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MPs TO GET FINAL VOTE ON BREXIT DEAL!

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‘TO provide certainty,’ Tory PM Theresa May said yesterday, ‘I can confirm today that the government will put the final deal which is agreed...
Unite leading a demonstration to mark the 63rd anniversary of the NHS in July this year

SCRAP THE BILL! – and the Board says Unite

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‘The NHS Commissioning Board and the Health Bill should be scrapped’, a Unite spokeswoman told News line yesterday. She was responding to the news that...
Confident CWU pickets at the Peckham Delivery Office, south east London, last Saturday

STOP STRIKEBREAKING – postal workers tell Unite leaders

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The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) is lobbying the Unite head office in Holborn, central London, at 11.30 this morning to demand it stops its...
One of the big demonstrations in London during the 14 days of strikes – the employers have now made an offer

UCU – New Pensions Offer

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UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) branch representatives will meet at 11am on Wednesday 28 March to discuss members’ feedback on a new pensions offer...

Ben-Gvir hands out weapons to illegal settlers!

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ISRAEL’s far right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has authorised personal firearm permits for residents of 18 additional illegal settlements in the occupied West...

£11.5bn of cuts & wage cuts – at the centre of Osborne’s budget

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CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a massive onslaught on public services and public sector pay in his budget yesterday, imposing billions more in cuts as well...

Israel-Egyptian Military Seeking To Starve Gaza!

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With shortages of electricity, water, fuel, cooking gas and medicine, a lack of economy and no infrastructure, the masses of Gaza are in a...
DEH public electricity board workers marching to the Greek parliament square

Greek Workers And Youth Occupy!

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Despite torrential rain, over 20,000 youth and workers with their families congregated for the second night running in Athens’ main square in front of...
CWU members in Bow, east London, fighting to defend their jobs and stop the casualisation of Royal Mail

‘STRIKES WILL END’ says CWU leader Hayes

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Postal workers in delivery and collection offices around the country were out solid again on Saturday in defence of their union, the Communication Workers’...
Trade unionists demand ‘Save the NHS’ and ‘More Midwives’ – but the Tory-led coalition is out to smash up the health service and hand services over to private businesses

Privatisation Threat To Midwives Jobs

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Pregnant women living in the borough of Wirral, northwest England, face being put under the care of a private healthcare company rather than the...

‘Significant Victory’ For Junior Doctors!

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THE BMA doctors’ union has hailed the Court of Appeal ruling on rest breaks as ‘a significant victory for junior doctors’. Commenting on the Court...

BURNHAM RESIGN! – demand Mid-Staffs relatives

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CUTBACKS, implemented in order to comply with the government’s drive for Foundation Trusts, were to blame for the unnecessary deaths of more than 400...

Vital local council services collapsing

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VITAL local services are collapsing, council workers have warned in a new survey conducted by their union, Unison. Unison warned that Tory cuts have...
A section of the 2,000 strong picket of the Israeli embassy last Thursday which denounced Zionist terrorism

‘ARM US – SEND US TO GAZA!’ – chant Egyptian demonstrators

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EGYPT will continue to support Gaza against the attacks from the Israeli armed forces, President Mohamed Mursi reiterated yesterday as Israeli airstrikes continued on...

DEVASTATING! – GMB slams Corus closure shock

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Tata Corus’s shock decision to mothball Teesside Cast Products (TCP) is a ‘premature decision that will have disastrous consequences for Teesside and the UK...

Israeli Air Strikes Kill Seven

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ISRAEL hit Gaza with air strikes yesterday afternoon. Palestinian medical sources said at least seven Palestinians were killed. This includes a 5-year-old girl. 44 others were...
A section of the mass demonstration outside Parliament of road hauliers from throughout the UK demanding Brown act on high fuel prices

Hauliers Have Had Enough!

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Over 900 road hauliers and independent truckers, descended on Parliament yesterday to lobby their MPs to urgently and immediately reduce the price of fuel....
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,...
Travel Safe staff on strike against harassment and bullying of union members

We Have No Option But To Strike

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UP to a dozen travel safe officers yesterday lobbied a board meeting of Transport for London (TFL) at 197, Blackfriars Road, London. They told News...

Cleaners fight 23% wage cuts

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ANGRY GMB members are demonstrating outside the CoNEL College in Tottenham this morning against an ‘utterly shameful’ attack on college cleaners which cuts their...
Refugees aboard an overloaded boat desperately trying to cross the Mediterranean

170 Refugees Feared Drowned

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AS MANY as 170 people are feared to have died in two separate Mediterranean shipwrecks, the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR said. The Italian navy reports...
Health workers on the TUC march on May 12th – thousands of patients have been discharged too soon because of a lack of beds

Thousands of patients sent home too soon!

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THE NHS is so short staffed, with such a lack of beds that patients are being sent home too early, as a result...

BENEFIT CUTS AND ‘WARTIME POWERS’ – in Queen’s Speech

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday warned that the ‘welfare reform’ plans announced in the Queen’s Speech ‘are the wrong proposals at...
A group of Gate Gourmet sacked workers outside the Employment Tribunal in Reading yesterday morning

Gate Gourmet Tribunal Opens

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THE first day of the Employment Tribunal for Gate Gourmet sacked workers took place yesterday in Reading, where they are challenging the company over...
Great Western Hospital staff on strike in Swindon against Carillion ‘bullying’ – Carillion has gone into liquidation

Carillion liquidated! – Re-nationalise all services demand unions

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THE BOMBSHELL announcement yesterday morning that Carillion had gone into liquidation had immediate and devastating consequences for the 20,000 workers employed by the private...
MARIA OTONE DE MENEZES (right) holds a picture of her son Jean Charles de Menezes on the United  Friends and Families Campaign demonstration on October 25

Police Killers ‘Out Of Control’

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Firearms and surveillance officers hunting down Jean Charles de Menezes were ‘out of control’ when he was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station, a...

US-UK War Talk Over The Ukraine!

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LEADERS of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France will meet in Belarus’ capital Minsk on Wednesday to discuss a peace plan for eastern Ukraine,...

ASDA takeover – 100,000 at risk

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THE GMB union has demanded assurances from the new owners of Asda over the future of over 100,000 workers as the supermarket chain was...

Energy Bills Are To Rise By 54%!

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THE AVERAGE household’s energy bill will rise by £693 annually after a 54% increase to the price cap announced yesterday which will undoubtedly plunge...

Syriza to impose austerity – with support from the right-wing

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IN A RADIO interview yesterday morning the Greek Minister for the Interior Nikos Voutsis said there must be an agreement reached this week between...

Trump Pushes For UK Regime Change

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NIGEL Farage should be involved in the government’s Brexit negotiations and the UK should be prepared to leave the EU with no deal, Donald...

Massive 97% NO vote! – 400 Birmingham binmen reject pay cuts

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STRIKING Birmingham bin workers have overwhelmingly rejected, by 97%, the council’s ‘totally inadequate’ offer, with hundreds of members of the Unite union voting against...

‘WE’RE READY TO FIGHT FOR VICTORY’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet shop stewards went to a meeting at the Trades Union Congress in central London yesterday with leaders of their union, the TGWU,...

World Climate Strike!

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MILLIONS of youth supported by trade unionists walked out of their schools, colleges and universities yesterday, in one hundred and fifty countries across the...

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...

Met Police take charge of regime change op!

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THE METROPOLITAN Police have thrown a spanner into the works of the rapidly developing crisis in the Tory government and party. There is now confusion...

PRIVATISATION DRIVE – being stepped up by Brown

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‘It is appalling that this Labour government is now more obsessed with selling off our public services to put profits in the pockets of...

GREECE PLEADS FOR TIME TO REPAY LOANS – ‘EU exit would be a catastrophe!’

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THE EU-IMF-ECB-imposed Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, on Saturday called for more time to carry out savage austerity cuts, warning that a Greek exit...
The Chase Farm Hospital Maternity banner on last December’s march through Enfield by the North-East London Council of Action against closure

Maternity deaths will rise – UNDER THE HEALTH BILL, WARNS UNISON

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THE Health and Social Care Bill will increase the number of deaths on maternity units, Unison warned yesterday. A leaked NHS report revealed that...

Hands off fire service says Norfolk

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THE Police and Crime Commissioner’s (PCC) proposal to take control of Norfolk fire service will put ‘public safety at risk’, a councillor has said. Norfolk...

Stop Israel’s Crimes Against The Palestinians Says PM!

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that the world should take a clear stand and do what is necessary to stop Israel’s crimes...

‘All NHS workers & their families must be tested!’ – demands BMA chair Dr...

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‘ALL health workers and their families must be tested immediately,’ Chair of the Council of the British Medical Association and GP Dr Chaand Nagpaul...

MAY ‘A DEAD WOMAN WALKING!’ – says ex-Chancellor Osborne

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THE TORY Party was in increasing disarray yesterday in the wake of the general election, with former Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, calling PM May...

No beds! Intensive Care Units at 100% capacity!

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ONE in eight NHS trusts in England did not have a single spare intensive care bed last week, NHS England figures published yesterday revealed. 18...

Rcn Alarmed At The Understaffing In NHS

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THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is ‘alarmed at the NHS England Staff Survey 2016 which shows the immense pressure they are under, particularly...