£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...

Spanish police shoot five!

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SPANISH police shot dead five suspected terrorists in the town of Cambrils yesterday, during a second vehicle attack, hours after another in Barcelona killed...
The Finucane family outside 10 Downing Street in 2000 when they saw Labour Prime Minister Blair and demanded a public enquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane

Finucane Report Is A Whitewash Says Family

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‘YET another British government has engineered the repression of the truth behind the murder of my husband Pat Finucane.’ This was the response of Geraldine...

LEGISLATION IS ESSENTIAL – says Leveson

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LORD JUSTICE Leveson yesterday called for tougher press self-regulation backed by legislation. Announcing the publication of his report at a news conference which took no...

More London bus strikes

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THOUSANDS of London bus workers will take strike action next Thursday 5th July followed by action on Tuesday 24 July in a dispute over...

Re-Open Maternity & Children’s Ward Demands Picket

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‘RE-OPEN maternity! Re-open Children’s Ward! Save Ealing Hospital!’ rang out early yesterday morning as over 50 people joined the mass Xmas picket of Ealing...
ESOL lecturers and students presented a 15,000-signature petition to Downing Street yesterday

DEFEND ENGLISH CLASSES! – says UCU and students

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TEACHERS and students from across London went to Downing Street yesterday, to present a mass petition against the attack on the right to learn...

British Gas – 500% Profits Rise

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‘This greed has got to be stopped and the government should step in now and levy a windfall tax on the company,’ said UNISON...

£1.90 AN HOUR ON CELTIC FERRIES – major unions lead protest

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LEADERS and officials of Britain and Ireland’s transport unions will today expose the poverty-pay shame of a ferry company operating in UK and Irish...
The RMT is in the front rank of the struggle to keep guards on trains and to renationalise the entire rail network

End Taxpayer Bailouts Of Private Railways!

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WITH services collapsing into chaos the RMT has demanded publication of contract documentation which shows that Northern Rail get paid whether they run services...

The prince and the oligarch

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AN investment bank, led by an oligarch who collaborated with Prince Charles on charity work, managed a network of offshore companies moving billions out...
Over 60 local residents, supporters and youth massed on the balcony yesterday morning in Southwark to stop the eviction of Aminata Sellu by bailiffs supported by the police

Aminata Eviction Stopped!

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‘I AM not going to give up, I am going to fight the council until they give me and my family somewhere to live...

900 Lebanese killed

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All Israeli troops must leave Lebanon before we can accept a ceasefire, Hezbollah said yesterday as its fighters battled an Israeli force of 10,000...

Greenspan Lashes Bush

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Alan Greenspan, the former head of the US Federal Reserve has released his memoirs, ‘The Age of Turbulence’, just as the economy goes into...
Junior doctors rallying to defend the NHS – they have now proven to Health Secretary Hunt that their defence of the NHS is serious

Victory to Junior Doctors! – 98% vote for strike action

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JUNIOR doctors yesterday overwhelmingly voted in favour of taking strike action to defeat the government’s intent to impose a new junior doctor contract in...

Youth demand at least £10 an hour

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‘YOUNG workers are missing out on £200 million in minimum wage pay,’ the TUC says, while demanding at least £10 an hour regardless of...

Brown Wants 3 Years Of Wage Cutting

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THE GMB and PCS unions came out against Prime Minister Brown and Chancellor Darling’s plan to impose three-year pay settlements on public sector workers...
Junior doctors marching on Saturday to defend the NHS – NHS workers will not allow free healthcare to be abolished through privatisation by the Tories

Surge in privatisation threatens NHS – warn health unions

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‘A SURGE in privatisation is threatening free NHS treatment,’ unions say. With contracts worth £5.5bn going to private firms, health sector unions warn of a...
Southern Rail guards on the picket line at Brighton station yesterday morning

Big support for TUC lobby in Brighton

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DAVE Russell, GMB rep for council infrastructure at the Brighton and Hove refuse collection depot yesterday told News Line: ‘We are going to join...

‘Labour can’t be allowed to get away with it!’ – Unite’s Sharon Graham tells...

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Yesterday at the TUC Congress, moving a motion on council funding, Sharon Graham, Unite General Secretary, said: ‘We in the trade unions have enormous...

‘SUSPEND YOUR IMPOSITION AND THE STRIKE WILL BE OFF’ – Woodley pledges to BA’s...

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‘Suspend – not stop indefinitely – suspend your imposition. This strike will be off,’ Unite transport union leader Tony Woodley pledged yesterday. He was speaking...

‘Halt Israel’s ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip’ – Hamas

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HAMAS has called upon Islamic nations and United Nations agencies to urgently address and halt Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Gaza...

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...

‘THIS DEAL WILL COLLAPSE’ – Gourmet pickets tell News Line

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‘A LOT of people feel the same as me. We believe this deal will collapse,’ Mr Singh told News Line on the Gate Gourmet...

Libyan militias hold and torture 7,000 – says UN report

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Some 7,000 people are being held and tortured in inhuman conditions in Libya, in detention centres controlled by militias, according to a leaked new...

Firefighters sign deal to respond to terrorist attacks!

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FIREFIGHTERS in London and Manchester have signed agreements that will see them committed to respond to Marauding Terrorist Attacks (MTA), following a ballot of...
The Young Socialists lobbying the TUC Congress in Brighton, leading the fight for a General Strike to kick out this government and stop the pauperisation of the working class

Coalition plans to slash benefits!

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IN A MOVE to devastate the finances of some of the poorest people in the country, the Coalition Government is planning to break the...
Massive turnout for the rally in central Sheffield yesterday

Millions strike against Coalition

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huge marches and demonstrations were held in towns and cities all over the UK yesterday. More than two million nurses, other health workers, teachers,...

‘Hospitals a thing of the past’ – vicious Tory attack on NHS

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HOSPITALS as we know them will become a thing of the past ‘over the course of the next decade’, with patients being treated...
TGWU Gate Gourmet sacked workers defied their TGWU union leaders and refused to accept the Compromise Agreement which gave away all their legal  and trade union rights. Their struggle continues today – 21 months later – and they remain determined to end t

Gate Gourmet Moves To Cut Wages!

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Thirty drivers at airline caterers Gate Gourmet are furious after receiving letters from the company telling them to accept pay cuts. The Transport and General...

Parents & children lobby Downing St

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OVER 500 parents and children held an angry protest outside Downing Street demanding an increase in funding for children with special educational needs and...

‘Death Of Patient Confidentiality’

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Healthcare privateers and drug companies are to be given access to patients’ records and other NHS data under plans to be unveiled by prime...

British pilots flying US drones

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BRITISH pilots have been flying drones from a US base responsible for covert strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, considered by many to violate international...

Israel Steps Up Jabalia Genocide

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QUADCOPTER drones equipped with loudspeakers instructed Palestinian families trapped inside a UN-run school in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza to flee yesterday,...
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...
Royal Mail CWU pickets out in force at the South London Mail Centre, Nine Elms, South West London yesterday morning

CALL A GENERAL STRIKE! – as Royal Mail gets injunction declaring CWU strikes...

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POSTAL workers yesterday reacted furiously to news that Royal Mail had won an injunction at the High Court banning the next...

Over 500,000 Public Sector Workers Strike

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OVER half a million public sector workers from eight unions were on strike yesterday, fighting against the Tory government’s attack on their pay, conditions...

‘When we win power, it will be to give it to you’ – McDonnell...

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SPEAKING at a press conference on the ‘first hundred days’ of a Labour government, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell, pledged: ‘So let...

Docklands strike illegal!

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THE rail union RMT yesterday called off the Docklands Light Railway 48-hour strike after it was declared illegal by the judiciary. In a message to...
Capita Unite members during a strike in Reading – the BMA doctors’ union has called for Capita to be stripped of its NHS contract after 3,500 women did not receive their cervical screening letters

Strip Capita Of NHS Contract!

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STRIP private outsourcing giant Capita of its NHS contract, doctors’ union the BMA demanded after the shocking news broke yesterday that more than 3,500...

A ‘BEYOND SUBSTANTIAL’ PAY RISE FOR NHS IN 2021-22! – demand health trade unions

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THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic reinforces – not diminishes – the strong case for the NHS workforce to receive a ‘beyond substantial’ pay rise for 2021-22,...

Abbas welcomes Trump as Palestine explodes

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed US President Donald Trump at the Palestinian presidential palace in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem yesterday morning. Some...

Mass austerity protests called in France for September 10th

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PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron gave his support to Prime Minister François Bayrou at a cabinet meeting yesterday, as France is bracing for fresh political turmoil...

RACIST KILLINGS ‘LOW IMPACT’ says Home Office

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Family and friends of the victims of racist murders have reacted angrily to a leaked Home Office internal memo which describes the murders...

‘DON’T SIGN NEW CONTRACTS! say Unite Groundstaff

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THE GMB has accused BA of bad faith. Claims of ‘significant progress’ in a leaked letter from British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz mask...