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Israel steps up Gaza aggression – kills 9 children in UNRWA clinic

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ISRAEL expanded its ground aggression in the besieged Gaza Strip yesterday, with its minister of military affairs Israel Katz announcing plans to ‘capture extensive...
Young Socialists marching in Norwich last Saturday against unemployment and cheap labour

Heading for 1.18m youth unemployed

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Youth unemployment is set to more than treble over the next two years, research group, the Centre for Cities predicts in a report published...

‘IF THERE IS NO LEGISLATION ON MONDAY – SEIZE SHIPS ON TUESDAY’ – John...

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OVER 500 trade unionists gathered outside the RMT headquarters on the waterfront in Dover, yesterday with red RMT flags and union banners after 800...

UK’s Shrinking Economy!

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THE UK economy shrank by 0.2% in the last three months of last year, according to figures released by the Office of National Statistics...

Lebanese village ‘massacre’

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With the encouragement of Bush and Blair, Israel continued its murderous air, land and sea bombardments on Lebanon yesterday, striking central Beirut for the...

One Hour Training For Serco Breast Cancer Screeners

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THE CANCER breast screening scandal has been exacerbated by news that the call handlers on the hotline set up by health secretary Jeremy Hunt...
Firefighters marching in London last month against the threat of mass sackings

Fire Talks Breakdown!

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‘The strikes on November 1st and November 5th will go ahead,’ Fire Brigades Union (FBU) London Region Official Paul Embery told News Line yesterday. He...

A win for Palestine Action as an army contract is blocked

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THREE detained activists affiliated with Palestine Action have ended a prolonged hunger strike after the government blocked a major British Army contract for Elbit...

Nationalise Vestas Now!

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Workers who have been occupying Vestas Wind Systems wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight since 20th July, against its closure and...

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...
Young and old marching to save Chase Farm Hospital on the NHS Day of Action on March 3rd

Chase Farm A&E And Maternity To Close

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Chase Farm Hospital Accident & Emergency and Maternity departments must close, the government’s emergency services tsar Professor George Alberti has said. Save Chase Farm campaigners...

Doctors ‘deep sense of outrage’ over wage cut!

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CITING ‘doctors’ deep sense of outrage’, BMA Chair Mark Porter has written to health secretary Hunt urging him to reconsider this year’s real-terms pay...
Young Socialists lobby of last September’s TUC Congress in Brighton demanding no zero-hours contracts

Accept Zero Hours Or No Benefits!

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UNEMPLOYED workers are to be thrown off benefits if they refuse to go on slave labour zero-hours contracts, the government announced yesterday. Employment Minister Esther...
Disabled people stormed Parliament yesterday, angry at the abolition of the Independent Living Fund (Picture: John McDonnell)

Disabled Occupy Parliament

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Disabled people occupied the Central Lobby of Parliament yesterday against the abolition of their Independent Living Fund (ILP). They attempted to storm parliament itself,...
Grenfell survivors and their supporters demonstrate outside the Kensington & Chelsea Council Town Hall which ignored all  warnings of the dangers of an inferno at Grenfell Tower and then ignored them after it

Sheltered accommodation contains Grenfell cyanide

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THE insulation used at Grenfell Tower – which releases cyanide if burned – is installed at sheltered accommodation in east London, it was reported...
Picket in May last year demanding the release of Babar Ahmad, faced with being extradited to the US

Action Needed To Defend NHS

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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS plans to axe 720 healthcare workers across three hospitals, out of a 4,500 workforce, in a bid to save £30...

‘Fight Nato Aggression With All Strength’

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LIBYAN government and civilian forces are dealing deadly blows to the NATO-backed counter-revolutionary ‘rebels’ and mercenaries holed up in Tripoli and other areas of...

A MAJOR ATTACK ON TRADE UNIONS – Lobbying Bill set to become law

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AFTER the House of Lords accepted the Lobbying Bill by just one vote the bill is now set to become law. The TUC Congress 2013...

Israel assassinates Hamas leader Al-Arouri in Beirut

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Hamas has confirmed that Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy head of its political bureau, was killed in a blast in the Dahiyeh neighbourhood of the...
Sacked BBC canteen workers demonstrating outside Bush House in Central London yesterday

Bbc World Service Workers Back Caterers

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‘THE BBC says it subscribes to “BBC values”, but it would appear BBC Values do not apply to contractors such as Aramark.’ BECTU General Secretary...

Renationalise Harland & Wolff!

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AFTER the Scottish government announced they will nationalise Ferguson Marine shipyard, trade unions are calling on the UK government to safeguard jobs and skills...

‘Tories Out’ march this Sat ‘All members must turn out’ urge trade unions

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‘WE ARE asking members to support the major anti-cuts demonstration in central London on 1st July,’ civil servants union PCS said yesterday, referring to...

Hounslow march on March 25th

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‘OUR march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th of March is very important, not just for us but for all trade union members.’ Locked-out Gate Gourmet...
Cousins of Jean Charles De Menezes, ALEX PEREIRA (left) and PATRICIA da SILVA ARMANI (speaking) outside the High Court yesterday

‘WE WILL APPEAL TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS’ – De Menezes family

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‘THIS is a disgraceful decision,’ the family of murdered Brazilian man Jean Charles de Menezes said yesterday, after the High Court rejected their appeal...
Palestinian AYSAR SHAMALLAKH (centre in white jacket) on hunger strike in solidarity with over 1,600 hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Picture shows Aysar and supporters demonstrating in Parliament Square on Wednesday evening

‘OUR CHAINS WILL BE BROKEN BEFORE WE ARE’ says Barghouthi

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‘ISRAEL cannot silence us, nor isolate us, nor break us, our chains will be broken before we are,’ Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi has said...

US-UK War Talk Over The Ukraine!

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LEADERS of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France will meet in Belarus’ capital Minsk on Wednesday to discuss a peace plan for eastern Ukraine,...

Israel F-16 planes bomb houses close to Kamal Adwan hospital

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DIRECTOR of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, said that Christmas Eve was one of the most difficult nights in Kamal Adwan Hospital...

RAF joins US in Syrian air strike – 62 Syrian army killed

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THE BRITISH airforce has admitted its involvement in the US-led airstrikes which killed over 60 Syrian Army troops and injured over 100 more. It has...

4,000 Striking Greek Teachers March Through Athens!

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OVER 4,000 striking teachers and students marched through Athens city centre last Monday afternoon in a joyful mood sensing that they were winning the...
PCS lobby outside the HMRC yesterday morning demanding that all the HMRC Enquiry Centres be kept open

All tax advice centres to close!

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PCS members held a lively protest outside HM Revenue and Customs Whitehall headquarters yesterday opposing the closure of 281 tax advice centres. Chris Baugh, PCS...

LOW PAY NO WAY! – 400,000 workers out on strike!

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OVER 20,000 striking teachers, college lecturers and civil servants from every London borough marched through the centre of the capital yesterday, with marches and...
Labour leader Corbyn marching with steelworkers in defence of their jobs

Corbyn Slams Witch-Hunt

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has responded angrily to a witch-hunt launched by Murdoch’s Sun, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Mail which...

£3bn of savage education cuts

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CHILDREN will pay a terrible price for £3 billion of savage Tory school budget cuts, education unions warned yesterday. State schools in England will have...

GET READY TO STOP THE AIRPORTS – Walsh mobilises 6000 strikebreakers

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British Airways boss Walsh boasted at a meeting of selected staff at BA headquarters yesterday that he has 6,000 staff signed up to break...

Hancock Refuses To Sign To Reopen Ealing Maternity!

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EALING SOUTHALL WRP candidate Hassan Zulkifal confronted Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. Hancock claimed: ‘We’ve saved the A&E and now...

2,450 sacked by email – 214 Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton shops shut

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TORY PM Johnson must wait until there are fewer than 1,000 Covid infections a day before lifting lockdown, NHS bosses and scientists have warned. The...

ANOTHER LOCKDOWN IS POSSIBLE! – says Professor Peter Horby

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IN A statement to Parliament today Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce a new three-tier lockdown system where each region in...

Chancellor Is Slashing Jobs, Wages And Benefits!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne’s Autumn Statement to the House of Commons yesterday afternoon was a savage attack on the working class and the poor. Early in his...
CWU members demonstrate in Corby last March against privatisation

POSTAL WORKERS STRIKE –against unacceptable changes

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OVER 12,000 postal workers across the UK will be striking today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and executive action by Royal Mail....

Markets Shaken By Bank Losses

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Billions of pounds, euros and yen were wiped off European and Asian share prices yesterday as markets responded to Tuesday’s collapse on Wall Street...

Blair Says Troops To Stay In Iraq

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THE new puppet Prime Minister of Iraq, Jaffari, has just visited both Washington and London to make sure that a beleaguered President Bush and...

LLOYDS HBOS MASS SACKINGS – as banks go for £17bn more bailout cash

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The Unite trade union yesterday urged Lloyds TSB and HBOS ‘to start thinking about the human consequences of this takeover’. It was responding to...

400 nurses and other NHS workers strike over safety and pay!

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DAY surgery operating theatre nurses at St Thomas’ Hospital opposite Parliament are striking again today against having their shift times forcibly extended again! The 50...
Engineers and construction workers demonstrated in Parliament Square during the February dispute in the industry

STOP THE COUNTRY! – to beat union busters

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The GMB trade union yesterday accused senior managers of provoking the unofficial dispute at Lindsey oil refinery by the sacking of 51 workers in...

Call for nationwide student rent strikes

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THE National Union of Students (NUS) joined the calls for nationwide student rent strikes yesterday. This September (16/17/18th), activists from UCL Cut the Rent (UCL-CTR),...