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New European banking crash fears

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A FRESH European-wide banking crash has reared its head as the euro tumbled to a six-month low yesterday in reaction to the Italian crisis....

Public sector workers at breaking point!

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‘PUBLIC sector workers are at breaking point,’ the GMB union said yesterday after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that inflation has hit...
Confident Gate Gourmet locked-out workers lobbying the Hillingdon TGWU office on Friday

Defiant Locked Out Gate Gourmet Workers Picket Tgwu Office

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‘OUR anniversary march and rally in Southall on Sunday August 20 is very important. ‘We will show our unity and strength and we want everyone...

ROYAL MAIL SHARES ISSUE SHELVED – We’ve won a victory says London Region CWU

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‘The Royal Mail employee shares scheme shouldn’t be shelved, it should be scrapped altogether,’ Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) London Regional Secretary John Denton told...

Disabled cutting back on food and heating

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THOUSANDS of disabled people are cutting back on food and heating as a result of the Bedroom Tax, says a group of leading charities. The...
A section of the march in London on October 24 against the war on Afghanistan demanding troops out

More Than 20,000 Troops For Helmand Province

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced the UK is sending 500 extra troops to Afghanistan early this month. He revealed that, along with special forces operating...

Record Petrol Prices

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Average petrol prices in the UK set a new record this week at 142.48p a litre, and 147.88p a litre for diesel. The AA Fuel...

Tories Launch Assault On Tata Pensions

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TORY Business Secretary Sajid Javid in his opening statement to parliament yesterday outlined the assault that he is organising on Tata steel workers’ pensions,...
Horton Hospital is one of many that have been lobbying 10 Downing Street to tell the government ‘Hands off our Maternity Services’

Defend Maternity Services – THEY MUST NOT CLOSE!

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CAMPAIGNERS fighting the closure of maternity services in Lincolnshire say they will ‘not back down!’ Plans to remove consultant-led services in Boston and ‘centralise them’...

Tanker Drivers Offer: 14% Over 2 Years

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Shell tanker drivers working for contracted suppliers Hoyer UK and Suckling are being balloted on a 14% rise over two years pay deal reached...

36,876 paid less than minimum wage in Scotland!

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NEARLY 37,000 people in Scotland were paid less than the statutory minimum wage last year, while employers across the UK owe workers an average...
CWU members in Bow, east London, fighting to defend their jobs and stop the casualisation of Royal Mail

‘STRIKES WILL END’ says CWU leader Hayes

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Postal workers in delivery and collection offices around the country were out solid again on Saturday in defence of their union, the Communication Workers’...
Postal workers and their supporters rallying against the privatisation of Royal Mail  in January – now a new wave of post office closures is planned

9,000 Post Offices To Close!

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Government plans to sell Royal Mail, ending the inter-business agreement with the Post Office, would lead to over 9,000 post office closures, a poll...
The anti-union laws that Tory Premier Heath introduced were smashed when the mass movement for a general strike forced the release of five imprisoned dockers – picture shows BERNIE STEER and VIC TURNER being liberated from Pentonville Prison

POA CONDEMNS INJUNCTION! – as Trade Union Act becomes law

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The POA (Prison Officers Association) has condemned an injunction secured by the Tory government from judges banning its industrial action planned for yesterday. ‘The POA...
100th Aniversary of the Russian Revolution – This Sunday

100th Aniversary of the Russian Revolution – This Sunday

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Sunday November 12, 2-8pm The Camden Centre, Bidborough Street,WC1H 9AU Rally • Films • theatre • art exhibition FOR MORE DETAILS SEE 100th ANNIVERSARY IN LEFT HAND...

Iran & Iraq united against US attack

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THE US ATTACK on Iran and Iraq will cement the unity of the two countries, Iranian President Rouhani said in a phone call with...

Reinstate The Strikes!

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THERE is no deal so reinstate the strikes, frustrated Communication Workers Union (CWU) branch officials said yesterday. This came as yet another day of talks...

Bawa-Garba Victory

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DOCTOR Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was struck off the medical register, has won a further victory and will now be allowed to start working as...

‘Go North West’ buses continuous strike today! – Company plans strikebreaking force

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THE UNITE trade union, which represents over 400 bus drivers at Go North West, has written to the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham,...
RMT members calling for the renationalisation of the West Coast Mainline trains . . . they now call for the East Coast Mainline to remain nationalised

NATIONALISE THE RAILWAYS! – ASLEF, RMT and TSSA launch Judicial Review

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RAIL unions ASLEF, RMT and TSSA have launched a Judicial Review to challenge the government over plans to re-privatise the East Coast railway. The unions...

CWU is to be recognised for just three more years says Business Secretary Cable

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BUSINESS Secretary Cable announced the government sell-off of Royal Mail through a flotation on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Cable told parliament the pre-Christmas sale...

Labour Will Scrap Grammars And End NHS Privateers!

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‘I AM ANGRY and fed up, and want a different sort of country,’ Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn declared yesterday morning. Interviewed by the...
Armed police arrest and handcuff one of the peace protesters as they search his bag in Parliament Square yesterday morning

Armed Police Arrest Brian Haw

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The Peace Camp in Parliament Square was brutally raided by armed police with dogs at 8am yesterday morning and its leaders were arrested and...
25 Years Since The Printers’ Strike

25 Years Since The Printers’ Strike

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Sunday January 23rd 2.00-6.00pm St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)
The new 30x6ft banner erected outside Chase Farm Hospital that replaces the 3x3ft sign that was there when a 2-year-old child was taken by his mother to what she thought was the A&E, only to find the door to the Urgent Care Centre was locked. The child di

Chase Farm ‘needs its A&E back – not a new sign!’

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ON 15th January a two-year-old child died at North Middlesex Hospital after having been taken to Chase Farm Hospital. The baby’s name was Muhammad Hashir...

Scrap Capability Assessments! – the cause of ‘needless misery’

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Damian Green is today set to announce a consultation on reforming the hated Work Capability Assessment Tests of claimants of...

Refugees Attacked By Riot Police

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Refugee families at the Athens Railway Station and at the Diavata refugee camp outside Thessaloniki, northern Greece, were ferociously attacked by riot police last...
BMA Junior Doctors Committee member YIANNIS GOURTSOYANNIS taking a leading part in Tuesday night’s lobby of 10 Downing Street to denounce the cuts expected in Osborne’s Autumn Statement

Join Our Picket Lines Urge Junior Doctors!

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MORE than 100 demonstrators were outside 10 Downing Street on Tuesday night to protest against Osborne’s Autumn Statement of £20bn more cuts...

PCS & Care4Calais legal challenge against Patel – Border Force prepare to strike

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BORDER staff were preparing yesterday to strike against Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel’s hated ‘pushback’ policy against migrant boats trying to reach the UK. Their...
Some of the demonstrators who took part in the march through Lewisham on Saturday to keep south-east London hospitals open

KEEP LEWISHAM A&E OPEN – demand marchers

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AROUND 150 people marched from Blackheath past Lewisham Hospital to a rally in Ladywell Park on Saturday, against plans to shut the south London...

Right to strike restored – for those waiting for ‘leave to remain’

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IN LIGHT of the Windrush scandal the government has been forced to change the rules to ensure workers from other countries can participate...

Nationwide university pensions battle!

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OVER 50,000 university staff at 69 universities are currently balloting for a nationwide strike over an attack on their pensions – which means they...
‘NHS Together’ lobby of parliament on November 1st demanding no cuts to NHS services

DEVON NHS PCT CRISIS! – all 5,000 employers offered offered voluntary redundancy

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All five thousand Devon Primary Care Trust (PCT) employees across the county have been sent a letter offering voluntary redundancy as a cost-cutting measure....
PCS members outside the Treasury yesterday highlight the £120 billion in outstanding tax debts owed by big business

Cuts to be met by sustained industrial action

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A delegation of over 40 Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members and officials lobbied the Treasury as Chancellor Osborne was making his budget...

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...

Private companies are screening GP referrals

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PRIVATE companies are acting as a barrier between GPs and the NHS, putting patients’ lives at risk. Millions of pounds are being spent on privately-run...

20 Sri Lankan Soldiers Killed In Tigers Counter-Attack

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COLOMBO – TamilNet reports that 20 Sri Lanka Army soldiers were killed in an intensive counter-attack launched by the Tigers on SLA units that...

Rees-Mogg prepares to eat his Brexit words for deal

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LEADER of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg indicated yesterday that Tory PM Boris Johnson is preparing to bring back to Parliament this Saturday...
Locked -out gate Gourmet workers during their successful lobby of the TGWU Executive meeting earlier this month

‘WE ARE STRONG AND WE WILL WIN’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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‘NOW that Eric Born (managing director Gate Gourmet UK and Ireland) has admitted that only 137 have signed the Compromise Agreement, it shows that...

TORTURE! – MPs committee given ‘wrong evidence’

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MPs and peers on the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights are demanding answers from defence chiefs over ‘discrepancies’ in their evidence to the...
Young workers lead the way at the Unite to ‘Defend the NHS’ march last year

SAVE OUR NHS! – TUC must call a general strike

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Thousands of health workers, patients, trade unionists and young people will be joining the mass protests to ‘Save Our NHS’ outside Parliament today. ‘Make...
ASW workers who have lost their pensions after the company went bankrupt outside the High Court on Monday

CWU SHOCKED AND ANGRY – over withdrawal of final salary pension to new Royal...

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday reacted angrily to Royal Mail’s plan to end its final salary pension scheme for new employees....
A section of Saturday’s rally in Hammersmith against the closure of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospital’s A&Es Photo credit: BETA LUCIANO

NHS HUGE BEDS CRISIS! – as government readies for more savage cuts

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ENGLAND’S hospitals have been dangerously full of patients during the month of January, the Labour Party warned yesterday. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: ‘Too...

80,000 on London march for victory to Palestine!

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MORE than 80,000 workers, students and youth marched for Victory to Palestine through central London on Saturday. The London march assembled at Embankment on the...

Tories on collision course with nursing staff

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‘THE government is setting itself on a collision course with nursing staff,’ the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has warned. The RCN, which represents over...