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Richest are 30% better off!

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‘THIS situation cannot be allowed to continue,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday in response to this year’s Sunday Times Rich...
Mau Mau detainees outside London’s High Court recently won massive compensation for British army atrocities committed against them

‘Prosecute those who murdered my son’ says Colonel Mousa

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BAHA Mousa’s father, Colonel Mousa, considers it is imperative that those responsible for the death of Baha Mousa, including the commanding officer, are prosecuted. Public...

Wmd Lies Being Used Against Syria

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USING the Bush-Blair WMD tactic, manufactured for use as the cause of war with Iraq, the imperialist powers and Israel were yesterday insisting that...

Staff On Terminal Covid Ward Were ‘Denied Ppe’

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STAFF working on a ward for terminal coronavirus patients were denied Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) despite having to bag up 185 bodies in just...
Nurses demonstrate against the end of bursaries and the introduction of tuition fees

Huge NHS Beds Shortage Halting NHS Ops!

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SURGEONS have been left ‘kicking their heels’ because thousands of operations have been cancelled as a result of a beds shortage during the winter...
Demonstrators insist that those responsible for the Grenfell Tower inferno and its aftermath should face jail sentences

‘Those responsible must be jailed’ say Grenfell survivors

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‘WE HAVE been strong and we are not prepared to be walked over and we do want answers,’ Grenfell survivor Jaquie Hayes said yesterday. She...
Nurses on the march against any pay cap – they are certain to make their point very forcibly at September’s EGM

Nurses fury over pay deal! – EGM called for September 28th

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THE RCN Council has called an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) which will take place on 28/09/18 at 11.00 am at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre,...
Delegates make sure that Prime Minister Brown knows how they feel about his government’s cuts policies

COOL RECEPTION FOR BROWN – at the TUC Congress

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GORDON BROWN had a very cool reception at the TUC yesterday. The mood was set by the PCS delegation, which held up placards saying ‘No...

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,...
‘Bloody Sunday’ mural on a wall in Derry

UNARMED VICTIMS SHOT DEAD ON BLOODY SUNDAY – finds Saville

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‘The immediate responsibility for the deaths and injuries on Bloody Sunday lies with those members of Support Company whose unjustifiable firing was the cause...
Over 200,000 people demonstrated in London on Saturday to demand an immediate halt to Israel’s attacks on Gaza and the withdrawal of Israeli troops and tanks. There were demonstrations in towns and cities across Britain, from Aberdeen to Norwich

900 KILLED IN GAZA – as Israel uses phosphorous weapons

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TWENTY-THREE Gazans were killed on Sunday morning and dozens injured by illegal weapons that ensure the incineration of buildings and people hit by...
A section of yesterday’s picket of the Department of health demanding that the Whittington hospital be kept open

NHS IS AT STAKE! –says DoH picket

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OVER 50 people joined a picket of the Department of Health yesterday, demanding that the government honour a pledge from Tory Health Secretary Lansley...

Reinstate All P&O Staff – Demands Haigh

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‘WE MUST send a clear message that rogue employers cannot get away with trampling over the laws of this country, it is time to...
Pupils, parents and teachers demonstrated outside St Andrew & St Francis Primary School during a teachers’ strike against the school being forced to become an academy

Classrooms bursting!

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SCHOOL classrooms are at bursting point, with half a million pupils squeezed into classrooms with more than 40 in a class. Labour Party analysis highlighted...
Student and lecturers came out in support of cleaners at SOAS during yesterday’s mass picket

Cleaners mass picket at SOAS

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THERE was a lively mass picket at SOAS University, Central London, yesterday at the start of a two-day strike by cleaners. SOAS Unison Assistant Branch...
Tens of thousands marched to condemn Israel’s massacre of aid workers on the ‘Mavi Marmara’ ship in June. A new convoy has now departed from London

Convoy Leaves For Gaza!

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THE largest aid convoy yet is on its way to the besieged Gaza Strip, four months after the massacre of activists by Israeli forces...

Israeli terrorism widely condemned!

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HEZBOLLAH stressed yesterday that it will go ahead with its pro-Gaza strikes against the Israeli enemy, describing Tuesday’s deadly pager attacks as ‘another reckoning...
With Charlie Chaplin leading the way, the marchers reached Ealing Hospital where they demanded that the children’s ward be kept open

‘Save Charlie Chaplin ward’! – Occupy!

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‘TRADE unions must act – save our children’s services!’ rang out as the three hundred-strong march from Southall to Ealing Hospital proceeded yesterday afternoon. The...
Junior doctors from Remedy UK outside the High Court yesterday before the start of their judicial review over ‘MTAS’

ABSOLUTE CHAOS! – doctors training crisis continues

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JUNIOR doctors went to the High Court yesterday in a bid to get the online Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) ruled ‘unlawful’, warning...

Bank Keeps Rate At 5.5%

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The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday voted to keep the official Bank Rate on hold at 5.5 per cent. The Bank had been...

Amersham Defeat Crisis Hits Tories

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THE TORY government has been plunged into crisis by last Thursday’s Amersham by-election defeat. Around 100 Tory MPs have reportedly joined a WhatsApp group called...
Royal Mail workers march in Milton Keynes – face privatisation at the hands of a government desperate for cash

£700bn of government debt

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GENERAL government debt is now over £700 billion as the slump hits public finances. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said: ‘Net debt was £703.4...
Greek police marching against the cuts in Vouli square, opposite the parliament building

Greece – 10% Tax On Workers And The Poor

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FOLLOWING meetings on Thursday with the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank), the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos...

Barristers Are On Indefinite Strike!

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HUNDREDS of barristers demonstrated outside courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London and Manchester yesterday, on the second day of their indefinite strike. Over 100...

BA’S 2 YEAR PLAN – for £450m savings and up to 6,000 sackings

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THE new two-year business plan for British Airways was unveiled yesterday and includes provision for reducing costs by £450 million and restoring 10 per...

Locked-Out Gate Gourmet Workers Picket The Tgwu

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TWENTY Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketed a meeting of TGWU sacked Gate Gourmet shop stewards at the Hillingdon regional office yesterday. Most of the shop...

Platinum Miners Victory!

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‘NO MORE starving for us and our families!’ elated miners chanted as celebrations broke out across Rustenburg in South Africa, as the country’s longest...
The South East London Council of Action demonstrating outside Southwark Town Hall in May against the threat of eviction hanging over Heygate Estate tenants

Eviction Proceedings Denied By Southwark Council

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SOUTHWARK Council denied that it had started eviction proceedings yesterday against tenants of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, south London. A ...

Israeli occupation massacres families in the Gaza Strip!

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ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least...
Friends and families of those who have died in police custody marching last October –  co-chair of the campaign, Stephanie Lightfoot-Bennett said the new police tactics will lead to more innocent citizens’ deaths

Police will shoot to kill drivers – ‘carte blanche to kill innocents’ says United...

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ARMED police have adopted a new shoot-to-kill tactic: fire sub-automatic assault rifles at moving vehicles to ‘neutralise’ the driver, sparking fears that many more...

Thousands of teachers march on Downing Street! – ‘TUC will defend right to strike’...

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THOUSANDS of teachers, students, and supporters gathered in London yesterday on the fifth day of strikes this year, organised by the National Education Union...
Cadbury’s workers in London last December to fight for their jobs

MASSIVE JOBLESS RISE – greatest since 1992

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Responding to yesterday’s unemployment figures, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘Today’s figures show that unemployment is starting to accelerate and it now...

Darzai Private Nursing Plans

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The GMB trade union yesterday expressed serious concerns over plans for a nurse-led privatised NHS contained in health minister Lord Darzi’s review, due to...

‘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...

2,450 sacked by email – 214 Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton shops shut

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TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...
Bakers Union in Manchester supporting the Young Socialists 248-mile March for Jobs from London to Liverpool to demand the TUC call a general strike

Bakers union demands £10 min wage – as Living Wage increase declared

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‘£10 AN HOUR is the bare minimum that the trade union movement should demand as a minimum wage’, the Bakers Union said yesterday, as...
Domestic workers marching against low pay on the May Day march in London

POOR HAMMERED! – by Osborne budget says the IFS

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CONTRARY to Tory Chancellor Osborne’s claims that his Emergency Budget is ‘fair’ and ‘progressive’, it is actually unfair and regressive, hitting the poorest hardest. That...

Israel kills 45 women and children in Rafah tent camp massacre

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ISRAELI forces bombed a camp housing displaced people in a designated ‘safe zone’ in Rafah on Sunday night, killing at least 45 Palestinians, most...
Rail workers lobbying the House of Commons yesterday to defend their pensions

Blair Refuses To Name Day!

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday refused once again to name the day when he will begin the transfer of office to his successor, who is...

Aziz Defends Saddam

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IRAQ’s former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz took the witness stand Wednesday to defend Saddam Hussein and his associates from charges that they massacred...

Hamas, Fatah Gun Battles In Gaza

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Palestinian resistance movement Hamas yesterday accused Palestinian National Authority President Mahmud Abbas of attempting a military coup after Fatah forces sealed off two Hamas-led...

Government Is Wasting Money On Free Schools – Say Teachers

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TEACHING unions yesterday condemned the Tory-led coalition government’s free-school policy, as more than half a million families were discovering which primary schools their children...
GMB Carillion members on strike at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon – unions are calling for all contracts to be brought back in-house

INTERSERVE SHARES COLLAPSE 70% ‘Toxic bandit capitalism’ – RMT

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‘ONCE AGAIN, we see the reality of bandit capitalism and its toxic impact on our public services,’ Transport union RMT said yesterday, calling for...

Oxford CWU – out again on Wednesday

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POSTAL workers in Oxford who have been on unofficial strike for a week, yesterday returned to work. People are still very angry and a sizeable...