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3rd Day of Palestinian hunger strike!

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OVER 100 Fatah-affiliated prisoners in Israeli jails entered their third day on hunger strike yesterday, prisoner representatives said. The 120 prisoners, all held in Nafha...
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Sunday November 29th

Johnson puts Navy in charge of repelling refugee dinghies

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THE MILITARY will take charge of the operations targeting refugees and asylum seekers crossing the English Channel in inflatable boats within weeks, the government...

Six Palestinian Activists Win Legal Action – Finally Leave Jail After 547 Days Of...

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FAMILIES of six Palestine Action activists have said the jury’s verdict marked a ‘monumental victory’, after their relatives were cleared at Woolwich Crown Court...

‘COME AND TALK TO LABOUR PARTY’ – Watson urges May!

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DEPUTY Labour Party leader Tom Watson yesterday urged Tory leader May to ‘come and talk to the Labour Party’. ‘If she cannot get...
Greek postal workers march through Athens with a clear message in English: the postal service is ‘not for sale’!

Down With Privatisation!

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OVER 10,000 workers from the Greek state corporations and organisations (power and electricity, telecommunications, post-office, water authorities etc) took part in a militant and...
RCN leader BEVERLY MALONE with UNISON health official KAREN JENNINGS at the centre of the ‘NHS Together’ platform yesterday morning

‘A PAY CUT OF 7-10 PER CENT’ – NHS unions don’t rule out industrial...

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Fourteen trade unions representing nurses, physiotherapists, radiographers, occupational therapists and other NHS staff have joined forces to challenge the government’s 1.5 per cent limit...

HUGE RISES IN COST OF LIVING – make unions fight for above inflation rises

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Retail Price Index (RPI) inflation, which includes mortgage interest payments, rose to 4.1 per cent last month, from 4 per cent in December. However even...

HOSPITAL CLOSURES PLANNED! – – April 2010 D-Day for NHS

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New NHS regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), yesterday published its ratings on England’s 392 trusts. From April 2010, the CQC will gain new powers...
Youth in support of Palestine marching in London last May

Lifeline Convoy Sets Out For Gaza

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British Member of Parliament George Galloway left the UK on Sunday, December 6th with a convoy of humanitarian aid and will arrive in the...

One million workers march through London for Palestine

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ONE MILLION workers, students and youth marched through central London in support of Palestine on Saturday, condemning 100 days of Israeli genocide during which...
Junior doctors joined by ambulance workers and supporters on a picket line in Norwich during their last strike on December 12th

Junior doctors march today

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TODAY thousands of junior doctors, health workers, student nurses, march through central London demanding ‘Victory to the junior doctors!’ At 8am next Wednesday morning (February...

May’s ‘sweetheart deal’ for Surrey council exposed

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday accused ministers of agreeing a ‘sweetheart deal’ to ensure a Conservative-controlled council dropped plans to raise council tax by...

‘We Want Action To Win’ Say Gourmet Workers

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GATE GOURMET strikers were on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday in high spirits, after their successful intervention at the TUC in Brighton...

Benefits Cap Hits Poorest

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THE Benefits Cap came into force nationally yesterday, setting poor families and the unemployed as its main target, capping the total amount of benefits...

Israel’s Blockade Has Collapsed Healthcare

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ISRAEL’S ongoing blockade of northern Gaza has brought the healthcare system to near-total collapse, with almost no remaining services, according to the World Health...
Yesterday’s picket of Chase farm Hospital with Unison Regional officer DEREK HELYAR (at left of banner)

Unison picket at Chase Farm Hospital

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Unison – the biggest health workers union – yesterday staged a picket of Chase Farm Hospital against the threat to close the hospital’s A&E,...

Large scale assault on northern West Bank

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ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued a large-scale assault on the Tubas governorate in the northern West Bank for the third consecutive day on Friday,...
Greek transport workers demonstration led by a cavalcade of 200 motorcyclists in Athens

‘AN UPRISING OF THE WORKING CLASS IS COMING’ – say Greek transport workers

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ABOUT 2,000 Greek public transport workers took part in a magnificent demonstration last Tuesday afternoon in Athens, against the government’s Transport Bill which slashes...

600,000 workers take part in nationwide protests in France! – CGT union opposes savage...

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NEARLY 600,000 people participated in nationwide protests across France on Thursday, according to the CGT union, responding to a strike call by trade unions...

Officers admit guilt in taking dead girls pictures

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TWO Metropolitan Police officers yesterday admitted taking and sharing photographs of the bodies of two sisters found murdered in north-west London. PC Deniz Jaffer, 47,...

Labour hits back after Panorama attack

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‘WE COMPLETELY reject any claim that Labour is anti-Semitic,’ said a Labour Party spokesperson, responding to BBC Panorama’s programme aired on Wednesday evening, attacking...

$30bn FEDERAL AID FINANCES BEAR STEARNS ‘RESCUE’ – first time since 1930s slump

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Billions of dollars, euros, pounds and yen were wiped off the world’s stock markets yesterday, as they reacted to the emergency bail-out of US...
Doncaster Care UK strikers picketing the company’s London headquarters in May

Doncaster care workers: three more weeks of strike

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DONCASTER care workers have stepped up their fight yesterday, the first day of a further three weeks of strike action in an escalating battle...

160,000 CWU members take action & government collapses – A great day!

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SOME 160,000 CWU members took action at thousands of UK workplaces on Thursday, other unions visited our lively pickets and the government collapses into...
March through north London to stop the closure of Whittington hospital A&E – leaked STPs reveal that is exactly what is on the agenda

Secret plans to destroy NHS

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PLANS to close A&Es, maternity services, children’s departments and entire hospitals up and down the country have begun to emerge as the Tory government’s...
Ex-soldiers returning their war medals outside Downing Street yesterday

Ex-soldiers disgusted by Syria war

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OUTSIDE Downing Street yesterday, special forces veteran Ben Griffin read out a message on behalf of disabled veteran Dave Smith. Griffin said: ‘Dave Smith can...
Striking bus workers outside the Ash Grove depot in Hackney yesterday demanding the reinstatement of their steward

40 Bus Workers Picket Ash Grove

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FORTY bus workers had a very lively picket yesterday morning, at Hackney’s Ash Grove bus depot in east London, as they staged the first...
LOUISE REGAN, NUT section president of NEU (second from left) joined yesterday morning’s picket of staff striking against academisation at The Village School in Kingsbury, north west London

‘No academy for us’ – The Village School strikers

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STRIKING Village School teachers were in high spirits, yesterday, the third day of their action to stop their school being turned into an academy. Pickets...

Stop Nato Exercises In Ukraine!

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STOP The War yesterday condemned the government for blocking a petition submitted to its e-petitions website which called for an end to NATO exercises...

May ‘Flexible’ On Brexit Leaving Date

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DESPERATE to avoid a Tory Party split, Prime Minister May has agreed with her rebels to amend her EU Withdrawal Bill to include a...

UK-US CRISIS – Washington to challenge Chinese investment in UK

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A CLAUSE in the newly signed UK-US trade agreement has provoked fierce criticism after it was revealed that Washington will be granted powers to...

Tories hammering poor!

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LABOUR’S shadow communities minister Hilary Benn has accused the government of unfairness in a letter to council leaders that shows that cuts for richer...

University of Maryland students denounce Gaza genocide & demonstrate for Palestine!

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STUDENTS at the University of Maryland on Wednesday joined ongoing pro-Palestine campus protests across the US demanding their school cease doing business with military...

4,000 Striking Greek Teachers March Through Athens!

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OVER 4,000 striking teachers and students marched through Athens city centre last Monday afternoon in a joyful mood sensing that they were winning the...

Mahdi Army clashes with Iraqi puppet forces

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TWENTY-FIVE soldiers in the puppet Iraqi army were killed yesterday in fierce fighting with the Mahdi Army militia, which is opposed to the US-UK occupation of...

Scores of people killed in Israeli air strikes!

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SCORES of people, including many women and children, were killed in Israeli air attacks on two UN-run schools in northern Gaza on Saturday –...

‘DOCTORS WON’T TAKE IT ANYMORE’ – says BMA after 98% strike vote

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JUNIOR doctors in England have voted by an overwhelming 98% for strike action in their fight for pay restoration. Almost every junior doctor who cast...
Colonel Daoud Musa, father of Baha Musa (who was tortured to death by British troops)  outside the High Court with Public Interest lawyers in 2004

Iraqis killed, abused and tortured by British troops

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Scores of Iraqis were at the High Court in London yesterday demanding an Independent Public Inquiry into allegations that British interrogators abused, killed and...
‘Defend Lewisham Bridge School’ campaigners joined by students from Goldsmiths College demonstrating against Brown yesterday

HANDS OFF OUR SCHOOLS! – parents lobby Brown

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ANGRY parents occupying the roof of Lewisham Bridge Primary School and students from Goldsmiths College demonstrated against Prime Minister Brown when he arrived...
Health workers march through the centre of London to defend the National Health Service

Decide on action to defeat Tory NHS Bill – urges BMA London Regional Assembly

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London doctors have made it clear they are opposed to the government’s plan to slash and privatise the NHS – and want action to...

‘WE’RE READY TO FIGHT FOR VICTORY’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet shop stewards went to a meeting at the Trades Union Congress in central London yesterday with leaders of their union, the TGWU,...
NEU joint general secretary MARY BOUSTED (centre) leads a delegation of six unions, parents, pupils and councillors to present a petition demanding proper funding for Special Educational Needs and Disability pupils to the Department of Education

Children with special needs: savage cuts to SEND funding!

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PARENTS, councillors and education unions descended on the Department of Education yesterday to demand that children with special needs are not left high and...
Tents in Athens where the hunger strikers are living

Four Weeks On Hunger Strike

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Dramatic events are unfolding in Athens as the 287 immigrant workers’ hunger strike completes four weeks today, Monday, 21 February. Four hunger strikers have been...

TORIES ARE FORCING NURSES TO STRIKE – says Cullen

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NURSES will strike across Britain on Thursday 15th & Tuesday 20th December, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) announced yesterday. ‘Strike action will happen in...