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Unions at No 10 appeal to May

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‘WHAT I did is to appeal to the Prime Minister,’ Dave Prentis, leader of Unison said as he came out of number 10 Downing...

MORTGAGE SQUEEZE! – 2.8 Million homes are under threat

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The squeeze on the availability of mortgages is expected to continue and get worse in the next three months, the Bank of England has...
Firefighters from all over Britain marched through Merseyside almost a year ago against massive cuts to the fire service in the region. They warned cuts cost lives

‘WE COULD’T GET PEOPLE OUT!’ – Newquay pays the price for fire service cuts

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‘Lives were lost because there wasn’t enough equipment to get people out – it’s our fire service,’ said Chris Findon yesterday, the owner of...

Truss Backing Call For UK Citizens To Fight In Ukraine

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TORY Foreign Secretary Truss and Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy were united in calling for an escalation of military and economic war against...

Israeli tank fire kills scores of Gazans

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THE armed wing of Hamas, Qassam Brigades, hit an Israeli Merkava tank with two Yassin 105 anti-armour missiles near a mosque in the Tal...

Chagossians Lobby Mauritian Embassy

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OVER 60 Chagossians lobbied the Mauritian Embassy in London yesterday to ask what had happened to all of the compensation paid by the British...
'WE WILL WIN!' – say Vestas workers

‘WE WILL WIN!’ – say Vestas workers

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‘THINGS are going well,’ occupying Vestas worker Mark Smith said yesterday. ‘People are in good spirits and we are standing by our call for...
Sacked Visteon workers on the picket line yesterday – they remain in good spirits and confident of victory

Ready To Picket Bridgend!

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‘WE WILL be picketing Ford Bridgend once we get the go-ahead from Tony Woodley,’ Visteon Enfield Unite Convenor Kevin Nolan told News Line yesterday. Speaking...

436 Killed In Gaza Yesterday – Half Of Them Children!

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THE NUMBER of people killed in Gaza since 7th October rose to 5,087 yesterday – an increase of 436 since Sunday, the Health Ministry...

Five surgeons resign over £20bn NHS cuts!

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The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) is to review surgical services at Barts and Royal London hospitals, east London after five surgeons submitted their...

MAY’S GRENFELL CLAIM ‘DISGRACEFUL’ says FBU

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FOLLOWING Theresa May’s resignation speech, in which the Prime Minister spoke of her response to the Grenfell Tower Fire, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU)...
Teachers at the march in Athens calling for ‘full pension and health rights’

Greece – 24 Hour National Strike

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Greek civil servants, teachers, local government and hospital workers took part in a 24-hour national strike on Wednesday, in defence of their pensions rights...

Indian farmers: tens of thousands rise up!

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TENS of thousands of farmers drove in a convoy of tractors yesterday into the Indian capital during national Republic Day celebrations as part of...

REPORT MINIMUM WAGE CHEATS – GMB warns Virgin Media contractor Cobra

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THE GMB trade union yesterday called on workers being cheated of the national minimum wage to contact their local GMB office to enforce their...
Youth on a march against austerity, benefit cuts and in-work poverty – 800,000 workers are on zero hours contracts

‘Workless’ families fall – child poverty soars!

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THE PROPORTION of households in the UK where no-one is working is at its lowest point for over 20 years, the Office for National...

UK Full Of Working Poor!

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THE ‘improved’ unemployment figures are a mask for a country that is working harder, and getting poorer, with more than 4.5...

Syria Condemns Turkish Intervention!

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SYRIA has ‘strongly condemned’ the ‘flagrant Turkish aggression’ on the city of Afrin, calling on the international community to take steps to stop it...

Average Weekly Wage £13 Lower!

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AVERAGE weekly earnings in the UK are £13 lower than they were a decade ago, a think tank study has found. Job insecurity is...
A section of the 2,000 strong rally on Saturday in Trafalgar Square

GETTING RID OF MUBARAK IS ONLY THE BEGINNING – Wasseem Wagdi tells rally

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Over 2,000 celebrated the ousting of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at a rally in Trafalgar Square, central London, on Saturday organised by Amnesty International...

Public sector must unite to smash privatisation

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THOUSANDS of firefighters are marching on Westminster today against government cuts to the fire and rescue service and attacks on their pensions. Coachloads of firefighters...

Surrey Fire Services Facing Brutal Cuts!

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THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has branded proposed further cuts to Surrey fire and rescue service as ‘incomprehensible’, just months after a government inspection...

Elderly & youth under attack!

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ELDERLY and disabled passengers are losing vital bus services because of cuts in government funding, councils in England are warning. The Local Government Association (LGA)...

Fallon Wants Lawless Army!

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UK DEFENCE Secretary Michael Fallon yesterday called for withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph he...

Tories drop debate and vote

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THE GOVERNMENT has dropped the debate and vote on The Financial Services Bill which seeks to secure funds that can be released if there...

Boris Johnson & UK Are ‘Delusional’–Syria

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SYRIA says the UK is ‘detached from reality and delusional’ after the British Foreign Minister backed a proposal by President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents calling...
300 trade unionists and council housing campaigners descended on parliament yesterday to demand that the Housing and Planning Bill 2015 is scrapped

Kill the Housing Bill!

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‘DEFEND council housing! No social cleansing!’ shouted three hundred people demonstrating outside parliament yesterday as MPs debated the Housing and Planning Bill...

50 GP surgeries taken over

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New private health company ‘The Practice’ has taken over ChilversMcCrea Ltd to form a group that now runs 50 GP practices in England and...

Aamer Freed!

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AFTER 13 long years languishing in Guantánamo Bay concentration camp without trial or charge, Shaker Aamer is finally free! A plane carrying Shaker Aamer touched...

UK citizen must be freed – being held illegally in Iraq by the British...

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Today, the case of a British citizen detained without charge in Basra by UK Forces since 10 October 2004 will be heard in the...

TsIpras rebuffs coalition call

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Despite immense pressure the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), Alexis Tsipras, refused to join or support a ‘grand coalition’ government...

100,000 on London march for Palestine

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OVER 100,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine on Saturday, from Piccadilly to Whitehall. There were thousands of Palestinian flags, several trade union banners...

REJECT JUNIOR DOCTORS CONTRACT! – says the Doctors’ Association

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THE Doctors’ Association (DAUK) has refused to endorse the junior doctor contract deal agreed by the BMA and the government, warning that some members...

Israeli Army Continues Massacres!

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IN the midst of catastrophic humanitarian suffering for more than two million Palestinians – half of them children, the Israeli occupation army continued, for...
Brighton Council workers on the picket line against £4,000-a-year wage cuts!

£14.4bn BLACK HOLE THREAT TO 70,000 MORE JOBS!

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A £14.4 billion funding black hole threatens to swallow public services, say the council leaders of the Local Government Association. A LGA statement said: ‘The...

Israeli war planes bomb Al-Ahli Arab Hospital

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ISRAELI warplanes bombed Al-Ahli Arab Hospital around midnight local time on Saturday night, rendering the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza nonoperational, leaving critically...

Israel plans ‘unprecedented massacre’ in Rafah

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‘ANY military operations in Rafah – with its limited space and crowding with over 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the Israeli army – would...
Junior doctors on the picket line – they are now preparing to come out on strike again

Imposed junior doctors contract hits cancer patients

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470 CANCER doctors have signed a joint statement warning Health Secretary Hunt that the new imposed junior doctors contract ‘will lead to worse outcomes...

NHS HAS ‘FRIGHTENING’ AND ‘UNFORGIVABLE’ STAFF CRISIS says the BMA doctors’ trade union

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ENGLAND has an ‘unforgivable’ and ‘frightening’ NHS workforce crisis that severely threatens patient safety, says the BMA doctors’ union in research published today. The BMA...

Rajapaksa under fire in Australia

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CANBERRA – Sri Lankan-born Australian Arunachalam Jegatheeswaran filed an indictment on war-crime charges against the Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday, declaring he...

SACK ALL THE OLD LEADERS – demand Sri Lankan workers and youth

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SECURITY around Sri Lanka’s parliament building in the capital, Colombo, has increased, with armed and masked soldiers guarding the building and roads nearby closed...

Emi – 2,000 Jobs To Go

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EMI is to announce tomorrow that 2,000 jobs are to go as part of a major restructuring plan. Jobs will go throughout the company,...

A DATABASE FOR ALL – Blair plans ultra modern police state

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PRIME Minister Blair yesterday urged support for ID cards, and a national database on everyone, for ‘less than £30’ above the cost of new...

MASS VACCINATION CAMPAIGN – pushed by desperate Tories!

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THE UK has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for mass vaccination. Britain’s medicines regulator, the MHRA, says the jab, which offers up...

Teachers slam Tories free school expansion

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‘WE DO not want Free Schools, we want all Free Schools to be taken back under local authority,’ Tom Davies past president of Ealing...

‘A SMOKESCREEN!’ a handful of aid trucks let into Gaza as babies starve

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THE few aid trucks let into Gaza are ‘ridiculously inadequate’ and nowhere near sufficient to meet Gaza’s vast needs, instead they serve as ‘a...