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The rally brought together unions leaders who have sold out every struggle of the working class for decades, including most recently the mass strike wave of 2022-23, that prove the unions will do nothing to defend the working class from the onslaught of the Sunak government and the employers.

In 2021, the Conservative government began a School Rebuilding Programme, declaring it would rebuild 500 schools over the next 10 years. Two years on just four schools have been rebuilt.

Train services will be hit that affect millions of passengers by strikes from Tuesday January 30 to Monday February 5. Among the companies involved are inter-city operators Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, Great Western Railway, LNER and TransPennine Express.

General Sir Patrick Sanders described the civilian population as “a pre-war generation” who must “think like troops” and be “prepared mentally to fight”.

The frenzy over the passage of the ruling Conservatives’ anti-immigration legislation foreshadows the most right-wing general election campaign ever to be held in Britain.

The starting rate of pay for a newly qualified doctor in Wales is as low as £13.65 an hour. Junior doctors have experienced a drop in real terms pay by 29.1 percent since 2008, one of the sharpest falls in a broader trend suffered by their colleagues across the UK.

French maritime officials said that 72 peopleincluding 10 children—tried to get into a small boat which capsized while attempting to set off towards the UK from the beach at Wimereux, Pas-de-Calais.

The Socialist Equality Party (UK) and International Youth and Students for Social Equality has called a series of public meetings headed How can the genocide in Gaza be stopped?

Workers in the UK went to bed Thursday with the news having broken just a few hours earlier, around 7pm, that a cabinet meeting had been called to discuss military action in Yemen and woke to the news that airstrikes had been carried out around midnight.

None of the issues which led to the strike vote have been resolved. This includes pay freezes for those near the top pay band, the axing of travel allowances for London Underground staff, and above all the gutting of tube workers’ pensions.