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Brighton Council workers on the picket line against £4,000-a-year wage cuts!

£14.4bn BLACK HOLE THREAT TO 70,000 MORE JOBS!

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A £14.4 billion funding black hole threatens to swallow public services, say the council leaders of the Local Government Association. A LGA statement said: ‘The...
Last Wednesday demonstrators, some of whom entered the Kensington & Chelsea council meeting demanded criminal charges against those responsible for the Grenfell Tower inferno

Grenfell Tower inferno – Twin Towers experts helping police

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EXPERTS who helped recover remains after the September 11th 2001 terror attack on the Twin Towers in New York, are now helping police investigating...

30% CUTS ON WAY – Consultants conference warns

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HOSPITAL consultants yesterday asserted their determination to defend patient care and oppose NHS privatisation. At the BMA Consultants Conference motion 5,...

Sse 18% Gas Price Rise!

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PUBLIC sector union Unison yesterday reiterated its call for the government to take action to tackle fuel poverty. It was responding to Scottish and Southern...

Grenfell families rehoused in ‘high fire-risk’ building

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KENSINGTON and Chelsea council have re-housed Grenfell survivors and their families in a block found to have a ‘high risk’ of fire! A fire risk...

BLAIR TO RUSH IN NEW POLICE POWERS – but will not stop fire cuts!

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Prime Minister Blair made it clear yesterday he will use last Thursday’s bomb attacks in London to give the police and intelligence services sweeping...
Determined Brentford and Isleworth delivery office pickets on Thursday morning

We Need A Public Sector Alliance

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‘The strikes are strongly supported, our members are determined to continue the strike action until Royal Mail seriously negotiates,’ a Communication Workers’ Union (CWU)...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line – demanding a national demonstration to highlight their fight

DEEPCUT INQUIRY ‘A FARCE’ says father of dead soldier

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The Surrey Police re-investigation into the deaths of recruits at the Deepcut army barracks ‘was a farce’ Private Geoff Gray’s father, also named Geoff,...

‘HALT ALL CUTS AND OUTSOURCING!’ – unions confront Academies Enterprise Trust

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SEVEN UNIONS have warned about their dispute with the UK’s largest academy trust over staff cuts, low pay and outsourcing. The unions have now registered...
Lively West Hendon tenants determined to fight privateers ‘regeneration’ of their estate creating evictions

New Era Tenants Face Eviction!

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TENANTS on the New Era estate in Hoxton, Hackney, east London, face eviction ‘ASAP’ after a promise not to impose huge rent increases had...

GENERAL STRIKE TO BRING THIS GOVERNMENT DOWN! say Aslef pickets

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OVER 20,000 railway worker members of Aslef and the RMT unions were on strike yesterday, with powerful picket lines outside scores of stations all...

Johnson relies on Labour support to get tougher tier system agreed!

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TORY Prime Minister Johnson is expected to require Labour votes to get his new tougher tier system passed by the House of Commons next...
The daily picket at Chase Farm Hospital fighting to keep the hospital open is opposed to privatisation and the £20bn of cuts brought in by the Labour government

STOP NHS SPENDING CUTS – says BMA Council member Anna Athow

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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg yesterday made it clear the coalition will press ahead with its Health and Social Care Bill, despite massive opposition...
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...

CORBYN OUTLINES BREXIT STRATEGY: 2nd referendum: new Labour deal with EU or Remain!

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‘A VOTE for Johnson’s Conservatives is a vote to betray our NHS in a sell-out to Trump,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday launching...

‘Open season on workers rights’ says TUC

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‘WORKING people will be worried by a Queen’s Speech that declares open season on so many of their rights and protections,’ said TUC General...

‘Single Status Used To Cut Wages’

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PUBLIC sector union UNISON finds itself in conflict with employers using equal opportunity legislation supposed to protect the most vulnerable workers, to oppress them...

3 More Mass Graves Found At Nasser Hospital!

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MORE tragedy keeps unfolding in the city of Khan Younis, with more mass graves found inside the courtyard of Nasser Hospital. Medical staff and international...

The Hague rules UK must ‘relinquish Chagos ASAP’

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THE INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice (ICJ) known as ‘the Hague’ ruled yesterday that Britain’s ‘decolonisation and displacement’ of the Chagos Islanders from the Indian...

‘Don’t Treat US Like The Junior Doctors!’

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NURSES and midwives will fight Tory Health Secretary Hunt’s plans to fund a pay rise by smashing their employment conditions, their unions insisted...

GENERAL STRIKE FOR PALESTINE! – across Spain today

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A GENERAL STRIKE for Palestine takes place in Spain today, with the different unions maintaining their calls for worldwide action to end the genocide...
Unilever workers lobbying the company’s head office demanding ‘Hands off Our Pensions’

Unilever Pensions Action

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A rolling programme of strike action is set to hit corporate giant Unilever’s UK operations as workers step up action to defend their final...
A strong picket line at the London College of Communication yesterday morning

Police try to stop the Beacon Hill locked-out workers picket

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HEATHROW Airport police tried to remove the Gate Gourmet picket from the Beacon Roundabout outside the airport yesterday. Three locked-out workers were picketing in their...
Postal workers lobbying the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday demanding no privatisation of Royal Mail

STOP THE CUTS! – Postal workers tell Labour Party Conference

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over 200 postal workers lobbied the heavily-fortified Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday, to demand the Labour government keeps the Royal Mail public and...

Assad visits Damascus Catholic church

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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has made a visit to a Christian church in an eastern suburb of the capital Damascus as Christmas is approaching. Assad...

‘The biggest war in Europe since 1945’ – predicts PM Boris Johnson

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TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed yesterday that Russia is on the brink of ‘invading’ Ukraine and threatened that what would ensue would be...
British Airways cabin crew march at Heathrow last June during their strike action in defence of jobs and conditions

WORKERS FACE PAY FREEZES – as prices soar

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The class struggle is set to escalate sharply in the new year as workers and their families face soaring food and fuel prices, while...
Some of the demonstrators who marched through Norwich last weekend against the Arts Council cuts that threaten the future of hundreds of theatre groups across Britain

Arts Council To Decide On Cuts

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A CLOSED Arts Council meeting is being held in the Roundhouse in Camden, north west London on Tuesday at 1.30pm, to ratify swingeing ‘death...
Up to a hundred patients and supporters marched in Enfield on Thursday night to demand the immediate reopening of the Bush Hill Park Medical Practice which had been arbitrarily closed by Enfield PCT with only one day’s notice

Tories want GPs to do their cuts dirty work!

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The coalition government is pressing ahead with plans to make GP practices responsible for purchasing health care in England, replacing Primary Care Trusts and...
Nurses on a TUC demonstration demand no cuts to the NHS

DISTRICT NURSES CRISIS – RCN warns 10,000 are needed

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DISTRICT nurses face ‘extinction’ by 2025 unless the Tory coalition government launches a mass recruitment campaign and funds an extra 10,000 nurses, warned the...

Trump Blasts G7 Summit

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AFTER departing early from the G7 summit in Quebec for Singapore, President Donald Trump called on US representatives not to endorse the joint communique...

Swee Ang defies BMA ban!

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OVER 200 people demonstrated outside the doctors’ union BMA head office in central London yesterday to protest against the ban on Dr Swee Ang...

Residents charged £3.5m to remove flammable cladding – plus £5.4m to pay for fire...

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LEASEHOLDERS in the Paddington Walk development in West London have already paid nearly £3.5m in service charges for the removal of dangerous, flammable Grenfell-style...

Sunak Escalates Military Action

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak escalated military action against the Houthi movement in Yemen yesterday, while also announcing that 20,000 British armed forces will...
There were a number of lobbies of parliament on Wednesday demanding the end to attacks on the NHS and the Welfare State. Workers are demanding that the trade unions take action to rid the country of the coalition government. Photo credit: Beta Luciano

Miliband attacks unions! – after McCluskey warns of ‘dustbin of history’

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UNITE general secretary Len McCluskey has been denounced as ‘reprehensible’ and ‘divisive’ by Labour leader Ed Miliband and his shadow cabinet. McCluskey’s crime was to...

IT’S PAYBACK TIME! – as Home Secretary Smith urges harass youth

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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith yesterday announced a new state crackdown on working class youth and their parents. She said announcing ‘Operation Leopard’: ‘It’s exactly the...
Marchers in London in September 2005 against the war on Iraq condemn Bush and Blair as war criminals

‘THE WAR WAS ILLEGAL!’ – the opinion of all Foreign Office lawyers

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ELIZABETH Wilmshurst yesterday, appearing at the Chilcot inquiry, deplored the fact that Lord Goldsmith was asked formally about the legality of the Iraq war...

LABOUR WILL VICTIMISE LOW PAID – insists Hutton

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Business Secretary John Hutton yesterday ruled out a rethink on the decision to scrap the lowest tax band, amid claims that the Brown government...
Southern Rail guards on the picket line at Brighton station yesterday morning

Big support for TUC lobby in Brighton

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DAVE Russell, GMB rep for council infrastructure at the Brighton and Hove refuse collection depot yesterday told News Line: ‘We are going to join...

Social cleansing condemned – LONDON CLEARED OF 50,000 FAMILIES

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CAMPAIGNERS and housing charities yesterday condemned ‘social cleansing’ of low income families as it emerged that more than 50,000 families have been quietly moved...
Nurses on a demonstration fighting against the cutting of nurses bursaries – there is now a shortfall of 35,000 nurses

Restore student nurses bursaries

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NHS England has launched what they called ‘their biggest recruitment drive in history’ in an attempt to fill the 35,000 shortfall in nurses. However,...
Riot police attacking workers in Athens – the Greek state is very much bodies of armed men

Riot Police Put Down Migrant Uprising

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RIOT police put down an uprising by immigrants imprisoned at Amygdaleza detention centre, near Athens, who rose up at around 10.00pm on Saturday night. They...

‘Take a stand to save our NHS from Tories!’ – Unite leader Sharon Graham

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AMBULANCE worker members of the GMB, Unite and Unison unions will take national strike action on 21st December, with paramedics, emergency care assistants, call...
Greek workers completely rejected the EU but their leaders crumbled– a lesson for British workers

Arrogant Barnier to ‘teach British a lesson!’

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EU COMMISSION chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, gave a master class in arrogance yesterday as he looked down his nose at the UK...
Nurses demonstrate outside Parliament against the one per cent pay cap – creating a shortage of nurses

Overwork & Low Pay Driving Nurses Out Of NHS!

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NURSES, midwives, doctors, paramedics and NHS staff are being driven out of the profession because of overwork and low pay... creating a ‘severe staff...