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‘LABOUR WILL CONTINUE WITH BREXIT!’ –‘If we win snap election’ says Corbyn

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ANTI-BREXIT Labour MPs have responded with fury to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s insistence on Saturday that it is Labour Party policy to leave the...

Free Palestine! Free Mo Chara! – demand 1,000-strong crowd

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OVER 1,000 people assembled outside Westminster Magistrates Court in Marylebone, central London yesterday, protesting at the arrest on terrorist charges of member of Irish...

Rcn Demands Immediate 12.5% Pay Rise For Nurses!

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HOUSE prices rose six times faster than NHS nurses’ pay in last decade. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) says nurses’ wages are left in...
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...

33% Fewer Hospital Beds!

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‘WE ARE concerned that the implementation of the Health & Social Care Act risks the fragmentation of patient care highlighted in this report,’ Paul...
Young Socialists and WRP members lobbying the TUC last year demanding ‘No Zero-Hours Contracts’ and ‘End Slave Labour for Youth’

Apprentices used as cheap labour

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THE Tories have no plan to stop youth on apprenticeships being ‘exploited as cheap labour by unscrupulous employers,’ Mark Serwotka, general secretary of public...

Labour Failing Homeless

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Homelessness charity Crisis yesterday called on the government to make public services more accessible to homeless people. Crisis said: ‘Public services are failing homeless people. ‘Public...

Chase Farm – Council Seeks A Judicial Review

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Enfield Council leaders have decided to mount a legal challenge to Health Secretary Johnson’s decision to close Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E and consultant-led Maternity...

Unemployment set to soar

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UK bosses yesterday warned that the deepening UK slump will see unemployment soar further to 2.9 million next year. The manufacturing sector turned in its...
Chase Farm Hospital Demonstration

Chase Farm Hospital Demonstration

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Saturday 2nd February 2013

59 killed & 296 wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza

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THREE days of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip left 59 Palestinians dead by noon yesterday local time, including 14 children and three women,...

STOP PRESCRIPTION CHARGES! – End unfair NHS in England urge Welsh doctors

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DOCTORS in Wales yesterday called for doctors’ prescriptions to be made free to all patients in England. On the second anniversary of the abolition of...

LINCOLN NHS WORK-TO-RULE – over £1,700 cut in salaries

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MAINTENANCE staff at three Lincolnshire hospitals are taking industrial action today, as they face a loss of about £1,700 to their incomes. The electricians, plumbers,...

Gadaffi Was Butchered!

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EVIDENCE collected by Human Rights Watch indicts Misrata-based militias for the execution of dozens of detainees following the capture and murder of Muammar...

Israel launches major offensive!

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THE ISRAELI regime has deployed its entire standing army infantry and armoured brigades to the Gaza Strip amid a serious escalation of its 19-month-old...

NHS workers vote to strike

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UNISON’s NHS workers, including nurses, occupational therapists, porters, paramedics, medical secretaries, cooks and healthcare assistants, have voted yes to industrial action in a dispute...

Fierce Clashes In Hebron!

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ISRAELI forces opened fired with live ammunition on a protest in Hebron yesterday hitting at least ten Palestinians. The ‘rally of anger’ erupted into fierce...
Defiant cabin crew marching around Heathrow to show that they are looking forward to the next round of the struggle with BA union-buster Walsh

‘WE’RE READY FOR THE NEXT ROUND’ say BA cabin crew

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THOUSANDS of British Airways cabin crew marched around Heathrow Airport yesterday afternoon waving flags, chanting: ‘Willie, Willie, Willie! Out! Out! Out!’ They received enthusiastic...

Metro Bank Shares Crash!

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METRO BANK’S shares have crashed after reports it is seeking to raise millions to bolster its finances. The bank’s shares sank 27% in early trading...

CUTS FOR THE DISABLED AND THE JOBLESS – but there’s billions for the bankers

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown yesterday pledged to a gathering of businessmen in London to ‘intensify’ the government’s attacks on the Welfare State, whilst continuing...
Swindon Hospital Carillion workers demonstrate outside the company’s HQ in London against the company’s work practices

Carillion workers in Qatar sleep 10 in a room

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WORKERS for Carillion in Qatar sleep ten to a room in lodging reminiscent of tenement slums in Victorian London and nothing has changed despite...

End Middle East wars says Corbyn!

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‘THE WAR on terror isn’t working,’ Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, said in his first speech since the Manchester terror attack. The speech...

UN condemns Tories

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THE United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has condemned the Tory government for illegally ‘extinguishing the right to seek refugee protection in the UK’. The UNHC...

LABOUR SAVAGED! – Party pays the price for Blair-Brown policies

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LABOUR was savaged by voters in England, Scotland and Wales, in the regional and council elections as the party paid the price for the...
Museum of London strikers with Prospect members and their banner outside the Central Hall yesterday afternoon

FIGHT PAY CUTS! – call from public service rally

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GIVE us a date for strike action and we’ll do it, the leader of the Prison Officers Association (POA) – whose members are banned...
Labour MP TOM WATSON (holding poster on left) joins the GMB demonstration outside McDonald’s headquarters in Finchley yesterday morning

NO ZERO HOURS CONTRACTS AT McDonald’s

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RENT payments aren’t flexible and neither are gas bills or the weekly shopping bill, so flexible wages are not much use to anyone except...

Workers Of The World Support BA Cabin Crew

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‘WE stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters at Unite who are fighting for a fair contract at British Airways,’ says the Teamsters...

Taxpayers Robbed To Bail Out Banks!

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The Bank of England yesterday mortgaged £11 billion more of taxpayers’ money to shore up the big UK banks, as bank bosses held talks...

‘NO RETREAT’ say striking lecturers

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LECTURERS at 140 universities and colleges of higher education across the UK took national strike action yesterday, vowing: ‘We will not back down on...
Pickets and supporters outside the Enfield Visteon plant – they are determined to win this struggle for jobs

BELFAST CONVENOR EXCLUDED – from talks with Visteon managers

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THE Visteon Belfast factory’s Unite convenor, John Maguire, said yesterday that he was being excluded from the meeting with the Visteon management. He...
The front of yesterday’s march against the savage cuts to disability benefits by the Tory-LibDem coalition

HANDS OFF THE DISABLED – Coalition warned

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A LIVELY demonstration of over 5,000 disabled people, chanted: ‘Cuts Kill, Kill the Cuts!’ as they marched to Parliament yesterday. At a rally on the...
Public sector workers on the march – they are already having their wages cut and now face massive electricity and gas price rises

NPOWER HUGE PRICE RISES – gas up 12.7% – electricity up by 17.2%

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Britain’s fourth largest supplier of gas and electricity, Npower, yesterday announced huge new energy price hikes for its four million domestic customers. The average increases...

‘SLAVE-DRIVING GATE GOURMET’ says Jarnail Singh, locked-out workers branch secretary

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers’ branch secretary Jarnail Singh condemned the company for ‘slave driving’ yesterday. He said: ‘They made their plans a long time ago...

NHS buildings ‘verge of collapse’ – Risk of ‘corporate manslaughter’!

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AN NHS hospital has commissioned a report into the risk of corporate mans-laughter charges should a fatal roof collapse occur, leaked documents exposed yesterday. West...
Workers outside the occupied DEH computer centre building last Wednesday with trade union flags

Armed Greek Riot Police End Occupation

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At 8.00am on Thursday morning the armed Greek riot police invaded the building of the State Electricity Board (DEH) Computer Centre in Athens which...

RAIL STRIKE IS ON! – to defend safety

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Four days of national strike action against job cuts and in defence of safety were announced by the RMT and TSSA rail unions yesterday,...

Bankers’ Man Hunt Imposes Tens Of Billions In Tax Rises & Savage Cuts

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CHANCELLOR HUNT yesterday announced tens of billions in tax rises and spending cuts in his Autumn Statement. Hunt acknowledged that the UK was in recession...

‘PROSECUTE BOSSES’–TUC – who pay apprentices less than the legal minimum

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EIGHTEEN per cent of young people on slave labour apprenticeship schemes are illegally being paid less than the minimum wage, according to the government’s...
Above and right: Over 2,500 teachers marched through Sheffield midday condemning Education Secretary Gove and the Coalition government

Teachers Strike

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TEACHERS took mass strike action yesterday in four large regions of the country, the Eastern region, the Midlands, Yorkshire and Humberside. They came out against...

20 Sri Lankan Soldiers Killed In Tigers Counter-Attack

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COLOMBO – TamilNet reports that 20 Sri Lanka Army soldiers were killed in an intensive counter-attack launched by the Tigers on SLA units that...

Alarming A&E Waiting Times

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) has warned that a million more patients will face waits of more than four hours at accident and emergency...

Greek bank workers strike over pensions

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Yesterday tens of thousands of bank workers were on strike throughout Greece for the second day of a two-day strike called by their union...

Nationalise Liberty Steel

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THE GMB and Unite unions yesterday called for Liberty Steel to be nationalised after the Tory government rejected a request for £170m in financial...

France Ready To Attack Syria

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PRESIDENT Francois Hollande has said a vote by UK MPs against involvement in military strikes on Syria has not changed France’s resolve to take...

FINANCIAL CRASH! – bankers warning over ‘risky loans’

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Risky loans are leading to a financial crash, leading bankers warned yesterday. William Rhodes, senior vice chairman of Citigroup warned: ‘Lenders all too often, are...