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£70bn more Tory cuts!

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SHADOW Labour Chancellor Ed Balls said yesterday that the Tories are not even half way through their cuts, and that if elected they would...
ENID MUTESI was evicted last Wednesday – shown holding a framed picture of her parents which she found in the bin

‘They are trying to get rid of all the poor people!’

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TENANTS facing eviction and already evicted tenants at Sweets Way housing estate in Barnet, north london, came together for a community ‘Fun Day’ yesterday. They...
Thousands marched from Shoreditch Church and from south east London to City Hall to demand an end to evictions and council homes for all

Entire families being evicted!

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BARNET tenants are holding a ‘Fun Day’ tomorrow to highlight the community they are at risk of losing if Annington Homes continue to evict...
The sacked women cleaners contingent marching in Athens last September – they are demanding their jobs back

Athens Strike Illegal

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AN Athens court has declared ‘illegal’ the 48-hour national strike of the Wind telecom company workers but the strike went ahead on Wednesday and...

Bank of England – Serious Fraud Office investigation!

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THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating allegations that the Bank of England rigged the way that money was ‘auctioned’ to banks during the...
Nurses outside Chelsea & Westminster hospital during the last NHS pay strike on November 24th

Less than 1% of the £700m emergency care reached A&Es

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LESS than 1% of the £700m allocated by the government for emergency care in England this winter ended up directly in A&E departments, according...

Vodafone workers win their strike

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THE President of the Greek Vodafone workers’ trade union Jaklin Gorou said that Tuesday’s national strike, demanding wage rises, the end of flexible working...
The group of sacked women cleaners at the Camp of Struggle. One of them holds the tablet stating the 301 days of the fight

Greek Vodafone strike ‘illegal’

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AN Athens court declared ‘illegal’ the national strike called by Vodafone workers yesterday demanding a collective labour agreement. The Vodafone workers’ trade union refused to...
A lively demonstration outside the Home Office yesterday demanding ‘Shut Yarl’s Wood down’

Stop indefinite detention!

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THE indefinite detention of asylum seekers must stop, a Parliamentary report on immigration detention, released yesterday has concluded. Following the report there was an angry...
A section of yesterday’s 100-strong demonstration outside the offices of Maximus, the company taking over the work capability assessment from ATOS

‘Welfare Reform Kills!’

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UP TO one hundred trade unionists, disabled campaigners and their supporters demonstrated yesterday outside Maximus, the company who have taken over the work-capability assessment,...
GPs in Tower Hamlets in a demonstration against the sell-off of GP surgeries

£850 A Day To Cover Gp Shortages

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MORE than half of family doctors say they are expecting to leave the profession early according to a new ComRes survey carried out for...
Over 500 workers and youth marched through Athens on Thursday night against the Syriza betrayal demanding ‘Cancel the debt’

Germany signs austerity ‘deal’ – as Greek workers riot

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THE GERMAN parliament voted yesterday to extend the ‘bailout package’ to Greece by another four months, while in Greece workers erupted on the streets...

‘END ALL FEES’ –demands YS National Secretary

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‘IT is not enough for tuition fees to be reduced they must be abolished in their entirety!’ said Joshua Ogunleye, national secretary of the...
A section of the march of PCS strikers and supporters as they headed from the National Gallery’s Sainsbury wing yesterday

NO PRIVATISATION! – demand National Gallery strikers

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‘NO privatisation!’ chanted over 70 PCS strikers and their supporters yesterday as they marched off from a rally outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar...

Stormy Syriza Meeting

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GREEK Prime Minister and leader of SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) Alexis Tsipras convened a meeting on Wednesday of SYRIZA’s 149 parliamentary deputies...

Devolving Manchester is wrecking NHS

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‘THESE plans for the devolution of the health budget to a Greater Manchester regional government truly lob a wrecking ball at the National Health...
A section of the packed audience of striking firefighters at yesterday’s lunchtime rally at Central Hall, Westminster

24-Hour Firefighters Strike Solid!

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‘THIS dispute is not over,’ declared Fire Brigades Union General Secretary Matt Wrack at a packed 2,000-strong rally of striking firefighters in Westminster, central...
Workers and their familes on last October’s TUC demonstration demanding a living wage – the Bakers Union warn the TUC  to carry out its Congress decision and fight for £10 an hour minimum wage

TUC must fight for £10 an hour minimum wage –demands Bakers’ Union

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‘THE TUC and its affiliates must fight for the policy they voted for, to increase the minimum wage to £10 an hour,’ Bakers Union...
PCS strikers at the National Gallery yesterday morning, the second day of their second 5-day strike for the London Living wage and against privatisation

National Gallery strike against privatisation!

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‘PRIVATISATION No Way!’ a lively picket of at least 40 strikers, chanted outside The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square yesterday, on the second day...

Syriza Submits To Troika

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THE Greek government decided on Saturday to accept all terms laid down in a statement agreed at last Friday’s Eurogroup Finance Ministers’ meeting that...
Students demanding that the right to free state education be restored and fees abolished along with the massive student debt

‘Come clean over tuition fees’ – UCU tells Labour

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‘IT’S time for Labour to come clean on university fees,’ the University and College union (UCU) said on Friday, as it called for education...

Carry Out Pledges – Demand Greek Workers

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THE Greek Finance Minister has sent a letter of capitulation to the EU’s diktats, dated Wednesday 18 February 2015. It was sent to Eurogroup President...
Guinness Trust tenants rally outside the office of the Trust and celebrate the halting of an eviction

Guinness Tenants Halt Eviction

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GUINNESS Trust tenants were celebrating a victory as the planned eviction timed for 10am yesterday morning was halted by a court hearing...

Driving the sick back to work! – private company to displace GP practices

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DOCTORS have slammed a new scheme to drive workers who are sick back to work. The extremely controversial proposal will see workers who are off...

Oborne Quits Telegraph – – Calls For Independent Review Of Its Hsbc Coverage

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THE chief political commentator of the Daily Telegraph, Peter Oborne, who resigned from the newspaper on Tuesday, yesterday called for an independent review of...
Greek workers have been demanding ‘not one step backwards’ in the struggle against EU austerity

Workers angry at Syriza retreat!

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ON Wednesday morning, the Greek government announced that it will be making an application to the Eurogroup for an extension of the loan agreement,...
Young Socialists lobbying the TUC for proper jobs for youth at trade union rates of pay

Cameron’s war on youth!

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PRIME Minister Cameron stepped up his war against youth yesterday by launching the new Tory ‘Community Work Programme’. The programme forces youth to carry...

Syriza Ready To Accept 70% Of Austerity Programme

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THE Eurogroup meeting of finance ministers on Monday evening ended without agreement between the EU and Greece, after the Greek Finance Minister...
Youth on the TUC march last October demand an end to the attack on the Welfare State

Failing Universal Credit proceeds!

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THE disastrous Universal Credit scheme, despite being lambasted by the National Audit Office for wasting tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers...
Demonstration outside Hammersmith Hospital in west London on July 31. The A&E was closed on September 10, one of the reasons given by the Trust was that there was no full time A&E consultant cover

Emergency Consultants Quit Over Cuts Policies

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SAVAGE cuts policies are continuing to tear the heart out of the NHS! The entire consultant team, of four emergency consultants, running Accident and Emergency...
Sacked school guards demanding a complete end to austerity. Their banner reads ‘We want our jobs and dignity back’

Syriza Discussing Keeping Austerity Memorandum

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THE Greek government’s proposals for a new agreement over the terms of the bail-out loan of 240bn euros were discussed at this week’s Eurogroup...
Over 40,000 Greek workers rally in Athens demanding of their government ‘Not one step backwards’

‘NOT ONE STEP BACKWARDS!’ – Greek workers demand of Syriza

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OVER 40,000 Greek workers, many with their families, shop-keepers, professional people and youth rallied at the central Athens Vouli (Greek parliament) square calling on...

‘We are all tax avoiders’ says Tory Lord Fink

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‘I STAND by what I said in the House of Commons, that Lord Fink was engaged in tax avoidance,’ Labour leader Miliband said during...
Trade unionists made their mind up about the role that Cameron and the Tory Party were playing a long time ago – picture shows placards from the October 2012 TUC demonstration against austerity in London

‘There’s something rotten at the heart of the Conservative Party’ – Miliband accuses Cameron

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LABOUR PARTY leader Miliband clashed with Prime Minister Cameron over political donors who held Swiss bank accounts with HSBC, during questions in the House...
West Hendon tenants defending their homes condemning the private landlords who are trying to remove them

NO HOME FOR UNEMPLOYED! says Hastings council

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UNEMPLOYED workers will not be offered homes under a new council ‘re-generation’ scheme, sparking outrage and allegations that the move stinks of ‘social cleansing’. Hastings...
Youth marching in London last October against any troops being sent to Syria or Iraq

BRITISH TROOPS FOR JORDAN! – Stop the War demands issue be put before parliament

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2,000 UK troops and a RAF spy plane are bound for Jordan to ‘combat ISIS’ it emerged yesterday. The UK will send the ‘specialist troops’...

First speech of Greek PM Tsipras

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THE new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made his first speech to the Vouli (Greek parliament) last Sunday night saying he would carry out...

Greenspan – ‘Greece will have to leave eurozone’

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THE former head of the US central bank, Alan Greenspan, has predicted that Greece will have to leave the eurozone. Greenspan, chairman of the US...

US-UK War Talk Over The Ukraine!

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LEADERS of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France will meet in Belarus’ capital Minsk on Wednesday to discuss a peace plan for eastern Ukraine,...
Sacked schools’ guards, part of the 10,000-strong workers’ protest outside the Greek parliament that defied the European Central Bank and shouted ‘We will not be blackmailed’

‘We will not be blackmailed’–Athens workers

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SOME 10,000 workers and their families gathered outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) last Thursday evening in Athens in protest against the European Central Bank’s...
Ambulance workers on the picket line at Deptford Ambulance Station on the first of the national NHS strike days last October

Tory Health & Social Care Act Damaged The NHS!

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TORY changes to the NHS were ‘opposed by patients, the public and NHS staff, but politicians pushed through the changes regardless’ Dr Mark Porter,...
The picket line at Harrow yesterday morning – RMT members respected the picket line

BUS STRIKE ‘GREAT TURN-OUT!’ – RMT refuses to cross picket lines

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LONDON bus workers took their second 24-hour strike yesterday demanding that all drivers are paid the same rate of pay. There are further strikes planned...

‘Greece Will Come To The Boil’ – Varoufakis

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GREECE’S new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has urged Germany not to humiliate the country over its debts. Varoufakis compared Greece’s plight with that of inter-war...

‘REOPEN ERT STATE TV!’ –Greek workers demand of Syriza

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The sacked ERT state TV and radio workers’ union POSPERT has called a mass rally in Athens for Wednesday 11 February. They are demanding that...
National Gallery staff rally outside the gallery at the start of their strike against privatisation in July last year

National Gallery staff battle privatisation

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WORKERS at the National Gallery struck for five days from yesterday over plans to hand all visitor services to a private company, the Public...