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Back to Work regulations are ruled illegal!

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IN A LANDMARK decision yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal ruling of last February that the Regulations governing the government’s ‘Back...
SCOTT DORE (centre), WRP candidate for Acton and Ealing Central with supporters campaigning outside Acton College on the final day before polling

Get The Tories Out!

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‘WE WANT the Tories Out!’ They are planning billions more savage cuts in benefits and services’ said Scott Dore, Workers Revolutionary Party general election...

‘No breakthrough’ in Russia/Ukraine talks

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RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke yesterday about his talks with the Ukraine regime’s Foreign Minister, earlier that morning. At a press conference, attended...
Local residents join forces with firefighters to demand ‘No Justice No Peace’ on a march last June – the North Kensington Law Centre claims that Grenfell survivors are being pressurised into accepting sub-standard housing, 150 families are still without h

Grenfell survivors pressured to take sub-standard homes – alleges North Kensington Law Centre

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KENSINGTON and Chelsea Council, rather than spend money doing up the 133 empty council-owned houses in the borough, has spent almost £30m on hotels...
FBU members march with Grenfell survivors

Fire Deaths Up–Funding Down!

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THE FBU has revealed that firefighters dealt with more incidents, more fires and saw more fire deaths last year than for most of the...
Whipps Cross Hospital strikers on the picket line last Wednesday determined to win their pay dispute

Whipps Cross – More Action Planned

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ON THE final day of their three-day strike, the Whipps Cross hospital workers were confident of beating the employer and getting the money they...

Picket Grenfell Inquiry

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Monday morning 9.00am

Angry Aslef pickets reject four per cent pay offer!

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STRIKING ASLEF pickets were at Kings Cross Station yesterday morning on the first of three one day strike actions. They are extremely angry over the...

4.8m WORKERS EARN LESS THAN LIVING WAGE

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THERE are 4.8 million workers earning below the so-called living wage, according to new research from the Resolution Foundation. The figure, equivalent to 20% of...

‘OUT WITH THE ID BILL!’ says Liberty

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‘THERE’S all hell breaking loose inside parliament right now about this identity cards scheme. The government is facing a hat-trick of defeats and they’re...

£550m PRE-PAY TAKEN FROM POOR

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The GMB trade union yesterday condemned the huge profits being made out of the poorest customers by gas and electricity companies. New watchdog Consumer Focus,...

Israel plans ‘unprecedented massacre’ in Rafah

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‘ANY military operations in Rafah – with its limited space and crowding with over 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the Israeli army – would...

Doctors welcome Tory pensions concessions!

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DOCTORS have welcomed a series of concessions by the Treasury, altering the effect on them of punitive pension rules which are in fact forcing...

‘Police spy should have been charged’ – say Stephen Lawrence’s parents

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THE police officer involved in an alleged plot to spy on the parents of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence should have faced disciplinary charges...
Firefighters demonstrate in central London in July against the attack on pensions

Only one fire engine for Hove! – warns East Sussex FBU

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THERE will only be one fire engine based at Hove in East Sussex by April 2016 and just 12 firefighters to cover the whole...

33% Fewer Hospital Beds!

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‘WE ARE concerned that the implementation of the Health & Social Care Act risks the fragmentation of patient care highlighted in this report,’ Paul...

Tories refuse to repeal draconian corona laws

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MORE THAN 50 people have been ‘unlawfully arrested’ under the ‘draconian’ Coronavirus Act, it emerged yesterday, yet the government are insisting that the laws...

FOODBANK USE ROCKETS! – huge demand for emergency food supplies

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THE number of emergency food supplies given out by Farnborough Foodbank has risen by 5.27% in the last year. Farnborough Foodbank is part of The...

Terrorists firing on fleeing civilians!

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THE UN human rights office has finally admitted that foreign-backed terrorist bands are blocking civilians from fleeing eastern parts of the Syrian...

NISSAN WILL SACK 12,500! Sunderland’s future hangs in the balance!

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NISSAN is to cut 12,500 jobs worldwide as it reduces its production capacity and the number of models it produces by 10% by the...

LONMIN SHARES CRASH – as it announces 6,000 job cuts

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SHARES in UK mining giant Lonmin plunged after it announced 6,000 jobs cuts in South Africa as part of a scaling back of its...
GMB Acting General Secretary PAUL KENNY speaking to a delegation of Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC on November  2nd

Unison Condemns NHS ‘Health Rationing’

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Britain’s biggest public sector union, UNISON yesterday condemned the decision of three Suffolk Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to deny operations to overweight patients. ‘It’s against...

25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE – This Sunday 2.00-6.00pm

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St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)
Marchers with busworkers Unite union official John Hughes just before the march began on October 30 in Manchester

‘Smash Fees Restore Free State Education!’

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education set off early yesterday for the latest leg from Stoke to Stafford. Hitting the road...
Police attack workers and youth in Athens – they have now been turned loose on immigrants

Armed Police Hunt For ‘Illegals’ In Athens

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GREEK armed riot police squads assisted by other police units yesterday continued, for the fourth day running, the biggest pogrom against immigrant workers and...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday

AIMING FOR VICTORY – say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are campaigning every day for delegations to attend their conference in London on Sunday January 29, whilst at the same...

Support Pours In For Chase Farm March

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‘WE urge all trade unions to follow Unite’s example and back our March to defend Chase Farm, Hospital’ states Bill Rogers, Secretary of NE...
Colonel Daoud Musa, father of Baha Musa (who was tortured to death by British troops)  outside the High Court with Public Interest lawyers in 2004

Iraqis killed, abused and tortured by British troops

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Scores of Iraqis were at the High Court in London yesterday demanding an Independent Public Inquiry into allegations that British interrogators abused, killed and...
Thousands of workers rallied last year outside Whittington Hospital in north London to stop it from closing. Now the government is threatening to close NHS hospitals up and down the country

ADAPT OR BE CLOSED! – warning to NHS hospitals

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NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson yesterday warned that many hospitals will face closure in the ‘new world’ of funding cuts and privatisation. Nicholson told...
Kenyan Mau Mau veterans picket the law courts in the Strand as a successful legal case is brought against the UK government

Memorial to Mau Mau freedom fighters

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A MEMORIAL will be unveiled at 07:30am (GMT) on Saturday 12th September 2015, at Freedom Corner in Uhuru Park, Nairobi to remember the many...

‘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...

PRESCOTT INQUIRY –visited US billionaire tycoon seven times

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PARLIAMENTARY Commissioner Sir Philip Mawer yesterday announced a full investigation into Deputy Premier Prescott’s relations with US tycoon Phillip Anschutz, focusing on his...
Health workers, trade unionists and youth marching to defend the NHS on its 63rd birthday in July this year demanded ‘Scrap the Health Bill!’

NHS TO BE 49% PRIVATE! – workers and poor to be shown the door

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THE HEALTH and Social Care Bill has been revised to allow nearly half of foundation hospital income to be raised from private patient beds...

CORPORATE DEBT BUBBLE SET TO BURST

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THE CORPORATE debt mountain may trigger a devastating, self-feeding chain reaction of fire sales of junk bonds, threatening to collapse the entire financial system,...

US sends warships to Egypt

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The US is sending warships, including one with 800 troops, and other military assets to Egypt as the revolution in the North African country...
Nurses rally in central London on May 11 against cuts

THIRTY NURSES FACE THE SACK –UNISON threatens industrial action at North Devon NHS Trust

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Sixty health workers including thirty nurses are to lose their jobs at North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple as the NHS Trust seeks to...

£850 million to pay for NHS sackings

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The government will spend more than £850 million in redundancy payments to NHS managers and staff to pave the way for the privatisation of...

Union Leaders Warn King

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BANK of England Governor King’s insistence that nothing must be done to prevent the squeeze in living standards down to 1920s levels, has...

Food And Clothes Prices Soar

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SOARING food and clothing prices saw the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate measure for March rising to 3.5% from 3.4% in February. The Office...
Post Office workers rally yesterday afternoon in Westminster while striking to keep Crown Post Offices open

Crown Post Office Massive Strike Action

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CROWN Post Office workers, all over the country walked out at 12.30pm sharp yesterday, in an effort to persuade the government to halt...

Teuta Hoxha – on Day 45 of her hunger strike! She may die...

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The 17-year-old sister of a pro-Palestine prisoner who is now on day 45 of her hunger strike says she fears she may die in...

‘Free Sudanese journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ – NUJ

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‘SUDANESE generals must free journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland demanded yesterday joining calls from...

Bring All Airport Workers Out Now!

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FOUR thousand Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) Unite members came out on strike yesterday, with many demanding that the action should be united with British...

Minister seeking to ban NEU teachers strike!

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TORY education secretary Gillian Keegan is trying to get next week’s strike action by 100,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) outlawed, claiming...
Striking CWU members in Hampstead, north west London, were in fighting mood yesterday

‘NO HIDING PLACE NOW!’ – ‘We need the rest of the country out’ say...

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POSTAL workers were out on strike throughout London yesterday, while Royal Mail drivers were also out in Essex and the Midlands; and Stoke on...