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Police stop and search young people near to the Climate Change camp at Heathrow Airport

ELEVEN ARRESTED! – in climate change protest

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ON the third day of the Climate Change camp, on the northern perimeter of Heathrow Airport, 1800 police were on duty, searching, monitoring and...

Tories unveil sweeping new police powers to ban protests

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THE POLICE, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which threatens the fundamental right to protest, was introduced to Parliament yesterday. The government published some of the...
On the road from Stone to Stoke marchers were given food and refreshments by Kot Moon from the Thai Lanna restaurant who also offered his full support for the march

‘The Working Class Have To Form A Government’

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LOCAL residents from Macclesfield, braved the rain yesterday morning to join the Young Socialists March for Jobs as it left the centre of the...

2.6% RAIL HIKES – Privateers get 15p in every £1 – RMT

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PRIVATISED rail profits have racked up 15 pence of every pound passengers paid on fares, transport union the RMT said yesterday on the day...

Allies warn Russia to stop bombing ISIS

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TURKEY, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have called on Russia to stop its air strikes in Syria,...
Greek workers and students marching against massive cuts

Greek Default – 250,000 Jobs Under Threat

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AS European Commission officials and European leaders prepare a Greek default, Greek ministers have outlined barbaric plans for the wholesale destruction of public services...
BMA members marching in central London against the Health Bill – the BMA has now demanded that Lansley resign

LANSLEY RESIGN! – BMA demands

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DELEGATES at the BMA representatives meeting in Bournemouth yesterday called for Health Secretary Lansley to resign against the advice of their leadership. Motion 22 from...

Tories ‘concealed building safety risks’ – Grenfell inquiry hears

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THE GRENFELL Inquiry heard yesterday that the government ‘concealed the risks of building safety’ and that deregulation ‘should be regarded as one of the...

UNISON TO BALLOT – over 3-year NHS wage-cutting deal

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DELEGATES at the UNISON Health Conference in Manchester yesterday voted to ballot over the government’s staged three-year pay deal. The UNISON leaders had previously accepted...
Unilever workers descended on the company’s headquarters from all over the UK

Defend Unilever Pensions

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Unilever workers from all over the country yesterday descended on the London headquarters, outraged at the company’s ending of their final salary pension scheme. They...

RCN calls 48-hour national strike

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) has announced a round-the-clock 48-hour strike from 8pm on Sunday 30th April to 8pm on Tuesday 2nd May,...
WRP candidate ANNA ATHOW found that her stand to defend the NHS and keep all hospitals open is very well supported

OUR HOSPITALS MUST NOT CLOSE! – Voters tell Enfield WRP candidate Anna Athow

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Enfield North WRP election candidate Anna Athow and her campaign team received a big response on the High Street yesterday. Anna, a consultant surgeon, has...

Hammond pledges to bring down no-deal Tories!

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Chancellor Hammond said yesterday that he would seek to bring down the Tory government if it tried to take Britain out of the European...

Corbyn makes May an offer

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in his speech to the party conference yesterday, made Tory PM May an offer: he said that Labour would give...

President Abbas meets Blinken in Ramallah!

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‘WE THANK the US for the support given to the State of Palestine,’ President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday at a joint press conference with...

MARCH WITH US THROUGH SOUTHALL say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to join them on their march through Southall on Sunday December...

‘Call off strikes or be sacked!’ – Southern rail managers declare war on staff

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IN AN unprecedented attack on the right to strike, Southern rail managers have given the RMT union the following ultimatum: call off all...

Corbyn calls for Customs Union and Single Market

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‘IT IS TIME for Parliament to take control,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday, responding to Tory PM May’s statement to Parliament on the...
Demonstrators outside the Home Office yesterday demanding the government halts a charter flight that was due to take off to Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last night, with worries that those being dispatched to the DRC would be in grave danger and

REFUGEES RETURNED – to face death and torture

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DOZENS of angry people staged an emergency demonstration outside the Home Office yesterday, demanding the government immediately halts deportations to the Democratic Republic of...

Dozens more innocent civilians murdered by Israel!

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AS the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip enters its 70th day in a row, dozens of innocent civilians were brutally murdered Thursday night...
Unison leader prentis (right) pledged to establish a public sector alliance to fight all cuts

Don’t Cut Public Services

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Public-sector union Unison yesterday cautioned against panic cuts in public services in the wake of record government borrowing. UK public sector net borrowing, which takes...

LEBANESE REVOLUTION! – masses opposed to all sectarianism

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HUNDREDS of people have been wounded in Beirut after security forces used tear gas and water cannon to disperse crowds of anti-government protesters trying...
Hand off our Horton campaign, one of the many fighting to defend the NHS

‘Women refused admission to Maternity! – Glasgow Health Board apologises

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THE GREATER Glasgow health board has apologised after women in labour were refused admission to a maternity unit because of overcrowding. NHS Greater Glasgow and...
Gate Gourmet workers from Heathrow outside their Employment Tribunal last week – the Irish SIPTU union is concerned over the company’s ‘profiling’ of its workforce in Dublin

‘Sinister’ Gate Gourmet Dublin

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Irish union SIPTU general president Jack O’Connor has expressed concern overplans by Gate Gourmet, Dublin, to carry out profiling of individual workers to ascertain...

Wrack Condemns Backstabber Khan

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FIRE Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack yesterday responded to London mayor Sadiq Khan’s decision to backstab Corbyn and urge Labour voters to ditch...
Striking lecturers and masses of students were addressed yesterday by Chris Townsend representing the student occupation

Lecturers more resolute than ever

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STUDENTS and other supporters at the University of Sheffield rallied outside Firth Court yesterday and welcomed Chris Townsend, representing the three-day-old student occupation of...
Part of the audience at the recent TUC Public Services rally in Westminster applauding calls for public sector-wide strike action

Unison Vote For Sustained Strike Action

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UNISON’s local government members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have voted by 55% to 45% for a programme of sustained strike action over...

Powerful demo to stop ticket office closures

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A POWERFUL demonstration against mass railway ticket office hours cuts and total closures was held outside London’s Kings Cross Station early yesterday morning, with...

Ni NHS In Crisis!

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THE financial crisis facing the North of Ireland’s Health Trusts is so severe that four out of five Trusts have failed to break even...
Young Soialists demonstrating in Norwich demanding jobs for youth, free state education and an end to state repression of young people

Long-Term Youth Unemployment Up 41.9% In A Year

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THE number of young people in long-term unemployment has soared by 41.9 per cent in the last year, the latest unemployment figures from the...

US Was Given Notice Of Attack!

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IRAN’S Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) say none of its missiles were intercepted during Wednesday’s heavy strike that targeted two US bases inside Iraq...

NHS ‘safe staffing’ suspended

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THE ‘SAFE staffing levels’ for hospitals across the UK have been suspended, sending alarm bells ringing throughout the NHS. This has prompted the Royal College...

Barnet Strike Action Today

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UNISON’s Barnet branch members will be taking strike action on budget day, today, as part of their ongoing battle against the rampant privatisation of...
Mothers lobbying the Clinical Commissioning Group in April to demand that Ealing Maternity Department be kept open. The Group decided to postpone a decision on the closure until after the election

Save Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit

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BUSWORKERS bought their tickets for the June 16th meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday. Last month, the Ealing Clinical Commissioning...

1,000 MARCH FOR VICTORY Make dispute official demand Gate Gourmet workers

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‘I congratulate all the sacked workers who are standing up and fighting for their rights,’ said locked out Gate Gourmet worker Harbinder Singh to...

SECOND CLASS CITIZENS! – elderly being mistreated

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Public services often fail to consider the special needs of older people, who are being treated like ‘second class citizens’, Age Concern said yesterday. It...

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...
Greek Radio & Tv Technicians Picket Labour Ministry

Greek Radio & Tv Technicians Picket Labour Ministry

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About 100 Greek radio and TV technicians and journalists gathered outside the building of the Ministry for Labour in central Athens at midday on...

£250 A SECOND – £1 million more unemployed will cost taxpayers £8.1billion

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ON THE eve of today’s Budget, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber warned that if the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) claimants increases...

Birmingham massacre of service

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BIRMINGHAM city council is selling off its community centres and youth centres with millions of pounds of public property being auctioned off to housing...

Lecturers are angry

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UNIVERSITY lecturers union UCU warned yesterday that they will take any university management to court if they dock a full day’s pay from their...
A section of the 2,000-strong march on February 3rd to keep open Whipps Cross Hospital

Unison National NHS Demo On June 30

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UNISON confirmed yesterday that it is holding a National Demonstration in London on Saturday June 30 in defence of the NHS. A spokeswoman told...
Students and staff from London Metropolitan University lobby of the board of governors on December 15

UNIS WILL BE FORCED TO AXE THOUSANDS – warns Universities UK President

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Thirty per cent funding cuts will force universities to axe thousands of courses, lecturers and students, university bosses’ most senior representative has warned. In...
SOAS Samba Band and SOAS students support striking lecturers picketing the university over a derisory 1% pay offer

Lecturers Take Strike Action!

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AT 11.00am yesterday, University staff across the country walked out on strike in anger in the first of a series of two-hour strikes in...

Palestinians Evicted From Their Homes!

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JERUSALEM – Israeli police yesterday morning quelled a rally against the forced expulsions of Palestinian families from the Batn al-Hawa area of Silwan in...