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‘WE MUST WIN THIS BATTLE’ – speakers tell CWU mass rally

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The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) held a 500-strong ‘Keep Royal Mail Public’ national rally before a bigger lobby of MPs on Tuesday against the...

NO TUBE AND RAIL CUTS! – ‘Franchising system in its death...

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ENDING damaging staff cuts, bringing all of London’s Tube back into the public sector and getting the network’s upgrade back on track are more...

CWU rally rejects pensions blackmail!

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‘This is just the start of the battle,’ declared Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) deputy general secretary Dave Ward at a mass rally in...

HYPOCRISY! – No pay for snowbound tube workers

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London Mayor Boris Johnson was yesterday accused of ‘gross hypocrisy’ by rail union TSSA after tube staff were told they will not be paid...

STOP BOMBING TAMIL CIVILIANS! – demand 125,000 demonstrators

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A huge mass of Tamil people gathered on the north side of the Thames at Pimlico on Saturday lunchtime calling for an immediate ceasefire...

YOU FACE DEFEAT – Hamas warns Israel

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Nine more Israeli soldiers were injured in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday, two of them seriously, as fierce fighting continued on the tenth day...

Postal Workers Demand Action – As Junior Minister Resigns

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‘We are fighting the government and business now,’ said Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region No.6 branch secretary Paul Olden yesterday. Commenting on the government’s...

‘Action must be taken against the officers responsible for my...

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THE Justice4Jean Campaign said on Friday that Coroner Michael White ‘has presided over a complete whitewash’, following the conclusion of the inquest into the...

‘the Last Days Of The Karamanlis Government’

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GREEK police made hundreds of arrests as students and youth continued the mass demonstrations against the government in Athens and all major cities. On...

de Menezes Inquest ‘a Whitewash’

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THE FAMILY of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday vowed to continue their struggle for justice, and while denouncing the conduct of the coroner at...

Huge Athens Strike Rally Demands The Resignation Of The ‘Murderers Government’

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A huge Athens strike rally on Wednesday demanded the resignation of the ‘murderers’ government’ of Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis. Under glorious sunshine tens of...

Barak Closes Gaza Border Crossings

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ISRAELI Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday ordered Israeli forces to shut down the Gaza Strip’s borders again, turning away a truck convoy bearing...

REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION DEVELOPING IN ITALY! – as Cossiga calls to put...

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‘THE forces of law and order should massacre the demonstrators without pity’ was the ruling class response from former Italian Prime Minister and president...

COMMANDER DICK GAVE ‘AMBIGUOUS’ ORDERS – De Menezes inquest is told

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OPERATIONS commander, Cressida Dick, gave ‘ambiguous’ orders in the run-up to the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, the inquest into his death...

‘I THOUGHT POLICE WERE FANATICS’ – tube driver tells Menezes inquest

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A Tube driver risked getting electrocuted and fled into a tunnel at Stockwell station because he was terrified that ‘fanatics’ had shot dead Jean...

Police Killers ‘Out Of Control’

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Firearms and surveillance officers hunting down Jean Charles de Menezes were ‘out of control’ when he was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station, a...

Renault Workers Battle For Their Jobs

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Forty-six Renault workers from the sackings-hit Sandouville plant were before a court in Le Havre last Thursday, October 30. They were taken to court by...

NO WARNING SHOUT! – De Menezes inquest told

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The firearms police who shot Jean Charles de Menezes dead in a tube carriage at Stockwell ‘gave no warning’, a passenger on the train...

‘WE WILL KEEP THE MAIL CENTRE IN CREWE OPEN’ insists local...

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Up to 700 Crewe postal workers, their families and supporters braved the rain on Saturday for a march and rally in the town in...

POINTS INCORRECTLY SET UP – were the cause of Grayrigg disaster

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Rail union RMT yesterday renewed its call for a joint public inquiry into the Grayrigg and Potters Bar rail crashes and a reversal of...

Greek Trotskyists Call For Indefinite General Strike

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THE Greek working class delivered a most powerful notice to all concerned last Tuesday with a militant 24-hour general strike called by the GSEE...

Gmb Fights Victimisations

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The GMB on Wednesday welcomed the reinstatement at Heathrow Airport’s Arora Hotel of ‘a father sacked for fulfiling family commitments’. GMB said the hotel management...

Police Have No Regrets And No Remorse Say de Menezes Family

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THE Metropolitan Police chief, Blair, has already gone, his going made inevitable by the disgraceful attitude that he took to the police murder of...

Bush Bail Out Plan Attacked By The Working Class And By...

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REPUBLICAN representatives walked out of the crisis talks with President Bush on Thursday night, denouncing him as a socialist for launching his $700 bn...

de Menezes Inquest Begins

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‘Today is the first day of the process which will hopefully bring my family closer to the truth,’ cousin of Jean Charles De Menezes,...

Inquest Into The Death Of Jean Charles de Menezes Starts Monday

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The inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes will begin next Monday 22nd September at 10am at the Oval Cricket Ground, The...

Terror Laws Used Against Unions

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TUC Delegates passed Motion Seven on EU Attacks on Trade Union Rights yesterday, which the TUC General Council supported with reservations. The Fire...

RENATIONALISATION – demands TUC Congress

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DELEGATES to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) yesterday voted overwhelmingly to demand the re-nationalisation of public utilities, in opposition to the TUC leadership’s ‘reservations’. TUC...

DELEGATES CHALLENGE TUC LEADERS – as POA demands action

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THE TUC Congress in Brighton was divided yesterday over an amendment to Composite Motion 15: Public Sector Pay, which called on the General Council...

Nationalise BAA – forward to a national transport system

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THE call has gone up in the Competition Commission report that three of BAA’s seven airports – two of its three in London, out...

‘we’ll Keep Chase Farm Open’

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‘I AM confident that we will see thousands on today’s march to keep Chase Farm Hospital open’, said Bill Rogers secretary of the...

STATE EXECUTION – 3rd anniversary of de Menezes murder

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FRIENDS and family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday marked the third anniversary of the young Brazilian’s killing by a police death squad who...

‘We won’t let Chase Farm close’

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ENFIELD residents told News Line yesterday: we won’t let Chase Farm close! Stuart Hasler, a young Enfield resident, who joined in the campaigning and gave...

Museum Staff Fight ‘Derisory Pay Offer’

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REVOLUTION is brewing, in the most unlikely of places, as staff walked out last Friday from the British Museum’s cultured halls to strike....

Hauliers Have Had Enough!

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Over 900 road hauliers and independent truckers, descended on Parliament yesterday to lobby their MPs to urgently and immediately reduce the price of fuel....

700 Tube Cleaners Take Strike Action

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SOME 700 London Underground cleaners scheduled to strike for a living wage and basic working conditions from 6pm today have received a welcome boost...

Sri Lanka Air Force Bombs Refugee Settlement

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TAMILNET reports that two civilians were killed on the spot last Sunday morning when the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombed a civilian settlement...

NO TO PAY CUT – say Science Museum strikers

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Pickets were out in force at the Science Museum in west London yesterday. Public and Commercial Services (PCS) members joined colleagues from the Prospect trade...

Bring Binyam Back! Close Down Guantanamo Bay!

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Guantanamo is a really horrible place that destroys people,’ former prisoner Bisher El-Rawi told a 60-strong meeting in west London on Saturday. The meeting, organised...

Defend NHS!

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GPs in Harrow are up in arms against plans to close down health centres and combine GP practices into large units, turning them...

MARCH AND OCCUPY TO SAVE CHASE FARM – say workers and...

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workers, trade unionists and local people are marching through Enfield on Saturday 26th July against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital, the announcement of...

Sarkozy Threatens Teachers With Anti-Union Laws

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President Sarkozy threw down the gauntlet to the teaching unions immediately after the hugely successful national strike and demonstrations on Thursday. He shocked union...

May Day Message From The Iraqi Trade Unions

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ON this day of international labour solidarity we call on our fellow trade unionists and all those worldwide who have stood against war and...

CAPITALISM HAS TO GO! – say May Day marchers

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‘Capitalism has had its day, it’s historically bankrupt. Now’s the time to bring it down and go forward to socialism.’ Workers Revolutionary Party General Secretary...

FORWARD TO SOCIALISM – say May Day marchers

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Four thousand workers and youth marched for socialism through central London on May Day yesterday. Led by the May Day Organising Committee banner there were...