Loud, lively and big radiographers picket!

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THERE were loud and lively picket lines of striking radiographers outside hospitals around the country yesterday as the NHS workers continued their 48-hour strike...

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...

4,000 Striking Greek Teachers March Through Athens!

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OVER 4,000 striking teachers and students marched through Athens city centre last Monday afternoon in a joyful mood sensing that they were winning the...

Stop Israel’s Crimes Against The Palestinians Says PM!

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that the world should take a clear stand and do what is necessary to stop Israel’s crimes...

HEALTHCARE WORKERS RISKING LIVES! – without ‘death in service’ benefits guaranteed says BMA

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THE BMA (British Medical Association) said yesterday that ‘frustration grows’ over the government’s failure to guarantee that the families of healthcare workers who lose...
Health unions have warned that next year’s wage increase must match inflation

Food & Fuel Prices Soaring!

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HUGE petrol and food price increases have pushed up the UK cost of living, cutting workers’ wages and living standards. The Office of National Statistics...
MICK WHELAN, Aslef general secretary (ASLEF T-shirt) and Unite leader LEN McCLUSKEY (3rd from left) at the front of the National Austerity Protest last

Defend right to strike!

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THE TRADE Union Bill, to be outlined tomorrow in parliament by the Tory government, is designed to railroad through legislation which will make it...
‘BBC Radio Israel’, says a placard, during Saturday’s protest against the BBC refusal to broadcast an emergency aid appeal.

50 MPs SLAM BBC OVER GAZA

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More than 50 MPs have signed a House of Commons Early Day Motion (EDM) condemning ‘the refusal of the BBC and other broadcasters to...
Greek electricians and power workers marching in Athens last June – will answer the autocratic bankers with a socialist revolution

Greek bankers call for autocratic solutions!

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GREECE will either lower its standard of living, or it will exit the euro and turn decades back.’ This was the message from the...

‘Tory Sleaze Bigger Than Ever!’

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‘TORY SLEAZE is bigger than ever,’ Labour’s Shadow Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster Rachel Reeves said yesterday after senior Tory MP Bernard Jenkin...

Nato Kills Hundreds Of Civilians

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NATO air raids have killed more than 700 civilians and injured over 4,000, many of them seriously, since bombing of Libya began in March,...
Single parents outside the High Court protesting against the savage cuts in benefits

Huge Welfare cuts –Duncan Smith proposals condemned

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Unions and children’s charities yesterday condemned Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith’s offer to raid the Welfare Budget by another £3 billion a year...

Greek Students & Workers March Against Private Universities!

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TENS of thousands of Greek university and school students, along with teachers and universities’ staff, participated in protest marches in all major cities against...
The giant adedy  trade union delegation in the square in front of the Parliament building. They were led away after ten minutes by their leaders – shortly afterwards the riot police attacked the remaining crowd

30,000 Workers Gather Outside Greek Parliament

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SOME thirty thousand Greek workers, youth and students held a rally on Thursday evening outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens. Inside, the Greek...

Bank Of England Panic Rate Cut

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A realisation of the depth of the slump, yesterday drove the Bank of England to make a panic 1.5% cut in interest rates...

NHS workers immigration status victory – Home Office forced to U-turn yesterday morning!

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THE TORIES, under fire from all sides have had to make a U-turn on their policy over the immigration status of NHS workers. Until yesterday...

TORTURE NOT OK! Law Lords defend Iraqis’ human rights

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BRITISH troops were told to hood Iraqis and use banned ‘stressing’ techniques when interrogating them, human rights lawyer Phil Shiner claimed yesterday at...

Corbyn calls emergency shadow cabinet meeting

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn is to hold an emergency shadow cabinet meeting next Monday to discuss alleged anti-Semitism within the party. The meeting was called...
Striking postal workers at Bromley-by-Bow, E16, in a confident mood after refusing to be bullied by Royal Mail management

PROVOCATION! – Management bullies force Royal Mail workers out

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ROYAL Mail’s bullying management, backed to the hilt by the Brown government, yesterday sought to impose extreme flexibility onto the country’s postal workers, ...
Teachers on the picket line at Copland school in Wembley during their strike against forced Academy status

Labour supporting ‘Free Schools’ and benefit cuts!

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LABOUR yesterday delivered another stab in the back to workers, when two of its newly promoted shadow ministers hit out at the working class. Shadow...
Junior doctors, NHS workers and supporters outside Sheffield’s Northern General Hospital on the second day of strike action

‘Strike until we win!’ – Junior Doctors strike solid

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THOUSANDS of junior doctors, NHS workers, trade unionists and supporters took to picket lines across the country yesterday, as the junior doctors took their...
The North-East London Council of Action picketing yesterday morning to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

‘WE NEED ACTION NOT WORDS’ – at Chase Farm

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Staff and patients at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, yesterday showed their support for an occupation to stop the closure of its accident and emergency,...

‘Blatant complicity in genocide!’ – US vetoes UN ceasefire resolution

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HAMAS has condemned the US veto in the UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza as ‘blatant complicity and active involvement in...

HOSPITAL CLOSURES PLANNED! – – April 2010 D-Day for NHS

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New NHS regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), yesterday published its ratings on England’s 392 trusts. From April 2010, the CQC will gain new powers...
Callum Hurley and Katy Moore and supporters challenging the government over tuition fee rises yesterday at the High Court

Tuition Fees Challenged In High Court

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TWO students began a high court battle against the government yesterday challenging the rise in tuition fees as unlawful as it breaches the equality...

200 days of Israeli war crimes in Gaza

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ISRAEL’S genocidal war on Gaza entered its 200th day yesterday, with the Health Ministry saying that the IOF (Israeli Occupation Force) had committed three...

Defiant workers May Day march to Trafalgar Square

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OVER 5,000 workers, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square in central London for May Day yesterday. There were scores of red...
GPs, patients and supporters marched through Tower Hamlets on June 5th showing their determination to keep all GP surgeries open

£1bn NHS privatisation! –Unison demands full disclosure

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UNISON has demanded a ‘full disclosure’ of moves to privatise Staffordshire cancer services and warned NHS commissioners that ‘secrecy is against the public interest’. The...

‘CORE SERVICES’ ONLY IN AN ‘INDEPENDENTLY RUN NHS’! – BMA leaders’ recipe for NHS...

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British Medical Association (BMA) leaders yesterday launched what they described as their ‘Green Paper’ for an NHS of ‘core services’ run by an independent...
The demonstration outside the House of Commons yesterday afternoon demanding that the UK and US keep their hands off Syria

Cameron ‘fits up’ Syria – War just a matter of judgement

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PM Cameron yesterday disclosed that the government’s legal advice over an imminent attack on Syria was that it would be legal since it...

SACK ALL THE OLD LEADERS – demand Sri Lankan workers and youth

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SECURITY around Sri Lanka’s parliament building in the capital, Colombo, has increased, with armed and masked soldiers guarding the building and roads nearby closed...

Banfield urges Tories –‘No more excuses – make credible offer!’

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WORKERS blame the government for the 7.7m-long waiting lists in England, finds a survey. As doctors in England begin the longest period of combined industrial...

African-American farmers lost $326bn worth of acreage in the 20th century

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AFRICAN-American farmers lost roughly $326 billion worth of acreage during the 20th century, adding to the racial wealth gap in the United States, a...

TUC condemns Trump’s attack on Venezuela

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THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the UK’s three largest trade unions, Unison, Unite and GMB, yesterday condemned the US kidnapping of Venezuelan President...
One of the big picket lines out yesterday at Holloway Metroline bus garage

Metro – Hundreds Of Pickets Out

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THERE were over 100 pickets covering all the entrances to Willesden Bus Garage in north west London yesterday morning. Bus driver and TGWU member Christine...

A win for Palestine Action as an army contract is blocked

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THREE detained activists affiliated with Palestine Action have ended a prolonged hunger strike after the government blocked a major British Army contract for Elbit...

Call for worldwide Gaza solidarity action

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THE Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued to carry out intensive deadly strikes targeting civilians in different areas of the Gaza Strip, mainly in Gaza...
Young Socialists lobby of last September’s TUC Congress in Brighton demanding no zero-hours contracts

Accept Zero Hours Or No Benefits!

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UNEMPLOYED workers are to be thrown off benefits if they refuse to go on slave labour zero-hours contracts, the government announced yesterday. Employment Minister Esther...

‘Blair Lied Thousands Died’

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‘Blair lied, thousands died! Tony Blair, war criminal,’ chanted hundreds assembled outside the QE2 Centre, Westminster, yesterday. They were taking part in a demonstration organised...
YS National Secretary JOSHUA OGUNLEYE addressing ‘Block the (Westminster) Bridge’ protesters yesterday afternoon

‘WE HAVE TO KEEP NHS FREE!’ – say workers and youth

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THOUSANDS of young workers and students occupied Westminster Bridge yesterday, determined to defeat the Health and Social Care Bill (HSCB), due to be read...

Nurses Vote To Strike In A Majority Of NHS Employers Across UK

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NURSING staff have voted to strike in the majority of NHS employers across the UK. Nursing staff at the majority of NHS employers across the...

NINE PALESTINIANS ON HUNGER STRIKE – against detention without charge

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NINE Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention currently remain on hunger strike in protest against their unfair administrative detention without charge or trial, says the...
Well-supported picket at the National Gallery yesterday morning

Support growing for National Gallery strikers

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OVER 30 National Gallery strikers and their supporters were in a determined mood on Day 9 of their indefinite strike against privatisation and the...

NHS Faces ‘Worst Ever Winter!’

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THE LATEST ‘catastrophic’ NHS performance figures have sparked fears that the health service is on track for the ‘worst ever’ winter, the BMA doctors’...

Striking Consultants & Junior Doctors Picket

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STRIKING consultants and junior doctors held mass pickets outside hospitals around the country yesterday in a show of strength in defence of the NHS...