Children join the NHS march through London earlier this year – West Midlands Ambulance Service is pulling out of its contract

Patients’ lives put in jeopardy

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PATIENTS living in the north west have had their lives put into jeopardy, the GMB union warned, as the ambulance transport service announced it...

MAY ‘A DEAD WOMAN WALKING!’ – says ex-Chancellor Osborne

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THE TORY Party was in increasing disarray yesterday in the wake of the general election, with former Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, calling PM May...
Demonstration in London to defend the capital’s A&Es – workers are determined that the NHS must remain a service providing the necessary quality care for all who need it

Monitor wants NHS ‘production line’ to cut costs!

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THE NHS watchdog, Monitor, has proposed to import ‘production line’ surgery techniques from other countries to plug ‘gaps’ in NHS funding. Monitor’s chief executive David...
Sparks demonstrating against 30 per cent wage cuts outside the Kings Cross construction site last September

Balfour Beatty’s Sack Warning To 12,000

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Construction giant Balfour Beatty has warned its 12,000 staff in the UK they could lose their jobs as a result of the slump in...
Students joined a thousand-strong rally in Sheffield in support of striking lecturers fighting against the privatisation of their pensions

Sheffield students & lecturers mass rally

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ONE thousand striking lecturers, students and community supporters marched from Sheffield University to the City Hall yesterday to mark the end of four further...
Rose Gentle at the Military Families Against the War Camp opposite Downing Street, yesterday with a letter demanding Blair meet the families

Mothers Camp Outside Downing Street

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The mothers of soldiers killed in Iraq, along with mothers of serving soldiers, are camping outside Downing Street this weekend. Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son...

Greek Workers To Stand Trial

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The Athens State Prosecutor ordered that 13 trade unionists, a pensioner and an unemployed worker who were arrested by riot police last Thursday morning...

Planet without a visa! – Putin turns his back on brave whistleblower Snowden

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EDWARD SNOWDEN has sought asylum from 15 countries after Russia and Ecuador have denied his petitions. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on Monday that Moscow...
Unite leaders Woodley and Simpson alongside TUC General Secretary Barber marching with former CBI boss Digby Jones. The union leaders prefer to collaborate with the bosses and oppose occupations and nationalisation

GM defer Open Vauxhall choice – as GM Luton workers are kept in dark

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With just five weeks until the German elections, Chancellor Merkel yesterday expressed her anger and frustration at the failure last Friday of General Motors...

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...

TASERS FOR ALL OFFICERS! says East Midlands Chief Constable

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EVERY frontline police officer in Northamptonshire is to be armed with a Taser gun, the East Midlands county’s Chief Constable Nick Adderley announced yesterday. Adderley...
RMT Tube workers on the picket line earlier this year

RMT Control Staff Strike Action

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LONDON Underground control staff working on the Waterloo and City line are on strike for three days, following a 100% ‘YES’ vote, for strike...

Food Prices Leap By 10%

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AVERAGE global food prices leapt by ten per cent in the month of July, raising fears of soaring prices for the planet’s poorest, the...

NUT to strike on July 5

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THE NUT has announced that members in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action to protect pay and working conditions. In the...

Strait of Hormuz declared ‘open’ by Iranian Minister

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THE Strait of Hormuz is ‘declared completely open’ for the ‘remaining period of ceasefire,’ Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said yesterday. In a statement on...
The body of Iraqi hotel worker, Baha Mousa after being beaten to death by British troops in Basra in September 2003

‘TORTURED, HANGED AND MUTILATED!’ Inquiry opens into UK army war crimes in Iraq

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THE Al-Sweady inquiry into allegations that more than 20 civilians were captured, tortured and unlawfully killed by British soldiers in Iraq in 2004, following...

Senior Hamas delegation in Turkey to discuss ceasefire

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A senior Hamas delegation led by Dr Khalil al-Hayya met on Wednesday with Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin in Istanbul to discuss ceasefire developments...

Maudsley 3-day strike against more than 200 job cuts by OCS

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NHS workers at the South London and Maudsley (SLAM) NHS Trust staged a three-day strike this week against more than 200 job cuts announced...
A section of Saturday’s Demonstration in Norwich against the ‘Bedroom Tax’ – see story page 3

FAMILIES HIT WITH £2.3bn CUTS!

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LOW income households will have their family finances hit by multiple cuts this month totalling £2.3bn. Almost half of this amount will be provided by...
Gate Gourmet workers sacked by Texas Pacific condemn the sell-out of their struggle by TGWU leader Woodley at last year’s May Day demonstration in London

T&g Backs Sainsbury Family Against Texas Pacific Raiders

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The Transport and General Workers Union yesterday issued a statement backing ‘the Sainsbury family’s hostile position to the private equity bid for the supermarket...

‘Today we set out to transform Britain’ says Corbyn

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AT THE party’s manifesto launch in Bradford yesterday Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: ‘Today we set out a vision to transform Britain for the...

OCCUPY GM! – defend every job says ATUA Secretary Wiltshire

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German workers are holding ‘warning strikes’ today over General Motors scrapping the sale of GM Europe, which includes Opel and Vauxhall, to Magna. The GM...

‘Beaten And Shocked’ – Say Freedom Flotilla Supporters

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‘OUR ship carried two desalination machines, bricks and roof-tiles, 250 electric vehicles for disabled persons, a forklift truck donated by the Elefsina dockworkers and...

‘Next three months absolutely critical for NHS’ – Blair

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‘Whether it’s redundancies or posts not being filled, thousands of jobs are still being lost in the NHS,’ a British Medical Association spokesman...

GET READY TO STOP THE AIRPORTS – Walsh mobilises 6000 strikebreakers

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British Airways boss Walsh boasted at a meeting of selected staff at BA headquarters yesterday that he has 6,000 staff signed up to break...

HOME OFFICE CAN’T STARVE REFUGEES – Law Lords reject Blunkett’s law

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Homeless charity Shelter and the Refugee Council yesterday both welcomed the Law Lords’ unanimous rejection of the controversial law pushed through by former Home...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet worker HARBINDER SINGH addressing the conference from the platform

Gate Gourmet workers support PCS strikers

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‘OUR conference will show the whole trade union movement that what the TGWU leadership has done to us is wrong,’ locked out Gate Gourmet...

Brutal pay and job cuts at Heathrow! – Unite leaders on their knees! Replace...

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HEATHROW has threatened unions that unless they accept brutal pay cuts, they will start enforcing job cuts! The ultimatum delivered by the bosses proposes cutting...
Tenants demanding social housing and protesting at rent rises that are converting them into the working poor

‘RENTQUAKE!’ –tenants face unaffordable rents

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‘RENTQUAKE’ has hit middle England as rents race above wages in market towns, said housing charity Shelter yesterday. Rents have risen 60% faster than...
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...

Bush Boosts Troop Levels

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US President George Bush yesterday announced a permanent increase in the size of the US Army and US Marines. He made it clear that the...

Steel Closure Is Devastating

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THE TORIES ‘must bring British Steel into public ownership’, Unite said after the devastating announcement that the industry fell into liquidation yesterday morning. Unite assistant...

Iran-US deal goes ahead

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ISRAEL has agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah, a senior US official confirmed yesterday, after Iran refused to resume talks with Washington until the...

Brady ready to support May deal

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SIR GRAHAM Brady, the chair of the Tories’ 1922 Committee, said yesterday, ‘the whole country is tired’ and that people should back the PM...
Children of Vestas workers lead the march to the Newport Magistrates Court last Wednesday

‘Angry At The Courts!’

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Provocative actions by court officials have angered workers occupying the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight. Vestas workers said it has made...

Tnt–2,000 Jobs Threat

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WHISTL, formerly known as TNT, has suspended its door-to-door delivery service in London, Liverpool and Manchester and is threatening to sack 2,000 workers, it...
Junior doctors marched in their thousands in 2007 against major attacks on their training. Their slogan has a very topical message for today when a Tory government is trying to impose a vicious contract on them which could see them working very long hours

‘We’ve been screwed for too long!’ – Junior doctors demand BMA industrial action

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‘WE’VE been screwed for too long. It’s time to stand up for ourselves and call for the BMA to support industrial action.’ This defiant statement...

Article 50 Showdown Postponed

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ON Tuesday, facing a rebellion from an estimated 40 pro-EU Tory MPs and likely defeat in the House of Commons, the government made an...
Two hundred Serco workers at Bart’s NHS Trust outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel last week – they begin their week-long strike today

Hospital workers – week strike begins

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A WEEK-LONG strike across four London hospitals begins this morning as hundreds of low paid cleaners, porters and security guards working for private company...

‘GET READY FOR WAR!’ –Trump demands UK & NATO support

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IN A SPEECH to a military audience on Monday night, US President Donald Trump outlined his change of strategy on Afghanistan. He said: ‘A hasty...
Marchers in Athens city centre on Wednesday night demanding the Turkish government support the Kurds fighting ISIS in Kobane

Turkey fighting to the last Kurd!

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TURKEY’S foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said his country cannot be expected to lead a ground operation against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria...

Blair Profiles Poor For Special Measures

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday revealed his plan to use the same profiling techniques that are being used to identify ‘terrorists’ to identify...
A section of the audience of the over 150 workers and youth who attended the West London Council of Action Conference to defend Ealing Hospital and the NHS.

Trade unions must take action to defend the NHS!

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MORE than 150 workers and youth attended the conference for strike action to defend Ealing Hospital and the NHS, in Southall yesterday. Moving the resolution,...
Firefighters on a national FBU demonstration in London on October 16 – they are determined to defend their pension rights

Firefighters taking action!

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FIREFIGHTERS across England and Wales took strike action last night from 6.30pm to 11.00pm and will strike again from 6.00am to 8.00am on Monday...