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Labour Rescues Cameron Government

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PM Cameron was rescued by Labour from a humiliating defeat in the House of Commons on Europe on Tuesday night after he faced his...

Covid-19 Crisis – London Moves To Tier 3!

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‘WE MUST act now to shift the curve, when the virus develops exponentially there is not a moment to spare.’ This is what Matt Hancock,...
Migrant workers’ protest outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday morning

‘END MODERN SLAVERY!’ – Migrant workers lobby Parliament

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MIGRANT domestic workers lobbied Parliament yesterday, World Human Rights Day, demanding an end to modern slavery. Workers were joined at the lobby by supporters including...
The Chagos Islands Community Association AGM in Crawley on Saturday

‘WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO RETURN’ – insists Chagos Islands Community Association AGM

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OVER a hundred Chagossians attended the annual general meeting of the Chagos Islands Community Association in Crawley last Saturday afternoon and early evening. They re-affirmed...
Determined locked-out Gate Gourmet workers are lobbying the TUC today demanding action to win their jobs back

‘WE NEED PLAN FOR VICTORY’ say Gate Gourmet strikers

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GATE GOURMET strikers were sacked four weeks ago today and were very angry yesterday morning that they have been out so long withtheir union...

BARNET NHS CRISIS – faces £31m cuts in 2006-07

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Hospital trade unions and patient groups are demanding that the management of Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust come clean on their plans...
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...
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’...

Hezbollah denies responsibility for deaths!

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HEZBOLLAH issued a statement yesterday categorically denying Israeli allegations that it was responsible for the killing of 12 children on a football field in...

Stop Gate Gourmet Sell-Out!

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WE want the TUC to give us the support that they voted for at their TUC Congress. ‘They must help us to win our jobs...
Last December’s march in Enfield demanding that Chase Farm Hospital be kept open

‘No return to Poor Law!’ –now is the time to rise up says Ashton

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Professor John Ashton, who was threatened with discipline over raising concerns about the Health and Social Care Bill, has warned of a return to...

Wages Fell In Year To June

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WAGES fell by 0.2% in the year to June was the shock news released by the ONS yesterday. Britain is now a nation of the...

French unions hold mass rally in Paris tomorrow

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SOPHIE Binet, general secretary of the CGT French trade union federation, has called for people to join the rallies on July 18 in front...

STOP HEATHROW JOBS BLOODBATH – Unite must call national strike action now!

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‘UNITE must call national strike action now to stop the jobs bloodbath at Heathrow Airport,’ British Airways ground staff worker Jamil Singh told News...

PLANS TO PUNISH JOBLESS! – by Policy Exchange think-tank

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Civil servants union PCS yesterday condemned the latest attack on the unemployed by the Cameron-favoured right-wing Policy Exchange think-tank. Following its latest study, the Policy...

GM GAMBLING WITH WORKERS JOBS – say EU trade unions

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A Joint statement by the European Employee Forum of General Motors (EEF), the European Metalworkers‚ Federation (EMF) and the European Unions was issued yesterday...

Hand all academies & free schools back

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CHIEF Inspector of Schools Michael Wilshaw has criticised the heads of some academy chains for being paid vast salaries, up to £225,000 a...

Corbyn launches election: ‘Remain in EU an option’

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in launching his party’s election campaign yesterday, reiterated Labour’s plan for Brexit which means renegotiating another deal with the European...

UN Cuts Aid To Palestinians!

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HAMAS yesterday urged the United Nations to reconsider its suspension of food aid for Palestinian refugees, imposed after protesters stormed a UN depot in...

US & Israel being defeated by Hamas fighters in Gaza!

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US AND Israeli officials have once again conceded the occupying regime’s failure in its months-long aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip, stressing that the...
Ealing midwives on the picket line outside the hospital during last year’s strike – The meeting tonight is called to plan next Wednesday’s march & occupation of maternity to stop the closure

Save Ealing Maternity! Occupy Now!

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THERE was enormous support for tonight’s meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday morning. Hospital workers, patients, local residents and youth...

The FBU calls for urgent action by next government to prepare the UK for...

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THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has called for ‘urgent action’ from the next government to prepare the UK for rising temperatures following last week’s...

Israeli war planes bomb Al-Ahli Arab Hospital

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ISRAELI warplanes bombed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital around midnight local time on Saturday night, rendering the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza nonoperational, leaving critically...
Striking Lewisham Southwark College lecturers are determined to win a pay rise after years of no increments

Lewisham College 2-day strike Lecturers on poverty pay

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‘THE MONEY’S there. We want our share!’ said striking lecturers at Lewisham Southwark College in southeast London yesterday morning. Members of the University and...

LONMIN SHARES CRASH – as it announces 6,000 job cuts

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SHARES in UK mining giant Lonmin plunged after it announced 6,000 jobs cuts in South Africa as part of a scaling back of its...
Tunisian demonstration against mass poverty

‘TODAY I START A REVOLUTION!’ ‘for those who have no means of subsistence’

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CLASHES have erupted between protesters and security forces in Kasserine city in Tunisia following the funeral of a journalist who had set himself on...

‘Hold The Blacklisters To Account!’

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DELEGATES at the TUC conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 16, Blacklisting and Undercover Surveillance of Trade Unionists. The motion calls on...
Palestinian youth confront Israeli troops in the West Bank

Multiple Israeli raids on the West Bank – as UN announces food cuts

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ISRAELI forces on Wednesday conducted multiple overnight raids across the West Bank and detained at least 28 Palestinians, said the Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS)....
General Motors UAW members demonstrate against the attack on their conditions

Herts FBU – Two Eight Hour Strikes

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HERTFORDSHIRE fire crews have given seven day’s notice of two eight hour blocks of industrial action on 15 and 20 May. They said late proposals...

66% Of Students Refused Grants

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Two-thirds of university entrants in England and Wales who applied for maintenance grants – designed to assist poorer students – were turned down, according...
William Westwell (fourth from left, with witch-hunt placard) demonstrating outside the school before the first hearing

Reinstate victimised steward –demand Camden Unison

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ON Thursday July 12, the Camden Unison Children, Schools and Families shop stewards committee passed the following motion unanimously condemning the victimisation of Haverstock...
Riot police attack with tear gas spray gun a protesting student outside the central Athens office of the Finance Ministry’s Secretary on Thursday. Photo courtesy left.gr

Greek Youth Unemployment Now Over 61.7%

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GREEK Statistics Authority (ELSTAT) announced catastrophic unemployment and recession figures in its monthly report on Thursday. ELSTAT stated that youth unemployment (15-24 years old) reached...

People dying because of staff cuts

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THE number of people who have died, been assaulted or injured themselves in prison has risen to its highest level for a decade, figures...

British Steel 400 sackings

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BRITISH Steel is to be sold to Chinese firm Jingye next Monday with the loss of 400 workers. Jingye has offered a contract to 3,200...
A huge and enthusiastic picket line at Peckham Bus Garage full of determination to win £31,000 a year for every bus driver

‘£31,000 For All Bus Drivers!’

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‘WE are rock solid!’ Unite leader Len McCluskey declared yesterday during the 24-hour London-wide bus strike that brought the capital to a standstill. He was...

Banking Storm Ahead!

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The European debt crisis is a ‘key risk’ to the UK banking sector and banks should build up their cash reserves in response, the...

N Ireland health workers strike!

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NURSES in the RCN union came out on strike for the first time in the union’s 103-year history in the north of Ireland yesterday,...
Protest demanding safe insulation and cladding – Grenfell families forced onto UC now face the prospect of not being able to heat their homes

Grenfell survivors forced onto UC by Xmas!

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SURVIVORS of the horrific Grenfell fire are to be forced onto Universal Credit just days before Christmas. Documents released ‘quietly on Budget Day’ show...

‘WE ARE NOT THE AGGRESSORS’ – Putin condemns US support for Georgia

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Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin yesterday accused the US of trying to disrupt the Russian military operation in South Ossetia by transporting Georgian troops...
Trade unionists, community groups and musicians rallied outside parliament yesterday against the abolition of public bodies

Unions Fight ‘Political Vandalism!’

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Westminster MPs heard calls for the government to ‘Stop, Listen and Think Again’, as trade unionists and community groups lobbied Parliament asking them...

Israel Slaughters Gaza Women And Children!

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A PALESTINIAN mother and her three children were among the ten latest victims of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. A barrage of...

National strike to defend HE jobs! – call from Brunel University picket line

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‘WE have to step up the fight and unite in action across the country to defend all jobs in higher education,’ Hermione Xanthopoulou, Director...

RMT slams ‘bandit capitalism’

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THE RMT is demanding action after Better Capital has confirmed that it expects its £20 million investment back while City Link staff and sub-contractors...

Reopening Rafah ‘a significant achievement’ – let all medical evacuees out now!

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HAMAS has hailed yesterday’s reopening of the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza as a significant achievement for the Palestinian resistance. However, the Gaza Ministry of...

NHS staff facing £845 pay cut during 2021-22 – as a result of soaring...

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AN ANALYSIS by the Health Foundation shows that soaring inflation means NHS staff face an average pay cut of £845 during 2021-22 and will...