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Israeli occupation forces are intensifying assault on Gaza!

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ISRAELI occupation forces have intensified their genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip for the 623rd consecutive day, escalating airstrikes on civilians while crippling its...

Battle For Marjayoun!

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Hezbollah fighters yesterday took out two Israeli tanks, killing and wounding their crews, as they fought off an enemy attempt to take Marjayoun just...
Students and workers rally in Manchester against tuition fees and cuts – a placard reads: ‘’Aaron Porter doesn’t represent me’

Porter Driven Out By Student Anger

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National Union of Students President Aaron Porter has quit, driven out by the fury of his members after he accused them of violence during...
Yesterday’s picket by the North London Council of Action of the Judicial Review hearing into the proposed closure of Chase Farm Hospital A&E department

Chase Farm – closure plan ‘to turn two thirds away’

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THE Judicial Review Hearing into the decision to close the Accident and Emergency Department at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield continued in the...

Postal Workers Strike Hardening Up

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THERE was a hardened determination on the striking postal workers picket lines yesterday morning, as Communication Workers Union (CWU) members defiantly rebutted the Royal...

CORBYN SUSPENDED! – He vows to fight this ‘political intervention’

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer has suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the party over his remarks yesterday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn was...

Tory Crisis Deepens As Parliament Returns

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LIZ TRUSS returns to Parliament for the first time as Prime Minister today, amidst a bubbling rebellion of MPs and economists who are aghast...

GET READY TO STOP THE AIRPORTS – Walsh mobilises 6000 strikebreakers

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British Airways boss Walsh boasted at a meeting of selected staff at BA headquarters yesterday that he has 6,000 staff signed up to break...

‘Netanyahu and his government are not willing to make a ceasefire agreement!’ says Hamas

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‘EVERYONE understands that (Israeli Prime Minister) Netanyahu and his government are not willing to reach a ceasefire deal,’ Hamas warned yesterday. The Hamas Palestine liberation...

Birmingham massacre of service

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BIRMINGHAM city council is selling off its community centres and youth centres with millions of pounds of public property being auctioned off to housing...
Norwich Remploy picket line urged the unions to get together so as to have the force to deal with the government

Remploy Strike

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WORKERS at all 54 Remploy sites, members of the GMB and Unite unions, went on strike yesterday in a bid to save 2,800 disabled...

Welfare and spending cuts are leading to more food banks!

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THE expansion of food banks across the United Kingdom is associated with cuts in spending on local services, welfare benefits and higher unemployment rates,...
PAUL KING reading out a statement from the Tomlinson family outside the CPS when it was announced that Harwood would be prosecuted for manslaughter

WHITEWASH! – says Ian Tomlinson’s widow

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JULIA TOMLINSON walked out in anger yesterday from the Metropolitan Police Disciplinary Inquiry into the role of PC Harwood in her husband’s death crying...

Middlesex University Strike T0Day!

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MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) and Unison at Middlesex University are striking today in a row over job cuts and changes...
Young Socialist marchers got a great welcome from PCS members all over the Midlands

Ys March For Jobs In Northampton

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs, now in the final week on its route from Manchester to London, left Rugby yesterday morning, heading for...
Part of the delegation of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC yesterday morning. The whole delegation was angry at the TGWU leaders  who would not allow them to have visitors credentials

BIG SUPPORT FOR GG LOBBY – But TGWU leaders refuse locked-out workers visitors credentials

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TRADE unionists from many unions backed the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ lobby of the TUC in Brighton yesterday morning. A lobby of over 100 workers...

NATIONALISE! – to save jobs says ATUA national secretary

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‘Industries must be nationalised under workers control and with no compensation to the failed former owners,’ said All Trades Unions Alliance national secretary Dave...

PROSECUTE KILLER COMPANIES! – demands the GMB

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The GMB trade union says companies who kill employees will face private prosecutions if the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) ‘continues to fail workers’. The High...

‘WE HAVE HAD MASSIVE SUPPORT FROM PUBLIC’ – ASLEF representative tells News Line

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‘WE HAVE had massive support from the public,’ the ASLEF rep Lucio Buffone told News Line when he spoke out on the well-attended picket...
Firefighters marching on their national demonstration in London on Wednesday 16th October stressing the vital role that they play

ASLEF & FBU taking strike action

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BOTH ASLEF train drivers union and the FBU firefighters’ union announced strike dates yesterday. ASLEF has called two 24-hour strikes on the TransPennine Express on...

‘When we start you will know’ – says Nasrallah

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THE head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has vowed that his militant group would oust militants from a region on the border with Syria, but declined...

Biden leaves for Middle East!

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US PRESIDENT Biden left Washington yesterday evening for Tel Aviv, where he is to meet Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians before flying to Amman...

GAZA FOODSTOCKS ARE COMPLETELY DEPLETED – after 9 weeks of Israeli blockade

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THE UNITED Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP’s) food stocks in Gaza are completely depleted, as Israel’s aid blockade continues for a ninth week. The WFP...
Postal workers supported by Young Socialists demonstrate outside the Royal Mail headquarters in Old Street yesterday at midday

STEP UP THE ACTION! – postal workers demand

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OVER 1,000 striking postal workers converged on the headquarters of Royal Mail yesterday to demand management enter ‘meaningful talks with the CWU (Communication Workers...
London Met demonstration fighting against cuts – it now faces closure with over 2,000 of its foreign students under 60 days notice of deportation

Don’t Deport Students

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THE NUS, UCU and Unison yesterday condemned the Home Office attack on London Metropolitan University and its international students, and demanded that not a...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaigning at Heathrow for their conference to fight for their reinstatement

Gate Gourmet locked-out workers win support

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers, fighting for reinstatement on their original terms and conditions, had a successful day of campaigning yesterday for their...

RMT ‘Will Fight Pay Cap!’

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RMT General Secretary Mick Cash yesterday warned Transport Secretary Grayling against trying to impose a ‘pay cap’ on railworkers. Transport Secretary...

25 Colleges strike over pay

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OVER 300 striking teachers from sixth form colleges around the country demanded the government honour their £700 million funding ‘invoice’ which was signed by...

Democrats Shaken By Trump Vote

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THE US presidential election is on a knife edge, with Republican President Trump and his Democrat rival Joe Biden both claiming to have won. Trump...
Libyan women, proclaiming their right to defend their country against armed rebels, picketing the recent Contact Group meeting in London

RECALL PARLIAMENT! –demand MPs angry at regime change letter

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Five MPs yesterday urged a recall of parliament after the publication of a joint letter from US President Obama, French President Sarkozy and Prime...
Thousands of lecturers marched through central London yesterday, the fifth day of their strike in defence of pensions

LECTURERS AND STUDENTS UNITE! – on fifth day of UCU strike action

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‘LECTURERS and students unite and fight!’ rang out through the streets of central London yesterday as up to 5,000 striking lecturers, supported by their...

Hamas Rejects Presence Of Any Israeli Forces In The Gaza Strip Area!

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SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan has welcomed the general ceasefire plan proposed by US president Joe Biden, saying it contained ‘positive ideas’. Hamdan reiterated his...

‘We’re NHS workers – bring us back in-house’! – demand striking St George’s staff

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STRIKING cleaners, domestic workers and hostesses employed by the public services privateer Mitie, got great support from local people as they held a powerful...

$8.7 Billion Iraq Oil-For-Aid Cash ‘missing’

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ALMOST 96 per cent of oil and petrol money earmarked for humanitarian needs and reconstruction in Iraq after the 2003 invasion has gone missing,...

1.2m HUNGRY CHILDREN!

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More than half of all school children living in poverty, 1.2 million, are missing out on free school meals, reveals shocking new research by...

Severe malnutrition in Gaza

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THE UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has accused Israel of obstructing the entry of essential supplies needed to save the lives of children suffering from...

NHS pay fury at 3% pay rise – unions consider strikes

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HEALTH workers, furious about the government’s offer of a below-inflation 3% pay deal are to be consulted by their unions, the BMA, RCM, RCN,...
On November 30 workers made it clear they wanted their pensions defended – now some trade union leaders want to abandon that struggle

Stop Barber-Prentis Pensions Sell-Out

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AT last Thursday’s meeting of the TUC’s Public Service Liaison Group, TUC leader Brendan Barber urged trade unions to capitulate and sign up...

‘EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON EU!’ – says Labour’s shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott

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LABOUR, the LibDems, the SNP and pro-Remain Tories are set to vote against the government holding a 12th December General Election in the House...

‘We are going to win this fight’

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‘The union is not paying us hardship money, we can’t get Jobseekers Allowance and we can’t get another job. What does the union think...

Palestinians Drive Israeli Tanks Out Of Gaza

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Palestinian resistance fighters took on Israeli tanks invading eastern Gaza City early yesterday morning and forced their withdrawal after hours of fierce clashes. Palestinians said...

POMPEO VISITS LONDON – after Iran suspends nuclear deal

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IRAN has suspended its commitments under the 2015 international nuclear deal, a year after it was ripped up by President Trump. President Hassan Rouhani said...

DICTATOR BERCOW! – ready to forcefully remove PM from office

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THE OUTGOING Speaker John Bercow, due to leave on October 31, has said that he will forcibly remove PM Johnson from office if he...

Gate Gourmet Conference Campaign Going Well

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GATE Gourmet workers held a successful campaign yesterday for the News Line/Gate Gourmet-Locked-Out Workers Conference on the 29th January. They visited Greenford Council depot and...
Cousins of Jean Charles De Menezes, ALEX PEREIRA (left) and PATRICIA da SILVA ARMANI (speaking) outside the High Court yesterday

‘WE WILL APPEAL TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS’ – De Menezes family

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‘THIS is a disgraceful decision,’ the family of murdered Brazilian man Jean Charles de Menezes said yesterday, after the High Court rejected their appeal...