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Immediate, unconditional, permanent ceasefire! – demand 25 countries including the UK!

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THE UK and 24 other countries issued a joint statement yesterday calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza, declaring: ‘We, the...

Tories to sack 91,000 civil servants – National strike action certain say union leaders

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THE GOVERNENT wants to sack 91,000 civil service jobs to save money, the UK’s top civil servant says. The aim is to return to 2016...
UNISON general secretary DAVE PRENTIS (centre)  at the NHS Together lobby of parliament on November 1st

STOP THIS CLOSURE! – Maidstone Hospital A&E threatened

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A senior consultant at Maidstone Hospital in Kent last Saturday publicly announced that he has resigned his managerial post because of plans to close...
Angry students marching through central London demanding an end to all tuition fees, the restoration of grants and no privatisation

‘Organise and fight!’ – education must be free!

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STUDENT Unions (SU) across the country have slammed the National Union of Students (NUS) President Toni Pearce’s decision to pull out of today’s national...

Record Jobless Rise Of 46,000!

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THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate has risen by the biggest amount in almost five years, official figures showed yesterday. Some 1.47 million people were out of...

Israel opens fire on Palestinians – dozens killed and wounded!

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Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire on civilians gathered near its GHF (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) site in Rafah, southern Gaza again yesterday, killing at...

Turkey set to join war on Syria

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TURKEY is poised to join the US-led war to remove the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, as well as having its own agenda...

UN condemns Israeli army killing of Palestinian women as part of genocide strategy

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THE United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Salama, has confirmed that the Israeli occupation army has used the killing...
Tower Hamlets doctors, local residents and trade unionists demonstrate against the privatisation of GP surgeries in the borough

Privatisation drive stepped up! – Competition panel formed for NHS

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In a new attack on the NHS, the government is driving Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to implement so-called ‘World Class Commissioning’, which involves selling...

BA Steward Sacked!

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British Airways (BA) yesterday sacked Mark Fisher, one of the three Transport and General Workers Union shop stewards disciplined for organising an unofficial strike...

‘NO ERROR OF JUDGEMENT’ – Cameron defends hiring Coulson

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PRIME minister Cameron claimed yesterday that Andy Coulson, who had resigned as editor of the News of the World and who currently faces charges...

Unions demand the truth about RAAC

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SIX unions have asked urgent questions of Gillian Keegan, the Secretary of State for Education, about RAAC affected schools. The general secretaries of six unions...
Exiled Chagos Islanders began a five-day sit-in at Trafalgar Square yesterday morning, demanding the right to return to their homeland

Chagos Islanders occupy Trafalgar Square

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OVER 50 exiled Chagossians living in the UK camped out in Trafalgar Square yesterday, the first day of a five-day occupation. ‘Help us to go...
RCN London Board Chair CYNTHIA DAVIS addressing nurses protesting outside the Department of Health in Whitehall yesterday

Scrap the 1% cap! – 30 nurses” protests nationwide

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‘SCRAP the cap! Fair pay for nurses! Now!’ chanted over fifty nurses and Royal College of Nursing (RCN) officials outside the Department of...

Israeli servicemen demand immediate halt to Israel’s assault on Gaza Strip!

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NEARLY 1,000 current and former Israeli air force reservists have issued a public letter demanding an immediate halt to Israel’s military assault on Gaza,...
Syrians march in support of President Assad – Syrian Kurds in Afrin are now calling on the Syrian army to defend them

‘Send Troops’–Kurds Call To President Assad!

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KURDISH authorities in Syria’s Afrin district have called on President Assad and the Syrian government to send troops to help defend them from a...
‘Stop using – chemical weapons!’, ‘Indian army – go home!’, ‘Tamil Tigers – freedom fighters!’ chanted the 300-strong demonstration opposite the Houses of Parliament yesterday afternoon

Tigers Not Using Tamils As Shields

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‘PRAMESH gets weaker every day but his spirits are high,’ 18-year-old student Janani Paramsothy, told News Line yesterday on the 24-hour picket on the...

27,000 NHS Jobs To Go

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that nearly 27,000 NHS jobs have been earmarked to be cut in the UK, 18,000 of...

Johnson Leaves May Off Hook!

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FORMER Tory Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told MPs in his resignation speech: ‘It is not too late to save Brexit. We have time in...

Israel Targets Families Trying To Leave Rafah

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A YOUNG girl was shot in the face as her family attempted to return to north Gaza on Sunday, footage posted on social media...
5,000 residents and NHS workers marched through Nottingham last Saturday demanding that the trade unions take action to defend the NHS

Come Out This Sunday To Stop NHS Logistics Privatisation

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‘If the government doesn’t halt the transfer of NHS Logistics to DHL immediately, then action must be taken by the whole trade union movement...
Unison members demand ‘No NHS cuts or privatisation’ on the TUC 500,000-strong demonstration in London last October

Bring down the Coalition! – the only way to defend the NHS

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Health Secretary Hunt’s attempt to turn the report on the ‘breakdown in healthcare’ at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust into an attack on the NHS...

Vodafone workers win their strike

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THE President of the Greek Vodafone workers’ trade union Jaklin Gorou said that Tuesday’s national strike, demanding wage rises, the end of flexible working...

‘TRUST HAS BEEN BREACHED!’ – Ellwood demands ‘stock check’ on Johnson

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SENIOR Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has called on fellow Conservative MPs to assess whether Boris Johnson is still fit to be leader of the...

SECOND CLASS CITIZENS! – elderly being mistreated

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Public services often fail to consider the special needs of older people, who are being treated like ‘second class citizens’, Age Concern said yesterday. It...
Sue Tobin, Kaniz Malik, Sue’s daughter Danielle and Kaniz’s grandson Aslam

Defend Ealing Maternity

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SOUTHALL families are unanimous that Ealing Hospital maternity and A&E departments must not close. Over the weekend, scores of tickets for tomorrow night’s meeting to...
UNISON members taking strike action to defend their terms and conditions of service

Vote For Strike Action Urges Prentis

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UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis is urging a big ‘yes’ vote for strike action by its local government worker members in the ballot over...
Over 100,000 workers and youth demanded ‘Hands off the Lebanon’ on a march in London last Saturday

WE WILL KILL ANYBODY THAT MOVES – Israelis warn residents of Tyre

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Hezbollah fighters killed three Israeli soldiers in fighting along the southern Lebanon border yesterday. This was after a night of air attacks by Israeli jets...

Three new junior doctors strikes

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JUNIOR doctors in England have confirmed three further strike dates. In a BMA ballot of junior doctors last November, 98 per cent of those who...

Lecturers attacked on eve of their strike

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‘TREATING staff with such contempt only hardens their resolve,’ University and College Union (UCU) general secretary Sally Hunt said in response to a new...
Chagos Islanders supporting DOMINIQUE ELYSSE (centre, wearing a light shirt) outside the High Court in London yesterday morning

Chagos Islander denied his right to UK citizenship

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CHAGOS Islanders demonstrated outside the High Court in London’s Strand yesterday, in support of Dominique Elysse, who is seeking to establish British citizenship. The...

‘If the government refuses meaningful discussions we will carry on striking’ – say defiant...

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‘IF THE government keeps refusing to enter into meaningful discussions, or any discussions, we will be forced to carry on striking because we do...

‘Generalised strike action!’ – urges bakers union leader

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‘THIS anti-union legislation has to be answered by unified, generalised strike action from the entire trade union movement.’ Bakers Union leader Ronnie Draper was responding...
Syrian child, badly burned after a terrorist mortar attack on Damascus

Terrorists shell Ghouta escape routes!

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TERRORISTS based in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta have imposed a curfew during humanitarian pauses to prevent civilians from leaving the enclave, the...

Coalition Split Widening

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THE split in the coalition government deepened yesterday, with Deputy Prime Minister Clegg absenting himself from the House of Commons as Prime Minister Cameron...
On July 1st 300,000 marched on Parliament after McDonnell urged them to do so – since then Labour has refused to call for the Tories to go

Banks ‘racing to the bottom!’ – says Labour’s John McDonnell

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THE BANK of England has revealed that banks extended new mortgage commitments to borrowers worth £69.6bn in the three months to the end of...

Riot Police Beat Kos Migrants

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HUNDREDS of migrants have been coralled in scorching temperatures in a makeshift reception centre at a sports stadium on the Greek island of Kos. Hundreds...

Scottish midwives industrial action vote!

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MIDWIFE and maternity support worker (MSW) members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) across Scotland have overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ on taking industrial action,...

Suspects’ detention extended to 28 days

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A High Court judge has given police another seven days to detain without charge, five suspects in connection with the alleged plot to blow...
Libyans demonstrating in London to condemn the NATO bombing of Tripoli and NATO support for the counter-revolutionary ‘rebels’

Battle For Tripoli!

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HEAVY fighting continues in many areas of Tripoli today, especially around the compound of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gadaffi, as soldiers and armed civilians...
Chagossians from the oldest to the youngest were demonstrating in Trafalgar Square over the weekend

All generations of Chagossians join fight

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EXILED Chagos Islanders were yesterday continuing their five-day occupation of Trafalgar Square that was launched on Friday. Jean Paul France of the Chagos Islanders...
Striking lecturers at Goldsmiths in south east London on Tuesday morning

Police Halt Beacon Hill Picket

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HEATHROW Airport police dismantled the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ picket tent on the hill at the Beacon Roundabout yesterday, threatening the workers’ TGWU Branch...

Hundreds more Gazans killed in hospitals and homes!

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THE Israeli occupation army carried out hundreds of aerial and artillery attacks on different areas of Gaza yesterday, massacring men, women and children in...
Yesterday’s picket at Chase Farm – is having a big impact on the struggle to keep the hospital open

Chase Farm CEO quits!

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MARK EASTON, the chief executive of the Chase Farm and Barnet NHS Trust, quit yesterday after it was made public that the trust intended...
Midwives and nurses on the picket line at Hammersmith Hospital during the the national NHS strike over pay on October 13

£30bn MORE NHS CUTS!

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THE new NHS report released yesterday has revealed a further £30bn of NHS cuts by 2020. The report entitled the ‘Five Year Forward View’ ...