Derby schools 25% pay cut

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UNISON is accusing Derby City Council of inflaming tensions and escalating a dispute with school support staff who have seen their pay slashed by...

3rd day of BEIS strike 100% solid

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PCS CATERING workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark were in confident mood on the third...

Gchq Was Listening To Omagh Bombers

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THE Cheltenham-based electronic spying agency, GCHQ, recorded mobile phone exchanges between the Omagh bombers on the day of the attack in 1998. The...

Deputy leader Watson condemns Labour EU policy

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LABOUR members’ ‘hearts are Remain’ Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson claimed yesterday addressing the Centre for European Reform. He went on to insist that...

‘The sole intention is to destroy the jobs of postal workers’ says Dave Ward

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CWU members braved the continuous pouring rain yesterday morning at the Greenwich, Blackheath and Charlton delivery office London SE10. CWU General Secretary Dave Ward told...

Egypt Parliament: Put Under Seige!

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Tens of thousands of anti-Mubarak protesters gathered outside Egypt’s parliament yesterday, bringing business to a halt, just several hundred yards from the continuing mass...

Itv 24 Hr Strike!

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BROADCASTING unions at ITV have voted to go on strike next Thursday after management failed to budge from an ‘insulting’ pay offer of 2...

90 Birmingham bin strikers rally outside Parliament – won’t accept any pay cuts

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NINETY Birmingham bin strikers came down on a double-decker bus to London to a Unite union rally outside Parliament yesterday afternoon. Strike leader Mike Masters...
Carillion workers marching in Swindon – they have just voted 98.3% for industrial action

Carillion 98.3% Vote For Industrial Action

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WORKERS employed by privateer Carillion at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon have voted 98.3% in favour of industrial action over job losses, pay...

Palestine PM Shtayyeh calls to establish state and impose sanctions on Israel

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that the international consensus on establishing the State of Palestine must be translated into practical steps that...

Luton Angry Over Gm Threat To Jobs

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General Motors yesterday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York, in a plan that seeks to allow the US auto giant to...
FBU demonstration against Fire Service cuts

Fire Service stretched to the limit!

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A VERY STRETCHED fire service has been hard at work throughout New Year’s Eve and the early hours of New Year’s Day, the London...
Trump’s letter to Kim Jong-un

Trump cancels N Korean summit

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US PRESIDENT Trump released a letter yesterday afternoon which stated that the summit between him and North Korean President Kim Jong-un has been cancelled....

ANTI-IMMIGRATION BILL DENOUNCED WORLDWIDE says former Syria ambassador Ford

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THE passage of the British government’s anti-immigration bill shows that the authorities are desperate to show they have a strategy for limiting illegal migration...

KEEP NHS A&Es OPEN!

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The College of Emergency Medicine (CEM) yesterday warned that is it misguided to downgrade or close hospital Accident and Emergency departments. The college stressed that...

UK Huge Wages Fall!

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WAGES in the UK have seen one of the largest falls in the European Union since the coalition came to power, according to official...

‘Full Public Inquiry Into Blacklisting’

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‘WE demand a full public inquiry into blacklisting!’ Gail Cartmail, assistant general secretary of Unite said while addressing the TUC conference in Brighton yesterday. Speaking...
GPs in Tower Hamlets in a demonstration against the sell-off of GP surgeries

£850 A Day To Cover Gp Shortages

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MORE than half of family doctors say they are expecting to leave the profession early according to a new ComRes survey carried out for...

Gm Hits Luton With 354 Job Losses

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General Motors (GM) yesterday announced 354 job cuts at Vauxhall’s UK plant in Luton and none in Ellesmere Port. On Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer (CEO)...

Burnham threatens legal action over HS2 rail link

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LABOUR’s Andy Burnham has said he will consider taking legal action if the government abandons plans for building the HS2 rail link in northern...
Palestinians marched with the WRP and the Young Socialists supporting the hunger strikers and demanding that the UK apologise for the Balfour Declaration and recognise Palestine

Get the Tories out! Victory to Palestinian hunger strikers! say London May Day marchers

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UP to 10,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched on May Day in London from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square, carrying banners and...
Camden GPs marching against NHS privatisation. Meanwhile the Tory-led coalition says that under-5s don’t need anti-flu jabs

FEARS OVER CHILD FLU EPIDEMIC – as children return to school

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worried parents are fearful that a flu epidemic is set to explode from today, when ten million children return to school after the Christmas...
The capitalist crisis and Tory austerity measures have thrust millions of workers and their families deep into debt

‘Perilous’ Levels Of Debt

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EVEN in a ‘good growth’ scenario, the number of UK households facing a debt crisis would almost double, warns the Resolution Foundation think-tank. It said...

COUNCILS SUING RBS – over pension fund losses

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Merseyside and North Yorkshire local authority pension funds are suing Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for compensation. The funds accuse RBS of withholding the extent...

WE WILL STRIKE TO STOP JOB CUTS – BECTU Assistant General Secretary

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‘If the job cuts are still on, the strikes will be reinstated,’ BECTU assistant general secretary Gerry Morrissey told News Line yesterday. Speaking after the...
Water authority workers on the march in Athens – are now fighting the attempt to impose an EU dictatorship on Greece

Greek Workers Angry At Eu Diktat

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The Greek Prime Minister Lukas Papademos told the trade union leaders of the GSEE (Greek TUC) last Wednesday that wages and all national or...
South East London Council of Action march in Southwark against the demolition of council housing

PLYMOUTH HOUSING TRANSFER – ‘fraught with dangers’ warns Unite

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‘We continue to believe that stock transfer is fraught with financial hazards,’ Unite said yesterday after it was announced that Plymouth council tenants have...
Millions of trade unionists are fighting to defend their jobs, wages and pensions and are convinced that crisis-ridden capitalism must go

Banks New Quantitative Easing Fears

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PRESSURE is mounting on the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to consider another round of emergency Quantitative Easing (QE – printing money)...
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,...
Workers in Norwich rally against the coalition’s cuts – they are demanding that the TUC take action against the government

TUC meets to discuss action!

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‘The TUC is mounting a wide campaign against these mistaken policies,’ said TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday, after a special TUC meeting called...
Delegates to yesterday’s SRM vote to oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill which would smash up and privatise the NHS

LANSLEY MUST GO! – BMA SRM told

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DOCTORS at the British Medical Association Special Representative Meeting yesterday morning voted unanimously to oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill, and demand...

WAR AN OPTION – Rumsfeld declares on Iran

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United States defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that the military option against Iran was ‘on the table’. He said this would be...
Thousands of protesters dressed in Panama hats & Hawaiian shirts in London on Saturday demanding ‘Cameron Must Go!’

‘UK is heart of tax avoidance’–Corbyn

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‘THE public no longer have the trust in him,’ Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn said of PM Cameron after he attempted to justify his involvement...

Striking Doctors Besiege Tories In Manchester

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STRIKING Junior Doctors and Consultants are laying siege to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester today, determined to defend the NHS against vicious Tory...

Scotland Votes For Boycott Of Israel!

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SCOTLAND’S Parliament has voted to impose an immediate and comprehensive boycott of Israel and companies linked to its genocide in Gaza, passing a landmark...

Taliban attend intra-Afghan talks in Tehran

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AS TEHRAN hosted a round of intra-Afghan talks, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has told the representatives of the Kabul government and the...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers at the TGWU office yesterday demanding that all locked-out workers get hardship pay

‘Pay us our hardship money’ – Gate Gourmet locked-out workers lobby TGWU

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were very angry yesterday at having to reapply at the Hillingdon TGWU union office for their February hardship payment, which...
March to defend the NHS – NHS workers are one of those sections that the government wants to impose a three-year wage-cutting deal on, so it can carry on propping up the banks

Bank Will Accept Credit Card Debt As Collateral!

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The Bank of England yesterday launched a scheme to allow banks to ‘swap temporarily their high quality mortgage-backed and other securities for UK Treasury...
Anti-capitalist demonstrators taking to the streets of London following the crash of the banks in 2008. The crisis of mass unemployment and inflation is intensifying

Bank Alarm Over Inflation Rate – Prices Still Above Target

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BANK of England Governor Mervyn King was rattled yesterday after the latest UK inflation figures showed that prices are still soaring. Although the figures for...
Damel Carayol’s painting produced ‘out of pure anger’

GRENFELL INQUIRY: May forced to retreat!

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‘WE ARE extremely pleased, we are relieved, but we are disappointed that we had to go through all of this to get the Prime...

Flammable wooden cladding found on 20 blocks!

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AN URGENT investigation has found that there are at least 20 housing blocks using the same wooden cladding and wooden structure as the block...
BRIAN HAW (centre), a victim of Blair’s Serious Organised Crime and Police Act – His picket line outside the House of Commons was dismantled by 78 riot police – yesterday his appearance at the High Court for alleged breach of bail conditions was postponed

Prescott-Blair Fate Linked

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Pressure mounted on deputy prime minister Prescott to quit yesterday, with Labour MPs queueing up to say he should go despite warnings that if...
The four Kenyan claimants with lawyer Martin Day outside the High Court before the start of yesterday’s hearing

MAU MAU HEROES! – take on British state

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The UK government must take responsibility for the torture of Kenyans under the 1950s British colonial government, one of the survivors, 82-year-old Wambugu Wa...

Hamas never agreed to surrender all its weapons during ceasefire talks

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A SENIOR Hamas official has said the Palestinian resistance group never agreed to surrender its weapons during indirect ceasefire talks that brought a pause...
Demonstrators in London last month fighting against the closure of the maternity department at Horton Hospital in Oxfordshire

STPs are to dictate budget & service cuts – says BMA

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THE government must not use ‘transformation’ plans as a cover for further cuts to the NHS, says the British Medical Association. Responding to a...