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Massive damage to Raqqa after US-led coalition bombing – raids are continuing with many more dead

US Air Raids Kill Over 200 Civilians

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THE Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that more than two hundred civilians lost their lives as the US-led coalition...

‘Obscenely inflated prices paid for unusable PPE’ by the Tories

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£4 BILLION of unusable PPE bought in the first year of pandemic will be burnt ‘to generate power’. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) also voices...

British Gas 5,000 job cuts! – GMB has vowed to fight for every job

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‘GMB will fight for every single job,’ the GMB union said, reacting yesterday to the news of yet another 5,000 job cuts at British...

Obama’s last-minute talks – US on the brink

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WITH Congress adjourned for the weekend, US President Obama was holding last-minute talks with Republican and Democratic leaders at the White House yesterday evening...

Hamas welcomes call for an immediate ceasefire!

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THE OVERWHELMING United Nations vote for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday night was welcomed by the Hamas Movement and the Palestine Liberation...
SUSAN ALEXANDER, mother of Azelle Rodney,  (centre, holding banner) and supporters outside yesterday’s hearing

‘WALL OF SILENCE!’ – Rodney inquiry adjourned

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A public inquiry into the death of Azelle Rodney, 24 – who died after being shot six times at close range by police as...

‘No choice but to fight BT sackings!’ – Allan Eldred CWU National Officer

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THE DEVASTATING ramifications for BT employees of the brutal new management approach sweeping across BT is not just illustrated by the scores of compulsory...

30% CUTS ON WAY – Consultants conference warns

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HOSPITAL consultants yesterday asserted their determination to defend patient care and oppose NHS privatisation. At the BMA Consultants Conference motion 5,...

Take to the streets to defend Gaza! urges Hamas

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‘TAKE to the streets in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Jerusalem, and in defence of Aqsa Mosque this Friday, Saturday and Sunday,’...

Cameron Is Facing A ‘Bare-Knuckle Fight’ – Over Privatisation Plan

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Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to prime minister Cameron’s declaration of war on the public sector. Writing in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Cameron said the...

‘Shoot-to-kill’–law change!

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PRIME Minister Cameron has ordered a review into the use of guns by police in England and Wales following the Paris terrorist attacks. The review...

Bush Boosts Troop Levels

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US President George Bush yesterday announced a permanent increase in the size of the US Army and US Marines. He made it clear that the...

‘Save The Children’ Condemn Israeli Army Child Killers!

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SAVE the Children has condemned the excessive use of force by Israeli forces against children in the occupied Palestinian territory, which has resulted in...

Hague And Gove Have Gone!

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TEACHERS unions said yesterday that the policies enforced by the now ex-Tory Education Secretary Gove, and resisted by hundreds of thousands of teachers...
Firefighters on a national march through Liverpool in support of the struggle against cuts in the fire service in the north west

Firefighter Heroes

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East Sussex Chief Fire Officer Des Pritchard yesterday paid a moving tribute to the two fire crew who died, and the nine firefighters, one...

Junior Doctors Are On Strike Today!

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JUNIOR doctors in England begin five days of strike action at 7am this morning, until 7am next Tuesday morning. Strike leaders Dr Robert Laurenson and...
Campaigners outside the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday morning demanding ‘Axe the Bedroom Tax’

‘Axe The Bedroom Tax!’

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‘AXE, axe the Bedroom Tax!’ chanted protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday morning, before the opening of an appeal against the hated...

KICK PRIVATEERS OUT OF NHS! – Unison condemns Hinchingbrooke privatisation

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‘THE National Audit Office (NAO) report into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital by private company Circle, should act as a warning of the dangers...

Israel approves 22 new illegal settlements in West Bank

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Israel has approved the establishment of 22 new illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision was reportedly taken in a closed-door vote by...

CORPORATE DEBT BUBBLE SET TO BURST

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THE CORPORATE debt mountain may trigger a devastating, self-feeding chain reaction of fire sales of junk bonds, threatening to collapse the entire financial system,...

BofE & EU Central Bank are paralysed in face of crisis!

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THE BANK of England and the European Central Bank were yesterday paralysed in the face of the rapidly deepening crisis of the world capitalist...
Crowds in Athens celebrate Syriza’s victory – Germany is demanding every euro of the Greek debt is repaid

‘Debt must be paid in full!’ – German bankers threaten Greece

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GERMANY has issued warnings to the new Greek government that it must ‘live up to its commitments to its creditors’, and ‘take measures so...

Assange Supporters Picket Media Conference

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AN angry protest by supporters of Julian Assange yesterday morning denounced a Tory government conference titled ‘Defend Media Freedom’. Maxine Walker from the Julian Assange...

‘ELITE CONSPIRACY’ Johnson warning

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FORMER foreign secretary Boris Johnson said yesterday that changing the date of leaving the EU from 29 March would be ‘shameful’, and the public...
Yesterday afternoon’s angry protest against the Channel 4 programme ‘Benefits Street’ insisting that it be taken off the air

‘Take Benefits Street off the air!’

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PROTESTERS from across the UK gathered outside the offices of the production company behind Channel 4’s cynical ‘Benefits Street’ at 3pm yesterday, to protest...
Striking Sheffield recycling workers lobbied the Labour council in Sheffield yesterday fighting wage and job cuts

Sheffield workers fight sackings

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THE 38 striking Sheffield recycling workers, alongside their supporters, lobbied the Labour Council at Sheffield Town Hall yesterday to demand the reversal of five...
A section of demonstrating taxi drivers with their banner stating ‘No to the monopolies and cartels’

Greek ministries occupied!

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FOLLOWING the example set by school and university students, Greek civil servants carried out a mass occupation of ten ministries on Thursday morning. The...

NO ‘COMPROMISE AGREEMENT!’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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SHOP Stewards representing the 670 locked out Gate Gourmet workers are meeting Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley at the union’s...
West London Council of Action picket of Ealing hospital determined to prevent the hospital from closing

‘We must stop the A&E closures’ – Doctors reply to Nicholson

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‘IT can’t be done’ Southwest London hospital consultant Dr Philip Howard told News Line yesterday in response to a call for more A&E closures...

Polio Epidemic In Gaza

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GAZA'S Health Ministry has declared a polio epidemic, blaming Israel’s genocidal military offensive for the spread of the deadly virus. In a statement yesterday, the...

No Deal In Jeddah!

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The oil summit in Jeddah ended in disarray yesterday with OPEC president, Algeria’s Chakib Khelil, blaming speculators for the high oil price. Leading oil producer,...
Staff, local residents and supporters rallying against trust plans to axe St Helier Hospital A&E department

ST HELIER STRIKE WARNING – after Trust debt leaps to £41 million

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Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, two busy Surrey General Hospitals with bustling Accident and Emergency Departments, are to be replaced by a single hospital...

FBU condemns strikebreakers!

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The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) yesterday expressed ‘deep concern’ over secret plans to hire Group 4 private strike breakers in a £100m contract. A FBU...

Milford Hospital Is Set To Close

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The Board of Guildford and Waverley Primary Care Trust (PCT) in Surrey held an ‘extraordinary meeting’ yesterday where it decided to close Milford Hospital...

Ventilator Rationing!

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VENTILATORS are to be rationed, using tactics employed on the battlefield, where army medics choose who to treat and who to leave to bleed...

Council Tax imposed on poor!

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1.9 MILLION people who pay no Council Tax in the poorest households in England will pay an average of £140 a year tax from...
Greek secondary school teachers march in Athens – banner reads ‘We want proper jobs-no to flexible working conditions-slavery has ended!’

Greek Riot Police Attack March

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GREEK riot police attacked last Friday, with tear gas, a 3,000-strong Athens march of teachers and university students who were demanding the staffing of...

Tory ‘hit list’ for air strikes on Syria

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THE Tory government yesterday conceded that a ‘hit list’ of names of several ‘British jihadis’ were drawn up at the meeting of senior national...
RCN nurses campaigning in defence of the NHS and for jobs for all nurses

‘SCAPEGOATS FOR THE DEFICITS CRISIS’ – RCN condemns targeting of young foreign nurses

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Yesterday Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary Beverly Malone condemned the government’s latest scheme to keep overseas junior nurses out of Britain. Responding to...

50,000 RMT members take strike action!

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OVER 50,000 RMT members across Network Rail, London Overground, London Underground and other 14 train operating companies will walk out on strike this week,...
Ambulance staff taking strike action in October – they know that doubling ambulance times will cost people’s lives

Plans to double ambulance times condemned!

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DOCTORS’, nurses’, ambulance staff leaders and Labour yesterday slammed plans to more than double target times for ambulances to reach some seriously ill patients. A...

Zionists kill 10 sheltering at UNRWA school in Gaza!

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AT LEAST ten people in a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), located in the Rimal...

Taliban: ‘We have emancipated Afghanistan and made it free’ – Amnesty for all announced...

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THE TALIBAN announced a ‘general amnesty’ yesterday for government workers across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government. ‘We must congratulate the victorious struggle...
Postal workers lobbying the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday demanding no privatisation of Royal Mail

STOP THE CUTS! – Postal workers tell Labour Party Conference

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over 200 postal workers lobbied the heavily-fortified Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday, to demand the Labour government keeps the Royal Mail public and...

Hancock ‘lying over PPE’ alleges GMB – Probed by committees over 127,000 deaths!

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TORY Health Secretary Matt Hancock was ‘lying through his teeth to MPs when he claimed there was no Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) shortage during...