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Loud, lively and big radiographers picket!

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THERE were loud and lively picket lines of striking radiographers outside hospitals around the country yesterday as the NHS workers continued their 48-hour strike...

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...

The Great Pensions Robbery!

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RMT General Secretary Bob Crow warned yesterday that the Hutton Review will be ‘the spark that lights the blue touch paper of co-ordinated strike action’. Crow...

VENEZUELA – MILITARY INTERVENTION IMMINENT – China-Russia warn USA

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CHINA and Russia are rallying behind Venezuela, warning against an imminent military intervention into the Latin American country. It is facing a showdown today...
Media workers demand indefinite general strike

Media workers demand indefinite general strike

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GREEKjournalists, printers, technicians and media office workers staged a 100 per cent successful national strike on Monday against wage cuts and mass sackings, demanding...
Staff, local residents and supporters rallying against trust plans to axe St Helier Hospital A&E department

ST HELIER STRIKE WARNING – after Trust debt leaps to £41 million

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Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, two busy Surrey General Hospitals with bustling Accident and Emergency Departments, are to be replaced by a single hospital...

May Put On 3 Days Notice

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THE LABOUR, Tory, LibDem, SNP alliance of pro-EU MPs yesterday afternoon delivered another blow on behalf of the European Union against the 2016 referendum...

Yemenis strike Saudi pipeline

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SAUDI Arabia have been forced to halt pumping oil through one of their major pipelines after a successful Yemeni drone strike yesterday afternoon. Saudi Minister of...

‘Impossible to avoid long strike’ at Delphi

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UAW President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Richard Shoemaker have issued this statement on Delphi’s announcement that it will file Section 1113 and Section...

110,000 Using Food Banks!

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THE NUMBER of people seeking emergency food aid in the UK has doubled in the past six months, the largest organiser of food...
A section of the 10,000-strong ‘Kill the Bill’ march as it entered the Strand yesterday

Hands Off Our Homes! Say 10,000 Marchers

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HANDS off our Homes! Kill the Bill! Homes for People! Not for Profit!’ chanted protesters yesterday on a 10,000-strong march through central London against...
John McDonnell was the moving force behind last July’s ‘Tories Out!’ march on Parliament

DESELECTION BATTLE! – due at Labour Party Conference

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THE LABOUR Party Conference in Liverpool next week is set to battle over the mandatory reselection of MPs. If it is agreed it will be...

Barclay threatens striking nurses with deregistration!

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‘HOW low can a government stoop?’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen asked yesterday in response to Tory Health Secretary Stephen Barclay’s...

Dodgy Cameron!

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AFTER a week of denials, prime minister Cameron yesterday published just a summary of his tax returns. Cameron did reveal he received £300,000 from his...
Junior Doctors demonstrating on Monday September 28th against the Tories and their attempt to impose a 90-hour working week.  Photo credit: Steve Eason

‘Unsafe for patients’ – Junior doctors confront Hunt

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‘DOCTORS working unsocial hours must not have their pay cut,’ was the demand in a letter to Tory health secretary Hunt signed by...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and their campaign team won big support on Southall High Street and from postal workers at Greenford Mail Centre yesterday

Postal workers back Gate Gourmet rally

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POSTAL workers from the Greenford Mail Centre, one of the biggest in the country, are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ first...

LIFT SIEGE OF PALESTINIANS – Oxfam urges Quartet

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International aid agency Oxfam said on Wednesday that conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are close to melt-down. It called on members of the EU,...
School youth lead a mass demonstration through Athens in protest at the police shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos

Greek Youth Tv Takeover

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Throughout Greece last Tuesday school and university students continued with demonstrations and occupations against the right-wing government of Kostas Karamanlis. Virtually all schools and...
Police Riot In Athens

Police Riot In Athens

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GREEK workers and youth demonstrated in their hundreds of thousands last Wednesday throughout the country as part of a 24-hour general strike against the...
The front of the  Young Socialists march in Swindon for Jobs for Youth at trade union rates of pay

Out With Slave Labour!

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UNEMPLOYED youth will be forced to work unpaid for three months before they can claim benefits under plans announced by London Mayor Johnson and...

RCN raises the alarm!

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THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is today (Thursday 30 December) raising the alarm over morale, sickness absence and the prospect of rising vacancies...

Aziz Defends Saddam

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IRAQ’s former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz took the witness stand Wednesday to defend Saddam Hussein and his associates from charges that they massacred...
A section of the 5,000-strong march through Nottingham determined to defend NHS jobs and A&E services

903 NHS COMPULSORY SACKINGS! – Trade unions must act

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‘We will be consulting our members on what action should be taken to defend these NHS jobs’, GMB trade union national officer Sharon...

French Police Chokehold Mutiny!

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NATIONWIDE demonstrations in France on Tuesday demanding better pay and resources for health workers were the subject of repeated police attacks. 18,000 people attended demonstrations...

Russian Foreign Ministry summons UK ambassador – after drone attack on the Black Sea...

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THE RUSSIAN Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador and warned London of ‘dangerous consequences’, following a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow’s Black Sea...
Workers at the Tuesday evening demonstration in Athens. The banner reads ‘The austerity measures shall not pass’

Down With The Imf Junta Say Athens Workers

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Over five thousand public sector workers marched through the Athens city centre last Tuesday evening against the government’s appeal to the IMF. Throughout the militant...
Families and friends of those who have died in police custody – over 1,000 have died since 1990 – there are now 2,600 armed police on the streets of London alone

2,600 armed police on London streets

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SIX HUNDRED extra armed officers are to be trained and put on the streets of London in case of ‘terrorist attack’, bolstering the...
There have been a series of massive demonstrations in London in support of Palestine

‘A TOTAL ARMS & TRADE EMBARGO ON ISRAEL’ – says PCS

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THE PCS trade union responded to the breakdown of the ceasefire in Gaza with a declaration that ‘We support the trade unions enforcing a...

Ford’s Redundancies!

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UNITE’S leadership said it wants ‘full involvement’ in the negotiations over the axing of 275 managerial, supervisory and engineering jobs announced by Ford in...

Palestine welcomes the call for an immediate ceasefire!

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THE Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates yesterday welcomed the initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, in calling for...

Johnson squirms over ‘surrender’ to the ‘Surrender Act!’

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Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to deliver a squirming account of his failure to take the UK out of the EU on...

HALT NHS OUTSOURCING! – urges the Unison trade union

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THE NHS is wasting precious time and money introducing reforms that are failing to deliver better services to patients or value for money, says...

Libyan forces strike NATO’s agents

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AT 2109 gmt on Sunday, pro-Gadaffi Damascus-based Al-Ra’y TV reported that Bani Walid, 150km southeast of the Libyan capital Tripoli, had rejected negotiations...
Father Christmas visits yesterday morning’s ‘Keep Chase Farm Hospital Open’ picket called by the North East London Council of Action

‘We will do everything to keep our hospital open!’

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CARS hooted and people waved to Santa Claus on the Chase Farm Christmas picket, organised by the North-East London Council of Action yesterday. There was...
Lively and determined London Underground workers picketing Mayor Johnson’s City Hall offices demanding their jobs back

Justice For The 33!

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‘WE ARE here to stand up for the hard working people, we are abused and refused, we have been roundly abused numerous times,’ Hared...
A section of the half a million-strong TUC march through London on March 26. Delegates at the GMB trade union conference yesterday responded angrily to attacks on the right to strike

GMB condemns strike ban

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DELEGATES at the GMB conference in Brighton booed and jeered Business Secretary Cable yesterday as he threatened to bring in new anti-union laws to...
Last month Unite, Community and GMB reps marched to the TUC headquarters in central London to discuss the steel crisis

Occupy to save steel jobs!

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TATA Steel could close down its remaining UK operations as soon as 28 May if a viable deal to sell the assets is not...

38% increase in A&E waiting times – caused by government staff cuts

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A KING’S Fund report has warned that government cuts and staff shortages led to a 38 per cent increase in A&E waiting times in...
Hundreds of Palestinians and their supporters picketed the Egyptian embassy in London yesterday, condemning President Mubarak for his collaboration with the United States, the UK and Israel

‘HIT TEL AVIV’ CALL! – as British company cuts ties with Israel

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THERE was no lull in the Israeli air strikes on Gaza yesterday. Three young brothers – Iyad, Mohammed and Abdelsattar al-Astal died in a raid...
Firefighters who tackled the Buncefied blaze picketing 10 Downing Street against plans to severely cut the Herts fire service

Herts FBU Striking Against Massive Cuts!

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Hertfordshire fire crews are today striking from 2pm to 10pm against cuts in frontline personnel and fire stations. Hertfordshire Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has also...
French youth in Paris taking part in the April 2006 general strike

France Paralysed!

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France was brought to a halt yesterday as over a million state employees went on strike, joining a week-long stoppage by transport workers. Teachers,...
Barricades outside the White House on Sunday

Clashes outside the White House – as debt decision day looms

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ANGRY crowds in Washington DC have clashed with riot police in front of the White House over the current government shutdown. A number of rallies...
‘Rail Against Privatisation’ demonstration in London in April 2005

RMT INQUIRY – into Potters Bar crash and Greyrigg derailment

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ON THE eve of the fifth anniversary of the Potters Bar rail crash which killed seven people and injured 70, Britain’s biggest rail union...
Delegates at the NUT conference show their support for action to defend wages and jobs

MILITARY OUT OF SCHOOLS! – says the NUT conference

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THE National Union of Teachers Conference in Manchester yesterday voted overwhelmingly to oppose military recruitment activities in schools. Motion 48 on War, accused the Ministry...
Refugee family – trying to keep alive from cold in a flimsy shelter. Photo credit: Panos Papanikolaou

Greek workers battle cuts–while refugees freeze

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ALL this week, poor Greek farmers intensified their struggle against the government’s policies of high taxation and pension cuts by setting up dozens of...