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‘Halt Israel’s ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip’ – Hamas

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HAMAS has called upon Islamic nations and United Nations agencies to urgently address and halt Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Gaza...

MASS ATROCITIES IN THE WEST BANK – warns Human Rights Watch

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AN ONGOING Israeli army raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded about 35 yesterday. Israeli settlers also...

Israel Continues Gaza Strip Massacres!

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THE Israeli occupation army continued to commit massacres in the Gaza Strip yesterday, the second day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, killing and injuring...

‘FRESH BLOW TO CAR INDUSTRY’! – over 10% job losses at JLR Halewood

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THE UNITE union has described the announcement that there will be further job losses at JaguarLandRover’s (JLR’s) Halewood plant in Merseyside as a ‘fresh...

Renationalise buses now! demand strikers

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‘WITH these private companies running London’s buses it’s a race to the bottom – the only way to stop it is to renationalise London...

Grenfell – Schmidt says not his priority to understand fire safety tests!

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CLAUDE SCHMIDT, president of Arconic that made the Grenfell Tower cladding, has said it was not his ‘priority’ to understand fire safety tests and...

UK Agrees To Negotiate The Future Of The Chagos Islands

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THE UK has agreed to open negotiations with Mauritius over the future of the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean since...

30 Palestinians are murdered when Israel bombed Jabalia refugee camp

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AT LEAST 30 Palestinians were killed, including 13 children, when Israel bombed a building housing displaced people in the Jabalia refugee camp at 6am...

‘I refuse to accept that I live in a country where child poverty ...

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‘I REFUSE to accept that I live in a country that accepts that child poverty is normal,’ Apsana Begum, suspended Labour MP for Tower...

Tories unleash savage cuts on South Western Railway – RMT launches week of action...

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TRANSPORT union the RMT is stepping up its campaign today against ‘swingeing cuts’ on South Western Railway which will unleash an attack on rail...

LARCO Industrial Workers Protest At Mass Sackings!

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IN an unprecedented 12 hours long rally under a scorching sun and temperatures exceeding 45ºC, hundreds of LARCO industrial workers and miners, along with...

150 Unis ballot for strike action!

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THE UCU (University and College Union) begins balloting members today for strike action at over 150 universities across the country, with higher education set...

Johnson imposes local lockdowns!

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TORY PM Johnson announced severe restrictions to be imposed on Liverpool yesterday to try to tackle the coronavirus crisis. He said he supported the Metro...

Powerful demo to stop ticket office closures

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A POWERFUL demonstration against mass railway ticket office hours cuts and total closures was held outside London’s Kings Cross Station early yesterday morning, with...

Fourteen Palestinian factions sign national unity agreement

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FOURTEEN Palestinian factions have signed a ‘national unity’ agreement aimed at maintaining Palestinian control over Gaza once Israel’s war on the enclave is ended. The...

McDonnell courts nationalists – and vows to defend Corbyn

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LABOUR shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has thrown a political bomb into the middle of the Labour Party with his pledge to the Scottish Nationalists...

Impose arms embargo & sanctions on Israel! – UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

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UNITED Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese called on UN member states to impose an international arms embargo and sanctions on Israel yesterday afternoon. Speaking at...

IT WAS MURDER! – Chris Kaba killing condemned

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‘IT WAS Murder’, leading campaigner for justice for Chris Kaba, Tye Davis, said – speaking outside Brixton Police Station on Thursday evening. More than 100...

‘Industrial action inevitable’ – Unite

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‘LEGAL and industrial action is inevitable,’ Unite said yesterday, the day a mass meeting took place at the grounds of Bedfont FC in Feltham,...

‘If Iran is attacked it will be all-out war!’ – warns Zarif

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IRAN’S foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned yesterday that any attack on his country after a series of missile strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil...

Israel massacres Palestinians in Nablus – 3 killed, 40 wounded

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A NEW massacre of Palestinians, which left three people dead and more than 40 wounded, was committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the...

Johnson refuses to rule out raising taxation!

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PRIME Minister Boris Johnson yesterday refused to rebut his Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s warning in Saturday’s Daily Mail newspaper that ‘very real shortages’ can be...

Labour PM reveals his class war Budget will cause ‘pain’!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer will focus on growth and wealth creation, he told selected guests and media in the Downing Street rose garden...

Israeli tanks close Rafah crossing!

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AS the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 214 yesterday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different...

Palestinians rise up against Bahrain-UAE-Israel signing

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PALESTINIANS in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank rose up in anger to denounce the normalisation deals signed in Washington yesterday afternoon...

Royal London SERCO strike rally

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DURING their five-day strike which concludes today, hospital staff working for SERCO gathered for a lively union rally at the Royal London Hospital at...

NORTHERN GAZA CRISIS! – children suffering from the life-threatening drought & malnutrition

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In the northern Gaza Strip, a humanitarian crisis of alarming proportions is unfolding as infants grapple with the life-threatening consequences of drought and malnutrition. The...

Boycott Hits 145 UK Universities!

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A MARKING and assessment boycott yesterday hit 145 UK universities as university staff are refusing to mark and assess work. The UCU lecturers’ union has...

Care cost dumped on the backs of the poor – by Tory amendment to...

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‘THIS IS daylight robbery,’ Labour’s shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth warned yesterday as the Health and Social Care Bill began its third reading. He was...

Palestinian mother & child arrested

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ISRAELI forces detained at least seven Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank overnight, including a mother and her 14-year-old child. Local and security...

Nationalise P&O says RMT

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ON THE day the owners in Dubai are set to pay hundreds of millions in dividends, RMT has called for P&O Ferries to be...

‘STOP ISRAEL DISPLACING 500 PALESTINIAN FAMILIES!’ – urges Fatah

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THE Fatah Movement yesterday called upon the United Nations and the UN Security Council to fulfil their legal responsibilities and act against Israel’s imminent...

‘On the frontline fighting for the homeless’ says Unite leader Sharon Graham

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OVER 100 striking St Mungo’s workers and other trade unionists lobbied City Hall yesterday lunchtime demanding better pay and conditions. There will be a further...

Tories Escalate War On NHS!

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AS THE junior doctors ended their latest four-day strike at 7.00am yesterday morning, Tory Health Minister Will Quince kicked out at them and NHS...

Tories knew NHS couldn’t cope with pandemic

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THE TORY government hid the outcome of an exercise it conducted on how the NHS would cope with a pandemic because it considered the...

BEIS 3-day strike – ‘We demand Living Wage!’

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OUTSOURCED workers, who provide catering and cleaning services in government offices, took the first of three days of strike yesterday demanding the London Living...

May’s ‘Insulting’ Pay Offer!

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TWO million out of five million public sector workers are set to get a £2bn ‘below-inflation pay rise’ as one of PM May’s final...

‘Under Immense And Continuous Stress!’ – Doctors Tell Bma

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IN TESTIMONIES provided to the BMA, one doctor said that ‘we are under immense and continuous stress’. While another doctor said: ‘What has been...

‘THE JOY OF RETURN!’ – Hundreds of thousands go home in Gaza

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HUGE crowds of Gaza residents, old and young, walked northwards with their belongings along the main road next to the Mediterranean Sea coast from...

BABY BUTCHERS! – 1,091 infants killed by Israel since October 7th 2023

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ISRAELI occupation forces killed 1,091 Palestinian infants in Gaza since October 7, 2023, including 238 who were born and killed during the ongoing Israeli...

NO FIRE ESCAPE! Tory fire safety guidance fails

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NEW GOVERNMENT fire safety guidance fails to include escape plans, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) warned yesterday. RIBA insist that the government’s guidance...

London Tube Staff To Walk Out

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TUBE staff have called for urgent talks with London’s mayor to avert a strike expected to cause severe disruption. Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union...

‘JULIAN ASSANGE WILL BE A FREE MAN!’ says his wife Stella Assange

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JULIAN ASSANGE will ‘be a free man’ once a plea deal with the US is ‘signed off by a judge’, his wife Stella Assange...

One million workers march through London for Palestine

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ONE MILLION workers, students and youth marched through central London in support of Palestine on Saturday, condemning 100 days of Israeli genocide during which...

Foreign Secretary Lammy warned by Russia – don’t fire Storm Shadows!

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LABOUR’S Foreign Secretary David Lammy has shrugged off as ‘bluster’ warnings by Russia that if Ukraine fires its British-provided long-range Storm Shadow missiles into...