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GMB members on strike in defence of pensions at St George’s Hospital in Tooting last November 30

97.3% VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION! –at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital

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porters, theatre technicians, catering, cleaning and other NHS support workers, employed by private contractor Carillion at Great Western Hospital in Swindon, have voted by...

‘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...

FROST RESIGNATION A POLITICAL DISASTER! – say Tory MPs

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HEALTH Secretary Sajid Javid indicated yesterday that the Tory government is set to impose new Covid restrictions, as the Omicron variant spreads around the...

‘WOODLEY SHOULD RESIGN OVER GATE GOURMET’ says RMT member

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A team of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers campaigned on Southall High Street yesterday. They spoke to Warish Singh an RMT member from Earls Court tube...

Junior Doctors Want Their Pay Restored!

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‘EVERY day junior doctors despair as they see operations cancelled and treatment postponed for the millions on the waiting lists because our health services...
Pickets outside the Science Museum, South Kensington yesterday striking to defend their pay

NO TO PAY CUT – say Science Museum strikers

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Pickets were out in force at the Science Museum in west London yesterday. Public and Commercial Services (PCS) members joined colleagues from the Prospect trade...

Huge sussex education cuts!

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HEAD teachers from all 250 primary schools in West Sussex have written to Theresa May to demand an extra £20 million as they face...
Watford postal workers outside the CWU conference in Bournemouth on Friday

‘WE ARE READY FOR A FIGHT’ – CWU postal worker delegates speak to News...

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Postal workers at the CWU Conference in Bournemouth said yesterday they are ready for a fight to defend their jobs, wages and the postal...

Fierce fighting in Jabalia refugee camp

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FIERCE fighting is taking place in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as Palestinian soldiers battle Israeli troops after they launched another deadly...
Firefighters marching on Friday through Liverpool on a national demonstration to support Merseyside firefighters defending the service

7,000 March With Merseyside Firefighters

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Merseyside has the potential to become a national dispute,’ FBU President Ruth Winters told a mass rally at the end of a 7,000-strong demonstration...
‘Bloody Sunday’ mural on a wall in Derry

UNARMED VICTIMS SHOT DEAD ON BLOODY SUNDAY – finds Saville

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‘The immediate responsibility for the deaths and injuries on Bloody Sunday lies with those members of Support Company whose unjustifiable firing was the cause...
Nippon strike picket at Heathrow Airport yesterday against a major attack on their wages and conditions

Nippon Workers Fight Back!

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FORTY-FIVE drivers and warehousemen at Nippon Express Air Freight Agent in Hayes near Heathrow Airport are on their third day of a three day...
Waltham Forest UNISON members brought their banner to show their support for strikers in Leytonstone yesterday

DEFEND JOBS AND SAFETY say striking RMT, TSSA members

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RAIL union RMT said yesterday’s strike for tube safety and safe staffing levels on London Underground was ‘rock solid’, and demanded that the rail...

US TASK FORCE HEADS FOR HAITI says Admiral Mullen

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Aircraft carrier USS Vincent arrived off the coast of earthquake-hit Haiti yesterday as Admiral Mike Mullen announced a huge US task force. Speaking at a...

McDonnell courts nationalists – and vows to defend Corbyn

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LABOUR shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has thrown a political bomb into the middle of the Labour Party with his pledge to the Scottish Nationalists...

‘we Need Total Victory!’

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‘EACH and every one of you are victims of a cynical sacking. It’s not just an issue for you, our members, it is –...

Postal workers strike vote ‘biggest ever’ says CWU leader Dave Ward

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POSTAL workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of striking for pay, in a ballot of 115,000 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), with...

Syrian government absolutely rejects allegations

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THE SYRIAN government absolutely rejects the allegations ‘that the army used in the past or uses now or will use in the future any...

A&E closures putting lives at risk

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THE MASS closure of A&E’s at hospitals around the country has created a situation where many patients now live in A&E ‘black spots,’ where...
Ambulance workers on the picket line at Deptford Ambulance Station on the first of the national NHS strike days last October

Tory Health & Social Care Act Damaged The NHS!

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TORY changes to the NHS were ‘opposed by patients, the public and NHS staff, but politicians pushed through the changes regardless’ Dr Mark Porter,...

Nurses voting begins in indicative strike ballot – 160,000-strong petition handed to No 10

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A DELEGATION from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) representing members from across the country handed in a 160,000-strong petition to 10 Downing Street...
Picturehouse cinema workers rally in Hackney during their strike action last October

Picturehouse Cinemas Strike Action Today!

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IN A REPEAT of one of the largest strikes in UK cinema history, that took place in February, five Picturehouse cinemas will be on...
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis (centre) protesting with hospital workers outside Kingston Hospital in Surrey yesterday

‘NO MORE NHS LOGISTICS!’ – Prentis tells News Line

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‘There will be no more NHS Logistics,’ UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis assured News Line yesterday. He was referring to the way the unions allowed...

Corbyn stays silent over Second Referendum!

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn twice refused to rule out a second referendum yesterday when challenged during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons....
The front of yesterday’s march against the savage cuts to disability benefits by the Tory-LibDem coalition

HANDS OFF THE DISABLED – Coalition warned

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A LIVELY demonstration of over 5,000 disabled people, chanted: ‘Cuts Kill, Kill the Cuts!’ as they marched to Parliament yesterday. At a rally on the...

Saddam Lynching Anger Silences Blair

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ONE WEEK after the execution of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Prime Minister Blair has again refused to comment on the lynching. He said yesterday, trying...

Boycott Hits 145 UK Universities!

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A MARKING and assessment boycott yesterday hit 145 UK universities as university staff are refusing to mark and assess work. The UCU lecturers’ union has...
Enormous numbers of workers demonstrating in Athens on Sunday against the austerity cuts

GREECE ERUPTS – against austerity cuts

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Hundreds of thousands of workers, youth and self-employed people staged a colossal rally last Sunday night in Athens outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) against...
Part of the rally outside the EU Offices in Athens on Tuesday evening

‘US-Eu Stop Supporting Nazi Coup!’

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SOME 300 members of the Athens Ukrainian community, including relatives of the Greek-Pontus minorities in the Ukraine and the Crimea, along with contingents of...
A strong and determined mass picket at Ealing Hospital yesterday morning vowed that action will be taken to stop the closure

Ealing Hospital mass picket

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‘STRIKE action is the only way forward. How can we drive our buses safely if there is no A&E at Ealing hospital?’ bus driver...
Protesters outside Downing Street on July 11 condemned Israeli war crimes against Lebanon – Amnesty International has said Israel bombed  civilians deliberately

Israel in crisis over failed war

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Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert is under pressure to authorise an independent commission of inquiry into the conduct of the recently failed war in...

GAMBLING WITH PEOPLE’S LIVES – 700 Blood Service job cuts condemned

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Health unions yesterday accused the government of a ‘reckless gamble that could risk people’s lives’ over plans to close centres and axe 700 Blood...

TUC National Day of Action on March 15!

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There will be a National Day of Action on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak announced yesterday, as hundreds of...
Irish workers on a ICTU demonstration show the high unemployment because of the  EU -IMF-ECB imposed cuts that are being carried out by the government

Ireland being robbed by EU

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DUBLIN – Niall Shanahan, Communications Officer of the Impact trade union, has blogged Irish workers that the repayment of Ireland’s bank debt ‘has already...

School Youth Climate Change Demo

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HUNDREDS of school youth staged a strike for climate change in Parliament Square yesterday. Lana Daly came with friends from west London and said: ‘The...

Right to attend your A&E being ended!

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NHS England (NHSE) is pressing ahead with setting up a new emergency care system, under the guise of reducing crowding in A&E departments. Patients will...

‘Save The Children’ Condemn Israeli Army Child Killers!

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SAVE the Children has condemned the excessive use of force by Israeli forces against children in the occupied Palestinian territory, which has resulted in...

Hunt dissolves Mid-Staffs Trust!

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HEALTH Secretary Hunt announced yesterday that he is to dissolve the trust that runs Stafford General Hospital, with services set to be downgraded or...

70,000 Car Jobs Threatened Says Unite’s Woodley

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THE Unite trade union has renewed its call on the government to bail out UK car industry bosses, warning that 70,000 car jobs are...

Police hostile takeover of fire service opposed

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‘THERE’S no support for it among firefighters and there’s no support for it among police officers, there’s no support among local communities and yet...

Savage attack on migrants – organised by PM Cameron

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PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday announced plans for a new raft of savage attacks on migrant workers. In a widely publicised speech given in a...

Police Corruption Review Over Lawrence Murder

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HOME Secretary, Theresa May has ordered a new ‘QC-led review’ into allegations that police corruption hampered the original failed investigation, nineteen years after the...

Inflation Lets Rip!

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Inflation rose to 4.8 per cent in March, according to the latest RPIX index – which includes all items excluding mortgage interest payments. The latest...
The demonstration to back the Orgeave Justice Campaign’s call for a full inquiry into the police attack on thousands of striking miners at Orgreave thirty two years ago

Orgreave ‘never forget, never forgive’

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OVER 700 trade unionists, former miners and determined supporters, demonstrated on Saturday in Sheffield to back the Orgreave Justice Campaign’s call for a full...

632,000 child deaths since Saudi-led war on Yemen

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YEMEN’S Ministry of Public Health and Population has given a detailed report on the devastating effects the Saudi-led coalition war – which it launched...