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Yesterday’s monthly picket showing its determination to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

Growing Anger Over Threat To Chase Farm

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‘You have to fight for what is right’, Chase Farm Hospital worker Paulette Wright told News Line at the North East London Council of...
MARIA OTONE DE MENEZES, mother of Jean Charles addressing the packed London meeting on Monday night

‘THIS IS A LIE’ – Iran condemns Blair weapons allegations

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday repeated allegations that Iran had a hand in the deaths of British troops in Iraq. Speaking at a joint press conference...

Southall FBU Sending Delegation

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers have been getting tremendous support for their campaign for their march through Southall demanding the reinstatement of all the...

ALL OUT STRIKE NEEDED ACROSS PUBLIC SECTOR! – to defend wages and jobs

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‘OUR members are eager to make their feelings felt and ready to strike Friday,’ a Communication Workers Union (CWU) spokeswoman told News Line yesterday...

‘MORE POWERS FOR POLICE’ – pledges PM May

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THE TORY and Labour parties yesterday suspended national campaigning in the general election for the day in the wake of Saturday night’s terror attack...
Visteon workers occupied the Enfield plant last month after being sacked at six minutes notice

Ldv: No Jobs Guarantee

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Hundreds of workers at the Birmingham-based LDV van plant were yesterday warned there is no guarantee they will have a job after a...

Junior doctors condemn PM Sunak for ‘trying to intimidate & bully them’

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AS JUNIOR doctors ended their latest five-day strike action yesterday morning, BMA Junior Doctors Committee spokesman Dr Tal Ellenbogen accused Tory PM Rishi Sunak...

Vote YES for strike action! – Unite launches ballot of 100,000 NHS members

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UNITE launched a strike ballot of its 100,000 NHS members outside St Thomas’s Hospital, opposite Parliament, in central London yesterday morning. Onay Kasab, Lead Officer...
Marks & Spencer suppliers Fenland Foods workers demonstrating last May in defence of their jobs at the M&S Oxford Street store

1.92 Million Unemployed

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UK unemployment rose by 131,000 to 1.92 million between September and November, the highest total since September 1997, figures from the Office for National...

BLAIR ‘BREAKING’ ARMY – chief of staff urges withdrawal from Iraq

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The Blair government was yesterday paralysed in the face of a mutiny by Britain’s Chief of the General Staff who demanded...

Zambian villagers sue mining giant

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1,800 Zambian villagers are taking legal action in the High Court in London against UK based mining giant Vedanta Resources Plc and Konkola Copper...
Marchers with Luton MP KELVIN HOPKINS who voted against tuition fees in Parliament in 1997

Luton Mp Greets Ys March For Jobs

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education started the day yesterday with an effective early morning campaign outside the Luton GMM...
Immigrant workers marching in Athens during Thursday’s one-day strike

One Million Strike In Greece

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HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth took part in mass rallies and marches in all Greek cities and towns on Thursday as part...

Youth Services Devastated

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ANOTHER round of council cuts is set to devastate services for young people in London, with more than £1 million of cuts planned for...

NHS Winter Crisis Pressures All Year

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A BMA analysis shows that winter pressures will extend right through summer. The NHS can expect to see performance this summer as poor as...

General strike in Palestine!

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THROUGHOUT Yatta town, south of Jerusalem, a general strike is being observed to mourn the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Hasan Manasra, who was...

Israeli tank fire kills scores of Gazans

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THE armed wing of Hamas, Qassam Brigades, hit an Israeli Merkava tank with two Yassin 105 anti-armour missiles near a mosque in the Tal...

‘Trump is behind drive to extradite Assange’ – says US lawyer alleging Trump wants...

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US PRESIDENT Trump is behind the politically motivated prosecution of Julian Assange who he said should receive the death penalty, it was alleged by...

Palestine erupts!

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ISRAELI police clashed with Palestinian worshippers inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday. Palestinian guards of the mosque said dozens of Israeli officers raided the compound,...

UN says Israel must quit ‘unlawful presence!’

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THE UN General Assembly has adopted a Palestinian-drafted, non-binding resolution demanding Israel end ‘its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’ within 12 months. There...

Over two million Palestinians face relentless bombardment

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THE humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza continues to escalate, with over two million Palestinians – half of whom are children – facing relentless bombardment by...
Grenfell Tower survivors and supporters condemn the Tories for their deregulation and fire service cuts which led to the inferno

Grenfell Tower management sacked – after meeting between survivors and May

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THE Tenant Management Organisation which manages Grenfell Tower is to be stripped of its responsibilities for the west London estate, Tory Prime Minister Theresa...
BMA Junior Doctors Committee member YIANNIS GOURTSOYANNIS taking a leading part in Tuesday night’s lobby of 10 Downing Street to denounce the cuts expected in Osborne’s Autumn Statement

Join Our Picket Lines Urge Junior Doctors!

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MORE than 100 demonstrators were outside 10 Downing Street on Tuesday night to protest against Osborne’s Autumn Statement of £20bn more cuts...

STARING DEFEAT IN THE FACE! – in Iraq and Afghanistan

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BRITAIN is staring defeat in the face in Afghanistan according to Paddy Ashdown and Lord Inge, the ex-Chief of Staff, British army. In a House...
Greek demonstration demanding an end to austerity

17.8m out of work in eurozone

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FIGURES released yesterday showed eurozone unemployment hit a new record high in June, with a jobless rate of 11.2% and 17.8 million people out...

Stop Gate Gourmet Sell-Out!

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WE want the TUC to give us the support that they voted for at their TUC Congress. ‘They must help us to win our jobs...
Part of the massive anti-austerity demonstration on June 20th when 250,000 marched on parliament – many more will march and take strike action to defend trade union rights

Unite and fight this brutal assault says RMT

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‘THIS Tory government is coming after the one group of people – the trade unions – who are able to stand up for ordinary...
Cadbury’s workers in London last December to fight for their jobs

MASSIVE JOBLESS RISE – greatest since 1992

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Responding to yesterday’s unemployment figures, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘Today’s figures show that unemployment is starting to accelerate and it now...
Student nurses are fighting Health Secretary Hunt alongside the junior doctors

Keogh breaks agreement with BMA

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THE BMA has rebuked the NHS National Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh for breaking an agreement with it in an attempt to organise strike...
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...

Johnson Imposes Tier 3 On Manchester

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TORY PM Johnson announced yesterday the government will impose the strictest measures – a Tier 3 lockdown – on Manchester, despite Greater Manchester Mayor...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line at Heathrow yesterday

AIMING FOR VICTORY – say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are campaigning every day for delegations to attend their conference in London on Sunday January 29, whilst at the same...
Worker showing the noose he wants to use on the bankers  during a demonstration last Thursday in Athens

No Cash For Greece Until Cuts Are Made

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Although vicious austerity measures were voted for by a 199–74 majority in the Vouli (parliament) on Sunday night, the Greek ‘bailout’ is still not...

Assad requests Russia’s assistance –anti-IS air strikes begin

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THE Russian Federation Council has unanimously granted permission to President Putin to use the nation’s military force in Syria, Kremlin chief of...

ISRAELI FORCES KILL SCORES IN GAZA AND JENIN! – including doctors and children

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SEVEN Palestinians were killed and 13 others injured yesterday morning when the Israeli occupation forces stormed Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank and...

£70bn more Tory cuts!

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SHADOW Labour Chancellor Ed Balls said yesterday that the Tories are not even half way through their cuts, and that if elected they would...
With their mouths bound with white cloth, Tamil workers and youth continued their daily struggle outside Parliament to get the Labour Government to broker a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, this time with a ‘protest of silence’

Hospital Hit For Third Time In A Week

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TAMILNET reports that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) have fired artillery shells into the makeshift hospital in Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal East, killing at least...

GP surgeries to be closed!

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THE government appointed watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), will be able to use new powers from 2012 to close GP practices, British Medical...

OVERTURN STARMER’S ATTACK ON PENSIONERS! – demands Unite leader Graham

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OVER 200 people protested outside Parliament yesterday to demand the reversal of the Starmer Labour government’s scrapping of the Winter Fuel Allowance for 10...

NURSES UNDER PRESSURE TO WORK WITHOUT PPE – says RCN

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NURSING staff in the UK are still under pressure to work without PPE and lack promised gowns. Over a third of nursing staff (34%) in...

NHS preparing sweeping healthcare services cuts

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THE NHS is preparing to implement sweeping cuts to essential healthcare services, with thousands of frontline jobs at risk, and critical treatment pathways facing...

US & ISRAEL STOKING GAZA CLASHES says Hamas call for national unity

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THE political leader the Hamas Palest-inian liberation movement has said that the US and Israel are responsible for last week’s clashes between Hamas...

Unite supports the pro-Palestine boycott movement against Israel

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UNITE has declared its support for the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli regime, condemning the new legislation barring institutions...
Demonstration in Southall in July 2015 to stop the closure of the Maternity Department at Ealing Hospital – maternity closures have contributed to greater numbers of mothers and babies dying during childbirth

Lack of staff contributed to baby deaths

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LACK of midwives and the closure of maternity units have resulted in more babies suffering from brain damage, dying during childbirth, or dying soon...

Article 50 Showdown Postponed

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ON Tuesday, facing a rebellion from an estimated 40 pro-EU Tory MPs and likely defeat in the House of Commons, the government made an...