‘This is a fight we have to win’ says UCU

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IMPERIAL College staff were boosted on their picket line yesterday morning by the support of an engineering student and a vintage bus. The nationwide strike...

£3bn of savage education cuts

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CHILDREN will pay a terrible price for £3 billion of savage Tory school budget cuts, education unions warned yesterday. State schools in England will have...

Wages Fell In Year To June

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WAGES fell by 0.2% in the year to June was the shock news released by the ONS yesterday. Britain is now a nation of the...
Junior doctors block Whitehall during their strike – doctors oppose NHS England’s new dangerous ‘Stay Well Pharmacy’ campaign

‘Go to pharmacist, not GP or A&E’ – NHS England campaign slammed as dangerous

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TAKE your sick children to see the pharmacist, rather than the GP or to an A&E. . . this is the message of a...
Staffordshire residents occupied Stafford Hospital grounds for eight months to stop the closure of the hospital’s A&E Department

Staffs Bed Closures – Lives At Risk!

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‘BED closures will put patients’ lives at risk,’ campaigners fighting to save community hospital beds across North Staffordshire declared yesterday. The claim that ‘patients...

Nigeria–Oil Shutdown Starts

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The general strike in Nigeria entered its fifth day yesterday, as talks between President Goodluck Jonathan and trade union leaders failed to end the...
Students joined lecturers’ picket line during their strike action earlier this month

Gate Gourmet workers win support for march

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers are campaigning every day for their march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th March. Lakhinder Saran told News Line yesterday: ‘I went...

GMB legal win over Lidl!

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GMB is celebrating a landmark legal victory over German-owned, low-cost supermarket Lidl. The Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), the independent tribunal with statutory powers over trade...

‘Everything In Spain Is Based On Oppression!’

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YESTERDAY Catalan president Carles Puigdemont held a noon press conference in Brussels to explain why he had left Spain, and to outline his perspectives. He...

‘STAND FIRM, SUPPORT THE ACTION’ – RMT leader Lynch urges rail workers

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‘STAND FIRM, support the action and mount the pickets,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch urged his members defiantly yesterday afternoon as he confirmed that...

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...
Mothers lobbying the Clinical Commissioning Group in April to demand that Ealing Maternity Department be kept open. The Group decided to postpone a decision on the closure until after the election

Save Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit

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BUSWORKERS bought their tickets for the June 16th meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday. Last month, the Ealing Clinical Commissioning...

Ambulance Service ‘breakdown’!

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UNISON yesterday warned the ambulance service is on the verge of breaking down and that the consequences for patient safety are dramatic. Tight targets, long...

Dozens Injured By Israeli Forces

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DOZENS of Palestinians were injured in violent clashes across al-Tur and al-Issawiya neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday as Palestinians protested the death...

Warsaw conference plans war on Iran & sells out Palestinians

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THE WARSAW Conference, organised by the US in the Polish capital on February 13-14, has outraged millions of Arabs who believe their leaders attended...
Dale Farm residents defying bailiff and police moves to evict them yesterday

Eviction Reprieve – At Dale Farm

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DALE Farm residents won an injunction late yesterday, restraining police and bailiffs from dismantling structures on the site until a hearing at the High...

VESTAS OCCUPIED! – workers demand nationalisation

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Workers occupying the Vestas wind turbine factory in Newport on the Isle of Wight demanded the nationalisation of the plant yesterday. In a defiant statement,...
A section of the 220,000-strong demonstration in Marseille against the Sarkozy government’s cuts

France – 3 Million Take Action

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Three and a half million took to the streets across France in the biggest anti-pensions law mobilisation yet on Tuesday, October 12 in 244...

£70bn more Tory cuts!

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SHADOW Labour Chancellor Ed Balls said yesterday that the Tories are not even half way through their cuts, and that if elected they would...

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...
Student nurses marching last May in defence of the NHS

Don’t Privatise Hinchingbrooke!

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Public sector union Unison yesterday warned that Circle Healthcare’s takeover of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgshire could lead to a second Southern Cross crisis. Unison head...

‘HAND OVER YOUR CASH!’ Syriza orders municipalities & hospitals – to pay IMF

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GREECE has ordered its public sector bodies to hand over any reserve cash to help it meet a payment due to the International Monetary...

Troika dictates its terms to Cyprus

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has set out the ultra-harsh terms of the ‘bailout deal’ that the Cypriot government has agreed. In order to receive...

Assad Visits Moscow!

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SYRIAN President Bashar Assad visited Moscow on Tuesday to extend thanks to the Russian authorities and people for helping to preserve the unity and...

Mexican forces attack caravan

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CHILDREN went missing yesterday as a US-bound caravan of refugees clashed with Mexican forces under instruction from President Trump to block them from entering...

Energy bills will rise by 50% average family to pay £2,000 – Pensioners risk...

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BILLS are set to rise by 50% in April when the latest change to the energy price cap takes effect, it emerged yesterday, while...
Postal workers marching along the embankment carrying a giant postcard to Business Secretary Mandelson demanding he stop destroying a great public service

‘NATIONAL ACTION CALLED’ – demand striking London postal workers

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Over four hundred striking Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) postal workers yesterday heard calls for a national strike at a rally in Central Hall, Westminster....

‘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...
Ealing Hospital workers on their picket line yesterday made clear that they want negotiations for a living wage, sick pay and improved annual leave

Ealing Hospital strike action!

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MORE than 100 Ealing Hospital porters, domestic, catering and help desk workers took their first day of strike action from 6am-6pm yesterday and are...

A ‘MASSIVE DESTRUCTIVE HAMMER! ’– GP leaders condemn Care Quality Commission

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THE Care Quality Commission (CQC) forcibly deregistered at least 14 GP practices last year, the highest number to date under its three-year inspection regime. The...

‘No choice but to fight BT sackings!’ – Allan Eldred CWU National Officer

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THE DEVASTATING ramifications for BT employees of the brutal new management approach sweeping across BT is not just illustrated by the scores of compulsory...

Local councils £3.5bn financial hole Tories are demanding savage cuts – Tories are demanding...

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LOCAL councils have a hole in their finances exceeding £3.5bn collectively for the coming financial year, making it extremely likely they will have to...
Part of a mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital on Tuesday to prevent its A&E and Maternity departments being closed

Bma Debates Call For Industrial Action

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The BMA Consul-tants Conference yesterday heard a call for trade union action to defend the NHS from cuts and privatisation. Moving Motion 138 from North-East...
The battered face of Iraqi hotel receptionist Baha Mousa

Tortured To Death! By The British Army

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BAHA MOUSA died as a result of ‘appalling and gratuitous violence’ by members of the British Army, the year-long Public Inquiry into his death...

Southern guards strike today

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‘THE Southern guards strike will go ahead, despite any legal challenge,’ RMT Assistant General Secretary Mick Lynch said defiantly on the eve of...
BA cabin crew on the picket line during their strike action before Easter – cabin crew members yesterday demanded more strikes be immediately called by their union, Unite

Set The Strike Dates Now! Demand Cabin Crew

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‘We want the next strike dates set now,’ a female British Airways cabin crew member at Heathrow told News Line yesterday. She was responding ...
Nurses, doctors and NHS staff say the NHS is ‘Not Safe in Tory Hands’ – the Tories invested £3.9bn less in the NHS than they said

Tories short-changed NHS by £3.9bn

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THE TORY government gave the ‘wrong impression’ about how much extra they are spending on the NHS, the Health Select Committee said. The committee disputed...

Bma Will Discuss Strike Action!

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The British Medical Association will put ‘absolutely everything’ on the table including strike action when members determine their response to the government’s...

Hezbollah banned

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LEBANON’S Hezbollah has been banned by the UK in its entirety, Tory Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced yesterday. The Lebanon-based...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers marching through Southall. Fellow TGWU members who worked at BA who came out on strike in support of them were told to return to work by the TGWU leaders because their supporting action was illegal

‘COORDINATE STRIKE ACTION’ – says PCS leader Serwotka

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‘WE are now about to move to ballot 270,000 members for industrial action, unless the government withdraws its threat of compulsory redundancies.’ This is what...
PCS members outside the Treasury yesterday highlight the £120 billion in outstanding tax debts owed by big business

Cuts to be met by sustained industrial action

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A delegation of over 40 Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members and officials lobbied the Treasury as Chancellor Osborne was making his budget...
Workers taking strike action over pensions in Oxford – are being supported by the Young Socialists

Oxford Mini Plant Out Over Pensions!

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A 24-HOUR strike by BMW workers making car engines and the Mini took place on Sunday in Oxford and Swindon. The other strike dates...

RAISE STAFF PAY OR WE STRIKE! – UCU tells six college administrators

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THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) yesterday told the bosses of six colleges in the North West to urgently raise staff pay if they...

UK Troops For The Ukraine Says Shapps

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TORY Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that UK troops are to be sent to the Ukraine ‘to train Zelensky’s military on the ground’...