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Supreme Court rules proroguing ‘unlawful’

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THE SUPREME Court yesterday openly sided with a Parliament full of Remainers condemning the proroguing of Parliament by Tory PM Boris Johnson as completely...

Patel approves Taser upgrades for police! – ‘Tasers kill’ warns Liberty

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‘TASERS can kill, and they are disproportionately used against people of colour,’ Rosalind Comyn of campaign group Liberty said yesterday. She was responding to Tory...

Public Sector pay freeze ‘A kick in the teeth for millions!’ say GMB

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PUBLIC SECTOR employees, many of whom are essential Covid-19 workers, should not be subject to a continuing pay freeze from a government that has...

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...

Israel bombs Jenin refugee camp!

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Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a massive land and air attack on the West Bank city of Jenin yesterday, killing at least eight youths...

Israeli war planes bomb Al-Ahli Arab Hospital

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ISRAELI warplanes bombed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital around midnight local time on Saturday night, rendering the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza nonoperational, leaving critically...

Palestinian hunger striker wins his freedom! Kayed Fasfous is to be released December...

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PALESTINIAN prisoner Kayed Fasfous has won a decisive victory and ends his hunger strike after an agreement was reached to end his administrative det-ention...

Labour Government votes for disability cuts!

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THE WELFARE Bill, slashing benefits from the disabled and mentally ill, was passed by 335 votes to 260 in the House of Commons yesterday...

Fresh Tory council cuts – Vital services axed

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THE NEW financial year has kicked in, and with every council budget being cut to the bone the future of leisure centres, council run...

Brunel University lecturers’ strike

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STRIKING Brunel University lecturers manning the picket lines in Uxbridge, west London yesterday, called for their UCU union to call national strike action to...

Downing Street didn’t tell truth about Pincher says former senior civil servant

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DOWNING Street did not tell the truth when it said Boris Johnson was unaware of official complaints about Chris Pincher’s misbehaviour, a former senior...

Murder of Sarah Everard: PC Couzens pleads guilty – Commissioner Dick refuses questions

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METROPOLITAN Police officer Wayne Couzens yesterday pleaded guilty to murdering Sarah Everard. The 33-year-old vanished while walking home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south...

AMAZON ACCUSED OF DIRTY TRICKS – as GMB withdraws bid for recognition

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AMAZON was yesterday accused of ‘dirty tricks’ as the GMB withdrew its recognition bid. Amazon refuses to pay workers a decent wage, but are paying...

Biden deploys record troop numbers to Jordan

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A NEW report to the US Congress reveals that the Biden administration has deployed a record number of US troops to Jordan as the...

Johnson squirms over ‘surrender’ to the ‘Surrender Act!’

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Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to deliver a squirming account of his failure to take the UK out of the EU on...

Six-year-old Hind Rajab and two paramedics are still missing!

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THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported yesterday that more than 89 hours have passed, and the fate of its ambulance crew, consisting of paramedics...

Criminal Police Officers To Face Automatic Sackings!

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POLICE officers guilty of gross misconduct in England and Wales will face automatic sackings, the government has announced. The change follows high-profile cases of officers...

Ahli Hospital Massacre – Israel bears the direct responsibility!

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‘THE Israeli occupation bears direct responsibility for the Baptist Hospital massacre and that its flagrant lies will not fool anyone,’ declared Hamas yesterday. Hamas said:...

Barts Trying To Force Through Contract Changes!

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INSULTED Barts Hospital patient transport staff are demonstrating at 12 noon at Newham Hospital in east London today against management’s poor treatment of staff...

The Great Care Home Massacre!

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A series of ‘shockingly irresponsible’ government decisions put tens of thousands of older people’s lives at risk and led to multiple violations of care...

‘Only real solution is a two state solution’ says Biden

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US President Joe Biden affirmed last night that a two-state solution was the ‘only real solution’ to the war in Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli...

Hundreds of thousands denied a pay rise

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CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak was accused yesterday by the Unite union of having ‘a selective memory’ when it comes to public sector pay, rewarding some...

More than 60,000 junior doctors taking strike action!

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AS MORE than 60,000 junior doctors begin three days of strike action at 7am this morning, the British Medical Association (BMA) warns that two-thirds...

Minister seeking to ban NEU teachers strike!

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TORY education secretary Gillian Keegan is trying to get next week’s strike action by 100,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) outlawed, claiming...

Corbyn Condemns Pm Johnson Over Customs Union

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IN THE House of Commons yesterday morning PM Johnson sought to persuade MPs to support his Brexit plan. He said: ‘This government has moved. Our...

Iran warns UK over ‘terror designations’

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THE UK is using ‘terror designations’ as a tool to criminalise grassroot support for Palestine,’ Iran has warned. Iran was reacting to Tory Home Secretary...

‘Don’t make the student debt nightmare worse!’

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‘DON’T make the £141bn student debt nightmare worse,’ the University and College Union (UCU) warned yesterday ahead of a government spending review. University staff have...

TUC must call a General Strike! – the message from CWU picket lines

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THE TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!' was the message from the CWU picket...

Starmer Trashes Labour Renationalisation Policy

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LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves trashed the party’s renationalisation policy yesterday. In a speech in Liverpool, with a back-drop bedecked...

Corbyn will not have the whip restored! – now not officially a Labour MP

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FORMER Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will not have the party’s whip restored, his successor as Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer has announced. The shock...

JOIN FORCES TO DEFEAT ISRAEL – urges Hamas

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ISRAELI forces carried out simultaneous huge explosions in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank yesterday, destroying 20 homes in one residential neighbourhood. The...

SERCO STRIKE – battle against low pay & exploitation

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HUNDREDS of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company Serco, will stage a two week strike across Barts Health NHS Trust in...

Loud, lively and big radiographers picket!

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THERE were loud and lively picket lines of striking radiographers outside hospitals around the country yesterday as the NHS workers continued their 48-hour strike...

Israel bombs Beirut suburb – kills 5, injures dozens

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THE Israeli occupation army assassinated a senior Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb yesterday, killing and injuring about two dozen civilians...

Tory plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda illegal!

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A COURT RULING that the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful has been welcomed by the charity that challenged...

Suspend inquiry unless panellist immediately replaced say Grenfell campaigners

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THE SECOND phase of the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire began yesterday with families and friends of the 72 men, women and children...

Israeli terrorism widely condemned!

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HEZBOLLAH stressed yesterday that it will go ahead with its pro-Gaza strikes against the Israeli enemy, describing Tuesday’s deadly pager attacks as ‘another reckoning...

Dozens of civilians killed in Palestine

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ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) continued their genocidal war on the Gaza Strip for the 642nd consecutive day on Wednesday. Using airstrikes, artillery shelling and live...

60 media and rights organisations urge the EU to impose sanctions on Israel for...

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SOME 60 media and rights organisations yesterday urged the European Union to suspend a cooperation accord with Israel and impose sanctions, accusing it of ‘massacring journalists’...

Hamas Agrees To Ceasefire Deal!

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THE HAMAS political bureau, announced yesterday evening that it has approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. ‘The mujahid brother Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the...

‘WE ARE DETERMINED TO WIN’ – striking RMT workers tell News Line

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TRANSPORT union RMT members were on the picket line at Waterloo Station on Saturday morning as their strike carries on in defence of pay,...

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...

Gaza’s ‘man-made’ famine escalating at extraordinary speed

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SENIOR UN officials have warned that Israel’s genocide and blockade of Gaza have created a man-made famine that is escalating at terrifying speed, with...

‘THEY WILL NOT FORGET–THEY WILL NOT FORGIVE’ – Tory MP warns over the Grenfell...

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IN THE House of Commons on Wednesday, Conservative MP Royston Smith said the housing market was at risk of partial ‘collapse’, with many leaseholders...

‘Stop Pandemic Profiteering!’

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‘PANDEMIC PROFITEERING has to stop’ says RMT as FirstGroup ann-ounces a £500 million shareholder payout and boasts that new National Rail Contracts will ‘support...