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Bodies of some of the large numbers of Palestinians slain in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in 1982 in Lebanon by Phalangists who were allowed into the camp by Israeli soldiers, the same year as an Israeli submarine sank a Lebanese refugee ship

Israel Admits Sinking Lebanese Refugee Ship

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ISRAEL has officially admitted that its military ordered a deadly attack on a Lebanese ship carrying refugees during the regime’s invasion of the country...

May’s ‘sweetheart deal’ for Surrey council exposed

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday accused ministers of agreeing a ‘sweetheart deal’ to ensure a Conservative-controlled council dropped plans to raise council tax by...

BROWNE HANGS ON! – as establishment closes ranks

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Yesterday afternoon the establishment closed ranks to prop up the wobbling Labour government and its defence secretary Des Browne. Following Browne’s statement to the House...
Marchers in London during the 2006 Israeli attack on the Lebanon demanding ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘Don’t attack Iran’

COMPLY OR ELSE! – US, UK, France warn Iran

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‘COMPLY or face the consequences,’ was the message delivered by President Obama and his puppets Brown and Sarkozy to the Iranian government yesterday morning. Iran...
Marchers show their enthusiasm and determination before the march started in Southall yesterday

‘We will reopen Ealing Maternity!’

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OVER 500 workers and youth marched to Ealing Hospital yesterday on the day that its Maternity Unit was closed, pledging that they would battle...

Israeli bombers target schools

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THE Palestinian Hamas resistance movement strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s targeting of schools sheltering internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip yesterday, describing the...

Tuc Condemns Attack On Single Parents

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The TUC and single parent charity Gingerbread yesterday condemned the Work and Pensions Secretary Purnell’s decision to press ahead with ‘welfare to work’ plans...
Police attack demonstrators in Ladbroke Grove, North Kensington

Thatcher Used Riots To Boost The State!

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Margaret Thatcher considered arming the police during the riots of 1981, whilst a section of her government counselled that Liverpool should be abandoned to...
Gate Gourmet workers campaigning against their sacking by venture capitalist Texas Pacific at the recent TGWU biennial conference

Bank Hints At Rate Rises To Come

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‘It is too soon to tell how far the disruption in financial markets will impair the availability of credit to companies and households,’ said...

2,000 Cultural Workers against Genocide march on Downing St

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MORE than 2,000 actors, dancers and other artists marched from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden central London to 10 Downing Street on...

3.7m FAMILIES ARE JOBLESS!

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THE UK economy will contract by 0.7 per cent this year, the OECD said yesterday, in a sharply revised prediction from that made in...

Tories drop debate and vote

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THE GOVERNMENT has dropped the debate and vote on The Financial Services Bill which seeks to secure funds that can be released if there...
Striking dock workers march in the port of Piraeus

Greek Dockers Strike Against Privatisation

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GREEK dockworkers at the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki began 48-hour ‘rolling’ strikes on Thursday against the privatisation of the ports. Athens...
Supporters of the Sussex occupation lobby the Royal Court of Justice

Students fight injunction against Sussex occupation

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OCCUPIERS at the University of Sussex are fighting a court injunction to forcibly remove them from the campus. Students at the university have been occupying...
Angry residents demonstrate against the Forest Gate police raid

Second Forest Gate Inquiry

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) announced yesterday it is to conduct a second inquiry into last month’s armed police raid in Forest Gate. The...
Residents & GPs demonstrate against the takeover of St Paul’s Way GP surgery in Bow, by private company Atos Healthcare

HANDS OFF OUR GP SURGERY! – 200 residents & GPs protest against privatisation

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‘PATIENTS before profits, defend the NHS!’ shouted around 200 demonstrators outside St Paul’s Way General Practice yesterday, opposing the take-over of the doctors surgery...

RMT OUT SOLID! – after LUL board scuppers peace formula

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‘We anticipate the London Underground strike will be solid as it was last time’, rail union RMT said yesterday. A RMT spokesman told News Line:...

MARCH WITH US THROUGH SOUTHALL say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to join them on their march through Southall on Sunday December...
Serco strikers at Bart’s NHS Trust on the picket line at the London Hospital

Serco strikers want national demo!

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‘THERE needs to be a national demonstration. British Airways, the Bank of England, and Serco workers, we are all on strike because we have...

‘The World Must Act Now Or Never For A Palestinian State’

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FATAH issued a warning yesterday that the annexation issue is still a dangerously imminent issue on the table. In a statement, the movement cautioned that...

33 INSURGENTS FREED – in daring raid near Baquba

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Iraqi insurgents freed 33 of their comrades in a daring pre-dawn raid on a puppet authority jail north of Baghdad yesterday. At least 18 puppet...

3-quarters of medium-rises use combustible material!

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THREE-QUARTERS of cladding systems on new medium-rise buildings use combustible materials, data show. These include 76 schools, 25 hospitals, nursing homes, hospices and older people’s...
Ambulance workers marching on a TUC demonstration against cuts

A&E staffing levels crisis

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UNIONS warned yesterday that savage cuts to ambulance services and staffing levels are causing the A&E crisis to ‘spiral out of control’ and ‘will...

MIGRANT WORKERS ARE SUPER-EXPLOITED AT STANSTEAD AIRPORT says GMB

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Migrant workers are being shortchanged by enforced ‘self-employment’ status, says the GMB trade union. The GMB yesterday called on aircraft services company Swissport to directly...
Protesters outside Downing Street on July 11 condemned Israeli war crimes against Lebanon – Amnesty International has said Israel bombed  civilians deliberately

Israel in crisis over failed war

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Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert is under pressure to authorise an independent commission of inquiry into the conduct of the recently failed war in...
Workers from the Ryton factory joined French Peugeot workers to lobby the company shareholders’ AGM in Paris last month

Ryton Workers Condemn Hodge

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COMMENTS in Parliament by Labour minister Margaret Hodge and Labour MP Brian Donohoe, which were critical of the unions’ call for car buyers not...

CONSULTANTS TO STRIKE ON 2, 3, & 4th OCTOBER!

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CONSULTANTS in England ended two days of strike action at 7am today. In the absence of any progress in discussions with the government, they will...

‘ZERO CHANCE OF TRANSPORT DEAL’ – RMT warns Johnson government

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RMT WARNS there is zero chance of agreement to government plans to increase transport services on 11th May in the current climate, as a...
Junior doctors marched through central London three days before their second strike – they call for Jeremy Hunt to go!

‘HUNT MUST GO!’ – ‘No confidence’ petition reaches 284,244

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A PETITION calling for a vote of no confidence in Tory Health Minister Jeremy Hunt reached 284,244 signatures by yesterday afternoon, after his decision...

Zambian villagers sue mining giant

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1,800 Zambian villagers are taking legal action in the High Court in London against UK based mining giant Vedanta Resources Plc and Konkola Copper...

Syriza Submits To Troika

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THE Greek government decided on Saturday to accept all terms laid down in a statement agreed at last Friday’s Eurogroup Finance Ministers’ meeting that...

Blair accused of war crimes!

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‘THIS man is a war criminal,’ a protester shouted at former prime minister Blair at the Leveson Inquiry in the courtroom of the Royal...
KIFA  MUNTARI (left, now deceased) and Baha Mousa’s father DAOUD MOUSA (second left) with lawyers at the High Court in London in 2004, after his son’s brutal death at the hands of British troops in southern Iraq

Baha Mousa torture inquiry conceded by Defence Secretary

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Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti and Public Interest Lawyers solicitor Phil Shiner yesterday welcomed an announcement by the Secretary of State for Defence of an...

‘Only come in if you’re dying’ – Suffolk A&E

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NHS Suffolk warned patients not to visit A&E over the Bank Holiday weekend unless they are dying. The primary care trust said it stood...
Nurses demonstrate in Parliament Square against the pay cap

AUSTERITY MUST END NOW! says Unite’s McCluskey as nurses’ leader quits

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‘AUSTERITY must end now,’ Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey said yesterday, on the eve of the TUC Congress, following the announcement that the UK...

‘Thousands will back tanker drivers!’

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PEOPLE'S fuel lobby leader Andrew Spence yesterday said: ‘Thousands will back a Unite tanker driver members strike’. He told News Line: ‘It’s not just truck...

‘PALESTINIAN STATE NOW’! – demands Ambassador to UK Husam Zomlot

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‘WE need the recognition of the State of Palestine immediately, Mr Starmer, don’t wait one more day,’ Husam Zomlot, Palestinian Ambassador the UK said...
FBU members march with Grenfell survivors

Fire Deaths Up–Funding Down!

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THE FBU has revealed that firefighters dealt with more incidents, more fires and saw more fire deaths last year than for most of the...

Corbyn-Watson differ over Trump and Brexit

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LABOUR Party deputy leader Tom Watson yesterday claimed that right wing shadow ministers who quit Labour’s front bench in a row over the...
Head teachers marching on Downing Street demanding more funding – teachers have been offered a ‘derisory’ 2% ‘pay rise’

2% austerity ‘pay rise’ for teachers!

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TEACHERS unions reacted angrily to the news yesterday that the Tories are once again to hold their wage ‘increase’ at just 2%, well below...

Greek Students & Workers March Against Private Universities!

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TENS of thousands of Greek university and school students, along with teachers and universities’ staff, participated in protest marches in all major cities against...

POLICE RAID ON NOTTING HILL – stun grenades used by armed police

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Yesterday, police said that two more of the alleged 21 July would-be London bombers were now in custody after a series of armed raids...

London Hospital strikers demand safe staffing and a decent wage!

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THERE was a very lively and well-attended rally at the front of the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday lunchtime, with delegations of Unite...

Free School–‘financial misconduct’

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KINGS Science Academy in Bradford, one of the government’s flagship free schools, has been accused of serious financial mismanagement. An Education Funding Agency (EFA) report...