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Firefighters demanding no cuts to the service outside yesterday’s meeting of the Fire Authority

Johnson’s Fire Service Cuts Rejected!

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OVER three hundred firefighters lobbied the Fire Authority meeting in SE London yesterday, where the decision was being made to defy Tory Mayor Boris...

May forced to accept all amendments

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THE TORY government confirmed that it will accept all four amendments put by the Tory pro-Brexit MPs to the Chequers sell-out White Paper. Prime Minister...

Opposition Parties Run Away From A General Election!

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THE LABOUR, SNP, and Lib Dem parties agreed yesterday not to take up Tory PM Boris Johnson’s challenge and back his motion on Monday...
Health workers show their angry opposition to the Tory coalition’s privatisation of the NHS

REFORMS ‘A THREAT TO NHS’ – GPs Conference resolution

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OVER half of GPs planning to retire in the next two years say NHS reforms are a reason for them going, according to preliminary...

Labour government ‘willing to let hunger strikers die’!

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THIS Labour Government is ‘willing to let the hunger strikers die’, Coventry South MP Zara Sultana warned on New Year’s Day. ‘It’s the first day...
Palestinians queue at the Qalandiya Israeli army checkpoint on the outskirts of Ramallah – Israel now declare it to be a frontier post

SOCA SECRET AGENCY FORMED! – links former spies, police, customs and immigration services

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‘Britain’s FBI’, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) – which combines former MI5 and MI6 spies with former ‘specialists’ from the police, customs and...
Passenger protest against rail fare hikes outside King’s Cross station on January 1st 2016

3.4% Rail Hike ‘Kick In Teeth’

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TRAIN fares in Britain will go up by an average of 3.4% from 2nd January, the biggest rise since 2013, and described by rail...

Junior Doctors – nine more strike dates

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JUNIOR Doctors are to strike for three days before Christmas and six early in the New Year following five weeks of fruitless talks between...
Freedom Flotilla volunteers back from a Zionist prison leading the Athens march

Greek Workers March Against Zionist Piracy

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Over 5,000 workers and students demonstrated through Athens city centre on Thursday evening against the Zionist pirates and their murders of the Freedom...

Slum housing drove up Covid-19 deaths – new Public Health England report

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POOR housing conditions contributed to the disproportionate amount of people who have died of Covid-19 in poverty-stricken communities, a new report released yesterday by...

‘We are not going to let our local NHS services be decimated!’ says Save...

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THE SAVE Southend NHS Campaign has learnt from separate senior hospital sources that staff at Southend ITU (Intensive Therapy Unit) have been told there...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line yesterday

THE MAJORITY ARE STANDING FIRM – say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers

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LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are on the picket line today, determined to win victory this year. The airline catering company at Heathrow sacked over 700...

Tory rights ‘smash and grab’ – threat to ban support for Palestine

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‘THE UK government’s extremism definition is a smash and grab on our human rights,’ Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International Chief Executive, said yesterday. He was speaking...

‘Biden must follow US law and immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel!’

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THE Biden administration should follow US law and immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam said yesterday. The organisations on March...

UK servicing Saudi jets in Yemen – admits Tory MP

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BRITAIN is providing ‘engineering support’ for UK-supplied aircraft operated by the Royal Saudi Air Force, responsible for killing innocent people in Yemen, a British...
CWU strikers on the picket line at the Wimbledon Delivery Office

Cwu-Royal Mail Talks

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has been in ‘intermittent’ talks with Royal Mail for weeks, CWU London Regional Secretary John Denton confirmed to News...
Libyan students and workers picketing Downing Street demanding the coalition stop the bombing of the Libyan people

HAGUE EXPELS THE LIBYAN DIPLOMATS –recognises Benghazi gang as government

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FOREIGN Secretary Hague announced the expulsion of all Libyan diplomats from the UK yesterday. He also announced that the counter-revolutionary NTC (National Transitional Council)...
Demonstration outside Hammersmith Hospital in west London on July 31. The A&E was closed on September 10, one of the reasons given by the Trust was that there was no full time A&E consultant cover

Emergency Consultants Quit Over Cuts Policies

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SAVAGE cuts policies are continuing to tear the heart out of the NHS! The entire consultant team, of four emergency consultants, running Accident and Emergency...

Trump Puppets Johnson & Farage Fall Out!

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THE TORY government has defended its proposed Brexit deal with the EU, following criticism from President Trump, who suggested a Johnson-Farage alliance. Trump told LBC...

‘THIS DEAL WILL COLLAPSE’ – Gourmet pickets tell News Line

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‘A LOT of people feel the same as me. We believe this deal will collapse,’ Mr Singh told News Line on the Gate Gourmet...

Syriza Declaring War On Seafarers!

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THE Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) and Independent Greeks party (ANEL) coalition government, has confirmed that it is to implement a privatisation programme. This...
Health workers marching through London in May 2013 – protesting against plans to cut and close A&Es

‘A&E SERVICES ARE AT BREAKING POINT!’ – due to government changes

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HEALTH Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has agreed to the relaxing of ambulance response times for some ‘Red 2’ category patients, which include those with...

NO DEPORTATIONS! Defend the Palestinians’ right to their land

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ISRAEL has decided to expel more Palestinians from their own homes and lands without taking into consideration any objection from any side, especially the...

More FBU strike action

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THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has announced that its members in England and Wales will take strike action again next weekend, Friday 13 and...

Corbyn refuses to call for PM May to resign!

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TORY PM Theresa May hotfooted off to Brussels yesterday to beg the EU for concessions after ‘postponing’ the vote on her Brexit deal on...

‘WE HAVE HAD MASSIVE SUPPORT FROM PUBLIC’ – ASLEF representative tells News Line

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‘WE HAVE had massive support from the public,’ the ASLEF rep Lucio Buffone told News Line when he spoke out on the well-attended picket...

‘We’ll step up our struggle!’ – vow Iraqi protesters after 5 killed

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AT LEAST five demonstrators have been killed in Baghdad, Karbala and Baqubah in Iraq as security forces opened fire on the mass protest of...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday at Heathrow – determined to reject any deal which includes compulsory redundancies

Gate Gourmet Deal ‘Worthless’

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‘The deal done between the TGWU and Gate Gourmet is worthless, I’m going to apply to an Employment Tribunal for unfair dismissal,’ Mr A...

Police take action against Oxford students occupation

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SIXTEEN protesters were arrested when police intervened to take action against an occupation on Thursday in support of Palestine by ‘Oxford Action for Palestine...

‘BRUTAL’ WORKING CONDITIONS AT AMAZON RUGELEY!

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THE GMB is presenting a giant Valentine’s card to the Amazon warehouse in Rugeley in the Midlands today to highlight the ‘brutal’ working conditions. Workers...

Israel launches ‘war of extermination!’ – 274 killed in first few hours yesterday

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THE Lebanese Health Ministry reported at 4.00pm yesterday afternoon that 274 citizens had been killed in Israeli airstrikes which began at 6.30am, including 21...

REJECT JUNIOR DOCTORS CONTRACT! – says the Doctors’ Association

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THE Doctors’ Association (DAUK) has refused to endorse the junior doctor contract deal agreed by the BMA and the government, warning that some members...

‘US plots to devalue our currency have failed!’ – says Iran

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THE GOVERNOR of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said yesterday that plots to force a massive devaluation of Iran’s national currency to ruin...
No NHS privatisation!

‘Southern Cross-Style Threat’ To NHS

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Circle Health, the privateer which was handed control of Hinchingbrooke District General Hospital in Cambridgeshire last week, has admitted that patient care could suffer...

Coventry Council sacks hundreds!

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THE UNITE union has described the decision of Coventry council to press ahead and fire and rehire its entire refuse collection workforce as totally...
Visteon sacked workers on the march, they insist they are winning their struggle

‘DON’T BE FRIGHTENED OF A GENERAL STRIKE’ SAYS McDONNELL

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‘WHAT happened to us could have happened to anyone!’ This is what Visteon shop steward Raymond Dixon told the crowd in Trafalgar Square at the...

Barristers To Take Indefinite Action!

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BARRISTERS have voted to take indefinite action, refusing appear in court, and take new instructions from September 5th over fees and legal aid cuts,...

‘EU let thousands drown in Med’ – Lawyers submission to International Criminal Court

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THE EUROPEAN Union must be hauled before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and prosecuted ‘for crimes against humanity’ after letting ‘thousands of refugees drown...

30 Palestinians are murdered when Israel bombed Jabalia refugee camp

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AT LEAST 30 Palestinians were killed, including 13 children, when Israel bombed a building housing displaced people in the Jabalia refugee camp at 6am...

INFLATION IS LET RIP! – to slash the wages of UK workers

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FIGURES released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) yesterday reveal soaring inflation, with the government’s preferred CPI rate hitting 4 per cent in...
Junior doctors from Remedy UK outside the High Court yesterday before the start of their judicial review over ‘MTAS’

ABSOLUTE CHAOS! – doctors training crisis continues

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JUNIOR doctors went to the High Court yesterday in a bid to get the online Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) ruled ‘unlawful’, warning...

NURSES ANGRY! – ready for industrial action

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ROYAL College of Nursing members in England will be asked next Monday if they favour a ballot for strike action to force the government...
‘Hands off our Horton’ demand demonstrators from North Oxfordshire in Trafalgar Square, London on October 10th

NHS Alarm Bells Ringing!

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THE NORTH Central London Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) has been unveiled, only the second in the country to do so, and it has...

US unions split – as class struggle erupts in USA

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The leaders of five of the largest unions in the AFL-CIO – the Teamsters, UFCW, UNITE-HERE, Laborers’, and SEIU – held a ‘Change to...
Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) rallying in Westminster, demanding ‘Reject Cuts Now’

BIN PAY CUT PLANS says GMB leader Kenny

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Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to demands from the Institute of Directors (IoD) to end national collective bargaining in the NHS and Education sectors,...