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Nut & Nasuwt To Take Strike Action

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The NASUWT and the NUT have now served notice to employers that NUT and NASUWT members in the North West of England are to...
WRP candidate JONTY LEFF (right) was greeted with a lot of support from students at Hackney Community College yesterday

Vote Wrp Vote Jonty Leff In Hackney & Shoreditch!

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‘I AM voting for Jonty Leff because I am angry about the lack of jobs for young people and the amount that they are...

Israel rejects ceasefire and pledges to flatten Gaza City

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ISRAEL has rejected another new ceasefire proposal that would have halted its genocidal war on Gaza, warning instead that it will flatten Gaza City...

STRIKE ON! – Form public sector alliance demand postal workers

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‘Everyone has to come out now, all the unions have to,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU) Hampstead Delivery Office deputy unit rep John Taylor told...
Teachers and their supporters demanding ‘save our pensions’. More public sector workers are expected to join the struggle in the coming months

Pensions Strikes

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AHEAD of today’s TUC Congress, the leaders of two of the country’s biggest unions warned that their members’ anger over cuts in their jobs,...
GPs demonstrating in Rugby against the privatisation of surgeries

BMA collaborating with Tory White Paper!

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Leaders of the British Medical Association (BMA) are pressing ahead with assisting GP commissioning, as outlined in the government’s White Paper to privatise the...
London firefighters on Thursday marched to the Fire Brigade headquarters where they decided to have a strike ballot to defend their jobs

Labour Split Threat

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EX-HOME Secretary Alan Johnson threatened a Labour split yesterday if Labour Party members voted to have Ed Miliband as Labour Party leader. He claimed the...

Shocking Tuc Betrayal Condemned

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THE RMT has reacted furiously to the TUC/Southern Rail betrayal of safety and the conductor grade. General Secretary Mick Cash said: ‘This so-called agreement is...

Murdoch-Farage Out To Get Cameron

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FORMER Surrey Police officer Alan Tierney, 40, yesterday admitted selling information to the Sun newspaper. Tierney pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to two offences...

TORTURE! – Iraqi puppet police are accused of killings at secret detention centr

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The British Foreign Office said yesterday it was ‘aware of and deeply concerned’ by reports that Iraqi police commandos, the allies of British forces...

Syriza Declaring War On Seafarers!

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THE Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) and Independent Greeks party (ANEL) coalition government, has confirmed that it is to implement a privatisation programme. This...

‘We’ll picket until we get our jobs back’

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GATE Gourmet workers on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday, said their lobby of the TUC General Council on Wednesday had been...

PCS condemns job cuts!

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement by Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to go ahead with the closure of 93 offices...
Demonstration in Trafalgar Square in June demanding the release of Binyam Mohamed from Guantánamo prison

LABOUR GIVEN A WEEK! – to disclose torture evidence

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Yesterday’s High Court ‘torture verdict strongly condemned the UK government for complicity in US crimes’, said legal charity Reprieve. Lord Justice Thomas and Justice...

‘FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!’ – 600,000 workers march...

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MORE than half a million workers, students and youth held a powerful march for Palestine in central London on Saturday, marking two years of...
A strong and confident picket line at the Brockley Delivery Office yesterday morning

‘OUR LEADERS MUST LEAD’ – demand London postal workers

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LONDON postal workers took 24-hour strike action yesterday, with pickets across the capital demanding that the action is stepped up and that the union...
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News Line Anniversary Rally

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Sunday November 29th

French General Strike!

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A NATIONWIDE general strike took place yesterday, as Air France workers joined striking railworkers, civil servants, power workers and rubbish collectors in a...

Clarke Sacked – Refuses Other Job

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One of the most senior figures in government, an unwilling Charles Clarke was yesterday sacked as home secretary in the biggest cabinet reshuffle of...

Tory Party civil war escalates! – Sunak and Johnson trade insults

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THE TORY Party civil war was ratcheted up yesterday as PM Rishi Sunak accused his predecessor Boris Johnson of asking him to overrule a...
‘We’re not going to let them close our A&E in November’ say Enfield residents outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday

‘TOTALLY INADEQUATE!’ – unions condemn £500 A&E ‘bail-out’

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) and Unison yesterday dismissed as ‘papering over the cracks’, Cameron’s announcement of a £500m ‘bail-out’ over two years for...

Fire cuts hampering flood response

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FIRE and rescue services currently responding to the floods in northern England are hampered by the unprecedented cuts they have suffered over the...
Doctors outside the High Court yesterday (l-r) SARAH DODDS, Medical Defence Shield, CHANDRA  KANNEGANTI, Chair of British International Doctors Association, Dr JENNY VAUGHAN, Manslaughter & Healthcare, Dr JS BAMRAH, Chairman of British Association of Phys

Dr Bawa-Garba wins her appeal!

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DOCTOR Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was struck of the medical register, and not allowed to treat patients ever again, has won her appeal, reversing the...

‘INVESTIGATE CIVIL SERVICE!’ – demands McCluskey after state attack on Corbyn

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UNITE leader Len McCluskey yesterday demanded an investigation into claims made by two journalists in an article in The Times newspaper that senior civil...

Send Hospital ship to Gaza – 70,000 sign petition

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SEVENTY thousand people have signed a petition calling for the UK government to send the hospital casualty ship RFA Argus, currently based in Falmouth,...

PUT BUSH AND BLAIR ON TRIAL – urges just-freed Binyam Mohamed

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UK resident Binyam Mohamed, recently freed from Guantanamo Bay, has called for ex-US President Bush to be put on trial over his rendition and...

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...

Israel steps up Gaza aggression – kills 9 children in UNRWA clinic

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ISRAEL expanded its ground aggression in the besieged Gaza Strip yesterday, with its minister of military affairs Israel Katz announcing plans to ‘capture extensive...

‘BOMBING RAQQA WILL KILL LARGE NUMBERS OF CIVILIANS’ – warns Corbyn

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BOMBING Raqqa will see a large number of civilians killed, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn warned yesterday. He was asked by Andrew Marr: ‘What do...

CIA Drone Terrorism Targets Rescuers

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A REPORT published yesterday by Stanford University and New York University warns that the CIA’s drone campaign ‘terrorises men, women and children’ in North-West...
BA cabin crew strikers on the picket line at Heathrow last March

Unite Retreats From Cabin Crew Strike

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Unite yesterday cancelled plans for another strike at British Airways, and announced there will be a fresh industrial action ballot. In a statement, Unite general...

Demonstrate April 1 15% for all NHS staff

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PEOPLE across the country are being asked to put colourful posters in their windows in support of a proper NHS pay rise, in a...

Johnson and EU agree new Brexit deal!

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YESTERDAY morning the President of the European Commission and Tory PM Johnson announced that they had agreed a Brexit deal. That deal now has...

NINE PALESTINIANS ON HUNGER STRIKE – against detention without charge

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NINE Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention currently remain on hunger strike in protest against their unfair administrative detention without charge or trial, says the...
Angry tenants marching to Downing Street determined to stop the New Era Estate evictions

‘WE WILL NOT BE MOVED!’ – New Era Estate tenants march to Downing Street

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‘WE will not be moved!’ declared 600 furious residents of the New Era Estate in Hoxton, Hackney and their supporters at a mass lobby...
Demonstrators outside the House of Commons yesterday evening

Blair Ducks Iraq Debate!

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PREMIER Blair boycotted the House of Commons debate on Iraq yesterday in an unprecedented show of contempt for the bourgeois parliament. Before he left the...

‘We must come together to stop no-deal’ – says Labour leader Corbyn

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‘WE MUST come together to stop no-deal. This week could be the last chance. We are working with other parties to do everything necessary...

Tories to hike up National Insurance – Youth will be hit hardest says Intergeneration...

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THE TORIES are pushing for a rise in the National Insurance rate, affecting over 25 million workers to pay for social care. For someone on...

Clashes and gunfire! Thousands protest Sudan military coup

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THOUSANDS took to the streets of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum yesterday, to demand the release of the political leaders amid reports of clashes and gunfire....
Chagos Islanders marching in Crawley, Sussex – they demand the right to return to their home islands

UN votes: UK must go to The Hague over Chagos

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THE UN General Assembly voted by 94 countries to 15 that Britain should go to the International Court of Justice (The Hague) over...

Bush Boosts Troop Levels

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US President George Bush yesterday announced a permanent increase in the size of the US Army and US Marines. He made it clear that the...

MAY’S GRENFELL CLAIM ‘DISGRACEFUL’ says FBU

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FOLLOWING Theresa May’s resignation speech, in which the Prime Minister spoke of her response to the Grenfell Tower Fire, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU)...

‘Overthrow government if you will!’ – Greek Finance Minister challenges opponents

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THE Greek Interior Minister, Christos Kastanidis, has issued a press release/edict stating that the wages of all local government workers would be withheld unless...
Palestinians carrying a badly injured  child as a result of an Israeli bombing of flats in Gaza

UK STOP STARVING THE PALESTINIANS – Recognise the Hamas government!

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Israel’s brutal occupation of the Palestinian people has created refugees, death squads, and now starvation in Gaza, and hunger throughout the occupied territories. Thousands...

NATO striking schools, hospitals, homes

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MUSA IBRAHIM, the spokesman for Colonel Gadaffi, has accused NATO of carrying out air strikes against ‘schools, hospitals and residential areas ...