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Maternity Unit banner on a march in Enfield against the closure of the Chase Farm Hospital

‘STORM OF MATERNITY CUTS!’ – warns RCM leader

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‘There is no doubt that maternity care, like the rest of the NHS, is looking into a storm of possible cuts to services,’ said...

‘A Major War Crime!’

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HAMAS yesterday condemned Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza City and relocate its population as a clear violation of international law. The Palestinian resistance movement warned that...

Battle Rages In Aleppo

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Fierce fighting raged for a second straight day in Syria’s commercial capital Aleppo yesterday, as government troops pressed home their offensive against Western-backed armed...

Israel kills dozens in Gaza Strip shelling!

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DOZENS of civilians were killed yesterday and others sustained various injuries, in the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip, which entered its...

UCU Fights Mass Sackings

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The University and College Union (UCU) has slammed Manchester College after it was revealed that it is paying its top earner almost £200,000, while...

South African variant spreading across UK

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THE SOUTH African variant has begun to spread across the UK, the Tories confirmed yesterday. Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the 5.00pm briefing: ‘We...
Homeless Youth Given Tickets  To Sleep On Night Buses

Homeless Youth Given Tickets To Sleep On Night Buses

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HOMELESS youth are being given bus tickets and told to sleep on the back of night buses because all the hostels are full. The New...
Part of the Norwich protest against the closure of Remploy factories. GMB official Glenn Holdom is 3rd from left

‘Disgusting plans’ to close Remploy factories

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The GMB and Unite, the unions for Remploy workers, held a demonstration in Norwich town centre on Saturday against the government’s plan to shut...

Bonus For Not Sending An Ambulance!

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LONDON Ambulance Control Room workers are being offered bonuses of up to £250 if they can reduce by 30 per cent the number of...
Newham residents demonstrate last June against the police anti-terror raid on their community

WHITEWASH! – Forest Gate victim slams IPCC report

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‘It’s a whitewash,’ Forest Gate victim Mohammed Abdul Kahar said yesterday after the IPCC report on the 2 June 2006 police raid said it...
Electricians were in a determined mood when they marched at Kings Cross yesterday morning and called for Unite to organise an immediate strike ballot

Strike Ballot Now! – Demand Sparks

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MORE than 300 angry electricians marched onto the Kings Cross Station concourse in central London yesterday, where they held an impromptu public rally. Union reps...
Students and workers rally in Manchester against tuition fees and cuts – a placard reads: ‘’Aaron Porter doesn’t represent me’

Porter Driven Out By Student Anger

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National Union of Students President Aaron Porter has quit, driven out by the fury of his members after he accused them of violence during...

British Columbian longshore workers overwhelming strike vote

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Longshore workers in British Columbia have overwhelmingly voted to authorise industrial action, raising the prospect of a strike at the Port of Vancouver, Canada’s...

1,000 Days Of Gaza Seige

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Protests against the crippling siege imposed on the Gaza Strip should spread across the world, said Palestinian lawmaker Jamalh Al-Khudari yesterday, as the blockade...

‘Boycott General Motors’ Demands Unifor’s Dias

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UNIFOR National President Jerry Dias, speaking during a press conference, has asked for all Canadians and Americans to boycott all General Motors vehicles that...

Hold police to account over deaths – demand relatives to IPCC report

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RELATIVES of people who died in police custody yesterday insisted that reforms pledged by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) be implemented without delay...

TORIES IMPOSE £10,000 FINES! – and make appeal for informers

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THE TORY government is imposing a new legal duty to ‘self-isolate’ if instructed to do so by ‘NHS Test and Trace’ from next Monday,...

Self defence forces take action!

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SELF DEFENCE forces have confirmed they attacked a Ukrainian military helicopter at an airfield in eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk. A plume of smoke...

ICC seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Yoav Gallant

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THE United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and dozens of organisations and countries are striving to block or delay an arrest warrant by the...

Inflation Surge!

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inflation leapt in December with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rising to 3.7 per cent, up from 3.3 per cent in November, and the...

MORTGAGE CRISIS – one in five can’t make mortgage repayments in 2008

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one in five mortgage holders is worried about meeting their repayments over the next 12 months, while a quarter of these haven’t any idea...
Finance Ministry cleaners in Athens have spent 267 days fighting to get their jobs back and are now determined to return to work

Athens Cleaners Want Jobs Back

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THE new Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), announced his government on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the sacked...
Nurses outside Central Halls on Thursday being reminded about one of the lessons of history

‘WE NEED SERIOUS ACTION’ – nurses tell News Line

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‘Keep nurses working – keep patients safe,’ Royal College of Nursing General Secretary Beverley Malone told 1,000 cheering nurses at Westminster Central Hall yesterday. ‘As...
Teachers and supporters occupying the Wembley Park sports field to prevent the building of an academy school on the site

Private Schools After Academy Cash

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The National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday condemned moves by private schools to rescue their finances through obtaining academy status. A NUT spokeswoman told News...
Labour MP JOHN McDONNELL told the rally the New Labour government is laundering money into the private sector

LABOUR ‘NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE’ – NUJ leader Jeremy Dear tells Defend Public Services...

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OPENING the ‘Public Services Not Private Profit’ rally yesterday, John McDonnell MP said: ‘Today is the largest and broadest lobby of parliament for decades....
A police officer threatened to arrest the small picket outside the Middle East Energy Conference in London yesterday morning. The demonstrators were urging those coming into the conference to keep their hands off Iraq’s oil and that it must not be privati

Hands Off Iraq’s Oil!

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‘Hands Off Iraqi Oil’, read the banner of protest outside the Middle East Energy Conference in London yesterday. At the conference was Iraqi puppet Oil...

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...

Gate Gourmet Workers Confront Tony Woodley

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‘VICTORY to Gate Gourmet workers! TGWU sack Tony Woodley!’ shouted angry locked-out Gate Gourmet workers as they confronted TGWU leader Woodley before the...
Picturehouse cinema workers striking for the ‘Living Wage’ – they have had enough of austerity

Workers Demand ‘End Austerity!’

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SURVATION – who accurately predicted the hung parliament – also now shows Labour storming to a 7 per cent lead over the Conservatives. ...
Health workers are in the front line of the struggle against privatisation, low wages and big cuts such as the 25% cut that ambulance workers face regarding their sick pay

Tuc Is Supporting Tube & Ambulance Workers Strike Action!

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THE TUC Congress yesterday passed Emergency Motions against the Lobbying Bill, and against the attack on the right to strike of London...

Halt Zionist settlers’ heinous crimes in Palestine says PM Shtayyeh

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Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday denounced the ‘heinous crimes’ committed on Sunday by Zionist settlers in the northern West Bank town of Huwara...

NURSES DEMANDING A DOUBLE DIGIT PAY RISE – says RCN leader Cullen

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NURSES require a ‘double-digit’ pay rise! This was the message of the leader of the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) Pat Cullen yesterday, ahead of...

Delegates Support Chase Farm Occupation

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TRADE union delegates at the TUC Congress in London on Monday supported the call from the North East London Council of Action to occupy...

CIA trying to trigger civil war

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THE CENTRAL Intelligence Agency (CIA) intends to arm Kurdish militants in a bid to trigger a civil war in Iran after the United States...

‘Victory to Palestine!’ demand hundreds of thousands on huge London march

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HUNDREDS of thousands of workers, students and youth marched on Saturday through central London, calling for victory to Palestine and an end to Israel’s...

Join Our Mass Picket Today!

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‘WE appeal to all Transport and General Workers Union branches and workers and the whole trade union movement to come to our support,’ Gate...
Junior doctors outside the Royal London Hospital in east London – they are standing up against Hunt’s imposed contract

Stand up to Hunt! –urges Society for Acute Medicine

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‘STAND up to Hunt,’ is the message from the Society for Acute Medicine who have thrown their full weight behind next week’s junior doctors’...

‘WE DON’T BACK NHS BILL!’ – 400 doctors warn House of Lords

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THE Tory-LibDem Health and Social Care Bill will cause ‘irreparable harm’ to the NHS, 400 leading doctors, consultants and public health experts have written,...

PETROL £1 A LITRE – as economic crisis deepens

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The average UK price of unleaded petrol yesterday went over £1 per litre for the first time, as oil reached almost $100 a barrel...

NHS buildings ‘verge of collapse’ – Risk of ‘corporate manslaughter’!

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AN NHS hospital has commissioned a report into the risk of corporate mans-laughter charges should a fatal roof collapse occur, leaked documents exposed yesterday. West...

‘Inflation hangs around like a bad smell!’ says BofE!

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THE BANK of England has raised interest rates to their highest levels in almost 15 years. The base rate has risen from 4.25% to 4.5%...
Demonstrators in London last month fighting against the closure of the maternity department at Horton Hospital in Oxfordshire

STPs are to dictate budget & service cuts – says BMA

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THE government must not use ‘transformation’ plans as a cover for further cuts to the NHS, says the British Medical Association. Responding to a...

Workers Of The World Support BA Cabin Crew

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‘WE stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters at Unite who are fighting for a fair contract at British Airways,’ says the Teamsters...