Families and friends of those who have died in police custody – over 1,000 have died since 1990 – there are now 2,600 armed police on the streets of London alone

2,600 armed police on London streets

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SIX HUNDRED extra armed officers are to be trained and put on the streets of London in case of ‘terrorist attack’, bolstering the...

Israel destroys 95% of Gaza’s fishing fleet

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ISRAEL has continued its genocidal assault on Palestinian civilians across Gaza and occupied Jerusalem this week. The Gaza Centre for Human Rights issued a report...
Last week’s mass picket of Ealing Hospital – West London Council of Action is calling on the trade unions to occupy the hospital and defend all its departments

Stp Onslaught On Ealing & Charing Cross Hospitals

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EALING and Charing Cross District General Hospitals are to have their Accident and Emergency Departments closed under the North West London Sustainability and Transformation...
A section of the delegates at the BMA Conference which on its first day showed its determination to fight NHS cuts and closures and not to allow NHS charging

Bma Opposes NHS Cuts!

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DOCTORS at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Harrogate yesterday voted overwhelmingly in opposition to NHS privatisation and...

Cwu Strike Ballot!

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday said that its 16,000-strong Royal Mail membership in London, covering 159 workplaces in the Greater London...

Defeat Tory onslaught on rail workers!

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‘DEFEAT this Tory onslaught by calling national strike action,’ Chigwell Aslef Chairman Bill Rogers said yesterday in response to the Tory government’s threat to...
An enthusiastic response from patients, staff and passers-by to yesterday’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital

CHASE FARM WILL NOT CLOSE! say residents and nurses

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ON DAY 13 of the daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital, which has been called to prepare for occupation to stop its closure,...
Friends and families of those who have died in police custody march for justice in October – deaths in police custody have reached a ten-year high

1,662 deaths in police custody –23 this year!

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DEATHS in cells, in the back of police vans, during arrest and in police pursuit have risen to a ten year high, the latest...
Greek police marching against the cuts in Vouli square, opposite the parliament building

Greece – 10% Tax On Workers And The Poor

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FOLLOWING meetings on Thursday with the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank), the Greek Finance Minister Evangelos...

‘GET DIRTY AMBULANCES OFF THE ROAD!’ – demands UNISON trade union

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UNISON, the major UK health union, yesterday blamed the government for the crisis over dirty ambulances and issued a call ‘for urgent action to...

Uni Strike Suspension Condemned!

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THE SUSPENSION of national strike action across 150 universities by the UCU lecturers union was condemned by a leading London member of the union...

Doctors welcome Tory pensions concessions!

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DOCTORS have welcomed a series of concessions by the Treasury, altering the effect on them of punitive pension rules which are in fact forcing...

RISE UP AGAINST AL-AQSA MEASURES – HAMAS

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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said: ‘The Israeli occupation’s field measures and steps in occupied Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, including the closure of Al-Aqsa’s...

NHS logistics votes overwhelmingly for strike action

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UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday announced that NHS Logistics staff have voted overwhelmingly to take strike action to defend their service from privatisation. Prentis...
Angry fishermen outside DEFRA (the Department of the Environment, Fisheries and Rural Affairs) yesterday

BLOCKADE THE PORTS – say fishermen after no progress in talks

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‘BLOCKADE the Ports’ was the cry that went up from up to 300 fishermen, at the outcome of their meeting yesterday with Jonathan Shaw,...
Pickets at the East London Mail Centre on July 28 – they were all in favour of national strike action

CWU National strike ballot –as 25,000 postal workers strike

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Tens of thousands of postal workers will go on strike today, tomorrow and Monday as growing unrest has led to the Communication Workers...

Felixstowe dockers fighting bullying, threats and victimisations!

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YESTERDAY’S 8.00am Unite mass protest at the Port of Felixstowe to end bullying management culture and to defend union reps was postponed at the...

Foreign doctors witness a dire situation & war crimes in Gaza!

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FOREIGN doctors volunteering in Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals have shared distressing accounts of the dire medical situation and war crimes they’ve witnessed. With 80% of the...
The Secretary of the Greek Cinema and TV Technicians trades union Chrysa Daponte and her friends at the Syntagma rally. Daponte is showing the newspaper of the Revolutionary Marxist League, Greek Section of the ICFI, with the headline ‘for an indefinite p

Greek Workers March Against Merkel!

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OVER 60,000 workers and youth in angry and militant mood participated on Tuesday afternoon at a rally in front of the Vouli (Greek parliament)...

‘Charge sheet against Hancock grows by the hour!’ says Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth

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HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock was forced to resign on Saturday afternoon despite repeated public statements from PM Boris Johnson that he retained his full...

May Is Full Of Praise For Labour Right Wing

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PM MAY danced onto the stage at the Tory Party conference in Birmingham yesterday to the strains of Abba’s Dancing Queen and claimed that...

‘WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO PICKET’ – now TGWU must make the strike official

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GATE Gourmet strikers, at Heathrow, were jubilant yesterday after the High Court verdict that they had the right to picket the company which sacked...
A section of the audience applauding at yesterday’s News Line-ATUA Conference in central London

‘WORKERS RISING UP!’ – ATUA National Secretary tells conference

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‘WE NEED a general strike to bring the government down and go forward to a workers government and socialism.’ This is what All Trades Union...

Scores more killed in Gaza waiting for aid!

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MASSIVE aerial and artillery strikes pounded neighbourhoods, homes, shelters and aid convoys yesterday, killing scores of civilians, mostly children and women, as the US-UK-backed...

Halt Zionist settlers’ heinous crimes in Palestine says PM Shtayyeh

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Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday denounced the ‘heinous crimes’ committed on Sunday by Zionist settlers in the northern West Bank town of Huwara...

Heathrow strike vote!

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THERE has been a strike vote over ‘punishing’ working patterns at Heathrow. International airlines flying from Heathrow Airport face major disruption to the supply of...

Bma Warns Brown Don’t Destroy NHS

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‘we will not stand by and see you decimate hospitals for purely financial reasons. We will not stand by and let you damage patient...

‘Make May Day a day of struggle for Palestine’ – Hamas

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HAMAS has called on human rights and humanitarian organisations around the world to fulfill their responsibilities in exposing the escalating Israeli crimes and violations...

Cameron Slapdown Over Syria!

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‘WE recommend that the government does not bring to the House a motion seeking the extension of British military action to Syria,’ the Foreign...

TUC leader calls for banning of zero-hour contracts

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YESTERDAY lunchtime TUC general secretary Paul Nowak gave a press conference ahead of the Congress. The main thing he talked about was the upcoming Employment...
Local government workers marching in London during their strike action last November 30

‘Pay Slashed To 1990’s Levels!’

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LOCAL government pay has been slashed to 1990’s levels by below inflation pay settlements, a two-year pay freeze and the employers’ failure to pay...

Need for free school meals soars

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MORE than one in five pupils are now eligible for free school meals (FSM) following a steep rise during the pandemic, new government data...
Demonstration in defence of the Welfare State and public services

UK back to Victorian times

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OXFAM warned yesterday that the ‘UK could return to inequality levels not seen since Victorian times’. Government rhetoric about ‘making work pay’ – used to...

Record petrol price rises!

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Petrol prices yesterday hit a record average level of 121.76p for a litre of unleaded petrol. It is expected that fuel prices will rise daily...
Anti-academy protestors demonstrating outside the headquarters of ARK yesterday

Stop Ark Take Over Of State Schools

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ANTI-ACADEMY protestors demonstrated yesterday afternoon outside the central London headquarters of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), which is involved in the building of 12...

Nurses Move To Strike Vote

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) is urging its hundreds of thousands of members to vote to strike for pay in a ballot which...

‘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...

‘There will be no limits for this war’ says Israel

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says security forces will have ‘full freedom’ to act after two Israelis were shot dead in an attack in...

‘NHS PRIVATISATION BY STEALTH’ – GP practice operator taken over

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ONE of the UK’s biggest GP practice operators has been taken over by the US health insurance group Centene Corporation. This has been condemned by...

JLR seeks £2bn government loan!

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JAGUAR Land Rover (JLR) has been in talks with the government for weeks to secure a loan of £2bn, to prevent mass sackings following...
CWU pickets at the Hampstead Delivery Office – determined to keep Royal Mail as a public service

POSTAL WORKERS CONDEMN MANDELSON – TUC must support us!

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BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson yesterday afternoon attacked London postal workers in particular for not accepting the government and Royal Mail plans to...
A section of the 220,000-strong demonstration in Marseille against the Sarkozy government’s cuts

France – 3 Million Take Action

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Three and a half million took to the streets across France in the biggest anti-pensions law mobilisation yet on Tuesday, October 12 in 244...

Biden discussing plans to strike Iranian oil industry

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US President Joe Biden has stated that his administration is ‘discussing’ potential Israeli plans to strike Iran’s oil industry in response to the recent...

Israel Attacks Palestinian Journalists!

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DOZENS of Palestinian journalists have suffered excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli military forces attacked a peaceful sit-in staged in the northern sector of...