‘Blatant act of annexation’ – Ashrawi slams Israeli ‘nature reserve’ land grab

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ISRAEL is creating ‘nature reserves’ in the occupied West Bank and this is ‘a blatant act of annexation and land theft that violates international...

Call a General Strike for Palestine!

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THE tuc issued the following statement in support of tomorrow’s Workplace Day of Action for Palestine: ‘The TUC and unions are supporting the workplace day...

RMT Industrial Action Vote

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RAIL union RMT confirmed today that it has declared a dispute and is preparing an industrial action ballot on Great Western services. This is after...
Greek youth march against austerity and police state measures such as the pogrom on migrant workers and their families

7,500 migrants rounded up in Athens

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SINCE last Saturday the Athens-wide pogrom against immigrant workers, codenamed Xenios Zeus and carried out by thousands of armed police, has rounded up over...
Marchers got a great reception in Coventry city centre from some very generous supporters

Youth Being Treated Like Slaves

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POURING rain made the Young Socialist marchers even more determined and their chants of ‘Youth demand a future, Youth demand jobs’ even louder on...
Junior doctors in Norwich taking strike action – many are looking to the TUC to take action with them on October 5th

Tories Busting NHS!

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NHS leaders in England say they have reached a ‘tipping point’ and cannot maintain standards for patients on the funding they are getting. Chris Hopson,...

Battle To Save Ward At Ludlow Hospital

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Campaigners angry over plans to axe services at a community hospital in Shropshire will be confronting health officials at a public meeting tomorrow. Residents...

PRESCRIPTION CHARGES UP BY 25p

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An increase in NHS prescription charges in England of 25p, putting them up to £7.65, came into effect yesterday, despite objections from the British...

RISE UP! Imran Khan urges students

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‘My whole thing is that the students must rise up today,’ said Pakistan opposition leader Imran Khan yesterday. Khan emerged to give a brief news...

Japan Shut Down

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Japan’s nuclear crisis intensified yesterday as authorities raced to combat the threat of multiple reactor meltdowns, while investors feared a share market crash. More than...

‘ONE YEAR TO SAVE THE NHS’ – says the BMA

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‘WE HAVE one year to save the National Health Service (NHS). An awful lot of Trusts are in a dire financial state.’ This was a...

‘WE ARE WILLING TO NEGOTIATE WITH MAY’ says McDonnell

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LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he is part of a movement in parliament to take Brexit ‘out of...
School youth demonstrating in Paris against government attacks on teachers and pupils

50,000 School Youth March In Paris

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For the second time in a week 50,000 school youth demonstrated in Paris on Thursday against the cutting of teaching posts in colleges and...
Immigrant workers show up to give their support at the cleaners’ camp outside the Finance Ministry in Athens

Threat To Conscript Greek Power Workers

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POWER workers and technicians trades union GENOP have been threatened with ‘conscription’ by the Greek government. They began ‘rolling’ 48-hour strikes from midnight last night...

CWU is to be recognised for just three more years says Business Secretary Cable

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BUSINESS Secretary Cable announced the government sell-off of Royal Mail through a flotation on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Cable told parliament the pre-Christmas sale...

More than 239,000 Palestinians killed or injured in Gaza!

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THERE has been a significant rise in miscarriages in Gaza in the past 12 months, alongside a sharp 40% drop in new births compared...
The Young Socialists lobbying the TUC Congress in Brighton, leading the fight for a General Strike to kick out this government and stop the pauperisation of the working class

Coalition plans to slash benefits!

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IN A MOVE to devastate the finances of some of the poorest people in the country, the Coalition Government is planning to break the...

Fight NHS Savage Cuts And Privatisation!

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‘THE TUC must take action including a general strike and be prepared to call out workers to defend our NHS. ‘It is...

Poorest children hit the hardest by education cuts

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NUT/CPAG research confirms that schools with the poorest children will be hit hardest by the May government’s school funding proposals The research using DfE data,...
Dr CHAAND NAGPAUL, BMA GP Committee chair (2nd from right) at a march in Tower Hamlets last June against the closure of GP surgeries

‘GP services at breaking point’ – warns BMA

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‘GP SERVICES are already at breaking point,’ British Medical Association (BMA) GP Committee chair, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, warned yesterday, demanding that PM Cameron ‘get...

Lebanon President Stands By Hezbollah

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Lebanese President Emile Lahud has vowed to stand by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah. As Israeli jets continued their murderous air strikes on the...

Putin launches ‘Special Military Operation’ in Donbass

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin announced a ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine’s Donbass region early yesterday morning to ‘defend people there against government forces’, stressing...

Axis of evil – Blair meets Olmert

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PRIME Minister Blair shook hands with Israeli leader Ehud Olmert at Downing Street yesterday, saying that there were the strongest links between Britain and...
Bob Crow, RMT members and commuters rally at Waterloo Station yesterday to denounce double inflation rise in rail fares and call for re-nationalisation

No fare rises – re-nationalise!

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RAIL fares are set to rise by a whacking 6.2% next January, about double the official rate of inflation, though some ticket price rises...
Marching to stop the closure of the A&E at Lewisham Hospital

Special measures for more NHS A&Es says NHS England

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NHS Trusts performing poorly against the four-hour target could be placed in new ‘A&E special measures’ if their performance does not improve by June,...

Three weeks of Goldsmiths University strike underway

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THREE weeks of strikes at Goldsmith’s University in south London began yesterday morning and continue today by members of the University and College Union...

Personal budgets cutting care!

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The personal budgets being introduced for social care are being used to implement the government’s spending cuts, charities warned yesterday. On November 16, Care Services...

Teachers ready for further strike action from July 3rd

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THE NEU (National Education Union) has written to the Secretary of State for Education ahead of its National Executive meeting on the 17 June. ‘We...
Up and down the country demonstrations are taking place against the government’s cuts – people are demanding ‘Where is the recovery?’

‘Part-time low-wage economy’

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THE UK unemployment rate fell to 7.4%, from 7.6% for the three months to September, according to figures released by the Office for National...
Part of the Vouli square with the DEH workers lorry-cranes at the back

Greek Workers Occupy Square!

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TENS of thousands of young people along with workers and their families staged an enormous rally last Wednesday evening in Athens, almost filling up...

Throw out ‘new’ Junior Doctors’ contract

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JUNIOR Doctors must vote from tomorrow to throw out the junior doctor contract agreed by the BMA and the Department of Health on 27...

£11m BACK PAY FOR ASHLEY

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SPORTS Direct, the infamous zero-hours employer, is asking shareholders to approve £11m in back pay for Mike Ashley’s brother John. Unite assistant general secretary Steve...

Palestinians Form Unity Government

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Palestinian leaders unveiled a new unity government yesterday that they hope will stop months of deadly factional violence and end a crippling international aid...
A strong happy and well-fed picket line at Stoke Newington Delivery Office insisted that their union was not going to be run by judges

Massive London Postal Strike Action

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PICKETS were out in force at Stoke Newington N16 Delivery Office in Hackney on Wednesday, day one of the London postal workers three day...
Trade unionists fighting pensions cuts – not prepared to work longer, pay more and get less

Cost of living has risen by a third since 2008 – PARENTS WITH TWO...

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Soaring childcare and transport costs, plus cuts to tax credits, mean families need to earn a third more today than they did just five...

Record Jobless Rise!

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UK unemployment has risen by 27,000 in the three months to the end of January to 2.53 million, the highest figure since 1994. The Office...

NO SHEIKH JARRAH EVICTIONS! – Settler shoots Palestinian outside High Court

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MASSES of people surrounded the Israeli High Court yesterday protesting against the eviction of families in the Sheikh Jarrah district of Jerusalem. Israel’s supreme court...
Junior Doctors defending the NHS – now vital training is being axed

‘VITAL TRAINING IS BEING SACRIFICED’ says Junior Doctors chairman

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SLEEP-deprived junior doctors, subjected to an ever increasing heavy workload, are losing out on vital training and this, in turn, is impacting patient care,...

Syrian forces seek to begin their withdrawal

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FRESH clashes broke out in Syria yesterday as the Syrian army attempted to withdraw its heavy weaponry from around several cities, while the ‘opposition’...

Tories have no plan for a second wave! – damning PAC report

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THE TORIES have no plan to deal with a second spike of the deadly coronavirus. A fresh report just released by the Public Accounts Committee...

Assad visits Damascus Catholic church

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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has made a visit to a Christian church in an eastern suburb of the capital Damascus as Christmas is approaching. Assad...
Ambulance workers picket at Waterloo – four more years of 1%wage ‘rises’

SACK HUNT! –80,000 sign petition for action

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A PETITION to remove Tory Health Secretary Hunt from his post is already heading towards the 100,000 mark. Some 80,000 people have signed a petition...
A section of the 220,000-strong demonstration in Marseille against the Sarkozy government’s cuts

France – 3 Million Take Action

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Three and a half million took to the streets across France in the biggest anti-pensions law mobilisation yet on Tuesday, October 12 in 244...

BACK ME AGAINST REBELS! – failure May appeals to people

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‘IF THIS deal doesn’t go through, we go back to square one,’ PM May said in her interview with Radio Five Live, where she...