Midwives and nurses taking strike action last month – they are not prepared to put up with permanent wage-cutting and pension busting

Cuts and more cuts from Osborne!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a class war Autumn Statement yesterday which revealed Tory plans to completely smash up the Welfare State. Starting with a gloomy assessment...

Privateers take £1.5bn out of the NHS since 2012!

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A NEW investigation by Unite has found that since 2012 a scandalous £1.5 billion has left the NHS and gone into the pockets of...

Dictator Hunt imposes NHS contract

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HEALTH Secretary Hunt has decided that Junior Doctors are to have a new contract imposed on them from August next year. The imposition follows on...
Delegates applaud one of the major speeches at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting

‘RESIST CUTS & PRIVATISATION!’ Decides BMA conference in Edinburgh

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DOCTORS at the BMA conference (ARM) yesterday voted for Motion 293 from the London Regional Council ‘to resist cuts and the privatisation of the...

Three-Day General Strike In Turkey

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AS THE mass uprising swept Turkey for a fourth day yesterday, Turkish trade unions called a three-day general strike against prime minister Erdogan’s AK...

Israel kills 67 waiting for aid in northern Gaza

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The Israeli military killed at least 67 people waiting for UN aid lorries in northern Gaza, the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry says. Six more people...

Visa Rules Will Drive Doctors Out Of NHS!

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THE BMA has warned that the Tory government’s recommendations on new visa rules from the Migrations Advisory Committee could lead to UK-trained doctors leaving...
Yesterday’s rain didn’t dampen the spirit of CWU pickets at the East London Mail Centre

POSTAL WORKERS CONDEMN BROWN – and demand to call out the whole public sector

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‘The phone call from Gordon Brown is not going to happen. That is why it is so important we step up the action and...

Netanyahu accused of blocking ceasefire – fears prosecution!

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AS ISRAELI Knesset members accused PM Netanyahu of blocking a ceasefire deal being reached with Hamas for personal reasons in order to avoid prosecution,...

Rail Delivery Group RMT members to strike June 2

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RMT members working for the 14 train companies in the national rail dispute will walk out on Friday June 2. The union found the Rail...

Ni Rise – Experienced Nurses Are £935 A Year Worse Off

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THE National Insurance (NI) rise is leaving experienced nurses worse off, even with the proposed pay increase, says the Royal College of Nursing. Responding to...
Striking BA Mixed Fleet Cabin Crew on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday morning

Striking cabin crews to meet TUC leaders today!

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STRIKING British Airways Mixed Fleet Cabin Crew are travelling up to the TUC headquarters in central London this morning to garner support...
Refugees in the Moria camp are in a prison until they are to be moved out of Greece by the police and army. Photo credit: left.gr

Army & police will be deployed in the removal of refugees

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REFUGEES staged protests shouting ‘freedom’, in English, last Wednesday and Thursday, at the main gate of the Moria village ‘Detention Centre,’ that is, concentration...

Trump imposes new 12.5% tariffs

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DONALD Trump has imposed fresh tariffs on more than 80 countries, replacing a blanket 10 per cent duty hours before it lapsed. The new levies...
Police on horseback charge at miners at Orgreave on 18th June 1984

ORGREAVE – police conspiracy exposed

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CHRIS KITCHEN, leader of the NUM, demanded an inquiry yesterday into South Yorkshire Police over their manipulation of evidence against miners charged following...

Free Palestine! No war on Iran! – demand 350,000 on London march

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OVER 350,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Downing Street on Saturday, in one of the largest demonstrations...
ERT TV station workers who have won their jobs back are saying that they will throw out the whole austerity programme

‘Down With Left Austerity’

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TENS of thousands of workers, youth, students and professionals demonstrated on May Day in over 80 Greek cities and towns. In all marches, the...
Hospital workers march against the coalition’s NHS cuts

Cameron Pledges More Cuts!

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PM Cameron yesterday defended the government’s spending and welfare cuts, and pledged to continue them and to stop at nothing to defend British capitalism. However,...
Striking British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday morning

BA Cabin Crew Fighting Poverty Pay!

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‘WILLIE, Willie, Willie – Out, Out Out!’ rang out on picket lines around Heathrow Airport in West London yesterday morning, as thousands of British...
2,000 Firefighters marched through Aylesbury last Tuesday to demand the reinstatement of sacked firefighter Ricky Matthews during their strike to defend their pensions

‘We will continue the fight’ – says FBU

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THE government’s plans to make firefighters in England work until they are 60 and to increase their pension contributions was backed by MPs, 313...

Chinese AI ‘DeepSeek’ crashes US market!

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CHINESE artificial intelligence company DeepSeek entered ‘holiday mode’ for Lunar New Year yesterday, having crashed the US stock market the day before. The most notable...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and supporters marching through Hounslow last March

Great support for GG workers at Tolpuddle march

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GATE Gourmet locked out workers got great support from trade unionists at the Tolpuddle Martyrs anniversary march and festival in Dorset yesterday. Over eight thousand...

‘Circling to take over NHS’ – TUC warns US healthcare companies

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US healthcare companies circling to take over the NHS are now ‘on notice’, says the TUC. Speaking after meeting EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht...
FBU demonstration in London against Fire Service cuts

NORTH KEN FIRE HORROR!– FBU – ‘It should not be possible for a fire...

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EYEWITNESSES, local people and neighbours of the residents of Grenfell Tower who perished in the fire yesterday morning, reported that ‘within five minutes it...
YS MARCH FOR JOBS! – London to the TUC in Liverpool

YS MARCH FOR JOBS! – London to the TUC in Liverpool

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Began in London on Tuesday, August 19 and and have now arrived in Liverpool! – they will be marching to the TUC Congress from...

‘AN ACT OF WAR!’ – Olmert threatens the Lebanon

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ISRAELI prime minister Ehud Olmert yesterday called the capture of two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border by Hezbollah an ‘act of war’. Olmert threatened...
Teachers at the NUT confrence demand Gove’s resignation

Nut Opposes Gove Plans

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NATIONAL Union of Teachers (NUT) leaders yesterday opposed government plans for unannounced school inspections and taking state schools out of Birmingham City Council’s control...

‘Voting for the end of the NHS’

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‘ANY MP who votes for the Health and Social Care Bill next week is voting for the end of the NHS,’ said Christina McAnea,...
Lively mass Xmas picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning demanding that the STP closure plans are thrown out

Throw STP plans out!

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‘THROW the STP plans out!’ said Roseline Nwangwu an Ealing Hospital worker yesterday morning. Unite union member Roseline added: ‘If they close Ealing Hospital...

‘We have to keep our rights’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet workers are opposing a ‘compromise agreement’, which the company and leaders of the Transport and General Workers’ Union are negotiating and which...
Local Enfield residents are determined to keep their local Chase Farm hospital open and will be marching today

‘we’ll Keep Chase Farm Open’

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‘I AM confident that we will see thousands on today’s march to keep Chase Farm Hospital open’, said Bill Rogers secretary of the...
Health workers forced to take strike action – demanding that every health worker gets a 1% increase!

Raise productivity and cut welfare say Tories

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RATHER that waiting to make a statement to the new parliament, Tory Chancellor George Osborne announced through the Sun newspaper on Saturday that he...
Part of the delegation of local government short-contract workers from Salonica. Banner reads

Greek Workers March For Jobs

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Greek public sector workers on short contracts staged a successful 24-hour national strike last Thursday demanding permanent jobs and full labour rights. Their struggle was...

THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS STILL TRAPPED IN DANGEROUS BUILDINGS says the Fire Brigades Union

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FIREFIGHTERS yesterday slammed the government and building owners as an HCLG Committee cladding survey highlighted widespread safety failings. The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG)...

PULL TROOPS OUT CALL! – as army chief demands more

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‘We are opposed to more troops going into Afghanistan,’ a Stop the War Coalition spokesman told News Line yesterday. He was responding to a...

250,000-strong London march for Palestine

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OVER 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine from Hyde Park towards the Israeli embassy in Kensington west London on Saturday afternoon. There were...

Saudi Troops Open Fire On Democracy Demonstrators

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SAUDI security forces yesterday opened fire on anti-regime demonstrations in the eastern city of Qatif, injuring several protesters. The attack came after thousands of Saudi...
Last Wednesday demonstrators, some of whom entered the Kensington & Chelsea council meeting demanded criminal charges against those responsible for the Grenfell Tower inferno

Grenfell Tower inferno – Twin Towers experts helping police

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EXPERTS who helped recover remains after the September 11th 2001 terror attack on the Twin Towers in New York, are now helping police investigating...

Tories Can Still Win Says Sunak

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TORY PM SUNAK has insisted the Conservatives can still win the next general election, despite suffering two damaging by-election defeats. Labour and the Lib Dems...
Visteon workers on the Enfield picket line yesterday stand together but the company is making different redundancy offers

Anger At Visteon Settlement!

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‘WE’VE been shafted,’ ex-Visteon Enfield Unite branch chairman Steve Parenti told News Line yesterday. He explained that sacked workers on Ford Mirror Contracts, which were...

The TUC calls to tax the rich – refuses to call General Strike

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On the eve of its Congress, the TUC has called on the government to equalise capital gains tax with income tax which could raise...

Barts Trying To Force Through Contract Changes!

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INSULTED Barts Hospital patient transport staff are demonstrating at 12 noon at Newham Hospital in east London today against management’s poor treatment of staff...
Angry Visteon workers demanding their pensions outside Downing Street yesterday afternoon

‘We want our pensions’ – Visteon workers tell Downing Street

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‘We are grateful to the union for their support today, but we have to say “We are not here for the hell of it”...

Passengers ‘lives at risk’ without guards

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A DERAILMENT in Lewisham south London is a case in point about why guards must be kept on the trains, transport union RMT said...
The South-East London Council of Action marching to defend council tenants on the threatened Heygate Estate, Elephant and Castle

Labour May End Secure Tenancies – Attack On Council Housing Condemned By Ucatt And...

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CONSTRUCTION union UCATT has labelled proposals by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), to end secure tenancies and all other current council tenancies in...