguar’ – call at TGWU Conference

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THE Transport and General Workers Union Biennial Delegate Conference in Brighton yesterday heard a call for the nationalisation of Jaguar and Land Rover to...

‘Defend GP Practices’ – BMA

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THE BMA and GPs have condemned the way that NHS England and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are treating GP Practices. Dr...

NURSES DEMANDING A DOUBLE DIGIT PAY RISE – says RCN leader Cullen

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NURSES require a ‘double-digit’ pay rise! This was the message of the leader of the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) Pat Cullen yesterday, ahead of...
Up to 1,000 workers and young people turned up to picket the Israeli Embassy yesterday afternoon and were faced by large numbers of police

‘IT’S LIKE HELL HERE NOW’ – Doctor Mads Gilbert condemns Israeli invasion

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Fifteen Palestinian civilians were killed yesterday and at least 40 others were wounded when Israeli shells hit Gaza City shopping centre. Among those killed by...
Police arresting a man during earlier protests outside the Israeli embassy against the bombing of Gaza

YOU FACE DEFEAT – Hamas warns Israel

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Nine more Israeli soldiers were injured in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday, two of them seriously, as fierce fighting continued on the tenth day...
GMB members working for NCP demanding union recognition yesterday outside the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane

3i UNION BUSTERS – will be beaten says GMB

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‘DESPITE five days of strike action by 55 members of the GMB, NCP, owned by private equity group 3i, is refusing to recognise the...
London postal workers along with MP Kate Hoey (right) demonstrated outside Royal Mail’s London headquarters yesterday

STRIKE ACTION WILL SPREAD – warns Dave Ward

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‘No more cuts! Sack Adam Crozier!’ shouted angry postal workers outside Royal Mail’s London headquarters yesterday, as 10,000 members of the Communication Workers Union...
Up and down the country parents, teachers and pupils are marching to defend state education against the coalition’s ‘Free School’ bonanza for the rich, and the big business dominated academies

£2m ‘Free School’ with 68 pupils

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THREE thousand Beccles residents have demanded to know why £2m of taxpayers money is being spent on a ‘Free School’ with only 68 pupils. The...

Pfi Crisis Hits Bart’s & London

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‘Direct government investment is by far the cheapest and best way to build new hospitals,’ said a UNISON spokeswoman yesterday, in response to the...
Protesters outside parliament yesterday on behalf of Grenfell tenants who died in the inferno

Toxic Grenfell Insulation Was Banned!

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MARKING eleven months since the tragic Grenfell Tower fire disaster, which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children, the community turned...
Students from the University of Arts London have occupied Central St Martin’s College since Thursday last week

‘We support LSE occupation!’

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OVER 100 defiant occupying students at the University of Arts London (UAL) were joined by students from the LSE occupation and other universities and...
Worker showing the noose he wants to use on the bankers  during a demonstration last Thursday in Athens

No Cash For Greece Until Cuts Are Made

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Although vicious austerity measures were voted for by a 199–74 majority in the Vouli (parliament) on Sunday night, the Greek ‘bailout’ is still not...

Industrial Action Call At The Bma

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A CALL for ‘appropriate industrial action to stop the redundancy of its members’ was made to BMA representatives at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting...

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,...

Corbyn for second referendum!

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THE LABOUR Party yesterday tabled an amendment to the government motion to ‘break the Brexit deadlock and protect the UK from a No Deal...
A section of Friday evening’s picket outside Downing Street

Israel Requests US Cluster Bombs

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Israel has asked the US government to speed delivery of short-range anti-personnel rockets armed with deadly cluster munitions, for use against the Hezbollah ...

May ‘Flexible’ On Brexit Leaving Date

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DESPERATE to avoid a Tory Party split, Prime Minister May has agreed with her rebels to amend her EU Withdrawal Bill to include a...
A strong picket line of NUT and NASUWT members and parents outside the Alec Reed Academy in Northolt yesterday morning

Academy plan a ‘disaster’

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NUT and NASUWT members at Alec Reed Academy in Northolt, Ealing, west London were on strike yesterday, with two more days of strike action...

CWU defiant and fighting Royal Mail asset-stripping

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ROYAL MAIL is to seek a High Court injunction on Tuesday to stop a postal strike. The company said it woulmake a formal application on...

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...

560 Settlers Storm Al-Aqsa

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MORE than 560 Israeli settlers stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of East al-Quds under the protection of the regime’s forces...

UK turning a blind eye to refugees

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THE UK is turning a blind eye to suffering on its doorstep by failing to protect vulnerable refugees, who have been displaced by conflict,...

Junior doctors & nurses fight for their rights

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‘FOR students like me from a working class background, removing the bursary for nurses will mean that they cannot continue their studies,’ student nurse...

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%...
Junior doctors join a demonstration in London against the privatisation of the NHS

NO TWO TIER NHS! – RBS ‘conditional philanthropy’ rejected

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Plans to bring one of the world’s most advanced health scanners to Edinburgh risk creating a two-tier NHS, senior health economist, Professor Allyson Pollock,...

Johnson to remove restrictions – Putting transport staff’s lives at risk – warns RMT

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‘WE KNOW that we are going to see more hospitalisations and more deaths from Covid,’ Tory PM Johnson admitted at yesterday’s 5.00pm press conference...

‘Significant Victory’ For Junior Doctors!

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THE BMA doctors’ union has hailed the Court of Appeal ruling on rest breaks as ‘a significant victory for junior doctors’. Commenting on the Court...

Need for free school meals soars

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MORE than one in five pupils are now eligible for free school meals (FSM) following a steep rise during the pandemic, new government data...

‘SACK SIEGEL FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE HERE!’ say defiant Gate Gourmet strikers

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THE Gate Gourmet strikers have poured scorn on company chairman David Siegel’s departure from Britain to America, which was announced on Wednesday. Picket Mr...
Health workers marching on the NHS anniversary demonstration were determined to prevent the privatisation of the NHS

Half Acute Hospitals In London Under Threat!

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THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the requirement for all the remaining 113 hospital trusts to achieve foundation business status...

Infection out of control – ‘Isolation exemptions will spread Covid-19’ – BMA stark warning!

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STAFF isolation exemptions are absolutely the wrong answer to the government’s failure to control spiralling infection rates, says doctors’ union the BMA. Responding to news...

STOP TUC TALKS WITH TORIES – Barber must be sacked!

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‘The TUC-Tory talks must stop’, Dave Wiltshire the All Trades Union Alliance Secretary told News Line yesterday. Wiltshire said: ‘Brendan Barner is discussing with Cameron...

Thomas Cook workers freed after angry demonstration

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SIXTEEN workers, eight trade union representatives and the partner of one of the staff who were brought before the High Court after they refused...

‘Patient safety has never been at greater risk’ – RCN

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‘THIS is yet more evidence that emergency services are in disarray,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said yesterday ahead of today’s A&E report...

May’s project fear – ‘Reject my deal and the only certainty will be uncertainty!’

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SPEAKING in Grimsby last Friday May peddled her  own ‘project fear’ line before the new vote on her deal with the EU tomorrow in...

‘FREE ASSANGE’ – demands demo outside Westminster Magistrates Court hearing yesterday

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‘FREE Julian Assange!’ demanded a mass protest outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning while inside, the head of WikiLeaks won the right for extra...

Fears Of Eu Debt Meltdown

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CITY regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has stepped up scrutiny of UK banks’ exposures to foreign government debt after fears of a European...

No demolition without our say so – Grenfell families

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‘NOTHING is going to happen to it until we say so,’ Karim Musilly from Genfell United said defiantly yesterday, responding to reports that the...

EU says NO! to May’s Brexit re-negotiations

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EUROPEAN Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker yesterday ruled out re-opening the Withdrawal Agreement after meeting with Tory PM May, making it crystal clear that legally-binding...
Mothers and children demonstrate against the closure of Sure Start centres, a victim of government spending cuts

£513 Welfare Cut To Families This Year

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FAMILIES across the UK are being forced to cut spending on essential items such as food, clothing and heating as a result of government...

£6bn PENSIONS DEFICIT EXPLOSION!

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THERE has been a £6 billion explosion in the pensions scheme deficit ‘black holes’ of Britain’s major retailers since the beginning of the year,...
‘Blair lied, thousands died’ said over 700 protesters outside the Chilcott Iraq Inquiry yesterday

BLAIR AT BAY: ‘NO REGRETS’ – over the imperialist slaughter

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TONY Blair was unrepentant about invading Iraq when he appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry into the 2003 war yesterday, and said repeatedly that he...
Armed policeman in central London

January conference for locked-out Gate Gourmet workers

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DEFIANT Gate Gourmet locked out workers were standing on the picket line in the freezing cold yesterday determined to win their jobs back and...