Father Chrismas with two young children at the Young Socialists Xmas Bazaar – many children will be going without this Christmas

15,000 depend on foodbanks this Christmas!

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THE number of people who turn to foodbanks over the Christmas fortnight is expected to double, with the economic crisis driving more households below...

Defiant Nicholson won’t quit

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NHS Chief Executive, Sir David Nicholson, who presided over the Mid Stafford Hospital disaster where there were more than 1,000 unnecessary deaths, yesterday refused...
Demonstrators on last Saturday’s 100,000-strong demonstration through central London characterise the leaders of the imperialist alliance

Hezbollah Halts Israeli Advance

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Hezbollah said its fighters killed or wounded 15 Israeli soldiers trying to advance towards the border village of Aita al-Shaab yesterday morning, as fighting...

Right Wing Racists Rule In Israel

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A NEW government, seen as the most right wing and racist in Israel’s history has been agreed, sealing Binyamin Netanyahu’s return to power. Netanyahu, who...
Students and lecturers marching in London last November against the introducton of £9,000 tuition fees

Pension Strikes At 63 Universities

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‘Well over a million students at 63 UK universities will be hit with strike action this month unless a dispute over changes to staff...
The picket line at East London Mail Centre during this month’s unofficial strike over Royal Mail’s imposition of new starting times

REJECT CWU SELL-OUT – call angry CWU members

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THE CWU (Communications Workers Union) yesterday accepted the Royal Mail offer on pay along with plans to modernise the company and reform the...
GPs demonstrating to ‘save your surgery’ in Rugby earlier this year

Bma Launches ‘Save Your Surgery Campaign’

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday announced a national ‘Support your Surgery’ campaign to defend and promote NHS GP services in England. The BMA warned:...
The 500,000-strong TUC demonstration on March 28 last year – the march called for October 20 this year is set to be even bigger

Smash The Pay Freeze!

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Shadow chancellor Ed Balls provoked the fury of the unions at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester yesterday with his refusal to pledge a...

Banfield slams 2.8% pay offer

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HEALTH and education unions have warned the Labour government that they won’t accept its imposition of a miserly 2.8% pay cap on them for...

BUSH WON’T MEET BROWN! – as banks scramble for B of E loans

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Prime minister Brown met Wall Street fund managers yesterday, officially for talks on how best to protect savings and pensions during the current global...

End Middle East wars says Corbyn!

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‘THE WAR on terror isn’t working,’ Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, said in his first speech since the Manchester terror attack. The speech...

Greek Workers Want An Indefinite General Strike

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WORKERS in Greece are building up a tremendous multi-form action front, with occupations of ministries and state buildings, strikes and demonstrations, against the barbaric...

NHS England blockaded! No contracts with Israeli military supplier

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HUNDREDS of health workers blocked the entrance to NHS England’s headquarters in central London yesterday. They were demanding the cancellation of business deals with American...
A determined march of 20,000 protestors took place in London last Saturday demanding an end to the occupation of Palestine

HAMAS OFFERS AMNESTY – while Abbas decides to rule by decree

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HAMAS yesterday released dozens of Fatah security commanders and Fatah officials detained during the past week in Gaza, and offered an amnesty to other...
BRIAN HAW (centre), a victim of Blair’s Serious Organised Crime and Police Act – His picket line outside the House of Commons was dismantled by 78 riot police – yesterday his appearance at the High Court for alleged breach of bail conditions was postponed

Prescott-Blair Fate Linked

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Pressure mounted on deputy prime minister Prescott to quit yesterday, with Labour MPs queueing up to say he should go despite warnings that if...
Last November 30 saw a massive pensions strike against the coalition government

Pensions strike March 28th!

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MARITIME and transport union RMT confirmed yesterday that its members in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ‘will strike alongside public sector colleagues on the 28th...
Students demonstrating at Sussex University yesterday will be coming up to the ULU demonstration this afternoon

Unison & UCU condemn ULU police violence

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UCU and Unison have condemned the police and management attacks on students and staff at the University of London Union (ULU) which is...

No Grenfell criminal charges until 2021!

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CAMPAIGNERS have reacted with fury at news that criminal charges over the Grenfell Tower fire may not be considered until 2021. Scotland Yard will not...

Mandate For NHS Privatisation

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SECRETARY of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, delivered his Annual Report to Parliament on the Health Service yesterday, to coincide with the publication of...
Left to right: Unite convenors LAURIE EVANS and GARY REA, GM UK Finance Director RICHARD MOLYNEUX with Lord MANDELSON and GM UK Chairman BILL PARFITT (far right)

GM CRISIS – Mandelson rules out Luton nationalisation

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BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson emerged from his meeting with union officials and the top General Motors management in Luton yesterday unable to guarantee the...

Australian doctors demand ‘humane stance’

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IN THE British Medical Journal today, a leading doctor is calling on the Australian government to stop constraining doctors in the care of asylum...
Nurses marching in Nottingham last month demanding no cuts to the NHS

AN ‘OUTRAGEOUS PAY CUT’! – UNISON & RCN reject pay board threats

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Trade unions representing nurses, midwives and health workers covered by the ‘independent’ Pay Review Body (PRB), yesterday reacted angrily to a government-proposed huge ‘pay...

CORBYN WINS INQUIRY INTO UK’s ROLE IN ISRAEL’S GAZA GENOCIDE

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THE FIRST Reading of a Bill calling for ‘an independent public inquiry into the UK co-operation with Israel since October 2023’ was passed unopposed...

‘The ANC is in a mess’ – Zingiswa Losi COSATU President

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‘THE ANC NEC lekgotla was the opportunity to address and correct the existential crises facing the nation, the state and the movement. The question...
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...
100,000 workers demonstrated in Dublin in support of the Irish Ferries workers’ occupation against cheap labour – now Stena line crews are facing a similar attack

Stena Plan For Cheap Labour Crews

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The proposal by Stena Line to introduce a low-waged Polish crew on their Stena Seatrader ferry on the Dublin/Holyhead route from next July was...

Starmer Trashes Labour Renationalisation Policy

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LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves trashed the party’s renationalisation policy yesterday. In a speech in Liverpool, with a back-drop bedecked...
Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers Lobby Tuc

‘WE’RE LOBBYING TUC TODAY’ say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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‘WE want to know if the TUC agrees with what the T&G has done to us,’ Gate Gourmet locked-out worker Sharanjit Grewal said...
Greek university students on the march

‘THROW OUT THE GOVERNMENT’ – demand Greek workers and students

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OVER 5,000 university students and public sector workers held an impressive and militant rally and march in Athens last Thursday against the government’s plans...
Unison members demonstrating against government plans for local pay on the TUC march last October 2012. Such protests could be criminalised under the Lobbying Bill

The Lobbying Bill is a ‘massive attack on trade union rights!’

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THE government’s Lobbying Bill is an ‘outrageous attack on freedom of speech worthy of an authoritarian dictatorship’, the TUC said yesterday. The TUC is seeking...

Brown Denies Split With Bank Of England Head King

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Prime minister Brown yesterday attempted to play down reports of rifts with the Bank of England, and between the EU and the US...
Enthusiastic picket at the Lewisham site of Lewisham & Southwark College yesterday against the plan to cut 112 jobs

Lewisham & London Met Strike Action!

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LECTURERS were on strike at Lewisham and Southwark College yesterday over 112 sackings because of the closure of the Southwark site in Camberwell, southeast...

MORE PALESTINIANS KILLED – as America and Israel pressure PNA to disarm

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WHILE the US was piling the pressure on Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to force the Palestine National Authority to disarm all the anti-occupation groups,...
Pickets at Heathrow during the 2010 cabin crew strike that brought in cut-price cabin crew

Cabin Crew Strike Over Poverty Pay!

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THOUSANDS of cabin crew working for British Airways ‘Mixed Fleet’ have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action over poverty pay and broken promises. Seventy-nine...
A section of the 20,000-strong march in London on Saturday demanding that the UK apologise for the Balfour Declaration and recognise the state of Palestine

‘WE HAVE INTENSE SECURITY COOPERATION’ – says PM Netanyahu

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‘ISRAEL stands out as a beacon of democracy,’ Israel’s PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, arrogantly claimed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday. This came when Marr challenged...

Nationwide protests against rail fare hikes today

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A WAVE of protests are taking place outside train stations across the country this morning as millions of commuters see their ticket fare...

Blair Whitewash –

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‘The way things are going they are going to wrap everything up – they are covering up everything,’ the cousin of murdered Brazilian Jean...

Gadaffi – fighting alongside his soldiers – says Juburi

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MISH'AN al-Juburi, director of the Al-Ra’y Satellite Channel, has said that Libyan leader Muammar al-Gadaffi is still in Libya fighting side by side...

Welfare and spending cuts are leading to more food banks!

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THE expansion of food banks across the United Kingdom is associated with cuts in spending on local services, welfare benefits and higher unemployment rates,...
SARAH and BEN NORRIS with their triplets EVE, LOLA and DYLAN took part In the march to defend Lewisham Hospital on November 26

Defend Our Hospitals!

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OVER 400 people lobbied Lewisham hospital on Thursday evening in response to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s announcement that the hospital’s A&E is to be...
PCS members on the picket line outside the National Gallery demanding no privatisation

National Gallery strike today!

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NATIONAL Gallery staff are taking their 24th day of strike action today against the privatisation of the gallery. Today begins eleven more days of...
Students, lecturers and supporters marching against hundreds of job cuts at London Metropolitan University last summer

SAVAGE SPENDING CUTS – ‘will have serious consequences’ says UCU leader

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‘YOU cannot make savage funding cuts without serious consequences, despite Lord Mandelson’s insulting efforts to sell the cuts as an opportunity,’ said UCU general...

20,000 are threatened with eviction during corona crisis

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THE TORIES had promised a ‘complete ban’ on evictions from both council and private social housing. However, anger erupted yesterday as it emerged that...

90 Birmingham bin strikers rally outside Parliament – won’t accept any pay cuts

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NINETY Birmingham bin strikers came down on a double-decker bus to London to a Unite union rally outside Parliament yesterday afternoon. Strike leader Mike Masters...

‘Heathrow sits on mountain of cash while sacking 4,000’ says Unite as strike ballot...

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‘HEATHROW’S cash mountain should be used to help low paid staff threatened by “fire and rehire”,’ Unite said yesterday. Heathrow workers are currently being...