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Greek PM calls students ‘robbers’

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LAST Tuesday on national state television, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis likened students to ‘robbers’ because they have occupied their university departments in...

Olympics order of battle!

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Royal Air Force Typhoon jets based at RAF Northolt will be roaring across London and the home counties tomorrow and Saturday as part of...
Civil sevants, teachers and lecturers at a rally in Norwich during their national strike over pay on April 24th

INFLATION RIPS! – unions slam calls for pay ‘restraint’

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Soaring food and energy prices could push the government’s preferred consumer price index (CPI) inflation above 4% this year, the governor of the Bank...

20 Sri Lankan Soldiers Killed In Tigers Counter-Attack

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COLOMBO – TamilNet reports that 20 Sri Lanka Army soldiers were killed in an intensive counter-attack launched by the Tigers on SLA units that...

5 Days Of Strike Action By The Junior Doctors!

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JUNIOR doctors in England yesterday embarked on a five-day strike, marking the 11th walkout in their prolonged pay dispute. Members of the British Medical Association...
Workers on the TUC march last October making it clear they want a general strike now!

TUC must call – GENERAL STRIKE NOW!

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TODAY’S meeting of the General Council of the TUC must go beyond considering the practicalities of a general strike and actually call one, Dave...
Kenyan Mau Mau veterans picket the law courts in the Strand as a successful legal case is brought against the UK government

Memorial to Mau Mau freedom fighters

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A MEMORIAL will be unveiled at 07:30am (GMT) on Saturday 12th September 2015, at Freedom Corner in Uhuru Park, Nairobi to remember the many...

‘Unions must strike to release Assange!’ Protesters rally outside the Old Bailey

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‘THE TRADE unions should organise mass demonstrations and call a general strike,’ Julian Assange Defence Committee member Joe Brack told News Line yesterday. He was...

TUC condemns Trump’s attack on Venezuela

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THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the UK’s three largest trade unions, Unison, Unite and GMB, yesterday condemned the US kidnapping of Venezuelan President...

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,...

98.7% NO CONFIDENCE IN LANSLEY – frightened Miliband urges ‘junk the Bill’

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NURSES passed a motion of no confidence in Health Secretary Lansley and his Health and Social Care Bill, with a vote of 98.75% in...

Grenfell Tower – ‘We paid the price’

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‘WE paid the price of systematic dishonesty, institutional indifference and neglect,’ Natasha Elcock, Chair of Grenfell United, said in the shadow of Grenfell Tower...

Bma Warns Brown Don’t Destroy NHS

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‘we will not stand by and see you decimate hospitals for purely financial reasons. We will not stand by and let you damage patient...

Tories agree C02 industry bailout! Unite wants to join talks with bosses

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WITH the prospect of industry being shut down in the wake of the energy and CO2 crisis, the Tory government has struck a deal...
Young Socialists marching through Norwich in June last year demanding an end to fees and the restoration of grants

STUDENT LOAN RATES HIKE! –scrap all student debt, demands YS

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Millions of graduates will now face paying interest on their student loans again as new interest rates came into effect yesterday. Payments to the Student...

‘A WAR OF EXTERMINATION!’ – Doha Summit condemns Israel’s war on Gaza

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‘ISRAEL'S war on Gaza has turned into a war of extermination’, Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said as he welcomed leaders...
A section of the massive rally at Hyde Park. Over 200,000 took part in the march and many called for the trade unions to match their words with action

Palestinians examining 72-hour ceasefire proposal

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PALESTINIAN negotiators in Cairo said yesterday they were examining an Egyptian proposal for a new, three-day cease-fire with Israel. ‘There is a proposal for another...

Hamas, Fatah Gun Battles In Gaza

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Palestinian resistance movement Hamas yesterday accused Palestinian National Authority President Mahmud Abbas of attempting a military coup after Fatah forces sealed off two Hamas-led...

‘We need a general strike!’ – strong call from picketing nurses

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THE TORY government issued a calculated insult to thousands of striking nurses yesterday as the Royal College of Nursing held national strike action for...

ISRAEL SET TO THUMB NOSE AT OBAMA – over settlements

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Netanyahu was yesterday set not to extend the moratorium on settlement building in the West Bank, thumbing his nose at both...
CWU members on the Princess Royal Distribution Depot picket line at 6.00 am yesterday

CWU CALLS NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION! – All out on Tuesday August 21

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The Communica-tion Workers Union (CWU) has announ-ced a national demonstration in London in support of postal workers on Tuesday, 21 August 2007. A CWU spokeswoman...
Yesterday afternoon’s angry protest against the Channel 4 programme ‘Benefits Street’ insisting that it be taken off the air

‘Take Benefits Street off the air!’

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PROTESTERS from across the UK gathered outside the offices of the production company behind Channel 4’s cynical ‘Benefits Street’ at 3pm yesterday, to protest...

GP surgeries at breaking point

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‘GENERAL practice across England is under unprecedented pressure,’ was the BMA’s response yesterday to the news that hundreds of surgeries across the country applied...

May Is Full Of Praise For Labour Right Wing

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PM MAY danced onto the stage at the Tory Party conference in Birmingham yesterday to the strains of Abba’s Dancing Queen and claimed that...

Day four of Harland & Wolff occupation – South African unions send international solidarity...

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THE OCCUPATION of Harland and Wolff, in Belfast in the north of Ireland, is going from strength to strength, now into its fourth day...
The front banner on Saturday’s 20,000-strong demonstration in support of a Palestinian state

Cash for Israeli army scandal!

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ON HER return to the UK after her secret visit to Israel, Secretary of State for International Development, Priti Patel, asked her department...

Southern bailout stinks!

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‘THIS STINKS of another multi-million pound taxpayer subsidy to bail out the failing Southern rail part of the Govia Thameslink franchise,’ Mick Cash general...
Families of British soldiers killed in Iraq led off this ‘Troops out of Iraq’ march in London

DISASTER! – more British troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan

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Two British soldiers were killed and another two injured, one seriously, in a roadside bomb attack near Basra in southern Iraq, yesterday. Their patrol was...

Gate Gourmet Tribunals Are Completed

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THE Reading Employment Tribunal has dealt with the last 23 claims for unfair dismissal against Gate Gourmet London arising out of the mass sackings...

Hezbollah defending Lebanon against Israeli genocide

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‘WE have the right to attack anywhere in Israel, since Israel has attacked anywhere in Lebanon,’ Hezbollah Deputy Leader Naim Qassem said in a...

Johnson gags the SAGE scientists!

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TORY PM Johnson during the daily Downing Street press briefing yesterday, repeatedly blocked journalists from asking his scientific and medical advisors about the ongoing...

Flawed Intelligence Being Used In Secret No Jury Courts

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Human rights group Liberty yesterday called on Home Secretary Reid to explain a ‘flawed’ secret intelligence scandal to Parliament. Liberty said: ‘A security-cleared judgement...

Miliband ‘Rent Cap’

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LABOUR Party leader Miliband yesterday pledged that the next Labour government will introduce legislation to cap rents so they cannot rise by more than...
The head banner of the Coordination of Trades Unions at Thursday’s march. The Main banner reads ‘With our hands to overthrow government, troika, capital’

Athens Workers March & Defy Eu-Greek Junta

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OVER 1,500 workers, militants, trade-unionists and youth marched through the Athens city centre to the Vouli (Greek parliament) on Thursday evening against the visit...

Hamas calls for popular uprising against settlers

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THE Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance groups have condemned an attack by illegal Israeli settlers on the village of Jit in the northern...

Royal Commission ‘to break up the NHS’ says KONP

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KEEP Our NHS Public (KONP) is demanding that Labour oppose the setting up of a Royal Commission to look at the NHS and...

Hotel where child fell from window was also fire risk!

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THE CUT PRICE hotel where Afghan refugee, five-year-old Mohammed Munib Majeedi, plunged to his death from a ninth-floor window had ‘multiple fire risks’ the...

MORTGAGE SQUEEZE! – 2.8 Million homes are under threat

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The squeeze on the availability of mortgages is expected to continue and get worse in the next three months, the Bank of England has...

370,000 Council Homes To Be Sold Off!

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370,000 council and housing association homes will be sold off in England by 2020, the head of the Chartered Institute of Housing has warned. Terrie...

‘SACK SIEGEL FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE HERE!’ say defiant Gate Gourmet strikers

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THE Gate Gourmet strikers have poured scorn on company chairman David Siegel’s departure from Britain to America, which was announced on Wednesday. Picket Mr...

UCU holds strike rally as 17 FE colleges stop work

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The University and College Union (UCU) held a strike rally of over 150 members from across the country at the Emmanuel Centre on Marsham...

‘Swallowing Tory manifesto’

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LABOUR leadership contender Yvette Cooper has accused some in the party’s leadership contenders of ‘swallowing the Tory manifesto’ following its election defeat. Cooper warned against...

NO PAY CUTS FOR NURSES! – while BMA insists we need all our consultants

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Public sector union, UNISON said yesterday it will ‘strongly resist any attempt to cut nurses’ pay whether by moving to regional pay or by...
Young Socialists March for Jobs took part on Wednesday’s massive student demonstration in London where its policies won massive support

Ys March For Jobs Reaches Birmingham

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education marched from Wolverhampton to Birmingham yesterday. And last night they were staying at the Irish...

Capita Shares Plunge 40%

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CAPITA shares plunged over 40% yesterday, provoking speculation that the huge conglomerate privateer is going the way of Carillion and is set to...