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Tens of thousands joined a mass demonstration outside parliament yesterday demanding immediate action from the Brown government to stop the slaughter of Tamils by the Sri Lankan army

‘brown Must Act To End Slaughter’

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‘Stop killing Tamils! Brown wake up! Rajapakse – terrorist!’ shouted tens of thousands of Tamils holding a sit-down protest in the road opposite Parliament...

French Pensions Strike!

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THE French transport workers’ strike against pension cuts yesterday caused huge stoppages on TGV fast rail routes, local train, metro and bus services. Only 90...

NHS Trust withholds rent over fire safety – Patients evacuated from two wards

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CORNWALL Partnership Foundation Trust is withholding rent payments to NHS Property Services to force it to take urgent action over fire safety. Patients have had...

Barking tower block inferno – wooden cladding spreads fire

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THIS FRIDAY marks two years since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire, and local residents and firefighters are furious that no lessons have been learned...

‘Ignore us at your peril!’ – nurses warn Tories

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SCORES of striking nurses spoke out angrily on the picket lines yesterday to condemn the Tory public sector pay cuts programme. Hundreds of thousands of...
BMA delegates show their opposition en masse to NHS privatisation at their Annual Representative Meeting in Liverpool yesterday

‘Bring PFI into public ownership’ – BMA conference decides

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DOCTORS at the BMA conference yesterday voted for Motion 269, which stated: ‘That this meeting requests government, in view of new-found enthusiasm...

We will leave EU ‘deal or no deal’ – Johnson

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TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday confirmed that if all attempts to get a deal with the EU fail then he is prepared leave the...

DEVASTATING! – GMB slams Corus closure shock

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Tata Corus’s shock decision to mothball Teesside Cast Products (TCP) is a ‘premature decision that will have disastrous consequences for Teesside and the UK...
PCS pickets at the Elthorne Road Job centre in Holloway

WE WON’T ACCEPT WAGE CUTS – says PCS

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THERE were picket lines outside Jobcentres and benefit offices in London and across the country yesterday, at the start of a two-day strike by...

Inflation Leap!

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CONSUMER Prices Index inflation rose from 4.0 per cent to 4.5 per cent in April, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), reported yesterday. ‘It’s a...

Assange Must Be Freed Now!

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ON DAY three of the case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, at the Old Bailey in central London, yesterday morning the court went straight...

BA Pilots Ready To Strike

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The British Airlines Pilots Association (Balpa) has advised its members at British Airways (BA) to set aside £25,000 each to prepare for a long...

Docklands strike illegal!

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THE rail union RMT yesterday called off the Docklands Light Railway 48-hour strike after it was declared illegal by the judiciary. In a message to...

‘Day of Rage!’ Mass pension strike shuts France down!

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FRANCE was totally paralysed yesterday with flights, trains, the Metro and buses all cancelled during the mass ‘Day of Rage’ over President Emmanuel Macron’s...

GAZA BUFFER ZONE – Israelis threaten to shoot-on-sight

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Israeli planes yesterday dropped leaflets in northern Gaza to warn Palestinians that they will be shot dead on sight if they enter a newly...
Confident GMB Medirest strikers on the second day of their seven-day strike at Ealing Hospital yesterday morning

Week-long Ealing Medirest strike going strong!

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THERE was a strong picket of 80 striking GMB domestic workers, porters and caterers at Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. The workers were in their fourth...

Chinese AI ‘DeepSeek’ crashes US market!

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CHINESE artificial intelligence company DeepSeek entered ‘holiday mode’ for Lunar New Year yesterday, having crashed the US stock market the day before. The most notable...

Amnesty condemns the Israeli genocide on the Gaza Strip!

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ISRAEL'S treatment of Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, Amnesty International declared in a new report that shatters any pretence of...

Mortgage Crisis Grips!

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UNISON yesterday called on the government to build more council houses as First Direct became the first major bank to stop lending to house...
The North-East London Council of Action picketing yesterday morning to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

‘WE NEED ACTION NOT WORDS’ – at Chase Farm

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Staff and patients at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, yesterday showed their support for an occupation to stop the closure of its accident and emergency,...
A section of Tuesday’s Co-ordination of Trades Unions demonstration in Athens (Antonis Stamatopoulos on the left with arms folded)

Greek Medicines Crisis

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The Greek Chemist shops Association staged a 24-hour national strike yesterday demanding the payment by the Health Ministry of some 500 million euros owed...
TUC leaders and delegates launch a campaign for £10 an hour minimum wage at the TUC Congress in Manchester yesterday

‘Zero hours contracts will be banned’ under Labour! – McDonnell addresses TUC

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‘ZERO hours contracts will be banned’ under a Labour government Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said yesterday in a keynote address to the TUC...
Police taking away the vast bulk of BRIAN HAW’S (right) posters and placards from Parliament Square in May last year

Brian Haw Wins Right To Demonstrate

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‘We won, as we should have done, because it was wrong and the police were wrong’, anti-war protester Brian Haw declared to cheering supporters...

6.35 million need full-time jobs

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UNEMPLOYMENT in the UK rose by 28,000 in the last three months, to 2.67 million. Youth joblessness soared by another 16,000, with the...

‘WE MUST GET ON WITH BREXIT’ – TUC delegates tell WRP-YS lobbyists

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LARGE numbers of TUC delegates in Brighton yesterday stopped at the 60-strong WRP and Young Socialists lobby to say that they want the TUC...
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News Line Anniversary Rally

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Sunday November 29th
Greek worker stands his ground against an attack by riot police

‘LAST CHANCE FOR GREECE!’ – Eurogroup President Juncker threatens Greeks

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‘IT’S the last chance – the Greek people need to know this.’ That was the threat of Eurogroup bully-boy President Jean Claude Juncker to the...

‘A SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY’ – poll finds ‘we are all suspects’

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Human rights group Liberty yesterday called for stronger privacy protection as a YouGov poll revealed that a majority of UK citizens believe Britain is...
Trade union banners on a demonstration on October 20, the day the coalition’s Comprehensive Spending Review  was announced

Food, Fuel And Fares Prices Hike!

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The anger of workers is set to explode at the cost of food, fuel and fares, now soaring to unaffordable levels. Commuters...

UK Torture Pay-Outs!

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The BRITISH government is to pay millions of pounds in compensation to around a dozen British torture victims and former Guantanamo Bay detainees, it...
Vast crowds massed outside the Greek parliament in Athens last Wednesday night

Greek Workers Vow To Bring Down Government

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250,000 workers, youth and professionals demonstrated outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in central Athens last Wednesday evening against the Austerities Measures Bill and demanding...

Stop Gate Gourmet Sell-Out!

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WE want the TUC to give us the support that they voted for at their TUC Congress. ‘They must help us to win our jobs...
CAROLINE CONNELLY (left) along with her daughter and grandson with Manchester Central WRP candidate JONTY LEFF

Manchester health cuts condemned

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DOCTORS, nurses, staff and patients alike are furious at the major staff cuts and proposed further funding cuts affecting the hospitals in the Manchester...

BENEFIT CUTS AND ‘WARTIME POWERS’ – in Queen’s Speech

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday warned that the ‘welfare reform’ plans announced in the Queen’s Speech ‘are the wrong proposals at...
Ranks of police charge striking miners at Orgreave in 1984

The police watchdog is considering releasing an unredacted version of its review of South...

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THE police watchdog is considering releasing an unredacted version of its review of South Yorkshire Police’s handling of events at the Battle of Orgreave...

RENT IS 41% OF INCOME –young people face ‘unaffordable housing costs’

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YOUNG people across the UK have told the TUC and Generation Rent that they face unaffordable housing costs, insecurity of tenure and exploitation by...

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...
Baha Mousa after UK soldiers tortured him – Dr Keilloh did his best to cover the torture up

KEILLOH STRUCK OFF MEDICAL REGISTER – after Baha Mousa torture

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THE Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) yesterday struck off the medical register former British Army doctor Dr Derek Keilloh after his misconduct over the...

Heathrow trade unionists support Gate Gourmet workers

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HEATHROW Airport trade unionists are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers rally at the end of Monday’s TUC May Day march through London. At...

DEFUSE CONFRONTATION WITH IRAN – urges Baradei

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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief inspector Mohamed El Baradei yesterday warned that the ‘brewing confrontation’ with Iran over its nuclear ambitions ‘must be...

43% of doctors have absolutely no eye protection! – Nurses have no face masks!

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NURSES are forced to ‘hold their breath’ because of inadequate face masks during dangerous operations, while doctors have absolutely no eye protection, it was...

Theatre Nurses Picket St Thomas’ Hospital!

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THEATRE nurses, members of Unite, were yesterday picketing on the second day of their current strike action at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge. Some of...
MIKE ABBOTT with KEN LOACH holding up a copy of ‘The Key to My Cell’ by Des Warren, the story of the building  workers’ strike and the way in which it was attacked by the  capitalist state

‘TAKE ACTION TO RELEASE SHREWSBURY PAPERS’ – urges Ken Loach

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FILM-MAKER Ken Loach yesterday called on the trade unions to take strike action to force the release of government documents concerning the 1972-73 trial...