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KICK OUT THE PRIVATEERS! say NHS Together marchers

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FIFTEEN thousand health workers and trade unionists from schools, local councils and other public services – as well as local residents fighting hospital closures...

Defend The NHS! Occupy To Stop Hospitals Closures! Call A General...

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THE National Health Service is under attack on every side by the government. It is being crippled by funding cuts and privatisation reforms. The...

PCS Members Call For National Action Against Privatisation

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FULL-TIME civil service union officer Andrew Lloyd has issued a response to Permanent Secretary David Bell over the compulsory transfer of support staff to...

Brown outlines new attack on teachers and state education!

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‘IN the past those who had the raw material – the coal, the oil and the basic commodities, or the infrastructure – the ports...

WE WILL FIGHT WAGE CUTS IN 2008 say NHS unions –...

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THE overstretched and undervalued NHS workforce will not accept another below-inflation pay deal next year, trade unions representing over one million health workers have...

PCS Votes For National Strike Action

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MEMBERS of the PCS civil service union yesterday voted overwhelmingly in favour of national strike action in a consultative ballot against job cuts, pay...

PAY UP! – or face strike action warn NHS trade unions

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THE overstretched and undervalued NHS workforce will not accept another below-inflation pay deal next year, trade unions representing over 1.1 million staff said yesterday. UNISON...

UK COMPLICIT ‘IN THE MOST SERIOUS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY’ –...

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THE Chagos islanders were thrown out of their Indian Ocean home in the mid 1960s by the British Labour government of Harold Wilson in...

150,000 March Against War In Usa

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On Saturday at least 150,000 people from all walks of life and in every part of the USA participated in eleven regional demonstrations against...

STUDENTS PRICED OUT OF ‘POSH’ UNIVERSITIES – says Push survey

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Responding to the latest Push survey of students’ cost of living, Wes Streeting, NUS Vice President (Education), said on Thursday: ‘This survey shows how...

Israel To Cut Off Gaza Power

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ISRAEL’S defence minister is once again preparing to approve cuts in the supply of electricity and fuel to Gaza, to try once again to...

French Rail Strike Action Continues

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French transport unions yesterday extended their nationwide strike for another 24 hours, after bringing the train, bus and metro services to a halt on...

UCU SLAMS PLANS TO AXE DEGREE FUNDING – adults and part-time...

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Government plans to axe degree funding for certain students contradict its own lifelong learning agenda and will hit universities offering courses to adults and...

‘WE WON’T LET YOU SELL OUR JOBS’ – civil servants tell...

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OVER 200 civil servants gave a standing ovation to colleague Sheila Coote at a lunchtime rally in Westminster last Friday, as she vowed to...

170,000 Teachers Take One-Day Strike Action

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By Sanath Rathnaweera COLOMBO – 170,000 out of Sri Lanka’s 200,000 teachers took part in a one day strike action on September 13th,...

Arms Embargo On Israel Now!

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DEMONSTRATORS picketing the High Court on Wednesday, at the start of a court case against the government, demanded an immediate end to British arms...

10,000 Marchers Force Police To Lift Ban

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TEN thousand people forced the police to retreat from their stated position that a march on parliament would be illegal, and that they would...

‘WE SHOULD ALL COME OUT!’ – Serwotka tellls CWU rally

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‘We offer our full solidarity,’ civil servants’ union PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka told a 500-strong rally of striking postal workers in central...

Brown Condemns Postal Workers

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GORDON Brown yesterday, at his monthly press conference, condemned the striking postal workers and their union the CWU. He called their strike action in defence...

Bush Vetoes Child Healthcare Extension

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US President George W Bush on Wednesday vetoed a bill to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Programme (SCHIP), after it was passed with...

Snap General Election Farce!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Brown, a cautious and bumbling, conservative politician, is due to decide this weekend whether to take a big gamble and call...

Pentagon launches Africa command centre

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AS PAY negotiations between the American car giants General Motors (GM) and Ford, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) have reached a critical point,...

All unions must take action to support the postal workers!

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POSTAL workers, members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are on strike today in north-east and south-east London against Royal Mail’s plans to axe...

BASRA ASSASSINATIONS WARNING – police out of control, says chief

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‘Basra Police Chief Abd-al-Jalil Khalaf revealed that there is a conspiracy to assassinate religious figures in Basra Governorate during the holy month of Ramadan,’...

NEW ‘MEDICAL TRAINING DISASTER’ – warning from BMA

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‘Unsatisfactory’ government proposals mean a new junior doctors ‘medical training disaster’ is looming, warned the British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday. Commenting on the proposals to...

Gm Workers Walk Out Across America

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A MASS strike at General Motors plants across the United States began on Monday morning as 80,000 car workers walked out at 11 am...

Prentis And Woodley Praise Brown

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In a nationalistic speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday, prime minister Brown made sweeping promises to improve public services. Hardly mentioning the world capitalist...

AUSTRALIAN ‘WORK CHOICES’ LAWS ‘BAD FOR WORKING FAMILIES’ – says ACTU

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Reports that another large employer has labelled the Howard government’s Industrial Relations laws as ‘farcical’ and ‘pointless’ is further evidence that the government’s IR...

Votes scrapped at Labour Party conferences

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THE leaders of big trade unions lined up behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth on Sunday to ensure...

4 MILLION DISPLACED IRAQIS – international help ‘seriously inadequate’

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The Iraqi refugee crisis is reaching breaking point, Amnesty International said in its report ‘Millions in Flight’, published yesterday. Help from the international...

TRADE UNIONISTS LABELLED ‘FACTORY TERRORISTS’ – in the Philippines

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Trade unions have been labelled ‘factory terrorists’ by the regime of Gloria Macapagaal Arroyo in the Philippines. Picket lines are being attacked and troops have...

‘THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS CASUALISED’ – Woodley admits TUC responsibility

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Delegates voted unanimously for Composite 3: ‘Agency Workers’ at the TUC Congress yesterday calling for ‘legislation to outlaw discrimination against agency workers’. It called on...

Greek Crisis General Election Next Sunday

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VOTING takes place this Sunday in Greece for the snap general election the current right-wing government of the New Democracy party called to avoid...

BROWN PLAYS CHINA CARD – as delegates warn they will strike...

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GORDON Brown gave his first speech as prime minister to the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday. He told delegates: ‘All of us must prepare for...

WE ARE FIGHTING ON! – Teachers set up ‘tree houses’ in...

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TEACHERS who have been occupying the site of a planned City Academy at Wembley Park Sports Ground, next to Wembley Stadium in north-west London,...

Housing costs soar!

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SINCE Labour took office in 1997, house prices have gone up four times more quickly than workers’ pay, according to figures published by the...

‘DEFEND STATE SCHOOLS!’ – ‘Trusts’ roll-out slammed

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‘WE WILL never give up state education,’ a teachers union leader vowed yesterday, after the announcement of plans to remove more schools from elected...

TUC REPORTS ‘SYSTEMATIC EXPLOITATION’ – of Polish and Lithuanian migrants

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A NEW TUC study just published has revealed ‘systematic exploitation’ of migrant workers in Britain. The TUC said: ‘Thousands of Polish and Lithuanian workers are...

Factory Blast Probe Condemns ‘Dangerous And Dysfunctional’ Safety Culture

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An independent report into the ICL Glasgow plastics factory fire disaster in which nine workers died in May 2004 has exposed a health and...

Bosses Come First Says Brown

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown attacked the RMT trade union yesterday, saying whatever its reason, the Tube strike is ‘unjustifiable’. Answering questions at his second monthy...

Patients & staff paying price of £1bn NHS under-spend

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LABOUR ministers are boasting that the projected £983m under-spend in the National Health Service are evidence that it has regained its ‘financial footing’. Health Secretary...

SCHOOLCHILDREN WALK OUT! – against Edinburgh closures

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Children at two Edinburgh schools yesterday staged a walkout of classes as part of a campaign against the planned closure of 22 schools and...

TWO YEARS AFTER KATRINA . . . ‘Bush failed to keep...

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‘In the two years since Hurricane Katrina came ashore on the Gulf Coast, the Bush administration has failed miserably to deliver on the president’s...

Brown justifies anti-union action and pay cuts

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown insisted yesterday that meagre pay rises, that are phased in and amount to a pay cut, will be imposed by...

Bush is confronted by the legacy of Hurricane Katrina

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UNITED States President George Bush was in New Orleans yesterday on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the city. The hurricane killed...