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Israeli army storms Jenin!

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ISRAELI occupation forces stormed the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp overnight on Tuesday and throughout yesterday, destroying infrastructure. Occupation forces launched a...
London lecturers marching against savage cuts in jobs and attacks on their terms and conditions in May this year

Uproar After Uni Pensions Referendum Rejected

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THERE was uproar throughout the Universities and College Union (UCU) yesterday, after the employers threw out the union’s proposal that huge pensions changes should...

Hamas Rejects Presence Of Any Israeli Forces In The Gaza Strip Area!

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SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan has welcomed the general ceasefire plan proposed by US president Joe Biden, saying it contained ‘positive ideas’. Hamdan reiterated his...

Large scale assault on northern West Bank

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ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued a large-scale assault on the Tubas governorate in the northern West Bank for the third consecutive day on Friday,...
Media workers demand indefinite general strike

Media workers demand indefinite general strike

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GREEKjournalists, printers, technicians and media office workers staged a 100 per cent successful national strike on Monday against wage cuts and mass sackings, demanding...
Demonstrators expressing their anger as they passed the US embassy in London on the 30,000-strong march demanding an end to the Israeli attack on the Lebanon

Hezbollah Battles Israel To A Standstill

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HEZBOLLAH forces have battled Israel to standstill. After over four days of fierce fighting, Israeli forces were still struggling to take control of the Lebanese...
Steelworkers from plants across the UK demonstrating outside parliament in October last year

RENATIONALISE STEEL – demand workers as 1,050 jobs go

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‘OCCUPY the Port Talbot plant and demand that the government renationalise the steel industry immediately,’ Robbie Wheatley, Community union Branch Secretary at Lackenby...
Demonstration in Southall in July 2015 to stop the closure of the Maternity Department at Ealing Hospital – maternity closures have contributed to greater numbers of mothers and babies dying during childbirth

Lack of staff contributed to baby deaths

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LACK of midwives and the closure of maternity units have resulted in more babies suffering from brain damage, dying during childbirth, or dying soon...
A section of the march of PCS strikers and supporters as they headed from the National Gallery’s Sainsbury wing yesterday

NO PRIVATISATION! – demand National Gallery strikers

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‘NO privatisation!’ chanted over 70 PCS strikers and their supporters yesterday as they marched off from a rally outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar...
Teachers and supporters occupying the Wembley Park sports field to prevent the building of an academy school on the site

Private Schools After Academy Cash

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday condemned moves by private schools to rescue their finances through obtaining academy status. A NUT spokeswoman told News...

Liverpool Dockers Begin 2-Week Strike!

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FIVE-HUNDRED dock workers employed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC) at the Port of Liverpool began a two-week strike last night. Unite regional...

Dramatic Slump In GP Numbers!

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DOCTORS union the BMA yesterday responded to the shocking latest England GP workforce data and Health Foundation forecasts, showing a dramatic slump in the...
RMT members picket Transport for London demanding permanent employment

RMT Strike Action Vote

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TUBE drivers, cleaners and TFL electricians and engineers have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a series of disputes over attacks on agreements and...
This year’s huge February 24th anti-war march setting off from Hyde Park

MPs QUESTION ROLE OF UK FORCES IN BASRA

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‘If there is still a role for UK Forces in Iraq, those Forces must be capable of doing more than just protecting themselves at...

‘Citizens Being Treated As Toxic Waste’

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RIGHTS groups yesterday slammed government plans for new laws to stop British nationals, who have been suspected of travelling to Syria and Iraq to...
Gate Gourmet locked out workers picketing TGWU Hillingdon office yesterday determined to force their union leaders to rip up the Compromise Deal

‘RIP UP THE DEAL’ demand locked out Gate Gourmet workers

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Gate Gourmet locked out workers are calling on British Airways workers and all workers to join them on their anniversary march and rally in...
The message of the hour for the Tory government – delivered during the march on parliament on July 1st

May Handed P45 At The Tory Party Conference

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PRIME Minister May’s pledge to ‘renew the British dream’ turned into a nightmare yesterday, as she delivered the closing speech to the Tory Party...
Advance Notification: 100 Years Of Russian Revolution Rally

Advance Notification: 100 Years Of Russian Revolution Rally

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Sunday November 12, 2-8pm The Camden Centre, Bidborough Street,WC1H 9AU Rally • Films • theatre • art exhibition

Class Size Clash Looms!

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Teachers are heading for a conflict with the government over class sizes. The National Union of Teachers is to vote at its annual conference in...
PCS and UCU members took strike action on the same day as teachers last month, as the public sector anger over pay cuts erupted

CIVIL SERVANTS STRIKE LOOMS! – London lecturers out on June 9

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Delegates at this year’s Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) national conference yesterday voted overwhelmingly for a strike ballot of 280,000 members working across...

750,000 Homes At Risk! – From Housing Benefit Cuts

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More than 750,000 people are at risk of losing their homes in London and the south east because of caps being introduced on housing...

MOODY’s WARNS – UK WILL LOSE CREDIT RATING

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BRITAIN’S credit-worthiness has a ‘negative outlook’ Moody’s ratings agency declared late on Monday night, shortly after the markets closed in the US. In the first...

Private treatment centres harm NHS

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TREATMENT Centres run by the private sector are much more likely to have an adverse effect on their surrounding NHS trusts, finds new...
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addresses a huge crowd of supporters outside SOAS last Wednesday evening

McCluskey slams Blairite coupists – but calls on unions to broker a deal

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Unite leader Len McCluskey said yesterday that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been the victim of a ‘political lynching’ orchestrated by ‘sinister forces’,...

NO STRIKES–WAGE FREEZE – agreed by Unite

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CALLUM MacLean, Ineos Grangemouth chairman, was exultant yesterday as he told the media that Unite the union had agreed to a three-year pay freeze,...
FBU General Secretary MATT WRACK and pickets having words with a scab crew at the Old Kent Road fire station

Support The Firefighters!

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Firefighters in south east London confronted Assetco scabs outside Old Kent Road fire station, determined to defeat the strike breakers and the London Fire...

Tory Crisis Deepens As Parliament Returns

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LIZ TRUSS returns to Parliament for the first time as Prime Minister today, amidst a bubbling rebellion of MPs and economists who are aghast...

MAY’S SPECIAL MEASURES! – including calling in the FBI

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HOME SECRETARY May is set to bring in special measures to deal with British terrorists returning from Syria and Iraq, where they were allowed...
YS MARCH FOR JOBS! – London to the TUC in Liverpool

YS MARCH FOR JOBS! – London to the TUC in Liverpool

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Began in London on Tuesday, August 19 and and have now arrived in Liverpool! – they will be marching to the TUC Congress from...

Labour hits back after Panorama attack

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‘WE COMPLETELY reject any claim that Labour is anti-Semitic,’ said a Labour Party spokesperson, responding to BBC Panorama’s programme aired on Wednesday evening, attacking...
Unite members demonstrate outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London against the three-year 2.5% wage-cutting deal that Labour is trying to force onto them

Time For Real Wage Rises

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YESTERDAY’S soaring inflation figures led trade union leaders to warn the government that members are demanding action against the wage-cutting three-year pay settlements. The Consumer...

More child starvation and bombing deaths in Gaza!

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Two children starved to death at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza yesterday, bringing the total number of those who have died from malnutrition...

Nato Murders Gadaffi

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COLONEL Gadaffi was yesterday badly wounded by a NATO air attack on a convoy of vehicles outside the city of Sirte. It was...
Students who were the victims of a police attack at ULU demanding Justice for Mark Duggan

‘He was executed!’ –Duggan family condemn ‘lawfully killed’ verdict

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‘POLICE MURDERERS’ was the cry that greeted the Jury’s verdict yesterday afternoon at the conclusion of the inquest into the police killing of Mark...

Brexit: ‘There Is Pathway To Deal’

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THERE are ‘many issues’ still to be resolved before a Brexit agreement can be reached, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said, as talks continued yesterday. He...
Demonstration to defend the NHS marching from Bart’s Hospital on Thursday evening

NHS AT RISK! – warns Public Accounts Committee

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MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned that the disproportionate growth in spending on specialised services poses a risk to the financial...

Pm May Sticks To Backstop!

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TORY PM Theresa May pledged in a speech to business leaders in Belfast yesterday to confirm her commitment ‘to deliver a Brexit which ensures...

GPs DEPORTATION THREAT – RCGP warns of visa crisis

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THE RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners) has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel demanding that the government must act ‘urgently’ to prevent newly-qualified...

Tories hammering poor!

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LABOUR’S shadow communities minister Hilary Benn has accused the government of unfairness in a letter to council leaders that shows that cuts for richer...

270,000 Civil Servants Out

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OVER a quarter of a million civil servants will walk out at the start of a 48-hour national strike today against the government’s decision...

DON’T LET MPs STEAL BREXIT! says senior Cabinet Minister Fox

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THERE is a risk MPs will ‘steal Brexit from the British people’ if Theresa May’s proposed ‘backstop’ deal is rejected, senior cabinet minister Liam...

‘Underhand’ plan to fire 50 Kent dockers

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‘UNDERHAND’ plans to fire 50 GB Terminals workers who unload and process Volkswagens at Sheerness docks in Kent have been slammed as a ‘sneaky...
Libyan women, proclaiming their right to defend their country against armed rebels, picketing the recent Contact Group meeting in London

RECALL PARLIAMENT! –demand MPs angry at regime change letter

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Five MPs yesterday urged a recall of parliament after the publication of a joint letter from US President Obama, French President Sarkozy and Prime...
Remploy workers outside the company’s Brixton factory during their national march last year

Remploy Factories Being Closed

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THE LABOUR government is proceeding with its disgraceful closure programme of Remploy factories for disabled workers. Twenty-eight of the 83 Remploy factories around the country...

‘We will strike for as long as it takes!’ – says BMA chair of...

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‘WE WILL strike for as long as it takes,’ British Medical Association (BMA) Chair of Council Professor Philip Banfield told the doctors’ union’s cheering...