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Local residents joined by trade unionists protested Monday night outside Camden Town Hall demanding ‘Kill the Housing Bill’

Hands Off Our Homes!

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‘HANDS off our Homes!’ shouted over fifty trade unionists and youth at a lobby of Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, in north west London...

Nationalise Tata Steel now! –demands ATUA after ‘dirty’ union deal

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STEELWORKERS’ union leaders are urging members to make a ‘huge sacrifice’ and accept both a pay cut and a pensions cut in order to...
Thousands of protesters dressed in Panama hats & Hawaiian shirts in London on Saturday demanding ‘Cameron Must Go!’

‘UK is heart of tax avoidance’–Corbyn

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‘THE public no longer have the trust in him,’ Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn said of PM Cameron after he attempted to justify his involvement...

Dodgy Cameron!

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AFTER a week of denials, prime minister Cameron yesterday published just a summary of his tax returns. Cameron did reveal he received £300,000 from his...
Over 1,500 supporters of the occupation of Carnegie Library marched through Brixton on Saturday demanding it be kept open

1,500 march to stop library closures

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OVER 1,500 people marched on Saturday to oppose Lambeth Council’s closure of five of the ten libraries in the borough. The people from Carnegie...

Cameron must resign! – demands John Mann MP after tax haven scandal

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LABOUR MP John Mann yesterday called for PM Cameron to resign in light of the ongoing scandal regarding Cameron’s father’s offshore bank account, exposed...
Junior doctors out in force on the picket line at Hammersmith Hospital in west London – they are escalating their strike against the Tories’ imposed contract

Tories throw down gauntlet to junior doctors

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THE Tories have ruled out any fresh talks with the junior doctors and in doing so have thrown down the gauntlet for a fight...
Junior doctors midday rally in Hackney

‘No option but to escalate!’ says Doctor Malawana

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THOUSANDS of junior doctors joined more than 140 picket lines across England yesterday to protest against the imposition of a new contract. Junior doctors took...
Teachers from Sunny Hill school in Southwark joined striking junior doctors on the picket line at Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell yesterday

Junior doctors confident of victory!

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A GOOD picket of junior doctors turned out at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital at 8am. They were in good spirits despite the wind...
Enthusiastic junior doctors on the picket line during strike action at North Middlesex Hospital in north London

48hr junior doctors strike begins today

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JUNIOR doctors will walk out on their fourth strike at 8am this morning and form picket lines outside every hospital in the country, as...

Junior doctors imposed contract – Second legal challenge

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THE government has been hit with a second legal challenge over its imposition of the new contract for junior doctors which forces them to...

Steel Crisis Meeting At The Tuc

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STEELWORKERS’ representatives from the Community, Unite and GMB trade unions met at the TUC yesterday to demand action to save their jobs and industry. They...
Supporters of the Carnegie Library in Lambeth gather outside on Saturday night in support of the round-the-clock occupation inside the building

Carnegie Library in Herne Hill is occupied

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CARNEGIE Library in Herne Hill, south London, is occupied. Over 30 people, including campaigners, supporters and local people have been in occupation since Lambeth...

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...

New financial year hits families hard!

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THE NEW financial year was ushered in yesterday with a series of price hikes that hit working class families hard. Council Tax went up, water...
Junior doctors demonstrate in the lead-up to their second strike. Their fourth strike takes place this week – they will not accept imposition

Legal challenge to Tory contract imposition

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THE BMA has launched a judicial review, challenging the lawfulness of the Tories’ decision to impose a new contract on the junior doctors. Junior doctors...

Tata Union Reps To Meet Monday

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‘I DO not believe that nationalisation is the right answer,’ Tory PM Cameron said yesterday, putting two fingers up to the 15,000 steel workers...
Refugees at Wednesdsay’s march to the EU offices in Athens demanding ‘Freedom!’ Photo credit: voria.gr

Refugees March To Eu Offices Demanding ‘Freedom!’

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OVER 1,000 mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees marched last Wednesday through the Athens city centre to the EU Offices in Greece demanding free and...
Steel workers lobby parliament – they will take action to defend their jobs and the industry

TATA SACKING THOUSANDS – McCluskey praises Cameron and temporary nationalisation

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TATA Steel announced yesterday that it is getting out of Britain at once, threatening the jobs of 19,000 steelworkers in Port Talbot, Rotherham, Corby,...
March in London earlier this month against the Housing Bill

Tory Bill will ‘kill social housing’ warn councils

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THE new Tory Housing and Planning Bill will ‘kill social housing’ a leading West Midlands councillor Frank Allen warned yesterday. All over the country council...
Teachers marching against the Tories’ forced academies – now the NUT conference has voted to scrap the ‘Prevent Strategy’

NUT rejects the ‘Prevent’ policy

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THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for the scrapping of the Tory ‘Prevent Strategy’. Delegates condemned the government’s...

Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian Homes

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ISRAELI forces yesterday made preparations for the punitive demolition of the family houses of three Palestinians suspected of carrying out a fatal attack outside...

Palestinian Killed At Point Blank Range

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VIDEO footage has emerged showing a Palestinian being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier at point-blank range despite lying motionless and severely...
Refugees in the Moria camp are in a prison until they are to be moved out of Greece by the police and army. Photo credit: left.gr

Army & police will be deployed in the removal of refugees

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REFUGEES staged protests shouting ‘freedom’, in English, last Wednesday and Thursday, at the main gate of the Moria village ‘Detention Centre,’ that is, concentration...

370,000 Council Homes To Be Sold Off!

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370,000 council and housing association homes will be sold off in England by 2020, the head of the Chartered Institute of Housing has warned. Terrie...
Traditional Indian Dhol drum beat to the rhythm of the 50-strong picket’s chants of ‘Hands off Charlie Chaplin Ward! Save Ealing Hospital!’

Charlie Chaplin Children’s Ward Must Not Close!

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‘THE Charlie Chaplin Children’s Ward must not close!’ Jaswinder Pannu exclaimed yesterday morning. She spoke to News Line during the 50-strong mass picket of Ealing...
Junior doctors on the picket line at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddingdon on 10th March – they have now stepped up their struggle

Junior doctors escalate struggle – after Tories refuse to talk

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The BMA yesterday confirmed an escalation of the junior doctors industrial action scheduled for April. This follows the continued refusal by the government to step...

Arrogant Osborne refuses to apologise – McDonnell calls for him to go!

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‘LET me say to him (Tory chancellor Osborne) I certainly think for the sake of this country that it is time for him to...
The 60-strong picket outside the Maudsley hospital was rock solid with vuvuzelas and whistles – strikers shouted: ‘Ten pounds an hour!’

Maudsley Hospital strike

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AS MANY as 200 cleaners and domestic workers at four south London hospitals took strike action yesterday demanding their wages are increased to £10...

‘Osborne & Cameron must quit’

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TORY Chancellor Osborne refused to appear in parliament yesterday to answer an urgent question on the crisis surrounding last Wednesday’s budget, which cut disabled...

Tory Split Deepens!

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THE Tory government risks dividing society, Iain Duncan Smith warned yesterday in his first interview since resigning as Work and Pensions Secretary. He attacked the...
100,000-strong ‘Refugees Welcome’ march proposes a different kind of deal for Cameron

Gunboat diplomacy! – Cameron targets refugees

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TORY PM Cameron has been accused of ‘gun boat diplomacy,’ after the announcement that Royal Navy vessels will be deployed this summer to turn...

£1.9bn black hole pensions raid –as Corbyn ready to force vote on disabled cuts

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A PENSIONS black hole has been identified in the Tory Chancellor’s budget plan with figures emerging yesterday showing that the...

Benefit Cuts Revolt!

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A TORY disability campaigner has handed in his party membership and sabotaged a Tory Party website in protest over brutal disability benefit cuts. Graeme Ellis,...

CUTS FOR THE WORKERS – tax cuts for the rich

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TORY Chancellor Osborne delivered a class war Budget yesterday offering whole swathes of new tax breaks for the rich, while hammering benefits, public services,...
Striking sixth form teachers massed outside parliament yesterday against Tory cuts to education

NUT sixth form strike defiant!

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NUT SIXTH form teachers walked out on strike yesterday morning at colleges across the country against Tory funding cuts that are driving up...
NUT members on the TUC march demanding that education is defended – 6th form college members are on strike today

NUT strike is on!

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TODAY’S NUT 6th form college strike is on! The Tory government took the NUT to the High Court yesterday in an attempt to rule...
A section of the 10,000-strong ‘Kill the Bill’ march as it entered the Strand yesterday

Hands Off Our Homes! Say 10,000 Marchers

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HANDS off our Homes! Kill the Bill! Homes for People! Not for Profit!’ chanted protesters yesterday on a 10,000-strong march through central London against...

More Budget Cuts!

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TORY Chancellor Osborne warned yesterday that the deepening world crisis of capitalism means he must ‘act now rather than pay later’ and include...

Hand all academies & free schools back

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CHIEF Inspector of Schools Michael Wilshaw has criticised the heads of some academy chains for being paid vast salaries, up to £225,000 a...

USDAW delighted at Tory defeat!

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SHOPWORKERS trade union leader John Hannett is delighted with the House of Commons vote that defeated the government and removed Sunday trading changes...

Legal threat to Sheffield occupation!

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THE University of Sheffield has been granted a court order to remove 19 students who have been occupying a lecture theatre for more than...
Junior doctors out in force on a demonstration three days before their last strike on February 10th – this time they are out for 48 hours

Junior doctors 48hr strike today

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‘OTHER trade unions should take action to support us and defend the NHS and I really hope we are all going to come together...

500,000 sanctioned in 12 MONTHS

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CAMPAIGNERS will be protesting outside Jobcentres in over 70 towns and cities across the UK on Wednesday (9 March 2016) as part of...

Property crash fears!

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BANKS and speculators are attempting to offload mortgage default risk onto unsuspecting taxpayers and pension funds amid fears of a looming property crash in...