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GABRIEL POLLEY being excluded from the UEA hustings on Thursday night – Charles Clarke was again looking on

WRP candidate excluded

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GABRIEL Polley, WRP candidate for Norwich South was prevented from speaking at the Election hustings at the University of East Anglia last Thursday. Gabriel...
500 angry firefighters lobbied against fire station closures outside the Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark yesterday

‘OCCUPY FIRE STATIONS!’ says FBU leader Matt Wrack

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‘THESE fire stations belong to the people of London and it’s the people of London who say that these buildings are ours and we...

Cameron’s Police State

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PM CAMERON addressed the House of Commons yesterday on the crisis with Russia, the IS movement in Iraq and security in the UK. On the...

McDonnell offers cooperation if Osborne drops Credits Bill

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AHEAD of today’s debate in the House of Lords, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said that Labour would ‘co-operate’ in future efforts to review the...
Southern rail workers during their strike to keep the guard on the train picketing outside Brighton station earlier this month

Rail Strikes Spread

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RAIL strikes are spreading with RMT announcing yesterday a 24 hour strike action on Virgin trains East Coast over the threat to nearly 200...
Picturehouse cinema workers rally in Hackney during their strike action last October

Picturehouse Cinemas Strike Action Today!

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IN A REPEAT of one of the largest strikes in UK cinema history, that took place in February, five Picturehouse cinemas will be on...

Assange sent back to Belmarsh!

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has been sent back to Belmarsh high security prison after a judge refused him bail yesterday, despite a decision to...
Cadbury workers fought against the Kraft takeover

Cadbury’s Jobs Blow!

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The Unite union yesterday angrily condemned plans by Cadbury’s new owner, US giant Kraft Foods, to move jobs out of the UK to ...

No Deadline For Shalit Prisoner Exchange

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A spokesman for the men holding Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit captive in Gaza said yesterday that no deadline had been imposed on a potential...

Greece 24hr national strike

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GREEK public sector workers launched a 24-hour national strike yesterday against the SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left)- ANEL coalition government’s new austerity accord...
Thousands of Tamils poured into Parliament Square yesterday, after police broke up their overnight sit-down protest on Westminster Bridge

Police Attack Tamils

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Hundreds of Tamils demonstrated in Parliament Square yesterday after a sit-in of thousands on Westminster Bridge was broken up by riot police. The protesters alleged...
Campaigners fighting against cuts to the Herts fire service outside Radlett fire station in Ocober

Bovingdon Battle!

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HERTFORDSHIRE fire crews are appalled at the way two community action groups in Bovingdon and Radlett are being treated by local politicians over the...
Teachers marching in Athens on January  10th

Thousands March In Athens

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Thousands of university students and lecturers staged mass and militant rallies and demonstrations last Wednesday in all major cities against the government’s plans to...

People dying because of staff cuts

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THE number of people who have died, been assaulted or injured themselves in prison has risen to its highest level for a decade, figures...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line yesterday

HOME OFFICE ACCUSED! – of alerting Berlusconi over Mills extradition

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‘Will the present inquiry by the Cabinet Secretary examine whether or not the Home Office acted improperly in relation to an extradition request for...
Secondary teachers on a march in Athens last month demanding the scrapping of the austerity measures

Eight Days To Greek Default!

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GREECE was put in an ‘eight days to default’ situation by the ECB and the EU yesterday. A default by Greece was technically avoided when...

Brown Wants 3 Years Of Wage Cutting

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THE GMB and PCS unions came out against Prime Minister Brown and Chancellor Darling’s plan to impose three-year pay settlements on public sector workers...

‘GET RID OF CAPITALISM’ – unions blast Hester bonus

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‘Getting rid of capitalism is the issue,’ said Dave Wiltshire, ATUA National Secretary, yesterday. In response to trade union leaders’ anger over the nearly one...
Marchers on their way to the TUC Congress demanding ‘set the date for the General Strike!’

‘Name the date for the general strike!’

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THE Young Socialists completed the final leg of their 248-mile March For Jobs from London to the TUC Congress in Liverpool yesterday mid-day. Birmingham and...
Ambulance staff taking strike action at Deptford Ambulance Station were concerned at the way cuts were affecting the service

Ambulance Cuts Are Costing Lives!

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EAST of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) management operated a policy of downgrading target response times for 999 emergency calls from December 18th...

RAIL STRIKE SHUTS DOWN UK! – Labour MPs defy Starmer and join pickets

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‘The TUC should have called a general strike already. They’re too slow to act,’ was the message from the Waterloo Station picket line yesterday...
Lobby The Tuc!

Lobby The Tuc!

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Monday September 11th, Brighton

ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant!

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THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. It has also wrongfully...

Labour to restore 50% tax on rich – Balls pledges a budget surplus

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LABOUR SHADOW chancellor Ed Balls yesterday rejected claims that his pledge that a Labour government will bring back the 50p top rate of income...

NO! TO BAA BLANKET BAN – climate change camp going ahead

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The High Court yesterday refused to grant British Airports Authority (BAA) a blanket ban on protests in and around Heathrow airport that would have...

US-EU on collision course!

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THE EU has officially adopted measures to protect European companies working in Iran when the US reimposes sanctions against Tehran. The EU will...

Axeing Bus Services Is Isolating Communities!

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‘WHEN bus services are axed, it isolates communities,’ Unison warned in launching a new campaign to save local bus services. ‘We are living in isolation!’...
BMA members marching on the November 3rd ‘NHSTogether’ demonstration in London

‘Bully’ Brown Puts Targets Before Healthcare

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THE BMA yesterday condemned the Brown government for putting the drive to reach its political targets before patient healthcare. ‘We are being bullied so...

MAKE THE DISPUTE OFFICIAL!– call out the airport! – Locked out Gate Gourmet work

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Locked out workers at British Airways caterer Gate Gourmet demanded their dispute be made official as talks between the company and the Transport and...

‘PAINFUL CONSEQUENCES’ – warns Bush

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President Bush yesterday warned Americans that the economic damage to the US will be ‘painful and lasting’ if Congress fails to pass his $700...
Low paid Serco workers are having to battle like hell for a 30p pay rise

PUBLIC SECTOR IS ‘OVERPAID’ – Hammond tells Tory Cabinet

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CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond yesterday refused to deny that he said at last Tuesday’s Tory Cabinet meeting that public sector workers are ‘overpaid’. Hammond was repeatedly...
Carillion workers marching in Swindon – they have just voted 98.3% for industrial action

Carillion 98.3% Vote For Industrial Action

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WORKERS employed by privateer Carillion at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon have voted 98.3% in favour of industrial action over job losses, pay...

MAY SURRENDERS! READY FOR EU ELECTIONS! – Pledges to carry out indicative ballot

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ON FRIDAY, PM May wrote a grovelling surrender letter of complete capitulation to the EU President Donald Tusk, in which she agreed that the...
Deptford ambulance workers on the picket line during their nationwide strike in 2014 – they are overworked, understaffed and underpaid

Tory ambulance cuts kill – A&Es are in meltdown!

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A SHORTAGE of ambulances and paramedics along with a ‘meltdown’ of A&E services has lead to an extremely alarming spike in patient deaths, as...

Series of 48 hour postal strikes

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POSTAL workers have announced a series of 48-hour strikes to fall on Black Friday and after Tech Monday, as workers will also hold a...

CHARITIES AND WAGE CUTS! – Civil Service strike likely says PCS leader Serwotka

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In his tenth Pre Budget Report yesterday Chancellor Brown spoke about the threat to British capitalism from India and China. He said: ‘Once...

Livingstone Is To Appeal Against Suspension!

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FORMER Labour Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has announced that he is to appeal against his two-year suspension from standing for office or representing...

Allies warn Russia to stop bombing ISIS

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TURKEY, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have called on Russia to stop its air strikes in Syria,...
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...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers  on Southall Broadway yesterday campaigning for their march on Sunday

All Out For Gate Gourmet Rally!

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‘WE ARE marching for a future where no employer can sack 800 workers by megaphone at a minute’s notice and where trade union leaders...

We shall never tolerate such crimes–Putin

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‘WE will never tolerate such crimes,’ Russian President Putin declared yesterday, after Turkish fighter planes shot down a Russian Su-24 on the Syrian border. Putin...
A joyful municipal workers contingent – placard reads: ‘Down with the junta of PASOK’

‘Down With The Pasok Junta’ Shout Greek Workers

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50,000 Greek civil servants and public sector workers on Wednesday staged a successful 24-hour national strike and a big march through Athens against the...

Bring LT cleaners back in-house

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AS THE Omicron crisis grips the capital, Labour politicians yesterday called for public ownership of London Transport cleaning services. The MPs and peers made the...

NO CAP ON GPs PAY – Insist BMA doctors and RCN nurses

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Doctors and nurses yesterday hit back at health secretary Patricia Hewitt’s complaint that the government should have capped GP’s pay. Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of...

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...