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Mass Picket Of Striking Doctors

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THE BMA (British Medical Association) confirmed yesterday that a mass picket of striking Resident Doctors will be held tomorrow morning from 8-11am outside St...
TGWU DHL pickets outside Iceland distribution depot in Enfield are determined to win their struggle

‘OUR MEMBERS ARE STRONG’ – say T&G at Enfied Iceland depot

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‘Our members are solid’, Iceland distribution depot, Enfield, TGWU convenor Dave Brace told News Line on the morning picket line yesterday. The strikers are fighting...

Cable tells Vauxhall plants . . . YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN!

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BUSINESS Secretary Cable has warned General Motors that the planned development of the Ellesmere Port and Luton car plants will not get government support. This...
Media workers demand indefinite general strike

Media workers demand indefinite general strike

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GREEKjournalists, printers, technicians and media office workers staged a 100 per cent successful national strike on Monday against wage cuts and mass sackings, demanding...

House Prices ‘a Long Way To Fall’

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UK Mortgage approvals fell sharply again in October, the Bank of England reported yesterday, confirming fears that house sales and prices have a lot...
Rail workers demanding that fares be cut, not rail staff, and that the rail network be nationalised

Rail fares rising three times faster than wages! – 26.6% between 2008 and 2012

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RAIL fares have risen three times faster than wages since the slump began in 2008, according to a new analysis published yesterday by the...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the Trades Union Congress earlier this week, demanding reinstatement

Terror Laws Used Against Unions

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TUC Delegates passed Motion Seven on EU Attacks on Trade Union Rights yesterday, which the TUC General Council supported with reservations. The Fire...

OVERTURN STARMER’S ATTACK ON PENSIONERS! – demands Unite leader Graham

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OVER 200 people protested outside Parliament yesterday to demand the reversal of the Starmer Labour government’s scrapping of the Winter Fuel Allowance for 10...

‘Immense’ London-wide Tube station staff strike today!

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‘MONDAY’S action will be immense and there will be more of the same if London Underground (LU) continues its attacks,’ leading RMT officer Carlos...

‘We are going to win this fight’

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‘The union is not paying us hardship money, we can’t get Jobseekers Allowance and we can’t get another job. What does the union think...

‘No return to northern Gaza!’ as Israel attacks the West Bank!

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THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...
The early morning picket outside Chase Farm Hospital

‘We Won’t Let Chase Farm NHS Close’

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HOSPITAL workers, patients and local residents in Enfield yesterday reaffirmed their determination to stop the planned closure of the A&E, Maternity and Paediatrics departments...

PRIVATISATION MENACE – a threat to road safety says Prospect

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PROSPECT members in the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency have warned that safety on the UK’s road network is at risk if plans to...

Downgraded! – A-Level Results Outrage

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AS A-LEVEL results came in yesterday morning head teachers warned that lowered grades are ‘unfair and unfathomable’ while teachers said that the results were...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the TGWU office in Hillingdon yesterday demanding that they get their promised hardship pay. On the right mrs Mundy is forced to struggle into the office on crutches following a knee operation in order to register

Pay Up Hardship Money

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MORE Gate Gourmet locked-out workers went to the Hillingdon Transport and General Workers Union Region One office yesterday to register their claim for February’s...

UN condemns Egyptian military

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UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has called for an independent investigation into violence in Egypt and said she deplored the killing of protesters...
The ‘Keep Ealing Hospital Open’ picket insists that only the WRP’s Arj Thiara will keep Ealing Hospital open

Vote Wrp – Vote Arj In Ealing

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THE VOTE Arj Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall campaign team got great support from Ealing Hospital, Greenford Bus Garage and Southall Mosques,...

More Savage Budget Cuts!

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TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond has signalled more savage cuts in Wednesday’s Budget, saying he will not be having a public sector ‘spending spree’. Writing...
Students on Saturday’s demonstration in Manchester against cuts and tuition fees demand that the government be brought down

Students And Unions March Against Fees

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TEN thousand workers and youth marched through the centre of Manchester to a rally in Platts Fields on Saturday, against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s...

Hague And Gove Have Gone!

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TEACHERS unions said yesterday that the policies enforced by the now ex-Tory Education Secretary Gove, and resisted by hundreds of thousands of teachers...

Abusive MI5 agent’s identity cannot be revealed says judge

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THE BBC is to be prevented from naming a man it says exploited his status as an MI5 agent to abuse a partner and...
Over 100 turned out to join the picket of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital during last Wednesday’s strike – public support has grown exponentially as Hunt has stepped up his attacks on junior doctors

‘How Dare You Hunt!’

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‘JEREMY Hunt. How dare you!’ wrote Julie Lovell, a woman whose 33-year-old daughter Karen, died after the end of the two-day junior doctor strike....

Israeli ground invasion of Jabalia – medics receiving pleas for help as soldiers shoot...

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THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics are receiving dozens of urgent pleas to evacuate casualties but are unable to respond because of...

Corbyn, McDonnell on their knees

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LABOUR leaders Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell yesterday delivered abject apologies for the party’s defeat in last Thursday’s election, which saw them lose 59...
Masses of students marching on parliament last December were joined by trade unionists who backed their fight against tuition fees. Now the government is planning a showdown with the trade unions in the summer

TORIES PREPARE SUMMER WAR – Organising tens of thousands of strike breakers

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Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has been overseeing ‘war games’ in preparation for a General Strike this summer. Following orders from the Cabinet...

BMA rejects NHS privatisation

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ALMOST every single doctor voted to oppose the introduction and imposition of an insurance-based healthcare system into the UK. The almost unanimous vote...
Relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes and lawyers for his family holding a press conference at the TUC in London yesterday

‘INCONCEIVABLE!’ – that Sir Ian Blair did not know that Jean Charles de Menezes...

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‘NO ONE has been held responsible for anything, no one is going to be prosecuted and the police have been allowed to get away...

5,500 Children killed in Gaza! – World Children’s Day November 20th

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ON WORLD Children’s Day yesterday it was recorded that at least 5,500 children have been killed by the Zionist Israeli regime since it began...
The demonstration outside the House of Commons yesterday afternoon demanding that the UK and US keep their hands off Syria

Cameron ‘fits up’ Syria – War just a matter of judgement

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PM Cameron yesterday disclosed that the government’s legal advice over an imminent attack on Syria was that it would be legal since it...

Defend national pay rates! –TUC must call a general strike

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‘ANY attempt to break national pay rates must be met by the TUC calling an indefinite general strike to bring down this Tory-LibDem Coalition...

Kwarteng Accused Of ‘Making Up’ Aid For Industry Plan

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Treasury officials accused Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng of ‘making things up’ when he appeared on TV yesterday morning. With PM...

‘Ceasefire agreement will hold!’ – insists Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya

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HAMAS leader and chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya said yesterday that he is confident the Gaza ceasefire agreement will succeed and hold. ‘We are determined to...
Palestinians march defiantly as part of the Great March of Return

56 envoys boycott US embassy opening

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ONE Palestinian was killed and 167 others injured by Israeli forces on Friday as hundreds of protesters gathered at the eastern border of the...

Two million Gazans face hunger, thirst, disease, fear & flooding!

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MORE than two million people in the Gaza Strip are besieged by hunger, thirst, disease and fear and obtaining meals has become an impossible...
North East London Council of Action march in Enfield against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

‘CUTS TO NHS ‘RISK TO LIVES’ – warns RCN leader

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‘We don’t comment on leaked documents but our concerns remain about the competitive elements in the government’s NHS reforms,’ a British Medical Association (BMA)...

‘WINTER CATASTROPHE!’ warns RCN

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‘EMERGENCY departments should be places of safety for those in crisis, but this report shows they have become places of prolonged and unnecessary suffering.’ Royal...

UK lawyers for Israel demand to shut down Palestinian camp

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UK Lawyers for Israel have written to Wandsworth Labour council’s interim chief executive to demand the closure of the Community Camp 4 Palestine (CC4Pal)...

Removing 2-metre rule risks second wave warn unions

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DESPITE announcing yesterday a seven-day rolling average of 130 people a day dying from Covid-19, Tory PM Johnson announced measures to ‘safely ease the...
Yesterday was a brilliant campaigning day for Jonty Leff and his team, shown above at Hackney Community College

GREAT CAMPAIGN WITH WRP’s LEFF IN HACKNEY

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STUDENTS enthusiastically joined the campaign to elect Jonty Leff as WRP candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch yesterday. They campaigned hard, giving out leaflets, speaking...

END THE PAY CAP! – TUC votes unanimously

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YESTERDAY’S TUC Congress in Bournemouth voted unanimously for coordinated industrial action to smash the coalition government’s public sector pay cap and for the outlawing...

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...
A section of the 25,000-strong march on London’s Embankment yesterday

RESTORE FREE EDUCATION! – demand 25,000 marching students

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‘IN GREECE and France they have changed things by taking to the streets – you can change things,’ University and College Union joint general...
Greek demonstration demanding an end to austerity

17.8m out of work in eurozone

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FIGURES released yesterday showed eurozone unemployment hit a new record high in June, with a jobless rate of 11.2% and 17.8 million people out...

Junior doctors be warned over the new GPs contract!

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JUNIOR doctors be warned. A historic new GP contract has been quietly negotiated by the BMA and NHSEngland, designed to catapult NHS healthcare into...