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‘Seize Passports’ Says Police Chief!

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MET POLICE chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said yesterday that he backs a call to seize the passports from Britons who go abroad to...

‘Forced out by company greed’ – Unite condemns BA mass sackings and wage cuts

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A BLEAK day for staff ‘forced out by company greed’ will scar spiteful BA indefinitely the Unite union said yesterday, It added: ‘On the day...

‘WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS’ says Gate Gourmet Branch Secretary

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‘THE union solicitor is filing our cases for employment tribunals. The cases must be filed before 90 days, we’ve waited for the company to...

University fees & loan hikes rushed through!

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LEGISLATION has been raced through Parliament before it breaks up for the general election which allows universities to raise tuition fees every year until...
Youth and workers marching through central London against the Coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill in July

‘They are tearing the heart out of the NHS’ – says Kevin O’Brien Epsom...

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‘THEY are tearing the heart out of the hospital,’ said Epsom and St Helier NHS Unison branch secretary Kevin O’Brien yesterday. He was responding to...

Pm May Sticks To Backstop!

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TORY PM Theresa May pledged in a speech to business leaders in Belfast yesterday to confirm her commitment ‘to deliver a Brexit which ensures...
A section of the big firefighters’ lobby of the London Fire Authority in Waterloo yesterday

‘We won’t accept closures!’ says FBU leader Matt Wrack

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SEVERAL thousand firefighters and supporters yesterday lobbied the London Fire Authority meeting in Southwark which was to vote on the London Fire Commissioner’s revised...
Workers on the roof of the Visteon plant in Enfield are becoming more determined to win with every hour of their occupation

Massive Support For Visteon Occupiers

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the occupied Visteon factories received massive support from workers in their areas yesterday, as workers in Belfast, Enfield and Basildon struggled to defend their...
Marchers in London on July 1st demanding ‘Tories Out’!

May Being Urged To Risk Split And Sack Johnson!

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AN UNDER siege Theresa May was fighting for her political life yesterday as she suggested she would not shy away from sacking foreign secretary...

RCN condemns Labour plan for hospital league tables plus threats to sack NHS workers

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) condemned the Labour Government’s announcement of hospital league tables and its threat to scapegoat and sack NHS workers...

SPEAKER TO QUIT ON JUNE 21st

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HOUSE of Commons Speaker Michael Martin announced that he intends to stand down on June 21, so becoming the first Commons Speaker to be...

3rd day of BEIS strike 100% solid

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PCS CATERING workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark were in confident mood on the third...

TORY MPs BOYCOTT CORBYN MEETING

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn convened a meeting yesterday with opposition MPs from the Liberal Democrats, Scottish Nationalists, Greens, Plaid Cymru and Change UK ‘independents’...

UCU is in dispute with 88 English College employers – ready for biggest ever...

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ENGLAND’S biggest-ever strike ballot is on the cards, confirmed the University and College Union (UCU) yesterday, after it entered into dispute with 88 English...
Students battling to defend NHS bursaries – Cameron has just pledged even more savage cuts if workers vote to leave the EU

Cameron threatens savage cuts!

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PRIME Minister Cameron and Chancellor Osborne have threatened more savage cuts in spending on pensions, the NHS and defence if the UK votes to...

Labour calls to postpone Brexit

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LABOUR shadow secretary for Brexit Keir Starmer, for the first time in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, urged the Brexit Secretary and the...

A monumental victory! – Palestine Action High Court win

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THE HIGH Court has ruled that the government’s decision to ban the pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a ‘terrorist organisation’ was unlawful. In a...
Unite members were at the lobby in force

10,000 Lobby Against The Cuts!

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UP TO 10,000 workers and youth supported the TUC lobby of Parliament yesterday. Many told News Line that they want trade union action to put...
RMT pickets at Victoria Station emphasising what the Southern rail strike is all about

Grayling wants to bust unions – RMT condemns Tory witch-hunt

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‘THIS is an industrial dispute about safety, we are not trying to bring the government down,’ RMT general secretary Mick Cash insisted yesterday. He was...

‘Macron has destroyed our social services’ say French protesters

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FOR the first time since massive regular protests began in January, the French government has held discussions with union leaders regarding the two year...
The North East London Council of Action banner on the Unite march to defend the NHS last July. Now the whole movement has taken up this demand

‘WITHDRAW THE HEALTH BILL’ – GPs will not be in charge says the GPs...

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Dr Laurence Buckman, Chairman of the BMA’s GPs Committee, wrote to all GPs in England yesterday setting out why the Committee wants the Health...

Striking Consultants On BMA Picket Lines!

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STRIKING consultants were out in force on the BMA picket line at University College Hospital, Euston, central London yesterday morning on the first of...
‘Mayor come down! Don’t cut our service!’ shouted families fighting against cuts to the disability service outside Tower Hamlets Town Hall yesterday lunchtime

East London families march against disability cuts

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AROUND 100 angry family members demonstrated against the threatened closure of their Bangladeshi Parent Adviser (BPA) service yesterday, marching from Chrisp Street Market in...

Israel abolishes operations of UN agency for Palestine

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SEVERAL countries told the United Nations Security Council yesterday that they deeply deplore the Israeli parliament’s decision to abolish the operations of the UN...

Labour government planning over 100,000 NHS sackings

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MORE THAN 100,000 NHS workers are set to be sacked under plans being laid out by the Starmer Labour government it emerged yesterday. Former Shadow...

Nurses Very Angry Over The Big Pay Sell-Out!

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THE HEAD of the Royal College of Nursing has apologised after nurses in England complained of being ‘misled’ over the new pay deal. The union...

RAIL STRIKE SHUTS DOWN UK! – Labour MPs defy Starmer and join pickets

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‘The TUC should have called a general strike already. They’re too slow to act,’ was the message from the Waterloo Station picket line yesterday...
Members of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists with their placards marching against cuts in Nottingham

PATIENT CARE AT RISK! – BMA slams ‘rushed-through reforms’

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‘Rushed through reforms’ to doctors’ training will see ‘risks to patient care’, warns the British Medical Association. The BMA said that under the government’s ‘Modernising...

‘We won’t pay £39bn divorce bill’ says Brexit Sec Raab

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IN A Sunday Telegraph interview, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab threatened to withhold the £39 billion ($51 billion) divorce fee from the EU,...
Tamils demonstrating outside the BBC over its silence while the Rajapakse regime in Sri Lanka continues the killing and bombing of Tamil areas, which is causing casualties on a daily basis and forcing more people to flee their homes

Sla Killing Civilians

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said yesterday she was deeply concerned by reports of the rapidly deteriorating conditions facing a quarter...

‘RAPID FIRE JUSTICE’ – Liberty slams ‘super ASBOs

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Serious Crime Prevention Orders dubbed ‘ASBOs for suspected criminals’ were unveiled at a press briefing by Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker yesterday. The new civil...

Maudsley strikers to march on Downing St! ‘– End all NHS outsourcing’ demands GMB

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SOUTH London and Maudsley NHS Trust GMB members employed by privateer ISS are striking next week and will march on Downing Street. The GMB union...
Irish workers march through Dublin against the cost of bailing out the banks

IRISH BANKING CRISIS! – Helping to undermine the euro

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A FRESH banking crisis is developing, with the credit ratings agency Moody’s reducing the Anglo-Irish bank’s debts to just above junk status. It is estimated...

Bank of England raises rates to make workers pay for the crisis

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THE Bank of England yesterday raised its interest rate from 4.5% to 5%, the highest level for 15 years, in a declaration of war...

DISGRACEFUL! Cornwall council to continue fire service cuts

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THE Fire Brigades Union yesterday condemned as ‘disgraceful’ Cornwall Council’s proposals to downgrade Falmouth and Camborne fire stations, just one week after the Newquay...
Junior doctors battled to defend the NHS against Health Secretary Hunt – now fighting for the proper agreed conditions of work

Bma Wins £200,000 Back Pay For Junior Doctors!

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The BMA has secured more than £200,000 in back pay for junior doctors, after their rotas failed to provide sufficient rest. It has now...

BAGHDAD REJECTS WALL! – as US and Iraqi puppets continue to build it

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IRAQI opposition to the US plan to build a sectarian wall in a Baghdad district hardened yesterday, with street protests taking place in both...

Hunt Accused Of ‘lying’

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CULTURE Secretary Hunt was accused of ‘lying to Parliament’ in the House of Commons yesterday, during the debate demanding that Hunt’s conduct over the...
Visteon workers occupied the Enfield plant last month after being sacked at six minutes notice

Ldv: No Jobs Guarantee

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Hundreds of workers at the Birmingham-based LDV van plant were yesterday warned there is no guarantee they will have a job after a...

Barnsley Nurses To Strike

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GMB trade union members at Barnsley Hospital have voted to take strike action in a dispute following the introduction of Agenda for Change. The members...

£11.5bn of cuts & wage cuts – at the centre of Osborne’s budget

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CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a massive onslaught on public services and public sector pay in his budget yesterday, imposing billions more in cuts as well...
Firefighters on the October 20 TUC march against cuts – more cuts are expected to be announced today

Osborne to make more cuts today!

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Chancellor Osborne will step up the Coalition’s attacks on public spending in his Autumn Statement today, while handing over another huge tranche of taxpayers...
Greek riot police attack trade unionists with tear gas and truncheons outside the Labour Ministry

Greek Riot Police Attack Workers

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THIRTY-SIX trade unionists, including members of the GSEE (Greek TUC) general council, were attacked by the riot police with tear gas and truncheons and...