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Mass Protest On First Day Of Assange Case

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A CROWD of over 200 supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange demonstrated outside the Old Bailey in central London yesterday prior to the...

SA takes Israel to the ICJ!

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SOUTH AFRICA in an 84-page suit filed against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on December 29th, asked the top court to...

Corbyn woos CBI bosses

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn began his speech to the CBI yesterday by declaring his loyalty and enthusiasm for business. He said: ‘And if a Labour...

Food Costs & Energy Bills Soaring!

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FOOD costs and energy bills are soaring, with the energy crisis driving consumer prices up at the fastest rate in 30 years, latest figures...

‘A generalised attack on working people’ – RMT leader Lynch

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THE RMT rail union announced yesterday that it is to put a new offer from Network Rail to members in an electronic referendum with...

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...

Israel kills dozens in Gaza Strip shelling!

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DOZENS of civilians were killed yesterday and others sustained various injuries, in the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip, which entered its...

Israel bombards areas west of Gaza City – 40,334 killed so far

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SEVERAL civilians were killed and injured yesterday in an Israeli shelling targeting areas west of Gaza City. Eyewitnesses said the occupation warplanes bombarded a residential...

10,000 Tube strikers fighting 600 job cuts

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10,000 TUBE workers took strike action yesterday after London Underground (LU) bosses refused to rule out job cuts and detrimental changes to pensions. Under the...

DON’T EXTRADITE JULIAN ASSANGE! – demands 2,000-strong Night Carnival

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OVER 2,000 campaigners fighting for the freedom of Julian Assange attended a Night Carnival in London on Saturday. The carnival organised by the Don’t Extradite...

MPs REJECT ATTACK ON NO-DEAL BREXIT Starmer-Corbyn motion defeated

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MPs yesterday voted by 309-298 against a Labour-moved motion that sought to prevent a no-deal Brexit on October 31! The Labour-led plan was to force...

Mass Picket Of Striking Doctors

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THE BMA (British Medical Association) confirmed yesterday that a mass picket of striking Resident Doctors will be held tomorrow morning from 8-11am outside St...

Ealing strikers demand indefinite action

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EALING Parking Services workers were on the picket line outside Ealing Town Hall yesterday on the third day of three days of strike action...

Youth are marching against capitalism!

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OVER 10,000 school youth from around the South East of England descended on London’s Parliament Square yesterday shouting: ‘Solution not pollution! We want change!’...

Palestine march under threat! Police refuse to give go-ahead!

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THIS Saturday’s National March for Palestine in London is under threat as the Metropolitan Police has refused to authorise its route, despite being given...

Rolls Royce jobs massacre! – Unite calls for National Recovery Council with Tories

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THE UNITE trade union has responded to the news that Rolls Royce is to cut 9,000 jobs globally, 3,375 of them in the UK,...

‘Smokescreen for NHS privatisation’ – Scrap the Health and Care Bill!

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THE government has been accused of using the pandemic as ‘a smokescreen’ to push through the Health and Care Bill which will open the...

STOP ARMING ISRAEL! RECOGNISE PALESTINIAN STATE NOW! – say 100,000 marchers

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OVER 100,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through central London on the 17th London National March for Palestine on Saturday. Speakers at the...

Israeli tank fire kills scores of Gazans

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THE armed wing of Hamas, Qassam Brigades, hit an Israeli Merkava tank with two Yassin 105 anti-armour missiles near a mosque in the Tal...

Israeli bombers target schools

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THE Palestinian Hamas resistance movement strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s targeting of schools sheltering internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip yesterday, describing the...

Tory PM Johnson to prorogue Parliament

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THE QUEEN has been asked by Tory PM Boris Johnson to prorogue Parliament days after MPs return from the Summer break, which will mean...

Global protests over assassination of Gaza journalists!

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ISRAEL’s continued assault on Gaza has killed at least 89 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, including 31 people seeking aid, and injured 513...

Arrested for shouting ‘Intifada’

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MOTHER and daughter Azza and Haya Adam, were arrested on Wednesday evening at a pro-Palestine protest, simply for saying the word ‘intifada’. They were arrested...

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...

3 Years Of Guards Strikes

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HUNDREDS of train workers rallied in Euston yesterday to mark three years of the guards strike, the longest in modern history, which has begun...

Gaza City facing urban destruction by Israeli fire power and forced displacement

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THE Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City, is facing extensive urban destruction by Israeli firepower and forced displacement of its residents. The Israeli military...

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...

Midwives To Ballot!

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MIDWIVES in England and Wales are to be balloted on industrial action. The move was announced by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) at its...

RMT joins striking barristers outside Old Bailey

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STRIKING barristers were supported by the RMT at their rally outside the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey in central London yesterday, while...

‘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,...

Israel launches fresh Gaza ground invasion!

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ISRAEL has launched a fresh ground invasion into Gaza City, with occupying forces pushing into the Shejaiya neighbourhood early on Friday. According to Gaza’s civil...

52 Palestinians killed!

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ON THURSDAY alone, at least 52 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza. Eighteen were massacred in Jabalia when a residential home sheltering displaced...

DOWN WITH GOVERNMENT OF MURDERERS! – shout 50,000 Greek workers and youth!

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‘DOWN with the government of murderers’ shouted over 50,000 enraged workers and students last Thursday in Athens in a most militant march on the...

Ambulance staff at breaking point

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AMBULANCE staff are at breaking point, with the union Unison raising the alarm yesterday that services are facing unprecedented 999 call volumes and unsustainable...

‘There will be no limits for this war’ says Israel

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says security forces will have ‘full freedom’ to act after two Israelis were shot dead in an attack in...

Nurses and busworkers unite to bring down the Tory government

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RCN NURSES from King’s College Hospital in south London marched from their picket line to the Camberwell Abellio bus garage yesterday, to bring greetings...

Right Wing Racists Rule In Israel

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A NEW government, seen as the most right wing and racist in Israel’s history has been agreed, sealing Binyamin Netanyahu’s return to power. Netanyahu, who...

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...

Renationalise Thomas Cook!

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NINE thousand Thomas Cook workers lost their jobs yesterday with a further 20,000 threatened across Europe as the company, founded in 1841, went bust....

Chinese fury over Tory plan to kick Huawei out of UK!

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‘WHETHER the UK can provide an open, fair and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese companies is a litmus test for British markets after Brexit,...

‘Hand on heart I did not lie to the House’ says Johnson – as...

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THE HOUSE of Commons yesterday late afternoon by 569 votes to 29, a majority of 486, decided to approve the ‘Stormont Brake’ – part...

Ryanair Pilots Down Tools!

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RYANAIR pilots have downed tools today causing huge cost to the company after Ryanair managers again refused to enter talks to end the long...

Ben-Gvir hands out weapons to illegal settlers!

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ISRAEL’s far right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has authorised personal firearm permits for residents of 18 additional illegal settlements in the occupied West...

RCN warns cuts could put patient safety at risk!

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) is warning that cuts to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) could put patient safety at risk and undermine the...

80% parents kept their children at home!

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MORE than 80% of parents have refused to put their children in harm’s way, scuppering the government’s plan to reopen schools yesterday, a poll...