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Emergency debate on Parliamentary sleaze

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‘LAST WEEK was a very dark week for Parliament,’ speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle said in an extraordinary interview with...

School Youth Climate Change Demo

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HUNDREDS of school youth staged a strike for climate change in Parliament Square yesterday. Lana Daly came with friends from west London and said: ‘The...

MOODY’s WARNS – UK WILL LOSE CREDIT RATING

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BRITAIN’S credit-worthiness has a ‘negative outlook’ Moody’s ratings agency declared late on Monday night, shortly after the markets closed in the US. In the first...

BETRAYAL! – Palestinian resistance slams UAE over receiving Israeli PM Bennett

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THE PALESTINIAN Islamic Jihad resistance movement strongly condemned the United Arab Emirates (UAE) officials yesterday for receiving Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett, stressing that any...

‘SCRAP TRIDENT’ says Scottish Labour

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THE Scottish Labour Party conference yesterday voted overwhelmingly against the renewal of the UK’s Trident nuclear missile system. After a heated debate, delegates voted by...
Clashes between Greek workers and the capitalist state are taking place around the clock every day as workers defend their rights

Ecb Plan Sets Off Germany’s Alarm Bells!

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THE euro strengthened to a two-month high against the US dollar yesterday, as investors’ euphoria overflowed at the ECB’s plan to purchase bonds from...

Labour government planning over 100,000 NHS sackings

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MORE THAN 100,000 NHS workers are set to be sacked under plans being laid out by the Starmer Labour government it emerged yesterday. Former Shadow...
Hampstead CWU pickets on Saturday morning were confident of winning

NATIONAL STRIKE IS VITAL – say CWU pickets

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Post workers were out on strike again on Saturday in defence of their jobs, working conditions, pensions and pay. The Communication Workers Union branded Royal...

EU tightens the screw! – Johnson dumps ‘do or die’

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EU ambassadors yesterday agreed to delay Brexit, but will not make a decision on a new deadline date until next Monday, just three days...

Turkish invasion escalates! – condemned by 13 UK unions

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ON THE SECOND day of the Turkish invasion of Syria, after a massive bombing raid striking northern Syria over 180 times, killing at least...
Junior doctors in a mass sit-down protest outside Downing Street in 2016. Hunt’s imposed contract is now up for renegotiation

New Junior Doctors’ Contract Negotiations

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THE BMA (British Medical Association) announced at the annual junior doctors committee meeting on Saturday that it is participating ‘in a collaborative review and...
Junior doctors join a demonstration in London against the privatisation of the NHS

NO TWO TIER NHS! – RBS ‘conditional philanthropy’ rejected

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Plans to bring one of the world’s most advanced health scanners to Edinburgh risk creating a two-tier NHS, senior health economist, Professor Allyson Pollock,...
TUC leader FRANCES O’GRADY at the TUC Congress with firefighters, nurses, midwives and Ritzy cinema workers who have all been on strike this year

Preemptive strike to defeat Trade Union Bill!

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TRADE UNIONISTS have called for pre-emptive strike action to defeat the anti-union laws that the Tory government are attempting to push through parliament. The Trade...

Junior Doctors fighting for NHS!

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‘ACTION now to defend the NHS!’ demand thousands of Junior Doctors as they begin another three-day strike at 7.00am today. At the end of it...
A section of the many thousands of marchers who demonstrated outside the American embassy in London last Saturday in support of Hezbollah and against the Israeli attack on the Lebanon

Hezbollah Battles Zionists

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Hezbollah resistance fighters killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded seventeen others as a massive Israeli invasion force was halted on the outskirts of Bint...

‘A MOMENTOUS BREAKTHROUGH!’ – ICC to investigate Israeli war crimes

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AMNESTY International (AI) described yesterday’s decision by Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), to open a formal investigation into the situation...
Tens of thousands marched to condemn Israel’s massacre of aid workers on the ‘Mavi Marmara’ ship in June. A new convoy has now departed from London

Convoy Leaves For Gaza!

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THE largest aid convoy yet is on its way to the besieged Gaza Strip, four months after the massacre of activists by Israeli forces...

Blair Profiles Poor For Special Measures

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday revealed his plan to use the same profiling techniques that are being used to identify ‘terrorists’ to identify...

STRIKE BALLOT – by Scottish doctors

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SCOTLAND'S hospital doctors began balloting for strike action yesterday, against the Scottish government’s attacks on the NHS pension scheme. If the ballot gives the go-ahead,...
25,000 workers and youth marched through Paris on Saturday against against new plans to impose racist immigration laws. A million-strong May Day march is expected today

‘WE’RE SUFFERING BUT WE WILL WIN’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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THE Gate Gourmet locked-out workers May Day campaign team got great support from fellow Transport and General Workers Union members in west London bus...
Up and down the country demonstrations are taking place against the government’s cuts – people are demanding ‘Where is the recovery?’

‘Part-time low-wage economy’

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THE UK unemployment rate fell to 7.4%, from 7.6% for the three months to September, according to figures released by the Office for National...
Greek school youth demonstrating through Athens in support of their teachers last week

Salonica Teachers Clash With Police

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ANGRY teachers and students fought with police yesterday in Salonica, turning Tsimiski Street, a central highway of the city, into a battleground. The normally festive...
Marchers got a great reception in Coventry city centre from some very generous supporters

Youth Being Treated Like Slaves

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POURING rain made the Young Socialist marchers even more determined and their chants of ‘Youth demand a future, Youth demand jobs’ even louder on...
Striking civil servants applauding a call from the Prison Officers Association for a general strike

POA call for general strike outside parliament

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STRIKING civil servants clapped and cheered a call for a general strike at a rally outside parliament yesterday. A message of support and solidarity was...
Southern picket at Victoria yesterday morning supported by Disabled People Against Cuts demanding safety and accessibility on all trains. Photo: RMT

3 Train Strikes

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TRAIN workers at three Rail companies across the country, Northern, Southern and Merseyrail were on strike simultaneously yesterday. Northern rail staff were on the last...
Labour MP TOM WATSON (holding poster on left) joins the GMB demonstration outside McDonald’s headquarters in Finchley yesterday morning

NO ZERO HOURS CONTRACTS AT McDonald’s

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RENT payments aren’t flexible and neither are gas bills or the weekly shopping bill, so flexible wages are not much use to anyone except...

Stockholm Youth Uprising

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YOUTH in Stockholm have risen up in anger over the last three days and faced police attacks and racist abuse, following the police shooting...

‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ condemns Washington’s role in Israeli genocide

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Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a US-based advocacy group, has unequivocally condemned Washington’s role in Israel’s genocidal violence against Palestinians. In a series of pointed...

Surgeons Condemn Targets!

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THE NHS must address the significant variations in care experienced by the 170,000 patients who have major emergency abdominal surgery each year, says a...
Up to a hundred patients and supporters marched in Enfield on Thursday night to demand the immediate reopening of the Bush Hill Park Medical Practice which had been arbitrarily closed by Enfield PCT with only one day’s notice

Tories want GPs to do their cuts dirty work!

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The coalition government is pressing ahead with plans to make GP practices responsible for purchasing health care in England, replacing Primary Care Trusts and...

National action launched to end ‘fire and rehire’ – while Unite suspends RATP...

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THE UNITE union yesterday launched a nationwide campaign to ‘end the growing practice of fire and rehire’ through a programme of strike action alongside...

Universal Credit will double homelessness

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‘HOW many more families does the minister estimate will be made homeless this winter as a result of this government’s refusal to pause the...

50 GP surgeries taken over

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New private health company ‘The Practice’ has taken over ChilversMcCrea Ltd to form a group that now runs 50 GP practices in England and...

LABOUR WILL VICTIMISE LOW PAID – insists Hutton

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Business Secretary John Hutton yesterday ruled out a rethink on the decision to scrap the lowest tax band, amid claims that the Brown government...
The front section of last Friday’s Athens teachers’ march. Main banner reads ‘No more obedient slaves! Full and permanent employment for all teachers!’

5,000 Greek teachers in insurrectionary march

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OVER 5,000 striking state schools teachers marched through the Athens city centre last Friday and attempted to storm into the Vouli building (Greek parliament)...

UK £120bn banking shortfall!

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THE Bank of England has warned that the biggest banks and building societies operating in Britain face a £120bn shortfall in their finances. In a...

Sunak Has Questions To Answer – Says Labour

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CHANCELLOR Sunak has ‘a series of questions to answer’, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said yesterday, as the Tory tax scandal developed. Last week,...
Marchers in Athens city centre on Wednesday night demanding the Turkish government support the Kurds fighting ISIS in Kobane

Turkey fighting to the last Kurd!

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TURKEY’S foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said his country cannot be expected to lead a ground operation against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria...
Southern Rail guards on the picket line at Brighton station yesterday morning

Big support for TUC lobby in Brighton

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DAVE Russell, GMB rep for council infrastructure at the Brighton and Hove refuse collection depot yesterday told News Line: ‘We are going to join...

PROTECT OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS – demand unions

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Workers who lost their pensions when their firm went bust gave a cautious welcome to a second High Court victory yesterday. The court rejected an...

Welsh NHS Cuts!

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‘We are very concerned for our members and our communities,’ Wales UNISON head of health Dave Gallaghan told News Line yesterday. He was responding to...

Manchester specialist fire rescue unit shut!

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‘LIVES will be at risk’ if Manchester is targeted again by terrorists because a specialist fire service unit has shut, a watchdog warned yesterday. Concerns...
Unite Tesco supply workers protest outside a store in central London – 9,000 jobs are threatened as the company seeks to save £1.5bn

Tesco confirms 9,000 job cuts!

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TESCO confirmed yesterday that 9,000 jobs are to be axed, as the supermarket giant looks to scrap the fresh food counters, including the in-store...
Sacked cleaners occupying the Greek Finance Ministry barricaded themselves in and chained the doors to keep the riot police out. Photo credit: MARIAS LOLOS

Sacked cleaners occupy Ministry!

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THE sacked cleaners of the Greek Finance Ministry are continuing the occupation of a ministry building in central Athens since Thursday morning. They have barricade...

‘My task – open the economy’ – New Health Secretary Sajid Javid

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‘MY TASK is to return the economic and cultural life that makes this country so great,’ new Tory Health Secretary, Sajid Javid said in...