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TUC CONGRESS 2011 CALL FOR INDUSTRIAL ACTION ON PENSIONS –but does...

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The TUC Congress next month is meeting at an historic juncture of worldwide economic and political crisis. Millions of workers are having their wages frozen...

They bombed Libyan TV ‘to try to silence the Libyan masses’...

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LIBYAN state Al-Jamahiriyah TV opened its first regular news broadcast (0830 gmt) on Saturday 30 July with a report showing damage caused to the...

PCS considering further industrial action – while UNISON rejects NHS privatisation

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THE GMB has commented on the written ministerial statement in the House of Commons yesterdayday on public sector pension talks. Brian Strutton, the ...

5.5 million households live in ‘fuel poverty’

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THE number of UK households in fuel poverty rose by one million in 2009 to 5.5 million. The figures from the Department of Energy...

STRIKE DOWN ANTI-WORKER LAWS – Demand American trade unions

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THE battles against anti-worker laws across the United States have turned to the ballot boxes and courtrooms, says the AFL-CIO union federation. As voters go...

LANSLEY BILL MUST BE SCRAPPED! –rallies across the country on the...

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OVER 1,000 trade unionists and youth marched to parliament on Tuesday night on the 63rd birthday of the NHS, demanding: ‘Kill the Bill!’ –...

‘LET’S GO FORWARD TO THE GENERAL STRIKE!’ – ATUA National Secretary...

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‘This is the period of the world revolution,’ All Trades Union Alliance National Secretary Dave Wiltshire told 150 delegates at the News Line-ATUA...

‘WORKERS RISING UP!’ – ATUA National Secretary tells conference

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‘WE NEED a general strike to bring the government down and go forward to a workers government and socialism.’ This is what All Trades Union...

Keep Profiteers Out Of NHS And Elderly Care

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HEALTHCARE as a business is now being exposed as a malicious and very nasty fraud. First we had the Mid Staffs NHS hospital crisis with...

Social care starved of funds – one million without support

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A new report, Care in Crisis, issued by Age UK spells out exactly what the Tory-led coalition’s destruction of the welfare state means for...

Campaign for UN endorsement for Palestinian state will continue – says...

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The campaign to win UN endorsement for a Palestinian state will continue despite US opposition, senior Fatah official Nabil Sha’th said late Saturday. ‘Now that...

‘SERIOUS DANGER TO PATIENT SAFETY’ –from Ambulance Service privatisation

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Public service union, Unison has warned of the serious dangers to patient safety if the Ambulance Services are privatised. This comes after the East of...

‘HARDEST HIT’ demands stop benefit cuts for disabled people

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‘Cuts Kill – Kill the Cuts!’ shouted an over 5,000-strong march of disabled people, their carers and friends as they approached parliament on Wednesday. The...

HANDS OFF THE DISABLED – Coalition warned

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A LIVELY demonstration of over 5,000 disabled people, chanted: ‘Cuts Kill, Kill the Cuts!’ as they marched to Parliament yesterday. At a rally on the...

Suicide guidelines for Jobcentres

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THE leaking of new guidelines to staff working with the unemployed exposes the barbarity of the coalition government’s onslaught on the sick, vulnerable and...

DEATHS IN POLICE CUSTODY MUST STOP! – says Smiley Culture march

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‘Today is a momentous day. It is time to let the people know we are not going to accept this,’ Merlin Emmanuel told a...

NO TO NHS SELL-OFF! – say angry workers and patients

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Unison on Monday sent a file of hundreds of testimonies from health workers, patients and members of the public who care about the NHS,...

‘HAMMER BLOW TO FAMILIES’ – TUC condemns benefit cuts

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THE Trades Union Congress yesterday condemned cuts to housing benefit and other vital support, as sweeping changes to the Welfare State began to take...

ALL TOGETHER FOR THE NHS! – Unison staging rallies against the...

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UNISON is holding a lunchtime demonstration outside the main entrance of Chase Farm Hospital between 12noon and 2pm today, as part of its All...

SCRAPPING THE EMA WILL LEAVE YOUTH DESTITUTE! – £400 million being...

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TEACHERS’, Lecturers’ and Students’ Union leaders have warned that Education Secretary Gove’s announcement on Monday of a ‘bursary scheme’ to replace the Education Maintenance...

500,000 March Against The Coalition Attacks

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OVER half a million trade unionists and youth from every town and city in Britain joined Saturday’s TUC march against the savage spending cuts....

Coalition plans to punish and freeze the elderly

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IT was the German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemöller, who said: ‘In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up...

Tory Class War Budget!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday moved his ‘emergency budget’. He outlined the gravity of the situation by saying that ‘Questions that were asked about...

CUTS WILL PUT THE LIVES OF CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE AT RISK...

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Public sector union Unison on Tuesday published a dossier of cuts hitting social work departments, warning that, together with existing shortages, cuts will put...

CAMERON BLAMES JOBLESS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT – says TUC’s Barber

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‘Long-term unemployment has doubled, not because of a sudden increase in work-shy scroungers, but as an inevitable result of economic policies based on cuts...

Unions must take strike action over wages & jobs!

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YESTERDAY’S inflation rate figures for January are not a shock, in fact, they are an understatement of what the real inflation rate is, as...

‘It will be hard for GPs to keep one eye on...

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Nurses and Midwives have strongly criticised the Health and Social Care Bill published last week, calling it a toxic prescription for patients and a...

Inflation Surge!

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inflation leapt in December with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rising to 3.7 per cent, up from 3.3 per cent in November, and the...

Congress gives billions of dollars in tax breaks but tells the...

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Not only did Congress give zillionaires billions of dollars in tax breaks, they also told the people at the bottom of the economic ladder,...

Personal budgets cutting care!

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The personal budgets being introduced for social care are being used to implement the government’s spending cuts, charities warned yesterday. On November 16, Care Services...

No Safety Cuts Says RMT-Tssa

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RMT and TSSA members staged their latest 24-hour strike against mass sackings on London Underground yesterday. At Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station, Simon Feldman, a striking signal...

PULL THE TROOPS OUT NOW! – say anti war marchers

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Over 10,000 workers and youth on Saturday marched through central London against the Afghan war, calling for the troops to be brought out now. Organised...

Ys March For Jobs In Northampton

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs, now in the final week on its route from Manchester to London, left Rugby yesterday morning, heading for...

Trade unions must reject Coalition attack on the unemployed and the...

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EX-ARMY officer Duncan Smith, the Coalition’s Work and Pensions Secretary, yesterday announced a Universal Credit to replace all benefits, and also ...

Youth Flock To Ys March For Jobs

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs for Youth and Free State Education reached Stoke last night, after a great weekend. The march has now completed...

‘Two-Faced Ed’ Reinstates Blairism At Cbi Conference

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HE pledged to ditch Blairism when elected as the new Labour Party leader, but Ed Miliband made it clear on Monday that he...

Coalition ‘slashing Health and Safety budgets!’ – Lord Young’s Review condemned

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Trade unions have reacted angrily to Tory peer Lord Young’s review of health and safety. The RMT transport union said that his report ‘is...

France Is Rising Up!

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FRANCE is fast approaching a revolutionary upheaval. In Paris the social crisis increases as the school youth begin to hit the streets in often impromptu...

Tories savage poor but grovel to Clinton and US

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THE bankers coalition has set the scene for next Wednesday’s cuts announcements in true Bullingham Club style, by declaring that ‘welfare cheats’ equal muggers,...

DEFIANT TUBE STRIKERS! –determined to defend safety and jobs

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London traffic was gridlocked during yesterday’s 24-hour strike, as Tube workers on picket lines expressed their determination to defend jobs and safety. At Mile End...

Cbi Demands Huge Cuts To Save The Bosses

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THE employers organisation, the CBI, yesterday demanded that the Tory coalition government go even further than it has pledged, in destroying benefits and...

TUC leaders refuse to call to bring down the coalition

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DELEGATES to the TUC Conference in Manchester on Monday voted almost unanimously – with just one dissenting voice from BALPA pilots’ union leader Jim...

24-Hour Tube Strike Rocks Coalition

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RAIL union RMT said Tuesday’s strike for tube safety and safe staffing levels on London Underground was ‘rock solid’, and demanded that the...

DEFEND JOBS AND SAFETY say striking RMT, TSSA members

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RAIL union RMT said yesterday’s strike for tube safety and safe staffing levels on London Underground was ‘rock solid’, and demanded that the rail...

Fight for jobs, and against evictions and benefit cuts!

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THOUSANDS more working-class families are going to their local Citizen Advice Bureau because of the effects of unemployment, debts, threatened loss of homes and...