Workers occupying the Visteon factory in Enfield

Visteon Workers Occupying Till Victory

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Defiant Visteon workers are still occupying three factories in Enfield, Basildon and Belfast. Over 250 trade unionists and youth rallied in support of the...
Teachers on the march to defend their national pay agreements and pensions – they are determined to defeat the coalition

Nut Strike Ballot Against Local Pay

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) Annual Conference in Torquay yesterday voted unanimously to ballot for strike action against any government move to attack...
Hospital workers march against the coalition’s NHS cuts

Cameron Pledges More Cuts!

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PM Cameron yesterday defended the government’s spending and welfare cuts, and pledged to continue them and to stop at nothing to defend British capitalism. However,...

‘A KICK IN THE TEETH FOR PASSENGERS!’ – TSSA condemns above inflation fare...

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TSSA rail union General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has rounded on the Government over plans for an inflation-busting rail fares increase in England next year...

HEALTHCARE WORKERS RISKING LIVES! – without ‘death in service’ benefits guaranteed says BMA

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THE BMA (British Medical Association) said yesterday that ‘frustration grows’ over the government’s failure to guarantee that the families of healthcare workers who lose...
Workers who have lost their company pensions which were recommended by the government outside the House of Commons yesterday were demanding that Chancellor Brown pay up

BROWN SEES NO CRISIS! – while Cameron demands election

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A tense Chancellor Brown yesterday announced a £36bn increase in the sale of public assets (including Student Loans) and a two per cent Corporation...
Teaching unions marching – in the front line of defending national pay agreements

Defend National Pay Rates

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GOVERNMENT plans for ‘postcode pay in the public sector’ are unfair and would be bad for NHS patients and schoolchildren in poorer areas, according...
Ambulance workers joined the mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning to stop the closure of the A&E and demand the maternity and children’s wards be re-opened

‘BRING DOWN TORIES!’ – says Ealing Hospital mass picket

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‘IF THEY get rid of 600 beds and so many staff, 8,000 jobs in all – what a disaster! That would be the...

‘Last Ditch Talks’ Over NHS Pay

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Health unions yesterday warned the government that if it fails to improve on its pay-cutting offer they will proceed with strike ballots. UNISON said: ‘New...

Miners Defy Police & March To Lonmin Mine

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THREE THOUSAND striking platinum miners marched to the Marikana Lonmin mine and forced the massed ranks of the riot police to retreat yesterday at...
Students demonstrate against bankers’ bailouts – a new crash and new rescue attempt impending, says Adam Smith Institute

‘WORSE THAN USELESS!’ –Bank of England stress tests

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‘STRESS testing’ by the Bank of England (BoE) is to disguise the ‘chronic weakness’ of the UK banking system, a new report from the...
ENID MUTESI was evicted last Wednesday – shown holding a framed picture of her parents which she found in the bin

‘They are trying to get rid of all the poor people!’

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TENANTS facing eviction and already evicted tenants at Sweets Way housing estate in Barnet, north london, came together for a community ‘Fun Day’ yesterday. They...

SNP 2nd Scottish Referendum

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‘I WILL now take the steps necessary to make sure that Scotland will have the choice at the end of this process,’ Scottish Nationalist...

Workers Rise Up Over Gm Magna Plans

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• 20,000 march in Zaragossa • Thousands mass in Antwerp today • 1400-1800 jobs to go in UK TODAY tens of thousands of angry GM workers and...

‘HISTORIC WIN’ FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS – tens of thousands entitled to Uber compensation

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THE GMB union scored an ‘historic’ win on Friday when the Supreme Court passed judgement in the union’s landmark workers’ rights case against Uber. This...

BRITISH SOLDIERS LED THE ‘REBEL’ ADVANCE ON TRIPOLI – says Labour MP Gardiner

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A LABOUR MP said yesterday that British soldiers led the counter-revolutionary ‘rebel’ advance on Tripoli last week. In an interview with the Russia Today...
The raising of the pension age hits the most needy says the TUC

‘DON’T RAISE PENSION AGE’ – urges TUC leader O’Grady

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‘THE government should abandon its plan to raise the state pension age in light of the new evidence on projected life expectancies,’ TUC General...

Sack Sats Private Contractors – Says Nasuwt

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TEACHING trade unions have condemned the government’s use of private contractors, hired to mark school children’s ‘SATs’ exam papers. The condemnation was in response to...
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...
‘One hundred per cent solid’ said pickets at the Princess Royal Distribution Centre in Willesden yesterday morning

GLASGOW WALKS OUT! – unofficial CWU strike action spreads to Edinburgh and Liverpool

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Around 5,400 postal workers walked out in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool yesterday in the face of management provocations. Glasgow Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) officials yesterday...

Parliament pushes to bomb Syrian troops

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PUSHING for the UK to begin openly bombing Syrian army positions and to consider taking action against Russian aircraft, Tory MP for Sutton Coldfield,...
The front of the 4,000-strong demonstration against the police raid in Forest Gate making its way through Newham yesterday

‘WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!’ – declare 4,000 Newham marchers

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MORE than 4,000 people joined an angry demonstration through Newham yesterday against the huge police raid in Forest Gate on June 7. As they made...

MIGRANT WORKERS ARE SUPER-EXPLOITED AT STANSTEAD AIRPORT says GMB

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Migrant workers are being shortchanged by enforced ‘self-employment’ status, says the GMB trade union. The GMB yesterday called on aircraft services company Swissport to directly...

Greek police fire teargas at 200,000 workers

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Greek police fired teargas and attacked 200,000 workers and youth outside parliament yesterday who were seeking to prevent MPs entering parliament to vote on...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaigning at Hounslow bus garage yesterday where they received lots of support

Gate Courmet Campaign

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‘It’s shameful the way Gate Gourmet workers have been treated by both the company and the union,’ Hounslow local government UNISON assistant branch secretary...

‘Cold War mentality’ – China slams UK, US & Australia’s new imperialist alliance

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THE UK, US and Australia have announced a security pact in the Asia-Pacific, to step up their war against China. China’s embassy in Washington...

Academy bosses salaries – ‘verging on criminality!’ – while poorly paid teachers are being...

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THE NEW NASUWT president is to tell this weekend’s annual conference that trust bosses’ salaries are ‘verging on criminality’. The NASUWT will call for a...
A strong picket at the University of East Anglia’s cyclists entrance

UNIVERSITIES WALKOUT! – over 1% insulting pay offer

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ACROSS the UK yesterday morning, university lecturers and staff walked out on strike against an ‘insulting’ 1% pay offer which, when taken into account...

US Airstrikes Kill 9 Aleppo Civilians

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US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria killed nine civilians in the east of the town of Mare, approximately 25 kilometres north of Aleppo yesterday. Meanwhile, the...
PCS picket line at Peckham JobCentre on Thursday morning

‘WE WON’T ACCEPT PAY CUTS’ – say PCS strikers

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There was widespread disruption across Jobcentres, benefits offices, the Pension Service and Child Support Agency (CSA) yesterday. Staff working for the Department for Work and...
Local government workers fighting pay cuts while the Labour government is handing out billions to bankers

£3billion more for Northern Rock – while 1,300 to be sacked and 3,700 have...

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The government is to inject another £3bn into Northern Rock, Chancellor Darling said yesterday. As the nationalised bank announced a loss of £585.4m in the...
Picket yesterday led by officers of the South African community organisation Sikhala Sonkae condemned Lonmin as having the blood of murdered miners on its hands

Justice For Marikana!

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‘LONMIN – Blood on your hands! Justice for Marikana now! Amandla!’ shouted a lively protest outside the London-listed mining company’s office in Mayfair yesterday...
‘NHS Together’ lobby of parliament demanding no cuts in the NHS

‘Scrap NHS Hit Squads’

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Health campaigners, the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday accused the government of wasting millions of pounds of...

Corbyn pledges council house building programme

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‘A NEW, very large, very active council housing building programme is what we will launch,’ the new leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn...

12 more Filton 24 activists granted bail at Old Bailey

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AROUND 100 protesters gathered outside the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey as bail hearings concluded for members of the Filton 24, activists...
Sacked 2 Sisters workers demonstrating outside Marks & Spencer’s ‘flagship’ store in Oxford Street. Unite assistant general secretary JACK DROMEY (centre) pledged ‘We will win the jobs back of these 59 workers’

‘2 sisters’ sacked workers picket M&S

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FIFTY-NINE sacked workers from the 2 Sisters poultry processing factory in Birmingham travelled to London yesterday, determined to win their jobs back. They demonstrated outside...

NO TUBE AND RAIL CUTS! – ‘Franchising system in its death throes’

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ENDING damaging staff cuts, bringing all of London’s Tube back into the public sector and getting the network’s upgrade back on track are more...
Massive protest strike last Friday by McDonald’s TGI Friday’s, Uber Eats and Wetherspoon workers made a huge impact on Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell

Labour to scrap Universal Credit! – John McDonnell makes a pledge

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SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell pledged yesterday that Labour will scrap Universal Credit (UC). Interviewed by Sky’s Sophy Ridge, he was asked to comment on reports...

JOHNSON URGES MPs TO SUPPORT HIS WAR ON RUSSIA!

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PRIME Minister Boris Johnson spent less than five minutes apologising over ‘Partygate’ to the House of Commons yesterday, before putting it to one side. He...

XMAS DAY SACKINGS! – RMT pledges taking action

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RMT general secretary Mick Cash yesterday condemned as ‘disgraceful’ the Christmas Day sackings of 2,727 City Link workers. The announcement said that parcel delivery firm...

DOCTORS TAKE PENSIONS ACTION!–following the lead of the firefighters

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AT least a dozen doctors are to take legal action against the government because they believe they were forced to join a pension scheme...
TUC delegates wave Palestinian flags and condemn Israel’s new racist law

Israel’s Nation-State Law condemned by the TUC!

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TUC DELEGATES in Manchester yesterday waved Palestinian flags as they voted unanimously for Emergency Motion 4, ‘Cuts to UNWRA and the Nation-State Law.’ This...

Murder of Sarah Everard: PC Couzens pleads guilty – Commissioner Dick refuses questions

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METROPOLITAN Police officer Wayne Couzens yesterday pleaded guilty to murdering Sarah Everard. The 33-year-old vanished while walking home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south...
Ambulance staff taking strike action at Deptford Ambulance Station were concerned at the way cuts were affecting the service

Ambulance Cuts Are Costing Lives!

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EAST of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) management operated a policy of downgrading target response times for 999 emergency calls from December 18th...

MASSIVE CORRECTION – on the way says BIS bank

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THE head of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) issued a chilling warning yesterday. . . that the world economic system is headed for...