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Junior doctors condemn Hunt and his campaign to impose a contract and impose 7-day working without 7-day funding

May keeps Hunt as NHS Secretary

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TORY Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and ex-Education Secretary Michael Gove were both sacked from the Tory cabinet yesterday as new Tory PM Theresa May...

Russian trucks cross border!

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RUSSIA has accused Kiev of deliberately holding up the delivery of Russian humanitarian aid to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in eastern Ukraine, according...
Tenant Joan Elsby and her son Kevin with Crown Properties executive Nick Wood, BBC cameras looking on.

Haringey Tenants Evicted!

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FURIOUS tenants remaining at Connaught House in Muswell Hill vented their anger at bailiffs yesterday at 12 noon as evictions took place of families,...

US forced to call an immediate Gaza ceasefire!

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced that the United States has circulated a draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an...

‘No credible route to a zero Covid UK’ says Johnson setting out ‘road map...

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‘THERE IS no credible route to a zero Covid Britain or indeed a zero Covid world,’ Tory PM Johnson told Parliament yesterday, setting out...

Aylesbury solitary confinement

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THE Aylesbury Young Offender Institution in Buckinghamshire has been locking up hundreds of teenage prisoners in their cells in solitary confinement for over 23-hours...
Junior doctors taking strike action against an imposed contract said they were fighting to save the NHS. Now everybody must join this fight

Stop NHS privatisation! Stop bed cuts! Unions must act!

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THE GMB has demanded answers over a plan to privatise services at Barnsley Hospital in a desperate bid to save cash. The trust which runs...

Bma Condemns ‘Junk Healthcare’

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GPs in the West Midlands are up in arms over plans to franchise out services along the lines of fast food outlets or estate...
Determined CWU picket line at Crawley Delivery Office on July 13th

ROYAL MAIL PENSIONS FURY –call for indefinite action as 24hour strikes due to start

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ROYAL Mail workers are resuming their strike action tonight, furious at leaked Post Office plans to smash up their pensions. The massive Mail Centres employing...
Marchers in London this month to defend the rights of disabled people, demanding ‘Don’t disable us – enable us!’

‘PATIENTS TORTURED’ – at a charge of £3,500 a week

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A STORM of anger has erupted following the broadcast of Tuesday night’s BBC Panorama programme, which revealed terrible abuse of vulnerable adults at a...
Local government workers lobbying over their pay last month – facing Labour imposed wage cuts and inflation – while Labour MPs live off the fat of the land

MPs GRAVY TRAIN EXPOSED

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Former Deputy Prime Minister Prescott claimed £4,000 in a year expenses to purchase food, while his former boss Blair even...

IRAN FREES SAILORS – as a gift to the British people

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‘Although Iran has the right to prosecute them by following the model of the Prophet, the fifteen people are pardoned and their freedom given...

Hundreds of thousands denied a pay rise

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CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak was accused yesterday by the Unite union of having ‘a selective memory’ when it comes to public sector pay, rewarding some...

US threatens Ukraine intervention if conflict escalates

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AMERICAN and allied forces may directly intervene in the ongoing Ukraine conflict against Russia even without a threat to any member of the US-led...
Riot police attack students on the stairs to the Vouli (Greek parliament) building in Athens last Thursday. Photo credit: MARIOS LOLOS

‘We are the opposition!’ – Greek teachers storm parliament

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GREEK striking teachers along with students staged yet another magnificent march of over 6,000 last Thursday against the hated government Education Bill. Once...
Firefighters outside Central Hall Westminster yesterday before going on to lobby MPs against plans to make savage cuts to the fire service

‘CUTS WILL COST LIVES!’ – FBU leader Wrack warns

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‘CUTS will cost lives,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) general secretary Matt Wrack insisted yesterday. He was addressing a 500-strong rally in Westminster of FBU delegations...
Health workers forced to take strike action – demanding that every health worker gets a 1% increase!

Raise productivity and cut welfare say Tories

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RATHER that waiting to make a statement to the new parliament, Tory Chancellor George Osborne announced through the Sun newspaper on Saturday that he...
President ASSAD and his wife ASMA vote in Damascus

Syria Goes To The Polls

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SYRIANS were voting in parliamentary elections yesterday, with the ceasefire holding and the Syrian government gaining more ground against terrorists in the war-hit country. Over...
Student nurses marching in London on Saturday demanding that their bursaries be maintained

‘Don’t cut our bursaries!’ say student nurses

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‘BURSARIES or bust! Jeremy bite the dust!’ chanted over a thousand student nurses as they marched to Downing Street on Saturday in their campaign...

Russia Hits Isis Targets

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AN ISIS HQ, command point and an ammo depot in Syria were destroyed by Russian military night operations on Wednesday, it was revealed yesterday. Footage...

‘Something rotten at the heart of Labour’ – Labour disaffiliation: Bakers to consult members

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THE LEFT-wing Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) yesterday announced the launch of an upcoming membership consultation on whether the trade union should...

DON’T DEPORT OKAFOR-MEFOR – urge five trade union leaders

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For the first time an alliance of General Secretaries of trade unions has come together in support of Alphonsus Uche Okafor-Mefor, a Nigerian refugee...

British pilots flying US drones

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BRITISH pilots have been flying drones from a US base responsible for covert strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, considered by many to violate international...

Zionists tout Blair as agent to ‘relocate’ Palestinians

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FORMER UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is being touted by sections of the Israeli genocide cabinet as an agent to lead the ‘relocation’ of...

‘keep The Privateers Out Of The NHS’

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‘The plan to make patient data available to private companies is all about using the NHS as a treasure trove for profits for private...

4,000 Greek students march in support of hunger striker

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SOME 4,000 students and workers marched in Athens on Monday night in the biggest demonstration so far in support of imprisoned hunger striker Dimitris...
Unison leader prentis (right) pledged to establish a public sector alliance to fight all cuts

Don’t Cut Public Services

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Public-sector union Unison yesterday cautioned against panic cuts in public services in the wake of record government borrowing. UK public sector net borrowing, which takes...
Deen Riders bikers’ ‘Honour Ride for Grenfell’ applauded after the Silent March on Saturday 14th April, ten months after the inferno

Grenfell Fire Was Murder

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A LEAKED ‘interim document’ into the Grenfell Tower disaster on June 14, 2017 shows beyond shadow of a doubt that every death was preventable,...
Thousands of students took the streets of London for the National Day of Action last November against fees, education cuts and the scrapping of EMA

Students walkout today!

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TENS of thousands of students are expected to participate in a national walkout today in campuses in every part of the UK against the...

£11.5bn of cuts & wage cuts – at the centre of Osborne’s budget

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CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a massive onslaught on public services and public sector pay in his budget yesterday, imposing billions more in cuts as well...
Mass picket of hospital workers in Norwich on the national NHS strike over pay on October 13

Labour Pledges Repeal Of Health & Social Care Act!

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THE NHS ‘cannot survive a second term of Tory-led government,’ the Labour Party’s Chair of General Election Strategy, Douglas Alexander, said yesterday. He was echoing...

Police spied on Lawrence family –convictions took 18 years

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A JUDGE-LED public inquiry will be held into the work of undercover police following a review into the original Stephen Lawrence murder investigation. It found...

EXTRADITION HALTED! ‘A victory for Julian’ – Stella Moris addresses Assange supporters outside Old...

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‘TODAY is a victory for Julian! Today’s victory is the first step towards justice in this case,’ Stella Moris, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s fiancee...
Lead banner on Saturday’s 10,000 strong march to defend Ealing, Charing Cross, Hammersmith and Central Middlesex hospitals

PUT AN END TO CAPITALISM! – Only way to defend jobs, wages and the...

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings on this 2013 May Day to the workers and the oppressed nations fighting imperialism throughout...
Postal workers and their supporters rallying against the privatisation of Royal Mail  in January – now a new wave of post office closures is planned

9,000 Post Offices To Close!

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Government plans to sell Royal Mail, ending the inter-business agreement with the Post Office, would lead to over 9,000 post office closures, a poll...

‘CONFRONT ROYAL MAIL’ – Dave Ward tells CWU conference

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EMERGENCY Motion E3 dealing with a ballot for national industrial action was passed unanimously at the CWU Postal Section Conference in Bournemouth yesterday. The Motion,...

SETTLERS MURDER CHILD! – ‘International Criminal Court must act’–Abbas

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‘WE hold the Israeli government fully responsible for the brutal assassination of the toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha,’ PLO official Saeb Erekat said in a...
Marchers on the 5,000-strong Nottingham demonstration against NHS cuts determined to keep their A&E services

DEFEND DISTRICT HOSPITALS! – NHS report says treat life-threatening conditions at home

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The GMB trade union yesterday condemned as ‘dubious’ a leaked NHS report recommendation that patients with life-threatening complaints be kept out of hospital and...

‘Greece Will Come To The Boil’ – Varoufakis

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GREECE’S new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has urged Germany not to humiliate the country over its debts. Varoufakis compared Greece’s plight with that of inter-war...
PCS strikers with their General Secretary MARK SERWOTKA outside Parliament yesterday lunchtime

‘Enough is enough!’ say striking PCS members

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PUBLIC and Commercial Servants union (PCS) members were out on picket lines since before dawn yesterday as tens of thousands came out in support...
Women born in the 1950s, who lost out on their state pension when the government raised the retirement age to 65 for both men and women, lobbied MPs yesterday

Hammond’s Stp Attack!

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CHANCELLOR Hammond announced an extra £325 million in yesterday’s budget to fast-track some of the 44 hated STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) of Tory...

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...
Whipps Cross strikers on the picket line early yesterday morning

‘PAY US WHAT WE ARE OWED’ – say Whipps Cross strikers

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Nearly 300 porters, cleaners and switchboard staff employed by Rentokil Initial at Whipps Cross Hospital in East London began another three days of strike...
BBC NUJ members out on strike outside Bush House, London, yesterday morning

Strike Rocks Bbc!

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Thousands of journalists across the BBC walked out at midnight Thursday in the first of two 48-hour strikes in protest at plans to devalue...
BA cabin crew pickets think that the whole airport must come out in support to win their dispute

‘we Are Fighting For Our Lives’

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DESPITE the pouring rain, striking BA cabin crew maintained three lively picket lines at Heathrow Airport yesterday. They chanted: ‘Don’t blame it on the ash...