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Sunak’s £6,000 grants ‘are too little too late’ – as pubs and restaurants face...

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‘WE HAVE responded, I think generously today, the grants that we have outlined, up to £6,000 are comparable to the grants that we provided...

13m families will lose out due to Osborne’s Budget!

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THIRTEEN million families will lose an average of £260 each year because of Osborne’s cuts to working-age benefits, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)...
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...
Health workers forced to take strike action – demanding that every health worker gets a 1% increase!

Raise productivity and cut welfare say Tories

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RATHER that waiting to make a statement to the new parliament, Tory Chancellor George Osborne announced through the Sun newspaper on Saturday that he...

Tories ask Iraq ‘let UK troops remain!’

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JOHNSON’S Tory government has urged Iraq to allow UK troops to stay in the country following the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani...
The front of the Silent March for Grenfell making its way down Kensington High Street

Grenfell Fire Doors Failed

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DOORS for flats in Grenfell Tower could only hold back a fire for half the time they were designed to, a police investigation has...

Police Spies – Met’s Unreserved Apology!

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THE Metropolitan Police has made an ‘unreserved apology’ and paid an undisclosed amount in compensation to seven women who were tricked into long-term relationships...

90 Birmingham bin strikers rally outside Parliament – won’t accept any pay cuts

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NINETY Birmingham bin strikers came down on a double-decker bus to London to a Unite union rally outside Parliament yesterday afternoon. Strike leader Mike Masters...

Excessive A&E waits cause 320 extra deaths a week!

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THERE were more than 16,600 deaths associated with long A&E waits before admission in England last year, analysis by the Royal College of Emergency...

Heathrow Strike Action

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CARS, lorries and buses hooted support along the busy Bath Road on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport in west London yesterday morning as 1,400...
Thursday’s march in Athens. School and university students banner reads, ‘Cash to the banks – Bullets to the youth. This is the time for our days, fight for freedom and justice’

Greek Students Clash With Police

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THOUSANDS of Greek school and university students staged protest marches in Athens and 20 cities throughout the country last Thursday on the 10th anniversary...

US & ISRAEL STOKING GAZA CLASHES says Hamas call for national unity

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THE political leader the Hamas Palest-inian liberation movement has said that the US and Israel are responsible for last week’s clashes between Hamas...

Assange fights extradition in court

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange appeared in court in London yesterday looking very unwell after spending months languishing in Belmarsh Prison where he has been...

GMB pledges to defeat new strike-breaking laws!

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‘Butt Out!’ the GMB union told the Tory government yesterday, after it overturned a Welsh law on Monday night banning the use of agency...
Unite Tesco supply workers protest outside a store in central London – 9,000 jobs are threatened as the company seeks to save £1.5bn

Tesco confirms 9,000 job cuts!

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TESCO confirmed yesterday that 9,000 jobs are to be axed, as the supermarket giant looks to scrap the fresh food counters, including the in-store...

Balfour Beatty Withdraws Contracts

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The Unite trade union, yesterday welcomed the withdrawal of controversial contracts by Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES), which would have resulted in the termination...

Metro Bank Shares Crash!

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METRO BANK’S shares have crashed after reports it is seeking to raise millions to bolster its finances. The bank’s shares sank 27% in early trading...

No Grenfell criminal charges until 2021!

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CAMPAIGNERS have reacted with fury at news that criminal charges over the Grenfell Tower fire may not be considered until 2021. Scotland Yard will not...

Manchester specialist fire rescue unit shut!

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‘LIVES will be at risk’ if Manchester is targeted again by terrorists because a specialist fire service unit has shut, a watchdog warned yesterday. Concerns...

Parliament taking control from government!

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‘THE APPROACH to today’s business sets an extremely concerning precedent for our democracy,’ Tory leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom said yesterday,...

Greek Two-Day General Strike

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GREEK workers are staging an unprecedented two-day general strike today and tomorrow, called by the GSEE (Greek TUC) against Yiorghos Papandreou’s government’s Mid-Term Economic...

July deficit alarms City!

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THE UK government borrowed £600 million in July to cover the gap between spending and revenue, the ONS reported yesterday. The city is aghast...
Teachers at the march in Athens calling for ‘full pension and health rights’

Greece – 24 Hour National Strike

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Greek civil servants, teachers, local government and hospital workers took part in a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday, in defence of their pensions rights...

Blair Whitewash –

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‘The way things are going they are going to wrap everything up – they are covering up everything,’ the cousin of murdered Brazilian Jean...

Civil Servants Vote To Strike Against 2 Per Cent Pay Cap

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Hundreds of thousands of civil servants, members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), have voted overwhelmingly for strike action over pay. A PCS...

Tory Party civil war escalates! – Sunak and Johnson trade insults

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THE TORY Party civil war was ratcheted up yesterday as PM Rishi Sunak accused his predecessor Boris Johnson of asking him to overrule a...

Bring Private Care Homes Back In-House

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‘I STRONGLY believe that care homes should be taken back under local council control,’ GMB rep Dianne Wragg said yesterday. Wragg is the lead steward...
Thousands of Unison members took part in the TUC March 26 demonstration to show that they were determined to stop the privatisation of the NHS

NATIONAL DEMO! – called by Unison to defend NHS

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The Unison national delegate conference in Manchester yesterday voted to step up the fight to save the NHS and to call a national demonstration. Delegates...
Parents have been battling against attempts to foist academies on schools for the past two years. Picture shows a Haringey march against forced academies in January 2012

High Court blocks Academy

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FOR the first time, the High Court has blocked an attempt to force a comprehensive school to become an academy. Teachers union NASUWT said yesterday...

Youth In Poverty!

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THE government’s new national minimum wage (NMW) rates risk leaving young people even further behind, the TUC warned yesterday. The new rates only apply to...
Young female Tamil Tigers have played a big role in defending the Tamil people against the Sri Lankan army

Tigers Condemn Sri Lankan Genocide

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The Tamil Tigers yesterday vowed to drive back an advance by government troops in the east of Sri Lanka and accused the Sri...
CWU pickets at Brockley Delivery Office during their strike on August 7th

London Postal Workers Out Today

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ALL London postal districts are taking 24-hour strike action today, as the CWU (Communication Workers Union) fights the Royal Mail/Labour government onslaught on postal...

‘WE CAN’T GET JUSTICE!’ – Jean de Menezes’ cousin

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‘The whole thing is a mess,’ Alex Pereira, the cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes told News Line yesterday. He was responding to reports that...

SANDERS TO STAND

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US Senator Bernie Sanders announced yesterday that he will run again for president in 2020, making a second attempt to win the Democratic Party’s...

Assange sent back to Belmarsh!

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has been sent back to Belmarsh high security prison after a judge refused him bail yesterday, despite a decision to...
Patients, GPs and staff marching through Tower Hamlets to defend 21 east London GP surgeries threatened with closure

Cameron’s 7-day GPs & NHS provokes strike threat

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HEALTH unions have threatened to strike over Cameron’s plans to create a seven-day-a-week health service, if it means cuts to the existing payments for...

Israeli forces intensify West Bank demolitions!

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ISRAELI forces have intensified demolitions in the occupied West Bank and face growing accusations of pursuing a coordinated campaign to erase Palestinian presence and...
In the last month there have been big demonstrations up and down the country to stop local hospitals being closed. The demonstration above is defending Charing Cross Hospital in west London

BATTLE FOR BOLTON NHS – plan to sack 500 and make 1,685 reapply for...

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OVER 1,000 people joined a demonstration and rally on Saturday to protest over plans to cut up to 500 jobs at the...

Palestine Demands A Criminal Investigation

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PALESTINE has demanded an immediate international criminal investigation into the Tel Aviv regime’s policy of settlement expansion and expropriation of Palestinian territories. The Palestinian Ministry...

NO TUBE AND RAIL CUTS! – ‘Franchising system in its death throes’

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ENDING damaging staff cuts, bringing all of London’s Tube back into the public sector and getting the network’s upgrade back on track are more...

Fuel shortages driving Gaza’s hospitals to the brink!

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Fuel shortages are driving Gaza’s hospitals to the ‘brink of collapse’, leading to dehydration, disease, and starvation among the population, warns the charity ActionAid. Dr...

‘EU dead in the water!’ says Bank of England MPC member

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EXPORTS to the EU, the UK’s biggest trading partner, are ‘dead in the water’, a member of the Bank of England’s interest rate-setting Monetary...

A DATABASE FOR ALL – Blair plans ultra modern police state

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday urged support for ID cards, and a national database on everyone, for ‘less than £30’ above the cost of new...

200,000 March For Victory To Palestine

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A HUGE 200,000-strong march of workers, students and youth went from Parliament Square to Hyde Park on Saturday, the 13th National demonstration for Palestine...
A section of the packed audience of striking firefighters at yesterday’s lunchtime rally at Central Hall, Westminster

24-Hour Firefighters Strike Solid!

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‘THIS dispute is not over,’ declared Fire Brigades Union General Secretary Matt Wrack at a packed 2,000-strong rally of striking firefighters in Westminster, central...