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Tories have no plan for a second wave! – damning PAC report

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THE TORIES have no plan to deal with a second spike of the deadly coronavirus. A fresh report just released by the Public Accounts Committee...

Rapidly rising support for ‘no deal!’

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WITH a ComRes poll revealing yesterday that public support for a no-deal Brexit is rapidly rising, up 6% since January and now standing at...

350 London Transit workers on two days strike over pay

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OVER 350 workers employed by London Transit bus company are taking strike action today and Monday after rejecting the company’s latest pay offer. ‘We are...

US plans to split Gaza & allow reconstruction in the Israeli-held area

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A NEW US-backed plan would divide Gaza into separate zones controlled by Israel and Hamas, allowing reconstruction only in the Israeli-held area and raising...

Israeli tank deliberately runs over an injured Palestinian mother!

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A GENEVA-based rights group has documented a new Israeli war crime in the Gaza Strip, where an occupation tank deliberately ran over an injured...

‘LEAVE WON’T BE ON ANY BALLOT’ says John McDonnell

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SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell spelt out yesterday that Labour wants to form a ‘caretaker government’ with the other opposition parties which would organise a...

Call a General Strike for Palestine!

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THE tuc issued the following statement in support of tomorrow’s Workplace Day of Action for Palestine: ‘The TUC and unions are supporting the workplace day...

TUC must respond to Tory ‘insult’ by calling a General Strike!

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TRADE union leaders are meeting at the TUC in central London today to discuss their response to meetings held yesterday with Tory ministers where...

Rashford forces Tory U-turn over free school meals

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OVER a million children suffering in dire poverty in the UK will now get free school meal vouchers during the holidays, after a successful...

Nottingham City goes bust while HSBC makes £24bn!

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THE government has appointed commissioners to help run Nottingham City Council after the authority declared itself effectively bankrupt. The Labour-run authority issued a section 114...

RCN calls 48-hour national strike

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) has announced a round-the-clock 48-hour strike from 8pm on Sunday 30th April to 8pm on Tuesday 2nd May,...

More child starvation and bombing deaths in Gaza!

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Two children starved to death at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza yesterday, bringing the total number of those who have died from malnutrition...

Starmer delivers his anti-working class programme!

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STANDING in front of a huge Union Jack with a banner atop it declaring ‘Change Begins....’ Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed the Labour Party...

BA Boss Cruz Sacked

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ALEX Cruz, the author of the notorious BA ‘fire and rehire’ policy, has been sacked as chief executive and chair of British Airways with...

Biden opts for super-inflation!

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US President Joe Biden has released his first annual budget – a $6tn (£4.2tn) spending plan that includes steep tax increases. The bumper proposal would...

Labour Demanding Windfall Tax Vote!

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LABOUR is tomorrow demanding a vote in the House of Commons to introduce a windfall tax on oil and gas companies, with former leader...

McDonnell wants secret talks!

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YESTERDAY, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell accused PM May of having ‘blown the confidentiality’ over Labour support for her EU Withdrawal Agreement and demanded secret...

British Gas to sack its entire workforce

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BRITISH Gas is to sack its entire 10,000-strong workforce today, in a vicious attack which has been met with strike action over months by...

Jubilation as 90 Palestinian women and children freed under ceasefire!

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NINETY Palestinian women and children were freed from Israeli prisons before dawn yesterday and greeted by large crowds of jubilant relatives, friends and supporters...

Israel’s Gaza Genocide Goes Over 25,000!

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AT LEAST 25,105 people have now been killed and 62,681 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that as...

Over 800 doctors urge Justice Secretary Lammy to save hunger strikers!

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OVER 800 doctors, legal experts, and family members have signed an open letter urging Justice Secretary David Lammy to meet to save the pro-Palestine...

Al Shifa hospital runs out of fuel today!

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THE al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s biggest hospital, will run out of fuel today, or tomorrow at the latest, with 35,000 men, women and children crammed...

LABOUR WILL VOTE TO REVOKE ARTICLE 50 – rather than accept ‘No Deal’

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THE LABOUR Party would ‘consider very, very strongly’ voting to revoke Article 50 to block a no-deal Brexit this Friday, Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca...

Assange Must Be Freed!

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ALMOST a decade after his WikiLeaks website enraged Washington by leaking secret US documents, a London court will begin hearings on Monday to decide...

Biden leaves for Middle East!

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US PRESIDENT Biden left Washington yesterday evening for Tel Aviv, where he is to meet Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians before flying to Amman...

High Court move to ban UK arms sales to Israel!

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LAWYERS seeking an order to prevent the United Kingdom government from continuing to grant arms export licences to UK companies selling arms to Israel...

10 days of strike action at St Thomas’ Hospital!

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YESTERDAY, marked the first of 10 days of strike action by security staff at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge in central London. Some of...

UN warns ‘Israel has produced a famine and displacement!’

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THE UNITED Nations has issued its starkest warning yet that Israel’s campaign in Gaza has created an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe marked by famine and...

Unite & GMB Take On Energy Giants!

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‘THERE is a real possibility that supplies of petroleum products could be affected,’ union leaders warned yesterday as Unite and the GMB unions announced...

UN votes in favour of Palestinian statehood

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THE UNITED Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed resolution on Palestine statehood on Tuesday, with 172 countries voting in favour of the resolution. The resolution affirmed...

‘WE HAVE GOT A REAL FIGHT FOR THE MEMBERS’ JOBS!’ says CWU leader Dave...

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‘It’s an astonishing level of support you are giving to the union, you care about the service you are giving to the public, you...

National strike to defend HE jobs! – call from Brunel University picket line

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‘WE have to step up the fight and unite in action across the country to defend all jobs in higher education,’ Hermione Xanthopoulou, Director...

Hamas to launch legal action against Tories! –After UK Parliament designates Hamas a ‘terrorist...

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THE PALESTINIAN organisation that governs Gaza, Hamas, announced on Sunday that it will take legal action against the United Kingdom, which recently listed it...

ANNEXATION! – Israeli plan to carve up Palestine

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‘WE ARE already at the height of the process of mapping the area that, according to the Trump plan, will become part of the...

2.7% Fare Hike – Amidst Rail Chaos

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COMMUTERS were up in arms yesterday as above inflation 2.7% increases in rail fares set in, while services across the country have been in...

Met Police take charge of regime change op!

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THE METROPOLITAN Police have thrown a spanner into the works of the rapidly developing crisis in the Tory government and party. There is now confusion...

Johnson puts Navy in charge of repelling refugee dinghies

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THE MILITARY will take charge of the operations targeting refugees and asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in inflatable boats within weeks, the government...

Patel ratchets up enforcement

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‘THERE is still a small minority who refuse to do the right thing and to them my message is clear: if you don’t follow...

Israeli forces raid occupied West Bank cities!

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ISRAELI forces have launched their most intense raids yet on cities in the occupied West Bank as they pressed on with one of the...

‘INFLATION CAUSING HUGE DISTRESS!’ – no government can solve every problem – says Sunak

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‘HIGH inflation is causing acute distress to the people of this country,’ Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak admitted yesterday. Making a statement to MPs in the...

MAY GOES TO GROUND! – Johnson & Gove are battling for her job

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PM MAY was holed up in crisis talks with senior Tories including Boris Johnson and Michael Gove at Chequers yesterday, with rumours that a...

Rail Unions Taking Strike Action!

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TRAIN drivers at more than a dozen companies will strike on Friday, 1 September and refuse to work overtime on Saturday, 2 September, their...

People have come out against the fascists and the racists!

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‘REFUGEES are welcome here!’ chanted thousands of workers, students and youth as they joined hundreds of anti-racism demonstrations in towns and cities across the...

Tory Rwanda plan unlawful

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THE TORY plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was yesterday dismissed by the Supreme Court, ending over 18 months of legal battles in...

Opposition leaders meeting to stop Brexit breaks up! – Javid insists on 31st...

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LABOUR moved a step closer to forming a national government yesterday with the Scottish and Welsh nationalists, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens all...