Iraq’s Deputy Oil Minister Kidnapped

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The top American commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus has said he is preparing recommendations on troop reductions before he returns to Washington next...

56 Palestinians killed & scores injured in Israeli assaults!

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AT least 56 Palestinians have been killed and scores more sustained injuries in Israeli assaults across Gaza since Thursday morning, according to medical sources. In...
Unite members were on strike yesterday at the One Housing Group head office in Chalk Farm, north London

McCluskey surrenders! before a shot is even fired

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ADDRESSING a meeting of the Unite Executive Council and Regional Political Committees yesterday, General Secretary Len McCluskey made clear that he intends to surrender...

‘Drop commitment to Trident and save £205bn’ – McDonnell urged!

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THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday supported the call by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell for ‘an emergency Budget for our public services’. The...

Nut Strike In Week Of June 23

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) voted overwhelmingly yesterday in favour of holding a one-day strike in England and Wales in the week...
Nurses outside Chelsea & Westminster hospital during the last NHS pay strike on November 24th

Less than 1% of the £700m emergency care reached A&Es

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LESS than 1% of the £700m allocated by the government for emergency care in England this winter ended up directly in A&E departments, according...

HUNT’S CLASS WAR BUDGET SCRAPS THE HOUSEHOLD SUPPORT FUND SEPT 30th

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TORY Chancellor Hunt delivered his class war Budget in the House of Commons yesterday, announcing that the Household Support Fund will be scrapped on...
A strong picket line at the London College of Communication yesterday morning

Police try to stop the Beacon Hill locked-out workers picket

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HEATHROW Airport police tried to remove the Gate Gourmet picket from the Beacon Roundabout outside the airport yesterday. Three locked-out workers were picketing in their...
‘How do you sleep at night?’ is a good question when at least 46,211 children’s operations have been cancelled over the last four years

12,349 children’s operations were cancelled last year

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THOUSANDS of hospital operations for children are being cancelled every year owing to a lack of beds, staff and equipment in the NHS. NHS figures,...

The occupation is starving us say Palestinian children

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‘THE occupation is starving us,’ a young boy said yesterday, speaking alongside several dozen other young children who are among the 60,000 Palestinians who...

National action launched to end ‘fire and rehire’ – while Unite suspends RATP...

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THE UNITE union yesterday launched a nationwide campaign to ‘end the growing practice of fire and rehire’ through a programme of strike action alongside...

Budget cuts every year – says Miliband imitating Osborne

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PARTY leader Ed Miliband yesterday set out how a Labour government would ‘deal with the deficit’. In a speech delivered at the New Economic Foundation...

BLACKMAIL – Hamas condemns imperialist pressure to recognise Israel

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THE Arab League; the Quartet of the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia; Israel and the Palestinian Fatah movement are...

Budget Signals Countdown To The General Election

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CHANCELLOR Alastair Darling yesterday delivered his Budget speech in the middle of the civil servants’ strike action, starting it by claiming that the UK...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line in the freezing cold yesterday

HOSPITAL CLOSURES! –will result from payment by results system says BMA

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‘Flaws in the Payment by Results (PbR) system mean that whole hospital departments could be unfairly closed down as “inefficient”,’ warns the British Medical...
Lance Corporal JOE GLENTON (far right) and his wife CLARE (left) with PETER BRIERLEY (second from left) whose son Shaun was killed in Iraq, leading off the October 24th march in London against the war on Afghanistan

Glenton – Five Further Charges

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Corporal Joe Glenton, the soldier who faces desertion charges for refusing to return to Afghanistan, has been arrested, imprisoned and charged with five further...

GOVE ADMITS DRUG LAW-BREAKING! – as do six Tory leadership contenders

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TORY leadership candidate Michael Gove admitted on BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he had acted illegally in relation to using cocaine. The former Justice...

Health Bill ‘is a Privateers Charter’ says Shadow Health Secretary Ashworth

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LABOUR said yesterday that it will oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill. ‘With more than one-in-10 people on waiting lists for treatment in...

‘Day of Rage!’ Mass pension strike shuts France down!

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FRANCE was totally paralysed yesterday with flights, trains, the Metro and buses all cancelled during the mass ‘Day of Rage’ over President Emmanuel Macron’s...
BMA delegates at their Annual Representative Meeting applaud BMA acting chairman Everington after his address yesterday

‘A RECIPE FOR PRIVATISATION’ – BMA rep slams NHS ‘board of governors’ plan

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The BMA leadership was defeated yesterday when the association’s Annual Representative Meeting overwhelmingly carried Motion 65 against the purchaser-provider split in the NHS. This split...

Teachers 90.44% Strike Vote!

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NEU (National Education Union) members in England and Wales and support staff in Wales have voted overwhelmingly for strike action and the ballot has...

Ingram misled parliament over Baha Mousa hooding

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ADAM Ingram – Armed Forces Minister during the British occupation of southern Iraq in 2003 – has admitted wrongly informing MPs that Baha Mousa...

Private midwifery company operating within the NHS!

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A PRIVATE midwifery company now has a contract with ten NHS trusts, with up to 300 women a year using a private midwife during...
NHS workers marching in defence of the NHS stressing it is not about profit

ABOLISH PRESCRIPTION CHARGES – urges the BMA

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England should follow the example of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, and abolish all prescription charges, the British Medical Association (BMA) said today. The Department...

‘Doctors are already shouldering the burden of staff shortages’

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THE BRITISH Medical Association has criticised the government’s latest Comprehensive Spending Review, warning that despite headline increases in NHS funding, the plans fall well...

492 dead from Covid-19 in 24 hours – report Tory PM Johnson and NHS...

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TORY PM Johnson was joined by head of NHS England Simon Stevens at a joint press conference yesterday afternoon in which they reported 492...

Cleaners fight 23% wage cuts

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ANGRY GMB members are demonstrating outside the CoNEL College in Tottenham this morning against an ‘utterly shameful’ attack on college cleaners which cuts their...
Hundreds of school youth on the plinth at Trafalgar Square before last Wednesday’s march on parliament

Bring Down Coalition With A General Strike!

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THOUSANDS of students and workers will be marching from the University of London Union (ULU) to parliament tomorrow, when the Tory-LibDem Coalition government...
The huge enthusiastic crowds that turned out to demonstrate and vote ‘NO’ shook the centrist Syriza leadership to its foundations

Tsipras Turning ‘No’ Vote Into ‘Yes’!

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GREEK Prime Minister and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras initiated a meeting of all the political parties’ leaders in Athens on Monday. A ‘joint statement’, issued...

3 MPs–CRIMINAL CHARGES!

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THREE Labour MPs and one Tory peer will face criminal charges over their expenses, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer announced yesterday. MPs Elliot...

LABOUR RENEGADE AUSTIN REFUSES TO DENY HE’LL VOTE TORY

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IAN AUSTIN, MP for Dudley North in the West Midlands, who quit the Labour Party yesterday, said that he will not call a by-election,...
Young Socialists lobbied the TUC last year and were told that the TUC General Council were still discussing the practicalities of a general strike. They are marching to the TUC Congress in Liverpool from London starting on Tuesday August 19, this time the

Tuc Congress Must Call General Strike!

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‘TODAY’S huge strike of public sector workers expresses the great anger felt throughout the working class at the huge austerity cuts, including pay cuts,...

‘Probe Johnson for corporate manslaughter’ – Labour MP – Care home incompetence led to...

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‘WHEN will the Prime Minister and others be investigated by the police for alleged corporate manslaughter and why did they not follow the example...

Iran’s new leader vows revenge for Minab school massacre

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IRAN’S new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei made his first public statement since succeeding his father yesterday, vowing that Iran would avenge the blood of...

Shocking Tuc Betrayal Condemned

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THE RMT has reacted furiously to the TUC/Southern Rail betrayal of safety and the conductor grade. General Secretary Mick Cash said: ‘This so-called agreement is...

Palestine coalition condemns false claims of riot & disorder

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TODAY’S guilty verdicts in the case of Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal and Stop The War Campaign vice chair Chris Nineham are extraordinary...

Heathrow strike vote!

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THERE has been a strike vote over ‘punishing’ working patterns at Heathrow. International airlines flying from Heathrow Airport face major disruption to the supply of...

‘Give It Back’ Huge Support For Strike To Restore 10% Pay Cut

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IN the first test of public opinion since British Airways check-in staff announced that they will take strike action to have their pay restored...

Syria rejects rebel ‘peace plan!’

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THE Syrian government has dismissed a peace proposal from the umbrella group representing Syria’s US and UK backed political and armed opposition. The opposition’s High...
Greek worker has a clear idea how to remedy the banking crisis

Greek Slump – Consumption Falls By 16.6%

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THE Greek economy fell further into deep recession in the first quarter of the year, according to the Greek Statistics Authority (EL.STAT.) who announced...

Tories Attack The Disabled

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HALF a million disabled people and their families are set to lose thousands of pounds a year under the government’s proposed Universal Credit, a...

Gaza – Red Cross insists that the lives of hospital workers must not be...

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THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stressed that hospitals must be a safe place to guarantee human safety and protection. The spokesman for...
A 200-strong picket line at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow

MASSIVE JUNIOR DOCTORS ACTION! – shakes the Tories to their core

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MASS picket lines packed with enthusiastic doctors and supporters were the rule in every part of the country yesterday on the first day of...

Israeli forces continue lethal Gaza operation

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ISRAELI forces continued lethal operations in Gaza and intensified repression across the occupied West Bank yesterday amid repeated ceasefire violations in the Strip and...

LEBANON ERUPTS! – on the anniversary of port explosion

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HUNDREDS of Lebanese marched to mark the first anniversary of the Beirut port explosion that killed more than 200 people. Lebanese police clashed with angry...