Bus Drivers Determined To Win!

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LONDON bus drivers employed by French government-owned privateer RATP took their third day of strike action against £2,500 pay cuts yesterday, with another two...

FREE THE FILTON 24! say Palestine campaigners at Woolwich Crown Court

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THE RETRIAL of six of the Filton 24 opened at Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London yesterday, with scores of demonstrators outside supporting the...
A very badly beaten Baha Mousa, an Iraqi hotel worker, tortured by British soldiers in Iraq

‘Baha Mousa is not the only Iraqi killed by British forces’

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The High Court yesterday gave the go ahead for a legal challenge over the torture of Iraqi civilians at the hands of UK troops. The...

COVID-19s BRUTAL IMPACT ON NHS says BMA leader Chaand Nagpaul

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Thousands of cancer patients have not received the care they need and their conditions have worsened owing to the focus on Covid-19, the British...

FREE, FREE PALESTINE! chant protesters at High Court

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‘FREE, Free Palestine’ chanted over 1,000 protesters waving Palestine flags outside the High Court yesterday. The court was holding an emergency hearing seeking a judicial...
Defend Council Housing campaign insisting in Parliament Square during the Budget that council housing must be built to provide homes for everybody

‘A Government No Longer Fit For Office!’

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TORY Chancellor Hammond kicked public sector workers in the teeth in his class war budget yesterday, refusing to lift the seven-year pay freeze which...
A section of the North-East London Council of Action picket outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday

GET READY TO OCCUPY CHASE FARM! – march on July 26th

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‘WE ARE calling on everyone to march with us through Enfield on Saturday, July 26th. Workers of Enfield won’t allow this government to close...

Tory Party civil war escalates! – Sunak and Johnson trade insults

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THE TORY Party civil war was ratcheted up yesterday as PM Rishi Sunak accused his predecessor Boris Johnson of asking him to overrule a...

One in six Gaza children severely malnourished!

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‘ONE IN SIX children under two years of age are acutely malnourished in northern Gaza,’ Richard Peeperkorn, World Health Organisation (WHO) representative said yesterday. ‘This...

‘Obsessive’ Grammars Slammed

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CHIEF Inspector of Schools Sir Michael Wilshaw has criticised Tory PM Theresa May’s ‘obsessive’ plan to approve a new wave of selective grammar schools...
Supporters of Julian Assange demonstrate outside the embassy of Ecuador yesterday afternoon

UK Threatens To Storm Ecuador Embassy!

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ECUADOR yesterday granted political asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and called on the UK to ‘guarantee safe passage to Mr Assange to complete...

Winter A&E Crisis Now All Year Round

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THE Royal College of Emergency Medicine yesterday welcomed the findings of the report into the pressures facing emergency departments throughout the winter. The report finds...
One of the many protests against the hated ‘Bedroom Tax’ that is putting many families into poverty

FAMILIES BEING SQUEEZED! – by falling wages and rising prices

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AS parents face back-to-school costs, new research shows that they also face a growing struggle to provide a decent standard of living for their...

No Wage Growth In 2018 Says Resolution Foundation!

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THE just-published Resolution Foundation report says that real wage growth will be flat in 2018 and that many households are already pessimistic about...

GMM Luton–decision within 6 weeks

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A decision is to be made by GM within the next six weeks on whether the Luton GMM plant is to be closed in...

Hostile environment challenged

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THE TORY government’s ‘hostile environment’, blocking students from studying in the UK, blocking overseas doctors from working in the NHS, while demanding landlords...
Carillion workers demonstrating through Swindon in March won big support for their struggle for respect at work and decent holidays

‘Evidence Of Carillion Bribery’ Alleges Gmb

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The second Carillion investigation into complaints by 150 GMB members has found evidence of bribery and shakedowns on the PFI contract operated by the...
As military chiefs called for ‘boots on the ground’ in Syria and Iraq thousands marched in the rain in London on Saturday against the war

Ex-Army Chiefs Beating War Drums

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FORMER senior military commanders are runnng a campaign to strengthen the British army for a war in Syria. The former head of the armed forces...

CALL HEATHROW OUT ON STRIKE! – demand defiant Alpha workers

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A DEFIANT meeting of Alpha catering workers was held yesterday midday at Cranford Park, Heathrow. The workers unanimously dismissed Alpha Catering’s plan to cut the...

Two-day nationwide lecturers pay strike

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A TWO day nationwide strike of lecturers at every university in the country has been called in an escalating row over pay, the University...
Defiant picket line at West London Mail Centre in Paddington last Thursday morning

Royal Mail Centres Out 3.00 Am Today

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Postal workers at Mail Centres across the UK are taking 24-hour strike action from 3am this morning in the second week of rolling...
Fighting 4 Grantham Hospital campaigners taking part in yesterday’s protest demanding the reopening of their 24-hour A&E

‘Save our NHS!’ – Huddersfield, Banbury, Stafford and Grantham join NHS campaigners in London...

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‘ALL the unions should take part in a Day of Action for the NHS,’ Steve Mathan of Hands Off HRI told News Line yesterday. Over...

Tory Split Deepens!

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THE Tory government risks dividing society, Iain Duncan Smith warned yesterday in his first interview since resigning as Work and Pensions Secretary. He attacked the...

30th Anniversary of Red Army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan! Sputnik interview General Gromov

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THE 15th of February marked the 30th anniversary of the pullout of Soviet troops from the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The Soviet-Afghan War lasted...
International Sorting office strikers at Langley near Heathrow on 27th July

NAME STRIKE DATES! – demand CWU branches and members

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Postal workers across the country are up in arms demanding their union, the CWU, proceeds to immediately name strike dates after Royal...

US-Israeli Gaza ‘aid’ chief quits

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THE ‘GAZA Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF), created by the United States and Israel to manage the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, said it will start...
Unite members on strike over pay at the Bow garage of East London Bus group last November

Fight 40% Bus Cuts!

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LONDON Bus reps are meeting at the Unite union office at Woodberry, Manor Park, north London at 11am today, to plan coordinated action to...

999 pilot–lethal consequences

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A TORY pilot trial extending ambulance response time by two minutes has had lethal consequences, with many more patients suffering heart attacks not making...

Greek Students Fighting Privatisation

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BY MARY KECHAGIA FOR the sixth week in a row, last Thursday many thousands of Greek university and school students staged militant marches in Thessaloniki...

REJECT JUNIOR DOCTORS CONTRACT! – says the Doctors’ Association

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THE Doctors’ Association (DAUK) has refused to endorse the junior doctor contract deal agreed by the BMA and the government, warning that some members...
Striking British Airways workers at Heathrow yesterday defiant against Walsh’ and BA’s attempt to cut their working conditions

‘No To A Race To The Bottom’

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‘Walsh isn’t interested in compromise. This is our eighth day on strike and it has gone on to a different level’. British Airway’s cabin...

Brexit crisis continues

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‘THE goverment’s priority at every stage following the European Union referendum has been to respect the outcome of that referendum and to ensure it...

PCS privatisation warning!

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CABINET Office minister Francis Maude’s continuing claims that his attempt at mutualising (privatising) a government body enjoys staff support is completely undermined by figures...
GPs turned out in force to support striking junior doctors during their year-long struggle – GP practices are under attack from Tory NHS cuts

‘General Practice is cracking’ – Dr Vautrey tells BMA Representative Meeting

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‘GENERAL Practice is cracking,’ Dr Richard Vautrey, GP committee UK chair, told the BMA Annual Representative Meeting in Brighton yesterday, highlighting the closure of...
Demonstrators outside the Home Office yesterday demanding the government halts a charter flight that was due to take off to Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last night, with worries that those being dispatched to the DRC would be in grave danger and

REFUGEES RETURNED – to face death and torture

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DOZENS of angry people staged an emergency demonstration outside the Home Office yesterday, demanding the government immediately halts deportations to the Democratic Republic of...
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...

BMA & RCN condemn Starmer’s NHS ‘Plan for Change’

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PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service,...
Workers demonstrate at Heathrow during strike action by the cabin crew earlier this year. A new strike ballot is under way

Strike Ballot Starts For Cabin Crew

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Voting papers have been sent to more than 10,000 BASSA (British Airways Stewards and Stewardesses Association) members of Unite for a fresh strike ballot...
Demonstration outside Downing Street demanding the arrest of Israel’s President Netanyahu during his visit on September 9th

Hunger Strikers Reject Offer Of Exile!

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HUNGER striking Palestinian prisoners have rejected an Israeli proposal to ‘free’ them, on condition that they are expelled, the Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees...
JEREMY CORBYN addressing the 100,000-strong ‘Refugees Welcome’ rally on the day he was elected Labour leader, last September

‘We’ll renationalise NHS!’ says Labour leader Corbyn

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‘THE FIRST thing that we will do is repeal the Health and Social Care Act. It must be repealed and that will effectively renationalise...

USDAW delighted at Tory defeat!

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SHOPWORKERS trade union leader John Hannett is delighted with the House of Commons vote that defeated the government and removed Sunday trading changes...

PENSIONS ROBBERY – Rolls-Royce strike today

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ROLLS-ROYCE workers walk out on strike this morning as the struggle over the great ‘pensions robbery’ escalates. 3,500 car workers across the German car...

Union Leaders Helping Bosses Say Gourmet Workers

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angry Gate Gourmet workers told News Line over the weekend that they want their union, the TGWU, to provide them with information on who...
London fire service staff outside City Hall yesterday to demand the withdrawal of threatened cuts

FBU Angry Over Cuts

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FIREFIGHTERS joined members of Unison and GMB trade unions yesterday in an angry lobby of a London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) meeting...

COALITION LOOKING FOR NOVEMBER 30th STRIKEBREAKERS – to write to 2.5 million workers

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Treasury Secretary, Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander yesterday appealed for workers to scab on the November 30 public sector pensions strike. He told the Andrew Marr...