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Issue - 2401
Dated - 29 Apr 2014
A million or more could strike in a few months

Coming disputes include firefighters, council workers, hospital staff and teachers, reports Charlie Kimber

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Striking firefighters call for stepping up the action
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Striking firefighters call for stepping up the action

Firefighters across England and Wales walked out on strike today, Friday, to defend their pensions.
02 May 2014
Strikers defiant on Lambeth College picket lines
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Strikers defiant on Lambeth College picket lines

 Workers at Lambeth College are on strike today,Thursday, against hated new contracts. The UCU union members had planned to begin an indefinite strike today. But bosses got an injunction to stop them, so a one day walkout went ahead instead.Pickets gathered at all of the South London college's sites this morning. It was clear that the injunction hasn't demoralised people but it's made some more determined to fight.
01 May 2014
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Lambeth College bosses get injunction – but a one-day strike will go ahead tomorrow

Bosses at Lambeth College have been granted an injunction against an all-out strike due to begin tomorrow, Thursday.
30 April 2014
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Ritzy living wage strike returns this Thursday

Low paid workers at Picturehouse’s Ritzy cinema in Brixton, south London, were set to strike on Thursday of this week from 6.30pm.
29 April 2014
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News in-brief

Less money for new jobs, cuts mean less food safety, academies skip nutrition targets, BP dividends are rising
29 April 2014
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Trade unionists mark Workers’ Memorial Day

Trade unionists and campaigners demonstrated across Britain to mark Workers’ Memorial Day on Monday of this week, including 150 in London, to highlight deaths at work. 
29 April 2014
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CWU union debates Labour, Ukip, Scottish independence and benefits

Some 800 workers attended the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) annual conference in Bournemouth this week.
29 April 2014
Cancer patients are held to ransom by pharmaceutical firm’s greed
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Cancer patients are held to ransom by pharmaceutical firm’s greed

Big Pharma bosses are aiming to get richer from the high prices they charge for drugs that could prolong cancer patients’ lives, reports Dave Sewell
29 April 2014
Anti-racist protesters come out in force to stand up to Ukip and Nigel Farage
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Anti-racist protesters come out in force to stand up to Ukip and Nigel Farage

When Ukip’s Nigel Farage went on a speaking tour last week, anti-racists gave him the welcome he deserved.
29 April 2014
One thousand oppose March for England racists in Brighton
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One thousand oppose March for England racists in Brighton

Around 1,000 people turned out on the rainy streets of Brighton last Sunday to humiliate a sorry and soggy bunch of racists on their annual March for England.
29 April 2014
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May Day, May Day – get ready to march

May Day marches to mark International Workers’ Day were set to take place around Britain on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, and Monday of next.
29 April 2014
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Left candidates rally in Tottenham

Some 75 people attended the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)’s Housing For All rally in Haringey, north London on Thursday of last week.
29 April 2014