Students on the NUS and UCU joint demonstration last November – they oppose the Tory move to charge different fees at each and every university dependent on the ‘quality of education’

Parents remortgage to pay uni fees

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PARENTS are being forced to remortgage their homes in order to pay for their sons’ and daughters’ tuition fees. ‘My Home Move’ analysed figures which...

Turkey Buys Isis Oil – Says Yaalon

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ISRAEL''S defence minister has accused Turkey of buying oil from IS, thereby funding its activities. Speaking in Athens, Moshe Yaalon said IS had ‘enjoyed Turkish...

‘We won today in Court’ says Moris after Assange is granted Supreme Court appeal...

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‘MAKE no mistake we won today in court,’ Stella Moris, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s fiancee said to cheers outside the Royal Courts of Justice...
Medical secretaries demonstrate outside Crawley Hospital yesterday against outsourcing

Crawley Medical Secretaries Protest

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MEDICAL secretaries mounted a lively lunch-time demonstration outside Crawley Hospital in West Sussex yesterday against Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust’s decision to outsource...

THIRD YEAR OF WAGE FREEZING! – time to bring down coalition

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Yesterday, local government employers confirmed that they are to impose a pay freeze for the third year running on 1.6 million council workers. Unison, Unite...
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...

B of E fears housing bubble

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HOUSE-BUILDING giant Baratt Homes’ share price crashed by ten per cent yesterday in an immediate response to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney’s announcement...

‘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...

Date called for nurses indicative strike ballot – RCN demands 12.5% pay rise

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday announced the dates for the indicative ballot for strike action demanding a 12.5% pay increase. The ballot opens on...
The DEH Computer Centre building under occupation. Banners state ‘We resist’ and ‘We will not cut off the electricity supply to the poor even if they put us in prison’ – signed by the DEH trades union

‘POSTPONE GREEK ELECTIONS’ – demands EU dictator

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THE Greek coalition’s Finance Minister Evagelos Venizelos has said that the general election date agreed for February 19 by both the ex-Prime Minister Papandreou...

SAVE OUR POST OFFICES – CWU announces week of actions

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday announced a week of action against the closure of Post Offices. The week of campaigning by the ‘Future for...

Don’t withhold the Palestinian revenues urge Nordic nations!

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THE Nordic nations have voiced serious concerns over the withholding of Palestinian clearance revenues, further straining the already difficult fiscal situation of the Palestinian...

Grenfell – Schmidt says not his priority to understand fire safety tests!

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CLAUDE SCHMIDT, president of Arconic that made the Grenfell Tower cladding, has said it was not his ‘priority’ to understand fire safety tests and...

Israel still committing war crimes in Gaza

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HUMAN Rights Watch has accused Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, with US President Joe Biden’s administration criticised for...

70 schools built with flammable insulation

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MORE than 70 schools have been built using combustible insulation since the material was banned on high-rise apartment blocks after the Grenfell Tower disaster,...

‘Performance-related’ pay NHS deal must be rejected!

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GMB rightly recommended their members to reject the Tory government’s NHS pay offer, as a 6.5% pay increase over three years, when compared with...
MARIA OTONE DE MENEZES, mother of Jean Charles addressing the packed London meeting on Monday night

‘THIS IS A LIE’ – Iran condemns Blair weapons allegations

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday repeated allegations that Iran had a hand in the deaths of British troops in Iraq. Speaking at a joint press conference...
Part of a mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital on Tuesday to prevent its A&E and Maternity departments being closed

Bma Debates Call For Industrial Action

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The BMA Consul-tants Conference yesterday heard a call for trade union action to defend the NHS from cuts and privatisation. Moving Motion 138 from North-East...

Aslef supports PCS strikers at British Museum

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‘YOU are the finest workers in the UK. You deserve fair pay, job security and not threats,’ PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka told strikers...

2,800 steel jobs set to go! – workers demand general strike, while the...

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TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak has begged Tory PM Sunak to stop Tata carrying out last Friday’s threat to sack 2,800 steelworkers in Port...

Over 10,000 workers and youth rally for Palestinian state!

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OVER 10,000 workers, youth and their families rallied in Trafalgar Square on Saturday for a ‘day of action for Palestine.’ The rally was called by...

Tens Of Thousands March Against Athens Riot Police

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TENS of thousands of school and university students demonstrated last Friday in Athens and in all Greek major cities against the oppression and violence...

‘Intervene to halt Israel’s assault on Gaza!’– Hamas urges the Muslim nations

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HAMAS has urged Arab and Muslim nations to intervene immediately to halt Israel’s resumed assault on Gaza, stressing that regional powers bear a ‘direct...

Hamas opens fire on Israel

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HAMAS'S military wing, the Qassam Brigades, launched a ten-rocket missile attack on Israel yesterday, causing loud explosions in the Tel Aviv area, triggering alarm...

‘Work with whoever is elected’ urges Harman

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LABOUR MPs must ‘work with’ whoever is elected leader later this week, Harriet Harman has said pleading with Labour’s right wing not to split...

‘It’s Everybody’s NHS! All Unions Must Defend It!’

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NURSES were yesterday striking at many hospitals in England, all but one health board in Wales and the whole of Northern Ireland, for the...
TUC Congress delegates voting for co-ordinated strike action to defend jobs and pensions on Monday

‘We Will Defeat The Health Bill!’

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DELEGATES passed motion 51 on ‘Southern Cross and the Care Sector’ yesterday morning at the TUC. It called for ‘robust regulation’, ‘all care homes to...

60 Years Since The ‘Catastrophe’

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On the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) last Thursday, agriculture minister Dr Mohammed Al-Agha strongly criticised international institutions for not...
The demonstration in Brixton on Friday night condemned PM May’s ‘deliberately unreachable bar’ for migrants as racism

Corbyn indicts May! – for her ‘cruel and discredited policy’

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn says Prime Minister Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’ set a ‘deliberately unreachable bar’ for migrants and created the Windrush generation scandal. In...
PAUL KING, stepson of Ian Tomlinson, addressing the press outside the office of the Crown Prosecution Service yesterday

G20 Policeman To Face Manslaughter Charge

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‘We welcome today’s decision to bring a charge of manslaughter against the officer,’ said newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson’s stepson Paul King on behalf of...

RISE UP AGAINST AL-AQSA MEASURES – HAMAS

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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said: ‘The Israeli occupation’s field measures and steps in occupied Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, including the closure of Al-Aqsa’s...

Richest are 30% better off!

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‘THIS situation cannot be allowed to continue,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday in response to this year’s Sunday Times Rich...
A section of the mass picket of the Balfour Beatty Crossrail site at Blackfriars Bridge early yesterday morning

Angry Sparks Demand Official Action

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ANGRY electricians fighting 35% pay cuts imposed by a ‘cartel’ of seven major building contractors led by Balfour Beatty, went on strike at construction...

3 Years After Grenfell Fire!

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'IT'S been an absolute outrage that three years later and the Grenfell families still have no justice, and homes are still unsafe,’ Joe Delaney,...
Royal College of GPs Chair CLARE GERADA (centre in black with dog) arriving last month in Whitehall with the ‘Bevan’s Run’ consultants opposed to the Health Bill

SCRAP THE HEALTH BILL SAY GPs – No to a two-tier NHS

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The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), the UK’s largest medical Royal College, yesterday wrote to Prime Minister Cameron calling for the complete withdrawal...

‘REOPEN ERT STATE TV!’ –Greek workers demand of Syriza

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The sacked ERT state TV and radio workers’ union POSPERT has called a mass rally in Athens for Wednesday 11 February. They are demanding that...

Patel’s ‘Pushback’ policy is ‘unlawful’ claims PCS

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CIVIL SERVANTS’ union the PCS, representing Border Force staff, has joined Care4Calais in their legal fight to prevent Home Secretary Priti Patel from pushing...
Teachers occupying the Wembley Park Sports Ground  against a City Academy say No to privately run schools

‘DEFEND STATE SCHOOLS!’ – ‘Trusts’ roll-out slammed

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‘WE WILL never give up state education,’ a teachers union leader vowed yesterday, after the announcement of plans to remove more schools from elected...
The GMB’s PHIL DAVIES confronts Work and Pensions Secretary  PETER HAIN about the Remploy crisis at the TUC Congress

28 Remploy Factories To Close

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The GMB trade union yesterday slammed ‘failed Remploy management’ over plans to close 28 factories for disabled workers. Responding to proposals from Remploy management, GMB...

Blair is to blame for Iraq war and occupation deaths

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THE widow of Guardsman Anthony Wakefield, Ann Toward, is 100 per cent correct – Tony Blair is to blame for the death of her...

A&Es won’t cope this winter! – warn 87% of clinicians

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NINE out of ten UK A&E clinicians are not confident that their departments will cope this winter. Shockingly, in a survey by The Royal College...
Marchers got a great reception in Coventry city centre from some very generous supporters

Youth Being Treated Like Slaves

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POURING rain made the Young Socialist marchers even more determined and their chants of ‘Youth demand a future, Youth demand jobs’ even louder on...
Pakistanis demonstrate against the Musharaff dictatorship outside 10 Downing Street on November 10th

BHUTTO KILLED BY THE MILITARY – Revolution erupts throughout Pakistan

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Yesterday, at 6.16pm local time (13.16 GMT), Pakistan Peoples Party leader Benazir Bhutto died in Rawalpindi General Hospital after being shot in the neck...

Johnson squirms over ‘surrender’ to the ‘Surrender Act!’

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Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to deliver a squirming account of his failure to take the UK out of the EU on...

BA’s ‘GUN TO THE HEAD’ SACKINGS & WAGE CUTS

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BA workers warned yesterday that cabin crew at British Airways are ready to strike over job and pay cuts. BA union convenors and...