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‘Close down the Island if they try to evict us’ say Vestas occupiers

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‘I’M not leaving,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith told News Line yesterday. He was speaking in the wake of a hearing at Newport Court where...

Israeli tanks, copters and drones fire on thousands–21 killed 150 wounded

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AT least 21 starving Palestinians were killed after Israeli tanks, helicopters and drones opened fire on thousands of people waiting for aid in Gaza...
Business Secretary Mandelson with a manager at GM Luton  – he is now presiding over a shutdown of industry

Gas and grit rationing!

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GAS for industry and grit for the roads were being rationed yesterday as British industry began to shut down. Vauxhall, Ellesmere Port, Jaguar Land Rover,...

‘Rampant Capitalism & Wage Robbery!’

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THE proposed merger between energy giants SSE and Npower is for the sole benefit of shareholders, with scant concern for the workforce and the...

Renationalise the buses – demand drivers on eve of strike

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LONDON bus drivers are preparing for strike action starting next Monday. Unite has called a series of strikes against massive attacks on pay and conditions...

Google handed private medical records

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PATIENTS, NHS workers and privacy campaigners alike are outraged that people’s private medical records are to be put on the internet without their consent...

Stop ‘bedroom tax’ evictions

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The Bedroom Tax will lead to massive rises in rent arrears and homelessness, hitting the poorest people the hardest, Margaret Hodge, Chairwoman of the...

FBU condemns strikebreakers!

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The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) yesterday expressed ‘deep concern’ over secret plans to hire Group 4 private strike breakers in a £100m contract. A FBU...
FBU members from the Midlands with their banner on last October’s TUC demonstration against austerity

West Midlands firefighters strike looms – over 300 jobs threatened

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FIREFIGHTERS in the West Midlands have warned they could be forced to take industrial action over plans to cut 300 firefighting posts, leaving the...
Lewisham BMA on the last big march on January 26 against the plans to close the hospital – their contracts are now under attack by the government

GP contract changes will harm patient care!

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THE government’s proposed changes to the GP contract in England risk putting targets before patients and could seriously destabilise local patient services, GP leaders...
Chagos Islanders marching in Crawley, Sussex – they demand the right to return to their home islands

UN votes: UK must go to The Hague over Chagos

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THE UN General Assembly voted by 94 countries to 15 that Britain should go to the International Court of Justice (The Hague) over...
Striking Romec workers in Westminster yesterday

Royal Mail Engineers – Three Days Of Strike Action

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‘They are trying to destroy our home life with no discussion. It’s back to the bad old days – at the beck and call...
MARY BOUSTED leads a protest of teachers and pupils demanding more funding for pupils special needs – many more are in poverty

‘HOLIDAY HUNGER HITS CHILDREN’! A NATIONAL Education Union snapshot poll of 1,026 teachers ...

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A NATIONAL Education Union snapshot poll of 1,026 teachers in England paints a harrowing picture of the increase in poverty seen in our schools...

JOHNSON FACING REBELLION – 60 Tories preparing to vote against Plan B

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THE JOHNSON government faces an expected rebellion by about 60 Conservative MPs in tomorrow’s House of Commons votes to pass new ‘Plan B’ Covid-19...

Syriza Submits To Troika

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THE Greek government decided on Saturday to accept all terms laid down in a statement agreed at last Friday’s Eurogroup Finance Ministers’ meeting that...

ASLEF Strike Action Today

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TRAIN drivers belonging to ASLEF – the train drivers’ trade union which represents 96% of the train drivers in England, Scotland, and Wales –...
Police viciously launch into the large crowd of protesters against the Israeli bombing in Gaza outside the Israeli Embassy in London.  Ten pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested

Warships Shell Gaza!

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Israeli warships shelled Gaza from the sea yesterday as jets continued to bomb Gaza from the air for a third day in an ‘all-out...

Teachers fear schools still unsafe as millions return

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‘TEACHERS are concerned that the government have not taken the safety measures that they should have done,’ Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of...

‘We will balance the books’ Tory Chancellor indicates tax hikes & cuts to come

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YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak, speaking at the Tory Party conference, assured the party that his main objective is to get the debt under...
Police Riot In Athens

Police Riot In Athens

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GREEK workers and youth demonstrated in their hundreds of thousands last Wednesday throughout the country as part of a 24-hour general strike against the...
The Royal College of Midwives taking strike action last year for the first time in their history

‘NO COMPROMISE ON SAFE STAFFING LEVELS’ says RCN

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HOSPITALS have been told by the Tory government’s regulator to only fill job vacancies that are ‘essential’, raising fears amongst midwives, doctors and nurses...

Countdown to March 29th

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PRIME Minister Theresa May has written to the European Union to ask for a three-month delay to Brexit. The UK is leaving the EU next...

Chronic NHS Staff Shortages At Guy’s And St Thomas’

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CHRONIC staff shortages, concerns about patient safety and plunging morale at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust are the key findings of a...
Workers occupying the roof of the Visteon factory in Enfield yesterday

BAILIFFS DEFIED – Enfield Visteon workers maintain occupation

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THE Visteon car parts plant, in Enfield, once owned by Ford, is still occupied by over 100 workers who are defending their jobs and...
Women born in the 1950s, who lost out on their state pension when the government raised the retirement age to 65 for both men and women, lobbied MPs yesterday

Hammond’s Stp Attack!

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CHANCELLOR Hammond announced an extra £325 million in yesterday’s budget to fast-track some of the 44 hated STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) of Tory...

Junior Doctors Are On Strike Today!

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JUNIOR doctors in England begin five days of strike action at 7am this morning, until 7am next Tuesday morning. Strike leaders Dr Robert Laurenson and...

Alarming A&E Waiting Times

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) has warned that a million more patients will face waits of more than four hours at accident and emergency...
2 Years Since Grenfell

2 years since Grenfell – June 14th & June 15th, 2019

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Silent march Friday, June 14th Meet 7pm at Methodist Church and march through North Kensington. Solidarity march Saturday, June 15th Meet 11am at Portland Place, off Regent Street W1A...

FBU condemns Tory hulk deathtrap for asylum seekers!

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‘PRIOR to the Grenfell Tower fire, many concerns were being raised by many groups, including the Fire Brigades Union, about fires in high-rise buildings....

Israeli bombers target schools

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THE Palestinian Hamas resistance movement strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s targeting of schools sheltering internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip yesterday, describing the...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line – demanding a national demonstration to highlight their fight

DEEPCUT INQUIRY ‘A FARCE’ says father of dead soldier

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The Surrey Police re-investigation into the deaths of recruits at the Deepcut army barracks ‘was a farce’ Private Geoff Gray’s father, also named Geoff,...

JAIL TIME FOR BANKERS – raised at parliamentary committee

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EX-Barclays Chief Executive Bob Diamond was asked point blank yesterday if he believed bankers who broke the law should be jailed. He was asked the...

‘CONDEMN BULLYING BAILIFFS!’ – AdviceUK

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A COALITION of seven debt charities has called on local authorities to ‘stamp out’ bad debt collection practices by bullying bailiffs acting as a...

Record Jobless Rise Of 46,000!

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THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate has risen by the biggest amount in almost five years, official figures showed yesterday. Some 1.47 million people were out of...
Greek youth lead a massive anti-austerity march in Athens

Samaras Puts Up ‘Greece For Sale’ Sign

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GREEK Prime Minister elect Antonis Samaras has declared a massive privatisation plan for the entire transport and energy sectors as well as dozens of...

Gate Gourmet Workers Battle On

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LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers were campaigning yesterday for their mass picket next Sunday 22nd January between 11am and 1pm and their conference in London...

Thousands turn out to save Honda car factory!

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SWINDON residents turned out in their thousands on Saturday’s march to save the Honda car factory and stop its closure. There were 6,000 on the...

British Troops In Syria!

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THE UNITED States, Britain and France have been setting up new outposts in northeastern Syria, despite the opposition of the Damascus government to...

Dodgy Cameron!

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AFTER a week of denials, prime minister Cameron yesterday published just a summary of his tax returns. Cameron did reveal he received £300,000 from his...

Jubilation as 90 Palestinian women and children freed under ceasefire!

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NINETY Palestinian women and children were freed from Israeli prisons before dawn yesterday and greeted by large crowds of jubilant relatives, friends and supporters...

Unions unite to defend RIGHT TO STRIKE!

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OVER one hundred RMT members, along with members of the PCS, UCU and Unite rallied outside Parliament yesterday to defend the right to strike. This...
Nurses marching to defend the NHS demanding the 1% pay cap be scrapped

SMASH 1% PAY CAP! 40,000 nursing vacancies in NHS

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THERE are not enough nurses to provide safe patient care, shows a survey released today to coincide with a mass lunchtime demonstration...

US ground forces for Syria

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THE US has indicated that it intends the imminent deployment of troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria, without holding a vote in...
Libyan demonstrators at 10 Downing Street on Monday indict Cameron and imperialism and declare their support for Colonel Gadaffi

‘THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IS KILLING MORE CIVILIANS’ – says Libyan government spokesman

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British air and missile strikes have caused ‘numerous civilian casualties’ especially at the civilian airport in Sirte, Libyan government spokesman Ibrahim Moussa said...

WALK OUT! – RMT and TSSA take 24 hour tube strike action

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10,000 MEMBERS of the RMT and sister union TSSA walked out on 24-hour strike at 9pm last night over plans to axe 800 jobs...