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Police Want Internment Without Trial

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HUMAN rights groups yesterday condemned a call from UK police chiefs for indefinite detention without charge or trial. Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) president...
Striking junior doctors pointed out that they were defending the NHS against a Tory onslaught and that it needed saving

Reading’s massive STP cuts!

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READING Borough Council has become the latest local authority to publish the NHS’s Draft Local Sustainability and Transformation Plan for its...
Mass demonstration in August last year leading to the defeat of the government’s vote to authorise air strikes on Syria

Vote Today On UK Joining Air Strikes On Iraq

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PARLIAMENT has been recalled from its summer break today especially to vote on whether the UK will join the US-led air strikes against ISIL...
Students joined lecturers on the picket line at Aberdeen University yesterday morning demanding the UCU does not capitulate – by 4pm the deal had been rejected

NO CAPITULATION! – proposed deal thrown out – strikes back on!

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A DEAL between the University College Union (UCU) leadership and University UK (UUK) has been thrown out and the lecturers strikes are back on! This...
Sacked Finance Ministry cleaners marching in Athens

Athens Clashes!

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IN THE early hours of Thursday the Vouli (Greek parliament) voted by 229 to 64 with six abstentions on the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government’s Bill...
PADDY HILL (second from left) and the Birmingham Six (centre) on the day of their release, March 14, 1991 outside the  Old Bailey, with Labour MP CHRIS MULLIN (centre)

Paddy Hill condemned British & Irish governments!

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ONE of the Birmingham Six, wrongly convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings in 1975, branded the British legal system as unable ‘to spell the...

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...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and supporters marching through Hounslow last March

Great support for GG workers at Tolpuddle march

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GATE Gourmet locked out workers got great support from trade unionists at the Tolpuddle Martyrs anniversary march and festival in Dorset yesterday. Over eight thousand...

Yellow Vests travel to UK to support Assange

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AN EIGHTY-strong coachload of Yellow Vest protesters came over from France to join the demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday morning demanding WikiLeaks founder...
A mass lobby of parliament by nurses protesting against job cuts

NHS Staffing Concerns!

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NHS watchdog, the Healthcare Commission’s third annual survey of patients who stayed overnight in hospitals, reported that, overall, 92 per cent of patients said...
Nusrses’ quarters on the Chase Farm site boarded up with metal plates

Nurses at Chase Farm hospital facing eviction!

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Eight mental health workers and their families, who live in the Chase Farm hospital residences, face eviction. The trust has issued eviction notices for these...

Harland & Wolff occupied!

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SHIPBUILDERS have occupied the Harland & Wolff site in Belfast, closing the gates and refusing to leave, with their unions GMB and Unite demanding...

Rough Sleeping Doubles!

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HOMELESSNESS charity St Mungo’s revealed yesterday that 129 rough sleepers died in London since 2010 – an average of one a fortnight – while...

Parents going hungry! – to help feed their children

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THE parents of Britain’s poorest children are going hungry so that their children have some food on the table. Both parents and children are...

VICTORY as pregnant Palestinian released!

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ANHAR AL-DEEK, the Palestinian woman who was set to give birth in an Israeli prison, has been released to house arrest in a victory...

‘The Met took my son’s life’

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‘JERMAINE was dead before he got into the car on 11th December 2016,’ Jermaine Baker’s mother Margaret Smith said yesterday, She was speaking after an...

‘Fight Nato Aggression With All Strength’

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LIBYAN government and civilian forces are dealing deadly blows to the NATO-backed counter-revolutionary ‘rebels’ and mercenaries holed up in Tripoli and other areas of...

Stella Assange denounces the US case as ‘pathetic, founded on lies’

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ON the second and pivotal day of Julian Assange’s appeal hearing, the unwavering spirit of Assange supporters was palpable outside London’s High Court, despite...

436 killed – 183 children since Tuesday morning – including one UN employee

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AT LEAST 436 Palestinians, including 183 children, have been killed since Israel resumed the bombardment of Gaza in the early hours on Tuesday, Gaza’s...

NURSES FACE SACK! –no more bail-outs says Mackey

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NURSES and other vital health workers face the sack within weeks, Jim Mackey, the chief executive of NHS Improvement, the body which is now...

Israel increases murderous airstrikes on Gaza City

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DESPITE Hamas delivering a positive response to the latest ceasefire proposal hammered out by Qatar and Egypt on Monday, Israel increased its murderous air...

3-month-old Reem’s family slaughtered – Netanyahu blocking ceasefire deal – reports NYT

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A BABY girl was the sole survivor of an overnight Israeli attack on a family home in Khan Younis which killed 10 people yesterday. The...

‘Don’t underestimate workers strength of feeling!’

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TUC leader O’Grady has cautioned new PM Truss not to underestimate the strength of feeling among workers who have endured pay stagnation and real...

UN Condemns The Israeli Genocide Of Palestinians

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A UNITED Nations special committee has declared that Israel’s warfare methods in the Gaza Strip amount to genocide, citing the regime’s deliberate use of...

Amsterdam Horror!

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THE European Group for the Rights of Prisoners (EORG) was demanding answers yesterday after at least 11 people were ...

‘We will proudly break sanctions’ – Iran defies the US

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‘WE WILL proudly break the sanctions,’ Iranian leader President Hassan Rouhani said defiantly at a meeting of economic officials yesterday, describing the new wave...

BIGGEST DAY OF STRIKE ACTION FOR DECADES! – over 500,000 workers strike

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MORE than half a million workers are striking today in Britain’s biggest day of strike action for decades. Hundreds of thousands of members of eight...

UCU calls global boycott of Leicester University

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THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) yesterday announced a global boycott of the University of Leicester as the union hit the institution with the...

TRAITORS! – locked-out Gate Gourmet workers condemn TGWU leaders’ betrayal

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THIRTY FIVE locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday went to see Brendan Gold, the TGWU’s Head of Civil Aviation. He is one of the trade...
Firefighters on the picket line at Lambeth Fire Station at the beginning of the year

FBU – 4 Days Strike Action

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THE FBU is escalating its strike action tonight with four days of action in England beginning at 6pm in the sharpening fight over pensions. The...
A section of last Friday’s 200-strong Gate Gourmet locked -out workers mass picket at Heathrow – see feature

200-Strong Picket Supports Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers

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TWO hundred people joined a mass picket by the locked-out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow, six months after the 700-strong workforce at the airline...
A very lively election campaign – Scott Dore (second from right) and supporters outside Morrison’s in Acton

Big Response For Wrp’s Scott Dore

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A LARGE Vote WRP, Vote Scott Dore campaign was out in Ealing Central and Acton yesterday. Many local people joined the WRP and promised...
Demonstration through liberated Aleppo declares ‘Goodbye USA’

Turkey-US Deal!

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ANKARA and Washington have reached an agreement to work together in their occupation of part of northern Syria, where the two NATO allies have...

Hostile environment challenged

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THE TORY government’s ‘hostile environment’, blocking students from studying in the UK, blocking overseas doctors from working in the NHS, while demanding landlords...

Israel bombs Jenin refugee camp!

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Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a massive land and air attack on the West Bank city of Jenin yesterday, killing at least eight youths...
CWU leaders BILLY HAYES and DAVE WARD (centre) on the picket line at Mandela Way, south east London last Friday

‘NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO STRIKE!’ – CWU out for 24 hours from evening of...

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yesterday the Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced a further day of strike action commencing the evening of Thursday 12th July and continuing through Friday...

May’s Grammar School Move Is Slammed

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‘SELECTION belongs in the dustbin of history and has no place in modern society. There must be no going back,’ Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary...
Gate Gourmet pickets on the hill at Heathrow yesterday determined to defeat mass sackings

‘We’ve been sold out’ – say Gate Gourmet workers

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ANGRY Gate Gourmet workers were on the picket line yesterday after Wednesday’s sell-out deal between the Transport and General Workers’ Union leaders, TUC leaders...
Mass stop and search of youth on the street in west London – May’s proposed powers would drive Britain towards a police-military dictatorship

May Launches Tory Police State

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TORY Home Secretary May’s plans to ban democratic rights, that she proposed to the Tory party conference yesterday, was condemned as ‘worthy of a...

STOP ACADEMIES BILL! Demands mass lobby

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AS many as 2000 angry, school teachers, school students, parents, construction workers and supporters rallied at Westminster Hall yesterday, to protest at the Academies...

COALITION RAIL DISASTER – RMT condemns Command Paper

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THE RMT yesterday warned that ministers are preparing to wind back the clock to the days of the Hatfield and Potters Bar disasters and...
Unite members outside the High Court yesterday demonstrating for jobs and opposing the attempt to jail the leaders of the Enfield occupation

Unite Pledge To End Occupation

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KEVIN Nolan and Piers Hood, the Unite convenor and deputy-convenor at the Visteon plant in Enfield, appeared in the High Court in the Strand...

300,000 march on Downing St calling for Victory to Palestine!

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THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...
FBU strike tonight

FBU strike tonight

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ESSEX fire chiefs are putting the people and communities of Essex at unnecessarily increased risk by notifying all wholetime firefighters they will not be...

Bectu to strike

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The BBC unions announced yesterday that they will be targeting the Jubilee celebrations, following BBC management’s decision to write directly to members of staff...