Israeli booby-traps kill 37 and wound 3,000!

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LEBANON has accused Israel of committing war crimes after a series of deadly explosions involving booby-trapped communication devices killed at least 37 people and...

Parents demand judge-led inquiry

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday dodged the question as to whether the inquiry he announced into baby deaths at the Countess of Chester...

Stormont Crisis – Sinn Fein, Robinson Clash

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By John Coulter, Irish Political Journalist ANOTHER Stormont crisis looms in the North, but is this latest ‘storm’ merely clever sabre rattling or the warning...

AUTO-ENROLMENT PENSIONS ROBBERY

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MILLIONS of workers will see their take-home pay fall when contribution rates for those with auto-enrolment pensions are hiked in six weeks time. Since 2012,...
A section of the 220,000-strong demonstration in Marseille against the Sarkozy government’s cuts

France – 3 Million Take Action

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Three and a half million took to the streets across France in the biggest anti-pensions law mobilisation yet on Tuesday, October 12 in 244...

Reintroduce Covid restrictions now! NHS Confederation warns of looming winter crisis

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COVID restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid ‘stumbling into a winter crisis,’ health leaders have warned. The NHS Confederation said a...

BLIX WARNED BLAIR ON WMDs

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HANS BLIX, the former United Nations chief weapons inspector in Iraq told yesterday’s BBC Radio Today programme that he had warned Tony Blair the...

Deported for refusing a DNA test! – Javid forced to apologise

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THE HOME Office has been forced to apologise after people were wrongly deported for refusing to take DNA tests to prove they were entitled...
Young Socialists lobbying last year’s TUC  Conference in central London

Apprenticeships Rip-Off Exposed

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PRIVATE companies are being paid tens of millions of pounds of public money to train apprentices with no inspections or checks taking place and...

Call Inquiry into Orgreave police violence

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A DEMONSTRATION in Wakefield will be held today into the delay by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) on whether it will launch a...
Tamils during a sit-down opposite parliament last week held pictures to bring home the genocide against their people

Tigers Declare Unilateral Ceasefire

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In the face of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and in response to the calls made by the UN, EU, the governments of the US,...
Relatives who lost loved ones at the hands of the British army and Sinn Fein MEP, Bairbre de Brun, and West Belfast Assembly member Jennifer McCann at the press conference

‘CALL OFF BRITISH ARMY PARADE THROUGH BELFAST’ by John Coulter

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Sinn Féin MEP Bairbre de Brún and MLA for West Belfast Jennifer McCann were joined by family members, who have lost loved ones at...
Greek workers remain defiant in the face of a Syriza regime that is now a puppet government for the Troika

Athens Court Finds ‘No’ Protesters Guilty

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AN Athens court has sentenced three marchers of the 15 July demonstration against austerity. They were accused of throwing petrol bombs at the riot...

TUC appeals to the bosses to avoid issuing ‘Work Notices!’ – will not call...

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‘UNIONS are not going to lie down’, assured TUC Assistant General Secretary Kate Bell yesterday. She was addressing a press conference at Congress House ahead...

Renationalise the buses – demand drivers on eve of strike

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LONDON bus drivers are preparing for strike action starting next Monday. Unite has called a series of strikes against massive attacks on pay and conditions...
Overseas doctors picket Downing Street after the government changed the rules of their employment last April

‘SHABBY AND UNFAIR!’ – BMA slams treatment of overseas doctors

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The British Medical Association yesterday renewed its condemnation of ‘shabby’ and ‘unfair’ rules, that will cost many loyal overseas doctors their jobs. Most of those...

GAZA WILL BE PART OF THE STATE OF PALESTINE – says President Abbas’ spokesman

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IN response to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s so-called day-after plan for Gaza, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that: ‘Gaza...
Lecturers, university staff and students on the picket line outside Queen Mary University in East London during their last strike on October 31

Nationwide University Strike Today!

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UNIVERSITY and college workers are holding the most widespread strike action in Higher and Further Education (HE & FE) for years. Staff in universities have...
Hackney Community College lecturers and students at the demonstration to defend ESOL courses on April 28th

DEFEND LECTURERS JOBS – mass picket of Hackney Community College

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students are being invited to join striking workers in a mass picket at Hackney Community College in east London today, to stop 25 lecturers...
The BMA demonstrating in March to try and stop the Health and Social Care Bill from becoming law

NHS On-Line Surgeries ‘Will Cost Lives!’

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PROPOSALS to ‘save £3 billion’ by transferring NHS services onto the web to end the overcrowding of GP surgeries have been condemned by charities...

TORIES DECLARE WAR ON BMA! –TUC must call a general strike now demands Chingford...

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'WE are striking to defend the NHS,’ consultants told News Line on their picket lines as Tory Health Secretary Barclay issued a declaration of...

Gaza Hospital Superbug Epidemic

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AN EPIDEMIC of an antibiotic-resistant superbug is spreading throughout the hospital system in Palestine’s Gaza City, with doctors warning of a ‘global health security...

Iran calm restored – ready to rebuff US attack

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THE Iranian foreign minister says calm has been restored across the country after recent unrest, which was fuelled by the incitement of terrorist elements...
Demonstration in defence of the Welfare State and public services

UK back to Victorian times

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OXFAM warned yesterday that the ‘UK could return to inequality levels not seen since Victorian times’. Government rhetoric about ‘making work pay’ – used to...

LIFT SIEGE OF PALESTINIANS – Oxfam urges Quartet

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International aid agency Oxfam said on Wednesday that conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are close to melt-down. It called on members of the EU,...

Reverse Winter Fuel Allowance cut!

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A MOTION is set to be put to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this afternoon to oppose PM Starmer’s scrapping of the Winter...

Stop Gaza Massacre!

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THREE Palestinians were killed near midnight on Monday in an Israeli attack on a United Nations school that was housing people displaced by the...
The long campaign by thousands of working people who have been oppressed by the Bedroom Tax and benefit cuts won a big victory yesterday in the Court of Appeal

Verdict A ‘massive Blow’ At Bedroom Tax!

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THE Tory government’s flagship Bedroom Tax was delivered a ‘massive blow’ yesterday when Court of Appeal judges declared it to be ‘discriminatory’. The judges’...

‘OUT WITH THE ID BILL!’ says Liberty

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‘THERE’S all hell breaking loose inside parliament right now about this identity cards scheme. The government is facing a hat-trick of defeats and they’re...
TGWU leader TONY WOODLEY surrounded by locked out Gate Gourmet workers at the May Day demonstration in London

VOLUNTARY REDUNDANCY IS REJECTED! – by Vauxhall workers

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Vauxhall Ellesmere Port workers voted unanimously at a mass meeting yesterday morning to reject the voluntary redundancy package put forward by General Motors. They were...
Mass picket of striking ambulance workers in Deptford demand ‘Fair Pay’

NHS strike solid!

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ANGRY NHS workers were on picket lines outside hospitals and ambulance stations around the country yesterday as around half-a-million members of ten health...

‘Under Immense And Continuous Stress!’ – Doctors Tell Bma

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IN TESTIMONIES provided to the BMA, one doctor said that ‘we are under immense and continuous stress’. While another doctor said: ‘What has been...
The Royal College of Midwives taking strike action last year for the first time in their history

‘NO COMPROMISE ON SAFE STAFFING LEVELS’ says RCN

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HOSPITALS have been told by the Tory government’s regulator to only fill job vacancies that are ‘essential’, raising fears amongst midwives, doctors and nurses...

Huge Leap In The Inflation Rate!

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RPI INFLATION soared by 5.3 per cent last month, indicating that a huge cut in workers’ wages and a major hike in the cost...
Lobby The Tuc!

Lobby The Tuc!

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Monday September 11th, Brighton

BUS WORKERS TAKE STRIKE ACTION – stand to lose £2,500 a year

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DRIVERS employed by the RATP bus privateer begin strike action today against £2,500 pay cuts, with 2,200 workers striking at Edgware, Epsom, Fulwell, Harrow,...

Send Hospital ship to Gaza – 70,000 sign petition

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SEVENTY thousand people have signed a petition calling for the UK government to send the hospital casualty ship RFA Argus, currently based in Falmouth,...

Iran Defying US Threats

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‘AMERICAN military movements and rhetoric in West Asia are part of a calculated effort to destabilise the region,’ Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said yesterday. ‘The...
The 60-strong picket outside the Maudsley hospital was rock solid with vuvuzelas and whistles – strikers shouted: ‘Ten pounds an hour!’

Maudsley Hospital strike

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AS MANY as 200 cleaners and domestic workers at four south London hospitals took strike action yesterday demanding their wages are increased to £10...

Queen’s Speech delayed – as Tory crisis worsens

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SUCH is the developing crisis facing the Tory Party that the Queen’s Speech has now been delayed. It was due to be delivered on Monday...
DEH public electricity board workers marching to the Greek parliament square

Greek Workers And Youth Occupy!

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Despite torrential rain, over 20,000 youth and workers with their families congregated for the second night running in Athens’ main square in front of...

TURKEY CLOSE TO IRAQ INVASION! – after border clashes

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TURKEY was very close to an invasion of northern Iraq yesterday after a number of Turkish troops were killed and wounded in PKK attacks. Kurdistan...

‘DON’T RETURN US TO SLAVERY!’ – migrant workers demonstrate

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HUNDREDS of migrant domestic workers will be gathering in Old Palace Yard, Westminster at 11.00 am this Sunday to demonstrate against the government’s proposed...

Olympics order of battle!

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Royal Air Force Typhoon jets based at RAF Northolt will be roaring across London and the home counties tomorrow and Saturday as part of...