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Louise Nousratpour in WestminsterTuesday January 17, 2012The Morning StarDisability campaigners and anti-cuts activists staged a noisy protest outside Parliament today calling on MPs and Lords to throw out Con-Dem ministers' attack on Britain's welfare state.As the government faced a fresh rebellion in the House of Lords over its controversial Welfare Reform Bill, the protesters gathered outside

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Louise NousratpourMonday January 16, 2012The Morning StarThe London School of Economics (LSE) was investigating allegations today that a Jewish student was punched in the face after he objected to a nazi-themed drinking game during a trip abroad.The incident is said to have taken place on a skiing trip to Val d'Isere organised by the university's students' union last month.LSE Students' Union

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities ReporterMonday January 16 2012The Morning StarParliamentarians were today urged to reject an attempt by Tory MP Nadine Dorries this week to see sex education focus on advising girls to abstain from sexual activity.A coalition of parents, abortion rights activists and secular groups will protest outside Parliament in London on Friday when Ms Dorries's Ten Minute Rule

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by Louise NousratpourThursday January 5, 2012The Morning StarDoctors in England and Wales may for the first time be allowed to help terminally ill people to die after a high-profile commission recommended relaxing the law around assisted suicide today.A panel of legal and medical experts chaired by former lord chancellor Lord Falconer said adults with less than a year left to live should be able

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities ReporterFriday December 30, 2011The Morning StarWomen's rights campaigners called on the Leveson inquiry today to widen its investigatory scope and include sexism and the sexual objectification of the female body in British media.End Violence Against Women (EVAW), Equality Now, Object and rape charity Eaves said the inquiry would "not be doing its job properly" if

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities ReporterTuesday December 13, 2011The Morning StarOver 8,000 people have demanded a ban on a "sexist" Ryanair advert which shows a scantly clad cabin crew member under the caption "Red Hot Fares & Crew."Flight attendant Ghada led an online Cabin Crew Against Sexism campaign and created a petition after seeing the advertisement published in the Guardian.She called on

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Louise NousratpourFriday December 9, 2011The Morning StarExperts warned today that so-called lads' mags are legitimising hostile sexist attitudes among men.Researchers found that when presented with descriptions of women taken from the publications and comments about women made by convicted rapists, most of those surveyed could not distinguish the source of the quotes.The study of men aged

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Louise NousratpourFriday December 2, 2011The Morning Star More than a million women took part in last week's historic strike against the government's great pension robbery.Virtually every cut that has been announced by the Con-Dem government has hit women hardest.Labour says that more than 70 per cent of the latest £2.37billion cuts announced in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement last week will

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Louise NousratpourFriday November 25, 2011The Morning StarNew NHS guidelines on childbirth this week have reopened the debate around whether caesarean section on demand is simply about a woman's right to choose or whether it is a sinister sign of second-rate health care.No one in their gender-right mind disputes the fact that women must have the ultimate say in how and where they give birth to

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Louise Nousratpour Sunday October 30, 2011The Morning StarWomen's Charter activists vowed at their annual conference on Saturday to "agitate, educate, organise and litigate" against the government's assault on their jobs, services and rights.Charter for Women chairwoman Mary Davies told delegates in London that massive public-sector job cuts and attacks on the welfare system threatened turn the

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Louise NousratpourSunday October 30, 2011The Morning StarMothers and babies will be put at risk by proposals to give all women the right to give birth by caesarean section, experts warned at the weekend.Draft plans to extend access to the procedure - currently only deployed where there is medical need - have been floated by the NHS National Institute for Clinical Excellence.But Royal College of

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Louise NousratpourFriday October 14, 2011The Morning StarWomen's rights activists today stepped up campaign for tighter regulation on "sexualised and degrading" images of women in tabloids and newspapers, including a ban on The Sun's topless "Page 3 Girls."The Turn Your Back on Page 3 campaign urged ministers today to extend the Bailey review, which tackles the commercialisation and sexualisation

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Louise NousratpourFriday September 16, 2011The Morning StarAnti-choice Tory MP Nadine Dorries is planning to breathe new life into her already failed campaign to reduce the legal time limit for abortion - barely a week after a humiliating defeat in Parliament to alter the counselling process.Last week MPs overwhelmingly rejected her amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill which would have

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Louise Nousratpour Wednesday August 31, 2011 The Morning Star Royal Mail workers at London's largest sorting office celebrated a partial victory today in their fight to save their workplace nursery. Communication Workers Union (CWU) negotiators revealed today that a breakthrough in talks late last week had given the Childsplay Nursery a five-month "reprieve" while its long-term future is

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Louise Nousratpour Tuesday August 30, 2011 The Morning Star Anti-fascism campaigners urged supporters from across Britain today to join their demonstration against the English Defence League (EDL) in east London. Home Secretary Theresa May has banned the far-right group from marching through the multicultural Borough of Tower Hamlets on Saturday. But EDL leader Stephen Yaxley Lennon, who is

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Louise Nousratpour Friday August 19, 2011 The Morning Star Multimillionaire welfare-to-work privateer Emma Harrison is in charge of finding work for thousands of "troubled" families whom David Cameron blamed this week for rioting that swept across England. She was appointed in December as the Prime Minister's "family champion"" to identify so-called workless households and get them off benefits

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities ReporterFriday August 5, 2011The Morning StarFamilies fighting to save a Glasgow daycare centre for disabled people stepped up their campaign today to force the council to find alternatives to closure.They say Glasgow City Council plans to demolish the Accord Centre in the East End, which supports more than 120 people with learning disabilities, to make way for a

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Louise NousratpourMonday July 18, 2011The Morning StarThere is a little gem tucked away on a busy junction in central London.Not many people know about it but this pioneering creche has helped hundreds of parents stay in work, safe in the knowledge that their children are being properly looked after just a few doors away.Now their jobs are on the line.Royal Mail has decided to shut the Childsplay

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities Reporter in LondonMonday July 4, 2011The Morning StarTens of thousands of rainbow-flag waving revellers turned central London into one massive street party this weekend.Trade unionists, activists and flamboyantly dressed revellers followed dozens of floats set up on buses and lorries to mark the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LBGT) community's biggest

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities Reporter in LondonFriday June 30, 2011The Morning StarTUC LGBT Conference: Gay rights activists called on the trade union movement today to fight for same-sex relationships to be made legal around the world.The TUC lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender conference heard of the persecution and death that LGBT people still risk because of their sexuality.Many

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities Reporter in LondonFriday July 01, 2011The Morning StarTUC LGBT Conference: Public servants fresh from Thursday's picket lines called on union leaders today to "name the date" for a million-strong strike in the autumn amid thunderous applause from the floor.Delegates at the TUC lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender conference in London heard from speakers who had

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities Reporter in LondonThursday June 30, 2011The Morning StarTUC LGBT delegates sent a message of solidarity to public-sector workers on strike today and vowed to play a leading role in the fight against the government's ideological attacks on the working class.Pointing to the empty seats on PCS, UCU, NUT and ATL delegation tables, conference chairwoman Maria Exall

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Louise NousratpourWednesday June 15, 2011The Morning StarMore than a quarter of a million civil servants became the latest group of workers today to back nationwide strikes on June 30 over attacks on public-sector pensions.The PCS union said 61.1 per cent of its members had voted for strikes and 83.6 per cent had backed action short of strike on a turnout of 34.4 per cent.The union promised to

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Louise NousratpourWednesday June 15, 2011The Morning StarTHE government refused today to sign an international labour treaty aimed at improving protection for exploited domestic workers.A spokesman for the Departmant for Business, Innovations and Skills (BIS) revealed that Britain will be abstaining from a vote on whether to adopt the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) new Domestic Worker

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities ReporterTuesday June 14, 2011The Morning StarGovernment plans to cut legal aid are unfair and could leave the poorest denied access to justice, a panel of trade unions and experts warned today.The Commission of Inquiry into Legal Aid has urged ministers to maintain budget levels "at least at the level they are currently at" to ensure public accountability and fair

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Louise Nousatpour in SouthportThursday June 09, 2011The Morning StarCommunity conference: Tata Steel workers have vowed to stand together and fight off the company's plans to cut back on their pension rights, raising the prospect of industrial action.In a range of motions on pensions on Wednesday, Community conference delegates condemned government plans to raise the retirement age.Tata Steel's

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Louise Nousratpour in SouthportTuesday June 07, 2011The Morning StarCommunity union delegates delivered a crushing blow today to the executive's attempt to force through a resolution aimed at undermining the TUC policy of boycotting Israeli goods produced in illegal settlements.Members at the union's biennial conference in Southport accused the leadership of using it to obtain a "retrospective

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EXCLUSIVELouise Nousratpour in BournemouthWednesday May 25, 2011The Morning StarThe prospect of national walkouts by Royal Mail workers came a step closer today when delegates to the CWU conference voted unanimously to give full support to London postal workers fighting compulsory redundancies.During a lively conference debate in Bournemouth, delegates heard that up to 1,500 workers in London

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Louise Nousratpour in BournemouthTuesday May 24, 2011The Morning StarOne of Britain's major recruitment agencies was threatened with legal action today for breaching current employment law by denying its registered workers equal pay and conditions.CWU assistant secretary Sally Bridge said the union had written to Manpower arguing that the contract the agency had issued before the implementation

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Louise Nousratpour in BournemouthTuesday May 24, 2011The Morning StarRoyal Mail was accused today of deviating from national agreements and pushing members to take "industrial action if necessary" to bring management back in line.CWU deputy general secretary for the postal division Dave Ward said the company had introduced a new business plan which was at odds with the agreed shared vision of

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Louise Nousratpour in BournemouthTuesday May 24, 2011The Morning StarPostal sector delegates called for urgent action today to defend members' pensions, warning that thousands of Royal Mail workers were on "grossly inferior" schemes.The company closed its final-salary scheme in 2008 and moved existing members on to a new scheme called Care.London division rep Mark Palfrey told delegates in

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Louise Nousratpour in BournemouthMonday May 23, 2011The Morning StarDelegates vowed to resist "by all means possible" Con-Dem plans to further erode already inadequate workplace rights by allowing employers to hire and fire workers on a whim.They called on the TUC, its affiliated unions and the Institute for Employment Rights to mount a united campaign against plans to put time limits on unfair

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Louise Nousratpour in BournemouthMonday May 23, 2011The Morning StarUnions must campaign against the increasingly widespread use of "kettling" as seen during recent student demonstrations to protect basic democratic rights, delegates at the CWU conference in Bournemouth said today.The conference was warned that if not addressed "violent and indiscriminate" police tactics would only get worse as

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Louise Nousratpour in LondonSunday May 15, 2011The Morning StarPalestine solidarity campaigners in Britain joined others around the world in commemorating the anniversary of the Nakba today, calling for an end to decades of occupation, death and imprisonment.Nakba, or catastrophe, is the term Palestinians use to describe the uprooting they suffered at the time of Israel's founding in 1948.

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Louise NousratpourFriday April 15, 2011The Morning StarWomen academics and campaigners gathered in London on Thursday for the launch of an inspiring book highlighting working-class women's role in the labour movement throughout history.They said the aim was to "reclaim" labour history for working-class women, who had been "airbrushed" out of standard history books.The launch at the Women's

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Louise NousratpourTuesday March 15 March 2011The Morning StarGovernment ministers came under fire today after they admitted that three in 10 families from ethnic minority backgrounds will be hit by the coalition's benefit cap.The coalition plans to limit the amount of available household benefits to about £26,000 a year, with a single universal credit replacing the various benefits that families

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Louise NousratpourTuesday March 15, 2011The Morning StarThe Unite union is seeking legal advice on whether British Airways is breaching sex discrimination laws after the airline forced a pregnant cabin crew to take unpaid leave.The union revealed on Monday that BA bosses had put one of its members on unpaid leave because she lived too far to travel to London's Heathrow or Gatwick airports to

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Louise NousratpourSunday March 13, 2011The Morning StarLeading communist women gathered in London this weekend to celebrate International Women's Day as an important day for the working class to assess the achievements of the past year and prepare for challenges ahead.An international panel of women representing several countries' Communist Parties brought greetings to a packed meeting at Marx

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Louise Nousratpour in EastbourneFriday March 11, 2011The Morning StarWomen trade unionists warned that the Con-Dems are planning an assault on the NHS worse than anything tried by Margaret Thatcher.Delegates at the TUC women's conference in Eastbourne said the coalition's planned "reforms" would put lives at risk and turn the health service into nothing more than a corporate logo slapped on a

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Louise Nousratpour in EastbourneThursday March 10, 2011The Morning StarWomen trade unionists vowed today to go out "Wisconsin style" in defence of public-sector pensions after Lord Hutton spelled out government plans to raid them.As the major unions were considering co-ordinated strike action, speakers at TUC women's conference declared themselves ready to fight plans to make teachers, nurses,

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Louise Nousratpour in EastbourneWednesday March 9, 2011The Morning StarTUC women's conference chair Lesley Mercer opened this year's event with a rallying call for delegates to take leadership of the fight against the cuts in their communities.Women trade unionists from across the country gathered in Eastbourne for their 81st annual parliament - aptly dubbed Women Against The Cuts - for three

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Louise NousratpourWednesday March 9, 2011The Morning StarWomen kicked off the French Revolution when they marched on Versailles to demand bread.They formed the victorious suffrage movement of the late 19th and early 20th century in Britain.They are playing an active role in the popular uprisings which have sent dictators packing across north Africa and the Middle East.And today representatives of

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities ReporterMonday February 28, 2011The Morning StarThe mother of an autistic child vowed today to lead a campaign to save her local Sure Start centre after Hampshire County Council announced plans to close more than a third of its 81 centres.Becci Frost has helped to organise a protest this Sunday outside the Oakmeadow Sure Start Centre in Fareham - one of 28 centres

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Louise NousratpourFriday February 25, 2011The Morning StarMore than a 100 protesters descended on the US embassy in London today to show their solidarity for anti-government demonstrations across Iraq.The noisy protest was organised by a coalition of British-based Kurdish and Iraqi groups to coincide with "a day of rage" in cities across Iraq and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region against the

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities ReporterMonday February 21, 2011The Morning StarDavid Cameron let the Tory cat out of the bag today when he revealed that privatising Britain’s entire public sector was at the heart of his Big Society agenda.In an article for the right-wing Daily Telegraph Mr Cameron said he wanted to end the “state monopoly” on public services by removing all barriers to private

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Louise NousratpourMonday February 21, 2011The Morning StarDozens of solidarity activists protested outside the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in London today following the recent killing of demonstrators in Iraqi Kurdistan.The rally ended a 48-hour protest triggered by the tragic events in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region last Thursday.According to latest reports, up to nine people were

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Louise NousratpourWednesday February 9, 2011The Morning StarThe Olympic Games could become a "magnet" for criminal gangs in London to force women and girls into the sex trade, anti-trafficking campaigners warned today.A coalition of politicians, activists and TUC representatives called on David Cameron to sign the EU directive on human trafficking before next year's Games.Shadow home secretary

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Louise NousratpourTuesday February 8, 2011The Morning StarVoluntary sector and trade union speakers warned today that Tory funding cuts delivered under the cover of the "Big Society" are helping to collapse charitable organisations nationwide.Around 150 representatives from charities and unions rounded on David Cameron's flagship programme at a TUC-organised event in London, with speakers

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Lousie NousratpourFriday January 28, 2011The Morning StarNick Clegg has promised to reform the current "Edwardian" system of parental leave to give fathers more rights and lighten the burden on mothers.Clegg is right to say that the existing system is inflexible and "paltry," but the Deputy Prime Minister's own proposals are equally pathetic and will not be introduced until 2015 - assuming the

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities ReporterThursday December 2, 2010The Morning StarThe government scrapped legislation today that would put a legal duty on employers to disclose whether they pay women less than men.Business organisations rejoiced at Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone's decision not to enact Labour plans to extend mandatory gender pay reporting to private companies with 250-plus

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities ReporterThursday December 2, 2010The Morning StarBritain is the fourth-worst country when it comes to parenting leave, the gender pay gap and other equality issues, according to a new study released today by the Fatherhood Institute.Sweden and Finland shared the first spot of the 21-nation family friendly league table, with only Switzerland, Austria and Japan faring

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities ReporterWednesday November 24, 2010The Morning StarCAMPAIGNERS warned yesterday that the government's failure to ring-fence funding for teenage pregnancy services will reverse the success of recent years which has seen a downward trend in under-age conceptions.Latest figures show that teenage pregnancy in England and Wales has dropped to its lowest level for more

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Louise NousratpourWednesday November 24, 2010The Morning StarEducation protests: Demonstrations across the country today saw thousands of school pupils, students, lecturers and parents march on town halls and occupy buildings in anger over the proposed tuition fees rise.As well as the national demonstration in central London, protests took place in cities including Manchester, Birmingham,

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities ReporterWednesday November 17, 2010The Morning StarThe coalition government has reneged on its pre-election pledge to recruit thousands more midwives despite maternity services across England being at a "cracking point," health workers warned today.The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said that, despite repeated requests, Prime Minister David Cameron, his deputy Nick

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities ReporterWednesday November 17, 2010The Morning StarTheresa May was accused today of reducing accountability and snatching power away from the powerless after she scrapped a vital clause in the Equality Act.The Home Secretary, who is also the equalities minister, said: "We are scrapping the socio-economic duty for good. It would have been just another bureaucratic

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Louise Nousratpour in ManchesterThursday September 16, 2010The Morning StarTUC Congress: TUC delegates have united behind postal workers' fight against the government's politically motivated plans for a full-scale privatisation of the Royal Mail.Communication Workers Union deputy general secretary Dave Ward said the union had launched local campaigns targeting vulnerable coalition MPs to persuade

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Louise Noustrapour & John Millington in ManchesterWednesday September 15, 2010The Morning StarBank of England governor Mervin King struggled to justify Con-Dem austerity measures in front of the TUC Congress as delegates protested with placards, T-shirts and even walkouts.Delivering his much-anticipated speech amid a hive of media activity and visible shows of dissent from some delegates, Mr King

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Louise Nousratpour in ManchesterWednesday September 15, 2010The Morning StarTUC Congress: TUC delegates have set out a working-class agenda to tackle the dual scourge of unemployment and climate change by investing in high-quality green jobs.Congress threw its weight behind the One Million Green Jobs campaign already supported by a range of unions including the CWU, RMT, TSSA, NUT and UCU as well

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Louise Nousratpour in ManchesterWednesday September 15, 2010The Morning StarTUC Congress: Education Secretary Michael Gove's push for academies and so-called free schools will lead to "educational apartheid" and deepen class divisions, the TUC Congress has warned.During a debate on education on Tuesday delegates declared unanimous opposition to the Tory's piece-meal privatisation of state

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Louise Nousratpour in ManchesterTuesday September 14, 2010The Morning StarTUC Congress: THE government is gambling with the nation's health and taxpayers' money by pressing ahead with plans to rip the NHS apart, TUC delegates have warned.The NHS white paper heralds the biggest shake-up the service has ever seen and if not resisted could spell the end of publicly-owned free health-care in

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Louise Nousratpour in ManchesterTuesday September 14, 2010The Morning StarTUC Congress: GOVERNMENT attacks on women and their hard-won rights are "plain criminal" and will be resisted through joint union action, TUC delegates have vowed.They claimed government departments were breaching equality laws by "conveniently forgetting" equality impact assessments (EIAs) when slashing budgets and

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Louise Nousratpour in ManchesterTuesday September 14, 2010The Morning StarTUC Congress: TUC affiliates have been urged to join campaigns for Haiti's national debt to be cancelled following the disastrous earthquake in January which killed more than 200,000 people.The country is struggling with 1.3 million people still homeless and hundreds of thousands of children left orphaned as authorities

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Louise Nousratpour in ManchesterMonday September 13, 2010The Morning StarTUC Congress: THE spectre of nationwide resistance is haunting the Con-Dem axemen after TUC delegates from across Britain returned to the birthplace of the movement to organise joint action against the cuts.The right-wing media were hard-pressed to find the hoped-for cracks in the movement as one union leader after another

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Louise NousratpourThursday September 09, 2010The Morning StarIn an unprecedented Commons vote the government rubber-stamped continued war in Afghanistan even as bereaved military families published an open letter demanding Britain's immediate withdrawal.In a sparsely attended debate that lasted much of the afternoon MPs voted on a motion put forward by the newly established backbench business

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Louise NousratpourThursday September 09, 2010The Morning StarUnion leaders have hit back at Business Secretary Vince Cable's inflammatory remarks in which he accused them of "public posturing" over threats of industrial action on impending spending cuts.Even as his Tory colleagues sharpen the axe for the looming public-sector cull, Mr Cable insisted that the government was not seeking

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Louise NousratpourMonday August 23, 2010Morning StarThe Fawcett Society has accused the government of "playing games" over delays to its demand for a gender assessment on the Budget.Filing legal papers at the High Court on Monday, the Treasury argued that it could not respond to the request until September 20 due to staff being on holiday.The original date agreed was August 31.Anna Bird of the

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Louise Nousratpour, Equalities ReporterThursday Augus 5, 2010The Morning StarA coalition of black and ethnic minority groups is to launch legal action against the government's "potentially illegal" spending cuts.Cuts and job losses in the public sector could result in these communities facing unfair losses of essential front-line services in both the state and voluntary sectors, campaigners

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Louise NousratpourWednesday August 4, 2010The Morning StarA scheme to help people escape domestic abuse by banning violent partners from the family home is to be abandoned by Equalities Minister Theresa May due to government cuts.Under the previous Labour government's "go orders," police would have been given power to remove violent partners from their homes for up to two weeks.The domestic

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Louise NousratpourMonday August 2, 2010The Morning Star (frontpage)Banking giant HSBC has boasted that it had more than doubled half-year profits to £7.2 billion - prompting demands for a windfall tax and the nationalisation of the banking system.The British-based group's super-profits roared 121 per cent ahead in the first six months of this year as bad debts plunged to their lowest level since

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Louise NousratpourWednesday July 28, 2010Morning StarCouncil house tenants in properties with more than one spare room could be forced to move into smaller accommodation under the Con-Dem austerity drive.Announcing the proposals on Wednesday, Welfare Reform Minister Lord Freud claimed the housing swap scheme would tackle overcrowding.Statistics show 234,000 households in the social tenant sector

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by Louise NousratpourMonday July 26, 2010The leaked military documents detailing the brutality of the Afghanistan war are "fantastically damaging" to Nato forces and could spell the end of their bloody venture, peace campaigners have said.Thousands of secret military documents have been leaked by the whistleblowers' website Wikileaks revealing details of incidents when civilians were killed by

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Louise NousratpourTuesday July 20, 2010London's Parliament Square was sealed off on Tuesday after bailiffs stormed the site and forcibly evicted peace protesters who had camped there since May 1.The protesters in the makeshift camp known as Democracy Village were removed in the early hours after losing a Court of Appeal battle last week to stay there.However, veteran peace activist Brian Haw, who

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Louise Nousratpour talks to the victimised Burslem postal workers making a standSunday July 18, 2010The Morning StarJust weeks after the 2007 national postal dispute Burslem delivery office managers summarily sacked 12 union activists in what the union describes as a "conscious decision" to bust the "strongest and most organised" postal branch in the country.Dave Evans is one of four men who have

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Louise Nousratpour, in BournemouthWednesday May 26, 2010The Morning StarMore than 55,000 BT workers could walk out on strike next month unless the telecoms giant bows to their demands and improves its "derisory" pay offer.Communication Workers Union delegates voted unanimously on Wednesday to give BT until June 4 before serving formal legal notice to bosses of the union's intention to ballot for

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Louise Nousratpour in BournemouthTuesday May 25, 2010The Morning StarSacked postal workers are taking Royal Mail to an employment tribunal next month over management "victimisation" and unfair dismissal, a CWU conference fringe meeting heard on Tuesday.A couple of months after the 2007 postal dispute, 12 CWU activists at Burslem delivery office in Stoke-on-Trent were sacked on what the union says

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Louise Nousratpour in Bournemouth Monday May 24, 2010The Morning StarCWU delegates have declared that they are ready to take industrial action to defend Royal Mail following news that a Bill to privatise the service will be in Tuesday's Queen speech.The new government is risking an early collision course with the "battle-hardened" postal workers, less than a year after their national strike at

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Louise Nousratpour in BournemouthSunday May 23, 2010The Morning StarIncoming cuts to union education funding are a direct attack on the working class and will stop activists gaining the skills they need to fight for social justice, delegates at the CWU conference has warned.Further education colleges in England face an average budget cut of 16 per cent for adult learning as part of "efficiency

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Interview by Louise NousratpourWednesday May 05, 2010The Morning StarAs Mary Davis's local rabbi awarded her a cookery book for excellence in Hebrew, he intoned portentiously that a Jewish woman is "a queen in her own home."Davis flung the book on the floor, protesting: "I don't want to be a queen in my own home."This episode led the precocious schoolgirl to question her strong religious beliefs

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By Louise NousratpourWednesday April 28, 2010The Morning StarThousands of women council workers are celebrating after they won an equal pay case which could lead to payouts worth millions of pounds.An employment tribunal in Birmingham found in favour of more than 4,000 low-paid female workers employed by the Tory-controlled authority, including cleaners and care assistants.The women, mainly

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By Louise Nousratpour in LiverpoolSunday April 25, 2010The Morning StarTUC black workers conference: Delegates to the TUC black workers conference branded Britain's mental health services "profoundly racist" on Saturday and demanded action to address this injustice.Racism not only contributes to mental ill health among black and ethnic minorities (BME) but also heavily influences decisions about

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By Louise Nousratpour in LiverpoolSunday April 25, 2010The Morning StarTUC black workers conference: The TUC black workers conference in Liverpool has called for action to mobilise the black and ethnic minority vote as a vital tool in defeating the fascist BNP at the ballot box.Delegates said they were appalled by the BNP's electoral advances - both in Britain and the European Parliament - last

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By Louise Nousratpour in LiverpoolSunday April 25, 2010The Morning StarTUC black workers conference: Black student activist Bellavia Ribeiro delivered a withering blow to arguments by some on the left that giving the fascist BNP a platform helps expose its poisonous ideology."We cannot debate away fascism," Ms Ribeiro told TUC black workers conference on Saturday, urging delegates to reaffirm

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By Louise Nousratpour in LiverpoolSaturday April 24, 2010The Morning StarTHE TUC black workers conference kicked off in Liverpool on Friday with debates ranging from the disproportionate impact of the recession on black and ethnic minorities to institutional racism and the rise of fascism.In her opening remarks, conference chairwoman Collette Cork-Hurst urged delegates to encourage more black and

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By Louise NousratpourWednesday April 28, 2010The Morning StarThousands of women council workers are celebrating after they won an equal pay case which could lead to payouts worth millions of pounds.An employment tribunal in Birmingham found in favour of more than 4,000 low-paid female workers employed by the Tory-controlled authority, including cleaners and care assistants.The women, mainly

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By Louise NousratpourTuesday April 20, 2010The Morning StarThe volcanic ash blowing from Iceland may have temporarily saved Iranian woman refugee Bita Ghaedi from being deported back to her country where she risks imprisonment and even death.Ms Ghaedi, who is currently being held at the notorious Yarl's Wood detention centre in west London, was due to be deported to Tehran on a BMI airline flight

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By Louise NousratpourWednesday April 14, 2010The Morning StarEast London health workers sang gospel songs, recited poetry and displayed their Brazilian martial arts skills on Tuesday night to raise money for disaster-stricken Haitians and to let them know that they have not been forgotten.The talent show, organised by the East London NHS Trust workers, took place exactly three months after the

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Louise NousratpourFriday March 26, 2010The Morning StarIraqi women activists have marked the third anniversary of the brutal stoning of a Kurdish teenage girl in northern Iraq by demanding action against all forms of misogynist violence.Du'a Khalil Aswad was dragged to her death in broad daylight by her male relatives on April 7 2007 for daring to fall in love with a boy outside her

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by John MillingtonWednesday March 17, 2010The Morning StarHidden Herstories proved a great success at Bolivar Hall with nearly 100 people turning out to watch the film at an event co-hosted by the Star to mark International Women's Day.The film showcases four women - Octavia Hill, Amy Ashwood Garvey, Jayaben Desai and communist Claudia Jones - who inspired its young creators to tell their

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Louise Nousratpour in EastbourneFriday March 12, 2010The Morning Star Eight years of war and occupation in the name of liberation have done nothing to protect women in Afghanistan from violence and poverty, delegates to the TUC women's conference have said.The country is still at war with no economy to speak of and democracy is a shameful facade where Nato puppet Hamid Karzai won last year's

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Louise Nousratpour in EastbourneFriday March 12, 2010The Morning StarWOMEN trade unionists celebrated the 80th birthday of the Morning Star at a TUC women’s conference fringe meeting in Eastbourne on Thursday evening.NUJ delegate and PPPS management committee member Anita Halpin opened the session with a brief history of the newspaper and its vital role in the labour movement.She argued that the

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Louise Nousratpour in EastbourneThursday March 11, 2010TUC deputy leader Frances O'Grady argued that Labour could secure a new term in office if it pledged a "new kind of economy" where equality and fairness took the place of free-market greed."This is my first address to the TUC women's conference as an official as opposed to a delegate," she said in Eastbourne.In her speech, Ms O'Grady covered

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Louise Nousratpour in EastbourneThursday March 11, 2010The Morning Star THE TUC women's conference has demanded action to address the "shocking failures" of local authorities in providing adequate support services for victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse.Delegates in Eastbourne also condemned the increasing sexualisation of girls and young women in the media as highlighted by a Home

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Louise Nousratpour in EastbourneThursday March 11, 2010The Morning Star UNIONS must mobilise women's vote to stop the "sexist, homophobic and racist" BNP advancing in the general election, the TUC women's conference has urged.Delegates stressed the importance of the female vote, pointing to recent surveys showing that women are far more likely to vote for Labour or a left-wing candidate than

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Louise Nousratpour in EastbourneWednesday March 10, 2010The Morning StarIN an inspiring speech to TUC women's conference on Wednesday, chairwoman Mary Davis called on the sisters to carry the mantle of struggle for equality and socialism handed down by our revolutionary predecessors."This is a very significant year historically," she told delegates in Eastbourne."It's the centenary of the

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Louise NousratpourSunday February 21, 2010The Morning StarUnison women's conference 2010: Delegates at the Unison women's conference voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to support the decriminalisation of prostitutes and criminalisation of the buyers of sex.They backed the so-called Nordic model which also includes practical and financial support to give prostitutes the confidence and job skills

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Louise NousratpourSunday February21, 2010The Morning StarUnison women's conference 2010: Delegates lined up on the final day of the conference to share their own heart-rending experiences of domestic violence.They also revealed the major difficulties they had faced when seeking to escape their ordeal - and demanded more resources to help women suffering the same fate.Croydon branch delegate Etna

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Louise NousratpourEqualities ReporterSunday February 7, 2010The Morning StarEquality campaigners have called for vigilance against attempts by businesses and Tory opposition to block the Single Equality Bill from going through Parliament before the looming general election.Addressing a special Sertuc conference in London on Saturday, TUC senior policy officer Linda Stewart warned that, if the

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Louise NousratpourEqualities ReporterSunday February 7, 2010The Morning StarUnite assistant leader Gail Cartmail said on Saturday that persistent breaches of equality laws by employers had made unions' collective bargaining power an indispensable tool in protecting workers' rights.She was addressing an event in London organised by Sertuc to discuss issues around the Single Equality Bill, which is

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Louise NousratpourWednesday December 23, 2009The Morning StarIraqi activist Houzan Mahmoud (right) is too young to remember the 1963 CIA-backed coup against Abdel Karim Kassem.Five years earlier General Kassem had ousted the Western-allied Iraqi monarchy and retrieved land and oil from the British-owned Iraq Petroleum Company.During the overthrow tens of thousands of communists, along with much

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Music interview by Louise NousratpourThursday November 26, 2009The Morning StarAruba Red's fiery rebel music hits like a refreshing blast of briny sea air, dissipating the stale, insular celebrity-obsessed atmosphere that passes for today's pop culture.Named after a Caribbean pirate legend, Red, born Natascha Eleanor, released her self-titled debut album last year.She is justly proud of having

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