Rail workers demanding that fares be cut, not rail staff, and that the rail network be nationalised

Rail fares rising three times faster than wages! – 26.6% between 2008 and 2012

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RAIL fares have risen three times faster than wages since the slump began in 2008, according to a new analysis published yesterday by the...

‘NO ERROR OF JUDGEMENT’ – Cameron defends hiring Coulson

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PRIME minister Cameron claimed yesterday that Andy Coulson, who had resigned as editor of the News of the World and who currently faces charges...
Striking UNISON and Unite members demonstrating in the centre of London yesterday

PAY CUTS – NOW WAY! say council strikers

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‘CUT our pay – no way!’, ‘Two per cent is rubbish, so is Gordon Brown!’ and ‘Come on, come on Gordon Brown – raise...
Thousands of workers saluted the memory of Bob Crow as a working class fighter on yesterday’s May Day march

‘A general strike is the obvious next step’ – Trade unionists tell News Line

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MORE than 20,000 trade unionists, workers and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on London’s May Day yesterday. The march was led by...
Pickets outside the Science Museum, South Kensington yesterday striking to defend their pay

NO TO PAY CUT – say Science Museum strikers

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Pickets were out in force at the Science Museum in west London yesterday. Public and Commercial Services (PCS) members joined colleagues from the Prospect trade...

Patients to be turned away from A&E – Hancock outlines NHS 111 First

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YESTERDAY in Parliament, Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that less serious cases would be turned away from A&E and only the most serious...
Parkside estate tenant CAROL SWORDS (second from left) with supporters outside the High Court yesterday morning

Parkside Tenants Picket The High Court

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TENANTS from the Parkside council estate in east London went to the High Court yesterday, demanding the cancellation of the estate’s transfer to a...

High Court move to ban UK arms sales to Israel!

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LAWYERS seeking an order to prevent the United Kingdom government from continuing to grant arms export licences to UK companies selling arms to Israel...

‘People’s vote remains an option’ – Corbyn

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‘WE HAVE called for a new customs union, with a say in future trade deals, a strong single market relationship and a guarantee to...

Unions recommend Tata deal – despite pension cuts and no job guarantees

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UNITE, Community and GMB trade unions yesterday called on Tata steel workers at Port Talbot to vote ‘YES’ when the...

Al-Awda Hospital Fire Rages As Doctors Call Out For Support!

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AL-AWDA Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, northern Gaza, has issued an urgent appeal to international humanitarian bodies after an Israeli airstrike ignited a catastrophic fire...

RATP busworkers reject ‘fire and rehire’ deal

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THE UNITE leadership yesterday failed to get a ‘fire and rehire’ deal accepted by RATP bus workers. The vote at seven West London bus garages...

Forced labour for ex-Calais children

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REFUGEE children sent from the demolished ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais are being used as forced labour in fruit farms, a charity has claimed. So far...
Orthodox Jews, joining the rally on Saturday against the Israeli killings in Gaza, condemn Zionist terrorism

29 Palestinians killed, 3,000 wounded in Gaza – ‘There are no innocent people in...

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TWENTY-NINE Palestinian civilians have been killed and 3,000 wounded by Israeli snipers and tanks firing at unarmed demonstrators near the Gaza border over the...

Blair accused of war crimes!

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‘THIS man is a war criminal,’ a protester shouted at former prime minister Blair at the Leveson Inquiry in the courtroom of the Royal...

‘BMA playing with fire’ over 7-day working

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THE BMA yesterday published a paper on seven-day services which supports calls for more NHS services to be available for patients throughout the week. Commenting...
Students demonstrate last year against tuition fees

‘STUDENT COMMUTERS’ Poorer students forced to live at home and commute

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STUDENTS from poorer backgrounds are being forced to become ‘student commuters’, living in their home town and then commuting back and forth on a...
Hampstead CWU pickets on Saturday morning were confident of winning

NATIONAL STRIKE IS VITAL – say CWU pickets

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Post workers were out on strike again on Saturday in defence of their jobs, working conditions, pensions and pay. The Communication Workers Union branded Royal...

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...
TGWU leader TONY WOODLEY was picketed by locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on May 1st

Woodley calls off cabin crew strike action

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At the last minute yesterday afternoon, the Transport and General Workers Union called off today’s 48-hour strike by British Airways cabin crew. The TGWU...

NHS has a privatisation & closure plague!

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A PRIVATISATION and closure plague is being spread rapidly throughout the NHS. United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has closed its accident and emergency department at Grantham...

Stop the gap between rich and poor!

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UNITE leader Sharon Graham warned yesterday morning that the union is likely to disaffiliate from the Labour Party if Chancellor Rachel Reeves does not...
The relationship between the Thatcher government and the Murdoch press was cemented in the big struggles to smash trade unions in the mid 1980s. Other governments continued the pact with the Murdoch empire

Cameron advisor ‘a criminal’

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PM’S QUESTIONS were yesterday centred on Cameron’s ‘profound apology’ for hiring Coulson as his press officer. Labour leader Miliband opened by saying: ‘For four years...
Supporters of Babar Ahmad outside the High Court in London fighting his extradition to the US. They fear Babar could end up in Guantánamo Bay

Labour refusing Guantánamo Bay British residents

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The lawyer acting for ten UK residents being held at Guantánamo Bay has said the US authorities would send them home now if the...
Lively picket of Serco strikers marked the beginning of the second week of their two-week strike over pay, workload and job cuts

Serco strikers in high spirits

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THE SERCO workers marked the beginning of the second week of their two-week strike yesterday with a lively picket line outside the Royal London...
Striking BA cabin crew on the picket line during their latest strike action in May

Woodley Postpones BA Cabin Crew Ballot

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Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley yesterday said the union has ‘postponed’ Tuesday’s ballot for further strike action at British Airways to consider a...

‘THEY WANT TO STEAL LIBYA’S OIL’ says Chavez

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THE Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused the US of preparing to invade Libya to steal its oil. ‘A campaign of lies is being...

No agreement in talks between UK’s Truss and Russia’s Lavrov – while PM Johnson...

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THE MEETING between the UK foreign minister and her Russian counterpart yesterday was ‘like the mute talking to the deaf’, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei...
Unison and UCU strikers on the picket line at the College of North East London carrying out a one-day strike action against the proposal to continue with a pay freeze

Sixth Form Colleges Fighting Pay Freeze!

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LECTURERS, librarians, technicians, cleaners and caretakers in Unison and the UCU union walked out on strike in Sixth Form Colleges around the country yesterday,...

Dairy Farmers Direct Action!

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‘DIRECT action by dairy farmers is imminent,’ Farmers for Action leader David Hanley warned yesterday. He told News Line: ‘This is due to the fact...
March in London earlier this month against the Housing Bill

Tory Bill will ‘kill social housing’ warn councils

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THE new Tory Housing and Planning Bill will ‘kill social housing’ a leading West Midlands councillor Frank Allen warned yesterday. All over the country council...
Youth on the street in Port-au-Prince – thousands are now homeless in the capital

‘MILLIONS IN URGENT NEED’ after Haiti’s biggest earthquake in 200 years

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SURVIVORS of Haiti’s biggest earthquake for 200 years yesterday appealed to the world for urgent food, water and medicines as the death toll continued...

127,992 homeless kids at Christmas

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A record 127,992 children in England will wake up homeless on Christmas day, according to new government figures highlighted by Shelter. The charity turned...

HS2 ‘rats’ on construction workers

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THE HIGH Speed 2 (HS2) contractor has ‘ratted on overtime agreements’ the Unite union alleged yesterday. Unite, which represents construction workers building the line, expressed...

Greek Concentration Camps For Illegal Immigrants

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THE Greek Assistant Minister for Public Order M Othonas said on Wednesday morning that the first concentration camp for alleged ‘illegal immigrants’ could be...

Hamas slams Trump’s racist vision for Gaza

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Hamas yesterday expressed total rejection of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza relocation plans which ‘represent a continuation of the settlement plans aimed at liquidating...
Doctors voting at yesterday’s GPs conference where they rejected the government’s NHS privatisation plans

NO TO PRIVATISATION! – SAY GPs

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THE BMA GPs conference yesterday voted unanimously, but for a couple of abstentions, for Motion 153: ‘The Market and Any Willing Provider’. The motion from...
BMA delegates to the 2009 Annual Representative Meeting launch their ‘Look After Our NHS’ campaign against privatisation

Doctors To Ballot For Pensions Action

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Doctors and medical students will be asked to vote on changes to their pensions at the conclusion of negotiations with the government, the British...

Rights Groups condemn Israel’s control of ‘Area C registration’

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ISRAEL’S cabinet has approved a measure to assume full control of land registration in Area C of the occupied West Bank, which covers around...

4,000 Tube station staff to strike on Monday 6th June!

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THE RMT transport union is holding a network-wide strike of 4,000 station staff members on London Underground on Monday 6th June, bringing the Tube...
London Met lecturers and students marching on 23 May against the savage cuts being imposed on the university

Met Lecturers And Students Protest

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Staff and students at London Metropolitan University will protest from 4.00pm on Monday in their ongoing fight to save over 550 jobs. Members of the...
FBU General Secretary MATT WRACK and pickets having words with a scab crew at the Old Kent Road fire station

Support The Firefighters!

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Firefighters in south east London confronted Assetco scabs outside Old Kent Road fire station, determined to defeat the strike breakers and the London Fire...

Al Sweedy witchhunt!

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DEFENCE Minister Fallon yesterday announced that there would be an investigation into solicitors who represented Iraqi complainants at the Al Sweedy inquiry. He made...
CWU pickets outside East London Mail Centre in October last year

DEFEND ROYAL MAIL – action needed not words

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Postal workers called for action to defend their jobs and Royal Mail as a public service in response to yesterday’s publication of the...
Unite members marching against pay cuts during July’s national strike by local government workers

STRIKE ACTION AGAINST LOW PAY! – at Gatwick and Stansted airports

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strike action against low pay was announced by Unite and the GMB unions at Gatwick and Stansted Airports yesterday. Unite head of Civil...