Sri Lankan Troops Caught In Tiger Booby Traps

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COLOMBO – TamilNet reports that last weekend more than sixteen Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops lost their legs after being caught in...

Reeves launches vicious war on all benefit claimants!

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CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves launched a vicious war on benefit claimants in her Budget yesterday, warning that she intends to take over the Tory ‘work...
PCS strikers at the National Gallery yesterday morning, the second day of their second 5-day strike for the London Living wage and against privatisation

National Gallery strike against privatisation!

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‘PRIVATISATION No Way!’ a lively picket of at least 40 strikers, chanted outside The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square yesterday, on the second day...

Miliband condemns policy on Libya

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LABOUR leader Miliband yesterday indicted Cameron’s foreign policy in an attempt to win the support of the British bourgeoisie. He said of PM Cameron’s foreign...

Locked-out workers demand action as French unions strike against BA

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GATE GOURMET workers were yesterday calling for action to win their jobs back while, at the same time, BA was opening up a second...
North East London Council of Action march in Enfield last month demanding that Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E be reopened

Chase Farm Land Sell-Off!

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THE Hampstead-based Royal Free Hospital NHS trust, which will take over Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield and Barnet Hospital this July, has confirmed its...

‘Biden must follow US law and immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel!’

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THE Biden administration should follow US law and immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam said yesterday. The organisations on March...

NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO STRIKE! – at Dunston School Chesterfield

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CIVIL servants’ union PCS yesterday joined the National Union of Teachers in raising serious concerns about the politicisation of education. Commenting on concerns raised by...
Health workers marching against Cameron’s health policies on the TUC’s March 26, 2011 mass demonstration

CAMERON COVERS UP! – as Hunt hands over his e-mails

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Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt yesterday said he will hand over private e-mails to his special adviser about the BSkyB takeover bid to the Leveson...

Workers Revolutionary League statement – Soviet section of the International Committee of the Fourth...

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STATEMENT of the Workers Revolutionary League – the Soviet section of the International Committee of the Fourth International: During this time we’re facing the new...

The Spanish state has been defeated!

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‘THIS is a result which no one can dispute,’ deposed Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont told a news conference in Brussels yesterday. ‘The Spanish state...

‘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...

PCS Universal Credit strike ballot

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PUBLIC and Commercial Services (PCS) union members working in Universal Credit are voting on whether to take strike action over workloads and staff recruitment. The...

Hunt dissolves Mid-Staffs Trust!

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HEALTH Secretary Hunt announced yesterday that he is to dissolve the trust that runs Stafford General Hospital, with services set to be downgraded or...

Airport workers support Sunday’s march

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday got great support for their march this Sunday for reinstatement for all sacked workers on their original terms...

Teachers no! to 6pm finish

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TEACHER union leaders have condemned Education Secretary Gove’s plan to open schools until 6pm for 51 weeks of the year. Gove has made a submission...

Public Sector pay freeze ‘A kick in the teeth for millions!’ say GMB

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PUBLIC SECTOR employees, many of whom are essential Covid-19 workers, should not be subject to a continuing pay freeze from a government that has...

Wages Fell In Year To June

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WAGES fell by 0.2% in the year to June was the shock news released by the ONS yesterday. Britain is now a nation of the...
Steel workers march past parliament in May demanding action to save the steel industry

Unite demands Guarantee for Port Talbot steel!

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TATA steel at Port Talbot in Wales is being allowed to ‘wither on the vine’ while the specialised side of the business...

Parliament erupts over Brexit on 1st day back

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PARLIAMENT erupted yesterday on the burning issue of Brexit, on the first day back after the Xmas break. Moving an Urgent Question Labour Leader...

East Kent hospitals under threat

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EAST Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serving a population of more than 750,000 people across five different hospitals has been placed under special measures. ‘This...
Workers at the Nine Elms Mail Centre in south-west London in determined mood

CALL INDEFINITE POSTAL STRIKE – ‘Fight Royal Mail bullies’ say East London postal workers

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Communication Workers Union (CWU) leaders were in talks again with Royal Mail bosses yesterday while thousands of postal workers were out on a second...
Rally to defend St Helier and Epsom hospitals last November when there were protests about patients being served cold meals  – now St Helier Trust  is removing light bulbs to cut bills

‘Worst Kind Of Penny-Pinching’

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‘It’s penny-pinching of the worst kind,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was commenting on the removal of every other light bulb...

‘NHS PRIVATISATION BY STEALTH’ – GP practice operator taken over

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ONE of the UK’s biggest GP practice operators has been taken over by the US health insurance group Centene Corporation. This has been condemned by...
Marchers got a great reception in Coventry city centre from some very generous supporters

Youth Being Treated Like Slaves

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POURING rain made the Young Socialist marchers even more determined and their chants of ‘Youth demand a future, Youth demand jobs’ even louder on...

Dozens of civilians killed in Palestine

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ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) continued their genocidal war on the Gaza Strip for the 642nd consecutive day on Wednesday. Using airstrikes, artillery shelling and live...

Palestinian infants are dying from the cold!

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A PALESTINIAN infant died on Friday from severe cold while sheltering with her family inside a makeshift tent in Gaza, as Israeli restrictions continue...

Zionists tout Blair as agent to ‘relocate’ Palestinians

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FORMER UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is being touted by sections of the Israeli genocide cabinet as an agent to lead the ‘relocation’ of...
Firefighters from across the country taking part in a TUC national demonstration against austerity

Fire cuts endanger public

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UP TO 18 fire engines are unavailable to respond to emergencies each day in North Yorkshire because of chronic staff shortages, the Fire Brigades...

Labour will renationalise water, power & Royal Mail ‘and we’re ready to win election’...

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‘WE WILL be bringing water, energy, Royal Mail, rail back into public ownership again,’ shadow chancellor John McDonnell said to cheers during his speech...

BBC strikes ‘suspended’ but mass sackings to continue

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IN a major climbdown the BBC trade union leaders have suspended, ie cancelled, next week’s 48-hour BBC strike and will be holding a meeting...

Doctors Want Private Sector Out Of The NHS

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Doctors are extremely concerned about the impact of the private sector on healthcare, a snapshot BMA News survey has indicated. More than nine out of...

Ratings Agency Threatens Euro

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THE Standard and Poor’s ratings agency has threatened to bankrupt the major eurozone states by shredding their triple A status. This would make it impossible...
Tea plantation workers weighing the tea that they have picked. They earn the equivalent of 66p a day and if they don’t pick 44lbs of tea a day, their wages are halved

‘throw Out Stinking Gourmet Deal’

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‘WE want a hands up vote at the mass meeting tomorrow, and we want the provisional agreement between Gate Gourmet, the TGWU and the...
The Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists banner on the recent ‘Defend the Welfare State’ march

Blairites Joining Coalition!

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Former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott yesterday furiously lashed out at the queue of Blairite former ministers who are joining the Tory coalition. He...

ADAMS-PAISLEY DEAL – UK devolved local government for North by May 8

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Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams yesterday agreed a May 8th date for the return of devolved local government in the north of Ireland, after...
RMT pickets at Victoria Station emphasising what the Southern rail strike is all about

Grayling wants to bust unions – RMT condemns Tory witch-hunt

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‘THIS is an industrial dispute about safety, we are not trying to bring the government down,’ RMT general secretary Mick Cash insisted yesterday. He was...

Half A Million Are Starving In Gaza!

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MORE than half a million people are starving in Gaza, the United Nations Relief Works and Agency (UNRWA), World Food Programme (WFP) and Gaza’s...
Firefighters at the High Court fighting the government’s plan to destroy their pensions and shut down fire stations

UK – Huge Trade Deficit

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BRITAIN’S trade deficit has ballooned to its biggest since 1989, shocking the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which released the data yesterday. In the three...
Demonstrators in Trafalgar Square last June demanding immediate action by the Brown government to secure the release of British resident Binyam Mohamed from imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay

BINYAM MOHAMED ‘IS SKIN AND BONE’ – warns US military lawyer Bradley

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A team of British officials have travelled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to visit detainee Binyam Mohamed and make preparations for his expected release. A Scotland...
South African students in a sit-down protest outside the South African embassy demanded an end to police brutality against protesting students in South Africa

Victory To Sa Students

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THOUSANDS of South African students marched to the Union Buildings in the South African capital Pretoria, where they were met by riot police...

BURNHAM RESIGN! – demand Mid-Staffs relatives

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CUTBACKS, implemented in order to comply with the government’s drive for Foundation Trusts, were to blame for the unnecessary deaths of more than 400...
London demonstration last July showing support for Hezbollah

One Million Lebanese Take To The Streets

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over one million Lebanese crowded the streets around the office of Lebanese Prime Minister Fu’ad Siniora in central Beirut yesterday, calling for his...
In March 2010 BA cabin crew were forced to take strike action by Walsh who was the BA Chief Executive. He wanted to destroy the Union.He is doing the same at Iberia in Spain

OECD contracts – slump deepening – as Iberia workers battle riot police!

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FOLLOWING Monday’s report that the eurozone contracted by 0.6% in the last three months of 2012, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...