Foreign Secretary Lammy warned by Russia – don’t fire Storm Shadows!

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LABOUR’S Foreign Secretary David Lammy has shrugged off as ‘bluster’ warnings by Russia that if Ukraine fires its British-provided long-range Storm Shadow missiles into...
Firefighters lobby the London Fire Authority on February 11 demanding ‘No cuts’

FBU fighting pension cuts!

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FIREFIGHTERS’ leaders are meeting this week to discuss an industrial action ballot over the government’s attack on their members’ pensions. The FBU is being...
Single mothers and disabled families lobby the High Court over benefit cuts

20 million on food banks!

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BENEFIT cuts have created a kind of famine’ one of the over twenty million people who have visited food banks this year said,...

MAY’S GRENFELL CLAIM ‘DISGRACEFUL’ says FBU

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FOLLOWING Theresa May’s resignation speech, in which the Prime Minister spoke of her response to the Grenfell Tower Fire, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU)...
35 Years Since Orgreave

35 years since Orgreave – June 15th, 2019

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March & Rally 12 noon, Saturday June 15th 2019 Orgreave Lane, Sheffield S13 9NE Remember those who were attacked and who lost their lives in the miners...

Chagossians Lobby Mauritian Embassy

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OVER 60 Chagossians lobbied the Mauritian Embassy in London yesterday to ask what had happened to all of the compensation paid by the British...

RESTORE OUR HARDSHIP PAYMENTS – demand Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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Locked out Gate Gourmet workers are looking forward to their six months anniversary picket this Friday between 1.30pm and 2.30pm. They have been picketing ...
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...
Banner reads ‘No illusions, no self deceptions, we must overthrow the government ourselves’ Greek workers declare outside the Voula Hospital

Overthrow Government keep hospitals open! say Greek medical workers

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HUNDREDS of hospital workers staged a rally outside the Greek Health Ministry in Athens last Thursday morning against the planned closure by the coalition...

NHS is in all-year crisis says BMA

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DOCTORS’ leaders yesterday warned that the NHS in England is unlikely to recover from the pressure it faces during the winter, with trends suggesting...
The early morning picket outside Chase Farm Hospital

‘We Won’t Let Chase Farm NHS Close’

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HOSPITAL workers, patients and local residents in Enfield yesterday reaffirmed their determination to stop the planned closure of the A&E, Maternity and Paediatrics departments...

RCN SETTING UP A £35m STRIKE FUND

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FOLLOWING the recommendation of the ‘slap in the face’ 1% pay award by the Department of Health and Social Care in its evidence to...

Cameron won’t fire Hunt

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RUPERT Murdoch was questioned at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday about meetings held with prime minister Cameron before and after News Corporation’s June 2010 takeover...
NUJ General Secretary MICHELLE STANISTREET (6th from left) on the picket line at Broadcasting House, central London, yesterday told News Line ‘It’s a brilliant, solid turnout’

Nuj Stops Bbc Over Sackings

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‘WE will be balloting for further action, this issue is not going to go away,’ NUJ General Secretary Michelle Stanistreet told News Line yesterday. Speaking...

‘US jobs haemorrhaging’ 26m now unemployed

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‘THE US economy is haemorrhaging jobs at a pace and scale never before recorded,’ Scott Anderson, chief economist at the Bank of the West...
Teachers marching in Athens on January  10th

Thousands March In Athens

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Thousands of university students and lecturers staged mass and militant rallies and demonstrations last Wednesday in all major cities against the government’s plans to...
Delegates at last year’s Annual Representative Meeting launch their ‘Look After Our NHS’ campaign against privatisation

NHS Crisis – Drastic Cuts Planned

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DRASTIC cuts to the NHS are being planned to meet a budget cut of £15-20 billion, with even bigger spending cuts expected in the...
Lively picket of Serco strikers marked the beginning of the second week of their two-week strike over pay, workload and job cuts

Serco strikers in high spirits

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THE SERCO workers marked the beginning of the second week of their two-week strike yesterday with a lively picket line outside the Royal London...
Health workers are in the front line of the struggle against privatisation, low wages and big cuts such as the 25% cut that ambulance workers face regarding their sick pay

Tuc Is Supporting Tube & Ambulance Workers Strike Action!

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THE TUC Congress yesterday passed Emergency Motions against the Lobbying Bill, and against the attack on the right to strike of London...

Ring before going to A&E! Dangerous triage system launched in Wales tomorrow! –...

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A DANGEROUS phone triage scheme for A&E at Wales’ largest hospital is to be launched tomorrow in which patients are expected to ring before...

RATES KEPT ON HOLD – as production plunges

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THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday held interest rates at a record low 0.5 per cent after ignoring calls to head...
Workers outside the law courts fighting the bedroom tax and condemning the situation where mothers were skipping meals to feed their children

‘FOOD POVERTY!’ A public health emergency says BMJ

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FOOD poverty in the UK has now become a ‘public health emergency’, a group of health experts said yesterday. In a letter to...

Assange fights extradition in court

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange appeared in court in London yesterday looking very unwell after spending months languishing in Belmarsh Prison where he has been...

‘SYSTEM RIGGED FOR RICH!’ – says Labour leader Corbyn

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‘WE HAVE four weeks. Four weeks to take our message to voters to convince them Britain can be better,’ Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the...

5,000-strong London Al-Quds Day rally!

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A POWERFUL Al-Quds Day 5,000-strong rally took place on the Albert Embankment on the south side of the River Thames yesterday afternoon from 1pm-3pm. The...

Chancellor Is Slashing Jobs, Wages And Benefits!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne’s Autumn Statement to the House of Commons yesterday afternoon was a savage attack on the working class and the poor. Early in his...

‘GP’s WILL BE STRETCHED TO BREAKING POINT’ – warns Royal College of GPs

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The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has warned that the scale and pace of change contained in the government’s health White Paper risks...

Sparks halt St Paul’s traffic

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HUNDREDS of angry electricians halted the traffic for 20 minutes outside St Paul’s Cathedral in central London yesterday morning, during their latest demonstration against...

‘WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK!’ – March with locked-out Gate Gourmet workers this Sunday...

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‘WE have got more and more support for our fight to get our jobs back’, locked out Gate Gourmet worker Palmjit Bains told News...

Dairy Farmers Direct Action!

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‘DIRECT action by dairy farmers is imminent,’ Farmers for Action leader David Hanley warned yesterday. He told News Line: ‘This is due to the fact...
A section of yesterday’s mass demonstration of student and school youth marching to demand that either the CPE first job contract must go or the government will be brought down

Blair Savaged!

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THE Prime Minister was savaged at his monthly press conference yesterday after the emergence of the ‘donations for peerages’ scandal and the fact that...

‘It’s Time For A General Strike’ – RMT Pickets Tell News Line

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RMT pickets at Elephant and Castle Underground station were joined by supporters from Unite Community and members of the public yesterday morning. RMT member Ebony...
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...

‘WE ARE HEADING FOR SERIOUS CONFLICT’ – over the NHS says UNISON

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‘We are heading for a serious conflict,’ UNISON head of health Karen Jennings told News Line yesterday. She was referring to statements by the new...

Miliband talks productivity to the bosses – wants partnership with business and bankers

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LABOUR leader Ed Miliband, put on his Tory hat yesterday when he launched his party’s Business Manifesto, at business news agency Bloomberg and...

Stop Hunt’s NHS hospital closure plans!

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UNITE and Unison are urging MPs to vote on Monday against Clause 18, hastily inserted into the Care Bill, which would make it easier...
The Royal College of Midwives taking strike action last year for the first time in their history

‘NO COMPROMISE ON SAFE STAFFING LEVELS’ says RCN

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HOSPITALS have been told by the Tory government’s regulator to only fill job vacancies that are ‘essential’, raising fears amongst midwives, doctors and nurses...

Tens Of Thousands To March Against Fees!

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TENS of thousands of students and youth are taking to the streets of London today to protest against £9,000 tuition fees and the savage...

Families are struggling with cost of living admits Reeves

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FOOD, clothing, footwear, fuel, non-alcoholic drinks, alcohol, tobacco, and gig & play tickets all rose at a faster pace last month, leading to another...
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...

Palestinian school in a street!

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AFTER Israeli authorities shut down a Palestinian elementary school in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Sur Bahir last Thursday over alleged ‘incitement’ in...

‘SERIOUS DANGER TO PATIENT SAFETY’ –from Ambulance Service privatisation

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Public service union, Unison has warned of the serious dangers to patient safety if the Ambulance Services are privatised. This comes after the East of...

Livingstone Is To Appeal Against Suspension!

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FORMER Labour Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has announced that he is to appeal against his two-year suspension from standing for office or representing...

PFI hospital ‘never events’ – Wrong pipe! 85-year-old given air instead of oxygen

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HOSPITALS built under the hated Private Finance Initiative (PFI) do not respond well to ‘never events’ where patients’ lives are put in to serious...

Sky News Boss Admits Illegal Hacking

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Sky News boss John Ryley admitted to the Leveson Inquiry yesterday that the company broke the law by hacking emails. Following the admission Ofcom announced...