Ys March For Jobs

Ys March For Jobs

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Youth are marching from Manchester to London to demand 'Jobs for youth' and 'Free State education'. The March started in Manchester on Saturday 30...
Unison leader prentis (right) pledged to establish a public sector alliance to fight all cuts

Don’t Cut Public Services

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Public-sector union Unison yesterday cautioned against panic cuts in public services in the wake of record government borrowing. UK public sector net borrowing, which takes...

No NHS Pay Update Is An Insult To All UK Workers

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TORY Social Care Minister Helen Whately was yesterday afternoon unable to give an update on the government’s NHS pay offer. All she could say was...

Heygate Tenants Eviction Warning!

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TENANTS on the Heygate estate in south London’s Elephant and Castle are being sent ‘take it now or face eviction later’ letters, as part...

Merger of Fire Service and Police rejected by FBU!

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THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has said a new report that calls for Staffordshire Fire and Rescue to be merged with the police is...

Palestine erupts!

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ISRAELI police clashed with Palestinian worshippers inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday. Palestinian guards of the mosque said dozens of Israeli officers raided the compound,...

Infected blood scandal – 72 died from contaminated drug at single school

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A PUBLIC inquiry yesterday heard from students and parents after more than 120 ex pupils at a school for disabled children were caught up...
A section of the big firefighters’ lobby of the London Fire Authority in Waterloo yesterday

‘We won’t accept closures!’ says FBU leader Matt Wrack

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SEVERAL thousand firefighters and supporters yesterday lobbied the London Fire Authority meeting in Southwark which was to vote on the London Fire Commissioner’s revised...

400,000 March On Downing Street For Victory To Palestine!

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Over 400,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street on Saturday, while thousands more marched in other towns and cities around Britain, including...

‘English Only Spoken Here’ Says Miliband

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IN a speech on immigration in the Wirral, north-west England, on Saturday, Ed Miliband pledged a Labour government would make sure everyone in Britain...
A section of last Friday’s 200-strong Gate Gourmet locked -out workers mass picket at Heathrow – see feature

200-Strong Picket Supports Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers

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TWO hundred people joined a mass picket by the locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow, six months after the 700-strong workforce at the airline...

RAF joins US in Syrian air strike – 62 Syrian army killed

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THE BRITISH airforce has admitted its involvement in the US-led airstrikes which killed over 60 Syrian Army troops and injured over 100 more. It has...
Up to 1,000 workers and young people turned up to picket the Israeli Embassy yesterday afternoon and were faced by large numbers of police

‘IT’S LIKE HELL HERE NOW’ – Doctor Mads Gilbert condemns Israeli invasion

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Fifteen Palestinian civilians were killed yesterday and at least 40 others were wounded when Israeli shells hit Gaza City shopping centre. Among those killed by...

Youth demand at least £10 an hour

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‘YOUNG workers are missing out on £200 million in minimum wage pay,’ the TUC says, while demanding at least £10 an hour regardless of...

WATERLOO DEBACLE – no compensation for delayed passengers

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RAIL union RMT yesterday slammed the government and private rail companies after it emerged that passengers facing delays and cancellations – because of the...

Israeli forces continue air strikes & shelling, killing Palestinians

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ISRAELI forces continued attacks across the Gaza Strip this week killing Palestinians in air strikes and shelling while reports emerged of Palestinian women detainees...

RML calls for Greek workers and small farmers government

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THE City Council of Acharnes, one the local councils of the Greater Athens area, with a population of over 100,000 voted on Thursday to...

Teachers fear schools still unsafe as millions return

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‘TEACHERS are concerned that the government have not taken the safety measures that they should have done,’ Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of...

Steel Crisis Meeting At The Tuc

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STEELWORKERS’ representatives from the Community, Unite and GMB trade unions met at the TUC yesterday to demand action to save their jobs and industry. They...

NURSES READY TO STRIKE – Against pay cut

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Nearly two-thirds of nurses would be willing to take industrial action if they receive an unsatisfactory pay deal this year, said the Royal College...

Tsipras sacks ”lefts” as prices soar

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THE Greek government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is presenting to the Vouli (Greek parliament) another austerity measures Bill. The vote is to be...

WAR AN OPTION – Rumsfeld declares on Iran

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United States defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that the military option against Iran was ‘on the table’. He said this would be...
The Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust campaigners on the NHS march – they successfully forced the withdrawal of a subsidiary company – now NHS Improvement has ‘paused’ the setting up of subsidiaries all over the country

‘A SIGNIFICANT VICTORY!’ – Health unions hail subsidiaries ‘pause’

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‘A SIGNIFICANT victory’ for health workers is how Unite described the decision by NHS Improvement to ‘pause’ the setting up of wholly owned subsidiary...

Gm Launches Crisis Plan

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TEN THOUSAND Opel and Vauxhall sackings were announced by General Motors Europe Chief Executive David N (Nick) Reilly and Executive Director Reinald Hoben, yesterday. They...

94.5% yes for post strike – CWU leaders run away!

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COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) members in Royal Mail have beaten the anti-union laws for the third time in less than three years delivering a...

Tory-Dup Talks No Deal As Yet! – Major Warns Over Deal

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PRIME Minister May finished a round of talks with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster yesterday afternoon without an agreement being reached. There was...

‘When we win power, it will be to give it to you’ – McDonnell...

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SPEAKING at a press conference on the ‘first hundred days’ of a Labour government, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell, pledged: ‘So let...

North Sea Oil Jobs Axe!

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UNITE yesterday warned of ‘a dangerous and quickening race to the bottom’ in the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry as oil giants Shell...

Labour Stabs Iraq In The Back

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LABOUR leader Corbyn absented himself from the vote on Wednesday night when Labour and Tory MPs voted down an SNP motion condemning the ...

Bosses ‘can hire and fire at will!’ – says Unison leader Prentis

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TRADE unions yesterday reacted angrily to the latest attack on employment rights announced by Business Secretary Vince Cable. The TUC warned: ‘Government plans to reduce...
Doctors and medical students demonstrate outside the BMA ARM in support of Bahraini medical workers who are being jailed and tortured for fighting for their democratic rights

CQC NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE says BMA

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DOCTORS at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh have voted no confidence in the CQC (Care Quality Commission) and have declared the organisation...

Tory Party Civil War Set To Continue

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‘IT IS clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a...
Firefighters greet the marchers at Studley Road Fire Station, Luton

FBU welcomes Jobs March

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SUPPORT for the 248-mile Young Socialists March for Jobs from London to the Liverpool TUC Congress grew on its second day, as Bedfordshire firefighters...
Kenyans who were tortured by British troops, outside the High Court in London

11 Kenyans were beaten to death in Hola prison camp

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FOREIGN Office documents made public by the National Archives after more than 50 years give the fullest account yet of a massacre which took...
A section of the Young Socialists lobby of the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday

Youth demand a future–no zero hours contracts

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‘YOUTH demand a future! No Zero hour contracts!’ shouted the fifty-strong Young Socialists and Workers Revolutionary Party lobby of the Trades Union Congress in...

Suspend inquiry unless panellist immediately replaced say Grenfell campaigners

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THE SECOND phase of the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire began yesterday with families and friends of the 72 men, women and children...
The campaign to keep Lewisham open is part of the struggle to defeat the privatisation of the NHS which was begun under Labour and is being carried on under the Tories

Labour wrong to privatise admits Prescott

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FORMER Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott has claimed he was against NHS privatisation when he was in government and that he still is. In...
Bombardier workers lobbying parliament demanding action to defend their jobs

Defend Bombardier Jobs!

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A DEPUTATION of Bombardier workers will be meeting with MPs at the House of Commons this morning and will press the government into taking...
Trade unionists demand ‘Save the NHS’ and ‘More Midwives’ – but the Tory-led coalition is out to smash up the health service and hand services over to private businesses

Privatisation Threat To Midwives Jobs

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Pregnant women living in the borough of Wirral, northwest England, face being put under the care of a private healthcare company rather than the...
Serco strikers at Bart’s NHS Trust on the picket line at the London Hospital

Serco strikers want national demo!

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‘THERE needs to be a national demonstration. British Airways, the Bank of England, and Serco workers, we are all on strike because we have...

May tries to convince CBI of her Brexit plan

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‘MY JOB is to get the best deal, Parliament must then examine it and do what is in the national interest,’ Tory PM Theresa...

BROWN’S ‘NEW POLITICS’ – as Blair goes missing

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WITH Prime Minister Blair organising his post premiership job, Chancellor Brown stepped forward yesterday to promote the latest New Labour ‘vision’ of a ‘patriotic...

Arab states condemn Netanyahu’s ‘Greater Israel’ plan

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THERE has been widespread condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments to an Israeli news channel on Tuesday night that he feels ‘very...

Banbury Workers Battle ‘Fire & Rehire’

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WORKERS at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury are ramping up pressure in the ‘fire and rehire’ struggle with a protest on Saturday (1...

Tories Attack The Disabled

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HALF a million disabled people and their families are set to lose thousands of pounds a year under the government’s proposed Universal Credit, a...