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TORTURE NO CRIME! – no action against MI5

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); will not prosecute an MI5 officer over the torture of UK resident Binyam Mohamed in Pakistan in 2002, Director...
Young Syrians on a march called by Stop the War – UK special forces are now ‘illegally’ fighting on the front line in Syria

UK forces fighting in Syria ‘illegal’ – warns Stop the War

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UK Special Forces have been fighting on the frontline in Syria despite explicit assurances to parliament from Cameron that there would be ‘no...

Another mass picket at Gate Gourmet

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THE mass picket of over 100 Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow Airport yesterday were angry at capitalist press revelations that at least two of...
Trade unionists and youth marching to defend the NHS last July – now all unions are agreed that the health bill must be stopped

NHS ‘Reforms’ Condemned!

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday moved to oppose the Health and Social Care Bill, arguing that serious concerns have not been addressed...

Thousands turn out to save Honda car factory!

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SWINDON residents turned out in their thousands on Saturday’s march to save the Honda car factory and stop its closure. There were 6,000 on the...

Children and civilians deliberately targeted by Israeli drone attacks!

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A RETIRED British surgeon recently returned from Gaza, testified to British MPs that he treated children and civilians who appeared to have been deliberately...

Israeli bombers target schools

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THE Palestinian Hamas resistance movement strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s targeting of schools sheltering internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip yesterday, describing the...

COUNCILS OUT! – 800,000 take strike action

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OVER 800,000 Unite and UNISON council workers in England, Wales and the north of Ireland are taking strike action today and tomorrow, furious at...

Picket Grenfell Inquiry

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TODAY!

‘Hospitals a thing of the past’ – vicious Tory attack on NHS

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HOSPITALS as we know them will become a thing of the past ‘over the course of the next decade’, with patients being treated...
Syrians march in support of President Assad – Syrian Kurds in Afrin are now calling on the Syrian army to defend them

‘Send Troops’–Kurds Call To President Assad!

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KURDISH authorities in Syria’s Afrin district have called on President Assad and the Syrian government to send troops to help defend them from a...

BMA rejects NHS privatisation

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ALMOST every single doctor voted to oppose the introduction and imposition of an insurance-based healthcare system into the UK. The almost unanimous vote...

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...

G7 panics over Eurozone!

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Financial leaders of the G7 group of industrialised nations held an emergency ‘teleconference’ on the worldwide economic crisis yesterday. Canada’s Finance Minister, Jim Flaherty, warned...
Junior doctors marching on Saturday to defend the NHS – NHS workers will not allow free healthcare to be abolished through privatisation by the Tories

Surge in privatisation threatens NHS – warn health unions

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‘A SURGE in privatisation is threatening free NHS treatment,’ unions say. With contracts worth £5.5bn going to private firms, health sector unions warn of a...

‘A Sense Of Fear & Panic’ In The Stock Markets

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STOCK indexes were recovering some ground yesterday after the huge record falls on Thursday. ‘There is a sense of fear and panic,’ said James Tao,...

No date for next meeting – Merkel

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TORY PM May was slapped down again yesterday as German Chancellor Merkel said that no progress was made on Brexit and that a date...

The More You Sack – The Bigger The Bonus

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Media unions BECTU and the NUJ yesterday condemned ‘BBC fat-cat bonuses’ and called on BBC bosses to hand them back. They were responding to the...

‘PAIN-INDUCING TECHNIQUES’ –used against young offenders

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A REPORT on ‘behaviour management and restraint of children in custody’ reveals that ‘pain-inducing techniques’ are in frequent use in young offender...
BA cabin crew on the picket line at Heathrow on Saturday morning

‘We will win’ say BA strikers

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STRIKING British Airways cabin crew are calling for the rest of the British Airways workforce to be brought out on strike alongside them. They are...

‘No breakthrough’ in Russia/Ukraine talks

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RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke yesterday about his talks with the Ukraine regime’s Foreign Minister, earlier that morning. At a press conference, attended...
Medical students demonstrating in June last year against the loss of accommodation allowance for first year junior doctors

COMMERCIALISATION THREATENING FUTURE OF THE NHS – warns doctors leader

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‘The government’s dogmatic and misguided plan to commercialise the NHS has gone too,’ British Medical Associatoin (BMA) Chairman of Council, Dr Hamish Meldrum warned...

‘We’re striking to defend the NHS from the Tories!’ say RCN pickets

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NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...

One Demonstrator Dead – Girls Taken Away In Handcuffs

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Around 200 G20 protesters yesterday lunchtime mounted a vigil-assembly at the Bank of England demanding an independent public inquiry into the death of a...

Cuts begin as Starmer launches massive hike in arms spending!

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‘STARTING today, I can announce this government will begin the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War,’ Labour...
Teachers marching on the pensions strike in November 2011. This year the two largest teachers unions are to take joint strike action

Teachers Announce Joint Strike Action!

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The two largest teacher unions, the NUT and NASUWT, representing nine out of 10 teachers in England and Wales, are to stage a series...

Shapps makes ‘disgraceful threats’ to rail workers jobs

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TRANSPORT secretary Grant Shapps threatened rail workers’ jobs yesterday by saying: ‘Rail strikes will drive passengers away and threaten rather than protect rail workers’...
Post workers lobbying the Labour Party Conference last month demanding an end to job cuts and privatisation plans

Royal Mail Bosses’ Bonus Scandal

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Postal workers yesterday condemned as ‘obscene’ over £10m in ‘performance-related bonus’ payments to Royal Mail executives for pushing through ‘efficiency savings’. Royal Mail Group has...

‘Nasty & repressive side of the government is revealed’ – Unite and GMB react...

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RESPONDING to yesterday’s Queen’s Speech, the Unite union’s general secretary Len McCluskey said: ‘This Queen’s Speech reveals the nasty, repressive side of this government. ‘The...

Ukrainian soldiers refuse to fire on workers

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KIEV’S military faced off with protesters in east Ukraine on Wednesday to sort out their differences. . . and found none. Soldiers appeared reluctant...

150,000 Workers & Youth March Through London In Support Of Palestine!

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THERE were 150,000 workers, students and youth marching through the streets of London for Palestine from Hyde Park Corner to Whitehall on Saturday. As the...

East Coast Railway Renationalised!

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RENATIONALISE the Railways now, the RMT, Aslef and Unite trade unions demanded yesterday, after Tory Transport Secretary Chris Grayling announced that East Coast Main...
Workers from Marks and Spencer supplier Fenland Foods demonstrate with their children outside a London M&S store – the banking crisis poses a grave threat to millions of workers’ jobs

CRASH GOES WALL ST! – Capitalism over the brink!

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Wall Street shares fell 2.4% when trading opened in New York yesterday, in the midst of the financial turmoil caused by the bankruptcy of...

DE MENEZES FURY! – over police attempt to link Jean Charles to rape case

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Jean Charles de Menezes’ cousins yesterday said the family is furious at a Metropolitan Police attempt to connect their late relative with a rape...

OCCUPIED! – UCL student action in support of UCU lecturers strike

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AT UNIVERSITY College London (UCL) over fifty students occupied the Cloister Building at 7am yesterday morning in front of the Provost’s office, and plan...

Nurseries Crisis!

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NEW government funding proposals will force nursery schools to close, warns the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT). Yesterday was the deadline for submissions to...
Workers from the Ryton factory joined French Peugeot workers to lobby the company shareholders’ AGM in Paris last month

Ryton Workers Condemn Hodge

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COMMENTS in Parliament by Labour minister Margaret Hodge and Labour MP Brian Donohoe, which were critical of the unions’ call for car buyers not...

‘Gate Gourmet Can’t Get Away With This!’

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Yesterday was the beginning of the third month since the more than 700 Gate Gourmet workers were locked out at Heathrow Airport. Speaking on the...
Rail workers lobbying the House of Commons yesterday to defend their pensions

Blair Refuses To Name Day!

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday refused once again to name the day when he will begin the transfer of office to his successor, who is...

‘WE WILL STRIKE WITH NURSES!’ say Manchester bus strikers

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‘THE SUPPORT has been amazing,’ striker Peter Gleaves told News Line at the Queens Road Depot in Manchester yesterday, where Go North West bus...

Israel launches deadly attacks on Palestinians

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ISRAEL has launched another deadly attack on displaced Palestinians in Gaza, bombing a school sheltering families in Jabalia an-Nazla, northern Gaza, and killing at...

Ni Rise – Experienced Nurses Are £935 A Year Worse Off

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THE National Insurance (NI) rise is leaving experienced nurses worse off, even with the proposed pay increase, says the Royal College of Nursing. Responding to...
ENID MUTESI was evicted last Wednesday – shown holding a framed picture of her parents which she found in the bin

‘They are trying to get rid of all the poor people!’

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TENANTS facing eviction and already evicted tenants at Sweets Way housing estate in Barnet, north london, came together for a community ‘Fun Day’ yesterday. They...

Tsipras visits Athens police HQ

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The leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras paid a long electioneering visit on Monday to the Athens area Police...
Last Wednesday demonstrators, some of whom entered the Kensington & Chelsea council meeting demanded criminal charges against those responsible for the Grenfell Tower inferno

Grenfell Tower inferno – Twin Towers experts helping police

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EXPERTS who helped recover remains after the September 11th 2001 terror attack on the Twin Towers in New York, are now helping police investigating...