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Barristers and solicitors demonstrated outside Parliament during a strike last year against legal aid cuts

Barristers strike against legal aid cuts!

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‘THOSE who cannot afford to pay for a solicitor, and those who are denied legal aid, are suffering at the hands of the government’,...

Mobilise Against Starvation And Genocide!

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THE Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported yesterday afternoon that 109 Palestinians were killed and 216 others injured in the escalating Israeli...
Firefighters on a national march through Liverpool in support of the struggle against cuts in the fire service in the north west

Firefighter Heroes

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East Sussex Chief Fire Officer Des Pritchard yesterday paid a moving tribute to the two fire crew who died, and the nine firefighters, one...
Striking civil servants applauding a call from the Prison Officers Association for a general strike

POA call for general strike outside parliament

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STRIKING civil servants clapped and cheered a call for a general strike at a rally outside parliament yesterday. A message of support and solidarity was...
Pakistanis demonstrate against the Musharaff dictatorship outside 10 Downing Street on November 10th

BHUTTO KILLED BY THE MILITARY – Revolution erupts throughout Pakistan

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Yesterday, at 6.16pm local time (13.16 GMT), Pakistan Peoples Party leader Benazir Bhutto died in Rawalpindi General Hospital after being shot in the neck...

Teacher Unions Vote To Strike

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THE NUT and NASUWT teachers unions voted overwhelmingly for strike action at their annual conferences over the weekend. Speaking after the Priority Motion on Pensions...

French police smash up refugee camp! – as Polish forces attack refugees

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FRENCH police have smashed up a large refugee camp on its northern coast where increasing numbers of people hoping to reach the UK had...

Hezbollah denies responsibility for deaths!

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HEZBOLLAH issued a statement yesterday categorically denying Israeli allegations that it was responsible for the killing of 12 children on a football field in...

No Deadline For Shalit Prisoner Exchange

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A spokesman for the men holding Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit captive in Gaza said yesterday that no deadline had been imposed on a potential...
A section of ‘Our West Hendon’ tenants and supporters determined to defend their rights

‘We’re fighting for our rights!’ say West Hendon tenants

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OVER 250 tenants and supporters at the West Hendon estate in north London yesterday packed the community centre on the estate for a meeting...

Rolls-Royce 94% ‘YES’ for strike! – after threat to move entire operation to Singapore

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WORKERS at the historic Rolls-Royce plant in Barnoldswick have voted 94% ‘YES’ for strike action in opposition to plans to move the site to...

Call For Day Of Action At The Bma

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A FIERY and chaotic debate took place at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) on Labour’s health policy yesterday. At it the ARM representatives strongly...
The new 30x6ft banner erected outside Chase Farm Hospital that replaces the 3x3ft sign that was there when a 2-year-old child was taken by his mother to what she thought was the A&E, only to find the door to the Urgent Care Centre was locked. The child di

Chase Farm ‘needs its A&E back – not a new sign!’

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ON 15th January a two-year-old child died at North Middlesex Hospital after having been taken to Chase Farm Hospital. The baby’s name was Muhammad Hashir...
A section of the over 120,000-strong march in London last Saturday against the Israeli onslaught on Gaza

Israel breaks ceasefire

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INTENSE clashes erupted yesterday morning between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in the southeastern Gaza Strip amid confirmed reports that an Israeli soldier has...
Student nurses and midwives marching to demand their bursaries are restored – on A-level results day figures reveal student applications for nursing have plummeted

Students driven out of university

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AXING student grants while hiking up university fees to an eyewatering £9,500 a year has driven tens of thousands of students out of education,...

MAY QUITS! Now bring down Tories

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AT 10:36 yesterday morning PM May announced that she will resign as PM on June 7. She said: ‘I have agreed with the Party Chairman...
Watford postal workers outside the CWU conference in Bournemouth on Friday

‘WE ARE READY FOR A FIGHT’ – CWU postal worker delegates speak to News...

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Postal workers at the CWU Conference in Bournemouth said yesterday they are ready for a fight to defend their jobs, wages and the postal...

Gaza – Red Cross insists that the lives of hospital workers must not be...

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THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stressed that hospitals must be a safe place to guarantee human safety and protection. The spokesman for...

SUPPORT GROWS FOR 25th MARCH

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are campaigning all week for their march through Hounslow this Saturday. Yesterday morning a delegation of locked-out workers visited Greenford Royal...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers campaigning at Heathrow airport and winning big support

Baggage Handlers Support Gg Workers

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers got great support when they visited Heathrow Airport yesterday in their campaign for their public meeting on Sunday November 5th. Many...

Starmer Launches War On Benefits And Youth!

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THE STARMER Labour government is launching its war on the sick, the disabled and the unemployed, with the youth particularly targeted, as it brings...
WRP candidate ANNA ATHOW (centre) got a lot of support in her campaign outside Haringey sixth form college yesterday

Support for WRP’s Anna Athow in Hornsey & Wood Green

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ANNA ATHOW, WRP candidate for Hornsey and Wood Green, was campaigning with a team outside Haringey Sixth Form College yesterday. Talking to youth about their...

‘Sleepwalking towards another catastrophe’ – FBU statement marking 2 years since Grenfell fire

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‘WE RISK sleepwalking into another catastrophic loss of life. We demand urgent action from the government to ensure that the events of Grenfell Tower...

‘WE REJECT WAGE CUTS!’ – say UNISON & GMB spokeswomen

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‘We reject public sector pay cuts,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday. She was responding to remarks by chancellor Darling yesterday, where...

PCS SLAMS £15bn CUTS PLAN

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THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) warned that further spending cuts will damage services and jeopardise the delivery of government policies as it...
Health workers marching through London in May 2013 – protesting against plans to cut and close A&Es

‘A&E SERVICES ARE AT BREAKING POINT!’ – due to government changes

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HEALTH Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has agreed to the relaxing of ambulance response times for some ‘Red 2’ category patients, which include those with...

Strike till CPE is withdrawn

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More than 2,000 students meeting outside the entrance of Jussieu university in the centre of Paris yesterday afternoon voted virtually unanimously to strike until...
Demonstration in January last year in Haringey against the imposition of Academy schools

‘We are a hideously unequal society’ says NUT leader Christine Blower

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‘IN a country like ours, how can it be that one in five children lives in poverty? How can it be that one in three...

Syria hands Russia proof ‘rebels’ behind chemical attack

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SYRIA has handed over ‘material evidence’ to Russia proving that foreign-backed terrorists were behind a recent chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus. The...

Gaza workers closure protest

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HUNDREDS of workers protested on Monday in front of the al-Awda biscuit factory in Deir al-Balah in Gaza in Palestine, after the plant was...
Women social security workers. Banner reads ‘We continue our struggle’

‘We Will Continue Our Struggle’ Say Greek Workers

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TENS of thousands of public sector workers demonstrated in all the Greek major cities last Thursday as part of a 24-hour national strike called...

SNP 2nd Scottish Referendum

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‘I WILL now take the steps necessary to make sure that Scotland will have the choice at the end of this process,’ Scottish Nationalist...

Vote ‘yes’ RCN urges 300,000 nurses as new strike ballot opens

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‘THIS IS unfinished business,’ said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen yesterday, urging members to vote YES as the union opened...
Doctors at the British Medical Association Annual Representative Meeting in June voting to keep privateers out of the NHS

PRIVATE CENTRE ‘RISKED PATIENTS’ SAFETY’ – alleges GP

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A privately-run NHS walk-in centre has been forced to launch a probe after complaints by a doctor about the safety of patients were...

US government shutdown – Trump threatens mass sackings

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THE United States government shut down yesterday after last-ditch efforts by lawmakers to pass a spending bill failed. Speaking to reporters at the White House,...

Midwives angry over pensions attack

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MIDWIVES remain angry over the government’s attack on public sector pensions, warned the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday. Jon Skewes, director of employment...

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...
TGWU DHL pickets outside Iceland distribution depot in Enfield are determined to win their struggle

‘OUR MEMBERS ARE STRONG’ – say T&G at Enfied Iceland depot

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‘Our members are solid’, Iceland distribution depot, Enfield, TGWU convenor Dave Brace told News Line on the morning picket line yesterday. The strikers are fighting...
Grenfell Tower survivors demanding justice – many consider that they will not get it from the current establishment-dominated inquiry

‘THE NIGHTMARE IS CONTINUING!’ –‘Inquiry’ angers survivors

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‘THE NIGHTMARE continues as it was like the first night,’ Shah Aghlani, who lost his mother and aunt in the Grenfell fire, said...

Energy Price Rise Bombshell

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UNISON leader Dave Prentis has warned that the massive 10 per cent price hike announced by the British Gas energy privateer yesterday will lead...

Kiev Attacks Civilians

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KIEV forces have been attacking civilians in residential areas in east Ukraine over the last few days. This is in spite of the promise by...

Russia Rejects Brown Attack

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In comments published yesterday, prime minister Brown called for a ‘root and branch’ review of the EU and NATO’s relations with Moscow to prevent...

Children and civilians deliberately targeted by Israeli drone attacks!

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A RETIRED British surgeon recently returned from Gaza, testified to British MPs that he treated children and civilians who appeared to have been deliberately...

HARSH AUSTERITY MEASURES TO BE IMPOSED says Ex-BoE governor Mervyn King

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AUSTERITY measures set to be imposed on the working class by the collapsing Tory government will be harsher than those endured for the past...
Physiotherapists on the picket line at St George’s Hospital in south west London last November 30 – any future action will be joined by the BMA

Bma–Industrial Action Over Pensions

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The British Medical Association (BMA) has requested an urgent meeting with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in a further effort to re-start talks...