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‘G8= the most violent criminals on earth’ says George Galloway MP

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Over 15,000 people took part in the G8 Alternatives demonstration at Gleneagles yesterday afternoon. Welcoming the marchers to Auchterarder at a rally in the local...
Lobby of London Mayor Johnson’s office against the violent attack on all the emergency services in February

Firefighters Forced To Transport Patients!

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LINCOLNSHIRE Fire Brigades Union and the GMB trade union yesterday expressed concern over plans to use firefighters as A&E first responders. The FBU said it...

500 Killed In Israeli Bombing Of Gaza!

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ISRAELI warplanes rained terror on Gaza yesterday, targeting ambulances, market places and refugee camps. Warplanes fired missiles at the mosque in the centre of Shati...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers marching through Southall. Fellow TGWU members who worked at BA who came out on strike in support of them were told to return to work by the TGWU leaders because their supporting action was illegal

‘COORDINATE STRIKE ACTION’ – says PCS leader Serwotka

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‘WE are now about to move to ballot 270,000 members for industrial action, unless the government withdraws its threat of compulsory redundancies.’ This is what...

‘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...
Remploy workers taking part in the national demonstration against cuts in disabled people’s benefits in May this year

DEFEND 4,000 REMPLOY JOBS! GMB demonstration in Sheffield today

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The GMB trade union is holding a demonstration in Sheffield and a rally in Wakefield today, to defend 4,000 Remploy jobs. The GMB warned...

Sanctions Linked To Foodbanks!

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NEW University of Oxford research confirms there is a strong link between increased benefit sanctions and higher foodbank use. The University of Oxford researchers analysed...

Australian doctors demand ‘humane stance’

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IN THE British Medical Journal today, a leading doctor is calling on the Australian government to stop constraining doctors in the care of asylum...

‘We’re heading for a general strike’

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‘WE’RE heading for a general strike,’ striking Royal Mail postal workers, members of the CWU told News Line yesterday. At the Fulham Delivery Office CWU...

STUDENT NURSES ANGRY – at Tory-imposed tuition fee debt

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STUDENT nurses and midwives are furious that under new proposals to scrap bursaries, they could potentially be burdened with £65,000 worth of debt for...
WRP candidate for Camberwell and Peckham, AMINATA SELLU (holding poster), with some of her supporters

Vote Wrp Vote Aminata Sellu For Camberwell & Peckham

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ON THURSDAY evening workers in the Samlak cafe on Southampton Way, Camberwell showed support for Aminata Sellu, WRP candidate for Camberwell & Peckham. Aminata...
Demonstration in January last year in Haringey against the imposition of Academy schools

‘We are a hideously unequal society’ says NUT leader Christine Blower

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‘IN a country like ours, how can it be that one in five children lives in poverty? How can it be that one in three...
WRP candidate ARJ THIARA and his team got great support yesterday on the Golf Links estate near to the closure-threatened Ealing Hospital

Vote Wrp Vote Arj In Southall

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CAMPAIGNING on the big Golf Links council estate, five minutes walk from Ealing Hospital, the Arj Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall canvas...
Nurses on the October TUC demonstration demanding fair pay and more staff

‘NHS being collapsed by coalition!’

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THE very minimum number of nurses required for A&Es to function safely was published yesterday in an attempt to address the acute staff shortage...

Beaten To Death

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A leaked US Army Criminal Investigation Command report has revealed a catalogue of prisoner abuses, including two deaths, by the US military at Bagram...

Brown Wants 3 Years Of Wage Cutting

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THE GMB and PCS unions came out against Prime Minister Brown and Chancellor Darling’s plan to impose three-year pay settlements on public sector workers...

Mordaunt replaces Patel Johnson next for sack!

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THE BREXIT-supporting minister for disabled people, Penny Mordaunt, yesterday was promoted to International Development Secretary by PM May replacing Israeli backed Priti...

Deficit heading for £100bn

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LABOUR Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has said, if elected, a Labour government would match the Tories cut for cut. He said that Labour would be...
Young Syrians join the thousands of protesters who took to the streets of London when ex-PM Cameron tried to get parliament’s approval for the UK to join a US-led war on Syria – he lost the vote and the UK and then the US were forced to pull back

Trump Beats War Drums!

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‘WE HAVE a lot of options militarily,’ US President Trump said yesterday banging the war drums against Syria, adding that a response would be...

UK TRADE DEAL WITH ISRAEL MUST NOT BE A BETRAYAL OF PALESTINIANS – says...

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AMNESTY International UK has warned that a new UK trade deal with Israel could allow Israel to consolidate its settler-colonialism and apartheid in the...
Junior doctors fought Hunt – who blamed them for alleged weekend deaths – yesterday he apologised for the breast screening crisis that meant that up to 270 women may have had their lives shortened, but did not offer his resignation

Hunt Apologises Over Breast Screening Deaths

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TORY Health Secretary Hunt yesterday apologised ‘wholeheartedly and unreservedly for the suffering caused’ when he admitted that up to 270 women may have had...

Cameron Set To Send UK Troops Into Iraq

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PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday revealed that he is preparing to send British troops into Iraq again. Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, he warned that Islamic...

Strike Breaker Gove Is Condemned!

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Schools unions have reacted angrily to a letter to heads from education secretary Gove, advocating strike breaking during their June 30 pensions action. His letter...

Five elite Israeli soldiers killed and 2 wounded in Khan Younis

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FIVE elite Israeli soldiers were killed and at least two others wounded in Khan Younis on Friday after a building collapsed during a resistance...

All Cladding Samples Fail Safety Checks

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THE CLADDING samples from each and every one of the 34 tower blocks in 17 council areas in England tested up until yesterday have...

TIME TO DEFEND NHS! say UNISON and the GMB

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‘We need an end to the privatisation of the NHS,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was responding to government backing for the...

Tory ‘hit list’ for air strikes on Syria

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THE Tory government yesterday conceded that a ‘hit list’ of names of several ‘British jihadis’ were drawn up at the meeting of senior national...

‘Blatant act of annexation’ – Ashrawi slams Israeli ‘nature reserve’ land grab

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ISRAEL is creating ‘nature reserves’ in the occupied West Bank and this is ‘a blatant act of annexation and land theft that violates international...

GPs referring more patients to Food Banks!

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THE number of GPs having to refer patients to food banks is increasing, with more than one in five having to take drastic action...

Reeves scraps Winter Fuel Allowance – Pensioners to freeze in their homes

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NEW LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves dropped a bombshell on the working class across the UK in a statement in Parliament yesterday, announcing that she...

Hammond pledges to bring down no-deal Tories!

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Chancellor Hammond said yesterday that he would seek to bring down the Tory government if it tried to take Britain out of the European...

PCS Warns Of Further Action

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‘We’ve had just as strong support today as we had for the first day of the strike,’ a Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS)...
Ealing midwives on the picket line outside the hospital during last year’s strike – The meeting tonight is called to plan next Wednesday’s march & occupation of maternity to stop the closure

Save Ealing Maternity! Occupy Now!

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THERE was enormous support for tonight’s meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday morning. Hospital workers, patients, local residents and youth...
Youth on the Gaza border with Israel determined to liberate the whole of Palestine

‘We Will Liberate Palestine!’

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THE HAMAS resistance movement says it will not agree to the creation of a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip, warning that US President...
Lively mass Xmas picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning demanding that the STP closure plans are thrown out

Throw STP plans out!

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‘THROW the STP plans out!’ said Roseline Nwangwu an Ealing Hospital worker yesterday morning. Unite union member Roseline added: ‘If they close Ealing Hospital...

‘Israeli army carrying out field executions!’ – says Palestinian spokesman

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THE official Palestinian presidential spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, yesterday condemned what he described as ‘the dangerous Israeli escalation against our people’, which resulted in...
Midwives on the picket line at Ealing Hospital in west London during the October 13 strike

Midwives plan more strikes over pay

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HEAD of the midwives union RCM slammed the Tory government’s attack on NHS workers’ pay in her speech to the RCM conference that...

Over Half Of All London Nurses Want To Leave The City!

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OVER half of London’s nurses want to leave the city as the cost of living devours their income. The majority of nursing staff blame the...

Bank of England raises interest rates! – predicts energy costs rise of 40% by...

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UK INTEREST rates have risen to the highest level since 2009 as the Bank of England tries to slow the pace of rapidly rising...
Trade unionists rally in Trafalgar Square to defend the welfare state on April 14

£85bn cuts and tax rises in budget!

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Labour leadership hopeful Ed Balls yesterday accused the Tories of wanting to take Britain back to the conditions of the 1930s. Trade unions are bracing...

Anger erupts outside Chauvin murder trial!

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AS THE murder trial of officer Derek Chauvin continued for the killing of George Floyd, anger erupted outside the Court House where masses of...

Blair Threatens To ‘Close The Book’ On Ulster Power Sharing

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The British and Irish governments yesterday set a November 24 deadline for north of Ireland politicians to agree to work together in a restored...
Teachers and doctors called a joint march at which PCS, RMT, FBU and ASLEF attended – all unions must strike together to defend the NHS

Junior Doctors must not fight alone – TUC call a general strike!

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ALL day yesterday the junior doctors were under heavy attack with Tories demanding that their strike be made illegal and suggestions being made that...

IRAQ RISES UP! – thousands clash with police & army

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TENS of thousands of Iraqis marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq yesterday, in the largest and...

Universal Credit Attack On Poor

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UNISON yesterday warned the government that its ‘botched roll out’ of Universal Credit, less than 18 months away, will make it more difficult for...