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Part of yesterday’s monthly picket at Chase Farm Hospital

Chase Farm Anger Over Coalition Cuts!

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SUPPORT for the policy of occupying Chase Farm Hospital to stop its closure is growing. Staff, patients and visitors complained angrily about the...

Bring LT cleaners back in-house

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AS THE Omicron crisis grips the capital, Labour politicians yesterday called for public ownership of London Transport cleaning services. The MPs and peers made the...

COVID IS BEING USED TO SACK TENS OF THOUSANDS says RMT leader Mick Lynch

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RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has accused the Johnson government and the privately-run train operating companies of ‘using Covid as a smokescreen’ to rip...

OCCUPY GM! –Fiat takeover threat to plants

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‘Vauxhall workers should occupy to defend their jobs’, Belfast Visteon convenor John McGuire told News Line yesterday. He was responding to news that Fiat...

Top-Up Fees Threat To The NHS

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An admission by director of policy and strategy for the Department of Health, Una O’Brien, has stirred up concerns that ‘co-payments’ or top-up fees...

Wrack Condemns Backstabber Khan

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FIRE Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack yesterday responded to London mayor Sadiq Khan’s decision to backstab Corbyn and urge Labour voters to ditch...

Thousands of Sudanese marching in London!

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THOUSANDS of Sudanese workers and students are marching in London today demanding an end to the war in Sudan. In a statement, ‘London for Sudan’...

‘MY BLOOD WAS BOILING!’ says RCN leader after Army mobilised against strikes

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‘MY BLOOD was boiling when I heard what he said,’ Patricia Marquis, Royal College of Nursing Director for England, said yesterday after Tory Cabinet...

Food Prices Rocketing As The Supermarkets Impose Rationing

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FOOD prices are rising at their fastest rate for 45 years, with the cost of basics such as milk, cheese and eggs surging and...

No protection from unfair dismissal–for 7.5 million!

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THE TUC yesterday warned that millions of workers lack basic protections if they lose their jobs in the coming months. New analysis shows that 7.5...

Iran warns US-UK over Syria

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THE DEPUTY Chairman of the Iranian Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, yesterday warned that the United States faced ‘severe consequences’...

Hezbollah denies responsibility for deaths!

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HEZBOLLAH issued a statement yesterday categorically denying Israeli allegations that it was responsible for the killing of 12 children on a football field in...
ALEX PEREIRA (second from right) addressing a de Menezes family press conference in July this year

DE MENEZES EVIDENCE ‘JUSTIFIES A PROSECUTION FOR MURDER–say lawers

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‘We have to have a judicial review; you can see from the day he was shot, everything was wrong,’ the cousin of murdered Brazilian...
There were a large number of pickets at the East London Mail Centre in Bow on Friday morning

‘WE NEED THE REST OF THE COUNTRY TO JOIN THE FIGHT’ – say London...

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Postal workers were out on strike across London, Essex, Scotland and the West Midlands yesterday, the first of a number of days of strike...
Young Socialists lobbied last year’s TUC conference opposing sanctions on benefits, zero-hour contracts and slave labour

Benefit sanctions ‘illegal’

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THE High Court has declared the Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013 incompatible with the right to a fair trial guaranteed by Article...

Starving Palestinians storm US-Israeli GHF ‘aid’ centre

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The first day of the Israeli-US ‘aid’ distribution mechanism in Gaza ended in abject failure yesterday. The ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF) distribution centre in Rafah...

‘GENERAL STRIKE TO DEFEND POSTAL SERVICE’ – ‘We must win this struggle’ say postal...

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STRIKING postal workers fighting Royal Mail’s diktat yesterday called for a general strike. On a lively picket line outside Camden Delivery Office, London NW1, Communication...

UKRAINE WAR BOOSTS INFLATION! – says World Bank President

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THE war in Ukraine is ‘a catastrophe’ for the world which will cut global economic growth and boost inflation, the president of the World...

Ledbury tenants moved! – council fears gas explosion

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HUNDREDS of Peckham, southeast London, tenants living in tower blocks on the Southwark Council’s Ledbury Estate are being moved out after safety checks carried...
Planned STP cuts mean maternity services at Horton Hospital in Banbury are due for closure, endangering mothers’ & babies’ lives

‘Slash, Trash and Privatise!’ STPs put patients’ lives at risk

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‘IT IS CLEAR that patients’ lives are being put at risk, but the solution is not to slash, trash and privatise through the NHS...

Milwaukee uprising after police shooting

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CROWDS of protesters gathered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Saturday night after a police officer fatally shot a fleeing man. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett appealed for...

UNSAFE! – GPs condemn addressing 4 health issues in ten minutes

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BIRMINGHAM GP Dr John Cosgrove and 74 fellow GPs have slammed Health Minister Norman Lamb’s call for GPs to explore four personal health...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ campaign team with Ealing Town Hall UNISON Branch officer STEVE BARTON and Branch Secretary CHRIS MOREY

Workers buy tickets for GG locked-out workers rally

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‘GATE Gourmet are not going to get away with what they did, sacking us for no reason,’ said Raj Sahdev yesterday on the locked-out...
Nurses and other NHS workers on the 50,000-strong London march during the pensions strike last month

Industrial action not ruled out – over pensions says Scottish BMA leader

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A group of seven leading public health specialists, past presidents of the UK Faculty of Public Health, have called for the Health and Social...
Marchers in Athens city centre on Wednesday night demanding the Turkish government support the Kurds fighting ISIS in Kobane

Turkey fighting to the last Kurd!

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TURKEY’S foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said his country cannot be expected to lead a ground operation against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria...

NHS consultants take 48-hour strike ‘against savage wage cutting!’

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NHS consultants in England are on 48-hour strike today and tomorrow, with the BMA hosting a rally at its London headquarters in Tavistock Square,...

Halt arms sales to Israel

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LABOUR leader Corbyn, on Friday has called upon the UK to freeze arms sales to Israel and to condemn it for killing Palestinian civilians...

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...
Advance Notification: 100 Years Of Russian Revolution Rally

Advance Notification: 100 Years Of Russian Revolution Rally

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Sunday November 12, 2-8pm The Camden Centre, Bidborough Street,WC1H 9AU Rally • Films • theatre • art exhibition
The march of more than 3,000 people organised by the North East London Council of Action last November against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield. The Council of Action has called for another mass march on July 26

TIME TO DEFEND NHS! – message for BMA ARM

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DOCTORS will be challenging the government’s privatisation of the NHS at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh, which starts today. On this...

BA Talks Breakdown!

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British Airways has asked ACAS to mediate after failing to get the unions to agree to plans to cut thousands of jobs and freeze...
Many of the 10,000 marchers who demonstrated last weekend to defend Ealing Hospital called for it to be occupied and kept open at all costs

DEFEND OUR HOSPITALS!– London BMA votes to support Enfield conference

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Dr Kevin O’Kane, chairman of the London Region BMA told its Annual Business Meeting on Thursday night that London Region felt let down and...

‘STOP PANICKING’ – Ukrainian President Zelensky tells United States

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the ‘imminent’ threat of Russian military action in Ukraine justifies evacuating the US embassy in Kiev. His...

SHARES CRASH! – GM down $51bn in 3 years

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YESTERDAY’S shares collapse across the globe was blamed by economists on record inflation, record oil prices and fears of more banks...
Young Socialists lobby the TUC making clear they won’t work for nothing and demanding a general strike so they can have proper jobs

Miliband stabs youth in the back!

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THE PCS civil servants union yesterday slammed Labour’s new proposal which would see three quarters of unemployed youth thrown off Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) because...

Both EU and US sending coalitions to Gulf!

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EIGHT EU nations: France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands and Portugual will support a European-led naval mission in the Strait of Hormuz,...
The relationship between the Thatcher government and the Murdoch press was cemented in the big struggles to smash trade unions in the mid 1980s. Other governments continued the pact with the Murdoch empire

Cameron advisor ‘a criminal’

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PM’S QUESTIONS were yesterday centred on Cameron’s ‘profound apology’ for hiring Coulson as his press officer. Labour leader Miliband opened by saying: ‘For four years...

France rises up against Macron – Doctors, nurses lawyers and teachers join 36th strike...

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FRENCH doctors, nurses, lawyers and teachers were among the millions on the march yesterday joining the 36th day of transport workers strike action, bringing...

‘Generalised strike action!’ – urges bakers union leader

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‘THIS anti-union legislation has to be answered by unified, generalised strike action from the entire trade union movement.’ Bakers Union leader Ronnie Draper was responding...

350 London Transit workers on two days strike over pay

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OVER 350 workers employed by London Transit bus company are taking strike action today and Monday after rejecting the company’s latest pay offer. ‘We are...

PAKISTAN CLOSE TO COUP! – as bomb blasts rock Baghdad

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PAKISTAN’S Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that conspirators are plotting to bring down his government. He has also accused the military of being...

Refugee crisis doubles

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THE number of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has doubled to 1,255,600 during 2015, figures released yesterday show. Imperialist wars in Iraq Afghanistan and...
A section of the Young Socialists lobby of the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday

Youth demand a future–no zero hours contracts

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‘YOUTH demand a future! No Zero hour contracts!’ shouted the fifty-strong Young Socialists and Workers Revolutionary Party lobby of the Trades Union Congress in...

Israeli Tanks On Edge Of Damascus!

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ISRAELI TANKS reached the southwestern Syrian city of Quneitra yesterday, three kilometres away from the town of Qatana, near Damascus. Israel started the push to...
WRP candidate MIKE DRIVER’s campaign is getting great support from young and old

Vote Mike Driver

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CAMPAIGNING in Firth Park, Sheffield, yesterday morning, the Mike Driver Vote WRP campaign said, ‘We got great support from everyone, with many agreeing with...