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BLAIR THREATENS IRAN – as US battlegroups move into position

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PM BLAIR yesterday threatened that if the 15 Royal Navy personnel held by Iran for trespassing in Iranian waters are not released soon,...

TORIES TO USE ARMY TO BREAK STRIKES! – PCS leader condemns strike-breaking plans

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THE TORY government has revealed that it is set to begin training hundreds of British Army personnel as strike-breakers this month, to be mobilised...

Warmongers meet in Wales!

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WESTERN leaders yesterday criticised Russia for its ‘destabilising’ influence on the crisis in Ukraine, at the start of a Nato summit in Wales. Nato and...

Volunteers To Replace The Welfare State!

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Public sector unions yesterday slammed prime minister Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ plans as a threat to public services and the welfare state. Commenting on Cameron’s speech...

UN says Israel must quit ‘unlawful presence!’

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THE UN General Assembly has adopted a Palestinian-drafted, non-binding resolution demanding Israel end ‘its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’ within 12 months. There...
Visteon workers in a show of defiance on the roof before Unite officials got them to leave the factory at noon yesterday

UNITE END ENFIELD OCCUPATION – but Belfast stands firm

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The Unite trade union yesterday carried out its obligation to the capitalist court and at noon ended the occupation of the Visteon factory in...

‘WORST EVER GREEK RAIL CRASH!’ – government cuts blamed

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GREEK transport unions laid the blame for the country’s ‘worst ever’ rail crash directly at the door of government cuts yesterday, as they demanded...
Striking council workers marching against the Brown government’s pay cuts in London in July

A LEADERSHIP VOTE ‘JUST IS’NT GOING TO HAPPEN’ says Unite’s Tony Woodley

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CALLS for a Labour Party leadership election were condemned by UNITE union Joint General Secretary Tony Woodley yesterday. ‘I’ll back the prime minister until we...

Workers Kept In Dark Over Mandelson Visit

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Business Secretary Peter Mandelson is due at the GM Luton plant, Gate 2, at 9.30am this morning. He has been invited by the local Unite...

BA SUSPENSIONS ‘TEST OF THE UNION’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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THE GATE Gourmet mass picket at Heathrow airport was visited by Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley and the union’s General...

ESCALATE ACTION – as Oxford walk out

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‘WE ARE going to escalate the strike action,’ a Communication Workers Union spokeswoman told News Line yesterday evening. However, she added that after a long...

Tory NHS Funding Scandal

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THE TORY government’s claim that it is injecting an extra £10bn into the NHS in England over the next five years is simply ‘misleading,’...
Family members gather around Stockwell shrine on 3rd anniversary of the the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday

STATE EXECUTION – 3rd anniversary of de Menezes murder

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FRIENDS and family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday marked the third anniversary of the young Brazilian’s killing by a police death squad who...

Frontline workers demand ‘scrap Policing Bill’

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Over 660 frontline healthcare, community, social and education workers have called for the Policing Bill to be scrapped ahead of a key debate in...
Demonstration against a forced academy at St Andrew & St Francis School in Brent

Large Scale Academy Cuts!

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LARGE cuts are looming at the TBAP multi-academy trust, which runs schools in London, Essex, Cambridgeshire and the North West, following accusations of financial...

Public Health Time Bomb!

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DOCTORS’ leaders warned yesterday that the UK is facing a ticking time bomb in public health, with a lack of leadership on improving...

STOPPED 25 TIMES! –Stuart Lawrence accuses police of racism

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STUART LAWRENCE, the brother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, has complained to the Metropolitan Police that officers have stopped and searched him 25...

128,000 children homeless this Christmas – says Shelter

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THE FACT that 128,000 children in Britain will wake up homeless and in temporary accommodation this Christmas Day is a ‘national scandal’, the leader...
Riot police attack students on the stairs to the Vouli (Greek parliament) building in Athens last Thursday. Photo credit: MARIOS LOLOS

‘We are the opposition!’ – Greek teachers storm parliament

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GREEK striking teachers along with students staged yet another magnificent march of over 6,000 last Thursday against the hated government Education Bill. Once...

Energy Bills Are To Rise By 54%!

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THE AVERAGE household’s energy bill will rise by £693 annually after a 54% increase to the price cap announced yesterday which will undoubtedly plunge...

Poor Families Driven Out Of London

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HOUSING benefit cuts being debated in parliament today and set to come into force next April will see local authorities ‘decanting’ poor families out...
Junior doctors are determined to proceed with their five-day strikes

Bma Votes To Proceed With Five-Day Strikes!

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DESPITE enormous pressure being piled onto the junior doctors to capitulate and either shorten their strikes or call them off altogether, the BMA has...

Israeli Jets Strike Gaza

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ISRAELI war planes pounded Hamas positions in Gaza yesterday with a series of air strikes. They said they were responding to the launch of 28...
RMT members on the second day of their strike action on the Wood Group Shell. Photo Credit: RMT

5 days of Govia strike action

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FIVE further days of strike action have been confirmed by train union RMT over the removal of all guards from Govia Thameslink trains. Driver...

Firefighters role under attack

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A PROPOSAL by fire chiefs to expand a firefighter’s role at will and without boundaries has been overwhelming rejected by firefighters by 97%. The proposals...
The GMB ‘Coach and Horses’ demonstrating in Charlton yesterday morning

GMB ‘Coach and horses’ victory

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THE GMB trade union yesterday won its first victory in the battle over trade union rights at Asda, on the eve of a five-day...

Mass strike in northern Ireland

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TENS of thousands of public service workers will strike across Northern Ireland tomorrow. Unison said yesterday that Health & social services, education boards, schools, bus...
In June Swindon Young Socialists marched through the town demanding a future for youth including jobs at trade union rates of pay and the restoration of free state education

1800 YEARS OF JAIL! – for youth charged over Duggan assassination riots

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PRISON sentences totalling more than 1,800 years have been handed to youth following the uprising after the police ‘assassination’ of Mark Duggan, in Tottenham,...

Malkinson Accuses Manchester Police Of ‘Cover-Up!’

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ANDY MALKINSON, 57, a man who was wrongfully convicted and jailed for rape, has shockingly revealed that he may be required to pay thousands...
Platform of Saturday’s packed ‘Save Chase Farm’ meeting, (L-R) consultant ANNA ATHOW, Maternity Liaison Committee member Gail McCONNELL, Ambulanceman Jonathan FOX, chair STEPHEN ARMSTRONG, Save Chase Farm councillor KIERAN McGREGOR, local GP Dr NICHOLAS P

BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION! – Save Chase Farm Hospital meeting urged

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A packed 400-strong Save Chase Farm meeting in Enfield last Saturday heard calls for Councils of Action to organise occupations to stop the closure...

‘People are supporting our demand to reopen all closed NHS services!’

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‘PEOPLE are really supporting our cause to reopen all the closed services at Ealing Hospital,’ Ealing Southall WRP general election candidate Hassan Zulkifal said...

‘US Troops Must Leave Iraq’ Say 170 Lawmakers

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ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY IRAQI lawmakers have signed a draft bill, demanding the withdrawal of US military forces from the country following the assassination...

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 ...

Six million waiting for NHS treatment – Highest since records began

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ALMOST six million people are waiting to have hospital treatment in England, the latest NHS monthly performance statistics revealed yesterday. The number of patients on...

POA condemns ‘reserve force’

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THE Prison Officers Association (POA) have condemned a government scheme to form a reserve force for England and Wales to help it respond to...

Scores of constituencies will vote for my point of view says Galloway

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SUNAK and the Tory government are ‘so bereft of public support that they cower in fear’ of calling a general election, while the Starmer...
Young and old marching to save Chase Farm Hospital on the NHS Day of Action on March 3rd

Chase Farm A&E And Maternity To Close

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Chase Farm Hospital Accident & Emergency and Maternity departments must close, the government’s emergency services tsar Professor George Alberti has said. Save Chase Farm campaigners...

Assange to be Extradited!

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THE HIGH Court ruled yesterday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited from the UK to the US, where he faces a sentence...

British Steel furnaces – no guarantee they will function – legislation rushed through Parliament

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BUSINESS Secretary Jonathan Reynolds refused to confirm yesterday whether the government can get sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep the blast furnaces...

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...
Teachers marching in London on the October 20 TUC demonstration against the Coalition’s austerity cuts

1.2 million miss out on daily school meal!

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THE Children’s Society is warning that 1.2 million children living below the poverty line in England miss out on a school meal each day. Some...

Israel Attacks Palestinian Journalists!

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DOZENS of Palestinian journalists have suffered excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli military forces attacked a peaceful sit-in staged in the northern sector of...

‘We will win’ say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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‘It’s very good to see that the British Airways pilots are ready to strike – things are coming to a head,’ locked out Gate...

BMA rebuts ‘derogation’ attack

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THE British Medical Association yesterday rebutted right wing attacks on its ‘derogation’ system, whereby the NHS can ask for resident doctors, who are taking...