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RMT members and supporters demonstrating outside the Department for Transport yesterday morning – later on in the afternoon the government conceded there would be talks at Acas

EUROSTAR 7 DAY STRIKE! –as government agrees to ACAS talks over Southern dispute

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EUROSTAR rail unions RMT and TSSA are coming out on strike for seven days this month in a dispute over unsocial hours and...

Reeves launches vicious war on all benefit claimants!

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CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves launched a vicious war on benefit claimants in her Budget yesterday, warning that she intends to take over the Tory ‘work...
Greek university students on the march

‘THROW OUT THE GOVERNMENT’ – demand Greek workers and students

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OVER 5,000 university students and public sector workers held an impressive and militant rally and march in Athens last Thursday against the government’s plans...
YS members and supporters lobby TUC delegates urging them to call a general strike to support Junior Doctors and steel workers

Ys Lobbies Tuc

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THE Young Socialists lobbied the TUC Congress yesterday in Brighton to demand that it must call a general strike in support of the Junior...

NATIONALISE VESTAS! –demand the 25 occupying workers

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Workers who have been occupying the Vestas turbine blade plant on the Isle of Wight for fourteen days over plans to cut 625 jobs...
RMT and TSSA pickets at Rayners Lane depot during the strike on September 7th

Tube Jobs Strike!

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London Tube workers began walking out at 6.30pm last night at the start of a 24-hour strike in protest at plans to cut ticket...

The BMA has never been as strong as today for full pay restoration!

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OVER 1,000 striking junior doctors rallied in Whitehall outside Downing Street on Friday afternoon, at the beginning of another four-day strike to defend the...

Sunak attacks the sick, the disabled, refugees & youth

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LAUNCHING the Tory Party manifesto yesterday, Rishi Sunak attacked the sick and disabled, refugees and youth, boosted wealthy landlords, and banged the war drums...

Scottish midwives industrial action vote!

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MIDWIFE and maternity support worker (MSW) members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) across Scotland have overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ on taking industrial action,...
Part of the massive anti-austerity demonstration on June 20th when 250,000 marched on parliament – many more will march and take strike action to defend trade union rights

Unite and fight this brutal assault says RMT

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‘THIS Tory government is coming after the one group of people – the trade unions – who are able to stand up for ordinary...

‘If other workers want to come out with us they are very welcome!’

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THE RMT strike action went ahead yesterday after talks on Wednesday broke down without agreement. John Gutteridge, RMT Learning Rep spoke to News Line on...

Israeli warplanes target civilians

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THE Israeli occupation army intensified its attacks on homes, civilian targets and shelter centres in different areas of Gaza yesterday, killing and injuring dozens...

‘Significant Victory’ For Junior Doctors!

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THE BMA doctors’ union has hailed the Court of Appeal ruling on rest breaks as ‘a significant victory for junior doctors’. Commenting on the Court...

Johnson is risking a second spike – warns BMA – While Unite wants permanent...

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‘SO WE ARE at real risk, without any coherence without any safeguards, that the infection could have a second surge,’ warned Chaand Nagpaul, Chair...

3.1% rise in state pension but inflation is now rising twice as fast!

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A 3.1% RISE in the state pension and various benefits has now taken effect but charities have warned it fails to tackle an even...

PCS-Budget Day Strike!

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UP to a quarter of a million civil and public servants from across the UK will be taking part in a one day strike...
Camden librarians on Saturday’s march

‘Keep Our Libraries Open’

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OVER 5,000 library campaigners, trade unionists, their families and supporters marched against cuts and closures from the British Library through central London to Trafalgar...

‘OUR FAMILY CANNOT WAIT ANY LONGER!’ says Kaba family six months after police killing

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‘OUR FAMILY cannot wait any longer, ’ said the family of Chris Kaba yesterday, the six-months anniversary of the 24-year-old black man’s fatal shooting...
Evelyn with her daughter and supporters who came with the South-East London Council of Action to stop the eviction yesterday

Bailiffs Turned Away On Heygate Estate

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THE eviction of Heygate Estate tenant Evelyn Amahian and her two-year-old daughter was halted yesterday morning, when 40 tenants, trade unionists and youth arrived...

US Vetoes Resolution For Gaza Ceasefire!

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THE US veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding a humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip is unjustifiable, says Zhang Jun, China’s...
Unilever workers descended on the company’s headquarters from all over the UK

Defend Unilever Pensions

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Unilever workers from all over the country yesterday descended on the London headquarters, outraged at the company’s ending of their final salary pension scheme. They...
Ealing Hospital workers employed by contractors Medirest have taken a number of strike actions against low pay

NHS ‘slap in the face!’ – no pay rise in 2014-15

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NURSES, doctors and other health workers were ‘slapped in the face’ by the coalition government yesterday, as it emerged that NHS workers...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers with Greenford CWU rep GEOFF LOFTUS

Greenford Cwu To Join Gate Gourmet Lobby Of Tuc

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers got good support yesterday as they campaigned for their lobby of the TUC annual conference in Brighton next Monday morning...

Midwives To Ballot!

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MIDWIVES in England and Wales are to be balloted on industrial action. The move was announced by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) at its...
Students from all over the country lobbied parliament in February for the right to free English language courses

NORTH LONDON COLLEGES ON THE MARCH – to defend ESOL

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Staff and students from North London colleges are today marching to demonstrate their opposition to plans to restrict access to free English for Speakers...
Demonstration in London against the extradition of Babar Ahmad to the US

Babar Ahmad loses extradition appeal

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Babar Ahmad and Haroon Aswat, yesterday lost their High Court battle to avoid extradition to the United States. The US has alleged that Tooting...

‘WAR ON SCHOOLS’ says teachers & lecturers union

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TEACHERS unions said yesterday that the Tory government’s academy and free school programme has failed and its privatisation agenda amounted to a ‘war...

Starmer Calls For A Ban On Russia Today

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‘WE MUST do more to defeat Putin’s campaign of lies and disinformation,’ Labour leader Keir Starmer told the House of Commons yesterday at PMQs. ‘Russia...
GPs demonstrating to ‘save your surgery’ in Rugby earlier this year

Bma Launches ‘Save Your Surgery Campaign’

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday announced a national ‘Support your Surgery’ campaign to defend and promote NHS GP services in England. The BMA warned:...
PCS strikers and their supporters on the picket line at the National Gallery on the first day of their indefinlte strike against privatisation

National Gallery indefinite strike

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NATIONAL Gallery workers were out in force on the first day of their indefinite strike against privatisation and victimisation yesterday. On the picket line outside...

LABOUR SAVAGED! – Party pays the price for Blair-Brown policies

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LABOUR was savaged by voters in England, Scotland and Wales, in the regional and council elections as the party paid the price for the...
BILLY HAYES (left), CWU leader said the CWU will be taking strike action in October

‘CWU to strike in October!’ – Billy Hayes

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COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) General Secretary, Billy Hayes, told his pre-Congress press conference yesterday that the CWU will be taking strike action in October. He...

‘They are liars–they want to destroy everything!’ – Nasser Hospital doctor reports on raid

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‘DO you think they need any reason to attack this hospital? What kind of reason? They are liars! liars! They just want to destroy...
Students and lecturers lobbied the Reading University Council meeting last Monday afternoon against the closure of the Physics Department

BACKWARD BRITAIN! – Reading University axes Physics

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Students and lecturers at Reading University yesterday condemned Monday’s decision to axe the university’s Physics Department. Philip Diamond of the Institute of Physics said the...

Demand for inquiry into Israeli war crimes!

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THE United Nations human rights office has called for an independent inquiry into allegations that Israeli forces ‘summarily executed’ at least 11 Palestinian men...

Staff On Terminal Covid Ward Were ‘Denied Ppe’

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STAFF working on a ward for terminal coronavirus patients were denied Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) despite having to bag up 185 bodies in just...

Call Off The Talks!

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‘Our union executive should immediately call off the talks with Royal Mail until the threats of redundancy, total flexibility, and attacks on our pension...
Over 100,000 workers and youth demanded ‘Hands off the Lebanon’ on a march in London last Saturday

WE WILL KILL ANYBODY THAT MOVES – Israelis warn residents of Tyre

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Hezbollah fighters killed three Israeli soldiers in fighting along the southern Lebanon border yesterday. This was after a night of air attacks by Israeli jets...

NATO massacres Afghan civilians

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TWELVE Afghan civilians – ten children and two women – and one NATO soldier have been killed in an operation carried out by US-led...
Journalist JOHN PILGER (centre) joins HENGRIDE PERMAL (left of centre) and OLIVIER BANCOULT (third from the right, front row) in a demonstration against the House of Lords ruling yesterday

HOUSE OF LORDS RULES FOR US IMPERIALISM! – Abolishes the right to return of...

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‘WE WILL return to the Chagos Islands – it’s our right!’, ‘We will return to Diego Garcia – it’s our right!’ shouted more than...

Stop US Gp Take-Over

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The European arm of private US healthcare giant United Health is poised to take over two GP practices in Derbyshire covering 7,500 patients, one...

Israel’s ‘terrorism, threat and intimidation won’t frighten us!’ – says Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh

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THE agreement between Israeli Prime Minister-Designate Benjamin Netanyahu and extremist Itamar Ben Gvir is ‘a broad call for an escalation in the violence in...

Johnson’s brother stabs him in back

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TORY PM Boris Johnson’s brother Jo Johnson has quit as Tory MP and minister yesterday, saying he is ‘torn between family loyalty and the...

MASSACRE! – US bombers kill 47 near to Syrian Border

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FORTY-SEVEN people were massacred in two bombing raids by American warplanes in occupied Iraq early yesterday morning, close to the Syrian border. The air strikes...

No Grenfell criminal charges until 2021!

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CAMPAIGNERS have reacted with fury at news that criminal charges over the Grenfell Tower fire may not be considered until 2021. Scotland Yard will not...