Bring us back in-house now! – demand St George’s Hospital strikers

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St George’s Hospital workers employed by the public services privateer Mitie are escalating their action with a week-long strike commencing on Monday 20th June. On...
Postal workers in the UK marching in Milton Keynes to defend their Mail Centre

3-DAY BELGIAN POSTAL STRIKE! – against the privateers

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Over 30,000 Belgian postal workers began a three-day strike yesterday against privatisation to defend their jobs, pay and working conditions. Postal unions...

FAMINE – warning from World Food Programme!

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THE humanitarian situation in Gaza ‘could soon escalate into famine’ as Israeli forces continue to severely restrict the entry of food and other supplies...

All contact lost with the Al-Shifa Hospital

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ALL CONTACT with medical staff inside al-Shifa medical complex in Gaza City has been lost after Israeli drones bombarded the area around it. The Gaza...

PERMANENT CEASEFIRE NOW! – demands Palestinian Ambassador to UN

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PALESTINIAN Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour called for an immediate permanent ceasefire when he addressed a special session of the United Nations...

59 killed & 296 wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza

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THREE days of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip left 59 Palestinians dead by noon yesterday local time, including 14 children and three women,...

1,000 Days Of Gaza Seige

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Protests against the crippling siege imposed on the Gaza Strip should spread across the world, said Palestinian lawmaker Jamalh Al-Khudari yesterday, as the blockade...

£14,000 per year fast-track degrees!

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‘OUR universities must remain places of learning, not academic sweatshops,’ UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt warned yesterday. She was responding to the Tory plan to...

Draconian police state powers

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DRACONIAN emergency powers contained within the Coronavirus Bill were debated during the bill’s second reading in Parliament yesterday. Police state measures were outlined to detain...
Two Gate Gourmet  locked-out workers from London’s Heathrow airport were given a warm reception at Dusseldorf airport on Wednesday when they visited striking local Gate Gourmet workers

In London and Dusseldorf – ‘WE FIGHT ON UNTIL VICTORY’

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers from Heathrow received a warm welcome at Dusseldorf Airport yesterday morning when they were met by Gate Gourmet strikers...
Students from ULU and their supporters marching to show their determination to defend their union

ULU students march

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AROUND 100 students from London universities and their supporters, marched from University of London Union (ULU) and lobbied a meeting of university management against...

TRIBUNAL FEES RULED ILLEGAL – Unison court victory

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EMPLOYMENT tribunal fees will be scrapped after Unison won a landmark court victory against a government policy yesterday morning that was found to be...
YS marchers assemble with local busworkers union official John Hughes before their march on Saturday

March For Jobs!

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education had its first leg from Manchester to Stockport yesterday. After a great march through Manchester...

270,000 Civil Servants Ballot For Strike

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday announced that it will start a strike ballot today of 270,000 PCS members working for the...
AYSAR SHAMALLAKH (left) launching his hunger strike at 6.00pm on Tuesday 2nd May in Parliament Square under the statue of Nelson Mandela in solidarity with 1,600 Palestinian prisoners of Israel

Palestine solidarity hunger strike

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A BRITISH national of Palestinian origin, Aysar Shamallakh, who is an active and co-founder member of the ‘17 April Group’, has started an awareness...

Hezbollah banned

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LEBANON’S Hezbollah has been banned by the UK in its entirety, Tory Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced yesterday. The Lebanon-based...

Cases of police sexual abuse are rising! – Warns Independent Office for Police Conduct...

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CASES of police abusing their role for sexual gain have risen sharply, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) warned yesterday, revealing the fact...
Delegates at last year’s Annual Representative Meeting launch their ‘Look After Our NHS’ campaign against privatisation

NHS Crisis – Drastic Cuts Planned

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DRASTIC cuts to the NHS are being planned to meet a budget cut of £15-20 billion, with even bigger spending cuts expected in the...

West Thames College strike action

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UCU (University and College Union) lecturers were on the picket line outside West Thames College in Isleworth, west London yesterday, demanding a 5% pay...

130,000 homeless children this Xmas

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MORE than 130,000 homeless children will be living in temporary accommodation this Christmas in Britain, according to estimates by the homeless charity Shelter. In...

Cancer Research Strikers Meet Up At Sutton

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STRIKERS from the Institute of Cancer Research at its Chelsea and Sutton sites met at Sutton railway station yesterday as part of their ongoing...
Ex-soldiers returning their war medals outside Downing Street yesterday

Ex-soldiers disgusted by Syria war

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OUTSIDE Downing Street yesterday, special forces veteran Ben Griffin read out a message on behalf of disabled veteran Dave Smith. Griffin said: ‘Dave Smith can...

Barristers strike gains support

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‘OUR CRIMINAL justice system is in crisis, it’s no exaggeration to say it’s in meltdown,’ Criminal Bar Association (CBA) Chairman Jo Sidhu QC told...
Ambulance and patient transfer crews lobby South London Healthcare NHS Trust Board yesterday morning

Gmb Fights Privatisation

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Yesterday morning over 100 ambulance crew turned out to lobby the board of the South London Healthcare NHS Trust to warn them to stop...
Greek workers and students marching against massive cuts

Greek Default – 250,000 Jobs Under Threat

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AS European Commission officials and European leaders prepare a Greek default, Greek ministers have outlined barbaric plans for the wholesale destruction of public services...
A section of last Friday’s 10,000-strong demonstration outside the Israeli embassy in London demanding an end to the Israeli onslaught on Gaza

Rafah school shelled!

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TEN Palestinians were killed on Sunday after Israeli shells hit a UN school in Rafah where thousands of people were sheltering from the ongoing...

‘PROSECUTE BOSSES’–TUC – who pay apprentices less than the legal minimum

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EIGHTEEN per cent of young people on slave labour apprenticeship schemes are illegally being paid less than the minimum wage, according to the government’s...

Thomas Cook workers freed after angry demonstration

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SIXTEEN workers, eight trade union representatives and the partner of one of the staff who were brought before the High Court after they refused...

No ceasefire talks until Israel ends ‘hunger war’ says Hamas

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HAMAS will not engage in new ceasefire talks with Israel, as long as the regime continues its ‘hunger war’ against Palestinians in Gaza. Basem Naim, Hamas political...

2,800 Tata steel workers will lose jobs today as blast furnaces cease!

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APPROXIMATELY 2,800 employees out of Tata’s 8,000-strong workforce will lose their jobs as Blast Furnace 5 ceases operations today. Loud noises and large plumes of...
Crowds in Athens celebrate Syriza’s victory – Germany is demanding every euro of the Greek debt is repaid

‘Debt must be paid in full!’ – German bankers threaten Greece

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GERMANY has issued warnings to the new Greek government that it must ‘live up to its commitments to its creditors’, and ‘take measures so...
‘Free us from private landlords’ shouted Chagos Islanders outside Crawley Town Hall yesterday

Chagos Islanders demonstrate for their rights

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Motorists honked their horns in support of the Chagossian islanders who marched through the pouring rain to Crawley Town Hall yesterday, to demonstrate against...

Reject Plan To Close Hospitals!

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Health minister Ara Darzi’s plans ‘are a massive attack on hospital care in London’, warned consultant surgeon Anna Athow yesterday. Darzi is conducting...
A silent vigil by TUC Congress delegates yesterday midday to remember Anthony Walker who was murdered by racists and to show Congress’s disapproval of the election of a BNP MEP

Tuc To Reactivate NHS Together Campaign

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THE TUC Congress in Liverpool yesterday unanimously voted for Composite Motion 16: Defending the NHS. The motion calls on ‘the General Council to reactivate the...

Bma Doctors Defiant!

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) announced yesterday that it is consulting its members over the latest government offer to settle the resident doctors dispute,...
Hundreds rallied in Ealing on Tuesday night to discuss action to stop the closure of Ealing and three other West London hospitals

Angry ARM turns on BMA leaders

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BMA leaders narrowly escaped censure for their lack of leadership during the struggle against the Health and Social Care Bill yesterday, when 44% of...

NO TO 90 DAYS! – Blair and police suffer major defeat

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‘BLAIR should go’, said former Labour minister Glenda Jackson yesterday after a rebellion by 49 Labour MPs saw the government defeated by 322-291 votes...

Bed shortages ‘threat to patient care’ says the RCN!

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WINTER hospital bed shortages pose a ‘real threat’ to patient care, the Nuffield Trust warned yesterday. On average, about 95% of English hospital beds were...
The Young Socialists Students Societies taking part in yesterday’s march against fees

‘All-out strike to make education free’

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‘STUDENTS and lecturers must go out on strike, in fact, I am for an all-out strike, to ensure education is free,’ said Dalia Giuaballa,...

A further half a million will be in fuel poverty! warns shadow business secretary...

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‘THERE is absolutely no question of the lights going out,’ Kwasi Kwarteng, Tory business secretary claimed yesterday He was making a statement after a number...

Real wages 13.6% drop!

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THERE has been a 13.6% drop in the real value of average earnings of full time workers in employment in the UK between April...

‘Sleeping at night in Gaza is like lying in a coffin’

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‘SLEEPING at night in Gaza is like lying in a coffin,’ said the UNICEF spokesperson, James Elder. While addressing the UN from Rafah on Tuesday,...
Guantanamo ‘guard’ menacing Amnesty ‘Guantanamo prisoners’ in a demonstration outside the US embassy in London to mark the fifth anniversary  of the first prisoners to be detained there

No Compensation For A Wrongly Accused ‘Highjacker’

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A pilot wrongly accused of training the 9/11 hijackers has lost his fight for compensation for his ordeal. Lotfi Raissi was detained for nearly...

BEIS 3-day strike – ‘We demand Living Wage!’

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OUTSOURCED workers, who provide catering and cleaning services in government offices, took the first of three days of strike yesterday demanding the London Living...