Job Centre Strike!

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Thousands of Jobcentre Plus (JCP) call centre staff will strike on April 18 after bosses refused to improve working conditions and customer service, the...
Student nurses demanding bursaries are restored – the number of applicants is down 10%

Student nurse numbers plummet again

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THE TORIES axing of the student nurses and midwives bursary has caused numbers applying to plummet even further, this time by 10%, meaning that...

Families are struggling with cost of living admits Reeves

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FOOD, clothing, footwear, fuel, non-alcoholic drinks, alcohol, tobacco, and gig & play tickets all rose at a faster pace last month, leading to another...
Junior doctors outside the Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell where the GMB is planning to have a strike ballot for a living wage of £10 an hour and an end to a two-tier workforce

Living Wage Battle!

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GMB officers are seeking permission for a strike ballot after pay talks broke down covering 175 GMB members employed as domestics and hostesses by...

Britain must recognise state of Palestine!

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THE 25th National March for Palestine assembled outside Green Park in Piccadilly in central London on Saturday morning, with 50,000 demonstrators chanting: ‘From the...

Health Cuts Continue

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Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, Somerset, yesterday became the latest to announce cuts in the face of mounting NHS deficits. Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust...

Draconian police state powers

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DRACONIAN emergency powers contained within the Coronavirus Bill were debated during the bill’s second reading in Parliament yesterday. Police state measures were outlined to detain...

Tory PM Johnson to prorogue Parliament

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THE QUEEN has been asked by Tory PM Boris Johnson to prorogue Parliament days after MPs return from the Summer break, which will mean...

Unite & GMB Take On Energy Giants!

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‘THERE is a real possibility that supplies of petroleum products could be affected,’ union leaders warned yesterday as Unite and the GMB unions announced...
Angry GMB and PCS members working for Historic Royal Palaces on the picket line outside Hampton Court Palace yesterday lunchtime

Palace Gardeners’ strike action

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ANGRY GMB and PCS members working for Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) were on picket lines outside Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London...

Ukraine to halt aid convoy

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UKRAINE''S coupist regime says it will stop a 280-truck Russian aid convoy containing 2,000 tons of goods including baby food and sleeping bags from...

Scottish school fire – No smoke alarms!

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EVERY school in the country must be immediately assessed for fire risk, the EIS teachers union urged, after an investigation found that Cairneyhill Primary...

4,000 Tube station staff to strike on Monday 6th June!

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THE RMT transport union is holding a network-wide strike of 4,000 station staff members on London Underground on Monday 6th June, bringing the Tube...

Joint Statement From Gmb And Laboursource

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GMB and LabourSource Ltd have reached agreement over the pay, conditions and treatment of the company's migrant workforce that resolves all misunderstandings and issues...
Determined postal workers demonstrating outside Royal Mail head office in London’s Old Street last Friday

Oxford Cwu Out To Defend Rep

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Communication Workers Union (CWU) members in Oxford, who walked out on strike in defence of a senior rep, have voted to continue their unofficial...

Israel destroys 95% of Gaza’s fishing fleet

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ISRAEL has continued its genocidal assault on Palestinian civilians across Gaza and occupied Jerusalem this week. The Gaza Centre for Human Rights issued a report...

Food Prices Rocketing As The Supermarkets Impose Rationing

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FOOD prices are rising at their fastest rate for 45 years, with the cost of basics such as milk, cheese and eggs surging and...
Ealing Hospital Medirest strikers on the picket line during their seven-day strike last month – they have now won a 16 per cent pay increase

Big victory for Ealing Hospital workers

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THE GMB trade union yesterday declared a massive victory for low-paid Ealing Hospital ancillary workers. The union called off strike action, due from yesterday by...
Young mother GLEISA LIMA with her one month-old baby Victoria joined the West London Council picket of Ealing Hospital to demand the hospital’s Maternity Department be reopened

Reopen Ealing Maternity!

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‘MY BABY Victoria was born at Ealing Hospital and is one month old today,’ said mother Gleisa Lima outside the hospital yesterday morning. She...
Health workers marching to defend the NHS last March

Publish Health Bill Risk Register!

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‘Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is deceiving the public about the true adverse impact of his health bill,’ Unite leader Len McCluskey insisted yesterday, as...
Ahmad Chalabi, a Pentagon favourite

May Day manifesto! Keep the Tories out! The working class will deal with Blair!

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THE Editorial Board of the News Line, the daily socialist paper of the WRP, sends its greetings to the workers and youth of the...

Welsh NHS Cuts!

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‘We are very concerned for our members and our communities,’ Wales UNISON head of health Dave Gallaghan told News Line yesterday. He was responding to...
Union leaders at the front of a march demanding no cuts and no sell-off of the NHS

Three months to save NHS – ‘from free market free-for-all’ says Miliband

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‘We have three months to prevent great harm being done to the NHS,’ Labour leader Ed Miliband said yesterday. In an article for the Observer,...

Rally against St Mungo’s union-busting!

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‘ST MUNGO’S should hang its head in shame,’ said Unite ahead of today’s solidarity midday rally outside the homelessness charity’s London HQ in St...

‘PLAYING A DANGEROUS GAME’ – Scottish BMA condemns coalition

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The leader of Scotland’s doctors has yesterday warned that a series of direct attacks on the medical workforce is testing the goodwill of the...

Russia issues defence warning!

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RUSSIA has issued another warning against a proposal made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on ‘a true European Defence Union’. The Kremlin...
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...
Newly formed University and College Union members on their solidarity march yesterday

DECENT OFFER NOW! – say 5,000 marching NATFHE and AUT members

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‘UCEA employers should be sacked for causing disruption in our colleges,’ declared Dennis Hayes, president of the newly formed Universities and Colleges Union, following...

University staff step up struggle

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MORE WORKERS at 74 universities across the country joined the strike yesterday as students also came out onto the picket lines to support their...

Gate Gourmet anger over attack on BA stewards

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GATE Gourmet workers were very angry yesterday when they heard that BA has decided that three BA shop stewards are to face disciplinary...

Scrap Tories’ ‘Hostile Environment’ – demand Human Rights lawyers on 72nd anniversary of Windrush

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YESTERDAY, campaigners marked the 72nd anniversary of the landing of the Empire Windrush, bringing hundreds people to live and work here from the Caribbean,...
Birmingham binmen and their supporters rally last Sunday

Binmen win legal action! – Labour Council ordered to withdraw redundancies

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THE UNITE union yesterday called on Birmingham city Labour council to honour the ACAS agreement and resolve the Birmingham bin dispute after the High...
Teachers picket outside the Crest Boys Academy in Neasden yesterday morning

E-Act breaks no-redundancy pledge to education unions

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A STRIKE by all three teacher unions, the ATL, NASUWT and NUT, took place yesterday at Crest Boys’ Academy in Neasden and the school...
Youth marching on the mass march on the anniversary of the Grenfell fire – TUC delegates demand flammable cladding is banned

‘WORST FIRE SINCE BLITZ’ –Congress discusses Grenfell inferno

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DELEGATES at the Trade Union Congress in Manchester yesterday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 3: Grenfell Tower. The motion condemns the tragedy where...

‘A CHILLING ATTACK ON THE PUBLIC SECTOR’ –Prentis condemns government cuts

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‘Prime Minister Cameron’s plans to slash public spending will hit the poor and the vulnerable,’ TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber warned yesterday. Commenting on ...
A number of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers outside their Employment Tribunal in Reading yesterday morning

STAFF ‘LOCKED IN THE GATE GOURMET CANTEEN’ – sacked shop steward tells Employment Tribunal

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THE Gate Gourmet locked out workers’ employment tribunal in Reading continued yesterday with the case for the sacked workers. First to appear was Sajit Sandu,...

UAE & Israel ‘normalise’ relations!

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ISRAEL and the United Arab Emirates reached a deal yesterday that will lead to a full normalisation of diplomatic relations between the two, in...

Leon Briggs’ family furious! – no action against police after his death

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NO ACTION is to be taken against the police after the death of Leon Briggs, who died after being restrained by police in 2013,...

Eurozone Collapsing!

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Tory prime minister Cameron’s decision to veto an EU-wide treaty change over eurozone financial rules was ‘largely political’, Business Secretary Vince Cable said yesterday. He...
GMB exposes venture capitalist

GMB exposes venture capitalist

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The GMB trade union yesterday launched a campaign outside Holy Trinity Church, Clapham Common, south London, to stop venture capitalists asset-stripping the AA. The...
The march on May 2nd from the hospital into Ealing demanding that the maternity unit not be allowed to close

ACTION NEEDED! – to save Ealing Maternity

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DOCTORS, midwives and local residents yesterday spoke out against the closure of Ealing Hospital maternity unit, planned for the 1st of July. Ian McKenzie, doctor...

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...
The Young Socialists Students Societies taking part in yesterday’s march against fees

‘All-out strike to make education free’

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‘STUDENTS and lecturers must go out on strike, in fact, I am for an all-out strike, to ensure education is free,’ said Dalia Giuaballa,...
The National Union of Journalists staged a protest against the takeover of BSkyB in March this year

STOP BskyB TAKEOVER!

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Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been forced to delay any decision on the BSkyB takeover by News International until September, it emerged yesterday. This was...

Sixth Forms strike: ‘urgent funds now!’

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A LONDON march and rally marking the fifth day of strike action in over 30 Sixth Form Colleges took place yesterday, with union leaders...