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Picket Grenfell Inquiry

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‘Where will the staff come from?’ – BMA demands answers over Nightingale facilities

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THE BMA (British Medical Asociation) has asked the government for more clarity on staffing of new Nightingale facilities. Commenting on the planned new Nightingale facilities...

193 Palestinians killed in 24hrs by Israeli forces!

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A TOTAL of 193 Palestinians were killed in 16 massacres perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces over the last 24 hours in the Gaza...

LEBANESE REVOLUTION! – masses opposed to all sectarianism

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HUNDREDS of people have been wounded in Beirut after security forces used tear gas and water cannon to disperse crowds of anti-government protesters trying...

70th anniversary of Chinese Revolution!

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CHINA has celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding with a massive military parade in Beijing showing off some of the world’s most advanced...

Israeli forces continue bombardment of Gaza

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ISRAELI forces continued to bombard the Gaza Strip on Thursday despite an announcement by mediators that a ceasefire agreement had been reached to end...

Israeli Tanks On Edge Of Damascus!

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ISRAELI TANKS reached the southwestern Syrian city of Quneitra yesterday, three kilometres away from the town of Qatana, near Damascus. Israel started the push to...

Rail Delivery Group RMT members to strike June 2

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RMT members working for the 14 train companies in the national rail dispute will walk out on Friday June 2. The union found the Rail...

Students unite with staff in pension battle

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THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with the University and College Union (UCU) in the fight for fair pay and...

White House pushing for Blair to be Gaza boss!

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THE WHITE House is pushing a proposal to instal former British prime minister Tony Blair as head of a so-called Gaza International Transitional Authority,...

Amnesty condemns the Israeli genocide on the Gaza Strip!

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ISRAEL'S treatment of Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, Amnesty International declared in a new report that shatters any pretence of...

Corbyn, McDonnell on their knees

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LABOUR leaders Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell yesterday delivered abject apologies for the party’s defeat in last Thursday’s election, which saw them lose 59...

NHS hospital managers must be accountable! say BMA consultants

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THE lead consultant on the neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked said yesterday that hospital managers should be regulated in a similar way to...

‘The government needs to make a credible offer!’ says Junior Doctors Chair Rob Lawrenson

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‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to sit down and make a credible offer so we have a health system that works,’ BMA Junior Doctors Committee Co-Chair,...

Tories refuse to repeal draconian corona laws

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MORE THAN 50 people have been ‘unlawfully arrested’ under the ‘draconian’ Coronavirus Act, it emerged yesterday, yet the government are insisting that the laws...

Palestinian Deaths Up 500%

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THE Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has condemned the latest escalation of violence by Israeli forces against Palestinians across the occupied territories, saying the Tel...

JOBS COLLAPSE – worst unemployment since crash

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THE NUMBER of jobs collapsed by 220,000 on the quarter, said the Office for National Statistics yesterday – the largest quarterly decrease since May...

IRAN ISSUES TRUMP ARREST WARRANT! – over Soleimani assassination

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IRAN’S judiciary says it has formed a committee to chase and track down those accused of complicity in the US assassination of Iranian anti-terror...

Truss announces crackdown on the rail trade unions

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TORY PM Truss threw down the gauntlet to the TUC at Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons yesterday lunchtime, announcing: ‘We will...

‘My task – open the economy’ – New Health Secretary Sajid Javid

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‘MY TASK is to return the economic and cultural life that makes this country so great,’ new Tory Health Secretary, Sajid Javid said in...

320,000 children face acute malnutrition

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ONLY 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, a figure drastically lower than the 600 truckloads the UN estimates are required daily to meet...

A HEINOUS MURDER! – US nurses union condemns ICE killing of Alex Pretti

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THE US nurses union denounced the killing of its member, Alex Pretti, by armed ICE agents in Minnesota on Saturday as ‘a heinous murder’...

Johnson-Sunak Are Criminals Say The Met Police!

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PM JOHNSON and Chancellor Sunak are criminals according to the Police! Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will be issued fines – officially known as fixed...

Stop Starving Gaza!

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THE Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza reported that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF), through deliberate actions fostering chaos and starvation, have exacerbated the...

General strike across Palestine today! ‘Recall Israeli ambassadors’ – Palestinian PM Shtayyeh

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A GENERAL strike has been called for today across the whole of Palestine. The call began from Palestinians living and working in Israel and was...

Anti-racist protesters who deface statues could get 10 years under Tory legislation!

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ANTI-RACISM protesters who tear down, ‘deface’ or graffiti statues and monuments to imperialism face jail sentences of up to 10 years under a forthcoming...

SACK ALL THE OLD LEADERS – demand Sri Lankan workers and youth

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SECURITY around Sri Lanka’s parliament building in the capital, Colombo, has increased, with armed and masked soldiers guarding the building and roads nearby closed...

Johnson Relying On Labour To See Him Through!

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WITH around 100 rebel Tory MPs expected to vote against the new three tier lockdown system in the House of Commons tomorrow, the government...

Jenin is facing complete Gazafication – destruction

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AN anti-occupation group of Israeli army veterans has issued a stark warning about the escalating situation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin,...

Al-Awda Hospital Fire Rages As Doctors Call Out For Support!

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AL-AWDA Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, northern Gaza, has issued an urgent appeal to international humanitarian bodies after an Israeli airstrike ignited a catastrophic fire...

Gaza Children Die From Severe Cold

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JUMA AL-BATAN, a 20-day-old baby, died from ‘severe cold’ yesterday, while his twin brother remains in the intensive care unit at a local hospital,...

GPs at Breaking Point!

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MILLIONS more appointments with hundreds fewer GPs is ‘pushing doctors to breaking point’, the BMA warned yesterday. Commenting on the latest NHS Digital GP workforce...

‘This war is America’s war against people of Palestine!’

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THE number of people killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since yesterday morning has now risen to at least 54, according to...

Tories agree C02 industry bailout! Unite wants to join talks with bosses

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WITH the prospect of industry being shut down in the wake of the energy and CO2 crisis, the Tory government has struck a deal...

More than 300,000 workers, students and youth march on Downing St to support Palestine...

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MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street to mark the anniversary of the start Israel’s Gaza genocide on Saturday. At least...

Campaign to aid & rebuild Gaza Strip began Sunday

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MORE than 80 countries and institutions are participating in an international campaign to aid and rebuild the Gaza Strip, following the ceasefire that came...

Sack Serco demand Ealing Unite strikers

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EALING Council Parking Services workers are striking again today and tomorrow demanding that Ealing Council sacks the Serco public services privateer and takes their...

Israel demolishes UNRWA HQ in Jerusalem!

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ISRAEL is bulldozing the headquarters of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem. The genocidal Netanyahu regime is clamping down...

BMA Wales 3-day February strike

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British Medical Association (BMA) Cymru Wales junior doctors committee has announced new strike dates as part of the dispute over pay. ‘In the absence of...

US-Israelis ‘staining their hands with the blood of the people!’ – Greek seafarers

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THE Greek Seafarers Trade Union PENEN issued a statement on Sunday condemning the imperialist attack on Iran and calling for the withdrawal of all...

Hunt’s budget – a war on jobs and services! budget today!

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THE LOCAL Government Association condemned Chancellor Hunt’s attempt to dress up his budget onslaught on public services as a ‘war on woke’ yesterday, pointing...

‘END THE OCCUPATION!’ urges the Hamas resistance

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HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement, has issued a call for an end to Israeli occupation and terrorism against Palestinians on the International Day of...

Shrewsbury 24 victory! Convictions overturned

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YESTERDAY’S decision by the Court of Appeal to overturn the convictions of the Shrewsbury Pickets after a nearly 50-year campaign has been hailed as...

COVID IS BEING USED TO SACK TENS OF THOUSANDS says RMT leader Mick Lynch

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RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has accused the Johnson government and the privately-run train operating companies of ‘using Covid as a smokescreen’ to rip...

‘Labour can’t be allowed to get away with it!’ – Unite’s Sharon Graham tells...

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Yesterday at the TUC Congress, moving a motion on council funding, Sharon Graham, Unite General Secretary, said: ‘We in the trade unions have enormous...