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5,500 Children killed in Gaza! – World Children’s Day November 20th

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ON WORLD Children’s Day yesterday it was recorded that at least 5,500 children have been killed by the Zionist Israeli regime since it began...

Greek Workers Want An Indefinite General Strike

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WORKERS in Greece are building up a tremendous multi-form action front, with occupations of ministries and state buildings, strikes and demonstrations, against the barbaric...

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...

Resident Doctors striking to defend NHS! – – BMA leaders defy Streeting tirade

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Resident doctors in England have announced new strike dates, following the continuing refusal of the Labour government to make a credible offer on jobs...

Catalonia Declares Independence!

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CROWDS outside the Catalan parliament erupted in celebration, letting off fireworks as Catalonia declared its independence from Spain yesterday afternoon, after a vote of...

‘NO CREDIBLE OFFER!’ – striking doctors slam Tories

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TENS of thousands of junior doctors in England begin an unprecedented six days of strike action at 7am this morning, with an 8am-10am mass...

Sri Lankan Workers Determined To Continue The Revolution

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SRI Lanka’s prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as acting president, while the country reels from the economic crisis and the developing...

Starmer poised to clash with unions over pay rise demands

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LABOUR PM Keir Starmer is poised for a clash with the unions after downplaying the likelihood of real-terms pay rises for public sector workers...
Junior doctors join with student nurses to fight Health secretary Hunt’s attacks on the NHS

Junior Doctors Win £800,000 Back Pay!

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JUNIOR doctors have received back pay of £800,000 after a hard-fought battle against their trust regarding a contract breach. Their union, the British Medical Association...

FBU strike ballot on pensions

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The Fire Brigades Union says the government’s pension proposals are ‘unacceptable’ and are consulting fire crews with a recommendation there is a rapid move...

DEATHS WILL RESULT – from attacks on ambulance service

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‘TINKERING with ambulance response targets could lead to unnecessary deaths,’ the GMB union, which represents ambulance drivers, warned yesterday. The union added that the government’s...
Suspended North West London College UCU branch secretary INDRO SEN (centre) on the picket line outside the college with students and lecturers yesterday morning

Reinstate Indro Sen!

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‘REINSTATE Indro Sen,’ demanded striking lecturers yesterday, in defence of their UCU rep who was unfairly suspended from North West London College in...

‘AN ACT OF WAR!’ – Olmert threatens the Lebanon

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ISRAELI prime minister Ehud Olmert yesterday called the capture of two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border by Hezbollah an ‘act of war’. Olmert threatened...

‘WE’RE ON LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE’ – barristers tell MPs

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BARRISTERS lobbied parliament yesterday and raised with MPs the demand of an urgent injection of funds into Legal Aid. Lucie Wibberley, the Criminal Bar Association...

‘We refuse to become informants’ – Doctors, nurses and teachers oppose Police Bill

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DOCTORS, nurses and teachers have warned that the Police Bill will turn them into police informants. The Bill, to be debated in the House of...

BAN ‘FIRE AND REHIRE’ – Manchester bus strikers demand of Mayor

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A PROTEST of striking Manchester bus drivers took place outside the Mayor’s Office yesterday afternoon, demanding that Andy Burnham takes action to stop the...

NHS winter crisis – 10,000 excess deaths

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THE NHS winter crisis was responsible for an extra 10,000 deaths in the first weeks of 2018, figures published in the British Medical Journal...

‘Catastrophic’ Gloucester surgery move not safe! – warn 60 consultants

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A PLAN to move out-of-hours surgery from Cheltenham General Hospital seven miles away to Gloucester has been slammed by almost 60 consultants and senior...

‘Metropolitan police recruiting criminals’ – concludes police watchdog

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THE METROPOLITAN Police’s approach to tackling corruption within its ranks is ‘fundamentally flawed,’ an inspection by the police watchdog published yesterday concluded. It found the...

Workers pressure mounting but the TUC still won’t call a general strike!!

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WORKERS pressure is mounting on the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories at its Annual Congress in Brighton next...

Unions condemn Israel – over designating Palestinian organisations as ‘terrorists’

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TRADE unions in the United Kingdom have denounced as outrageous Israel’s decision to designate six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist. ‘We strongly condemn the...

Israeli army commits nine massacres in 24 hours!

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THE Israeli occupation army committed nine massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, killing at least 92 civilians...

Eurozone In Recession!

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The economy of the 15-nations eurozone has slumped into recession for the first time ever, EU data released yesterday revealed, with GDP falling 0.2%...
ALEX PEREIRA, cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes – who was murdered by the police at Stockwell tube on Friday 22nd July – addressing the News Line Anniversary Rally last Sunday

Gate Gourmet Workers Angry At Tgwu Officials

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers spoke out angrily yesterday over TGWU officers who are putting pressure on those the company has selected for compulsory...

Time to disband scandal ridden Met police force

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DAME Cressida Dick ‘felt intimidated’ into stepping down as Metropolitan Police Commissioner after an ultimatum from London Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, according to a...
Baha Mousa after UK soldiers tortured him – Dr Keilloh did his best to cover the torture up

KEILLOH STRUCK OFF MEDICAL REGISTER – after Baha Mousa torture

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THE Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) yesterday struck off the medical register former British Army doctor Dr Derek Keilloh after his misconduct over the...

INFLATION IS LET RIP! – to slash the wages of UK workers

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FIGURES released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) yesterday reveal soaring inflation, with the government’s preferred CPI rate hitting 4 per cent in...

Palestine PM Shtayyeh calls to establish state and impose sanctions on Israel

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that the international consensus on establishing the State of Palestine must be translated into practical steps that...
POA members demonstrating against government cuts – their union is demanding an end to privatised prisons

Private Prisons Disaster!

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‘WE HAVE consistently called for the entire prison estate to be brought back into the public sector,’ Peter McParlin, National Chairman of the Prison...
Health workers marching to defend tthe NHS

Burnham Moves To Rescue The Tories

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ANDY Burnham, the shadow health secretary, met with around 40 representatives of leading NHS organisations on Wednesday night, to discuss Labour policy for the...

BIG WAGE AND JOB CUTS IN NORTH – warns TUC

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WORKERS in England’s Northern region are up to £4,264 worse off per year since the Tory-led coalition came to power. The Northern TUC 10-Point Plan...

POINTS INCORRECTLY SET UP – were the cause of Grayrigg disaster

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Rail union RMT yesterday renewed its call for a joint public inquiry into the Grayrigg and Potters Bar rail crashes and a reversal of...

Mosul civilian deaths and refugee crisis – Battle for Mosul intensifies

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HUNDREDS of men, women and children are being killed in US-led air strikes on the city of Mosul in Iraq, and as the battle...
Midwives on the picket line at Ealing Hospital in west London during the October 13 strike

Midwives plan more strikes over pay

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HEAD of the midwives union RCM slammed the Tory government’s attack on NHS workers’ pay in her speech to the RCM conference that...

Both EU and US sending coalitions to Gulf!

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EIGHT EU nations: France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands and Portugual will support a European-led naval mission in the Strait of Hormuz,...
Bombardier workers lobbying parliament demanding action to defend their jobs

Defend Bombardier Jobs!

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A DEPUTATION of Bombardier workers will be meeting with MPs at the House of Commons this morning and will press the government into taking...
Refugees in the Moria camp are in a prison until they are to be moved out of Greece by the police and army. Photo credit: left.gr

Army & police will be deployed in the removal of refugees

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REFUGEES staged protests shouting ‘freedom’, in English, last Wednesday and Thursday, at the main gate of the Moria village ‘Detention Centre,’ that is, concentration...
BMA GPs committee member BETH McCARRON-NASH, GPs committee chairman Dr LAURENCE BUCKMAN, GPs committee member Dr PRIT BUTTAR, and BMA Patient Liason Group member NATALIE TEICH before handing in a 1,236,085-signature petition to Downing Street

DARZAI MUST RESIGN! – says the GPs conference!

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FAMILY doctors yesterday expressed their furious opposition to privately-run polyclinics and voted to take ‘unprecedented action’ in response to ‘unprecedented political threats to general...

‘General strike for Palestine!’ – urges London May Day march

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OVER 5,000 workers, trade unionists and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on May Day yesterday. ‘General strike for Palestine’, chanted the Workers...
Postal workers in the UK marching in Milton Keynes to defend their Mail Centre

3-DAY BELGIAN POSTAL STRIKE! – against the privateers

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Over 30,000 Belgian postal workers began a three-day strike yesterday against privatisation to defend their jobs, pay and working conditions. Postal unions...

200,000 March For Victory To Palestine

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A HUGE 200,000-strong march of workers, students and youth went from Parliament Square to Hyde Park on Saturday, the 13th National demonstration for Palestine...
‘Rail Against Privatisation’ demonstration in London in April 2005

RMT INQUIRY – into Potters Bar crash and Greyrigg derailment

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ON THE eve of the fifth anniversary of the Potters Bar rail crash which killed seven people and injured 70, Britain’s biggest rail union...
SCOTT DORE (centre), WRP candidate for Acton and Ealing Central with supporters campaigning outside Acton College on the final day before polling

Get The Tories Out!

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‘WE WANT the Tories Out!’ They are planning billions more savage cuts in benefits and services’ said Scott Dore, Workers Revolutionary Party general election...
Picket line of parents, teachers and pupils at the Alec Reed Academy in Northolt, during their strike over bullying and harassment

‘Resist and you’ll be sacked!’ – anti-academy heads are being told

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EDUCATION Secretary Gove is ‘irrepairably damaging children’s education’ says Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL). Speaking at the...