Bank Of England Panic Rate Cut

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A realisation of the depth of the slump, yesterday drove the Bank of England to make a panic 1.5% cut in interest rates...
Leeds heart unit campaigners are determined that their children’s heart unit should remain open

‘WHITEWASH!’ –Leeds heart surgery report is condemned

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‘WHITEWASH!’, said the furious parents of extremely sick children yesterday, as they branded a long overdue report into the decision to suspend children’s...

5 WARDS AND 300 STAFF FACE THE AXE – in Lincolnshire hospitals

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Staff at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust have been shocked by the sudden announcement on Monday of plans to close five hospital wards and...
Cabin crew rejoice at the good news that the judiciary had dumped the strike ban

Law Lords Retreat!

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British Airways (BA) cabin crew outside the High Court cheered and danced yesterday morning after a panel of three senior judges overturned a...

Savage attack on disabled planned!

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THE PCS union, which represents JobCentre workers, yesterday denounced as ‘appalling’ planned savage cuts to social security for sick and disabled people. It was commenting...

‘No settlements in Gaza!’ – says UN sec gen Khaled Khiari

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THE Assistant UN Secretary-General, Khaled Khiari, has urged the international community to categorically reject any Israeli moves to establish settlements in the Gaza Strip...
Unilever workers lobbying the company’s head office demanding ‘Hands off Our Pensions’

Unilever Pensions Action

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A rolling programme of strike action is set to hit corporate giant Unilever’s UK operations as workers step up action to defend their final...

TRUMP’S COUP FAILS – AFL-CIO must call a general strike

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ARMED supporters of US President Trump stormed the Capitol building and forced a lockdown on Wednesday evening. However, the attempted coup failed. A woman was...

Criminal charges against Grenfell guilty now! – GMB Congress delegates vote unanimously

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A MOTION committing the GMB union to fight for criminal charges to be brought against those responsible for the Grenfell Tower Fire was passed...
NHS workers and their families marching to defend the service from the privateers

DEFEND HINCHINBROOKE HOSPITAL – 1,300 doctors, nurses, and health workers’ jobs at stake

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Doctors, nurses and health workers will take to the streets with local people today, Saturday 4 October, to defend the future of Hinchingbrooke Hospital,...

Starmer urges EU war on Russia!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday that he is ‘ready and willing’ to put UK ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine, just as...
A section of the massive rally at Hyde Park. Over 200,000 took part in the march and many called for the trade unions to match their words with action

Palestinians examining 72-hour ceasefire proposal

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PALESTINIAN negotiators in Cairo said yesterday they were examining an Egyptian proposal for a new, three-day cease-fire with Israel. ‘There is a proposal for another...

‘WE CAN’T GET JUSTICE!’ – Jean de Menezes’ cousin

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‘The whole thing is a mess,’ Alex Pereira, the cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes told News Line yesterday. He was responding to reports that...

EU announces £22bn tariffs on US imports

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THE EU has announced retaliatory tariffs of up to 26bn euros (£22bn) on US imports, responding to President Donald Trump’s 25% levies on global...

BLAIR MUST GO – says RMT

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RMT rail union general secretary Bob Crow repeated a call for Blair to go yesterday in the wake of Wednesday’s Terrorism Bill defeat. Crow said:...
BBC NUJ members out on strike outside Bush House, London, yesterday morning

Strike Rocks Bbc!

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Thousands of journalists across the BBC walked out at midnight Thursday in the first of two 48-hour strikes in protest at plans to devalue...

Slave Labour Out!

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THE Tory-LibDem Coalition stepped up its mass youth slave labour drive yesterday, with Deputy Prime Minister Clegg launching his payment-by-results ‘Neets’ campaign. ‘Neets’ is the...

CWU NATIONAL STRIKE ON 29th JUNE

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THE Communication Workers Union (CWU) is to take national strike action on June 29. It will be followed by more strike action if management does...

SPECIAL CONFERENCE – Defend every hospital

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Saturday April 6th

‘A bonanza for unscrupulous landlords’ – MPs indict the Immigration Bill

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MPs have blasted the Tory coalition government’s proposal to force landlords to do immigration checks on their tenants, warning that it will lead to...
A section of Saturday’s 25,000-strong ‘Gaza Flotilla March’ makes its way towards the Israeli Embassy in Kensington

‘Break The Siege’ Call From Gaza

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A call has come from the University Teachers’ Association, the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel and 31 other Gaza civil...
The front of Tuesday’s Athens march of local government workers

Greek Local Government Workers Occupy

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SCORES of town halls in the metropolitan Athens-Piraeus area were being occupied by municipal workers on Wednesday morning following a decision by the POE-OTA...

‘Grave concerns’ over Taser roll-out

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‘Grave concerns’ have been expressed over the wider deployment of Taser electro-shock weapons to police officers in ten forces across the UK which are...
CWU pickets at the E3 delivery Office showing confidence that they will win their struggle

Postal workers defy Crozier and Mandelson!

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Postal workers yesterday condemned the Labour government and Royal Mail bosses for colluding to smash their union, and casualise and privatise the industry...

Goldsmiths launch 3-week strike

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LECTURERS and staff took on Goldsmiths College higher management yesterday launching a bold and powerful three week strike against redundancies and the axing of...
Rail unions demonstrating outside Euston station last October against the West Coast Mainline tendering scandal

Rail on brink of chaos! – RMT warns of rail franchising disaster

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RAIL union RMT warned yesterday that the chaotic rail franchising disaster has taken a further turn for the worse. The extension of the current First...

‘Horrific intentionally repeated crime’

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GAZA’s Government Media Office yesterday accused Israel of ‘a horrific, intentionally repeated crime’, having lured starving Palestinians to aid centres run by the Gaza...

Record Budget Deficit!

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BRITAIN’S budget deficit swelled to a new record level last month leading bourgeois analysts to warn that the financial speculators are getting the jitters. Public...
GMB members employed by private company Medirest are organising to join tomorrow’s march from Southall Broadway to Ealing Hospital

Defend Ealing Maternity!

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EALING Hospital workers and other workers throughout Ealing and Southall are stopping work for two hours tomorrow and joining the march to keep the...
Junior doctors leader JEEVES WIJESURIYA (2nd left) joins SERCO strikers yesterday on the picket line at the Royal London Hospital

‘We are determined to win a pay rise!’ say SERCO strikers

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‘WE ARE determined to have a pay rise,’ Unite shop steward Melissa Manso declared at a lively morning picket line outside the Royal London...

Israeli military continues its massacres in the region!

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THOUSANDS of people in northern Gaza are facing an imminent massacre as the Israeli military continues its weeks-long siege and heavy bombardment of the region,...
Witham Emergency 999 control operators are on eight days of strike action against draconian imposed changes to their working practices

Essex 999 Operators Strike!

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ESSEX emergency 999 control operators began eight days of strike action yesterday morning against imposed changes to their shifts which makes family...

The Great Betrayal – NHS Union Leaders Surrender To Tories

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NHS trade unions suspended the industrial action planned for today following proposals put forward by the government. Unison head of health and the unions’ lead...

Staff On Terminal Covid Ward Were ‘Denied Ppe’

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STAFF working on a ward for terminal coronavirus patients were denied Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) despite having to bag up 185 bodies in just...

Wage Theft Rampant In Scotland!

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MACDONALD Hotels stand accused by the trade union Unite of ‘wage theft’ in explosive evidence to the House of Commons Scottish Affairs select committee’s...
GPs, patients and supporters marched through Tower Hamlets on June 5th showing their determination to keep all GP surgeries open

£1bn NHS privatisation! –Unison demands full disclosure

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UNISON has demanded a ‘full disclosure’ of moves to privatise Staffordshire cancer services and warned NHS commissioners that ‘secrecy is against the public interest’. The...
The Duggan family release doves at the end of the vigil outside Tottenham police station to emphasise the peaceful, but very determined nature of their protest

Apology for Duggan family! – from the Police Complaints Commission

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THE Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has apologised to Mark Duggan’s family for ‘wrongly’ telling the media he had fired at police before he...

Israel bombs Beirut suburb – kills 5, injures dozens

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THE Israeli occupation army assassinated a senior Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb yesterday, killing and injuring about two dozen civilians...

Over 800 doctors urge Justice Secretary Lammy to save hunger strikers!

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OVER 800 doctors, legal experts, and family members have signed an open letter urging Justice Secretary David Lammy to meet to save the pro-Palestine...

British Steel formally taken into public ownership

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BRITISH Steel has formally been taken into public ownership, fifteen months after the government intervened to prevent the closure of its Scunthorpe steelworks and...
Lecturers fighting Labour cuts – will do the same or more under a coalition government

Lib Dems Head For Tories

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BRITAIN remained without a government yesterday, as the Liberal Democrats prepared to dump their proportional representation policy in order to strike a dirty coalition...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line at Heathrow – want the TGWU leaders to fight to win their reinstatement

SAVAGE CUTS – coming to Norfolk County Fire Service

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Norfolk County Fire Service faces savage cuts as a result of the County Council being starved of cash in the Blair government’s ...
Junior doctors are demanding further action to defeat Hunt’s contract imposition

5-day strike actions for Junior Doctors!

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AN ESCALATING programme of five-day strikes, every month until the end of the year, has been authorised by the BMA, as junior doctors take...

Amcu to march on British embassy!

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THE South African miners’ trade union Amcu has said it will march to the British embassy this week to hand over a memorandum...
The capitalist crisis and Tory austerity measures have thrust millions of workers and their families deep into debt

‘Perilous’ Levels Of Debt

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EVEN in a ‘good growth’ scenario, the number of UK households facing a debt crisis would almost double, warns the Resolution Foundation think-tank. It said...