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DETROIT GOES BUST – Democracy suspended! says US union leader Saunders

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US federal and local government workers union AFSCME President Lee Saunders has slammed Michigan Governor Snyder for ‘suspending democracy’ in Detroit and filing for...

Capitalism is crashing – Build revolutionary leadership! – News Line 55th Anniversary rally is...

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‘CAPITALISM is crashing in Britain and all over the world,’ Workers Revolutionary Party Central Committee member Frank Sweeney told the News Line 55th Anniversary...

Chancellor Reeves in crisis as government borrowing soars!

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CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves is facing mounting pressure as government borrowing soars far beyond expectations, alongside new signs of economic decline. In the year to March,...

POINTS INCORRECTLY SET UP – were the cause of Grayrigg disaster

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Rail union RMT yesterday renewed its call for a joint public inquiry into the Grayrigg and Potters Bar rail crashes and a reversal of...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers yesterday campaigning for their First Anniversary March

Gate Gourmet workers campaign for anniversary march

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were interviewed by the Heathrow Airport free newspaper Skyport yesterday. Parmjit Bains told News Line: ‘All Heathrow Airport workers read it. ‘They...

Serco Altered Data For Out Of Hours Gp Service

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PRIVATEER Serco failed to provide enough staff for the out-of-hours GP services it is contracted to run in Cornwall, the National Audit Office has...

Scrap Capability Assessments! – the cause of ‘needless misery’

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Damian Green is today set to announce a consultation on reforming the hated Work Capability Assessment Tests of claimants of...

Blair Says Troops To Stay In Iraq

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THE new puppet Prime Minister of Iraq, Jaffari, has just visited both Washington and London to make sure that a beleaguered President Bush and...

RBS BANK CRASHES! – from £5bn pfofit down to £802m loss

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The Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday revealed a half-year net loss of £802 million, the second biggest in British banking history. This was after...

Petrol Prices Rocketing!

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SOARING fuel and domestic energy prices led to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate rising from 2.7% to 2.8% in February, the Office...
Firefighters defiantly lobbying the Fire Brigade HQ in Waterloo making clear they will not accept any cuts or sackings

FBU to strike – Oct 19

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FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales will strike again over government attacks on pensions next Saturday, 19 October, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced yesterday. The...
Student nurses and midwives marching to demand that their bursary is restored – axing the bursary has worsened the staffing crisis

Maternity & midwife cuts – 1,000 stillbirths

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THE CLOSURE of maternity departments at hospitals up and down the country and the severe lack of midwives has created a situation where as...

Gaza Critical – ‘Hunger Rebellion’ In Nablus

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UNRWA, the United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees, yesterday evening suspended its operations in the Gaza Strip citing a shortage of fuel. The suspension means...

Israeli mass murder continues

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THE Palestinian Mission in London reported yesterday that ‘In the past year Israeli government forces have further intensified their provocations and attack against Al-Aqsa...

Infected blood scandal – 72 died from contaminated drug at single school

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A PUBLIC inquiry yesterday heard from students and parents after more than 120 ex pupils at a school for disabled children were caught up...
CWU pickets at Brockley Delivery Office during their strike on August 7th

London Postal Workers Out Today

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ALL London postal districts are taking 24-hour strike action today, as the CWU (Communication Workers Union) fights the Royal Mail/Labour government onslaught on postal...

ACTION NEEDED: ‘NHS AT THE CROSSROADS’ says BMA leader

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THE leader of the British Medical Association (BMA) warned yesterday that the health service is under unprecedented pressure, with many parts of the NHS...

Inquiry into police spying on unions – union heads demand transparency

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LEADERS of many of the largest and most prominent trade unions in the UK, have jointly signed a letter demanding that immediate action is...

18,000 NURSES FACE SACK! – says RCN

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‘The impact of deficits on NHS services and staff shows no sign of slowing down, with posts at risk of being lost to the...
Millions of trade unionists are fighting to defend their jobs, wages and pensions and are convinced that crisis-ridden capitalism must go

Banks New Quantitative Easing Fears

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PRESSURE is mounting on the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to consider another round of emergency Quantitative Easing (QE – printing money)...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the factory yesterday – threatened with arrest by Heathrow Airport police

Locked-out workers picket Gate Gourmet

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Gate Gourmet locked out workers picketed the Heathrow caterer’s factory gate yesterday. This was after Heathrow Airport police, accompanied by a British Airports Authority manager,...
Nurses battling against the pay cap are warning that it is responsible for the huge shortage of nurses

RCN urges safety review of winter nurse numbers!

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HEALTH and care providers must examine whether they have enough nursing staff to provide safe patient care this winter, the Royal College of Nursing...

Dup/tory Deal ‘Cash-For-Votes Bung’

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‘CASH-FOR-VOTES’ and ‘an outrageous straight bung’ were how SNP Leader in Westminster Ian Blackford and Wales First Minister Carwyn Jones described the Tory-DUP...

Coulson Leave To Appeal

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PRIME minister Cameron’s former press secretary Andy Coulson yesterday won a ruling that he can appeal against News International’s refusal to pay his legal...

NATO massacres Afghan civilians

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TWELVE Afghan civilians – ten children and two women – and one NATO soldier have been killed in an operation carried out by US-led...

Johnson surrenders – kneels before ‘Surrender Act’

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A SCOTTISH judge was to be asked yesterday to consider whether Boris Johnson could be jailed if he takes the UK out of the...

Over 40 lecturers and staff picket Queen Mary’s University

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A STRONG contingent of over forty lecturers and staff picketed both gates of Queen Mary’s (QM) University in east London on the second day...

Israel Launches Air, Land And Sea Strikes Against The Palestinians In Gaza

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ISRAEL has launched air, land, and sea strikes, hitting a so-called safe zone in southern Gaza, where thousands of internally displaced Palestinians have sought...
Thousands marched through east London in 2006 to protest at a massive police raid on homes in Forest Gate, in which one young man was wounded, before being detained with his brother. Both were eventually released

NO SECRET INQUESTS! – NO 42 DAYS! – urge human rights groups

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MPs were urged yesterday to vote against government proposals for ‘secret inquests’, and to reject plans for 42-day detention without charge by both human...
Greek police. There have been a number ov violent police attacks on the teachers

Greek Police Assault Teachers’ Leaders

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Greek trade union leaders have called a general strike today after armed riot police furiously attacked teachers union leaders on Monday with batons and...

SA miners strike spreads –as murder charges provisionally dropped

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SOUTH AFRICAN prosecutors yesterday ‘provisionally’ dropped murder charges against 270 miners, 34 of whose colleagues were shot dead by police last month. Many of the...

N Ireland health workers strike!

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NURSES in the RCN union came out on strike for the first time in the union’s 103-year history in the north of Ireland yesterday,...

Food And Clothes Prices Soar

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SOARING food and clothing prices saw the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate measure for March rising to 3.5% from 3.4% in February. The Office...

THIRD YEAR OF WAGE FREEZING! – time to bring down coalition

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Yesterday, local government employers confirmed that they are to impose a pay freeze for the third year running on 1.6 million council workers. Unison, Unite...

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...
This year’s huge February 24th anti-war march setting off from Hyde Park

MPs QUESTION ROLE OF UK FORCES IN BASRA

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‘If there is still a role for UK Forces in Iraq, those Forces must be capable of doing more than just protecting themselves at...

OVERTURN STARMER’S ATTACK ON PENSIONERS! – demands Unite leader Graham

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OVER 200 people protested outside Parliament yesterday to demand the reversal of the Starmer Labour government’s scrapping of the Winter Fuel Allowance for 10...
Striking Lewisham Southwark College lecturers are determined to win a pay rise after years of no increments

Lewisham College 2-day strike Lecturers on poverty pay

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‘THE MONEY’S there. We want our share!’ said striking lecturers at Lewisham Southwark College in southeast London yesterday morning. Members of the University and...

NHS – 15% Rise Now!

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PROTESTS took place outside hospitals yesterday morning after the call by unions to turn April 1st into a day of action for NHS staff...

Egypt Parliament: Put Under Seige!

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Tens of thousands of anti-Mubarak protesters gathered outside Egypt’s parliament yesterday, bringing business to a halt, just several hundred yards from the continuing mass...

Unite rejects cutting NHS ‘sick notes!’

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GOVERNMENT proposals to force GPs to sign fewer sick notes for workers have been rejected by Doctors in Unite, which represents GPs and doctors...
A section of the 2,000-strong demonstration outside the BBC in White City demanding that the BBC must not assist Sri Lanka  genocide against Tamils

Bbc Vetos National Appeal For Gaza

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THE BBC has blocked the nationwide broadcast of a fundraising appeal for Gaza by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) this weekend. The DEC comprises the...
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...

Met ‘failed to perform its legal duty’ when it banned Sarah Everard vigil

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THE Metropolitan Police breached the rights of the organisers of a planned vigil for Sarah Everard, two judges have ruled. The group had to cancel...
Special needs pupils and supporters march against the lack of places in state schools due to government cuts to resources

Tory War On Special Needs!

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TEACHERS unions have condemned the onslaught on children with Special Educational Needs (SEN), launched by the coalition government yesterday. Legislation to slash the rights and...