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Supporters of the Carnegie Library in Lambeth gather outside on Saturday night in support of the round-the-clock occupation inside the building

Carnegie Library in Herne Hill is occupied

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CARNEGIE Library in Herne Hill, south London, is occupied. Over 30 people, including campaigners, supporters and local people have been in occupation since Lambeth...

‘Citizens Being Treated As Toxic Waste’

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RIGHTS groups yesterday slammed government plans for new laws to stop British nationals, who have been suspected of travelling to Syria and Iraq to...
Teachers union leaders with the front banner on the huge London march during last November’s pensions strike

Teachers’ pensions hit again

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‘THIS is just the latest blow to hard-working teachers and other public sector employees already reeling from a raft of changes to their pensions,’...

Doctors dangerously tired! BMA launches ‘Sleep Charter’

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DOCTORS must have at least 46 hours rest after a string of night shifts in order to combat fatigue at work, according to a...
Junior doctors outside Lewisham Hospital during their national strike – 8,000 doctors shifts were left uncovered in London alone last year

8,000 doctors shifts uncovered

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JUNIOR doctors are being left in charge of A&Es for entire shifts without a single senior doctor on the ward, new figures have revealed,...

270,000 Civil Servants Out

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OVER a quarter of a million civil servants will walk out at the start of a 48-hour national strike today against the government’s decision...
BA cabin crew strikers on the picket line at Heathrow last March

Unite Retreats From Cabin Crew Strike

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Unite yesterday cancelled plans for another strike at British Airways, and announced there will be a fresh industrial action ballot. In a statement, Unite general...

Fresh Intifada erupts over Jerusalem

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RIGHT-wing Zionists who planned a march through Jerusalem yesterday were forced to call it off. They planned to mark the beginning of the occupation of...

‘WE ARE HEADING FOR SERIOUS CONFLICT’ – over the NHS says UNISON

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‘We are heading for a serious conflict,’ UNISON head of health Karen Jennings told News Line yesterday. She was referring to statements by the new...

‘HALT TERRORIST ATTACKS AND AMBUSHES’ –Venezuelan President Maduro calls for dialogue

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VENEZUELA’S President Nicolas Maduro has calledfor dialogue to settle political differences and achieve national peace. ‘Let’s put all our cards on the table and halt 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...

Israel launches deadly attacks on Palestinians

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ISRAEL has launched another deadly attack on displaced Palestinians in Gaza, bombing a school sheltering families in Jabalia an-Nazla, northern Gaza, and killing at...

Israel steps up its counter-revolutionary war on Hamas!

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AFTER a night of airstrikes, the Israeli military has initiated a ground operation into the northern section of the Nuseirat camp, described by an...
Junior doctors had a very good idea about the kind of NHS that health secretary Hunt and the Tories were creating – one whose main objective was to keep as many patients as possible out of hospital

Cash for GPs to keep people out of hospitals!

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A LEAKED memo has exposed a plan to slash the amount of patients referred by GPs to hospitals by 30%! After seeing the memo, Dr...

‘MORE POWERS FOR POLICE’ – pledges PM May

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THE TORY and Labour parties yesterday suspended national campaigning in the general election for the day in the wake of Saturday night’s terror attack...

Streeting announces 18,000 NHS sackings

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THE LABOUR government announced 18,000 NHS staff sackings in England yesterday, with a deal with the Treasury signed off to hand the health service...

‘Devastating’ Oldham Redundancy Notices

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EIGHT hundred redundancy notices have been issued at Oldham Borough Council. Officials of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council have confirmed to the GMB that the council...
The Duggan family release doves at the end of the vigil outside Tottenham police station to emphasise the peaceful, but very determined nature of their protest

Apology for Duggan family! – from the Police Complaints Commission

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THE Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has apologised to Mark Duggan’s family for ‘wrongly’ telling the media he had fired at police before he...

DAMN THIS DEAL! – says Cyprus Speaker

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‘THIS decision is painful for Cypriot people. This decision was a defeat,’ Cyprus Parliamentary Speaker Yiannakis Omirou said yesterday. He was referring to the deal...
PCS delegation on a TUC demonstration against Tory government cuts

25,000 Civil Service jobs to be slashed by 6% cuts!

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TRADE unions yesterday slammed Tory chancellor Phillip Hammond’s instruction to government departments to find spending cuts of up to 6% as part of plans...

Largest police corruption probe in 40 years

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THE MET Police’s Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS), the body which is meant to ‘root out misconduct’, is itself under investigation for ‘serious corruption...
A strong picket of the Law Courts yesterday morning, demanding a judicial review of the decision to close Ealing Hospital’s A&E

Ealing demands ‘Don’t close our hospitals’

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CAMPAIGNERS demonstrated outside the High Court yesterday where Ealing Council were seeking a judicial review of the decision to close Ealing Hospital A&E. They had...

OCCUPY GM! – defend every job says ATUA Secretary Wiltshire

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German workers are holding ‘warning strikes’ today over General Motors scrapping the sale of GM Europe, which includes Opel and Vauxhall, to Magna. The GM...

INJUSTICE! – Clarke orders Babar Ahmad extradition

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Babar Ahmad has called ‘for this injustice to be avenged’ after Home Secretary Charles Clarke ordered his extradition to America to face trumped up...
Police and bailiffs forcibly evict tenants in Brixton, scattering their possessions on the street – enforced debt collection is soaring

Enforced debt collection thousands of complaints

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ENFORCED debt collection, aggressive bailiffs, aggressive customer service tactics, breaches of confidentiality and hiking the size of the debt are just some of thousands...

‘IT’S TIME FOR THE UK SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!’ – Dave Wiltshire tells News Line Rally

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OVER 100 workers, students and youth attended the News Line Anniversary Rally at the Wheatsheaf Community Hall in Vauxhall, south west London on Saturday...

Indian farmers: tens of thousands rise up!

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TENS of thousands of farmers drove in a convoy of tractors yesterday into the Indian capital during national Republic Day celebrations as part of...

Johnson willing to scrap Iran deal for ‘Trump deal’

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TORY PM Johnson, yesterday morning stated he is willing to scrap the Iran nuclear deal in favour of a ‘Trump deal’. Then, in a move...

Hamas condemns Israel’s brutal and treacherous aggression!

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HAMAS declared on Thursday that Israel’s airstrike on the Qatari capital, Doha, which killed five of its members and a Qatari officer, was both...

Labour loses control of Oldham Council because of its support for the US-UK’s war...

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THE Labour Party has lost control of Oldham Council after losing seats to Independents who support Palestine and are against the Israeli war on...

PLANS TO PUNISH JOBLESS! – by Policy Exchange think-tank

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Civil servants union PCS yesterday condemned the latest attack on the unemployed by the Cameron-favoured right-wing Policy Exchange think-tank. Following its latest study, the Policy...

Palestinian prisoners – indefinite hunger strike

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HUNDREDS of Palestinians being held inside detention facilities across the occupied territories have launched an indefinite hunger strike to protest at mistreatment by prison...
ATE bank workers on indefinite strike march through Athens with their  banner stating ‘Hands off the bank!’

‘TIME TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT’ – chant Greek workers

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IN temperatures of 42 Celsius in the shade, over 1,000 striking bank workers of the Agrarian Bank (ATE) and of the Postal Bank (TT)...

More aid seekers slaughtered in Rafah

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ISRAELI regime forces killed at least 78 Palestinians, including several aid seekers, in bombing attacks across the Gaza Strip yesterday. Palestine’s Safa news agency reported...

‘WORST EVER GREEK RAIL CRASH!’ – government cuts blamed

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GREEK transport unions laid the blame for the country’s ‘worst ever’ rail crash directly at the door of government cuts yesterday, as they demanded...
Syrian girls demonstrating in London demanding that the imperialist powers keep their hands off Syria

MISSILE ATTACK IS ‘ACT OF AGGRESSION’ – ‘Reminiscent of 2003 attack on Iraq’

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THE US missile attack on a Syrian airbase is an act of aggression under a far-fetched pretext and is reminiscent of the situation in...

HUNGRY KIDS IN UK – Save the Children takes action

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Save the Children has declared a ‘crisis for families’ in the UK, as today it partners UK charity Family Action to distribute cash grants...
Campaigners outside the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday morning demanding ‘Axe the Bedroom Tax’

‘Axe The Bedroom Tax!’

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‘AXE, axe the Bedroom Tax!’ chanted protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday morning, before the opening of an appeal against the hated...

Honda Swindon Plant Axed – 3,500 Car Workers’ Jobs To Go

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THREE thousand five hundred car workers’ jobs are to be axed as Japanese carmaker Honda announces this morning that it is to shut down...

Five Days of Strike

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STAFF at Winchester University are set to walk out for five days at the end of the month after the university said it wants...
Serco and BA mixed fleet cabin crew lobby the Serco shareholders meeting at JP Morgan at 8.00am yesterday

‘WE ARE NOW IN A LOW PAY EMERGENCY’ – Unite strikers determined to win!

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THREE sets of strikers fighting low pay came together at the Bank of England yesterday lunchtime. The morning began at 8am outside JP Morgan new...
Heygate tenant EVELYN AMAHIAN with her two-year-old daughter

‘YOU CAN’T THROW KIDS ONTO THE STREETS’ – say Heygate Estate tenants

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MORE tenants and residents of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle yesterday expressed their anger at the news that Evelyn Amahian and her...

Firefighters Responding To Medical Emergencies!

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CALL an ambulance and a fire engine turns up! Firefighters with just six days basic first aid training are being sent to medical emergencies instead...

‘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...

Rbs Thumbs Nose At Jobless!

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The Royal Bank of Scotland, which received a £20bn bail-out with taxpayers’ money, is to proceed with a £1bn payout in annual bonuses. This is...