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Israeli Army Continues Massacres!

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IN the midst of catastrophic humanitarian suffering for more than two million Palestinians – half of them children, the Israeli occupation army continued, for...
South West Trains ASLEF picket line at Waterloo station yesterday afternoon

ASLEF pickets out at Waterloo

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YESTERDAY’S 24-hour strike by 200 Aslef members working out of London’s Waterloo Station was 100 per cent solid and will be repeated tomorrow, Aslef...

END PFI NOW! – demands Unison as mass hospital closures threaten

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THREE London hospitals face the threat of immediate closure as a result of PFI-induced bankruptcy, it emerged yesterday. In the first case of its kind,...

Ryanair ‘declaration of war’

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RYANAIR has made a ‘declaration of war’ unions said after it embarked on a campaign of closures and ‘fleet reductions’. This, according to pilot and...

Tory ‘hit list’ for air strikes on Syria

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THE Tory government yesterday conceded that a ‘hit list’ of names of several ‘British jihadis’ were drawn up at the meeting of senior national...

RATE RISES AND A SHRINKING ECONOMY PREDICTS BoE

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THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday increased interest rates to 1.75% – the highest in 27 years. It warned of 13% inflation...
Supporters joined Southern rail striking guards on the picket line outside Victoria Station yesterday. ‘All the rail unions should take action together’ – Steve Hedley

Triple Strike To Keep Train Guards

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TRAIN drivers and guards were on strike in three parts of the country simultaneously yesterday, with Southern, Northern and Merseyside RMT drivers and guards...

TORY DICTATORSHIP! – Banning and Disruption Orders on the way

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PM Cameron said yesterday that his government will bring forward legislation under which ‘banning orders’ and ‘disruption orders’ will be used against ‘extremists’ and...

Prosecute Netanyahu For Fraud Demands Tel Aviv Mass Rally

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Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday against moves by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to secure immunity from prosecution on fraud...
Marchers demanding the sacking of ATOS

GPES & ATOS slammed

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THE General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) IT system, designed to extract data from the four major clinical IT systems used by GPs, is late,...

Sharma refuses to sign petition to reopen Ealing paediatrics and maternity

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EALING Southall Labour MP Varindra Sharma refused to sign the West London Council of Action petition to reopen maternity and paediatrics at Ealing Hospital...

Drive Private Treatment Centres Out Of NHS

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PROFESSOR Bren Neale yesterday condemned private treatment centres as dangerous and demanded that they be brought back into the NHS. This follows on from the...

Israel to annexe settlement!

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ISRAEL’S education minister and leader of the far right, pro-settlement Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett, said yesterday morning he would propose a bill by...

Reinstate All P&O Staff – Demands Haigh

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‘WE MUST send a clear message that rogue employers cannot get away with trampling over the laws of this country, it is time to...

Over 700 homeless have died

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AS MANY AS 700 people died on the streets while homeless last year, official estimates show, and the number is in reality likely to...

This Is A War Crime! Israel Fires Missiles At Ambulances!

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‘EVERYONE should stand up and say this is a war crime, genocide, the ambulances were just trying to evacuate the patients,’ Al Shifa Hospital...
Doctors stand up to the Home Office refusing to shop confidential information to immigration officials – they refuse to be used as border control – St Mungo’s however have co-operated with immigration squads who target homeless people for deportation

Immigration squads target the homeless

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WHILE helping identify homeless people at risk of freezing to death on the streets, homeless charity St Mungo’s has admitted to co-operating with ...

Johnson Hopes That ‘EU Friends Will Compromise’

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A WEAKER than usual Boris Johnson broke with the pre-speech propaganda that he would take a very defiant ‘do or die’ stance on leaving...

Coulson Crisis Deepens

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Downing Street Director of Communications Andy Coulson is under renewed pressure after it was announced yesterday that MPs will hold an emergency debate in...

‘END THE OCCUPATION!’ urges the Hamas resistance

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HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement, has issued a call for an end to Israeli occupation and terrorism against Palestinians on the International Day of...
Trade unionists in chains outside the House of Commons yesterday afternoon demanding support for the Trade Union Freedom Bill

Bbc Unions To Go For Strike Ballot

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BBC journalists, technicians and production staff and electricians will be balloted for strike action if the BBC proceeds to call for ‘voluntary redundancies’ today,...
Part of the 400-strong lobby of Barnet council on Tuesday night against its savage cuts programme

Barnet Council Mass Lobby

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Over 400 workers, youth, pensioners and local service users lobbied Barnet Council on Tuesday, furious at the massive cuts and privatisation imposed by the...

Thousands denied benefits now driven to food banks!

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THOUSANDS deemed ineligible to receive Universal Credit have been driven to food banks to survive. The new study published yesterday by the Economic and Social...
Campaigners celebrate winning a judical review against Lewisham closure in July. Health Secretary Hunt has now lost his appeal against the judges’ decision

Hunt did act ‘illegally’ – in seeking to close Lewisham A&E and Maternity

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THE Court of Appeal yesterday upheld the decision of a Judicial Review not to proceed with the reconfiguration of Lewisham hospital, meaning that the...

Poor Families Driven Out Of London

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HOUSING benefit cuts being debated in parliament today and set to come into force next April will see local authorities ‘decanting’ poor families out...
Protest outside the US embassy in London on January 11 – five years since the first prisoners were inarcerated at Guantanamo Bay

HUNGER STRIKE – against Guantanamo Bay’s new isolation units

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A MASS hunger strike is being waged by inmates in America’s Cuban Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, against being transferred into ‘maddening’ new isolation units. Thirteen...
Staff, local residents and supporters rallying against trust plans to axe St Helier Hospital A&E department

ST HELIER STRIKE WARNING – after Trust debt leaps to £41 million

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Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, two busy Surrey General Hospitals with bustling Accident and Emergency Departments, are to be replaced by a single hospital...

‘WE’RE READY TO FIGHT FOR VICTORY’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet shop stewards went to a meeting at the Trades Union Congress in central London yesterday with leaders of their union, the TGWU,...

GPs are not gatekeepers, their place is in the communities

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GPs have stressed that the best place for GPs to work is in their community, as opposed to working in hospital triage as first...

Student Fees Anger!

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the National Union of Students (NUS) is lobbying Parliament today against a threatened unlimited hike in university top up fees. The NUS has called the...

May Rejected By House Of Commons

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‘THE BREXIT talks are about acting in the national interest and that means making what I believe to be the right choices not the...

Sri Lankan governor and cabinet resign! – as masses defy curfew and protest

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THE CRISIS in Sri Lanka escalated yesterday as wild protests broke out on the streets over spiralling fuel and food prices, and daily blackouts...

700,000 London families plunged into fuel poverty

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THREE quarters of a million families in London will be plunged into fuel poverty after energy bills spiral by as much as 50% in...

BANK’S XMAS BOMBSHELL! – 5% interest rates are on the way

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Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Paul Fisher dropped a Christmas bombshell yesterday. He revealed that the Bank’s policymakers would like to see...

Israel launches fresh Gaza ground invasion!

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ISRAEL has launched a fresh ground invasion into Gaza City, with occupying forces pushing into the Shejaiya neighbourhood early on Friday. According to Gaza’s civil...

Visteon Talks Today

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Sacked Visteon workers from Enfield, north London, and Belfast were picketing Ford showrooms yesterday on the eve of today’s talks with management. Meanwhile, on...

HAMAS ACCEPTS CEASEFIRE! to end the war in Gaza and begin the withdrawal...

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HAMAS said yesterday it had accepted a ceasefire framework reached through indirect talks in Cairo and based on a proposal by Donald Trump. The movement...
Disabled people stormed Parliament yesterday, angry at the abolition of the Independent Living Fund (Picture: John McDonnell)

Disabled Occupy Parliament

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Disabled people occupied the Central Lobby of Parliament yesterday against the abolition of their Independent Living Fund (ILP). They attempted to storm parliament itself,...

33% Fewer Hospital Beds!

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‘WE ARE concerned that the implementation of the Health & Social Care Act risks the fragmentation of patient care highlighted in this report,’ Paul...
Some of the demonstrators who marched through Norwich last weekend against the Arts Council cuts that threaten the future of hundreds of theatre groups across Britain

Arts Council To Decide On Cuts

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A CLOSED Arts Council meeting is being held in the Roundhouse in Camden, north west London on Tuesday at 1.30pm, to ratify swingeing ‘death...

Nationwide university pensions battle!

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OVER 50,000 university staff at 69 universities are currently balloting for a nationwide strike over an attack on their pensions – which means they...

Gaza’s ‘man-made’ famine escalating at extraordinary speed

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SENIOR UN officials have warned that Israel’s genocide and blockade of Gaza have created a man-made famine that is escalating at terrifying speed, with...

Workers to get 67% of wages – bosses to get free labour under Sunak...

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TORY CHANCELLOR Sunak set out yesterday more massive support for businesses forced to close by law, with much tighter virus rules expected in England...

March of the 4-year-olds demands no test

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SOME of the youngest protesters ever rose up yesterday in the ‘march of the four-year-olds!’ where over 200 parents accompanied an army of children...
The front of the 20,000-strong march in January last year to stop the closure of Lewisham Hospital

MILIBAND SUPPORTS US-LED BOMBING OF SYRIA – and pledges to repeal Health & Social...

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LABOUR leader Ed Milliband opened his speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday by throwing his full support behind the US-led bombing raids on...