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Migrant workers demanding no deportations and that all migrants should have basic rights including the right to free health care

TREAT ALL ASYLUM SEEKERS – demand doctors

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A group of doctors has challenged the UK government over plans to deny GP care to failed asylum seekers, saying they breach medical ethics...

CRASH GOES INDUSTRY! – while A&L profits fall to £2m

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A group from ‘Tent City’ occupation in Wembley occupied the London headquarters of ARK (Actual Return for Kids) the proposed sponsors of the Wembley...

KEEP POISONS SERVICE OPEN – demands Unite union

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‘The welfare of cats and dogs will come before the fall-out from any terrorist attack in London under the capital’s new poison strategy’, warns...

BRITAIN CAVES IN TO SAUDIS – powerful capitalists are ‘above the law’

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Britain was yesterday accused of ‘caving in to the Saudis’ after the House of Lords overturned the High Court’s ruling that the government broke...

Zimbabwe – Talks Break Up

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Talks in South Africa on Zimbabwe’s political crisis broke up yesterday with no power-sharing deal achieved between President Robert Mugabe and the ...
National Union of Journalists banner on the anti-Iraq war demonstration last March

COVER UP! – no action over the killing of journalist Terry Lloyd

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The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) yesterday condemned the British state’s refusal to prosecute US Marines over the ‘unlawful killing’ of ITN journalist Terry...

TORTURE! – MPs committee given ‘wrong evidence’

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MPs and peers on the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights are demanding answers from defence chiefs over ‘discrepancies’ in their evidence to the...
Local Enfield residents are determined to keep their local Chase Farm hospital open and will be marching today

‘we’ll Keep Chase Farm Open’

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‘I AM confident that we will see thousands on today’s march to keep Chase Farm Hospital open’, said Bill Rogers secretary of the...
Hamas members campaigning in the election which established a National Unity government

TALK TO HAMAS urges House of Commons Committee

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The UK House of Commons International Development Committee has called for dialogue with Hamas. The US, UK and EU refuse to speak to...
Pickets outside passport office in Victoria, central London, yesterday on the first day of their three-day strike

Civil Servants Start 3 Day Strike

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CIVIL servants picketing the London Identity and Passport Service Office (IPS) by Victoria Station, in London, had run out of leaflets yesterday, such was...
Family members gather around Stockwell shrine on 3rd anniversary of the the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday

STATE EXECUTION – 3rd anniversary of de Menezes murder

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FRIENDS and family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday marked the third anniversary of the young Brazilian’s killing by a police death squad who...
Labour has already shut down 30 Remploy factories, putting large numbers of disabled workers out of a job

LABOUR, THE BANKERS FRIEND – turns on the unemployed

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‘With the economy slowing down, and many commentators expecting unemployment to rise, now is not the time to start blaming the victim,’ said TUC...

OUTSOURCING FOR TORTURE – House of Commons Committee demands investigation

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THE House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has called for an investigation into whether the British Labour government outsourced British nationals to countries such...
Bailiffs cutting their way through the chain binding occupier Hank Roberts to a pole

Bailiffs invade Brent occupation

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THIRTY policemen and 20 bailiffs invaded the Wembley Park Sports Ground anti-academy occupation at 6.30am Friday morning and used grinding equipment to remove Hank...

‘lives Will Be Lost If Chase Farm Closes’

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‘I HAVE to come on the march to save my job and to save lives. If Chase Farm closes, lives will be lost,’ nurse...

Sack Sats Private Contractors – Says Nasuwt

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TEACHING trade unions have condemned the government’s use of private contractors, hired to mark school children’s ‘SATs’ exam papers. The condemnation was in response to...
Local residents, staff, trade unionists and young people joined a march last November to oppose plans to close Chase Farm. They will march again on Saturday July 26 to save the hospital

‘Save Chase Farm – Save Lives’

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THERE was a lively campaign yesterday, as local people joined in and gave out leaflets for the North East London Council of...
Striking UNISON and Unite members demonstrating in the centre of London yesterday

PAY CUTS – NOW WAY! say council strikers

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‘CUT our pay – no way!’, ‘Two per cent is rubbish, so is Gordon Brown!’ and ‘Come on, come on Gordon Brown – raise...

COUNCILS OUT! – 800,000 take strike action

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OVER 800,000 Unite and UNISON council workers in England, Wales and the north of Ireland are taking strike action today and tomorrow, furious at...
Enthusiastic pickets at the front of Chase Farm Hospital early yesterday morning determined to keep the hospital open

We’Re Marching To Save Chase Farm Hospital

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HUNDREDS of angry workers, patients, trade unionists and youth joined the mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield yesterday. They all said they were...

‘SHOCKING ABUSE!’ – at the hands of the state

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PEOPLE who have fled to Britain, seeking help and refuge, are suffering horrifying violence at the hands of the British state, it was alleged...
The front of last November’s 3,000-strong march through Enfield against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

‘We won’t let Chase Farm close’

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ENFIELD residents told News Line yesterday: we won’t let Chase Farm close! Stuart Hasler, a young Enfield resident, who joined in the campaigning and gave...

FBU condemns strikebreakers!

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The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) yesterday expressed ‘deep concern’ over secret plans to hire Group 4 private strike breakers in a £100m contract. A FBU...
Last November’s 3,000-strong march through Enfield organised by the Council of Action to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

‘March With US To Stop Chase Farm Closure!’

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THE North-East London Council of Action yesterday called on everyone opposed to the threatened closure of Chase Farm Hospital’s Accident and Emergency department and...

FBU ‘will Strike Against Wage Cuts’

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AROUND 100 members of the Fire Brigades Union from across London lobbied talks at ACAS yesterday, where FBU leaders warned the employers they would...
South-East London Council of Action members along with users of the ‘Peckham Spike’ community project  lobbying Southwark Town Hall on Wednesday evening

Mass Lobby Of Southwark Town Hall

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MORE than 100 people staged a mass lobby of Southwark Town Hall in south London on Wednesday night. The rain did not dampen their spirits,...

PRIVATISATION DRIVE – being stepped up by Brown

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‘It is appalling that this Labour government is now more obsessed with selling off our public services to put profits in the pockets of...
BMA delegates during a break at their Annual Representative Meeting

NHS CO-PAYMENTS DEFEATED – at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting

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THE BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) on Wednesday morning narrowly voted against part five of motion 269, which ‘demands that the government must permit...
BMA junior doctors set up a tent outside their conference yesterday to warn about junior doctors being made homeless by the taking away of their free hospital accommodation support

NHS Bosses Won’t Talk To Bma!

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THE British Medical Association yesterday criticised NHS employers for refusing to enter into talks over the loss of hospital accommodation support. From August 2008, junior...
Doctors at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh yesterday

Darzi Rejected – Bma Conference Votes For No NHS Privatisation!

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DOCTORS at the Annual Representative Meeting of the British Medical Association in Edinburgh yesterday voted to stop the privatisation of the NHS, and voted...
The march of more than 3,000 people organised by the North East London Council of Action last November against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield. The Council of Action has called for another mass march on July 26

TIME TO DEFEND NHS! – message for BMA ARM

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DOCTORS will be challenging the government’s privatisation of the NHS at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh, which starts today. On this...

NHS PAYMENTS! – warning from UNISON

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UNISON, the UK’s largest public sector union, yesterday raised concerns over the consequences of introducing individual budgets outlined in yesterday’s ‘Primary and Community Care’...

PCS & Prospect take action at the British Museum

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‘Kick ancient pay out of our museum’ said placards carried by 300 British Museum staff out yesterday against what amounts to a public sector...

Oil $146 A Barrel – Gm Is Going Broke

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The price of oil continued to soar yesterday, with Brent crude rising above $146 per barrel (p.b.) for the first time ever. Brent crude...
A section of the mass demonstration outside Parliament of road hauliers from throughout the UK demanding Brown act on high fuel prices

Hauliers Have Had Enough!

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Over 900 road hauliers and independent truckers, descended on Parliament yesterday to lobby their MPs to urgently and immediately reduce the price of fuel....

SHARES CRASH! – GM down $51bn in 3 years

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YESTERDAY’S shares collapse across the globe was blamed by economists on record inflation, record oil prices and fears of more banks...
A group of Chagos Islanders outside the Houses of Parliament with GMB official PAUL MALONEY

‘WE MUST RETURN TO DIEGO GARCIA’ say Chagos islanders

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‘We will return to our islands,’ chanted over 150 Chagos islanders, British trade unionists and youth outside the House of Lords yesterday. The mass picket...