British Soldiers Die In Basra

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Two British soldiers were killed and two others wounded, by a roadside bomb in Basra last Sunday evening, the Ministry of Defence revealed yesterday. The...
Palestinian homes in Al Zutan destroyed by the Israeli army

SHOOT-TO-KILL POLICY STAYS And more innocents may die says Commissionair Blair

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‘I feel unsafe,’ Alex Alves Pereira, the cousin of the unarmed Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, killed by the Met police, told News Line...

Teachers fury at Labour’s ‘inadequate & unfunded’ 2.8% offer!

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DELEGATES at the annual conference of the National Education Union (NEU) in Harrogate yesterday voted for districts, branches and school groups to ‘immediately prepare’...

Unions decide to intervene on Second Reading of Strikes Bill!

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PCS president Fran Heathcote will be speaking at the demo on 16 January to coincide with the second reading of the government’s Strikes Bill. The...

‘CALL A PUBLIC SECTOR STRIKE’ – says London CWU rep

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FIVE thousand Royal Mail workers in north, east and south-east London are striking today, after voting overwhelmingly in ballots to fight ‘executive actions’ by...
Junior doctors have not stopped battling since their strike actions – they have won a battle at the Norfolk and Norwich NHS Trust in defence of their pay banding

Junior Doctors Defend Pay Band!

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JUNIOR DOCTORS have defended their protected pay banding after a year-long struggle. The BMA supported 15 foundation doctors at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS...

University wages strike ballots

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UCU members at Coventry University are being balloted for industrial action in a row over pay. The ballot opened yesterday and closes on Tuesday...

STOP ACADEMIES BILL! Demands mass lobby

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AS many as 2000 angry, school teachers, school students, parents, construction workers and supporters rallied at Westminster Hall yesterday, to protest at the Academies...
The head of yesterday’s march of more than 100 youth and tenants through the Aylesbury estate in south London

Don’t privatise the Aylesbury estate

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‘DEFEND Council Housing! Kick Blair out!’ shouted more than 100 tenants, youth and trade unionists as they marched through the Aylesbury Estate in south...
ANNA ATHOW with students at the Enfield College picket line yesterday, a number pledged they would vote WRP

Vote Wrp – Keep The Tories Out

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Thousands of lecturers, supported by tens of thousands of students, were yesterday taking strike action against Labour government cuts and sackings at 11 colleges...

‘The entire labour movement must fully support the RMT’

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THE RMT issued the following statement on the forthcoming rail and Tube strikes yesterday. ‘In the past few weeks, discussions have been taking place at...
CT Plus busworkers on the picket line in East London yesterday

‘LOW PAY NO WAY’ say CT pickets

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Shouts of ‘Low Pay, No Way!’ rang out at a 50-strong, lively picket of busworkers outside CT Plus garage in Hackney in east London...

‘Horrific intentionally repeated crime’

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GAZA’s Government Media Office yesterday accused Israel of ‘a horrific, intentionally repeated crime’, having lured starving Palestinians to aid centres run by the Gaza...
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...
Demonstration in January last year in Haringey against the imposition of Academy schools

‘We are a hideously unequal society’ says NUT leader Christine Blower

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‘IN a country like ours, how can it be that one in five children lives in poverty? How can it be that one in three...

Grim prospects for capitalism warns IMF

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THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund is projecting a deep recession in 2020, with global growth projected to be -4.4% in its latest update to the...

125,000 workers, students & youth march for Palestine

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THERE were 125,000 workers, students and youth on Saturday’s 18th National March for Palestine through London, from Piccadilly to a quarter of a mile...
Greek workers and students marching against massive cuts

Greek Default – 250,000 Jobs Under Threat

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AS European Commission officials and European leaders prepare a Greek default, Greek ministers have outlined barbaric plans for the wholesale destruction of public services...

‘WE DON’T BACK NHS BILL!’ – 400 doctors warn House of Lords

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THE Tory-LibDem Health and Social Care Bill will cause ‘irreparable harm’ to the NHS, 400 leading doctors, consultants and public health experts have written,...

Tuc Calls For Inquiry Into ‘Back To Work’ Regime

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THE Department for Work and Pensions yesterday released shocking mortality figures in response to a number of Freedom of Information requests concerning ‘the number...

Chase Farm NHS Must Not Close

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Drivers honked their horns enthusiastically saluting the picket line outside Chase Farm hospital on day ten of the daily picket fighting to keep the...

Nationalise Gm Vauxhall

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Business Secretary Mandelson told the BBC yesterday that there will be ‘painful change’ resulting from the takeover of GM Europe. He said that whichever of...
Irish workers demanding ‘Equal Rights for Everyone’ on last Friday’s 100,000-strong march through Dublin

General Strike in Ireland

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OVER 100,000 workers turned out for a massive demonstration through Dublin yesterday, as the country was brought to a halt in a general strike...
ALEX PEREIRA, cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes – who was murdered by the police at Stockwell tube on Friday 22nd July – addressing the News Line Anniversary Rally last Sunday

Gate Gourmet Workers Angry At Tgwu Officials

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers spoke out angrily yesterday over TGWU officers who are putting pressure on those the company has selected for compulsory...

Inflation Lets Rip!

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Inflation rose to 4.8 per cent in March, according to the latest RPIX index – which includes all items excluding mortgage interest payments. The latest...
Marchers in Athens city centre on Wednesday night demanding the Turkish government support the Kurds fighting ISIS in Kobane

Turkey fighting to the last Kurd!

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TURKEY’S foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said his country cannot be expected to lead a ground operation against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria...

‘THEY ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THEIR LIES!’ – Menezes family hails Blair inquiry

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‘This will be the start, they are going to pay for all their lies, all the shootings,’ Alex Pereira, the cousin of Jean Charles...

CWU votes to Boycott Private Mail!

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Members of the Communication Workers Union representing 160,000 employees in Royal Mail Group yesterday morning voted unanimously in favour of a mail boycott if...

NO POWER FOR 9 DAYS! – ‘totally unacceptable’ says Kwarteng

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IT IS ‘totally unacceptable’, that over 4,000 households in North East England remain without power more than nine days after Storm Arwen tore down...

UN condemns Israel’s man-made famine as a ‘war crime’

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THE humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip has turned into a man-made famine, the United Nations human rights chief has said, adding that Israel’s...
Students battling to defend NHS bursaries – Cameron has just pledged even more savage cuts if workers vote to leave the EU

Cameron threatens savage cuts!

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PRIME Minister Cameron and Chancellor Osborne have threatened more savage cuts in spending on pensions, the NHS and defence if the UK votes to...

Child benefit savage cuts

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STRUGGLING families are losing out on hundreds of pounds a year as a result of changes to child benefit over the past decade, said...

Al Shifa hospital runs out of fuel today!

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THE al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s biggest hospital, will run out of fuel today, or tomorrow at the latest, with 35,000 men, women and children crammed...
Lively West Hendon tenants determined to fight privateers ‘regeneration’ of their estate creating evictions

New Era Tenants Face Eviction!

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TENANTS on the New Era estate in Hoxton, Hackney, east London, face eviction ‘ASAP’ after a promise not to impose huge rent increases had...

Amcu to march on British embassy!

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THE South African miners’ trade union Amcu has said it will march to the British embassy this week to hand over a memorandum...
Southern rail picket line at Victoria Station yesterday morning

Southern guards remain rock solid

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‘RMT guards on Southern Rail remain rock solid and absolutely determined in their action in defence of rail safety,’ General Secretary Mick Cash said...

‘If you can work you must work’ – Kendall

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‘UNDER this Labour government, if you can work you must work,’ Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the House of Commons yesterday. Launching the...

Corbyn pledges–no anti-union laws–no zero hours contracts!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has called for right wing Labour MPs to ‘think again’ after reports that some are planning a ‘semi-split’ breakup of...
Ealing midwives on the picket line outside the hospital during last year’s strike – The meeting tonight is called to plan next Wednesday’s march & occupation of maternity to stop the closure

Save Ealing Maternity! Occupy Now!

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THERE was enormous support for tonight’s meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday morning. Hospital workers, patients, local residents and youth...

Police Corruption Review Over Lawrence Murder

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HOME Secretary, Theresa May has ordered a new ‘QC-led review’ into allegations that police corruption hampered the original failed investigation, nineteen years after the...

Refugee crisis doubles

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THE number of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has doubled to 1,255,600 during 2015, figures released yesterday show. Imperialist wars in Iraq Afghanistan and...

‘It is now Tory government policy to create recession!’ says Hunt advisor

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INTEREST rates are expected to be hiked by 0.25% to 4.75% today, but with yesterday’s inflation rate remaining at 8.7% in the year to...
London fire service staff outside City Hall yesterday to demand the withdrawal of threatened cuts

FBU Angry Over Cuts

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FIREFIGHTERS joined members of Unison and GMB trade unions yesterday in an angry lobby of a London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) meeting...

‘GREEN LIGHT TO TORTURE’ – Amnesty condemns Algerian’s deportation

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Yesterday’s immigration panel ruling to deport an Algerian man as a threat to national security is ‘an affront to justice and a green light...

BA’S 2 YEAR PLAN – for £450m savings and up to 6,000 sackings

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THE new two-year business plan for British Airways was unveiled yesterday and includes provision for reducing costs by £450 million and restoring 10 per...