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RMT calls for talks – pickets call for a workers’ government!

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RAIL UNION RMT yesterday issued a fresh call for further talks as members across the length and breadth of South Western Railway stood firm...

NHS Trust withholds rent over fire safety – Patients evacuated from two wards

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CORNWALL Partnership Foundation Trust is withholding rent payments to NHS Property Services to force it to take urgent action over fire safety. Patients have had...

Manchester bus strikers huge victory!

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‘THIS MUST be the end of “fire and rehire”. We now have a collectively bargained agreement,’ Unite NW-54 Branches Communities Rep Sam Harvey told...

Tories to hike up National Insurance – Youth will be hit hardest says Intergeneration...

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THE TORIES are pushing for a rise in the National Insurance rate, affecting over 25 million workers to pay for social care. For someone on...

50 Workers Chasing Every Job

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AROUND 20 unemployed workers are chasing every job vacancy in poorer parts of the UK, with that number rising to 50 in the areas...

‘Tory Sleaze Bigger Than Ever!’

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‘TORY SLEAZE is bigger than ever,’ Labour’s Shadow Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster Rachel Reeves said yesterday after senior Tory MP Bernard Jenkin...

Assange Must Be Freed Now!

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ON DAY three of the case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, at the Old Bailey in central London, yesterday morning the court went straight...

Seafarers will be criminalised for saving refugees lives says RMT as Patel launches Borders...

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SEAFARERS’ union RMT has raised alarm over government legislation criminalising seafarers for saving lives at sea. The proposals, contained in the government’s Nationality and Borders...

Renegade Blair predicts a UK civil war!

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THE Former and completely discredited prime minister Blair, who took the UK into a war with Iraq that was based on lies and brought...

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...

URGENT ACTION NEEDED! – to prevent another Grenfell says the FBU

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THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) called today for urgent action on a range of fire and building safety issues to prevent another Grenfell. On the...

North Kensington Workers Fighting Racism!

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FRIENDS and family, concerned members of the North Kensington community and local campaigners joined forces on Saturday evening to demand justice for El, a...

Heathrow security guards OK 33 strike dates over 3 months!

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OVER 2,000 security guards at Heathrow Airport are holding a further 33 days of strike action throughout the summer. The 33 days of strike action...

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,...

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...

Indian farmers: tens of thousands rise up!

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TENS of thousands of farmers drove in a convoy of tractors yesterday into the Indian capital during national Republic Day celebrations as part 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...

Inquiry into police spying on unions – union heads demand transparency

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LEADERS of many of the largest and most prominent trade unions in the UK, have jointly signed a letter demanding that immediate action is...

Capital City lecturers strike

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STRIKING Capital City College Group (CCCG) lecturers rallied outside the CEO’s office in Victoria yesterday on the second day of their eight-day strike. The strikers...

Israeli government committing genocide

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A GROUP of lawyers representing Palestinian victims of Israeli attacks on Gaza have filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC), arguing that...

‘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,...

Pm Starmer Meets With Zelensky In Downing St

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PM KEIR Starmer yesterday met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Downing Street as Zelensky continues his diplomatic efforts to secure European backing for...

Police Commissioner Michael has questions to answer over the death of two youths!

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DESPITE thousands of people having seen CCTV footage on the BBC of Kyrees Sullivan, aged 16, and Harvey Evans, aged 15, being chased on...

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...

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...

‘IT IS OVER’ SAYS WALLACE – as UK leaves nationals behind in Kabul

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‘IT IS OVER,’ Tory defence secretary Ben Wallace admitted yesterday over the UK’s Afghan debacle. He added: ‘It is with deep regret that not everyone...

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...

No fire cover at night in Surrey!

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SURREY County Council has announced shocking plans to shut three fire stations at night, axe 70 firefighters’ jobs and halve the fire cover at...

Hamas condemns Israel repeatedly targeting Palestinians at food aid centres

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THE Hamas Movement has condemned the repeated targeting of civilians at food aid distribution centres in the Gaza Strip, calling it a war crime...

FISCAL CRISIS STATEMENT DELAYED! – as UK government consults with bankers

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CHANCELLOR Hunt has announced that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed by...

Free, free Palestine! – chants 30,000 Glastonbury crowd as Cooper prepares ban

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‘We understand colonialism and we understand how important it is to support each other internationally,’ Belfast rap group Kneecap singer Mo Chara told a...

Demonstrate April 1 15% for all NHS staff

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PEOPLE across the country are being asked to put colourful posters in their windows in support of a proper NHS pay rise, in a...

‘Scrap the charges for overseas NHS staff!’ – say Doctors for the NHS

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AFTER lauding NHS workers as ‘heroes’ and giving them ‘a clap’ the Tories have upped the amount that overseas NHS and care workers and...

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...

‘Russia will finish the demilitarisation of Ukraine!’ says Dmitry Peskov Kremlin spokesman

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RUSSIA will finish the demilitarisation of Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview yesterday, underlining that the Ukraine must stick to a...

BMA Demonstrates At Tory Party Conference

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THOUSANDS of NHS workers and many other trade unionists marched to the Tory Party conference yesterday morning to deliver their notice to the Tories...

Rcn Demands Inflation Plus 5% Nurses Pay Rise

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) called for a pay rise of ‘inflation plus 5%’ for members over the weekend as it called on...

Barristers Are On Indefinite Strike!

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HUNDREDS of barristers demonstrated outside courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London and Manchester yesterday, on the second day of their indefinite strike. Over 100...

Record redundancies! – JobCentre claimants rise to 2.7m

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NEW OFFICE for National Statistics (ONS) figures released yesterday show a record rise in redundancies of 370,000 and a fall in the number of...

Million-man march today to expel all US troops from Iraq – ‘Banish Iraqi president’...

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IRAQIS are joining a ‘million-man march’ against the US today as anger soars over a meeting between the president of Iraq Barham Salih and...

EXECUTING AFGHAN CIVILIANS – SAS unit is accused

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A unit of the British Army’s Special Air Service (SAS) has been accused of carrying out night missions in which they executed civilians in...

The whole world rages at the persecution of the Palestinians yet the TUC still...

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PALESTINE’S UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour has called on the UN Security Council to ensure ‘protection’ for Palestinians, who have increasingly come under deadly attacks...

Anti-monarchy protesters arrested in police state UK

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‘SOMETHING out of a police state,’ was how Republic director Harry Stratton described the way in which London’s Metropolitan Police arrested 52 anti-monarchy protesters...

UN says Israel must quit ‘unlawful presence!’

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THE UN General Assembly has adopted a Palestinian-drafted, non-binding resolution demanding Israel end ‘its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’ within 12 months. There...

26 College Principals received pay rises of over 10%

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ENGLISH College principals increased their pay by four times the rate recommended by the sector’s employer body, the University and College Union (UCU) has...