US government shutdown – Trump threatens mass sackings

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THE United States government shut down yesterday after last-ditch efforts by lawmakers to pass a spending bill failed. Speaking to reporters at the White House,...
Teachers on strike in Norwich last year – the NUT is opposed to Free Schools and Academies and demands properly funded conncil-run state schools

Schools in poorest areas starved of funds

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COUNCIL-run schools in the poorest areas of the country are being starved of funds by the Tory-led coalition, which is pumping money into privately...

320,000 children face acute malnutrition

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ONLY 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, a figure drastically lower than the 600 truckloads the UN estimates are required daily to meet...
Secondary teachers on a march in Athens last month demanding the scrapping of the austerity measures

Eight Days To Greek Default!

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GREECE was put in an ‘eight days to default’ situation by the ECB and the EU yesterday. A default by Greece was technically avoided when...

Local councils £3.5bn financial hole Tories are demanding savage cuts – Tories are demanding...

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LOCAL councils have a hole in their finances exceeding £3.5bn collectively for the coming financial year, making it extremely likely they will have to...

BACK ME AGAINST REBELS! – failure May appeals to people

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‘IF THIS deal doesn’t go through, we go back to square one,’ PM May said in her interview with Radio Five Live, where she...

GPs HIT BACK AT PM MAY!

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DOCTORS leaders yesterday hit back at PM May’s threat to cut GP funding to surgeries that did not open for longer hours and offer...

New Politics Equals Dictatorship!

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THE new Tory coalition government is facing an angry response to its plans to install itself for five years, and stay in power even...

ILLEGAL! – Milford Haven oil terminal strike banned by judge

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UNITE, the transport workers’ union, yesterday said it was calling a 12-hour strike at the Milford Haven oil terminal next Tuesday, after...

Wage Theft Rampant In Scotland!

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MACDONALD Hotels stand accused by the trade union Unite of ‘wage theft’ in explosive evidence to the House of Commons Scottish Affairs select committee’s...
Marios Lolos addressing a rally of trade unionists in Athens

Greek riot police condemned!

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THE leaders of the Greek journalists and photoreporters’ trade unions have demanded that the police leadership stops its violence against press workers and releases...

Barts Serco Workers Strike Begins

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MASSES of workers and supporters turned out for the first day of the 15 day strike action at the Royal London Hospital yesterday, part...

UN convenes to discuss Israeli airstrikes

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THE UNITED Nations (UN) Security Council is to convene today at the request of Iran to discuss Saturday’s Israeli strikes on the country. Iran says...

‘The Most Biting Sanctions Ever Imposed!’

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has warned other countries against doing business with Tehran, saying he had imposed ‘the most biting’ sanctions on the country....

Tory police, fire & ambulance merger plan slammed

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TORY plans to merge fire, ambulance and police services are being pushed forward as the Home Office called for ‘shared control rooms’ yesterday. The proposal...
RMT members on the second day of their strike action on the Wood Group Shell. Photo Credit: RMT

5 days of Govia strike action

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FIVE further days of strike action have been confirmed by train union RMT over the removal of all guards from Govia Thameslink trains. Driver...

Israeli forces carry out raids across West Bank and Gaza

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ISRAELI forces carried out sweeping overnight raids into yesterday morning across the occupied West Bank, detaining dozens of Palestinians, assaulting residents, and issuing new...

Troika dictates its terms to Cyprus

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has set out the ultra-harsh terms of the ‘bailout deal’ that the Cypriot government has agreed. In order to receive...

Hundreds of us are fighting for reinstatement

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers were on the picket line yesterday determined to take their struggle forward to victory. Shop steward Gurdip Heer told News...
Remploy workers occupying the Department of Work and Pensions head office yesterday, surrounded by police. The protesters demanded that the 28 Remploy factories be kept open

Remploy Workers Occupy Dwp Head Office

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Yesterday morning Remploy workers, fighting for their jobs against Labour plans to close 28 factories, occupied the foyer of the Department of Work and...

Snaresbrook Crown Court protest

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MORE than 50 supporters of Waseem Yousaf demonstrated outside Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London yesterday morning as he faced the first day of...

UK-CIA Inquiry Boycott

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NINE rights groups have said they will boycott a parliamentary inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the CIA’s torture and rendition programmes. Amnesty International, Reprieve,...

10% of Gaza’s population has been killed, injured or detained by Israel!

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TEN per cent of Gaza’s population has been killed, injured, disappeared, or detained since Israel launched its genocidal war on 7 October 2023, according...

Axis of evil – Blair meets Olmert

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PRIME Minister Blair shook hands with Israeli leader Ehud Olmert at Downing Street yesterday, saying that there were the strongest links between Britain and...

4,000 Greek students march in support of hunger striker

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SOME 4,000 students and workers marched in Athens on Monday night in the biggest demonstration so far in support of imprisoned hunger striker Dimitris...

Mind Slams War On Vulnerable

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MORE than half of claimants surveyed by mental health charity Mind say fear of having their Incapacity Benefit removed has led them...

‘Don’t cut Universal Credit!’ – Unite appeals to Chancellor Sunak

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MORE than half the country wants chancellor Rishi Sunak to continue permanently with the £20-a-week uplift in Universal Credit (UC) due to end in...

DID YOU APPROVE A CHANGE TO SHOOT TO KILL? – Blair dodges reporter’s question

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‘Did you ever discuss or approve a change in the rules of engagement for British police to shoot to kill, shoot in the head...
Workers marched to Parliament to get the Tories out – now some Labour MPs are considering voting for May’s EU policy

DUP to vote against Tory Budget!

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THE Democratic Unionist Party is prepared to vote against the Budget on October 29, if their red lines for an EU deal are ignored...
Leeds heart unit campaigners are determined that their children’s heart unit should remain open

‘WHITEWASH!’ –Leeds heart surgery report is condemned

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‘WHITEWASH!’, said the furious parents of extremely sick children yesterday, as they branded a long overdue report into the decision to suspend children’s...

No limits Stop and Search! Youth chain gangs! – Sweeping police powers ‘discriminatory’ –...

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THE TORY government yesterday put forward proposals for even more sweeping police powers. They include taking off all restrictions on Stop and Search. Under the...
Postal workers and their families marching in Crewe on October 25 demanding the Mail Centre be kept open

MARCH TO DEFEND MAIL CENTRE! – through Milton Keynes

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CWU postal workers and their families are marching through Bletchley, Milton Keynes on Saturday, against the planned closure of the Mail Centre. Paul Moffat,...
The railway tunnel collapsed as a result of the new Tesco superstore being built in the area near Ge

VOTE NO TO ID CARDS – Trade unions and Liberty urge MPs

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Yesterday claims were made that the government was in discussions with businesses on the sale of personal information that will be contained in the...

P&O SACKS 800! – RMT instructs crews to stay on board and refuse to...

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P&O FERRIES has fired 800 seafaring staff with immediate effect. However, crews defied orders and refused to leave their ships, as their union the...
Unite bus workers taking action at the Lea Valley interchange

North London bus workers strike today!

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Over 2,000 bus drivers from nine garages across north London will take 24-hour strike action from 3am today following Arriva North’s decision not to...

Students begin occupying UK universities in support of Palestinian Revolution!

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PRO-Palestinian students have occupied several university campuses in the UK, to protest against the Israeli war on Gaza. Students in Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester,...

NURSES ANGRY! – ready for industrial action

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ROYAL College of Nursing members in England will be asked next Monday if they favour a ballot for strike action to force the government...
Damel Carayol’s painting produced ‘out of pure anger’

GRENFELL INQUIRY: May forced to retreat!

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‘WE ARE extremely pleased, we are relieved, but we are disappointed that we had to go through all of this to get the Prime...

US refused to prosecute HSBC money launderers

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US officials refused to prosecute UK-based HSBC bank for money laundering in 2012 because of fears that it would cause a ‘global financial...
West London Council of Action picket of Ealing hospital determined to prevent the hospital from closing

‘We must stop the A&E closures’ – Doctors reply to Nicholson

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‘IT can’t be done’ Southwest London hospital consultant Dr Philip Howard told News Line yesterday in response to a call for more A&E closures...

49 Labour MPs call for a Gaza ceasefire now!

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NEARLY a quarter of Labour MPs have called fora ceasefire in Gaza. Forty-nine of the party’s 199 MPs have either said they want a ceasefire...

EU invites Syria’s Tahrir al-Sham

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THE European Commission has invited representatives of Syria’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), currently ruling Syria, to attend an official donor conference despite the group’s...

Flooding – Call For Five Year Reconstruction Plan

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THE flood-hit South West of England needs a joined up, five year reconstruction and development plan to rebuild the economic, transport and social fabric,...
Irish workers march through Dublin against the cost of bailing out the banks

IRISH BANKING CRISIS! – Helping to undermine the euro

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A FRESH banking crisis is developing, with the credit ratings agency Moody’s reducing the Anglo-Irish bank’s debts to just above junk status. It is estimated...