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‘A WAR OF EXTERMINATION!’ – Doha Summit condemns Israel’s war on Gaza

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‘ISRAEL'S war on Gaza has turned into a war of extermination’, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said as he welcomed leaders...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line yesterday

LECTURERS STRIKE – NATFHE and AUT to stop tomorrow

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Universities and higher education colleges across the country will be brought to a halt tomorrow as a historic joint AUT/NATFHE pay strike hits home. Thousands...

Corbyn ‘sorry’ for big losses

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BOTH Labour and Tory parties have faced rejection at the ballot box in the English council elections over their Brexit betrayal, with smaller parties...

‘Indefinite strike to win’ – demand striking bus drivers

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‘INDEFINITE strike action to win it quick and win it now,’ Hounslow bus garage driver and Unite member Stoyan Ivanov demanded yesterday. More than 2,000...

NO! TO BAA BLANKET BAN – climate change camp going ahead

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The High Court yesterday refused to grant British Airports Authority (BAA) a blanket ban on protests in and around Heathrow airport that would have...

East Coast Railway Renationalised!

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RENATIONALISE the Railways now, the RMT, Aslef and Unite trade unions demanded yesterday, after Tory Transport Secretary Chris Grayling announced that East Coast Main...
A section of the 10,000-strong rally in Trafalgar Square on Saturday show their support for the Palestinian struggle

‘ONE WEEK TO GET OUT’ – Hamas tells Israel

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Palestinian resistance movements yesterday announced a ceasefire giving Israeli troops one week to get out of Gaza. This came after Israel declared a ‘unilateral ceasefire’...
Protest outside a court hearing for Babar Ahmad in London in May 2005

Babar Ahmad was subjected to violent assaults and religious taunts by police

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The Metropolitan Police has agreed to pay £60,000 damages to IT analyst Babar Ahmad during a civil action hearing at the High Court which...
BA mixed fleet cabin crew launch the first day of their six days of strike action at Hatton Cross, Heathrow yesterday morning

‘We won’t accept poverty pay’ say striking mixed fleet cabin crew

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‘WE WANT support from the whole airport and wider,’ striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew member and Unite rep Charly Bacon said yesterday. She was...

Palestinian mothers are witnessing children’s deaths

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IN THE Gaza Strip, under the shadow of a 175-day blockade and relentless hostilities, Palestinian mothers are engulfed in a state of fear and...

TOYOTA 10% WAGE CUT – praised by Unite trade union

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Car manufacturer Toyota yesterday announced that production at its UK plants would be cut by ten per cent, with an associated cut in wages...
A section of the 250,000-strong demonstration on June 20th which showed that workers had had enough of austerity,  Tory or Labour

‘Popular uprising’ against anti-union laws urges Prentis!

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UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis has called on the labour movement to organise a ‘popular uprising’ against the Trade Union Bill. He delivered his call...

BAGHDAD REJECTS WALL! – as US and Iraqi puppets continue to build it

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IRAQI opposition to the US plan to build a sectarian wall in a Baghdad district hardened yesterday, with street protests taking place in both...
TUC unions marching in central London last Tuesday demanding the ending of the 1 per cent public sector pay cap

Public Sector Pay Slump!

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THE GMB trade union has exposed a shocking Treasury report which Chancellor Philip Hammond tried to hide showing public sector wages are now below...

May Returns To ‘No Deal Is Better Than A Bad Deal!’

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AFTER PM May’s Chequers deal was blown out of the water by the EU on Thursday evening, yesterday May ‘addressed the nation’ and said...

‘Time Is Running Out!’ – Unison Health Conference Warns Pm Brown

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‘OUR time and patience is running out.’ This is the warning that Unison leader Dave Prentis is due to give to Prime Minister Gordon Brown...

Halt arms sales to Israel

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LABOUR leader Corbyn, on Friday has called upon the UK to freeze arms sales to Israel and to condemn it for killing Palestinian civilians...

3.5% NHS pay rise a ‘sick joke’ says Unite

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DISMISSING the government’s 3.5 per cent proposal on NHS pay announced on Tuesday as a ‘sick joke’, Unite said yesterday that ‘this will accelerate...

Maduro condemns us energy war

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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro says the United States has declared an ‘electric energy war’ against his country amid a widespread blackout that has left...
Sacked school guards will be strengthened by the decision to reinstate ERT workers and determined to get back to their jobs

Ert Workers Re-Employed!

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THE Greek Vouli (parliament) approved late on Tuesday a government Bill that re-establishes ERT, the state national tv and radio network. This is a vindication...
The North East London Council of Action has organised a large number of demonstrations and pickets to demand that Chase Farm Hospital remains open with all its departments functioning properly

OCCUPY CHASE FARM! –defend A&E & Maternity departments

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‘We are prepared to occupy before any closures are implemented,’ said North East London Council of Action Secretary Bill Rogers yesterday. Commenting on news that...
Demonstration against ARK taking over schools and turning them into academies

PLAYING FIELDS SELL-OFF! – an absolute disgrace say GMB

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WANDSWORTH Council’s plan to sell off four acres of playing fields at Elliot Secondary School in Putney is an absolute scandal, said the GMB...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers outside the local TGWU offices in Hillingdon demand the scrapping of the Compromise Agreement

Strike At Terminal 5

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Fifteen hundred construction workers employed by civil engineers Laing O’Rourke on the Heathrow Terminal 5 site, yesterday launched the first of two 24-hour strikes...

FINGERPRINTING AT TERMINAL 5 – for all internal and external flights

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‘It’s unacceptable and totally undemocratic. We are having security decided by the private sector with no reference to parliament,’ Sharon Holder, GMB national officer,...

RBS BANK CRASHES! – from £5bn pfofit down to £802m loss

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The Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday revealed a half-year net loss of £802 million, the second biggest in British banking history. This was after...

POLICE STRIP-SEARCHING CHILDREN ‘DEEPLY CONCERNING’ says Children’s Commissioner Rachel de Souza

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CHILDREN as young as 8-years-old are being strip-searched by the police, with black children six times more likely to be targeted than non-black. A report...

PLAN TO SLASH £85m FROM PUBLIC HEALTH

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‘CUTS like this signify a huge step backwards for public health, and will have a damaging impact on people’s health and wellbeing, inevitably costing...
Junior doctors join with student nurses to fight Health secretary Hunt’s attacks on the NHS

Junior Doctors Win £800,000 Back Pay!

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JUNIOR doctors have received back pay of £800,000 after a hard-fought battle against their trust regarding a contract breach. Their union, the British Medical Association...

Israeli forces attack ambulance crews!

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ISRAELI occupation forces yesterday prevented Red Crescent ambulances and their medical teams from entering the Tulkarm camp and reaching the casualties. The Red Crescent told...
Over 1,000 heads marched on Downing Street yesterday with a clear message for Chancellor Hammond!

Over 1,000 head teachers march against cuts

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OVER one thousand head teachers across England and Wales yesterday held a mass protest over savage cuts to their schools’ budgets. Heads from Peterborough,...
Striking sixth form teachers massed outside parliament yesterday against Tory cuts to education

NUT sixth form strike defiant!

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NUT SIXTH form teachers walked out on strike yesterday morning at colleges across the country against Tory funding cuts that are driving up...

700 Tube Cleaners Take Strike Action

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SOME 700 London Underground cleaners scheduled to strike for a living wage and basic working conditions from 6pm today have received a welcome boost...
Firefighters are determined to defend the fire service from a government that is determined to cut it to pieces

Negotiate or face the consequences! FBU leader Wrack warns government

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DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Bournemouth, yesterday took up the cudgels against privatisation and cuts in the fire, prison and probation services, Royal...

Gate Gourmet Workers Confront Woodley And Barber

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GATE Gourmet workers lobbied the TUC General Council in central London yesterday. They brought their banner: ‘Justice for the Sacked Gate Gourmet Workers’ and...
Marchers pushed aside the fence around the Greek parliament and chanted ‘Bread, Education and Freedom’

‘ALL EUROPE IS FIGHTING’ say Greek workers

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GREEK local government along with college and university administrative workers are continuing with occupations, strikes and demonstrations against the government’s mass sackings plans. On...

‘Get ready for our strike ballot result’ – RCN nurses issue strong warning

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‘WE DON’T forget that our pay was cut by you,’ 300,000 nurses who are currently balloting for strike action told the newly appointed Tory...

14 Days Strike At 74 Universities!

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THE BLAME for the disruption to students’ education by strike action starting today lays squarely at the door of vice-chancellors, said the University and...
National Union of Journalists banner on the anti-Iraq war demonstration last March

COVER UP! – no action over the killing of journalist Terry Lloyd

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The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) yesterday condemned the British state’s refusal to prosecute US Marines over the ‘unlawful killing’ of ITN journalist Terry...

Dozens Injured By Israeli Forces

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DOZENS of Palestinians were injured in violent clashes across al-Tur and al-Issawiya neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday as Palestinians protested the death...
UCU members took strike action alongside members of the PCS civil service union and the National Union of Teachers on April 24

KEELE BOYCOTT! – unless 38 academic sackings are withdrawn

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Keele University has one week to avoid the ignominy of becoming the first university to receive an academic boycott from the University and College...

UK a ‘bullying hypocrite!’ – says Bashar al-Assad

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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has accused the UK government of bullying and hypocrisy in its bid to militarise the conflict in his country. In an...
Suspended North West London College UCU branch secretary INDRO SEN (centre) on the picket line outside the college with students and lecturers yesterday morning

Reinstate Indro Sen!

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‘REINSTATE Indro Sen,’ demanded striking lecturers yesterday, in defence of their UCU rep who was unfairly suspended from North West London College in...
A section of the march celebrates reaching the outskirts of Bedford, expecting more of the great response they received in Luton

March gets big support for defence of NHS

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ON day three of the Young Socialists’ London to Liverpool March for Jobs, the 20 miles from Luton to Bedford received big support ‘en...

UK-US CRISIS – Washington to challenge Chinese investment in UK

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A CLAUSE in the newly signed UK-US trade agreement has provoked fierce criticism after it was revealed that Washington will be granted powers to...

Egyptian Revolution Surges Forward

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The Egyptian revolution is advancing, with thousands rallying yesterday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square for a ‘Friday of Reclaiming Honour’ protest against military and police...