22% Youth Jobless!

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unemployment soared by another 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December, the Office for National Statistics reported yesterday. The official unemployment rate...

New Police Bill attacks right to protest! – Labour votes against

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‘THIS GOVERNMENT was elected a year ago on a manifesto to support the police and uphold law and order,’ Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel...

Hands Off Our Hospitals!

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ANY attempt to use a new ‘Ofsted-style’ hospital inspection regime to justify closure of any South-West London hospital will be ‘vigorously fought,’ leading local...
Over 40 black cabs descended on Hove Town Hall yesterday – they are demanding the end of the ‘Wild West’ app-driver companies

Black cabs challenge Uber

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‘WE WILL not have a Wild West situation,’ for drivers, Steve Garelick, GMB branch secretary for professional drivers for London, said yesterday. He spoke to...

SPEAKER TO QUIT ON JUNE 21st

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HOUSE of Commons Speaker Michael Martin announced that he intends to stand down on June 21, so becoming the first Commons Speaker to be...

‘US is warmongering’ – President Maduro

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VENEZUELA President Nicolás Maduro called Donald Trump’s government a ‘gang of extremists’ and blamed the US for his country’s crisis in an interview with...

‘No return to northern Gaza!’ as Israel attacks the West Bank!

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THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...

Snowden’s Christmas message supported by Internet inventor!

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THE founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has backed ex-National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, saying the world needs whistleblowers and...

Hounslow UNISON supports Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers yesterday won big support from UNISON members at Hounslow Civic Centre. Paul Gibbons, a student social worker, said: ‘I get irritated...
Delegates applaud one of the major speeches at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting

‘RESIST CUTS & PRIVATISATION!’ Decides BMA conference in Edinburgh

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DOCTORS at the BMA conference (ARM) yesterday voted for Motion 293 from the London Regional Council ‘to resist cuts and the privatisation of the...

The return of the racketeer landlord! – over one million tenants are suffering says...

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NEW research released today has revealed that in the last year alone over a million – or one in eight – private renters across...
Students on the NUS march demand nationwide action – they demand the end of all fees and for living grants to be restored

Restore student grants demand UCU and NUS!

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‘THE POOREST students will graduate with the largest debt. We concur that the reintroduction of grants is essential,’ Emily Chapman, NUS Vice-President (Further Education)...

VITAL SKILLED JOBS TO GO! – Government cuts aid to Sheffield Forgemasters

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the Tory-led government announced the cancellation of 12 funding projects worth £2 billion yesterday, as well as the suspension of a further 12 projects...

ANGRY GPs SLAM CQC!

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GP LEADERS in the doctors’ union, the BMA, yesterday backed a ‘no confidence’ vote in the Care Quality Commission (CQC) chief inspector Professor...

TORIES CONDEMN NHS WORKERS PAY CLAIMS – ‘unreasonable’ says Cabinet Secretary Dowden

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THE ARMED forces are being mobilised to break NHS workers’ picket lines this week, Dowden, the Tory minister in charge of the capitalist state’s...
Marchers on July 22 demonstration against the attack on the Lebanon and Palestine denounce US, UK and Israel as terrorist

ISRAEL KILLS 28 FARMERS – close to the Syrian border

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Five Israeli soldiers were killed yesterday afternoon as ferocious resistance by Hezbollah fighters held off their attempts to advance into southern Lebanon. Hezbollah also said it...

Hamas Leader Killed

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ISRAELI forces besieged the home of a prominent Hamas fighter on Monday morning in Beit Awwa, southern Hebron, and later killed him, witnesses said. Eyewitnesses...

Vauxhall And Cammell Laird Walkouts

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EVERY member of the GMB and Unite unions walked out last Friday evening at the Vauxhall car plant in Ellesmere Port in...
Striking BA cabin crew with  their families on the Heathrow picket line on Tuesday

BRING OUT BA GROUND STAFF! – demand BA cabin crew

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UNITE cabin crew members at British Airways yesterday called on their union to ballot BA ground staff on strike action. They also said BA’s ‘bullying’...

‘Keep going to win your demands’ – says UCU President

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STRIKING UCU lecturers from Further Education Colleges across London packed out a strike rally at the Emanuelle Centre in Marsham Street in central London...
Tamil students are continuing their hunger strike to demand an end to the genocide in Sri Lanka

Tamils Continue ‘Death Fast’

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British Tamil Students Suratharsan Sarakumaraval aged 21 and Praranesuraran Subramanian aged 28, lie in a weakened state outside the Houses of Parliament vowing ‘Hunger...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the factory yesterday – threatened with arrest by Heathrow Airport police

Locked-out workers picket Gate Gourmet

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Gate Gourmet locked out workers picketed the Heathrow caterer’s factory gate yesterday. This was after Heathrow Airport police, accompanied by a British Airports Authority manager,...

Israeli war planes bomb Al-Ahli Arab Hospital

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ISRAELI warplanes bombed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital around midnight local time on Saturday night, rendering the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza nonoperational, leaving critically...

Bed shortages ‘threat to patient care’ says the RCN!

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WINTER hospital bed shortages pose a ‘real threat’ to patient care, the Nuffield Trust warned yesterday. On average, about 95% of English hospital beds were...
GPs demonstrating to ‘save your surgery’ in Rugby earlier this year

Bma Launches ‘Save Your Surgery Campaign’

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday announced a national ‘Support your Surgery’ campaign to defend and promote NHS GP services in England. The BMA warned:...

‘JULIAN ASSANGE WILL BE A FREE MAN!’ says his wife Stella Assange

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JULIAN ASSANGE will ‘be a free man’ once a plea deal with the US is ‘signed off by a judge’, his wife Stella Assange...

PM’s top advisor Cummings refuses to quit

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‘I KNOW that the British people hate the idea of unfairness. People like me who make the rules should be accountable for their actions,’...

Forces of Donetsk Peoples Republic are in full control!

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‘AS of May 27, 2022, the forces of the DPR and the LPR supported by the Russian army’s firepower, liberated and established full control...

‘Make the least unsafe decision!’ – Norfolk & Norwich hospital staff told

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STAFF at Norfolk’s biggest hospital , the Norfolk and Norwich, were told to make the ‘least unsafe decision’ last week, when the hospital had...
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...

‘They bang your head on a wall – then give you a hot meal’

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SHAKER Aamer, the last British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay, has spoken out about his treatment at detention centres in the US and Afghanistan,...

‘WE NEED TO BRING EVERYBODY OUT IN A GENERAL STRIKE!’ – Message from Liverpool

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A BIG demonstration of more than 5,000 teachers, UCU university lecturers, PCS members members marched through Liverpool on the TUC Day of Action yesterday. They...

‘Greetings to this fantastic show of strength’ says Mark Serwotka

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THERE were more than 40,000 teachers and other striking workers on the NEU demonstration on Wednesday 1st February – with the front of the...

Cases of police sexual abuse are rising! – Warns Independent Office for Police Conduct...

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CASES of police abusing their role for sexual gain have risen sharply, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) warned yesterday, revealing the fact...

UN ratchets up war against Russia – accusing Russia of ‘war crimes’

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‘RUSSIA is outraged that its request for an extraordinary meeting has been denied,’ Vasily Nebenzya the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the...

Hostile Environment – Youth targeted & charged £2,033 every 30 months

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THE TORIES’ Hostile Environment is alive and kicking with a new extortionate fee of £2,033 charged every 30 months, targeting people whose immigration status...
Lecturers, university staff and students on the picket line outside Queen Mary University in East London during their last strike on October 31

Nationwide University Strike Today!

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UNIVERSITY and college workers are holding the most widespread strike action in Higher and Further Education (HE & FE) for years. Staff in universities have...

Huddersfield University UCU fighting large scale sackings

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THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday slammed the University of Huddersfield for large-scale redundancy proposals that could see staff lose their jobs by...

Israeli forces continue lethal Gaza operation

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ISRAELI forces continued lethal operations in Gaza and intensified repression across the occupied West Bank yesterday amid repeated ceasefire violations in the Strip and...
Defiant Junior Doctors are ready to strike again

Junior doctors considering strike action

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JUNIOR doctors, furious at being offered only a 2 per cent pay rise last month, are considering strike action. The British Medical Association (BMA)...
Junior doctors are putting the case that Hunt is assuming dictatorial powers to which he has no right and which are illegal

Hunt ‘assumed powers’ he never had

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TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to forcibly impose the new contract on the junior doctors was wrong because he does not have the...

Banfield slams 2.8% pay offer

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HEALTH and education unions have warned the Labour government that they won’t accept its imposition of a miserly 2.8% pay cap on them for...
Hamas members campaigning in the election which established a National Unity government

TALK TO HAMAS urges House of Commons Committee

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The UK House of Commons International Development Committee has called for dialogue with Hamas. The US, UK and EU refuse to speak to...

Tuc Joint Statement With Cbi And Eu Bosses!

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AHEAD of this week’s European Council meeting, the Directors General of Business Europe and the CBI, Markus Beyrer and Carolyn Fairbairn, and the General...