MoJ presiding over a bloodbath

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‘THE Ministry of Justice is presiding over a bloodbath of assaults, suicides and self-injury in prisons,’ Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League...
‘Blair lied, thousands died’ said over 700 protesters outside the Chilcott Iraq Inquiry yesterday

BLAIR AT BAY: ‘NO REGRETS’ – over the imperialist slaughter

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TONY Blair was unrepentant about invading Iraq when he appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry into the 2003 war yesterday, and said repeatedly that he...
CWU members and their families in Corby fighting the Labour government’s attempt to privatise Royal Mail – they are now poised to take on the Tory-led coalition

DEFEND ROYAL MAIL! – against Tory-Lib Dem rush to privatisation

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‘THIS IS a match-fix for privatisation,’ the leader of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday, after the Tory-Lib Dem coalition announced it was...
Waltham Forest UNISON members brought their banner to show their support for strikers in Leytonstone yesterday

DEFEND JOBS AND SAFETY say striking RMT, TSSA members

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RAIL union RMT said yesterday’s strike for tube safety and safe staffing levels on London Underground was ‘rock solid’, and demanded that the rail...

‘Shoot-to-kill’–law change!

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PRIME Minister Cameron has ordered a review into the use of guns by police in England and Wales following the Paris terrorist attacks. The review...
Palestine Ambassador to the UK MANUAEL HASSASSIAN was the first speaker. He condemned the outrages that Israel is committing in Palestine

‘Bring Down The Tories!’

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OVER 200 workers and youth marched to the 44th News Line anniversary rally yesterday afternoon with flags flying and slogans calling for the Tory-led...
The front section of last Friday’s Athens teachers’ march. Main banner reads ‘No more obedient slaves! Full and permanent employment for all teachers!’

5,000 Greek teachers in insurrectionary march

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OVER 5,000 striking state schools teachers marched through the Athens city centre last Friday and attempted to storm into the Vouli building (Greek parliament)...

BofE & speculators drive £ down

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STERLING dropped sharply against the dollar and the euro yesterday, leading currency speculators to describe the UK economy as ‘stagnant’ and accuse the Bank...
Junior doctors demonstrating three days before their last strike which won mass support

‘Escalate strike action! End the imposition’ says Junior Doctors Committee

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‘THE Junior Doctors Committee has made clear the decision that further industrial action is inevitable and that we will consider escalating any action to...
The platform including (left to right) JOHN McDONNELL, standing DAVE WILTSHIRE, HARBINDER SINGH, LAKHVINDER, and PARMJIT BAINS

Gate Gourmet Rally Is A Huge Success

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‘We’ve been fighting for more than one year and we are coming close to victory. Our hearing starts next week and we are very,...

MEDICAL EDUCATION IS UNDER ATTACK! – Don’t lift fees cap says BMA

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‘Medical education is under attack on several fronts,’ warns Professor Michael Rees, chair of the British Medical Association’s (BMA’s) Medical Academics Committee. In a BMA...
Copland school in Brent, north west London, where staff, parents and pupils are fighting the attempt to impose an academy

‘Say No’ To Academies

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ONE of the largest chains of academies in England is to be stripped of the control of ten schools, the Department for Education (DfE)...

Call A General Strike To Kick The Tories Out!

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The TUC (Trades Union Congress) has called a summit at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Wednesday, June 15. ‘to bring together union leaders and...

Mortgage Crisis Grips!

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UNISON yesterday called on the government to build more council houses as First Direct became the first major bank to stop lending to house...

PAKISTAN CLOSE TO COUP! – as bomb blasts rock Baghdad

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PAKISTAN’S Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that conspirators are plotting to bring down his government. He has also accused the military of being...

Israeli Forces Live Fire Kills Palestinian Women

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A PALESTINIAN woman was killed yesterday when Israeli forces opened live fire in the Al-Jenena neighbourhood, east of Rafah in southern Gaza, according to...

CWU BT Group to ballot all members for action!

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THE Telecoms & Financial Services Conference voted yesterday to serve legal notice to BT Group of the union’s intention to ballot all appropriate members...

3 Years Of Guards Strikes

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HUNDREDS of train workers rallied in Euston yesterday to mark three years of the guards strike, the longest in modern history, which has begun...

Crisis Hitting Jobs

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Unemployment is set to increase sharply this year, economists have warned, after a Bank of England report showed more firms were looking to axe...
Angry trade unionist taking part in the TUC march in October – they want to see the TUC taking action to bring down the government and bring in a workers government and socialism

CAMERON HUMILIATED! – Tories routed in Rochester

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UKIP has its second elected MP at Westminster after Mark Reckless won the Rochester and Strood by-election yesterday. Reckless took 16,867 votes, 2,920 more than...
Midwives on the picket line at Ealing Hospital in west London during the October 13 strike

Midwives plan more strikes over pay

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HEAD of the midwives union RCM slammed the Tory government’s attack on NHS workers’ pay in her speech to the RCM conference that...

Nationwide university pensions battle!

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OVER 50,000 university staff at 69 universities are currently balloting for a nationwide strike over an attack on their pensions – which means they...
Workers marching in London last month to defend the welfare state

Cbi Calls For Two-Year Wage Freeze

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Public sector trade union Unison, yesterday condemned the bosses’ organisation, the CBI, for calling for a two year public sector pay freeze. Unison...

Labour Demanding Windfall Tax Vote!

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LABOUR is tomorrow demanding a vote in the House of Commons to introduce a windfall tax on oil and gas companies, with former leader...

COUNCILS SUING RBS – over pension fund losses

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Merseyside and North Yorkshire local authority pension funds are suing Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for compensation. The funds accuse RBS of withholding the extent...

40,716 children held in cells overnight

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‘KEEPING a child in a cell overnight is not only inappropriate and distressing for the child concerned, but is a breach of their fundamental...

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...

Strike against 30% cuts

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‘WE HAVE to take strike action where and when we can and as much as we can,’ Sharon Hutchinson, northwest regional organiser and equalities...
Teachers were joined by parents outside The Village School in Kingsbury, north west London, on their picket line yesterday morning

Village School ‘No Academy’ Strike

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THERE was a lively and colourful picket of The Village School in Kingsbury North West London yesterday morning, where 150 National Education Union (NEU)...

4,000 Greek students march in support of hunger striker

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SOME 4,000 students and workers marched in Athens on Monday night in the biggest demonstration so far in support of imprisoned hunger striker Dimitris...

Heads Heckle Education Secretary Greening

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ANGRY head teachers heckled Education Secretary Justine Greening yesterday as she told the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) conference about government plans...

Israel Steps Up Terror Raids

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The Israel military yesterday continued its terror attacks on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This followed a declaration by Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud...

Crucial Tsipras-Merkel talks

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GREEK Prime Minister Tsipras is meeting German Chancellor Merkel in Berlin today, with officials in Brussels, Berlin and the ECB now openly acknowledging the...
Students marching in London on October 29  demand the abolition of fees

STUDENT RENTS UP 23% – Stop privatisation of university accomodation says the NUS

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THE COST of student accommodation is spiralling out of control, the National Union of Students (NUS) said yesterday, warning that private landlords were ‘setting...

VICTORY as pregnant Palestinian released!

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ANHAR AL-DEEK, the Palestinian woman who was set to give birth in an Israeli prison, has been released to house arrest in a victory...

‘STOP ISRAEL DISPLACING 500 PALESTINIAN FAMILIES!’ – urges Fatah

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THE Fatah Movement yesterday called upon the United Nations and the UN Security Council to fulfil their legal responsibilities and act against Israel’s imminent...
Unite demonstration in London on July 7th in defence of the NHS

‘WITHDRAW BILL!’ – DEMAND GPs

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AS the Health and Social Care Bill undergoes its third reading, 400 GPs have signed a letter calling for a massive campaign to secure...

Labour vows to fight for Remain!

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LABOUR is now promising to campaign for Remain in any new EU referendum against ‘no deal or a damaging Tory Brexit’. The shift in Labour’s...
Greek workers remain defiant in the face of a Syriza regime that is now a puppet government for the Troika

Athens Court Finds ‘No’ Protesters Guilty

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AN Athens court has sentenced three marchers of the 15 July demonstration against austerity. They were accused of throwing petrol bombs at the riot...

BA Pensions Ballot!

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Details emerged yesterday of a deal, yet to be agreed by workers, which means the end of final salary pensions at British Airways. The TGWU...

Crucial Ballot To Continue Night Tube Strike!

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THE BALLOT for a new mandate to continue the powerful RMT Night Tube strike on London Underground has reached a crucial point, with the...
Over 50 local workers and campaigners joined the West London Council of Action mass Xmas picket outside Ealing Hospital yesterday

SAVE EALING A&E – REOPEN MATERNITY says mass picket

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‘IT is more important for them to save money than save lives!’ Halla Kim, RCN member and nurse at Ealing Hospital declared yesterday morning...

Remainers attempts to reverse Brexit defeated

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REMAINER MPs were defeated in their attempts to reverse Brexit yesterday after the majority voted to disagree with Lords Amendment 19 on a ‘meaningful...

GATE GOURMET IS FACING HUGE FINE – lawyers plead it had to sack first...

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GATE GOURMET has admitted at a Reading employment tribunal, hearing eight of the remaining 70 cases, that it wrongfully dismissed the eight at...
Nurses demonstrate against the end of bursaries and the introduction of tuition fees

Huge NHS Beds Shortage Halting NHS Ops!

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SURGEONS have been left ‘kicking their heels’ because thousands of operations have been cancelled as a result of a beds shortage during the winter...