Irish Gross National Product Shrinks By 2.2%

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The continued austerity programme is costing jobs and making recovery almost impossible, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions said yesterday. Official figures released yesterday showed...

CORBYN OUTLINES BREXIT STRATEGY: 2nd referendum: new Labour deal with EU or Remain!

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‘A VOTE for Johnson’s Conservatives is a vote to betray our NHS in a sell-out to Trump,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday launching...

‘Don’t underestimate workers strength of feeling!’

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TUC leader O’Grady has cautioned new PM Truss not to underestimate the strength of feeling among workers who have endured pay stagnation and real...

2nd wave more deadly than first! Labour pledges to push through Johnson’s national lock...

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DEATHS from coronavirus will be twice as high this winter than in the first wave of the pandemic, Tory PM Boris Johnson told Parliament...

Blairite Campbell Expelled From The Labour Party!

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FORMER Blair spin doctor Alastair Campbell has been expelled from the Labour Party after he revealed that he voted for the Liberal Democrats in...
Doctors and teachers march against Hunt’s attempts to impose a contract on the junior doctors – now the teachers are under heavy attack from the May government and its attempts to bring back the eleven plus

May Brings Back 11 Plus!

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TORY PM Theresa May yesterday unveiled plans, despite all denials, to drive education back to the 1940s by allowing any school to become a...

Secret Courts ‘Put Coalition Above The Law’

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THE government’s Green Paper for bringing secret evidence before closed courts into the justice system was condemned by both civil rights charity Reprieve and...
Striking CWU members in Cambridge with their banner

Postal workers say: ‘WE NEED A GENERAL STRIKE’ – ‘All workers are under attack...

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THOUSANDS of striking delivery staff took to picket lines in London and across the country yesterday, on the second day of the national postal...

RAISE STAFF PAY OR WE STRIKE! – UCU tells six college administrators

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THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) yesterday told the bosses of six colleges in the North West to urgently raise staff pay if they...
Junior doctors have not stopped battling since their strike actions – they have won a battle at the Norfolk and Norwich NHS Trust in defence of their pay banding

Junior Doctors Defend Pay Band!

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JUNIOR DOCTORS have defended their protected pay banding after a year-long struggle. The BMA supported 15 foundation doctors at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS...
Gate Gourmet workers marching on May 1 – yesterday TGWU leader Tony Woodley admitted that their struggle was not over

PCS NATIONAL STRIKE THREAT – ‘You can’t tell Brown and Blair apart’ – Serwotka

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‘THE government could face a national strike by civil servants in a matter of weeks,’ PCS leader Mark Serwotka told a pre-TUC Congress press...

Fight NHS Savage Cuts And Privatisation!

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‘THE TUC must take action including a general strike and be prepared to call out workers to defend our NHS. ‘It is...

Harland & Wolff in administration

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WORKERS vowed to continue their occupation and stop the closure of Harland and Wolff shipbuilding industry in Belfast, after the yard went into administration...

Busworkers support Cancer Research strikers

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STRIKERS at the Institute of Cancer Research in Chelsea West London yesterday were joined by bus drivers from Westbourne Park bus garage, who are...

TOYOTA 10% WAGE CUT – praised by Unite trade union

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Car manufacturer Toyota yesterday announced that production at its UK plants would be cut by ten per cent, with an associated cut in wages...

Points-based immigration system launched!

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TORY Home Secretary Priti Patel launched the UK’s first ‘points-based immigration system’ yesterday. The new system will come into force on New Year’s Day, immediately...

Trump Declares Trade War – On The Eu, Canada & Mexico

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THE CAPITALIST world was rocking yesterday after President Trump’s declaration of a trade war on his European Union, Canadian and Mexican rivals. The US...

‘THE TORIES MUST GO NOW!’ – insist striking radiographers

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THERE was a lively and determined picket of members of the Society of Radiographers (SoR) King’s College Hospital in Camberwell, south east London on...
Thousands marched through Stafford to demand their A&E is open 24 hours seven days a week

‘REINSTATE OUR FULL A&E!’ demand Support Stafford Hospital campaigners

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‘IT IS absolutely outrageous! We demand that they reinstate our full A&E, not only the children’s, to 24-hour A&E,’ Julian Porter told News Line...
Determined Metronet strikers lobbying the Department of Transport in central London yesterday

‘GET RID OF THE PRIVATEERS’ – say Tube strikers

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‘Privatisation has been a disaster, we want the complete renationalisation of the railway network in Britain,’ RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said yesterday. Crow was...

Hamas Leader Escapes Assassination Attempt

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Palestinian prime minister, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya escaped an assassination attempt yesterday. Haniya was unhurt after his convoy came under heavy gunfire in Gaza, witnesses...

‘Indefinite strike to win’ – demand striking bus drivers

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‘INDEFINITE strike action to win it quick and win it now,’ Hounslow bus garage driver and Unite member Stoyan Ivanov demanded yesterday. More than 2,000...

BIGGEST DAY OF STRIKE ACTION FOR DECADES! – over 500,000 workers strike

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MORE than half a million workers are striking today in Britain’s biggest day of strike action for decades. Hundreds of thousands of members of eight...
PCS pickets at the Elthorne Road Job centre in Holloway

WE WON’T ACCEPT WAGE CUTS – says PCS

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THERE were picket lines outside Jobcentres and benefit offices in London and across the country yesterday, at the start of a two-day strike by...

New European banking crash fears

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A FRESH European-wide banking crash has reared its head as the euro tumbled to a six-month low yesterday in reaction to the Italian crisis....
A section of the 10,000-strong demonstration against the closure of four west London hospitals last September. 30,000 marched against the closure of Stafford Hospital last Saturday

30,000 March To Save Stafford Hospital

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OVER 30,000 workers, trade unionists and local residents marched through Stafford on Saturday against Coalition plans to ‘downgrade’ Stafford District General Hospital and close...

Iran deals heavy blows to the US

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IRANIAN Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned yesterday that any act of aggression against the Islamic Republic will be met with an immediate and...
Grenfell Tower residents and supporters marching on Downing Street demanding action against those responsible

Tories Close Down Council Meeting!

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A KENSINGTON and Chelsea council meeting on Thursday evening erupted into anger as Tory council leader Nick Paget-Brown shut the meeting down five minutes...
Delegates at the TGWU biennial conference in Brighton

‘NO TO TWO TIER PAY & CONDITIONS’ – urges TGWU biennial conference

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DELEGATES at the TGWU Biennial Delegate Conference in Brighton yesterday gave their full support to Salford Council workers who will be taking more strike...

Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital Under Siege!

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AT LEAST 20 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza yesterday morning, with the houses of...

Labour planning ‘previously unthinkable’ NHS cuts!

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THE NHS is planning ‘previously unthinkable’ cuts to try to balance the books, according to a survey conducted by NHS Providers, which represents NHS...

Carry out the peace deal! – Iran demands of US

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IRANIAN Foreign Minister Esmaeil Baghaei says talks with Oman on ensuring safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz are ‘purely bilateral, between the two...

Cases of police sexual abuse are rising! – Warns Independent Office for Police Conduct...

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CASES of police abusing their role for sexual gain have risen sharply, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) warned yesterday, revealing the fact...

Workers Of The World Support BA Cabin Crew

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‘WE stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters at Unite who are fighting for a fair contract at British Airways,’ says the Teamsters...

UNIONS MUST TAKE ‘JOINT INDUSTRIAL ACTION’ – PCS leader Serwotka tells press

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown laid down the gauntlet at the weekend to this week’s TUC Congress, being held in Liverpool. Downing Street has released excerpts...

Military Testing In Three Towns!

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THREE UK towns are to have hundreds of British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force military personnel mobilised onto their streets organising mass...
Demonstration against a forced academy at St Andrew & St Francis School in Brent

Large Scale Academy Cuts!

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LARGE cuts are looming at the TBAP multi-academy trust, which runs schools in London, Essex, Cambridgeshire and the North West, following accusations of financial...
Junior doctors demonstrating in central London last October – their strike is now on beginning Tuesday January 12th

Junior doctors strike is on!

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JUNIOR doctors will strike next Tuesday after talks with the government broke down at 4.45pm yesterday afternoon. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Junior doctors...

Trump Ignites A World Trade War

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has launched a world- wide trade war, declaring he will impose a 25 per cent tariff on all steel imports...

National strike to defend HE jobs! – call from Brunel University picket line

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‘WE have to step up the fight and unite in action across the country to defend all jobs in higher education,’ Hermione Xanthopoulou, Director...

Hague Wary Of Russian Intervention

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UK Foreign Secretary Hague yesterday said there needed to be ‘urgent’ action to ‘stave off an even more serious economic situation’ in Ukraine. He...
Migrant workers in the front of the May Day march in London – defending their jobs and wages

HOUSING CRISIS LOOMS –as FTSE100 falls to 4,800

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A MEMBER of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) admitted yesterday that he is having sleepless nights, worrying about the state of...

‘BACK TO THE DAYS BEFORE THE NHS’ – Consultants leader slams the Health Bill

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‘Very deliberately the government wishes to turn back the clock to the 1930s and 1940s, when there were private, charitable and co-operative providers of...

‘STAND FIRM, SUPPORT THE ACTION’ – RMT leader Lynch urges rail workers

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‘STAND FIRM, support the action and mount the pickets,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch urged his members defiantly yesterday afternoon as he confirmed that...