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Starmer in National Government mode praises Johnson

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LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer sought to outbid the Tories in anti-Russian war rhetoric when he was interviewed on BBC TV yesterday morning. Claiming that...

Exercise Cygnus exposed! Tories were asked to simulate turning off all UK ventilators

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A CROSS Party ‘pandemic simulation’ carried out just three years before Covid-19 struck ‘played-out’ a scenario in which the health minister was asked to...

West Bank Explodes As Abu Diyak Dies In Israeli Jail!

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HEEDING the calls by political factions, mainly President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement, thousands of Palestinians rallied in several West Bank city centres to protest...

NHS – Unison Serves Strike Notice!

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UNISON has served notice of the first week of industrial action on health and social services employers across Northern Ireland. Phase 1 of the Unison...

LABOUR’S £26bn NHS ‘RESCUE!’

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LABOUR has announced a £26bn real terms Rescue Plan to deliver ‘real change in our health service’. The Labour Party is pledging to end the...

‘MASSIVE VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION!’ – CWU leaders urge membership

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THE COMMUNICATION Workers Union is calling for a massive vote for strike action against Royal Mail management’s attempts ‘to virtually de-recognise the CWU and...

Israel sentences child to 10 years – Syria launches new offensive in Idlib

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ISRAEL has sentenced a Palestinian child, Hammoudeh Khader Sheikh, to 10 years in prison, Quds News Network reported yesterday. The boy, 15, from occupied East...

UK ECONOMY IS CRASHING! – facing its biggest ever slump

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TORY CHANCELLOR SUNAK yesterday said it is ‘very likely’ the UK is in a ‘significant recession’, as figures show the economy contracting at the...

Israel escalating massacres of civilians – warns Hamas

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A SENIOR official from Hamas, Basem Naim, said in a statement yesterday that Hamas is open to any initiative to end the war. ‘We affirm...

Prisoner release lists exchanged

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HAMAS said ‘the lists of prisoners required to be released’ as part of a ceasefire agreement were exchanged yesterday in Egypt. Taher al-Nunu, who is...

South Africa slams Israel over genocide against Palestinians!

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IN A historical development at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, South Africa presented its detailed case against Israel committing genocide...

Rcm Warns Of A Worsening Crisis

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THE Royal College of Midwives is warning of a worsening maternity crisis as a senior midwife survey shows services at boiling point. ‘The maternity crisis...

Hamas condemns the ongoing Israeli massacres in Gaza! Strip

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THE Hamas Movement has condemned the ongoing Israeli massacres on the Gaza Strip, saying: ‘The Nazi Zionist enemy continues to brutally target civilians in...

Felixstowe dockers fighting bullying, threats and victimisations!

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YESTERDAY’S 8.00am Unite mass protest at the Port of Felixstowe to end bullying management culture and to defend union reps was postponed at the...

Assange hearing adjourned after Covid fears for lawyer – his supporters block the street

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ON DAY four yesterday of the Old Bailey hearing deciding the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the proceedings were adjourned until Monday while...

Israel moves to annexe the occupied West Bank

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THE Israeli parliament approved in a narrow vote on Wednesday a bill that would extend Israeli domestic law to the occupied West Bank. The move...

Bank of England votes 5-4 to keep interest rates at 5.25%

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UK interest rates have been left unchanged after the Bank of England said price rises were slowing faster than expected. Interest rates were held at...

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...

‘Blatant act of annexation’ – Ashrawi slams Israeli ‘nature reserve’ land grab

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ISRAEL is creating ‘nature reserves’ in the occupied West Bank and this is ‘a blatant act of annexation and land theft that violates international...

Striking ASLEF train drivers defiant!

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ASLEF train drivers start another programme of rolling one-day strikes today, which will run alongside their nine-day overtime ban which began yesterday, having now...

Government refuses to hand over pandemic messages & notebooks – NOW FACES LEGAL ACTION

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THE government yesterday defied the 4pm deadline for handing over unredacted messages and notebooks to the Covid inquiry. It now faces legal action over...

Tory Rwanda plan unlawful

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THE TORY plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was yesterday dismissed by the Supreme Court, ending over 18 months of legal battles in...

‘The worst public health response in UK history’ – No test & trace –...

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THE TORY government’s failure to do more to stop Covid spreading early on in the pandemic was one of the ‘worst public health failures’...

MILLIONS OF BRITONS COLD AND HUNGRY – finds ONS survey

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MILLIONS of Britons are cold, hungry and struggling to get medical care this winter amid the cost-of living-crisis. Almost a quarter of adults have not...

‘THIS IS STOP BREXIT WEEK!’ – says Sir Keir Starmer

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MPs WILL seek to bring forward legislation to stop Brexit this week, Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has said. He said the plan...

Barking tower block inferno – wooden cladding spreads fire

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THIS FRIDAY marks two years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire, and local residents and firefighters are furious that no lessons have been learned...

Johnson’s mission to India fails

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THE UK and India have agreed on a ‘new and expanded’ defence and security partnership during British premier Boris Johnson’s crisis visit to New...

Labour Launches Anti-NHS Plan For Change!

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THE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) has condemned the Labour government’s ‘Plan for Change’ attack on the NHS which it is unveiling today. Professor Phil Banfield,...

Crucial Ballot To Continue Night Tube Strike!

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THE BALLOT for a new mandate to continue the powerful RMT Night Tube strike on London Underground has reached a crucial point, with the...

No Deal Brexit Is Only Way Forward

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, yesterday displayed ‘unredacted documents’ about secret US-UK government trade talks putting the NHS on the table in any future post...

‘We are starting fightback against pay-pension cuts!’

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OVER 300 University and College Union (UCU) striking lecturers and student supporters rallied and marched to the Royal Exchange Building in the City of...

Israel bombs 2nd UN school in two days

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ISRAELI forces bombed another United Nations-run school in southern Gaza yesterday, killing at least 20 displaced Palestinians sheltering in the building. More than 60 people...

10% of Gaza’s population has been killed, injured or detained by Israel!

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TEN per cent of Gaza’s population has been killed, injured, disappeared, or detained since Israel launched its genocidal war on 7 October 2023, according...

UK committed ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ over Chagossians return

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THE UK committed ‘crimes against humanity’ by refusing to allow Chagos Islanders to return to their homes on the Chagos Islands, which is now...

FREE, FREE PALESTINE! chant protesters at High Court

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‘FREE, Free Palestine’ chanted over 1,000 protesters waving Palestine flags outside the High Court yesterday. The court was holding an emergency hearing seeking a judicial...

Gaza ceasefire deal ‘at closest point yet’

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‘A CEASEFIRE in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is at its closest point yet, with negotiations to bring the 15-month conflict to an end...

Starmer beats war drums at Scottish Labour Party Conference!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer beat the war drums at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Glasgow yesterday. He said that ‘we can’t cling...

Extreme torture inflicted on Palestinians

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NEWLY released accounts from detainees in Israel’s Naqab Prison reveal harrowing details of torture and dehumanisation inflicted by Israeli forces, underscoring a pattern of...

‘LAST FRIDAY IT WAS LIKE WAR ON THE STREETS OF PARIS’ Yellow vests tell...

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TWO coachloads of French ‘Gilet Jaunes’ (Yellow Vests) joined the Committee to Defend Julian Assange ‘Bastille Day’ protest outside Belmarsh prison in south east...

‘Closures Being Cynically Fast-Tracked’ Says Unite!

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THE CLOSURE of the Alexander Dennis (ADL) plant in Guildford this week after 125 years of vehicle building with the loss of 200 jobs...

‘Spending cuts, job losses and pension attacks must end!’ – RMT leader Mick Lynch...

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SPENDING CUTS, job losses and pension attacks must end, the RMT told the London Mayor yesterday. The Tube workers’ union wrote to Sadiq Khan, emphasising...

KREMLIN ATTACK WAS ON WASHINGTON’S ORDERS – says Peskov

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RUSSIA is considering various options to respond to Kiev’s attempted drone attack on the Kremlin, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters yesterday. Moscow is well...

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...

Labour’s Starmer offers Johnson support for the ‘national effort’

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‘LATER this week we will announce which areas will fall into which tiers,’ Tory PM Johnson told Parliament yesterday, speaking from Number 10, where...

Greek students march against riot police

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SEVERAL thousand Greek university students marched victoriously and defiantly on Monday night in Athens after they had forced the armed riot police ‘storm-troopers’ off...