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LUTON GM WAGE CUTS! – supported by Unite union leaders

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WORKERS at the General Motors Truck and Van plant in Luton were yesterday voting on a management offer that cuts their hours and pay. The...
Half a million public sector workers demonstrated in London against the Tory-LibDem coalition on 26th March 2011

No Fault Dismissals ‘a Bad Bosses Charter!’

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‘NO fault dismissal will allow employers to sack people where their faces don’t fit,’ Paul Kenny, leader of the GMB public service union warned...

Union Leaders Warn King

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BANK of England Governor King’s insistence that nothing must be done to prevent the squeeze in living standards down to 1920s levels, has...

Obama Expands The War Into Pakistan!

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US President Barack Obama yesterday announced a further 4,000 US troops will be sent to Afghanistan this summer, in addition to the 17,000 earmarked...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing yesterday morning on the hill near the factory

NO TO A ROTTEN COMPROMISE! sayGate Gourmet workers

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TGWU members on the picket line yesterday condemned the ‘Compromise Agreement, reached between Gate Gourmet and the TGWU leaders. Mr Sangha said: ‘The company...
Ambulance workers marching against cuts on a TUC demonstration

NHS–strikebreakers called in!

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UNION leaders yesterday angrily condemned the planned strikebreaking by the army and police, announced on the eve of today’s 7am-11am four-hour NHS pay strike. Military...

Primark Slave Labour Claims

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The GMB trade union yesterday called for tougher enforcement of the National Minimum Wage in the wake of allegations that a Primark supplier in...

Royal Mail Wants To Sell Mail Centres

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ROYAL Mail is about to break its truce with the CWU that has lasted since before Christmas through January and February. Latest reports suggest that...

PM HAS BROKEN PLEDGES! – says top QC Martin Howe

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TORY PM Theresa May was yesterday accused of a ‘wholesale abandonment’ of Brexit promises by top QC Martin Howe. May’s controversial Chequers sell-out deal...

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...

Syrian local elections ‘prove the failure of our enemies’ – President Assad

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SYRIAN president Bashar al-Assad said that holding local council elections on time proves the strength of the Syrian people and the state. In a speech...
The scene outside the Kings Head pub in Upton Upon Severn in Worcestershire after the river burst its banks

Emergency!

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THE floods crisis in central and western England continued yesterday with tens of thousands of homes stranded without water and electricity supplies. Up to...
Riot police attack demonstrators on Wednesday in Athens. Photo credit: Marios Lolos

Greek One-Day General Strike

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UNDER the umbrella of ‘Social Alliance’, the GSEE (Greek TUC), the ADEDY (public sector workers’ unions federation) and the small and medium sized business...

Blair at Inquiry on Monday

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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to appear before the Leveson Inquiry into media standards on Monday. Under-pressure Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will give evidence...

PCS Second Week Of Strike Action!

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THERE was a lively picket of PCS union members outside the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology office in Whitehall yesterday morning, on their...

100 killed in Donetsk! – after Kiev forces attack on airport

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OVER 100 have been killed, including 50 members of local self-defence forces and just over the same number of civilians, in clashes with pro-Kiev...

‘END ALL FEES’ –demands YS National Secretary

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‘IT is not enough for tuition fees to be reduced they must be abolished in their entirety!’ said Joshua Ogunleye, national secretary of the...

‘Fast Track’ deportations illegal

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The Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling declaring the ‘Detained Fast Track’ system for asylum seekers to be unlawful and ‘potentially disastrous’. In...

Loud, lively and big radiographers picket!

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THERE were loud and lively picket lines of striking radiographers outside hospitals around the country yesterday as the NHS workers continued their 48-hour strike...

‘WE WILL WIN OUR FIGHT’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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PASSING cars hooted in support as locked out Gate Gourmet workers picketed on the hill near Heathrow Airport yesterday. Avtar told News Line: ‘We will...
Picturehouse strikers on the picket line last year during their strike for a living wage

Picturehouse 9 days of strike action

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PICTUREHOUSE Cinema workers have vowed to defend the right to strike, defy the threats being made against them and proceed with their nine days...

Palestinian children urge – ‘stop the killing!’

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DOZENS of Palestinian children staged a protest on Monday to deliver an ‘urgent appeal to stop the killing of Gaza’s children’ to international community...

Jobless Student Midwives!

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More than 90 per cent of final year midwifery students are struggling to find a job, a new survey published today by the Royal...

A STEP TOWARDS POLICE STATE! – Tory move against anti-war movement condemned

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The Stop the War Coalition yesterday condemned amendments tabled by Monmouth Tory MP David Davies to the Policing and Crime Bill, currently going through...

St Mungo’s 10 weeks on strike – as rough sleeping soars

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TEN weeks into their indefinite strike for a 10% pay increase, over 200 St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers and their supporters held a festival...
Visteon sacked workers on the march, they insist they are winning their struggle

‘DON’T BE FRIGHTENED OF A GENERAL STRIKE’ SAYS McDONNELL

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‘WHAT happened to us could have happened to anyone!’ This is what Visteon shop steward Raymond Dixon told the crowd in Trafalgar Square at the...

BERNANKE READY TO ACT – to print hundreds of billions more dollars

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US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday that he is ‘ready to act’ on the US economy, hinting that the US is about...

The Hague rules UK must ‘relinquish Chagos ASAP’

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THE INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice (ICJ) known as ‘the Hague’ ruled yesterday that Britain’s ‘decolonisation and displacement’ of the Chagos Islanders from the Indian...
Up and down the country parents, teachers and pupils are marching to defend state education against the coalition’s ‘Free School’ bonanza for the rich, and the big business dominated academies

£2m ‘Free School’ with 68 pupils

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THREE thousand Beccles residents have demanded to know why £2m of taxpayers money is being spent on a ‘Free School’ with only 68 pupils. The...
A strong picket of the Law Courts yesterday morning, demanding a judicial review of the decision to close Ealing Hospital’s A&E

Ealing demands ‘Don’t close our hospitals’

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CAMPAIGNERS demonstrated outside the High Court yesterday where Ealing Council were seeking a judicial review of the decision to close Ealing Hospital A&E. They had...

‘MAKE CREDIBLE OFFER’ – Junior doctors tell Health Secretary Barclay

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JUNIOR doctors in England have told the Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, that a credible offer – showing he is serious about pay restoration and...

BA PROFITS CRASH – as annual car production falls by 55 %

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British Airways boss Willie Walsh yesterday said he could not rule out further job cuts and called on BA workers to take a holiday...
Mounted police charge at sacked printers marching to News International’s Wapping Fortress during the 1986-87 printers struggle for jobs and union rights

Coulson In Custody!

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Police investigating phone hacking and corruption allegations yesterday arrested former News of the World editor Andy Coulson. Former News of the World royal editor Clive...

IT’S PAYBACK TIME! – as Home Secretary Smith urges harass youth

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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith yesterday announced a new state crackdown on working class youth and their parents. She said announcing ‘Operation Leopard’: ‘It’s exactly the...
Friends and families of those who have died in police custody marching last October –  co-chair of the campaign, Stephanie Lightfoot-Bennett said the new police tactics will lead to more innocent citizens’ deaths

Police will shoot to kill drivers – ‘carte blanche to kill innocents’ says United...

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ARMED police have adopted a new shoot-to-kill tactic: fire sub-automatic assault rifles at moving vehicles to ‘neutralise’ the driver, sparking fears that many more...

Birmingham Bin Strikers Stand Firm Against Up To £8,000 A Year Pay Cuts!

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AHEAD of talks with Unite negotiators aimed at ending the long-running binworkers strike yesterday, Birmingham Council Leader John Cotton claimed: ‘We’re in a position...
The lobby calling to scrap Clause 118/9 of the Care Bill which will allow health secretary Hunt to close any hospital he chooses

Stop Hunt Closing Hospitals!

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OVER 150 people lobbied the Houses of Parliament yesterday in an angry demonstration against clause 119, which if passed gives Tory Health Secretary Hunt...

Sky News Boss Admits Illegal Hacking

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Sky News boss John Ryley admitted to the Leveson Inquiry yesterday that the company broke the law by hacking emails. Following the admission Ofcom announced...
CHRIS KAVANAGH (right) with fellow fire alarm engineers, they called for the TUC to act to defend the NHS

Hounslow Campaign Goes Well For Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers

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THE campaign team of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers was in Hounslow yesterday working for their mass picket this Sunday and their conference in London...
Seafarers with their union banner calling for a ‘block to fascism’ at the head of Thursday’s march in Kokkinia, Athens

Greek Teachers Vote For 5-Day Strike

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GREEK teachers voted on Thursday by clear majorities for another five-day national strike starting Monday. The final decision will be taken by the OLME (teachers’...
Workers and youth in the UK are fighting to lift the siege on Gaza and establish the state of Palestine

‘We have created a historic epic’ says Haniya

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ISMAIL Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister in Gaza, has saluted the Palestinian people for their steadfastness in the harsh battle. ‘They have become the...
Two thousand teachers and Unison members marched through Tower Hamlets yesterday

Public sector workers strike action

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STRIKING teachers and other public sector workers marched through Camden and Tower Hamlets yesterday. The vibrant demonstration and rally of 500 Camden NUT members was...

British Officers For Libya!

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TEN British military officers are to be sent to Libya to train Libyan counter-revolutionaries along with a number of French officers. Foreign Secretary Hague announced...

AVIATION ABANDONED! – Unite’s Graham demands meeting with chancellor Sunak

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THE UNITE trade union has hit out at the Johnson government for once again failing to recognise the impact of Covid restrictions on the...

Israel Intensifies Its Assault On Gaza Strip

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THE Israeli military has intensified its assault on the Gaza Strip, with at least 25 civilians killed and dozens injured since the early hours...