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Kurds raided by counter-terrorism police – ‘an unjust & heavy handed operation’

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THE Kurdish Community in London have written a statement ahead of a march in central London tomorrow against the arrest of Kurdish demonstrators in...
Police attack youth trying to march to Parliament to protest about the plan to raise tuition fees to £9,000 a year – Photo by Gareth Jukes

Police Mass Arrests!

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Tuesday’s student demonstration in London ended in a mass arrest of 144 people, being described by students and legal groups as an exercise in...
Chagossians with their Community Association banner, demanding the right to return to Diego Garcia, outside parliament yesterday

WE WILL RETURN TO DIEGO GARCIA – say Chagos Islanders

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A delegation from the Chagos Islands Community Association (CICA) travelled from Crawley yesterday to attend a ‘Let Them Return’ meeting in the House of...
Demonstrators expressing their anger at the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon in July – police would like to criminalise slogans on placards they decide to be ‘offensive’

POLICE MUST NOT BE CENSORS – says Liberty

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Civil rights organisation Liberty yesterday urged the government not to give police powers to arrest demonstrators for ‘offensive’ chants and/or slogans on placards. This followed...

Woodley Discussing Wage Cuts With Magna-Gm

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BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson’s Department and the Unite union both said yesterday that talks on Wednesday with new GM Europe owner, Magna, were ‘constructive’ but...
The NUT on the march through central London during their strike last year

Teachers Out Today!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers are striking against government attacks on their terms and conditions today, with mass marches planned in towns and cities...
Demonstrators on last Saturday’s 100,000-strong demonstration through central London characterise the leaders of the imperialist alliance

Hezbollah Halts Israeli Advance

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Hezbollah said its fighters killed or wounded 15 Israeli soldiers trying to advance towards the border village of Aita al-Shaab yesterday morning, as fighting...

Sri Lanka Tea Workers Arrested

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Thirty four civilians were taken into custody in a cordon and search operation conducted by the government security forces at Gampaha town from Saturday...

Labour launches savage attack on unemployed!

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LABOUR launched a new extreme attack on the unemployed yesterday, announcing that if they do not find a job within a year they will...

Zionists kill 10 sheltering at UNRWA school in Gaza!

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AT LEAST ten people in a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), located in the Rimal...

Unison Rejects Virgin Private Health Centres!

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Public sector union UNISON yesterday told News Line it is opposed to a bid by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group to build and administer NHS...

People dying because of staff cuts

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THE number of people who have died, been assaulted or injured themselves in prison has risen to its highest level for a decade, figures...

HEADING FOR THE ROCKS – The Fed’s Kohn warns of ‘uncharted waters’

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The Bank of England is warning that high street banks face big new risks from future rises in interest rates and the current crisis...

Osborne privatisation drive – but forced to retreat over tax credits

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CHANCELLOR Osborne announced a U-turn on the abolition of tax credits in his Autumn Statement yesterday, while massively extending Tory privatisation and cuts elsewhere. Nursing...

GLOBAL MOBILISATION! – Hamas calls Friday-Sunday action against genocide

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THE HAMAS Movement has called for intensified global mobilisation to Israel’s genocide and starvation war against the Palestinian people referring to the ongoing Israeli...

Food Prices To Double!

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Oxfam UK warned yesterday that the average prices of staple crops will more than double in the next 20 years leaving billions of people...

‘Decade of cuts has undermined Fire Service’ – FBU

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AN outbreak of coronavirus has left Surrey firefighters struggling to maintain fire cover after their brigade management failed to properly implement vital health and...

SOCIALISM THE FUTURE FOR YOUTH – no jobs under capitalism

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Teachers and lecturers yesterday congratulated teenagers over the best ever GCSE results, but warned youth faced a tough future in the face of education...

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...

PATIENTS CHOICE = HOSPITAL CLOSURES say UNISON

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Public sector union UNISON yesterday condemned the government’s extension of Patient Choice as a policy that will lead to the closure of good local...

‘Get ready for our strike ballot result’ – RCN nurses issue strong warning

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‘WE DON’T forget that our pay was cut by you,’ 300,000 nurses who are currently balloting for strike action told the newly appointed Tory...

‘Industrial action inevitable’ – Unite

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‘LEGAL and industrial action is inevitable,’ Unite said yesterday, the day a mass meeting took place at the grounds of Bedfont FC in Feltham,...

MEDICAL EDUCATION IS UNDER ATTACK! – Don’t lift fees cap says BMA

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‘Medical education is under attack on several fronts,’ warns Professor Michael Rees, chair of the British Medical Association’s (BMA’s) Medical Academics Committee. In a BMA...
PCS members taking strike action on October 31st against compulsory outsourcing

80,000 civil servants strike today!

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JOBCENTRES, benefits offices, the Pension Service and Child Support Agency (CSA) will be hit today as up to 80,000 members of the Public and...

Israel plans ‘unprecedented massacre’ in Rafah

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‘ANY military operations in Rafah – with its limited space and crowding with over 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the Israeli army – would...
PCS members on the picket line outside the National Gallery demanding no privatisation

National Gallery strike today!

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NATIONAL Gallery staff are taking their 24th day of strike action today against the privatisation of the gallery. Today begins eleven more days of...
Teachers marching against the Tories’ forced academies – now the NUT conference has voted to scrap the ‘Prevent Strategy’

NUT rejects the ‘Prevent’ policy

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THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for the scrapping of the Tory ‘Prevent Strategy’. Delegates condemned the government’s...

Renationalise buses now! demand strikers

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‘WITH these private companies running London’s buses it’s a race to the bottom – the only way to stop it is to renationalise London...

3.5% NHS pay rise a ‘sick joke’ says Unite

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DISMISSING the government’s 3.5 per cent proposal on NHS pay announced on Tuesday as a ‘sick joke’, Unite said yesterday that ‘this will accelerate...
Junior doctors marching in London against the government’s NHS ‘reforms

‘A FAILURE OF DUTY’ – Surgeons president Ribeiro quits junior doctors talks

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Bernard Ribeiro, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, has announced his withdrawal from the crisis talks about the selection of junior doctors for...
PCS members demonstrating against privatisation at the National Gallery in London

PCS strike action

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A QUARTER of a million civil and public servants are on strike today to put an end to cuts to their pay which their...

‘US jobs haemorrhaging’ 26m now unemployed

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‘THE US economy is haemorrhaging jobs at a pace and scale never before recorded,’ Scott Anderson, chief economist at the Bank of the West...

EURO CRISIS DEEPENS! – as Germany refuses joint ‘E-Bond’

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The euro fell sharply in morning trading yesterday, as bond yields on the debt of eurozone periphery countries began to push higher. This came after...

Law Lords Deny Elderly Rights

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Yesterday’s House of Lords judgement fails vulnerable older people, says Help the Aged. The charity was responding to the decision by the House of Lords in YL v Birmingham...

‘WE CAN’T GET JUSTICE!’ – Jean de Menezes’ cousin

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‘The whole thing is a mess,’ Alex Pereira, the cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes told News Line yesterday. He was responding to reports that...

Kent blood services not for sale!–Unite

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THE PRIVATISATION of the NHS blood samples service in Kent will put patients’ lives at risk, Unite warned yesterday, adding: ‘It must be stopped!’ A...

Johnson’s brother stabs him in back

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TORY PM Boris Johnson’s brother Jo Johnson has quit as Tory MP and minister yesterday, saying he is ‘torn between family loyalty and the...

MUBARAK GO NOW! – –Millions of Egyptians pour onto the streets

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MASSES of Egyptians flooded into Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday, responding to the calls for a million-strong march to demand the removal of President Mubarak. Simultaneously,...

POLICE KNOW BEST! – Blair’s message for House of Commons

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday attacked MPs for opposing the police demand for powers to hold people for 90 days without charge. Blair told his monthly...
Dale Farm residents defying bailiff and police moves to evict them yesterday

Eviction Reprieve – At Dale Farm

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DALE Farm residents won an injunction late yesterday, restraining police and bailiffs from dismantling structures on the site until a hearing at the High...

£20bn of NHS cuts are – Turning nurses into cleaners

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THE Tory-LibDem Coalition’s £20 billion NHS budget cuts are leading to nurses having to clean toilets and mop hospital floors it emerged yesterday. A survey...
French police in action on Saturday against protesters in Nantes

Disarm French Riot Police – Cgt

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YELLOW Vests and trade unionists are seeking to deliver a crushing blow to France’s president Emmanuel Macron. The CGT union federation has called a...

ASYLUM SEEKERS RIGHT TO WORK – TUC launches national campaign

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TUC delegates at their Congress in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Motion 23, Asylum Seekers and Employment to launch a campaign to secure the...
Junior doctors join with student nurses to fight Health secretary Hunt’s attacks on the NHS

Junior Doctors Win £800,000 Back Pay!

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JUNIOR doctors have received back pay of £800,000 after a hard-fought battle against their trust regarding a contract breach. Their union, the British Medical Association...
Young Socialists lobbying the TUC for proper jobs for youth at trade union rates of pay

Cameron’s war on youth!

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PRIME Minister Cameron stepped up his war against youth yesterday by launching the new Tory ‘Community Work Programme’. The programme forces youth to carry...