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Hamas message to Riyadh Summit

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THE Hamas Movement has called on the Arab and Muslim summit in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to form an international Arab-Islamic alliance to pressure...
Over 50,000 marched in London and tens of thousands marched in other cities across the UK during the November 30 pensions strike

It’s Still Pensions Robbery!

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‘The new pensions proposals will hit the pockets of thousands of nurses, paramedics, occupational therapists and other key NHS staff hard’, Unison warned yesterday. The...

China-Arab states condemn Israel’s aggression against Palestine!

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A joint statement issued at the 10th Ministerial Conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum in Beijing has condemned the ongoing Israeli aggression against...

Coulson Leave To Appeal

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PRIME minister Cameron’s former press secretary Andy Coulson yesterday won a ruling that he can appeal against News International’s refusal to pay his legal...

TUC Special Congress December 9th – call General Strike to smash Tory anti-union...

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THE TUC said yesterday it will hold a special Congress to discuss the next stage of the campaign against the Tories’ anti-strike laws. The event...
Labour  MP JOHN McDONNELL addressing locked out Gate Gourmet workers calls for both the TUC and the TGWU to take action to win the dispute

AIRPORT MUST COME OUT! – to win the struggle say Gate Gourmet workers

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‘TELL the BA workers and every worker on the airport, we need their help again,’ Gate Gourmet striker Mrs P Samara told News Line...

‘Down With The Junta Of The Banks’

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ATHENS – Greek workers delivered a powerful first blow to the government’s counter-revolutionary Stability Plan last Wednesday with a magnificent national all public...
Hand off our Horton campaign, one of the many fighting to defend the NHS

‘Women refused admission to Maternity! – Glasgow Health Board apologises

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THE GREATER Glasgow health board has apologised after women in labour were refused admission to a maternity unit because of overcrowding. NHS Greater Glasgow and...
PCS pickets during their recent strike action at at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square

Civil Servants Fury Over Job Cuts

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OVER 200,000 civil servants from over 200 government departments, agencies and public bodies are taking part in one-day national strike action today. The strike...

‘Performance-related’ pay NHS deal must be rejected!

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GMB rightly recommended their members to reject the Tory government’s NHS pay offer, as a 6.5% pay increase over three years, when compared with...

Tory split widens over £20 UC cut

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TORY PM Johnson faced splits in his ranks as Conservatives opposed the £20 a week cut to Universal Credit in a vote in Parliament...

STOP PRESCRIPTION CHARGES! – End unfair NHS in England urge Welsh doctors

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DOCTORS in Wales yesterday called for doctors’ prescriptions to be made free to all patients in England. On the second anniversary of the abolition of...
Young Socialist marchers got a great reception from students at Northampton College

Marchers speak at Northampton College

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The Young Socialists March for Jobs set out from Northampton for Bedford yesterday morning. The marchers sent out an advance team to recruit new members...

Stormy Syriza Meeting

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GREEK Prime Minister and leader of SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) Alexis Tsipras convened a meeting on Wednesday of SYRIZA’s 149 parliamentary deputies...
Defend Council Housing campaign insisting in Parliament Square during the Budget that council housing must be built to provide homes for everybody

‘A Government No Longer Fit For Office!’

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TORY Chancellor Hammond kicked public sector workers in the teeth in his class war budget yesterday, refusing to lift the seven-year pay freeze which...
Tamils demonstrating outside the BBC over its silence while the Rajapakse regime in Sri Lanka continues the killing and bombing of Tamil areas, which is causing casualties on a daily basis and forcing more people to flee their homes

Sla Killing Civilians

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said yesterday she was deeply concerned by reports of the rapidly deteriorating conditions facing a quarter...

Tory Split Deepens!

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THE Tory government risks dividing society, Iain Duncan Smith warned yesterday in his first interview since resigning as Work and Pensions Secretary. He attacked the...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC demanding action to win their jobs back

No compulsory redundancies say Gourmet workers

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ON the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday Gate Gourmet workers told News Line that they were not going to accept compulsory redundancy. Mr Gurbaksish...
Striking junior doctors and supporters outside London’s North Middlesex Hospital – its A&E is now threatened with closure

1 in 6 A&Es face closure

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ONE in six A&Es across the length and breadth of the country are threatened with closure, according to research by the Health Service Journal...

Hand all academies & free schools back

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CHIEF Inspector of Schools Michael Wilshaw has criticised the heads of some academy chains for being paid vast salaries, up to £225,000 a...
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...

FREE, FREE PALESTINE! chant protesters at High Court

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‘FREE, Free Palestine’ chanted over 1,000 protesters waving Palestine flags outside the High Court yesterday. The court was holding an emergency hearing seeking a judicial...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside BALPA offices yesterday campaigning for their first anniversary rally

Balpa Leader Buys Ticket For August 20 Rally

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BRITISH Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) chief negotiator Pete James bought his ticket yesterday for the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers anniversary rally in Southall...

Government Is Wasting Money On Free Schools – Say Teachers

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TEACHING unions yesterday condemned the Tory-led coalition government’s free-school policy, as more than half a million families were discovering which primary schools their children...

Smash The Health Bill

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Public sector union Unison and the TUC have called a candle-lit vigil outside parliament at 9.30pm on September 7th, as the Health and Social...

Miliband Hits Out At The Trade Unions

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THE MILIBAND leadership of the Labour Party is to invite non-party members to vote for the party leader in future elections, in an attempt...

Iran warns UK over ‘terror designations’

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THE UK is using ‘terror designations’ as a tool to criminalise grassroot support for Palestine,’ Iran has warned. Iran was reacting to Tory Home Secretary...
Students, youth and workers march against Tory cuts in Norwich

£11bn of council cuts!

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COUNCILS in England have been forced to cut almost £11 billion from their budgets in the first two years of the Tory coalition government,...
Demonstration in defence of the Welfare State and public services

UK back to Victorian times

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OXFAM warned yesterday that the ‘UK could return to inequality levels not seen since Victorian times’. Government rhetoric about ‘making work pay’ – used to...

Sick Babies Besieged By Israeli Snipers!

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EVERY hospital in Gaza City is out of service, with 36 premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital facing death within 48 hours because there is...

Tories Launch Assault On Tata Pensions

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TORY Business Secretary Sajid Javid in his opening statement to parliament yesterday outlined the assault that he is organising on Tata steel workers’ pensions,...

TPP pushed through!

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THE HATED anti-working class, pro-privatisation ‘Trans-Pacific Partnership’ deal was pushed through yesterday, in the teeth of opposition. Leaders from a dozen countries agreed the trade...

Obama OKs murder of US citizens by drones

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A JUST-LEAKED United States Justice Department memo gives details of the ‘legal basis’ for authorising unmanned drone strikes to kill American citizens abroad. The document,...

GET TROOPS OUT NOW! says Rose Gentle

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‘We want Tony Blair to bring the troops out – not in six months but now, to prevent more loss of life’, Rose Gentle,...
Remploy workers occupying the Department of Work and Pensions head office yesterday, surrounded by police. The protesters demanded that the 28 Remploy factories be kept open

28 REMPLOY FGACTORIES WILL CLOSE – decides work and pensions secretary Hain

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Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to the announcement by work and pensions secretary Peter Hain that he will proceed with the closure of 28...

No ceasefire talks until Israel ends ‘hunger war’ says Hamas

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HAMAS will not engage in new ceasefire talks with Israel, as long as the regime continues its ‘hunger war’ against Palestinians in Gaza. Basem Naim, Hamas political...

Hamas protecting aid convoys

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GAZA’S Government Media Office (GMO) has denounced Israel’s allegations of Hamas looting an aid truck in southern Gaza, as ‘entirely false and fabricated’. ‘This accusation...

Lloyd’s braced for euro collapse!

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LLOYD’S of London has made preparations for the collapse of the euro. Richard Ward, its chief executive, has publicly admitted that the world’s...
At a rally last Friday at the Department for Communities and Local Government a resident from north Kensington holds up a piece of charred cladding that had fallen from Grenfell Tower during the blaze

600 Combustible Cladded Towers!

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‘MANY in the fire service and the fire safety sector have been raising issues about regulation, issues like cladding, for many years and we...

Doctors Don’t Back Hospital Closures

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THE British Medical Association yesterday denied the Observer newspaper claims that doctors back the ‘reconfiguration’ of 60 hospitals involving the closure of A&Es and...

25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE – This Sunday 2.00-6.00pm

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St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)

Workers support WRP candidates

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‘I AM voting Jonty Leff WRP because I want Universal Credit scrapped,’ David Vervin said as the team fighting to get Leff elected launched...

May ‘Flexible’ On Brexit Leaving Date

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DESPERATE to avoid a Tory Party split, Prime Minister May has agreed with her rebels to amend her EU Withdrawal Bill to include a...

TUC must act to free Assange says father

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JOHN SHIPTON yesterday called for the TUC to take up the fight for the release of his son, Julian Assange, and prevent his extradition...