Greece 24hr national strike

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GREEK public sector workers launched a 24-hour national strike yesterday against the SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left)- ANEL coalition government’s new austerity accord...

The Spanish state has been defeated!

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‘THIS is a result which no one can dispute,’ deposed Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont told a news conference in Brussels yesterday. ‘The Spanish state...
CAM STOCKS (far right in hat) joins junior doctors, nurses and supporters on the picket line outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London during last Tuesday’s strike

Junior doctors strike suspended by BMA

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THE BMA has suspended next week’s 48-hour junior doctors strike. In a statement, the BMA said: ‘The decision comes as ACAS talks continue this week...
The junior doctors’ decision to ballot for action and to organise mass demonstrations has forced health secretary Hunt to drop his threat to impose a contract

Junior Doctors Strike Ballot Makes Hunt Think Again!

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THE THREAT of industrial action by England’s 50,000 junior doctors has forced Tory health secretary Hunt to think again over plans to impose a...
Student nurses and midwives outside the Department of Health demanding that their bursaries are restored

Restore NHS bursaries – Student nurses & midwives lobby today

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STUDENT nurses and midwives are lobbying parliament today in opposition to Tory plans to end the student bursaries by August 2017. And a national march...

Don’t Expel Indian Doctors

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THE Royal College of Physicians, the BMA and all the leading medical organisations yesterday demanded the immediate withdrawal of a sudden, and ‘blatantly...

NHS Trust withholds rent over fire safety – Patients evacuated from two wards

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CORNWALL Partnership Foundation Trust is withholding rent payments to NHS Property Services to force it to take urgent action over fire safety. Patients have had...

Gate Gourmet pickets angry at TGWU leaders

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GATE Gourmet locked out workers were angry yesterday when they were told by the local union office that that they had received the last...
Firefighters marching through Aylesbury demanding the reinstatement of sacked colleague Ricky Matthews – after Maude’s statement they know that the biggest battle is directly ahead to stop the privatisation of the fire service and all public services

Privatise Fire Service & NHS plus wage & job cuts – Tory plan for...

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HOSPITALS and fire services will be run ‘outside the public sector’ Francis Maude, Tory Cabinet Office minister revealed yesterday, speaking to the Daily Telegraph. Firefighters...
Demonstrators in Athens on May 1st marching in support of immigrant workers

Greek Workers & Youth Will Fight New Bourgeois Regime Of Papandreou!

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The Greek working class and youth have delivered a deadly blow against the conservative government of Kostas Karamanlis and his neo-liberal policies in Sunday’s...
Over 10,000 workers and their families took part in the annual Tolpuddle Martyrs Anniversary March on Sunday, remembering the famous struggle by Dorset agricultural labourers for trade union rights, and expressing their anger at the crisis-ridden Tory coa

Net Closes In On Cameron

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PRIME Minister Cameron came under increasing pressure yesterday to follow the two top London police officers who have quit in the past two days,...
Engineers and construction workers demonstrated in Parliament Square during the February dispute in the industry

STOP THE COUNTRY! – to beat union busters

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The GMB trade union yesterday accused senior managers of provoking the unofficial dispute at Lindsey oil refinery by the sacking of 51 workers in...

Junior doctors condemn PM Sunak for ‘trying to intimidate & bully them’

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AS JUNIOR doctors ended their latest five-day strike action yesterday morning, BMA Junior Doctors Committee spokesman Dr Tal Ellenbogen accused Tory PM Rishi Sunak...
Low paid Serco workers are having to battle like hell for a 30p pay rise

PUBLIC SECTOR IS ‘OVERPAID’ – Hammond tells Tory Cabinet

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CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond yesterday refused to deny that he said at last Tuesday’s Tory Cabinet meeting that public sector workers are ‘overpaid’. Hammond was repeatedly...

Students planning action!

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STUDENTS across the country are planning marches, student strikes and occupations to support Tuesday’s nationwide lecturers strike over pay. At Sussex University in Falmouth near...
WRP Manchester Central parliamentary candidate (right) with his team making every minute count in the last days of the campaign

WRP campaign steps up a gear

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THE campaign for Jonty Leff, the WRP candidate for Manchester Central, has stepped up a gear on the eve of Thursday’s general election. While canvassing...
Students marched from the University of London Union to Parliament yesterday demanding free state education. In Parliament Square they tore down the fences and occupied

Parliament Square Occupied!

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‘FREE Education Now!’ chanted over 10,000 students on a march through central London to Parliament yesterday. Demonstrators from all over Britain also shouted: ‘Workers and...

NO WATER, NO DOCTOR, NO SCHOOL, NO JOB!’ – IDPs leave Kandahar camp

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Over 1,000 families in a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, have opted to return to their home areas...

86 violently arrested at Wormwood Scrubs

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POLICE violently arrested 86 people who were peacefully protesting at Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London on Saturday night. They had gathered in a show...
An enthusiastic picket outside the High Court yesterday morning. They are determined to continue the battle to stop the coalition destroying the NHS

Lewisham Hospital Cuts Judged Illegal!

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CHEERS went up outside the High Court when Justice Silber ruled yesterday that Jeremy Hunt’s decision to cut the Accident & Emergency and Maternity...

UNIONS AGREE WELSH NHS PAY DEAL! – Monday’s Welsh strike action cancelled

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HEALTH unions have agreed a separate deal on pay for NHS workers in Wales, meaning they will not be taking part in Monday’s four-hour...

Occupy Tata Steel to save all jobs!

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COMMUNITY steel union representatives are meeting at the TUC today with the threat of closure hanging over the industry in the UK, with tens...

Gaza residents shocked by massive price rises!

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GAZA residents have been shocked and angered over a steep rise in prices. As the sounds of war quietened with the advent of the first...

Capitalist debt transferred to the poor – McDonnell indicts Spring Statement

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‘I AM pleased to report to the House on a UK economy that has grown in every year since 2010,’ Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond...

Russia Hits Isis Targets

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AN ISIS HQ, command point and an ammo depot in Syria were destroyed by Russian military night operations on Wednesday, it was revealed yesterday. Footage...

Bank Rate Rise Fears!

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The Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has been shaken by the ‘increase in inflationary risks’ which if...

AER LINGUS 48 HOUR STRIKE – to oppose wage-cutting at Belfast Airport

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ALL Aer Lingus routes will be affected when 500 pilots strike for 48-hours next Tuesday and Wednesday. They are taking action against the airline’s...
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...

Striking NHS Workers March

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STRIKING NHS workers from south London’s psychiatric hospitals marched yesterday from Camberwell Green to the headquarters of the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust...

Thousands of Sudanese marching in London!

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THOUSANDS of Sudanese workers and students are marching in London today demanding an end to the war in Sudan. In a statement, ‘London for Sudan’...

NURSES READY TO STRIKE – Against pay cut

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Nearly two-thirds of nurses would be willing to take industrial action if they receive an unsatisfactory pay deal this year, said the Royal College...

Abolish pensioners’ bus passes and triple-lock pensions! – urges Stephens & Health Secretary...

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HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stephens, has angered millions of workers with his suggestions that pensioners’ free bus passes and their triple-lock pension arrangements...
ROSE GENTLE (centre, right) leading the group from Military Families Against the War to the Cenotaph

Hounslow Unison To March With Gg Locked-Out Workers

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THE Hounslow local government Unison branch banner will be with the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers banner on the TUC May Day march through London...
Nurses and midwives assemble for their rally and lobby of parliament yesterday

Defend our bursaries!

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STUDENT nurses, midwives and other NHS students lobbied parliament yesterday to demand that the Tories’ plan to abolish the student bursary and replace it...
Engineering construction workers demonstrating at the Lindsey power station site demanding their right to work

Jobs Protest At Uskmouth

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Unemployed construction workers were joined by young apprentices unable to complete their training because of a lack of work, in a mass protest at...

NHS PRIVATISATION BY STEALTH – BMA accuses Blair government

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The Blair government is trawling Europe for health privateers to carry out elective operations in the NHS, the British Medical Association yesterday revealed in...

‘Test Grenfell community for toxic contamination!’

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A TOXIC cocktail of benzene, hydrogen cyanide (HCN), as well as many known cancer-causing chemicals and fibres have been found in soil taken from...

Determined Resident Doctors Defy Starmer’s Threats!

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TENS of thousands of Resident Doctors begin their 15th wave of strike action today in defence of their pay and conditions against attacks first...

Iran & Iraq united against US attack

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THE US ATTACK on Iran and Iraq will cement the unity of the two countries, Iranian President Rouhani said in a phone call with...

BUS WORKERS TAKE STRIKE ACTION – stand to lose £2,500 a year

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DRIVERS employed by the RATP bus privateer begin strike action today against £2,500 pay cuts, with 2,200 workers striking at Edgware, Epsom, Fulwell, Harrow,...

Biden sending more heavy bombs to Israel – ignoring demands for a ceasefire

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THE administration of US President Joe Biden plans to resume shipping heavy bombs to Israel, defying international appeals against this action, as part of...

Braverman ‘repeatedly broke the law’ – claims Labour’s Yvette Cooper

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TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman was accused in the House of Commons yesterday of ‘repeatedly breaking the law’ over her treatment of asylum seekers...

Workers to get 67% of wages – bosses to get free labour under Sunak...

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TORY CHANCELLOR Sunak set out yesterday more massive support for businesses forced to close by law, with much tighter virus rules expected in England...

Tory rights ‘smash and grab’ – threat to ban support for Palestine

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‘THE UK government’s extremism definition is a smash and grab on our human rights,’ Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International Chief Executive, said yesterday. He was speaking...
Unison members demonstrating against government plans for local pay on the TUC march last October 2012. Such protests could be criminalised under the Lobbying Bill

The Lobbying Bill is a ‘massive attack on trade union rights!’

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THE government’s Lobbying Bill is an ‘outrageous attack on freedom of speech worthy of an authoritarian dictatorship’, the TUC said yesterday. The TUC is seeking...