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250,000-strong London march for Palestine

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OVER 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine from Hyde Park towards the Israeli embassy in Kensington west London on Saturday afternoon. There were...

FBU strike ballot on pensions

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The Fire Brigades Union says the government’s pension proposals are ‘unacceptable’ and are consulting fire crews with a recommendation there is a rapid move...

Mass Protest On First Day Of Assange Case

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A CROWD of over 200 supporters of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange demonstrated outside the Old Bailey in central London yesterday prior to the...

160,000 CWU members take action & government collapses – A great day!

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SOME 160,000 CWU members took action at thousands of UK workplaces on Thursday, other unions visited our lively pickets and the government collapses into...
One of the three lively BA cabin crew picket lines at Heathrow Airport yesterday

‘This Battle Is To Be Fought To A Finish!’

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THERE were three really lively picket lines of striking British Airways cabin crew around Heathrow Airport yesterday, with music, flags, horns and whistles, responding...
Demonstration in Lambeth highlighting the poverty that the Coalition has plunged the country into

January trade deficit at £10bn

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ANY talk of ‘recovery’ has been well and truly scotched by the revelation that Britain’s trade deficit widened more than expected in January,...
TUC leaders and delegates launch a campaign for £10 an hour minimum wage at the TUC Congress in Manchester yesterday

‘Zero hours contracts will be banned’ under Labour! – McDonnell addresses TUC

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‘ZERO hours contracts will be banned’ under a Labour government Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said yesterday in a keynote address to the TUC...
One of the many families on the march from Enfield Green to Chase Farm Hospital

Unions must defend NHS!

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‘SAVE Chase Farm Occupy Now! Whose hospital? Our Hospital!’ More than 200 marchers chanted these slogans as they moved onto the Chase Farm Hospital site...
Junior Doctors demonstrating on Monday September 28th against the Tories and their attempt to impose a 90-hour working week.  Photo credit: Steve Eason

‘Unsafe for patients’ – Junior doctors confront Hunt

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‘DOCTORS working unsocial hours must not have their pay cut,’ was the demand in a letter to Tory health secretary Hunt signed by...
Sacked Greek Finance Ministry cleaners at the ERT rally. Their banner reads ‘We have taken up the gauntlet –  Re-employment now’

One year since Greek riot police broke up ERT occupation

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SACKED Greek ERT state TV and radio workers held a rally last Friday evening outside the main administrative and production building in a suburb...

ANTI-IMMIGRATION BILL DENOUNCED WORLDWIDE says former Syria ambassador Ford

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THE passage of the British government’s anti-immigration bill shows that the authorities are desperate to show they have a strategy for limiting illegal migration...
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...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line at Heathrow last week determined to win their fight for reinstatement

We Are Fighting Until We Win

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LOCKED OUT Gate Gourmet workers received their monthly hardship payments of £228.80 from the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) yesterday. ‘We received it today...

‘Horrific intentionally repeated crime’

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GAZA’s Government Media Office yesterday accused Israel of ‘a horrific, intentionally repeated crime’, having lured starving Palestinians to aid centres run by the Gaza...

‘HUGE VICTORY FOR LABOUR MEMBERS’ says John McDonnell

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THIS is a huge victory for Labour Party members and party democracy,’ John McDonnell MP, Shadow Chancellor and chair of Jeremy for Labour, said...

Rcn Warns Tories

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TORY changes to immigration rules, will mean thousands of NHS nurses being driven out of the UK ‘causing chaos’, the RCN nurses’ union...
Demonstrators  in central London yesterday showed their support for the Strangers into Citizens campaign and condemned the government’s draconian anti-immigration and asylum laws

AMNESTY! –We are all citizens says march of over 25,000 migrants and refugees

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OVER 25,000 people took to the streets to demand citizenship for migrant workers and refugees fleeing persecution to seek asylum in Britain, in a...

‘COMPLETE DEADLOCK!’ – Barnier will not recommend further progress

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‘ON THIS basis I am not able, in the current circumstances, to recommend to the European Council that we should start discussion on the...

Wildcat Postal Strikes

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WILDCAT strikes by postal workers at three Scottish sorting offices over serious health and safety issues has forced Royal Mail to change its policy...
Morale was very high on the RMT picket line at Kings’ Cross St Pancras station

‘We’re fighting all the way!’ –RMT members tell News Line

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''WE''RE rock solid and we’re going to fight the closures and sackings all the way,’ RMT rep Sean told News Line at King’s Cross...
Hundreds of thousands rallied in London during Israel’s 51-day blitz of the Gaza Strip. They will be very angry at the UK’s abstention on the UN vote

Ashrawi Condemns The ‘Shameful Abstentions’

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PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi condemned Tuesday night’s UN Security Council abstentions on a motion to end the Israeli occupation of...

Israel plans ‘unprecedented massacre’ in Rafah

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‘ANY military operations in Rafah – with its limited space and crowding with over 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the Israeli army – would...

Rendition Case Proceeds

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THE Obama Administration cannot use state secrecy doctrine to block Binyam Mohamed’s litigation against aviation company, Jeppesen Dataplan, a US Federal Court ruled yesterday....

Heathrow workers support WRP’s Zulkifal

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HEATHROW Airport workers signed up to support the campaign to elect Hassan Zulkifal, WRP Ealing Southall general election candidate, yesterday. Unite member Ram Sheemar said:...

‘REFORM OR DIE’ – Starmer launches major attack on the NHS

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THE NEW Labour government launched its massive attack on the NHS yesterday, with PM Sir Keir Starmer threatening that the NHS must ‘reform or...
Lecturers marching to defend their jobs – they will step up their fight after this general election

CAMERON DEMANDS STRONG GOVERNMENT! – as pound sterling falls

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URGENT talks began yesterday as Tory leader David Cameron demanded a ‘strong and stable government’ is formed ‘quickly’ to avoid ‘economic catastrophe’. This was after...

‘A KICK IN THE TEETH FOR PASSENGERS!’ – TSSA condemns above inflation fare...

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TSSA rail union General Secretary, Manuel Cortes, has rounded on the Government over plans for an inflation-busting rail fares increase in England next year...
FBU members and residents from the Buncefield area picketing 10 Downing Street on Wednesday night

Union solicitors urging members to sign deal

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‘WE are asking all trade unions and all trade unionists to join our march and rally in Hounslow on Saturday 25th of March,’ Sharanjit...
Palestinians marching in London for Justice – Israel is now preparing another intervention into Lebanon

‘Don’t invade Lebanon!’ – Hezbollah warns Israel

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A SENIOR official of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says the group is ready for any military scenario, amid indications that Saudi Arabia is...

Stop arming US police – demands 250,000-strong petition to UK government

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AFTER last Wednesday’s massive march demanding justice for George Floyd, over a quarter of a million people in the UK have intervened in the...

Over 100,000 March On The US Embassy!

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MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched from Parliament Square from Downing Street in Whitehall to the American Embassy in Battersea on Saturday...
40,000 Unison members took part in the recent March 26 TUC demonstration  – Unison is calling for the Health Bill to be scrapped

Gp Head Slams ‘Listening’ Stunt

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THE GPs magazine Pulse has revealed that both the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) and the BMA’s GP Committee have been excluded from the...

LONDON UNDERGROUND TOTAL SHUTDOWN JULY 26 & 28 – ASLEF joining RMT on strike

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ASLEF Tube drivers will strike on Wednesday 26 and Friday 28 July, alongside their RMT colleagues, closing down the London Underground (LU) network at...

MPs vote Palestine Action is a ‘terrorist’ organisation

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MPs HAVE voted 385 to 26 to designate Palestine Action a terrorist organisation, criminalising membership or support under the Terrorism Act 2000. The move, expected...

Many Families At Breaking Point!

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ONE in five UK households borrowed money or used savings to cover food costs in April, the latest Which? monthly insight tracker survey has...

Israel’s ‘terrorism, threat and intimidation won’t frighten us!’ – says Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh

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THE agreement between Israeli Prime Minister-Designate Benjamin Netanyahu and extremist Itamar Ben Gvir is ‘a broad call for an escalation in the violence in...

Hamas protecting aid convoys

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GAZA’S Government Media Office (GMO) has denounced Israel’s allegations of Hamas looting an aid truck in southern Gaza, as ‘entirely false and fabricated’. ‘This accusation...

‘Hostile environment’ alive and kicking!

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LAST week the National Audit Office launched an investigation into the Home Office’s decision in 2014, when Theresa May was Home Secretary, to accuse...

Saudi’s Aim Is To Buy Nukes From Pakistan

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SAUDI officials are trying to strike a deal with Pakistani Prime Minister Pervez Ashraf to buy nuclear weapons from Pakistan. The recent meeting between King...
TGI Fridays, McDonald’s, Wetherspoons and Deliveroo ‘Gig Ecomomy’ workers demonstrate against low pay

Ban zero -hours!

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‘THIS REPORT does not call for zero-hours contracts to be banned! Zero-hours workers are amongst the most exploited in this country, and the most...

FAMINE – warning from World Food Programme!

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THE humanitarian situation in Gaza ‘could soon escalate into famine’ as Israeli forces continue to severely restrict the entry of food and other supplies...

PM HAS BROKEN PLEDGES! – says top QC Martin Howe

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TORY PM Theresa May was yesterday accused of a ‘wholesale abandonment’ of Brexit promises by top QC Martin Howe. May’s controversial Chequers sell-out deal...

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...

Hamas calls for massive demonstrations this weekend in of all the world’s cities!

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THE HAMAS Movement has called on people worldwide to go out ‘in mass demonstrations in all cities of the world and let the coming...

JUDGE LABOUR ON CHANGE IT DELIVERS – says Corbyn

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IN a speech in Telford yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, urged that ‘his government’ should be judged on the ‘real change’...