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Enthusiastic youth at yesterday morning’s mass picket to keep open Chase Farm Hospital

OCCUPY TO STOP A&E CLOSURE – demands Chase Farm mass picket

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Haringey, Barnet and Enfield Primary Care Trusts agreed yesterday that Option One will be carried out in relation to Chase Farm Hospital – that...
Teachers at the NUT confrence demand Gove’s resignation

Nut Opposes Gove Plans

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NATIONAL Union of Teachers (NUT) leaders yesterday opposed government plans for unannounced school inspections and taking state schools out of Birmingham City Council’s control...

More than 30 Labour MPs oppose Starmer’s assault on benefits – 4.5 million...

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KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...
Bill Rogers, from the North-East London Council of Action, addresses the St Paul’s Assembly on Saturday evening

Assembly Supports Chase Farm Occupation!

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‘WE will defend Chase Farm Hospital with an occupation!’ was the message Bill Rogers, secretary of the North East London Council of Action, delivered...

HUNT’S CLASS WAR BUDGET SCRAPS THE HOUSEHOLD SUPPORT FUND SEPT 30th

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TORY Chancellor Hunt delivered his class war Budget in the House of Commons yesterday, announcing that the Household Support Fund will be scrapped on...
The WRP-YS contingent led the call for a general strike

500,000 WILL STRIKE ON MAY 10 – says Serwotka

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Half a million workers will be taking strike action on May 10th, PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka told the mass rally at the end...
NE London Council of Action picket outside Chase Farm hospital last Tuesday against the threat to close the maternity unit

Johnson To Close Rochdale< Salford< Trafford & Bury Maternity Units

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Health unions yesterday expressed concern after health secretary Alan Johnson endorsed plans to close maternity units at four Greater Manchester hospitals in Rochdale, Salford,...

Authorities Face Financial Collapse – Defend Jobs & Services!

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‘MULTIPLE local authorities’ are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts, MPs on the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned. The...

NHS workers vote to strike

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UNISON’s NHS workers, including nurses, occupational therapists, porters, paramedics, medical secretaries, cooks and healthcare assistants, have voted yes to industrial action in a dispute...

Bombardment Of Gaza Civilians Condemned By Report

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ISRAELI conduct during their 50-day war on the Gaza Strip last summer greatly increased the number of civilian casualties, an independent report has...

Nasrallah assassination ‘an act of Israeli desperation’ says Iran

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‘ISRAEL has gone on an assassination spree against resistance commanders in a desperate effort to prevent its demise,’ Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf...

US FORCES WILL NOT ENGAGE IN UKRAINE! says President Biden

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PRESIDENT Biden has assured American lawmakers that US military personnel will not be taking part in the war in Ukraine, and not a single...

UNIONS MARCH AGAINST MACRON – day after French election

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TRADE unions, students and youth marched through the streets of Paris yesterday against Emmanuel Macron’s proposed ‘Labour Reforms’ on the very next day...
The railway tunnel collapsed as a result of the new Tesco superstore being built in the area near Ge

VOTE NO TO ID CARDS – Trade unions and Liberty urge MPs

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Yesterday claims were made that the government was in discussions with businesses on the sale of personal information that will be contained in the...

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...

Osborne’s class war on workers and poor

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Chancellor Osborne’s message to the working class in his Autumn Statement was that the crisis is worsening fast, and you will have...

UK abusing terrorism laws! says Amnesty International Secretary General

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IN A MAJOR police state move, 29 demonstrators were arrested in London at a protest in support of Palestine Action on Saturday, the day...
Norfolk teachers demonstrating against the savage cuts in education funding – the situation has got so bad that subjects are being axed from schools’ curriculums

Music, drama & art axed from schools

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MUSIC, languages, drama, PE, design technology and art, as well as vocational subjects including engineering, construction, and childcare, have all being axed from secondary...

UK Threatened By Global Shocks – Says Bank Of England Report

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The UK economy is under threat of collapse from ‘global shocks’, and has no real independence and little room for manoeuvre. This subordination of...
Part of a mass lobby of the Nigerian Embassy in London on Friday which insisted that the fuel subsidy must be reinstated

‘A FIGHT TO THE FINISH’ – Nigerian General Strike is launched

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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday called on workers and the rural poor to be ‘prepared for a fight to the finish’. This came as...

Israel approves 22 new illegal settlements in West Bank

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Israel has approved the establishment of 22 new illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision was reportedly taken in a closed-door vote by...
Disability Cuts Kill! was the message as a number of disabled workers lobbied the House of Commons yesterday. They condemned all the cuts in social care

Social Care In Crisis!

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DRAMATIC cuts to district nursing have left older people without care at home and turning to A&E, an independent report has found. Research by Christie...

Catalonia Declares Independence!

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CROWDS outside the Catalan parliament erupted in celebration, letting off fireworks as Catalonia declared its independence from Spain yesterday afternoon, after a vote of...

Pupils miss out! Primary schools at bursting point

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PARENTS found out yesterday if their child got into the primary school of their choice, while at their annual conference, the National Education Union...
Demonstration last February against the closure of the Whittington Hospital in North London

BMA PRIVATE SCREENING WARNING! – call to strengthen rules

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Doctors’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges are today, calling on the UK government to take action...

Don’t implement contract urges BMA

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DO NOT implement the new junior doctors contracts, the BMA urged NHS Trusts yesterday, the day the new contracts were due to be rolled...

Backstop ‘Non-Negotiable!’

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THE EU is ‘united’ over the negotiated Brexit deal, the bloc’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier has responded, after the UK’s PM May said she...

‘I’LL SEE YOU IN COURT’ – Galloway challenges Senate witchhunters

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Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, George Galloway has thrown down a challenge to the US Senate homeland security committee to charge him...

Maduro condemns us energy war

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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro says the United States has declared an ‘electric energy war’ against his country amid a widespread blackout that has left...
Midlands GMB members on the march against the Tory coalition government’s savage budget cuts

Beds Council Workers Defy Wage-Cutting

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BEDFORDSHIRE Council’s ultimatum to employees to sign new wage-cutting contracts or face the sack has been met with defiance by council workers, who...

COUNCIL WORKERS 2% PAY INSULT – as inflation rises to 4.6%

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COUNCIL worker unions angrily rejected a 2 per cent wage cut pay offer yesterday, as inflation hit 4.6 per cent, the highest in 16...
Unite and GMB pickets outside the Royal Hospital in Belfast yesterday morning

NHS STRIKE IN IRELAND! –while fury in England over NHS sell-out

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AMBULANCE workers and other NHS staff are ‘determined’ and ‘out solid’ throughout Northern Ireland, the GMB regional officer, Michael Mulholland, said yesterday, during...
NUJ members picketing Bush House in May last year against cuts in the service

BBC STRIKE BALLOT – over job cuts, pensions and pay

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THE BBC is set to face strike action over job cuts, pensions and pay as unions declared a series of actions in the wake...

Tuc Refusing To Smash Tories Anti-Union Law!

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TIM SHARP, the TUC senior policy officer for employment rights, has published an article entitled ‘Fighting the Anti-Strike Law’. He states: ‘The government is attempting...
Locked out Gate Gourmet workers were still picketting the factory at Heathrow yesterday despite the deal by their union leaders for redundancies and worse terms and conditions

Withdraw UK Troops Now!

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OVER 100,000 will be gathering in central London today, on the eve of the Labour Party conference, to demand the withdrawal of British and...
Demonstration in Hammersmith against the closure of four A&Es in west London – meanwhile west London’s Imperial College NHS Trust aims to double its private income

Unions must strike to stop NHS closures

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CAMPAIGNERS against the closure of four west London hospital Accident and Emergency Departments expressed fury yesterday at the declaration by Imperial College Healthcare NHS...
Postal workers marching through Corby on March 20th against local MP Phil Hope reneging on his promise to oppose privatisation

‘WE WILL STRIKE TO DEFEND POST JOBS’ – say CWU reps

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‘We are not going to take this lightly. We will do whatever has to be done to hold on to every part of the...

‘UK will leave EU on March 29’ – insists PM May

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IN A House of Commons statement yesterday PM May insisted that her deal is the best that she can get and that even...

SUDDEN AND CATASTROPHIC – OILC leader Jake Malloy describes Morecambe Bay disaster

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‘Last night’s event appears to suggest that something sudden and catastrophic happened,’ offshore workers’ union, OILC leader Jake Malloy told News Line yesterday. Six bodies...

Inflation Lets Rip!

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Inflation rose to 4.8 per cent in March, according to the latest RPIX index – which includes all items excluding mortgage interest payments. The latest...

Don’t carry out Tory NHS cuts! – Unison urges Northern Ireland NHS Trusts

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UNISON yesterday challenged all five Health Trust Boards in Northern Ireland to refuse to comply with a Tory government demand for cuts. In addresses to...

Sheikh Jarrah resident is threatening to blow up his home rather than leave it!

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ON MONDAY a Palestinian man carried a gas canister onto the roof of his home in occupied Jerusalem as his family faced eviction. The Sheikh...

The Met to investigate Downing Street parties

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THE METROPOLITAN police are investigating allegations surrounding parties at Downing Street and in Whitehall, M-et Chief Cressida Dick said yesterday, with the Sue Gray...
Marios Lolos addressing a rally of trade unionists in Athens

Greek riot police condemned!

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THE leaders of the Greek journalists and photoreporters’ trade unions have demanded that the police leadership stops its violence against press workers and releases...

UK ‘The Sick Man Of Europe!’ Say Nurses

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has called on the Health Secretary to open negotiations on NHS pay as new research shows the UK...