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Iraq’s Deputy Oil Minister Kidnapped

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The top American commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus has said he is preparing recommendations on troop reductions before he returns to Washington next...
Palestinian AYSAR SHAMALLAKH (centre in white jacket) on hunger strike in solidarity with over 1,600 hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Picture shows Aysar and supporters demonstrating in Parliament Square on Wednesday evening

‘OUR CHAINS WILL BE BROKEN BEFORE WE ARE’ says Barghouthi

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‘ISRAEL cannot silence us, nor isolate us, nor break us, our chains will be broken before we are,’ Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi has said...

Strike now across Britain and globally to defeat Netanyahu’s Gaza plan!

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MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched through London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday on the 29th National March for Palestine...

MAY HAS UNDERMINED BREXIT says ex-Brexit Under Secretary Steve Baker

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EX-BREXIT Under Secretary of State Steve Baker, who resigned along with Brexit Secretary David Davis, told The Sunday Telegraph that Prime Minister May had...
Chagossians from the oldest to the youngest were demonstrating in Trafalgar Square over the weekend

All generations of Chagossians join fight

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EXILED Chagos Islanders were yesterday continuing their five-day occupation of Trafalgar Square that was launched on Friday. Jean Paul France of the Chagos Islanders...
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’,...

Unemployment highest in 5 years!

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UNEMPLOYMENT in the UK rose to its highest rate in nearly five years at the end of 2025, official figures show. The unemployment rate climbed...

‘Fair Pay Overdue’ Say Rcm Midwives!

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THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched its ‘Fair Pay Overdue’ campaign, demanding an end to the public sector pay cap and a...
Gourmet pickets earlier this month – calling the whole trade union movement to join their march in Southall on December 4

Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers to march through Southall

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LOCKED OUT Gate Gourmet workers are to march through Southall on Sunday December 4th to demand that the TGWU makes their dispute official and...
Striking junior doctors pointed out that they were defending the NHS against a Tory onslaught and that it needed saving

Reading’s massive STP cuts!

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READING Borough Council has become the latest local authority to publish the NHS’s Draft Local Sustainability and Transformation Plan for its...

Tories Savage Unemployed!

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The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) yesterday slammed plans by new Works and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to force five million people...

Ealing strikers in high spirits

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THERE were high spirits on the parking services workers’ picket line outside Ealing Town Hall in west London yesterday morning, with dhol drummers keeping...

Postal Workers Demand Action – As Junior Minister Resigns

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‘We are fighting the government and business now,’ said Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region No.6 branch secretary Paul Olden yesterday. Commenting on the government’s...

1 In 5 Surgeries Face Closure

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ONE in five GP surgeries in London is threatened with closure within three years because of lack of staff, funding and pay, the Local...

A&E closures putting lives at risk

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THE MASS closure of A&E’s at hospitals around the country has created a situation where many patients now live in A&E ‘black spots,’ where...

Mexican forces attack caravan

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CHILDREN went missing yesterday as a US-bound caravan of refugees clashed with Mexican forces under instruction from President Trump to block them from entering...

Hands off fire service says Norfolk

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THE Police and Crime Commissioner’s (PCC) proposal to take control of Norfolk fire service will put ‘public safety at risk’, a councillor has said. Norfolk...
Post Office workers rally yesterday afternoon in Westminster while striking to keep Crown Post Offices open

Crown Post Office Massive Strike Action

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CROWN Post Office workers, all over the country walked out at 12.30pm sharp yesterday, in an effort to persuade the government to halt...
National Union of Journalists protest in March against Murdoch domination of the media

Brooks Arrested! – ‘Timing Stinks’ Says Dowler Family Lawyer

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FORMER News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was yesterday arrested ‘on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications’ and on ‘suspicion of corruption allegations’. In a...

TORIES MOVE TO ILLEGALISE STRIKES! – Unite offers ‘constructive discussions’

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‘THE government’s proposals on union ballots will make legal strikes close to impossible,’ TUC leader Francis O’Grady said yesterday. She was responding to an announcement...

Nurseries Crisis!

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NEW government funding proposals will force nursery schools to close, warns the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT). Yesterday was the deadline for submissions to...
CWU leaders DAVE WARD (second left) and BILLY HAYES (fifth right) on the Crown Post Office picket line in Stockwell

No Crown Post Office closures!

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FOUR THOUSAND workers in Britain’s network of 371 Crown Post Offices are on strike today against the government’s policy of wholesale closures and in...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers marching through Southall on August 20 this year to mark the first yearof their struggle. Now they are campaigning for a successful rally this Sunday on the eve of their employment tribunal

Gate Gourmet Rally This Sunday

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are inviting all trade unionists and their families and friends to come to their rally in Southall Community Centre, Merrick...

Milwaukee uprising after police shooting

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CROWDS of protesters gathered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Saturday night after a police officer fatally shot a fleeing man. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett appealed for...

Sinn Féin win 37 seats in Irish election!

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SINN Féin was celebrating the results of the Irish elections yesterday which saw them as the second biggest party, winning 37 seats – an...

Labour in revolt against Starmer

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DOWNING Street has signalled it is preparing compromises in a bid to quell a major rebellion by Labour MPs over welfare reforms, with more...

Notts College Industrial Action Ballot

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MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at Nottingham College began balloting for industrial action yesterday as part of a row over new...
Greek youth, part of the massive demonstration that marched to the US and Israeli embassies in support of the Palestinian people

50,000 Greek Workers March For Palestine

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OVER 50,000 students, youth and workers marched through the Athens city centre last Saturday to the American Embassy and then to the Israeli Embassy. They...
Students joined lecturers’ picket line during their strike action earlier this month

Gate Gourmet workers win support for march

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers are campaigning every day for their march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th March. Lakhinder Saran told News Line yesterday: ‘I went...
WRP candidate JONTY LEFF is getting great support for the party’s policies from young people

Vote WRP Vote Leff in Hackney South and Shoreditch

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‘I AM voting for Jonty Leff Workers Revolutionary Party because I want the Tories out and I want a party which is going to...

Corbyn demands that May resign!

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SPEAKING in central London yesterday morning, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called on PM May to resign. He said: ‘The prime minister called this election...

Bankrupt Budget!

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In his first budget, Chancellor Darling hit the working class and middle class with big hikes in alcohol, tobacco and vehicle taxes while giving...
British Airways cabin crew march at Heathrow last June during their strike action in defence of jobs and conditions

WORKERS FACE PAY FREEZES – as prices soar

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The class struggle is set to escalate sharply in the new year as workers and their families face soaring food and fuel prices, while...

128,000 children homeless this Christmas – says Shelter

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THE FACT that 128,000 children in Britain will wake up homeless and in temporary accommodation this Christmas Day is a ‘national scandal’, the leader...
BMA delegates at their Annual Representative Meeting applaud BMA acting chairman Everington after his address yesterday

‘A RECIPE FOR PRIVATISATION’ – BMA rep slams NHS ‘board of governors’ plan

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The BMA leadership was defeated yesterday when the association’s Annual Representative Meeting overwhelmingly carried Motion 65 against the purchaser-provider split in the NHS. This split...

Greek Bankworkers Fight Sackings

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GREEK bankworkers at the Piraeus Bank went on a national strike last Friday against mass sackings. On the orders of the EU all Greek...

Strike Breaker Gove Is Condemned!

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Schools unions have reacted angrily to a letter to heads from education secretary Gove, advocating strike breaking during their June 30 pensions action. His letter...

‘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...

‘Tortured on a daily basis’ – declare Palestinian prisoners

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PALESTINIAN Resistance Movement Hamas said that it made every effort to safeguard the lives of its captives in Gaza, the final 20 of whom were...
Junior doctors, health workers and supporters joined the mass picket outside St Thomas’ Hospital during the January 12th nationwide strike – they are out again on February 10th

Junior doctors strike on!

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THE JUNIOR doctors strike, on Wednesday February 10th will go ahead, doctors union the BMA announced yesterday. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Despite the...
Youth and students in their tens of thousands marched for free education and to defend the EMA last November

‘WE ARE DETERMINED TO DEFEAT THE COALITION!’ – says Campaign Against Cuts & Fees

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‘We are determined to proceed with our march today and defeat the government’, said the National Campaign Against Cuts and Fees (NCACF). The Committee...
Banner with a vivid message on the powerful 20,000-strong march against the closure of Lewisham Hospital last November

OCCUPY LEWISHAM HOSPITAL! – Administrator threatens closure

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Unions and local campaigners responded with fury yesterday after the Coalition’s ‘special administrator’ Matthew Kershaw called for the winding up of the South London...
Midwives demand ‘No cuts’ to the NHS

Cameron Breaks His NHS Spending Pledge

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Prime minister Cameron has broken the coalition’s pledge to increase funding for the NHS, both Labour and the Institute of Fiscal Studies have warned. Labour’s...