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Defiant workers May Day march to Trafalgar Square

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OVER 5,000 workers, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square in central London for May Day yesterday. There were scores of red...

Syria Supports Truce Plan

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THE UN-Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said yesterday that the Syrian government had agreed to call a truce on the...
‘Father Christmas’ with Ethan and Larah Otoo on the picket line at Chase Farm Hospital where both the children were born

‘stop This Chase Farm Eviction!’

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A nurse working at Chase Farm hospital is facing an eviction notice that would leave her homeless by the new year. Gloria Ankrah is being...
Striking Swindon hospital workers about to board the coach to take them to Wolverhampton to tell the bosses of Carillion exactly what they think of them

Swindon Hospital Workers Lobby Carillion

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OVER 50 striking Swindon hospital workers travelled by coach yesterday to Wolverhampton to lobby their employer, privateer Carillion, demanding an end to...
Seafarers with their union banner calling for a ‘block to fascism’ at the head of Thursday’s march in Kokkinia, Athens

Greek Teachers Vote For 5-Day Strike

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GREEK teachers voted on Thursday by clear majorities for another five-day national strike starting Monday. The final decision will be taken by the OLME (teachers’...

Life Terms Like ‘confetti’

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THE Howard League for Penal Reform and the Prison Reform Trust yesterday expressed concern over mandatory life sentences being extended to crimes other than...
Ambulance workers joined the mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning to stop the closure of the A&E and demand the maternity and children’s wards be re-opened

‘BRING DOWN TORIES!’ – says Ealing Hospital mass picket

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‘IF THEY get rid of 600 beds and so many staff, 8,000 jobs in all – what a disaster! That would be the...

Deepest recession since 1706 – UK economy to contract 14% – shock Bank of...

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THE BANK of England warned yesterday that the UK economy is heading towards its deepest recession on record, shrinking by as much as 14%...
A police officer threatened to arrest the small picket outside the Middle East Energy Conference in London yesterday morning. The demonstrators were urging those coming into the conference to keep their hands off Iraq’s oil and that it must not be privati

Hands Off Iraq’s Oil!

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‘Hands Off Iraqi Oil’, read the banner of protest outside the Middle East Energy Conference in London yesterday. At the conference was Iraqi puppet Oil...

Murdoch targets unions & BBC

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News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch yesterday made it clear that he had taken a decision to smash the print unions when he provoked the...
Sacked 2 Sisters workers demonstrating outside Marks & Spencer’s ‘flagship’ store in Oxford Street. Unite assistant general secretary JACK DROMEY (centre) pledged ‘We will win the jobs back of these 59 workers’

‘2 sisters’ sacked workers picket M&S

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FIFTY-NINE sacked workers from the 2 Sisters poultry processing factory in Birmingham travelled to London yesterday, determined to win their jobs back. They demonstrated outside...

Assad seeking ‘strategic response’ to Israeli attack

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PRESIDENT Bashar al Assad has outlined to Lebanese visitors that he is seeking a ‘strategic response’ to the recent Israeli air strike on the...

Labour lets May & Gove off the hook!

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THE LABOUR opposition let both Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove and Home Secretary Theresa May off the hook by failing to call for their...

Hamas condemns Trump’s threats – urges proceed to a lasting truce

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HAMAS has condemned threats made by US President Donald Trump, warning that his remarks will embolden Israel to disregard the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. Hamas...

Israeli forces carry out another Gaza massacre

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ISRAELI forces carried out a new massacre yesterday as they bombed the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees) school in...
Young Socialists marching to the TUC Congress earlier this month demanding Jobs for Youth and a general strike to get the Tories out

ON THE ROAD TO RUIN! – 4.5m self employed and ‘insidious’ zero-hours contracts

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UK registered unemployment fell by 146,000 to 2.02 million in the three months to the end of July, official figures show. The figures do not...
Care UK workers lobbying the company offices in London during their strike action over their atrocious conditions – a quarter of the country’s 2,500 homecare providers are at risk of going bankrupt while almost 70 have closed down in the last month

Social care–brink of collapse!

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THE TORIES are ‘papering over the cracks in social care funding leaving services at breaking point,’ the GMB union said yesterday. The comments come as...

6 Months Of Gate Gourmet Lock-Out!

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‘Next Friday will be six months since we were locked out on August 10th 2005’, locked out Gate Gourmet worker Lakhinder Saran told News...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the Hillingdon office of the TGWU urging all workers not to sign the notorious ‘Compromise Agreement’

Teachers Strike!

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TEACHERS in four schools in Calderdale, Greenwich, Newham and Doncaster will take strike action this week to protect salary levels following a review forced...

Labour planning ‘previously unthinkable’ NHS cuts!

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THE NHS is planning ‘previously unthinkable’ cuts to try to balance the books, according to a survey conducted by NHS Providers, which represents NHS...
Part of the 3,000-strong crowd in Trafalgar Square yesterday afternoon demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Lebanon

COMPLICITY IN WAR CRIMES! – Bush and Blair are accused

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‘THE position of Israel and its heinous crimes against our civilians will not break the will of the Lebanese people. There...

TORY PROTEST BAN ‘UNACCEPTABLE!’ – London marchers clash with police

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At least 36 people were arrested for ‘breaching Covid regulations’ after a march of thousands of protesters through central London came under attack by...

Fierce fighting in Jabalia refugee camp

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FIERCE fighting is taking place in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as Palestinian soldiers battle Israeli troops after they launched another deadly...

Syrian Army launches fresh Idlib offensive!

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SYRIA yesterday began an offensive to take back its entire territory launching a new assault on Idlib, the last part of Syria still controlled...

‘Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes against humanity!’– UN International Commission of Inquiry

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ISRAELI authorities are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the military operations and attacks on Gaza since 7th October 2023,...

70th anniversary of Chinese Revolution!

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CHINA has celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding with a massive military parade in Beijing showing off some of the world’s most advanced...

Starmer Volunteers To Work In The National Interest!

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LABOUR Party leader Sir Keir Starmer volunteered yesterday to ‘work with the Prime Minister in the national interest.’ Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show,...

Anti-deportation fighters block removals – are backed by TUC

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MOST of the people due to be put aboard a controversial deportation flight to Jamaica yesterday have been removed from the flight list! This was...
Greek youth on the march in Athens

‘YOUTH WILL TAKE UP ARMS’ – writes Greek pensioner in suicide note

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A 77-YEAR-old pensioner named as Dimitris Christoulas, an ex-owner of a chemist shop, shot himself in the head on Wednesday morning in Syntagma square...

US FORCES WILL NOT ENGAGE IN UKRAINE! says President Biden

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PRESIDENT Biden has assured American lawmakers that US military personnel will not be taking part in the war in Ukraine, and not a single...

One million infected by disease in Gaza!

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GAZA’S Health Ministry has detected about one million cases of infectious diseases, but doesn’t have the medical capabilities to treat them, as the situation...
TUC leader FRANCES O’GRADY at the TUC Congress with firefighters, nurses, midwives and Ritzy cinema workers who have all been on strike this year

Preemptive strike to defeat Trade Union Bill!

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TRADE UNIONISTS have called for pre-emptive strike action to defeat the anti-union laws that the Tory government are attempting to push through parliament. The Trade...

Call general strike! Bring down coalition! Forward to workers government!

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TODAY’S march called by the TUC must not be just another mass demonstration against the drive by this coalition to bail out the banks...

BoE raises bank rate to 5.25% – predicts ‘shocks and disturbances ahead!’

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THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), at its meeting ending on 2nd August 2023, voted by a majority of 6-3 to increase...

‘Boycott General Motors’ Demands Unifor’s Dias

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UNIFOR National President Jerry Dias, speaking during a press conference, has asked for all Canadians and Americans to boycott all General Motors vehicles that...
GMB Medirest strikers at Ealing Hospital early on Friday morning – the first day of their seven-day strike

Ealing Week-Long Strike!

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150 workers began a week-long strike at closure-threatened Ealing Hospital in west London yesterday against the privateer Medirest. The porters, catering and domestic workers, all...

Largest School Cuts For A Generation!

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TWO National Union of Teachers (NUT)/YouGov polls of parents and teachers reveal the growing crisis in schools, the NUT said yesterday. The polls found: ...

Five elite Israeli soldiers killed and 2 wounded in Khan Younis

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FIVE elite Israeli soldiers were killed and at least two others wounded in Khan Younis on Friday after a building collapsed during a resistance...

Gaza air raid was response to jail break – Hamas

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PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas yesterday denounced the latest Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip, describing them as a desperate attempt by the regime to cover...

BHS LIQUIDATED! – 11,000 jobs are to go!

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MAJOR department store BHS is to go into liquidation with the loss of up to 11,000 jobs it was announced yesterday, after efforts to...

‘The most draconian anti-refugee legislation yet’ – Unions must smash the Braverman Bill!

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‘THIS is the most draconian anti-refugee legalisation yet, as Rishi Sunak bids to make the UK off-limits to any refugees other than those his...
Teachers at the march in Athens calling for ‘full pension and health rights’

Greece – 24 Hour National Strike

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Greek civil servants, teachers, local government and hospital workers took part in a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday, in defence of their pensions rights...
Palestinian homes in Al Zutan destroyed by the Israeli army

SHOOT-TO-KILL POLICY STAYS And more innocents may die says Commissionair Blair

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‘I feel unsafe,’ Alex Alves Pereira, the cousin of the unarmed Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, killed by the Met police, told News Line...

‘Unacceptable’ Says Bma

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GP LEADERS yesterday slammed as ‘unacceptable’ the decision by St Helens Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to suspend the non-urgent referral of patients to local...
NHS ambulance workers picket their London HQ over wages and jobs

PROBLEMS WITH SAFETY! – CQC warns on private ambulance providers

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THE Care Quality Commission has warned all private ambulance providers that, during its inspections, it found ‘problems with the safety’ of the care they...