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Demonstrators outside Downing Street on May 31 demand an end to the siege of Gaza

New Freedom Flotilla Being Prepared

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A new flotilla to break the siege on Gaza is being prepared in Lebanon. It includes an all-woman vessel, named the Mariam, organised by Samar...

16-24 jobless rate 22.3% – get rid of coalition says ATUA’s Dave Wiltshire

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unemployment rose 118,000 in the three months to November to 2.685 million, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported yesterday. The unemployment rate rose from...
Angry students marching through central London demanding an end to all tuition fees, the restoration of grants and no privatisation

‘Organise and fight!’ – education must be free!

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STUDENT Unions (SU) across the country have slammed the National Union of Students (NUS) President Toni Pearce’s decision to pull out of today’s national...
NUJ General Secretary MICHELLE STANISTREET (6th from left) on the picket line at Broadcasting House, central London, yesterday told News Line ‘It’s a brilliant, solid turnout’

Nuj Stops Bbc Over Sackings

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‘WE will be balloting for further action, this issue is not going to go away,’ NUJ General Secretary Michelle Stanistreet told News Line yesterday. Speaking...
500 angry firefighters lobbied against fire station closures outside the Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark yesterday

‘OCCUPY FIRE STATIONS!’ says FBU leader Matt Wrack

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‘THESE fire stations belong to the people of London and it’s the people of London who say that these buildings are ours and we...

Wanted! An arrest warrant for Israeli Foreign Minister Sa’ar!

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AN ARREST warrant is being sought by two pro-Palestinian groups Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and the Hind Rajab Foundation for Israeli Foreign Minister...

Mind Slams War On Vulnerable

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MORE than half of claimants surveyed by mental health charity Mind say fear of having their Incapacity Benefit removed has led them...
Museum of London strikers with Prospect members and their banner outside the Central Hall yesterday afternoon

FIGHT PAY CUTS! – call from public service rally

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GIVE us a date for strike action and we’ll do it, the leader of the Prison Officers Association (POA) – whose members are banned...

Palestinian teen severely beaten!

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A SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Palestinian minor has told his lawyer that he was severely beaten while detained by Israeli occupation soldiers last week and that he...

Top-Up Fees Threat To The NHS

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An admission by director of policy and strategy for the Department of Health, Una O’Brien, has stirred up concerns that ‘co-payments’ or top-up fees...
Disability Cuts Kill! was the message as a number of disabled workers lobbied the House of Commons yesterday. They condemned all the cuts in social care

Social Care In Crisis!

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DRAMATIC cuts to district nursing have left older people without care at home and turning to A&E, an independent report has found. Research by Christie...

2-year-old Awaab died ‘entirely due to mould!’

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TWO YEARS-OLD Awaab Ishak died on 21 December 2020 shortly after his second birthday ‘entirely’ as a result of extensive mould in his flat,...

Grenfell cladding companies ‘total neglect of safety’ – QC – ‘Flammable cladding must be...

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A BARRISTER for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire told the public inquiry that a ‘total neglect of safety’ was at the heart of...

GP referrals to Redditch hospital stopped

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REDDITCH GPs have been asked by commissioners not to refer to a local acute trust for at least three months to allow the hospital...
Youth marching in London last October against any troops being sent to Syria or Iraq

BRITISH TROOPS FOR JORDAN! – Stop the War demands issue be put before parliament

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2,000 UK troops and a RAF spy plane are bound for Jordan to ‘combat ISIS’ it emerged yesterday. The UK will send the ‘specialist troops’...

5 Days Of Strike Action By The Junior Doctors!

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JUNIOR doctors in England yesterday embarked on a five-day strike, marking the 11th walkout in their prolonged pay dispute. Members of the British Medical Association...
The railway tunnel collapsed as a result of the new Tesco superstore being built in the area near Ge

VOTE NO TO ID CARDS – Trade unions and Liberty urge MPs

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Yesterday claims were made that the government was in discussions with businesses on the sale of personal information that will be contained in the...

Stop Israel’s starvation of 2.4 million Palestinians!

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THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) began five days of hearings against Israel’s illegal use of starvation as a weapon of war against Palestine...
BMA members marching in London against cuts to the NHS

Don’t bully GPs – BMA warns Tories

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THE BMA has responded angrily to threats to GPs issued by the government’s new Chief Inspector of Primary Care, Professor Steve Field, who takes...

Gaza and West Bank deaths surge to 3,866!

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IN the wake of the devastating Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, the death toll has surged to...

‘We want to abolish poverty!’ – says Labour’s John McDonnell

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SPEAKING in Birmingham yesterday morning, Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said: ‘On Tuesday a new Shelter report found 135,000 children will be without a...
Determined locked-out Gate Gourmet workers are lobbying the TUC today demanding action to win their jobs back

‘WE NEED PLAN FOR VICTORY’ say Gate Gourmet strikers

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GATE GOURMET strikers were sacked four weeks ago today and were very angry yesterday morning that they have been out so long withtheir union...
May Day Poster 2019

The May Day March – May 1st, 2019

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May Day March Victory to world revolution! Quit the EU Now! Kick the Tories out! For a workers government & Socialism! End Israeli occupation of...

Osborne War On Benefits

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‘WITH this abhorrent proposal, the Chancellor is saying that some children will be marked out from birth as second class citizens with their lives...

WAR AN OPTION – Rumsfeld declares on Iran

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United States defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that the military option against Iran was ‘on the table’. He said this would be...
Deen Riders bikers’ ‘Honour Ride for Grenfell’ applauded after the Silent March on Saturday 14th April, ten months after the inferno

Grenfell Fire Was Murder

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A LEAKED ‘interim document’ into the Grenfell Tower disaster on June 14, 2017 shows beyond shadow of a doubt that every death was preventable,...

GP surgeries at breaking point

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‘GENERAL practice across England is under unprecedented pressure,’ was the BMA’s response yesterday to the news that hundreds of surgeries across the country applied...
Nurses on the TUC demonstration against the coalition cuts in March 2011

RCN slams attacks on nurses

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making nurses work as Health Care Assistants for a year before they can start to train as a nurse is ‘a stupid idea’, Royal...

Iran & Iraq united against US attack

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THE US ATTACK on Iran and Iraq will cement the unity of the two countries, Iranian President Rouhani said in a phone call with...
GPs show their support for junior doctors on the march in London on October 17th

GPs want action ballot!

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ALMOST two thirds of GPs want the BMA to ballot the profession over industrial action, a GPonline survey has revealed, as the BMA’s Local...

RESTORE PUBLICLY PROVIDED NHS! – reverse all privatising legislation

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MEMBERS of Parliament are to debate a demand that the government restores England’s publicly provided NHS by reversing all privatising legislation, including ending private...
French youth at he head of the one miilion-strong march against the CPE in Paris on April 4 – after the withdrawal of the CPE yesterday French youth are now determined to take the struggle forward to a socialist society

2,000 Nursing Posts Lost Last Month

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Student nurses are being used to plug staffing gaps as NHS trusts axe thousands of qualified nurses in the face of government-induced deficits, the...
Striking BA cabin crew at Heathrow yesterday determined to win their struggle

‘We will reballot after June 10’

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DESPITE the pouring rain, cabin crew maintained three lively pickets at Heathrow Airport yesterday, in the final week of their current course of strike...
The front of the demonstration on March 16 against the sell-off of the Whittington hospital in north London

Health Act Opens Door To Privateers

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the Health and Social Care Act, which came into force yesterday, ‘is the privatisation of the National Health Service and must be defeated through...
Teamsters Local 814 members and Transport Workers Union Local 100 members outside Sotheby’s in New Bond Street on Thursday night

Teamsters & TWU picket Sotheby’s

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'WE want a fair contract,’ shouted locked out Teamsters from New York as they and supporters picketed Sotheby’s in New Bond Street on Thursday...

Israel using sniper drones in al-Shifa

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‘WE WERE forced to bury them in a mass grave,’ al-Shifa Hospital Director Mohammad Abu Salmiya reported yesterday as he announced that 179 people,...
The weekly picket of Ealing Hospital by the West London Council of Action

Don’t let West London Hospitals close!

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EALING Council is going to go to court today, 9 October in a bid to secure a full judicial review (JR) of plans...
An optimistic and enthusiatic picket line at Chase Farm Hospital yesterday morning

‘we Have To Keep Chase Farm Open’

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‘WE are having a good response to our picket today,’ North-East London Council of Action Secretary Bill Rogers told News Line at Chase...

Agencies ripping off schools – NUT supply teachers conference today

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‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to take urgent action on supply teaching. Agencies have been ripping off schools for years and have no place in the...

FISCAL CRISIS STATEMENT DELAYED! – as UK government consults with bankers

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CHANCELLOR Hunt has announced that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed by...

Bromley Workers Defend Jobs

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COUNCIL workers in Bromley, south London, are engaged in ten days of strike action to halt the privatisation of their services which threatens thousands...

Low pay ‘endemic’ 4.1m in serious debt

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AN EXTRA 94,000 people were in work at the end of the latest three-month period, however it now emerges that the unemployment figures have...

Mordaunt replaces Patel Johnson next for sack!

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THE BREXIT-supporting minister for disabled people, Penny Mordaunt, yesterday was promoted to International Development Secretary by PM May replacing Israeli backed Priti...
Hospital workers marching last May against the sell-off of NHS services

Not Enough Doctors!

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Government cuts have seen two NHS hospitals call for Army medics to help them maintain an A&E service. NHS trusts in Yorkshire and Mid-Staffs cite...
Masses assembling on the Embankment before setting off on Saturday

500,000 March For Action To Bring Down The Coalition!

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500,000 angry workers, trade unionists and youth marched in London, Glasgow and Belfast against the Tory-LibDem Coalition government and its cuts and privatisation programme...