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Record Jobless Rise!

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UK unemployment has risen by 27,000 in the three months to the end of January to 2.53 million, the highest figure since 1994. The Office...

£2,000 A Year Price Rise For Meals-On-Wheels!

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HARROW Unison local government branch has launched a campaign against Harrow Council’s plans to increase its charges for its Meals on Wheels service by...
Thousands of health workers and their supporters marched through Nottingham last Saturday demanding the defence of the NHS. They called to stop the privatisation of NHS Logistics

‘A PRIVATISATION TOO FAR’ – UNISON leader Prentis urges suspend NHS Logistics sell-off

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UNISON members at four NHS Logistics depots began a second 24 hour strike, last night at 10pm. Runcorn depot stopped at 11pm. The workers are...

632,000 child deaths since Saudi-led war on Yemen

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YEMEN’S Ministry of Public Health and Population has given a detailed report on the devastating effects the Saudi-led coalition war – which it launched...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaigning at Heathrow for their conference to fight for their reinstatement

Gate Gourmet locked-out workers win support

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers, fighting for reinstatement on their original terms and conditions, had a successful day of campaigning yesterday for their...
A section of the march in London on October 24 against the war on Afghanistan demanding troops out

More Than 20,000 Troops For Helmand Province

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced the UK is sending 500 extra troops to Afghanistan early this month. He revealed that, along with special forces operating...
Two of the protesters outside the embassy of Ecuador who have ideas about making big changes in the UK

Bradley Manning must be released says Assange

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THE head of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, yesterday afternoon thanked supporters for ‘turning out in the middle of the night’ when ‘police were storming up...

EU IS SET TO SLUMP – OECD recommends Quantitative Easing

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Europe’s economic crisis ‘could evolve into stagnation, with negative implications for the global economy’, the OECD warned yesterday. The 34-nation Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation...
A section of the mass picket at Chase Farm Hospital organised by the North East London Council of Action on June 5th

FULL SPEED AHEAD TO CHASE FARM CLOSURE! – occupation is the only answer

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Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Clinical Strategy Board has made it clear that it is rapidly proceeding with the closure of Chase Farm Accident and...
Parents, especially single parents and their children are one of the main targets for the attack of the Tory LibDem coalition

110,000 Single Parents To Be Forced Into Work!

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‘Welfare changes starting today will see up to 111,000 single parents set up to fail as they are forced to seek work – or...
Grenfell survivors and their supporters demonstrate outside the Kensington & Chelsea Council Town Hall which ignored all  warnings of the dangers of an inferno at Grenfell Tower and then ignored them after it

Sheltered accommodation contains Grenfell cyanide

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THE insulation used at Grenfell Tower – which releases cyanide if burned – is installed at sheltered accommodation in east London, it was reported...

Hunt dissolves Mid-Staffs Trust!

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HEALTH Secretary Hunt announced yesterday that he is to dissolve the trust that runs Stafford General Hospital, with services set to be downgraded or...
Hand off our Horton campaign, one of the many fighting to defend the NHS

‘Women refused admission to Maternity! – Glasgow Health Board apologises

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THE GREATER Glasgow health board has apologised after women in labour were refused admission to a maternity unit because of overcrowding. NHS Greater Glasgow and...

Budget cuts of up to £5bn a year are provoking a Labour rebellion!

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WORK AND PENSIONS Secretary Liz Kendall is making changes to her package of welfare reforms in a desperate attempt to reassure Labour MPs who...

MORE GAZA MASSACRES! – as Israel intensifies bombardment

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Israel early yesterday ignored a UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for an ‘immediate, durable and fully respected cease-fire, leading to the full withdrawal...

TRAITORS! – locked-out Gate Gourmet workers condemn TGWU leaders’ betrayal

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THIRTY FIVE locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday went to see Brendan Gold, the TGWU’s Head of Civil Aviation. He is one of the trade...
Royal College of GPs Chair CLARE GERADA (centre in black with dog) arriving last month in Whitehall with the ‘Bevan’s Run’ consultants opposed to the Health Bill

SCRAP THE HEALTH BILL SAY GPs – No to a two-tier NHS

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The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), the UK’s largest medical Royal College, yesterday wrote to Prime Minister Cameron calling for the complete withdrawal...

Nurses using bin bags as PPE test POSITIVE!

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NURSES at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, north west London, were forced to wear bin bags because of a lack of Personal Protective Equipment...

Remain permanently in customs union – says Corbyn

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‘LABOUR’S plan is for Britain and the European Union (EU) to negotiate a permanent customs union to protect jobs and manufacturing,’ Labour leader Jeremy...
Hertfordshire firefighters lobbied Downing St in March over the announced closure of fire stations, rather than attend  Blair’s reception for Buncefield fire heroes

BETRAYED! – Radlett fire station closed

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ON Monday 23rd October Hertfordshire County Council gave five hours notice of closure of Radlett fire station, betraying understandings and agreements made with...

MI5 carrying out serious crimes is lawful rules Judicial Tribunal

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FIVE judges of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal have given a divided ruling over a secret MI5 policy allowing security service agents to commit...

Police Spies – Met’s Unreserved Apology!

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THE Metropolitan Police has made an ‘unreserved apology’ and paid an undisclosed amount in compensation to seven women who were tricked into long-term relationships...
Tea plantation workers weighing the tea that they have picked. They earn the equivalent of 66p a day and if they don’t pick 44lbs of tea a day, their wages are halved

‘throw Out Stinking Gourmet Deal’

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‘WE want a hands up vote at the mass meeting tomorrow, and we want the provisional agreement between Gate Gourmet, the TGWU and the...

Supreme Court rules proroguing ‘unlawful’

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THE SUPREME Court yesterday openly sided with a Parliament full of Remainers condemning the proroguing of Parliament by Tory PM Boris Johnson as completely...

Coalition Split Widening

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THE split in the coalition government deepened yesterday, with Deputy Prime Minister Clegg absenting himself from the House of Commons as Prime Minister Cameron...

MEDICAL EDUCATION IS UNDER ATTACK! – Don’t lift fees cap says BMA

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‘Medical education is under attack on several fronts,’ warns Professor Michael Rees, chair of the British Medical Association’s (BMA’s) Medical Academics Committee. In a BMA...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing despite the cold weather

‘We fight on till we win’

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are furious that the TGWU’s head of civil aviation, Brendan Gold, has gone back on his promise to provide...

Hamas protecting aid convoys

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GAZA’S Government Media Office (GMO) has denounced Israel’s allegations of Hamas looting an aid truck in southern Gaza, as ‘entirely false and fabricated’. ‘This accusation...

VITAL SKILLED JOBS TO GO! – Government cuts aid to Sheffield Forgemasters

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the Tory-led government announced the cancellation of 12 funding projects worth £2 billion yesterday, as well as the suspension of a further 12 projects...
March around Sussex University Campus during the occupation on 25th March 2013 – they have now resumed their occupation

Birmingham Occupation Spreads To Sussex

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THE occupation by University of Birmingham students of the Aston Webb building is continuing in defiance of the High Court Injunction secured by the...
Marchers in Nottingham last September demanding no cuts to NHS services

Barnsley Nurses Strike!

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Forty-five striking Operating Department Practitioners and theatre nurses were joined by other staff at lunchtime yesterday outside Barnsley Hospital. The Barnsley nurses, members of the...
Junior doctors, firefighters, public sector workers and supporters demonstrate in central Norwich against Hunt’s imposed contract

NO IMPOSED CONTRACT! – Hunt must resign

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TODAY junior doctors meet at their conference in central London to decide the next step in their battle against Tory health secretary Hunt’s imposed...
CWU pickets at Gatwick yesterday midday, RAJ  NOTHAY (2nd from left) and STEVE MATHARU (right)

‘WE WILL WIN’ – insist striking CWU members

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‘We’re fighting for our jobs, terms and conditions, pensions, the future of the union and the future of the business,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU)...
Striking CWU members in Cambridge with their banner

Postal workers say: ‘WE NEED A GENERAL STRIKE’ – ‘All workers are under attack...

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THOUSANDS of striking delivery staff took to picket lines in London and across the country yesterday, on the second day of the national postal...

Israel repeatedly breaching ceasefire deal

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SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan said in a televised statement yesterday that Israel has violated several provisions of the first stage of the ceasefire...

Uni staff all out today

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STAFF in UK universities are out on strike today for a full day in opposition to an ‘insulting’ 1% pay rise offer. The UCU, Unison,...

Corbyn Pledges Another 1945

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Jeremy Corbyn, speaking at a children’s centre in Corby, Northamptonshire yesterday, announced that ‘we will do everything necessary’ to stop a No Deal Brexit...
Freedom Flotilla volunteers back from a Zionist prison leading the Athens march

Greek Workers March Against Zionist Piracy

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Over 5,000 workers and students demonstrated through Athens city centre on Thursday evening against the Zionist pirates and their murders of the Freedom...
Northamptonshire postal workers demonstrating outside the surgery of Corby MP Phil Hope, after Hope reneged on a commitment to oppose the part-privatisation of the Royal Mail

Mandelson Threat To Jobs & Pensions!

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Postal workers yesterday reacted angrily to Business Secretary Lord Mandelson’s threat to their jobs and pensions if they did not give up their...

Spending cut by £3,000 a year

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AHEAD of the Budget, each household has reduced their spending by over £3,000 a year on average since 2007, revealing a devastating blow to...

Lavrov Calls Cameron A Liar

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MOSCOW – In an interview to the Ekho Moskvy radio station as part of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...
Postal workers on the picket line at Nine Elms mail centre during the 2007 pay strike

London’s Postal Workers Out Tomorrow

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More than ten thousand postal workers in all areas of deliveries, collections and processing across London will take industrial action for 24 hours starting...

UK accused of drone war crimes

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THE UK could well be ‘complicit’ in US War Crimes committed using drones, and could face prosecution, a new report released yesterday after...
Young Socialists marching to the TUC Congress earlier this month demanding Jobs for Youth and a general strike to get the Tories out

ON THE ROAD TO RUIN! – 4.5m self employed and ‘insidious’ zero-hours contracts

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UK registered unemployment fell by 146,000 to 2.02 million in the three months to the end of July, official figures show. The figures do not...

Three weeks of Goldsmiths University strike underway

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THREE weeks of strikes at Goldsmith’s University in south London began yesterday morning and continue today by members of the University and College Union...