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‘STOP ISRAELI AGGRESSION!’ – Abbas urges the UN

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas yesterday called on the UN Security Council to immediately stop the aggression against the Palestinian people, provide them with urgent international...

FORGEMASTERS NATIONALISED – as Honda Swindon is closed

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UNITE yesterday welcomed the news that the government will bring Sheffield Forgemasters into public ownership. The news came as the giant Honda plant in Swindon...
Greek school youth demonstrating through Athens in support of their teachers last week

Salonica Teachers Clash With Police

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ANGRY teachers and students fought with police yesterday in Salonica, turning Tsimiski Street, a central highway of the city, into a battleground. The normally festive...
Junior doctors in a mass sit-down protest outside Downing Street in 2016. Hunt’s imposed contract is now up for renegotiation

New Junior Doctors’ Contract Negotiations

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THE BMA (British Medical Association) announced at the annual junior doctors committee meeting on Saturday that it is participating ‘in a collaborative review and...

MURDER AT STOCKWELL – Police shoot to death unarmed Asian youth

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YESTERDAY plain clothes police shot dead an unarmed Asian youth with five bullets to the head at Stockwell Underground station. He was shot at close...

Storms And Floods Batter Gaza!

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HUNDREDS of displacement tents across Gaza were flooded from Thursday night into Friday morning as a powerful winter storm battered the besieged enclave, worsening...

Malkinson Accuses Manchester Police Of ‘Cover-Up!’

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ANDY MALKINSON, 57, a man who was wrongfully convicted and jailed for rape, has shockingly revealed that he may be required to pay thousands...

Rbs And Criminal Activity!

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ROYAL Bank of Scotland (RBS) chief executive Ross McEwan has been accused by MPs on the Treasury Select Committee of withholding information about an...

TORIES SET TO USE ANTI-STRIKE LAWS! – against NHS and rail workers

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THE TORIES are set to mobilise their new anti-strikes law against railway workers and their unions as further strike action takes place during the...
Postal workers have been letting Royal Mail and the government know for some time that they will not accept imposed changes and the privatisation of the industry

STRIKE ON! – CWU Executive decides

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At 5.20pm yesterday CWU leaders Dave Ward and Billy Hayes declared that the two days’ strike action today and tomorrow were going ahead and...

Yellow Vests marches all over France

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ON SATURDAY Yellow Vest protesters marched in cities across France for the 25th straight week, with 18,900 protesters taking part. Dozens demonstrated at Paris’s Charles...

‘Fair Pay Overdue’ Say Rcm Midwives!

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THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched its ‘Fair Pay Overdue’ campaign, demanding an end to the public sector pay cap and a...

West Bank Explodes As Abu Diyak Dies In Israeli Jail!

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HEEDING the calls by political factions, mainly President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement, thousands of Palestinians rallied in several West Bank city centres to protest...
BMA junior doctors are getting ready for industrial action and will be assembling at Marble Arch at 2.00pm tomorrow to march to Parliament Square

Get ready for industrial action! says BMA

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THE BMA has urged junior doctors to update their place of work details by October 23 so that they can take part in...
CWU pickets at the East London Mail Centre called for national strike action

‘WE NEED A NATIONAL STRIKE!’ – say striking London postal workers

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THE CWU Postal National Executive is meeting next Tuesday and is expected to carry a resolution for a national ballot for national strike action...
Firefighters greet the marchers at Studley Road Fire Station, Luton

FBU welcomes Jobs March

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SUPPORT for the 248-mile Young Socialists March for Jobs from London to the Liverpool TUC Congress grew on its second day, as Bedfordshire firefighters...

Sirte Drives Back Nato Mercenaries

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LIBYAN government forces yesterday continued to heroically drive back the NATO- backed NTC counter-revolutionaries at Sirte, inflicting deadly blows on the mercenaries. Gadaffi loyalists have...
The front of the march to the News Line Anniversary rally which got an enthusiastic response throughout the route through East London

‘Forward to workers power’

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OVER 300 workers and youth marched from the Altab Ali Park in Aldgate East yesterday afternoon through Whitechapel to the News Line Anniversary Rally...

UK economy collapsing – destitution on the rise

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BUSINESS activity in Britain fell for the third consecutive month last month, with economists warning of recession. The S&P Global/CIPS flash services business activity index...
Local residents join forces with firefighters to demand ‘No Justice No Peace’ on a march last June – the North Kensington Law Centre claims that Grenfell survivors are being pressurised into accepting sub-standard housing, 150 families are still without h

Grenfell survivors pressured to take sub-standard homes – alleges North Kensington Law Centre

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KENSINGTON and Chelsea Council, rather than spend money doing up the 133 empty council-owned houses in the borough, has spent almost £30m on hotels...
50 Swindon striking hospital workers lobby the London headquarters of Carillion demanding an end to bullying, harassment and discrimination

‘Strike against bullying’

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A coachload of fifty Swindon striking hospital workers yesterday descended on the London Headquarters of Carillion in Euston with shouts of ‘Respect at work! They...

£6bn PENSIONS DEFICIT EXPLOSION!

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THERE has been a £6 billion explosion in the pensions scheme deficit ‘black holes’ of Britain’s major retailers since the beginning of the year,...

‘Teachers Providing Money, Food And Clothing To Help Children!’

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TEACHERS are increasingly seeing the devastating effects of the cost of living crisis on pupils, a survey by the NASUWT teachers’ union has revealed. Teachers...

10 days of university workers strikes begin

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STRIKING UCU union university lecturers and students set up picket lines at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) yesterday morning at the...

‘Scrap the charges for overseas NHS staff!’ – say Doctors for the NHS

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AFTER lauding NHS workers as ‘heroes’ and giving them ‘a clap’ the Tories have upped the amount that overseas NHS and care workers and...

600,000 workers take part in nationwide protests in France! – CGT union opposes savage...

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NEARLY 600,000 people participated in nationwide protests across France on Thursday, according to the CGT union, responding to a strike call by trade unions...

Banfield urges Tories –‘No more excuses – make credible offer!’

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WORKERS blame the government for the 7.7m-long waiting lists in England, finds a survey. As doctors in England begin the longest period of combined industrial...

Scottish school fire – No smoke alarms!

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EVERY school in the country must be immediately assessed for fire risk, the EIS teachers union urged, after an investigation found that Cairneyhill Primary...
WRP candidate JONTY LEFF (right) talking to students at Hackney Community College who were all determined to fight against the cuts to their college and get rid of all university fees

Hackney students support WRP’s Leff

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STUDENTS at Hackney Community College in Shoreditch, east London joined the campaign yesterday to elect Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch...
Student nurses and midwives marching to demand their bursaries are restored – on A-level results day figures reveal student applications for nursing have plummeted

Students driven out of university

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AXING student grants while hiking up university fees to an eyewatering £9,500 a year has driven tens of thousands of students out of education,...
March on the 63rd anniversary of the NHS, was supported by BMA members who fought for their union’s policy that the Health Bill be immediately withdrawn

NO CONFIDENCE IN MELDRUM! – London BMA demands huge campaign to smash Health Bill

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BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum has been rocked by a ‘no confidence’ vote at last week’s meeting of the London Region of the BMA. ...

TEF ‘NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE’

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THE DEEPLY unpopular Teaching Excellence Frame (Tef) work is failing students, hated by lecturers and not fit for purpose concludes a report released today...
The Young Socialists lobby of the TUC Congress  yesterday afternoon showed delegates that youth would never submit to being cheap labourers and were demanding a general strike to bring down the coalition

‘Deliver General Strike’ urges PCS leader Godrich

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TUC delegates at the opening of the Congress in Brighton yesterday supported the Young Socialists lobby which demanded ‘Youth Demand a Future, Youth Demand...

52 Palestinians killed!

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ON THURSDAY alone, at least 52 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza. Eighteen were massacred in Jabalia when a residential home sheltering displaced...

Israel moves to starve the Palestinian people! – workers of the world must act...

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THE ISRAELI government’s move to revoke the licences of 37 international organisations operating in Gaza and the West Bank, including Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors...

Syriza to impose austerity – with support from the right-wing

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IN A RADIO interview yesterday morning the Greek Minister for the Interior Nikos Voutsis said there must be an agreement reached this week between...

Mad Dog Israel Told To Ceasefire For 21 Days!

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THE USA, France and several Arab and European countries yesterday called for an immediate 21-day ceasefire across the Israel-Lebanon border. ‘We call on all parties,...

Yashika Deportation Stopped!

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THE Home Office’s forced deportation of 19-year-old female Mauritian student Yashika Bageerathi was stopped yesterday after Air Mauritius refused to fly her. Yashika, who remains...

Palestine march under threat! Police refuse to give go-ahead!

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THIS Saturday’s National March for Palestine in London is under threat as the Metropolitan Police has refused to authorise its route, despite being given...

Birmingham bin men mark one year with mass protest

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A LIVELY picket of 200 bin men, came out in support of the bin strikers in Birmingham yesterday morning, marking one year of the...

No ceasefire – only permanent end to aggression! – tens of thousands march in...

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IRAN will reject any call for a ceasefire in the ongoing war with the United States and Israel, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi insisted yesterday,...
Pickets at Heathrow during the 2010 cabin crew strike that brought in cut-price cabin crew

Cabin Crew Strike Over Poverty Pay!

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THOUSANDS of cabin crew working for British Airways ‘Mixed Fleet’ have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action over poverty pay and broken promises. Seventy-nine...
PCS and NASUWT members marching in defence of their pensions on November 30 – they will not accept what they regard as a completely unfair tax

Another Unfair Tax!

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Trade unions yesterday condemned the Cameron government’s just-announced decision to press ahead with increasing the pension contributions of public service workers from April 2012. Teachers...

‘Defend GP Practices’ – BMA

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THE BMA and GPs have condemned the way that NHS England and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are treating GP Practices. Dr...
Cousins of Kadija Saye and her mother Mary Mendy, who both died in the Grenfell Tower inferno, on a march to Downing Street

Capitalism faces a ‘crisis of legitimacy’ says Corbyn

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‘THE CAPITALIST system still faces a crisis of legitimacy stemming from the crash,’ Jeremy Corbyn told the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday. In...