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Israeli ground invasion of Jabalia – medics receiving pleas for help as soldiers shoot...

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THE Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics are receiving dozens of urgent pleas to evacuate casualties but are unable to respond because of...

Government Failure Was Partly To Blame For Grenfell Fire – Says Gove

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COLLECTIVE government failures regarding building regulations ‘over many years’ were partly to blame for the Grenfell Tower fire, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said. He...
WRP candidate JONTY LEFF (right) talking to students at Hackney Community College who were all determined to fight against the cuts to their college and get rid of all university fees

Hackney students support WRP’s Leff

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STUDENTS at Hackney Community College in Shoreditch, east London joined the campaign yesterday to elect Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch...

‘BRUTAL’ WORKING CONDITIONS AT AMAZON RUGELEY!

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THE GMB is presenting a giant Valentine’s card to the Amazon warehouse in Rugeley in the Midlands today to highlight the ‘brutal’ working conditions. Workers...

Entire RCN leadership sacked by membership – Members vote of no confidence at Extraordinary...

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THE ENTIRE leadership of the nurses union RCN has been sacked by the membership! A vote of no confidence at an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM)...

SUDDEN AND CATASTROPHIC – OILC leader Jake Malloy describes Morecambe Bay disaster

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‘Last night’s event appears to suggest that something sudden and catastrophic happened,’ offshore workers’ union, OILC leader Jake Malloy told News Line yesterday. Six bodies...

Labour is hit for six in Hartlepool

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STARMER’S LABOUR Party has been hit for six in the Hartlepool by-election, with a Tory MP elected for the first time in the current...

Israel to ban MSF lifeline this month

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DOCTORS Without Borders (MSF) has warned that the Israeli regime’s ban on the agency puts at risk the medical relief lifeline provided by the...

Syria – nationwide ceasefire proposed

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RUSSIA and Turkey have reached an agreement on a proposal for a nationwide ceasefire in Syria from midnight, Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency...
The head of yesterday’s march of more than 100 youth and tenants through the Aylesbury estate in south London

Don’t privatise the Aylesbury estate

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‘DEFEND Council Housing! Kick Blair out!’ shouted more than 100 tenants, youth and trade unionists as they marched through the Aylesbury Estate in south...
Large numbers of teachers took part in the 500,000-strong TUC demonstration on March 26 – hundreds of thousands of teachers will be on strike on tomorrow

Teachers Rebut Gove’s Attack

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TRADE UNION leaders representing millions of the public sector workers striking in defence of their pensions tomorrow angrily rebutted Education Secretary Michael Gove’s attacks...

OCCUPY ELLESMERE PORT says ATUA National Secretary

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Workers at the Vauxhall Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire are bracing themselves for today’s expected announcement by owners GM of 1,000 job cuts. Trade union...

Israel moves to annexe the occupied West Bank

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THE Israeli parliament approved in a narrow vote on Wednesday a bill that would extend Israeli domestic law to the occupied West Bank. The move...

British Troops In Syria!

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THE UNITED States, Britain and France have been setting up new outposts in northeastern Syria, despite the opposition of the Damascus government to...
Firefighters lobbing the Fire authority last month demanding ‘No cuts’

London FBU Walk Out

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London’s 5,600 firefighters go on strike at 10am this morning, and will stay out until 6pm, after the London Fire Brigade sent them all...

UK protest against Nigeria’s police killings

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OVER 2,000 angry Nigerians demanding their president ‘Buahari must go’ demonstrated outside the Nigerian Commission in London on Wednesday evening before marching to Downing...
Junior doctors, health workers and supporters joined the mass picket outside St Thomas’ Hospital during the January 12th nationwide strike – they are out again on February 10th

Junior doctors strike on!

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THE JUNIOR doctors strike, on Wednesday February 10th will go ahead, doctors union the BMA announced yesterday. The BMA said in a statement: ‘Despite the...

Israel Bombs Unrwa Hq!

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PALESTINIAN Legislative Council member Mustafa al-Barghouti challenged the head of the United Nations to personally go into Gaza, after Israel shelled the UN’s humanitarian...

‘There Are No Safe Zones – They Are Zones Of Death!’

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THERE are no safe zones they are zones of death,’ UNICEF global spokesman James Elder said, as 700 Palestinians were slaughtered in Israel’s genocidal...
Nurses marching in Nottingham against the government’s drive to privatise the NHS

Staffs NHS Crisis Continues

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The staffing crisis is continuing at Stafford Hospital, senior consultant Dr Pradip Singh has alleged. This is three months after the publication of a damning...
Firefighters on the picket at Euston in north London at the begining of their 24 hour strike at 9am yesterday morning

FBU–‘A Fight We Have To Win’

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FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales went out on a 24-hour strike over the massive attacks that are taking place on their pensions. The walk-out, which...

320,000 children face acute malnutrition

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ONLY 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, a figure drastically lower than the 600 truckloads the UN estimates are required daily to meet...
Special needs pupils and supporters march against the lack of places in state schools due to government cuts to resources

Tory War On Special Needs!

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TEACHERS unions have condemned the onslaught on children with Special Educational Needs (SEN), launched by the coalition government yesterday. Legislation to slash the rights and...
Lobby of Waltham Forest council meeting last month to win support for the campaign against the closure of Whipps X Hospital A&E

DEFICITS NOT PATIENT CARE! – driving Blair’s NHS plans

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Shocked health unions yesterday warned against prime minister Blair’s plans to close a large number of District General Hospitals’ Accident & Emergency...

China Hits Back At US Trade!

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China launched countermeasures against the United States’ trade war attacks yesterday, with the Chinese People’s Daily saying that Beijing ‘will never waver in its...
MPs who supported the recognition of Palestine outside parliament on Monday

‘A MOMENTOUS VOTE!’ says Palestinian Ambassador Hassassian

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‘A MOMENTOUS vote that is a stepping stone towards rectifying the historic injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people,’ Palestinian Ambassador Manuel Hassassian said...

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’...
Families demonstrating outside Hammersmith Town Hall in west London against the Tory-LibDem coalition’s savage cuts programme, which also means savage cuts in wages, pensions and benefits

WAGES WILL BE FROZEN UNTIL 2015 – says Miliband

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Ed Miliband yesterday warned that average pay will be no higher in 2015 than it was in 2003, quoting figures published by the Resolution...

Bank of England – Serious Fraud Office investigation!

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THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is investigating allegations that the Bank of England rigged the way that money was ‘auctioned’ to banks during the...

NUS gives full support for university strikes!

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THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) threw its weight behind the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses yesterday. The NUS pledged its solid...

Unemployment set to soar

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UK bosses yesterday warned that the deepening UK slump will see unemployment soar further to 2.9 million next year. The manufacturing sector turned in its...

Gaza air raid was response to jail break – Hamas

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PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas yesterday denounced the latest Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip, describing them as a desperate attempt by the regime to cover...

More than 780,000 Gaza students have no schooling for 3 years!

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ISRAEL’S genocidal assault on Gaza has devastated the territory’s education system, leaving more than 780,000 students without regular schooling for three consecutive academic years,...
Teachers on yesterday’s march from Malet Street to the Department of Education in Westminster

‘WANTED FOR ROBBERY!’ –pensions strikers condemn coalition

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OVER 8,000 striking teachers and college lecturers from the NUT and UCU unions in London yesterday marched from University College Union London to the...

Special Forces Back In North

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Northern Ireland Assembly Deputy First Minister and Sinn Fein MP Martin McGuinness yesterday slammed the redeployment of British Army Special Forces in the North...
A big part of the 60-strong picket at Chase Farm Hospital yesterday

March to save Chase Farm today!

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YESTERDAY’S 60-strong mass picket to save Chase Farm Hospital drew big support from patients and local residents who all said they would join today’s...

£400 Energy Rise On Way!

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HUGE hikes in gas and electricity bills are coming this year, the energy privateers flagrantly announced yesterday. ‘Big Six’ energy bosses told MPs on the...
Student nurses are fighting Health Secretary Hunt alongside the junior doctors

Keogh breaks agreement with BMA

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THE BMA has rebuked the NHS National Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh for breaking an agreement with it in an attempt to organise strike...

High Court move to ban UK arms sales to Israel!

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LAWYERS seeking an order to prevent the United Kingdom government from continuing to grant arms export licences to UK companies selling arms to Israel...
British troops firing on civilians in the north of Ireland

Prosecute army terrorists! –MRF murders in Ireland condemned

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‘MEMBERS of the “Military Reaction Force”, who murdered unarmed Irish nationalists, must be identified and prosecuted for murder,’ WRP general secretary Frank Sweeney told...
Palestinians in Gaza mourn the victims of the savage Israeli air attacks

Stop the Gaza slaughter! – Ambassador appeals to Security Council

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ACCORDING to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 100 Palestinians have been killed and over 600 injured in Israel’s assault on the besieged coastal enclave. The Palestinian...
NHS campaigners from around the country lobbied Parliament against privatisation and cuts

NHS privatisation must be stopped!

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A LOBBY of Parliament called by the Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign, and backed by the Unite trade union, was held yesterday, midday. It was...

Russia poised to recognise Donbass republics! 5 Ukrainian officers killed trying to cross into...

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THE RUSSIAN Security Council discussed yesterday recognising Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbass region of Ukraine as independent states. Russian President Vladimir Putin said: ‘I...

UK will not return to normal says PM Johnson

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‘THE STATE must step back and let the private sector get to work,’ Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared in his virtual Tory Party...

Save London Met! 120 jobs at risk!

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‘SAVE London Met – 120 Jobs at Risk!’ was the call from a mass rally of workers and students outside the Holloway Road site...