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Marchers in London urging: defend the NHS and stop privatisation – the GMB is now fighting an attempt to privatise an elderly people’s service contract in Cambridge which is being presented as a £1bn deal

Stop £1bn NHS privatisation!

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THE GMB trade union is calling on members and the community to join the lobby of the Clinical Commissioning Group in Cambridge from 1pm...

Child benefit savage cuts

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STRUGGLING families are losing out on hundreds of pounds a year as a result of changes to child benefit over the past decade, said...

Fresh Rail Gourmet strikes called

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TRANSPORT union RMT confirmed yesterday that Rail Gourmet staff at Edinburgh Waverley will be going ahead with a new phase of strike action in...
Community groups demanding the House of Lords defeat the Welfare Reform Bill

Defend Benefits!

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A lively contingent of single mums, people with disabilities, unemployed youth and their supporters protested to the House of Lords yesterday, to demand...

Remainers launch a legal challenge!

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‘THE CANDYFLOSS of outrage we’ve had over the last 24 hours, which I think is almost entirely confected, is from people who never wanted...

John Breen (1938-2010)

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OVER 100 people packed out Hither Green Cremat-orium yesterday for the funeral of John Breen. His wife Doreen, their two daughters, family, friends and a...
News Line Anniversary Rally

News Line Anniversary Rally

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Sunday November 29th

LIBYAN CEASEFIRE! – but imperialists proceed with war plan

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Libyan Foreign minister Moussa Koussa yesterday announced: ‘My country will do its best to deal positively with this resolution’, in the wake of Thursday...

OCCUPY GM! – defend every job says ATUA Secretary Wiltshire

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German workers are holding ‘warning strikes’ today over General Motors scrapping the sale of GM Europe, which includes Opel and Vauxhall, to Magna. The GM...

Tories Starve The Disabled!

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DISABLED people in Scotland are being starved by the Tory government, with some people waiting as long as 15 months without receiving a single...
Ambulance staff taking strike action at Deptford Ambulance Station were concerned at the way cuts were affecting the service

Ambulance Cuts Are Costing Lives!

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EAST of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) management operated a policy of downgrading target response times for 999 emergency calls from December 18th...

‘Victory to Palestine!’ demand hundreds of thousands on huge London march

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HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, students and youth marched on Saturday through central London, calling for victory to Palestine and an end to Israel’s...

Working class kids denied education!

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THE CHILDREN of working class families are being denied an education during the coronavirus lockdown as many families do not have access to laptops,...

Polar storm rips through Gaza

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A POLAR low-pressure storm poses a serious danger to displaced families and residents amid the massive destruction caused by the Israeli genocide that has...
Young Socialists banner on the July 1st march to kick the Tories out demanding the TUC call a general strike

£490bn GOES MISSING! – as bosses move to crash UK economy

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REVISED figures from Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) ‘Blue Book’, which measures economic activity in the UK, show that Britain’s global investments have collapsed...

‘International community must make a stand’

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IN the wake of the unlawful US aggression against the peaceful Iranian nuclear sites, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday called on the international...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at the picket in Heathrow yesterday want to see action from the TGWU to get their jobs back

WORKING CLASS MUST TAKE POWER! – WRP General Secretary Frank Sweeney tells the News...

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‘The only way to solve the problems facing the working class today is for the working class to take state power and smash...
15,000 teachers on yesterday’s march determined to save state education by bringing down Gove and Tory-led coalition

GOVE MUST GO! – demand 15,000 teachers

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‘GOVE must go!’ was the common chant of tens of thousands of teachers taking part in a second series of joint NUT-NASUWT regional strikes...

Massive Crimea clashes–Red Army exercise called

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has ordered an urgent military drill to test the combat readiness of the armed forces across western and central Russia. The...
The new 30x6ft banner erected outside Chase Farm Hospital that replaces the 3x3ft sign that was there when a 2-year-old child was taken by his mother to what she thought was the A&E, only to find the door to the Urgent Care Centre was locked. The child di

Chase Farm ‘needs its A&E back – not a new sign!’

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ON 15th January a two-year-old child died at North Middlesex Hospital after having been taken to Chase Farm Hospital. The baby’s name was Muhammad Hashir...

Kwarteng’s mini budget is a major attack on the working class

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CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...
Small farmers with their tractors blockading a national road in central Greece. Photo courtesy left.gr

Greek Riot Squads Attack Small Farmers!

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ARMED squads of the Greek riot police using tear gas and truncheons attacked hundreds of small farmers who were protesting by blockading a motorway...

UK forced to appoint European Commissioner!

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PM JOHNSON’S ‘do or die’ pledge is truly dead, as the EU has insisted as a condition of their ‘flextension’ that the UK will...
Demonstrators expressing their anger at the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon in July – police would like to criminalise slogans on placards they decide to be ‘offensive’

POLICE MUST NOT BE CENSORS – says Liberty

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Civil rights organisation Liberty yesterday urged the government not to give police powers to arrest demonstrators for ‘offensive’ chants and/or slogans on placards. This followed...
North East London Council of Action march in Enfield last month demanding that Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E be reopened

Chase Farm Land Sell-Off!

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THE Hampstead-based Royal Free Hospital NHS trust, which will take over Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield and Barnet Hospital this July, has confirmed its...

LABOUR’S COLLUSION WITH TORTURE CONDEMNED –as Johnson, Miliband and MI5 chief launch witch-hunt!

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Legal charity Reprieve and rights group Amnesty, yesterday hit back at attacks by MI5 and the government on the Appeal Court judgement that revealed...

21st BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN

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ANOTHER British soldier has died in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed yesterday. The MoD said the soldier was ‘shot and...

Call a general strike or resign – UCU CONEL demands of TUC

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UCU lecturers at their emergency branch meeting yesterday demanded that the TUC organise a national demonstration and march to parliament on its 1st February ‘Day...
Anti-capitalist demonstrators taking to the streets of London following the crash of the banks in 2008. The crisis of mass unemployment and inflation is intensifying

Bank Alarm Over Inflation Rate – Prices Still Above Target

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BANK of England Governor Mervyn King was rattled yesterday after the latest UK inflation figures showed that prices are still soaring. Although the figures for...

‘Don’t make the student debt nightmare worse!’

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‘DON’T make the £141bn student debt nightmare worse,’ the University and College Union (UCU) warned yesterday ahead of a government spending review. University staff have...

ACCEPT MAGNA DEAL OR FACE CLOSURE – Luton workers told

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Workers attending the morning shift at the GM van plant in Luton yesterday were presented with a Unite union leaflet, informing them of a...

1,652 empty properties in North Kensington – only 12 Grenfell Tower families rehoused

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THE LABOUR Party yesterday called the revelation that 1,652 properties in North Kensington are unoccupied ‘simply unacceptable’. A local resident and community activist told News...
PCS members on strike against moves to privatise jobs at Caxton House, part of the DWP

80,000 vote for strike action!

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The 80,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have voted two to...

NHS workers immigration status victory – Home Office forced to U-turn yesterday morning!

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THE TORIES, under fire from all sides have had to make a U-turn on their policy over the immigration status of NHS workers. Until yesterday...
Above and right: Over 2,500 teachers marched through Sheffield midday condemning Education Secretary Gove and the Coalition government

Teachers Strike

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TEACHERS took mass strike action yesterday in four large regions of the country, the Eastern region, the Midlands, Yorkshire and Humberside. They came out against...
Gate Gourmet Tribunal Review

Gate Gourmet Tribunal Review

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Gate Gourmet sacked workers outside the Reading Tribunal last Friday, where they were seeking a review of the tribunal judge’s decision that their 32...
Mothers demonstrate outside the House of Commons against government benefit cuts

Food Bank donations soar 1000% after Mail attack

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FOOD bank donations have soared 1,000% in response to the ‘utterly vile’ Mail on Sunday attack on food banks, a charity revealed yesterday. The Trussell...

French Workers March To Bring Down Macron

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FRENCH protesters downed tools and marched once again in Paris and other cities yesterday. They have been galvanised by President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to ram...

ALL OUT ON THE 27th

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AT Gatwick, on Sunday morning, pickets at the South Terminal roundabout got tremendous support from passing motorists, coaches and lorries, and fellow airport workers,...

Russia Today fined £200,000!

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BRITISH broadcast regulator Ofcom has just slapped Russia Today (RT) with a six-figure £200,000 fine for allegedly breaching impartiality rules. The fine comes before a...

150,000 Workers & Youth March Through London In Support Of Palestine!

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THERE were 150,000 workers, students and youth marching through the streets of London for Palestine from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall on Saturday. As 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...

UNITE SIGNS UP FOR SAVAGE GM-VAUXHALL CUTS ‘We have to work as a team’...

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‘Vauxhall employees contribute in support of the Opel/Vauxhall turnaround plan,’ General Motors announced yesterday. The deal was struck in Rüsselsheim on Thursday. A...