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CORBYN CONDEMNS LABOUR APOLOGY! – and payment of 6-figure damages

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EX-LABOUR PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at Labour’s ‘political’ decision to apologise and award damages to party whistleblowers who took part in...

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...
Demonstration against the closure of the Brixton Remploy factory – Miller closed dozens of them

Miller sacked–now for the rest!

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CULTURE Secretary Maria Miller was sacked by Prime Minister Cameron late on Tuesday night, after Tory MPs and local Tory parties threatened...
Demonstrators in Trafalgar Square last June demanding immediate action by the Brown government to secure the release of British resident Binyam Mohamed from imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay

BINYAM MOHAMED ‘IS SKIN AND BONE’ – warns US military lawyer Bradley

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A team of British officials have travelled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to visit detainee Binyam Mohamed and make preparations for his expected release. A Scotland...
The GMB’s Cowboys drove Wal-Mart back on this occasion

GMB ASDA DEAL – Wal-Mart backs away from 5-day strike

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The GMB trade union yesterday confirmed it has accepted an agreement offered by Wal-Mart owned Asda supermarkets and called off a planned five-day national...

Israel targets medics and aid workers – new videos show

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Israeli forces have issued an evacuation order to medical staff at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, one of the last remaining hospitals in the...

St Thomas’-Barts march to Trafalgar Sq

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OVER 300 NHS workers and their supporters from Barts’ and St Thomas’ Hospitals marched from St Thomas’ to Trafalgar Square. Unite had called a 2-day...
Protesters outside Lambeth Town Hall last November with a clear message about the goverment’s ‘austerity’ cuts

One in eleven face New Year eviction!

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HOUSING and homeless charity Shelter produced a report yesterday warning that one in eleven families are facing eviction this January. Shelter said: ‘One in eleven...
One of the injured cleaners being treated by an ambulance crew following the riot police attack

Riot Police Attack Sacked Greek Cleaners

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A SQUAD of Greek armed riot police on Tuesday morning attacked the sacked women cleaners who were blockading the entrance into one of the...
Part of the BMA march against the Health and Social Care Bill becoming law – the BMA at their Annual Representative Meeting earlier this year called for the resignation of Health Secretary Lansley

Circle taking £1bn out of NHS!

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THE first private company to run an NHS hospital claims it has cut waiting times, improved care and delivered savings in its first six...

Labour’s Winter Fuel cut has plunged pensioners into poverty

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall openly admitted on Tuesday that the Labour government cut the £300 Winter Fuel Payment to 10 million pensioners...

CORUS SHUTDOWN OUTRAGE – 3,000 jobs threatened

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Steel union, Community, yesterday expressed ‘outrage’ at the announcement to ‘mothball’ Teesside Cast Products with a threat to 2,000 jobs. The union said that move...

‘I’LL SEE YOU IN COURT’ – Galloway challenges Senate witchhunters

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Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, George Galloway has thrown down a challenge to the US Senate homeland security committee to charge him...

‘We are asking for the pay that we lost to be returned to us!’...

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ANGRY NHS workers on strike outside Barnsley hospital in South Yorkshire spoke to News Line yesterday. Ellen Newberry, deputy chair of Junior Doctors Committee (BMA),...

CUTS FOR THE DISABLED AND THE JOBLESS – but there’s billions for the bankers

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown yesterday pledged to a gathering of businessmen in London to ‘intensify’ the government’s attacks on the Welfare State, whilst continuing...

Russia for negotiated ceasefire! – ‘There will be no joining NATO!’

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THE RUSSIAN Ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, held a press conference in New York yesterday during which he made it clear that...

GM CRISIS DEEPENS – Vauxhall GM in danger

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Fears of job losses and plant closures at car maker Vauxhall grew at the weekend as three firms vied to buy GM Europe, ahead...

Iran warns US-UK over Syria

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THE DEPUTY Chairman of the Iranian Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, yesterday warned that the United States faced ‘severe consequences’...

Food Inflation – Highest For Fourteen Years!

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SOARING milk, cheese and egg costs have pushed food inflation to its highest level for 14 years, with millions of UK families heading into...

Banbury Workers Battle ‘Fire & Rehire’

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WORKERS at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury are ramping up pressure in the ‘fire and rehire’ struggle with a protest on Saturday (1...
Many young people were on Friday night’s 600-strong silent march through the centre of Kensington demanding justice for the victims of the Grenfell inferno

Grenfell United will continue to fight for truth!

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EIGHTEEN months after the Grenfell Inferno over 600 people turned out on the Silent March for the Grenfell victims and survivors. A delegation...

Assange to be Extradited!

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THE HIGH Court ruled yesterday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited from the UK to the US, where he faces a sentence...

NHS SPENDING FREEZE! – decreed by Finance Director

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An email sent last month from chief medical officer Sir Ian Donaldson’s chief of staff to DoH officials orders a freeze on NHS spending...

‘Army Engaged In Heroic Battle’ – Assad

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‘THE ARMY is engaged in a crucial and heroic battle . . . on which the destiny of the nation and its people rests,’...

Motor Bosses Threaten Thousands Of Jobs!

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‘We have made it clear that yesterday’s announcement was a good start but it will not in itself be quick enough to offset potentially...
Members of the MS Nurses campaign delivered their petition against cuts to Downing Street yesterday

‘This Government Wants To Take Ms Nurses Away’

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‘This despicable government wants to take Multiple Sclerosis nurses away,’ wheelchair-bound retiree George Goodger told News Line yesterday after handing in a petition to...

Parents demand judge-led inquiry

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday dodged the question as to whether the inquiry he announced into baby deaths at the Countess of Chester...

BLAIR ON THE ‘HIGH WIRE’ – ‘A significant number of my side are against’

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday admitted at his monthly press conference that the opposition to his schools ‘reforms’ made getting them through parliament ‘a...

4th round of Russia Ukraine talks begin – as Russian 40-mile armoured column advances...

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RUSSIAN and Ukrainian negotiators began a fourth round of talks yesterday. Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak said the talks focused on establishing a ceasefire, the withdrawal...
London demonstrators voice their support for the Palestinian people after the massacre of international aid acitivists at the hands of Israeli commandos as they tried to sail to the besieged Gaza Strip a year ago with food, medicines and other vital suppl

‘TIME FOR FREEDOM HAS COME!’ – 11 killed hundreds injured in Palestine

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ELEVEN Palestinians were killed and over 200 wounded when Israeli troops opened fire as Palestinians stormed the occupied Golan Heights and demonstrators...
Young Socialist March for Jobs and Free State Education gets to Clay Cross and a great welcome from local workers and youth

Great Support For Ys March For Jobs

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education from Manchester to London is campaigning in Stoke today, before moving on to Stafford. Speaking...
Grenfell Tower survivors demanding justice – many consider that they will not get it from the current establishment-dominated inquiry

‘THE NIGHTMARE IS CONTINUING!’ –‘Inquiry’ angers survivors

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‘THE NIGHTMARE continues as it was like the first night,’ Shah Aghlani, who lost his mother and aunt in the Grenfell fire, said...

Nurses Work For Free!

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‘Nurses should not work for free,’ insisted Dr Peter Carter, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing yesterday. He was commenting on newly qualified...

Bank cuts rate to 4.25% – its second cut this year

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THE BANK of England has reduced interest rates to 4.25 per cent, marking its second cut this year, as it warned that escalating global...

Striking Doctors Besiege Tories In Manchester

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STRIKING Junior Doctors and Consultants are laying siege to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester today, determined to defend the NHS against vicious Tory...
Young Socialists lobbying the TUC on Sunday demanding jobs for youth with trade union rates of pay

Co-ordinated strike action – unanimous vote at the TUC Congress

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DELEGATES at the TUC Congress 2012 in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for composite Motion 1, which calls on the TUC to give its full...
The early morning picket outside Chase Farm Hospital

‘We Won’t Let Chase Farm NHS Close’

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HOSPITAL workers, patients and local residents in Enfield yesterday reaffirmed their determination to stop the planned closure of the A&E, Maternity and Paediatrics departments...
A section of the packed rally in Westminster against Post Office privatisation

CWU rally rejects pensions blackmail!

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‘This is just the start of the battle,’ declared Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) deputy general secretary Dave Ward at a mass rally in...

Famine is tightening its grip on Gaza

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THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned yesterday that Gaza’s food system has completely collapsed, as famine tightens its...

NHS 32,000 Beds Loss!

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‘My personal view is the unions should be up in arms over the number of beds lost in the NHS,’ East Surrey UNISON official...

Bombardier Mass Sackings

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BOMBARDIER announced the sack for over 1,000 Belfast workers yesterday, as a portion of 7,000 sackings they are planning worldwide over the next two...

492 dead from Covid-19 in 24 hours – report Tory PM Johnson and NHS...

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TORY PM Johnson was joined by head of NHS England Simon Stevens at a joint press conference yesterday afternoon in which they reported 492...

54,000 Mothers A Year Lose Jobs

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AHEAD of the House of Commons debate yesterday, the GMB Trade Union says an estimated 54,000 women lose their jobs every year due to...
Striking doctors rally outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel in June last year

‘We won’t be border police – insist doctors

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HEALTH professionals yesterday condemned coalition government moves to bar immigrants from access to healthcare, and charge overseas visitors a £200 fee to qualify...

Blair & Straw ‘must have known’ about Aamer torture – claims SNP’s Alex Salmond

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EX-LABOUR Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and ex-Labour Foreign Secretary Jack Straw ‘must have known’ about the torture of British prisoner Shaker Aamer by the...