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Lively mass Xmas picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning demanding that the STP closure plans are thrown out

Throw STP plans out!

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‘THROW the STP plans out!’ said Roseline Nwangwu an Ealing Hospital worker yesterday morning. Unite union member Roseline added: ‘If they close Ealing Hospital...

58 universities three days of strike action!

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THREE consecutive days of strike action hitting 58 universities begin this morning after university bosses and their representatives refused to withdraw pension cuts or...

Starmer eager to work with the bosses and the military

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LABOUR Party leader Keir Starmer followed up his refusal to support the £15-an-hour motion carried by the conference on Monday by boasting in his...
PETER HAIN being confronted by Remploy convenor PHIL DAVIES protesting against Remploy factory closures  at the TUC Conference last September

HAIN QUITS! – after police called in

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Work and Pensions Secretary and Welsh Secretary Peter Hain yesterday quit the Cabinet after his late declaration of £103,000 of donations to his Labour...

TsIpras rebuffs coalition call

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Despite immense pressure the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), Alexis Tsipras, refused to join or support a ‘grand coalition’ government...

HANDS OFF OUR PENSIONS! – 37 Universities to strike!

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STAFF at 37 universities are to strike over an ‘unprecedented attack on their pensions’, it was announced by their union University College Union (UCU)...

Richards Call For Libya Shock And Awe Campaign

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UK Chief of General Staff, General Sir David Richards has called for an easing of restrictions on NATO targets to allow the bombing of...

260 DEAD IN KENYAN FIGHTING – after Presidential election rigged

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As the death toll rose to 260, EU monitors yesterday cast doubts on the results of Kenya’s disputed presidential vote. This stepped up the pressure...

Missile Attack On Israeli Forces In Occupied Golan

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THE SYRIAN army intercepted tens of incoming Israeli missiles and reciprocated the assault with a barrage of rocket attacks on Israeli military centres in...

Israel threatens 14,000 people in Gaza’s Al Quds Hospital!

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ISRAEL is threatening Gaza’s Al-Quds Hospital and the 14,000 people who are sheltering there with bombardment. The Israeli occupation authorities issued their threat to completely...
Patricia da Silva Armani, Jean Charles’ brother Giovanni de Menezes and Alex Pereira at yesterday’s press conference in London

‘THEY ARE PLAYING WITH OUR LIVES’ say Gourmet pickets

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GATE GOURMET pickets were angry yesterday that they have still not been told who is to be offered their jobs back, or who is...

Police illegally held Fairford demonstrators

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Civil rights organisation Liberty welcomed yesterday’s Law Lords ruling in favour of anti-war protesters who police stopped from travelling to a protest at RAF...
Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists marching on May Day giving a lead to the whole working class

VOTE TO ‘LEAVE’! – and to kick Cameron out

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MILLIONS of workers today will be following the lead of the RMT, ASLEF and the Bakers’ trade unions in voting to leave the European...

Day four of Harland & Wolff occupation – South African unions send international solidarity...

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THE OCCUPATION of Harland and Wolff, in Belfast in the north of Ireland, is going from strength to strength, now into its fourth day...
University students  marching in Greece – the banner reads ‘Overthrow the government’

Greek General Strike Today

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THE General Council of the ADEDY (public sector trades unions federation) has called another 48-hour national strike for today and tomorrow against the destruction...
GMB hospital workers marching through Swindon against the bullying of privateer company Carillion

‘NO VICTIMISATIONS!’ – Carillion workers rally today

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WORKERS at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital are holding a mass lunchtime rally outside the hospital today, against victimisation by their multi-national privateer employer Carillion. Swindon...

‘Any movement of NATO to the East is unacceptable’ says President Putin

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‘OUR actions will not depend on negotiations they will depend on the unconditional compliance with the Russian security demands in a historic context. ‘We have...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line at the Beacon roundabout at Heathrow yesterday

Tigers Reject Talks

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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have rejected Sri Lankan government proposed peace talks in Geneva, following reports of abductions of pro-Tiger aid...
Pickets outside East Finchley library yesterday during the first day of their two-day strike action against cuts and privatisation

Barnet Libraries Not For Sale!

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BARNET Unison, members of Unite Community and local supporters were out on strike all over the north London borough yesterday in defence of public...

NO PAY RISE IN 5 YEARS! – ASLEF strike expands

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ROLLING strike action and a national overtime ban by ASLEF members expands today, with train drivers employed by Northern and TransPennine Express rail privateers...

CORPORATE DEBT BUBBLE SET TO BURST

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THE CORPORATE debt mountain may trigger a devastating, self-feeding chain reaction of fire sales of junk bonds, threatening to collapse the entire financial system,...
Unison healthworkers from St Georges Hospital on a TUC demonstration – they demand more staff or patients will die

Nursing Staff Levels Dangerously Low!

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‘My department is running at VERY UNSAFE levels due to inadequate staffing,’ said one of almost 3,000 nurses from across the UK who took...

80% parents kept their children at home!

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MORE than 80% of parents have refused to put their children in harm’s way, scuppering the government’s plan to reopen schools yesterday, a poll...

BAGHDAD REJECTS WALL! – as US and Iraqi puppets continue to build it

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IRAQI opposition to the US plan to build a sectarian wall in a Baghdad district hardened yesterday, with street protests taking place in both...

UK SOCIAL CARE IS A ‘SOCIAL DISGRACE’ says GMB union

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THE GMB said yesterday that social care in this country has become a social disgrace, as it objected to Lord Hanningfield’s membership of a...

COUNCILS OUT! – 800,000 take strike action

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OVER 800,000 Unite and UNISON council workers in England, Wales and the north of Ireland are taking strike action today and tomorrow, furious at...
A section of yesterday’s picket of the Department of health demanding that the Whittington hospital be kept open

NHS IS AT STAKE! –says DoH picket

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OVER 50 people joined a picket of the Department of Health yesterday, demanding that the government honour a pledge from Tory Health Secretary Lansley...

Worldwide media protest against Zionist genocide

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MORE than 250 media outlets in over 70 countries staged a front page protest yesterday, highlighting the killing of more than 200 journalists in...
Striking probation officers and solicitors outside Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday lunchtime

36-hr strike against justice privatisation

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PROBATION officers and solicitors across England and Wales walked out on a 36-hour strike at noon yesterday and they are staying out until...

PCS Stands Fast Against Tory Strike Sack Threat

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THE Tories are threatening emergency action to either ban the official strike action next Thursday by Home Office PCS union members, including Border Agency...

‘HISTORIC WIN’ FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS – tens of thousands entitled to Uber compensation

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THE GMB union scored an ‘historic’ win on Friday when the Supreme Court passed judgement in the union’s landmark workers’ rights case against Uber. This...

1,250 Manchester Firefighters To Be Sacked!

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FIREFIGHTERS are furious at plans to sack the entire workforce of Greater Manchester. All 1,250 firefighters in the area are to be sacked. Only those...

70,000 lecturers vote for national university strike

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Over 70,000 staff at 150 universities are to strike after University and College Union (UCU) members overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ in two historic national ballots. The...
Crawley residents and hospital staff demonstrate to save the vital shuttle service between Crawley and Redhill hospitals

‘SAVE OUR SHUTTLE’ say Crawley residents

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ANGRY residents, health campaigners and NHS trade unionists demonstrated outside Crawley hospital yesterday, next to the shuttle bus that takes patients and workers to...

Gadaffi ‘Alive And Well’

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Fierce fighting continued in the Libya capital yesterday as government forces remained in control of large areas of Tripoli, holding off SAS-led mercenaries and...

Railworkers strike for pay! – no rise since 2016

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ASLEF and RMT railworkers are striking again this week in defence of their jobs, their working conditions, their pensions and pay. Aslef train drivers are...
Firefighters and their supporters marching in Clapham last Saturday against the closure of the fire station

Stop Fire Station Closures!

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THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has demanded London mayor, Boris Johnson, abandon plans to shut 12 fire stations. The demand was made after firefighters...

‘NO RIGHT TO STRIKE IN BRITAIN!’ – Brendan Barber of the TUC

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TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said yesterday that he was ‘desperately worried’ about the High Court decision to make the cabin crew strike at...

NO SHEIKH JARRAH EVICTIONS! – Settler shoots Palestinian outside High Court

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MASSES of people surrounded the Israeli High Court yesterday protesting against the eviction of families in the Sheikh Jarrah district of Jerusalem. Israel’s supreme court...
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...

Prison staff at breaking point

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‘WE NEED a general strike before this government dismantles everything. The trade union movement must stand up as one. There is a breaking point...

STOP ACADEMIES BILL! Demands mass lobby

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AS many as 2000 angry, school teachers, school students, parents, construction workers and supporters rallied at Westminster Hall yesterday, to protest at the Academies...

Defiant Nicholson won’t quit

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NHS Chief Executive, Sir David Nicholson, who presided over the Mid Stafford Hospital disaster where there were more than 1,000 unnecessary deaths, yesterday refused...
Unite National Officer DAVE OSBORNE opening a TUC fringe meeting on Vauxhall last month. Business Minister Ian Lucas was invited but did not attend

MAGNA JOBS TALKS TODAY! –but Mandelson is in Japan

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talks today on the future of the Vauxhall Ellesmere Port and the GMM Luton plants, with thousands of jobs on the line, will not...
NHS workers marching in defence of the NHS stressing it is not about profit

ABOLISH PRESCRIPTION CHARGES – urges the BMA

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England should follow the example of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, and abolish all prescription charges, the British Medical Association (BMA) said today. The Department...