CWU leaders BILLY HAYES and DAVE WARD (centre) on the picket line at Mandela Way, south east London last Friday

‘NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO STRIKE!’ – CWU out for 24 hours from evening of...

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yesterday the Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced a further day of strike action commencing the evening of Thursday 12th July and continuing through Friday...

650 US military casualties!

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A SPOKESMAN for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said yesterday that more than 650 US military personnel were killed and wounded in the...

Unions recommend Tata deal – despite pension cuts and no job guarantees

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UNITE, Community and GMB trade unions yesterday called on Tata steel workers at Port Talbot to vote ‘YES’ when the...

GM – ‘No repeat of Vauxhall closure

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There is growing anger amongst workers over the future of the GMM Luton plant, at the same time as a decision is imminent...

Williamson & Jenrick Sacked

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GAVIN Williamson was the first to go in Tory PM Johnson’s reshuffle yesterday as he was sacked from his post as education secretary. Then...

Oxford Youth Workers Take Strike Action!

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Prime minister Cameron’s ‘zero tolerance’ attack on youth comes as government cuts are decimating youth services. Unite the union announced at the weekend that youth...

‘Unacceptable’ Says Bma

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GP LEADERS yesterday slammed as ‘unacceptable’ the decision by St Helens Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to suspend the non-urgent referral of patients to local...

MARCH WITH US THROUGH SOUTHALL say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to join them on their march through Southall on Sunday December...

Hunt turns his fire on the sick the disabled and the mentally ill –...

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TORY Chancellor Hunt turned his fire on the sick, the disabled, the mentally ill and the unemployed in his vicious, vindictive anti-working class Autumn...

Elderly & youth under attack!

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ELDERLY and disabled passengers are losing vital bus services because of cuts in government funding, councils in England are warning. The Local Government Association (LGA)...

Over 71,000 sofa surfing this Xmas!

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‘HUMILIATING, painful, depressing,’ says a new report released yesterday by homeless charity Crisis, highlighting the brutal realities of ‘sofa surfing’. The research shows that with...
Local government workers on the May Day march in Athens organised by the Coalition of the Radical Left

‘Peoples Of Europe Rise Up!’

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GREEK workers in the public and private sectors are preparing for today’s 24-hour general strike which is certain to be one of the biggest...

BA Steward Sacked!

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British Airways (BA) yesterday sacked Mark Fisher, one of the three Transport and General Workers Union shop stewards disciplined for organising an unofficial strike...

100,000 march for Palestine and demand the TUC must call a general strike

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MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday afternoon chanting ‘From the River to...
Aminata – due for eviction yesterday but bailiffs were driven away – thanking everyone for their support outside her home in Camberwell

Camberwell eviction halted!

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''WE are determined not to get evicted. We are determined to fight and we are determined to get a permanent place for me and...
Greek postal workers march through Athens with a clear message in English: the postal service is ‘not for sale’!

Down With Privatisation!

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OVER 10,000 workers from the Greek state corporations and organisations (power and electricity, telecommunications, post-office, water authorities etc) took part in a militant and...
During the last Tube strike there was a strong picket at King’s Cross

TWO 24hr TUBE STRIKES

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RMT pickets were out at all key locations yesterday morning as the strike action over the threat to jobs, safety and services was solidly...

Stop the War condemns Starmer’s ‘grotesque’ warmongering

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LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer banged the war drums against Russia yesterday and claimed that he intends to make Britain ‘battle-ready’. ‘Russia is already menacing...

LOW PAY NO WAY! – 400,000 workers out on strike!

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OVER 20,000 striking teachers, college lecturers and civil servants from every London borough marched through the centre of the capital yesterday, with marches and...

‘GROSS INJUSTICE’ – PCS slams benefits cap

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‘It is a gross injustice that hard-pressed households are being punished for economic problems caused by greedy bankers and politicians by having their benefits...
Half a million public sector workers demonstrated in London against the Tory-LibDem coalition on 26th March 2011

No Fault Dismissals ‘a Bad Bosses Charter!’

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‘NO fault dismissal will allow employers to sack people where their faces don’t fit,’ Paul Kenny, leader of the GMB public service union warned...

HALT ATTACK ON BURSARIES – RCN, BMA, Unison, Unite, RCM urge government

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LED by the RCN, a coalition of over 20 health care trade unions, charities and professional colleges yesterday called on the government to...
YS National Secretary JOSHUA OGUNLEYE addressing ‘Block the (Westminster) Bridge’ protesters yesterday afternoon

‘WE HAVE TO KEEP NHS FREE!’ – say workers and youth

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THOUSANDS of young workers and students occupied Westminster Bridge yesterday, determined to defeat the Health and Social Care Bill (HSCB), due to be read...
Striking postal workers at Bromley-by-Bow, E16, in a confident mood after refusing to be bullied by Royal Mail management

PROVOCATION! – Management bullies force Royal Mail workers out

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ROYAL Mail’s bullying management, backed to the hilt by the Brown government, yesterday sought to impose extreme flexibility onto the country’s postal workers, ...
Masses of students marching on parliament last December were joined by trade unionists who backed their fight against tuition fees. Now the government is planning a showdown with the trade unions in the summer

TORIES PREPARE SUMMER WAR – Organising tens of thousands of strike breakers

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Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has been overseeing ‘war games’ in preparation for a General Strike this summer. Following orders from the Cabinet...

State witch-hunt on labour

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THE witchhunt against the Labour Party and its leader Corbyn is being stepped up with the news that The Equalities and Human Rights Commission...

Netanyahu accused of blocking ceasefire – fears prosecution!

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AS ISRAELI Knesset members accused PM Netanyahu of blocking a ceasefire deal being reached with Hamas for personal reasons in order to avoid prosecution,...
Israeli state forces clash with Palestinian youth in the West Bank

Israel Getting Ready To Annex West Bank

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ADALAH, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, warned on Monday that the Israeli government’s response to the petition, filed to the...

NHS ‘safe staffing’ suspended

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THE ‘SAFE staffing levels’ for hospitals across the UK have been suspended, sending alarm bells ringing throughout the NHS. This has prompted the Royal College...
Chagos Islanders picketing Downing Street demanding their right to return to their homes

Diego Garcia used for ‘extraordinary rendition’

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Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday admitted that on two occasions, both in 2002, UK overseas territory Diego Garcia had been used for US rendition...
PAUL KING reading out a statement from the Tomlinson family outside the CPS when it was announced that Harwood would be prosecuted for manslaughter

WHITEWASH! – says Ian Tomlinson’s widow

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JULIA TOMLINSON walked out in anger yesterday from the Metropolitan Police Disciplinary Inquiry into the role of PC Harwood in her husband’s death crying...

Dozens of US banks on verge of collapse!

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DOZENS of banks in the United States are on the verge of collapse despite the Biden administration’s recent measures to calm the turbulent markets,...
Strikers march in Athens on Saturday

Greek 2-day general strike!

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WORKERS in Greece staged a militant two-day general strike last Friday and Saturday against the government’s Pensions and Tax Reforms Bill that crushes the...

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...
Anti-capitalist demonstrators taking to the streets of London following the crash of the banks in 2008. The crisis of mass unemployment and inflation is intensifying

Bank Alarm Over Inflation Rate – Prices Still Above Target

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BANK of England Governor Mervyn King was rattled yesterday after the latest UK inflation figures showed that prices are still soaring. Although the figures for...

‘Nasty & repressive side of the government is revealed’ – Unite and GMB react...

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RESPONDING to yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, the Unite union’s general secretary Len McCluskey said: ‘This Queen’s Speech reveals the nasty, repressive side of this government. ‘The...

Labour attacks BA strike

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THE Labour Transport Secretary Lord Adonis yesterday demanded that Unite cancel the planned strike action by British Airways cabin crew, despite an overwhelming vote...

Israeli military continues its massacres in the region!

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THOUSANDS of people in northern Gaza are facing an imminent massacre as the Israeli military continues its weeks-long siege and heavy bombardment of the region,...
Parkside estate tenant CAROL SWORDS (second from left) with supporters outside the High Court yesterday morning

Parkside Tenants Picket The High Court

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TENANTS from the Parkside council estate in east London went to the High Court yesterday, demanding the cancellation of the estate’s transfer to a...
Visteon workers on the picket line. Yesterday they kept agents of the liquidators, out of the plant

Visteon Talks Delay!

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SACKED Visteon workers yesterday said that they had stopped 17 employees of the liquidator, KPMG, entering the plant in the morning who were seeking...

Long A&E waits led to 23,000 deaths last year!

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LONG A&E waiting times contributed to some 23,000 ‘excess patient deaths’ last year, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said yesterday. In 2022, 1.66...

Osborne knifes working families & slashes Welfare!

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IN a savage attack that will cost workers hundreds of pounds a week, Chancellor Osborne has said he will use Wednesday’s Budget to announce...

UK Refuses To Apologise For Balfour Declaration!

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PALESTINIAN ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, said yesterday that Britain has officially refused to apologise for the infamous Balfour Declaration, and instead has...
CWU pickets at the Peckham Delivery Office yesterday morning

London Postal Strike 100%

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LONDON delivery offices took all-out strike action yesterday in the ongoing battle by postal workers to defend jobs in Royal Mail. The Communication Workers Union...

Ward Closure Storm At Sidcup Hospital

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HEALTH workers have angrily condemned the decision by administrators now running the bankrupt South London Healthcare Trust to close the gynaecology ward at...