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Palexpo – June 6th & June 7th, 2019

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Ministers pledge measures to control cost of living

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YESTERDAY’S King’s Speech was opened yesterday by King Charles III. The main issues in the King’s Speech were that ministers will support measures that control...

General Strike Overdue

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TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady has said on the eve of the annual TUC Congress, that unions may come together in co-ordinated strike action...
March in Enfield in June against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

Pfi Disaster For NHS

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned ‘commercial involvement in the NHS’ as it emerged that the cost of NHS private finance initiative (PFI)...

Windsor criminalises homeless

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WINDSOR and Maidenhead council have made it a crime to be homeless, issuing fines of £100 criminalising destitute people in an attempt to drive...

Bloody Sunday only 1 prosecution

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‘WE WILL continue on and hopefully get the rest of the perpetrators to justice, because there are legal means to get them prosecuted and...
Workers at the Tuesday evening demonstration in Athens. The banner reads ‘The austerity measures shall not pass’

Down With The Imf Junta Say Athens Workers

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Over five thousand public sector workers marched through the Athens city centre last Tuesday evening against the government’s appeal to the IMF. Throughout the militant...

Call for worldwide Gaza solidarity action

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THE Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued to carry out intensive deadly strikes targeting civilians in different areas of the Gaza Strip, mainly in Gaza...
Trade unionists from the RMT, TSSA, Unison and the GMB joined the FBU picket line outside Euston fire station on September 25

Firefighters To Strike Again Over Pensions

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FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales will strike again over government attacks on pensions next Saturday, 19 October, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced on...
Masses of students marching on parliament last December were joined by trade unionists who backed their fight against tuition fees. Now the government is planning a showdown with the trade unions in the summer

TORIES PREPARE SUMMER WAR – Organising tens of thousands of strike breakers

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Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has been overseeing ‘war games’ in preparation for a General Strike this summer. Following orders from the Cabinet...

Patient records now open to state

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FOR the first time, the Department for Work and Pensions will have access to patients personal GP records, including their ‘fit notes’...

US Prison Ships Used Diego Garcia

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‘The US government must reveal information about prison ships used for “terror suspects”,’ the legal action charity, Reprieve said yesterday. In June 2005 the UN’s...

Grangemouth Pensions Fight Is On!

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Sunday’s two-day strike by 1,200 workers at Grangemouth oil refinery will go ahead, said Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley yesterday. Speaking before addressing a...

Eu: ‘Moment Of Truth’ Near!

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THE PRIME Minister will ‘never agree’ to a permanent Customs Union with the EU, said 10 Downing Street yesterday. However despite Downing Street assurances...
The 50-strong picket of Ealing hospital yesterday morning was presented with a gift by junior doctor Dr SHERGILL

Children’s lives in danger!

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‘CHILDREN’S lives are in danger!’ Surinder Grewal warned on the mass picket of Ealing Hospital in west London yesterday to stop the closure of...

Greenspan Lashes Bush

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Alan Greenspan, the former head of the US Federal Reserve has released his memoirs, ‘The Age of Turbulence’, just as the economy goes into...

‘How can the world remain silent in the face of the killing and injury...

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that there are no words to describe the genocidal Israeli war and destruction inflicted upon our Palestinian people...

Korean trade unions call general strike to force President to quit!

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SOUTH Korea’s biggest umbrella labour group, the Confederation of Korean Trade Unions (KCTU), yesterday called an indefinite nationwide strike to continue until president Yoon...
Police on horseback charge at miners at Orgreave on 18th June 1984

ORGREAVE – police conspiracy exposed

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CHRIS KITCHEN, leader of the NUM, demanded an inquiry yesterday into South Yorkshire Police over their manipulation of evidence against miners charged following...

‘THEY WERE SENDING ME TO THE USA FOR EXECUTION!’ – Lofti Raissi demands apology...

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‘They were sending me to the US for an execution, I will never forgive that,’ said Algerian pilot Lofti Raissi yesterday, after winning the...

French Workers March To Bring Down Macron

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FRENCH protesters downed tools and marched once again in Paris and other cities yesterday. They have been galvanised by President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to ram...
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...

General strike sparked by demolitions in Palestine!

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A General strike was held in Rahat City in southern Israel yesterday, against Israel’s rampant demolitions of Palestinian homes in Israel. Israeli bulldozers demolished two...

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...

Johnson Tests Positive!

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PM Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus. Johnson said he developed mild symptoms over the past 24 hours, including a temperature and cough. He is...

Israel & US starves PLO of funds

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AHMAD Majdalani, of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, has warned that Israel is attempting to destroy the Palestinian Authority through more financial...

Worldwide media protest against Zionist genocide

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MORE than 250 media outlets in over 70 countries staged a front page protest yesterday, highlighting the killing of more than 200 journalists in...
Morale was very high on the RMT picket line at Kings’ Cross St Pancras station

‘We’re fighting all the way!’ –RMT members tell News Line

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''WE''RE rock solid and we’re going to fight the closures and sackings all the way,’ RMT rep Sean told News Line at King’s Cross...
YS marchers assemble with local busworkers union official John Hughes before their march on Saturday

March For Jobs!

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education had its first leg from Manchester to Stockport yesterday. After a great march through Manchester...

Euro Arrest Warrant Out For Puigdemont!

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SPAIN’S state prosecutor yesterday requested a European arrest warrant for the deposed Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, and four of his former regional ministers...
Marchers demand arrests and corporate murder charges over the Grenfell Tower inferno that killed large numbers of men, women and children

Grenfell Mass Protest Tonight

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ONLY a fraction of the donated £20 million has reached the survivors and families of the victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy which claimed...
Trade unionists and youth lobbied the TUC yesterday afternoon demanding ‘No pensions Sell-out!’

NO DEAL! – says PCS

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THE pcs civil servants union yesterday rejected the government’s pensions plan to force public servants to pay more and work longer for less in...

‘Shut Down Inquiry! It’s A Disgrace!’

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‘SHUT down the inquiry, it’s a disgrace!’ protesters shouted outside the Grenfell inquiry yesterday, on the first day it resumed after the Attorney General...

Speaker rules out 3rd vote on May’s deal! – UK must leave EU March...

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‘WHAT the government cannot legitimately do is to re-submit to the House the same proposition, or substantially the same proposition as that of last...
British troops firing on civilians in the north of Ireland

Prosecute army terrorists! –MRF murders in Ireland condemned

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‘MEMBERS of the “Military Reaction Force”, who murdered unarmed Irish nationalists, must be identified and prosecuted for murder,’ WRP general secretary Frank Sweeney told...
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...

NHS has a privatisation & closure plague!

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A PRIVATISATION and closure plague is being spread rapidly throughout the NHS. United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust has closed its accident and emergency department at Grantham...

‘Don’t make the student debt nightmare worse!’

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‘DON’T make the £141bn student debt nightmare worse,’ the University and College Union (UCU) warned yesterday ahead of a government spending review. University staff have...

Back to the workhouse! – new Tory policy for unemployed

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THE Tory coalition yesterday launched their latest scheme to drive unemployed people off benefits. The scheme, cynically entitled ‘Help to Work’, targets ‘long-term unemployed’ people...
Demonstrators outside parliament commemorate the 60th anniversary of the ‘Nakba’ (catastrophe) and demand freedom for Palestine and the lifting of the siege of Gaza

‘We will return!’

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‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 800 protesters at a Nakba (Catastrophe) Day demonstration opposite Downing Street on Saturday. The protestors insisted that Palestinian refugees must have...

100,000 besieged in northern Gaza!

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ABOUT 100,000 people are besieged in Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza without medical or food supplies, the Palestinian Civil Emergency...
Junior doctors are still very angry and determined that no government is going to impose any form of slavery on them

Junior Doctors marching today

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THOUSANDS of junior doctors will take to the streets of London today in protest at the imposed changes to their contracts. The rally today in...

Mubarak ‘steps down!’ – swept aside by the revolution

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President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and fled from the capital, Cairo. Vice-President Omar Suleiman announced on Egyptian state television yesterday afternoon: ‘In these grave...

KBR FINED $402m IS TO BE POLICE PARTNER

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KELLOG, Brown and Root (KBR) is on the shortlist for the ‘Business Partnering for Police’ (BPP) project. It is the company which pleaded guilty before...

Johnson speaks as troops go in

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‘IT would be fatal if this sense of progress over vaccines was now to breed any kind complacency,’ Tory PM Boris Johnson said yesterday...