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Disabled people blocked the road in a protest at Marble Arch, after last Saturday’s TUC demonstration, against the way they are treated

Workhouse Master Duncan Smith Attacks Poor

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PCS civil servants union general secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday slammed Work and Pensions secretary Duncan Smith’s speech attacking youth, families and the unemployed. Serwotka said:...

DISGRACEFUL! Cornwall council to continue fire service cuts

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THE Fire Brigades Union yesterday condemned as ‘disgraceful’ Cornwall Council’s proposals to downgrade Falmouth and Camborne fire stations, just one week after the Newquay...
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...

‘I will continue asking nursing staff to take strike action!’ – RCN leader responds...

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing has responded to the announcement of the new Prime Minister, Truss. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said:...

Russia Points To Porton Down!

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‘RUSSIA had nothing to do with’ the nerve attack in Salisbury, Russian ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov insisted yesterday. He went on to...

Greek Hauliers Defy Emergency Order

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Hundreds of striking lorry drivers and hauliers clashed with Greek police in Athens, all day yesterday. Truckers and their surporters have been lining the highways...
Demonstrators outside the High Court yesterday demanding the immediate release of youth jailed for demonstrating against Israel’s attacks on Gaza

Three Gaza Protest Youth Freed

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THREE youths were immediately freed yesterday after the Court of Appeal shortened two prison sentences and overturned one conviction. Four others had their sentences reduced,...
A number of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers outside their Employment Tribunal in Reading yesterday morning

STAFF ‘LOCKED IN THE GATE GOURMET CANTEEN’ – sacked shop steward tells Employment Tribunal

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THE Gate Gourmet locked out workers’ employment tribunal in Reading continued yesterday with the case for the sacked workers. First to appear was Sajit Sandu,...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers shouted ‘Down with the Compromise Agreement’ at their mass picket on Sunday

MARCH WITH US ON MARCH 25th

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GATE GOURMET locked out workers were back on the hill yesterday after their successful mass picket on Sunday. Lakhinder Saran said: ‘Our mass picket was...

Reeves scraps Winter Fuel Allowance – Pensioners to freeze in their homes

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NEW LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves dropped a bombshell on the working class across the UK in a statement in Parliament yesterday, announcing that she...

RMT CALL FOR GENERAL STRIKE – to confront Trade Union Act!

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THERE was an RMT call for a general strike to confront the Trade Union Act and all anti-union laws at at the TUC Congress...

TGWU must defend BA shop stewards say GateGourmet workers

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‘We have rejected the deal between the TGWU leaders and Gate Gourmet and put in for our employment tribunals. ‘The TGWU and TUC leaders...
A strong picket line of NUT and NASUWT members and parents outside the Alec Reed Academy in Northolt yesterday morning

Academy plan a ‘disaster’

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NUT and NASUWT members at Alec Reed Academy in Northolt, Ealing, west London were on strike yesterday, with two more days of strike action...

Gate Gourmet mass picket Sunday

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‘WE are all very strong and standing firm in the wind and all weathers on our picket line on the hill and won’t give...
A section of yesterday’s lunchtime rally of striking staff and students outside London Metropolitan University yesterday

London Met University Strike Action

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OVER 100 staff, students and lecturers rallied outside London Met University yesterday lunchtime, to vow to halt the wave of hundreds of sackings taking...

TORY CRISIS DEEPENS AS SUNAK SET TO BORROW £598bn MORE

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CHANCELLOR Sunak began his Budget speech by drawing attention to the £280 billion already spent on Covid-19 rescue measures saying, ‘I said I would...

Heathrow strike vote!

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THERE has been a strike vote over ‘punishing’ working patterns at Heathrow. International airlines flying from Heathrow Airport face major disruption to the supply of...

Labour hits back after Panorama attack

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‘WE COMPLETELY reject any claim that Labour is anti-Semitic,’ said a Labour Party spokesperson, responding to BBC Panorama’s programme aired on Wednesday evening, attacking...
A section of the steel workers’ march on its way to parliament

NATIONALISE! – Steel workers demand

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‘SAVE Our Steel!’ shouted over one thousand steel workers as they marched through central London from the Embankment to Parliament yesterday afternoon. They were joined...
A section of the over 120,000-strong march in London last Saturday against the Israeli onslaught on Gaza

Israel breaks ceasefire

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INTENSE clashes erupted yesterday morning between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in the southeastern Gaza Strip amid confirmed reports that an Israeli soldier has...
A section of the big firefighters’ lobby of the London Fire Authority in Waterloo yesterday

‘We won’t accept closures!’ says FBU leader Matt Wrack

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SEVERAL thousand firefighters and supporters yesterday lobbied the London Fire Authority meeting in Southwark which was to vote on the London Fire Commissioner’s revised...
Junior doctors during their dispute warned that the Tories would put the NHS up for sale

GPs FACE PRIVATISATION! – warning from the BMA

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GPs FACE takeover by commercial providers warns the BMA. Plans to introduce ICPs (Integrated Care Providers) in England must not allow private firms to...

British Steel furnaces – no guarantee they will function – legislation rushed through Parliament

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BUSINESS Secretary Jonathan Reynolds refused to confirm yesterday whether the government can get sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep the blast furnaces...
Greek police. There have been a number ov violent police attacks on the teachers

Greek Police Assault Teachers’ Leaders

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Greek trade union leaders have called a general strike today after armed riot police furiously attacked teachers union leaders on Monday with batons and...
BA cabin crew celebrating their High Court victory in May condemned BA management ‘bullying’

Resume BA strike action–urge cabin crew

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‘WE WANT the strike action reinstated immediately and extended, so that we can defeat Walsh’s union-busting operation once and for all,’ British Airways Stewards...

‘PROSECUTE BOSSES’–TUC – who pay apprentices less than the legal minimum

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EIGHTEEN per cent of young people on slave labour apprenticeship schemes are illegally being paid less than the minimum wage, according to the government’s...

Thousands of Nurses protest across USA! – against staff shortages in hospitals

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AMID a steep surge in Covid-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant, thousands of nurses on Thursday staged nationwide protests against staff shortage in...

US forced to call an immediate Gaza ceasefire!

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that the United States has circulated a draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an...
Young Socialists lobby of last September’s TUC Congress in Brighton demanding no zero-hours contracts

Accept Zero Hours Or No Benefits!

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UNEMPLOYED workers are to be thrown off benefits if they refuse to go on slave labour zero-hours contracts, the government announced yesterday. Employment Minister Esther...
Workers occupying the roof of the Visteon factory in Enfield yesterday

BAILIFFS DEFIED – Enfield Visteon workers maintain occupation

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THE Visteon car parts plant, in Enfield, once owned by Ford, is still occupied by over 100 workers who are defending their jobs and...

Foreign doctors witness a dire situation & war crimes in Gaza!

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FOREIGN doctors volunteering in Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals have shared distressing accounts of the dire medical situation and war crimes they’ve witnessed. With 80% of the...

BABY BUTCHERS! – 1,091 infants killed by Israel since October 7th 2023

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ISRAELI occupation forces killed 1,091 Palestinian infants in Gaza since October 7, 2023, including 238 who were born and killed during the ongoing Israeli...

Consumers facing huge oil & gas price rises!

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THE TORY government claimed yesterday that there is no threat to the UK gas supplies, despite four energy privateers being widely tipped to go...

UK unemployment soars to 5%

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The UK unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to September, with the Bank of England (BoE) predicting it will stay that...
TGWU Gate Gourmet sacked workers defied their TGWU union leaders and refused to accept the Compromise Agreement which gave away all their legal  and trade union rights. Their struggle continues today – 21 months later – and they remain determined to end t

Gate Gourmet Moves To Cut Wages!

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Thirty drivers at airline caterers Gate Gourmet are furious after receiving letters from the company telling them to accept pay cuts. The Transport and General...

EU deal ‘overwhelmingly unlikely’ – Merkel tells PM Johnson

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GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel poured buckets of cold water over Tory PM Boris Johnson’s attempts to get a Brexit deal with the EU when,...
Union leaders at the front of a march demanding no cuts and no sell-off of the NHS

Three months to save NHS – ‘from free market free-for-all’ says Miliband

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‘We have three months to prevent great harm being done to the NHS,’ Labour leader Ed Miliband said yesterday. In an article for the Observer,...

PROTECT OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS – demand unions

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Workers who lost their pensions when their firm went bust gave a cautious welcome to a second High Court victory yesterday. The court rejected an...

Cameron admits to donor dinners

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PRIME MINISTER Cameron admitted yesterday that major Tory Party donors have been invited to dinner in Downing Street on four occasions since 2010. He said:...

Cameron-Heseltine-Tuc Unholy Alliance

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The TUC has welcomed the government’s announcement that it will adopt most of Tory former deputy prime minister Heseltine’s plans for the privatisation...

5-year spending freeze – demands Tory MP Fox

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LEADING Tory MP, Liam Fox, has called for Osborne to announce a freeze on all public spending, which would cut spending by 2.5% a...

No money for food, heating or electric

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OVER a third of low paid workers have had to skip meals, sitting at home in the dark and cold because they have no...
Health workers marching on the NHS anniversary demonstration were determined to prevent the privatisation of the NHS

Half Acute Hospitals In London Under Threat!

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THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the requirement for all the remaining 113 hospital trusts to achieve foundation business status...

$10 Trillion US Deficit Looms

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The US government is heading for a massive $10 trillion budget deficit over the next decade, analysts warned yesterday after the White House projected...

Ford’s Bridgend closure ‘a hammer blow’– GMB

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‘WE’RE HUGELY shocked by today’s announcement. It’s a real hammer blow for the Welsh economy and the community in Bridgend,’ GMB’s Regional Organiser Jeff...