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674,000 Residents Go Hungry In Los Angeles County

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HUNDREDS of thousands of people are going hungry in Los Angeles County, California, in the richest state in the richest country in the world. Demand...

Youth demand at least £10 an hour

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‘YOUNG workers are missing out on £200 million in minimum wage pay,’ the TUC says, while demanding at least £10 an hour regardless of...

Johnson Treats Labour With Contempt

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‘THE MINISTERIAL Code says that ministers who knowingly mislead Parliament will be expected to offer their resignation,’ Labour leader Keir Starmer said during PMQs...

Croydon NHS demands Covid sick pay!

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WORKERS at Croydon Hospital are staging a protest on January 31st to demand Covid sick pay. Porters and cleaners at the south London hospital are...

IT WAS MURDER! – Chris Kaba killing condemned

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‘IT WAS Murder’, leading campaigner for justice for Chris Kaba, Tye Davis, said – speaking outside Brixton Police Station on Thursday evening. More than 100...

100 killed in Donetsk! – after Kiev forces attack on airport

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OVER 100 have been killed, including 50 members of local self-defence forces and just over the same number of civilians, in clashes with pro-Kiev...

BA Sellout!

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THE UNION Unite claimed yesterday that the deal offered to British Airways’ pilots would be acceptable to tens of thousands of its cabin crew...
PCS members demonstrate outside the High Court during their appeal to defend their conditions

PCS gearing up for massive jobs fight

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Civil servants union, the PCS, is gearing up for action to fight over 300,000 public sector job cuts, planned by the Tories. PCS NEC...
Demonstrators demanding ‘Freedom for Palestine’ and ‘Hands off Lebanon, Syria and Iran’ in last Saturday’s demonstration in London

‘A DELIBERATE MASSACRE’ – Lebanese Premier denounces Israeli bombing

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Lebanon’s prime minister Fuad Siniora yesterday condemned the latest ‘deliberate massacre’ of over fifty innocent civilians in south Lebanon. As the UN argued over an...

Tories Starve The Disabled!

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DISABLED people in Scotland are being starved by the Tory government, with some people waiting as long as 15 months without receiving a single...

Chinese workers taking action against major Western companies

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THE Chinese Stalinist bureaucracy and its big business friends are under attack from the Chinese working class, which is insisting that the super-exploitation of...

Sunak Escalates Military Action

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak escalated military action against the Houthi movement in Yemen yesterday, while also announcing that 20,000 British armed forces will...

Tory PM Johnson to prorogue Parliament

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THE QUEEN has been asked by Tory PM Boris Johnson to prorogue Parliament days after MPs return from the Summer break, which will mean...

‘A Leave Population And A Remain Parliament!’

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TORY International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has accused pro-Remain MPs of trying to ‘in effect steal Brexit’. He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show...
RMT security workers lobbied the Mayor of London against the bullying of its members on Monday

Travel Safe workers take strike action

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‘The bullying and intimidation of our members’ representatives by STM Security, is utterly deplorable,’ said Bob Crow yesterday. He added: ‘It is the issue at...

Gaza City facing urban destruction by Israeli fire power and forced displacement

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THE Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City, is facing extensive urban destruction by Israeli firepower and forced displacement of its residents. The Israeli military...
Palestinians carrying a badly injured  child as a result of an Israeli bombing of flats in Gaza

UK STOP STARVING THE PALESTINIANS – Recognise the Hamas government!

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Israel’s brutal occupation of the Palestinian people has created refugees, death squads, and now starvation in Gaza, and hunger throughout the occupied territories. Thousands...

SOARING INFLATION – as bankers demand billions more from Brown

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Soaring factory prices have seen UK producer inflation reach its highest rate, 6.2%, in nearly 17 years in March. Annual ‘output price inflation’ at 6.2%,...

Health Secretary Barclay hits out at Junior Doctors!

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TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay hit out against the NHS’s junior doctors again yesterday ahead of their five-day strike later this month, and on...

Labour is hit for six in Hartlepool

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STARMER’S LABOUR Party has been hit for six in the Hartlepool by-election, with a Tory MP elected for the first time in the current...

Insufficient government spending pushing medical students into hardship!

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THE British Medical Association is warning that insufficient government funding for medical students in England for their lengthy degrees is pushing many into financial...

‘This war is America’s war against people of Palestine!’

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THE number of people killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since yesterday morning has now risen to at least 54, according to...

‘Failure to inform’ charges challenged

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Lawyers for Umar Hussain and his brother Mehran Hussain, yesterday said ‘we will be making a challenge’ to charges made against the brothers...
TUC delegates wave Palestinian flags and condemn Israel’s new racist law

Israel’s Nation-State Law condemned by the TUC!

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TUC DELEGATES in Manchester yesterday waved Palestinian flags as they voted unanimously for Emergency Motion 4, ‘Cuts to UNWRA and the Nation-State Law.’ This...
The PCS took strike action on Budget Day and outside the House of Commons its members were very much alive to the issue of a general strike

PCS in general strike talks!

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PUBLIC and Commercial Services Union (PCS) general secretary Mark Serwotka confirmed yesterday that the PCS is in talks with other trade unions on holding...

Labour Is Ready To Abstain Once Again – In The Coming Brexit Vote

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LABOUR leaders refused to confirm whether they would vote in favour of a Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU or abstain...

CUT PAY & PENSIONS! – demand BCC bosses

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Ahead of the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Report on Wednesday, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has called for cuts across the board in public services,...

‘Next Seven Days Are Critical’–May

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PM MAY yesterday warned Tory rebels pushing for a leadership contest that a new Conservative Party leader would not make negotiations with...

1.2m HUNGRY CHILDREN!

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More than half of all school children living in poverty, 1.2 million, are missing out on free school meals, reveals shocking new research by...

Government Failure Was Partly To Blame For Grenfell Fire – Says Gove

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COLLECTIVE government failures regarding building regulations ‘over many years’ were partly to blame for the Grenfell Tower fire, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said. He...
The four Kenyan claimants with lawyer Martin Day outside the High Court before the start of yesterday’s hearing

MAU MAU HEROES! – take on British state

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The UK government must take responsibility for the torture of Kenyans under the 1950s British colonial government, one of the survivors, 82-year-old Wambugu Wa...

NHS workers need 15% pay rise now! – TUC must call a general strike...

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UNISON’S campaign for an immediate pay rise for health workers goes up a level this week – with a plea to the public and...
Demonstration outside parliament on January 11th against the Welfare Reform Bill

Hands Off Child Benefits!

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TEACHERS’ unions and children’s charities yesterday condemned government plans to raid the Child Benefits of families whose children have unauthorised absences from school. Tory-LibDem coalition...
The front of the Silent March for Grenfell making its way down Kensington High Street

Grenfell Fire Doors Failed

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DOORS for flats in Grenfell Tower could only hold back a fire for half the time they were designed to, a police investigation has...

5% pay rise and £1,000 bonus offer to NHS – will not be recommended...

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A FINAL pay offer for NHS staff in England, including nurses and ambulance workers, was made yesterday. Unite leader Sharon Graham said that Unite...

‘Finances prioritised over patient care!’ – BMA reviews Scottish NHS

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A SUBSTANTIAL majority of doctors in Scotland feel that patient care is being given a lower priority in Scotland’s NHS than both finances and...
Marks & Spencer suppliers Fenland Foods workers demonstrating last May in defence of their jobs at the M&S Oxford Street store

1.92 Million Unemployed

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UK unemployment rose by 131,000 to 1.92 million between September and November, the highest total since September 1997, figures from the Office for National...

‘Russia will finish the demilitarisation of Ukraine!’ says Dmitry Peskov Kremlin spokesman

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RUSSIA will finish the demilitarisation of Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview yesterday, underlining that the Ukraine must stick to a...

Ukraine Ceasefire Agreed

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KIEV officials and representatives of the People’s Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk in southeastern Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire, as the contact group...

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...

Tory Plans Require ‘Cuts Of Tens And Tens Of Billions’ Says Ifs

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THERE was incredulity yesterday when Cameron declared the Tories are ‘the party of working people’, adding that the ‘good news in the economy’ was...

PAY UP NOW! – demand striking healthcare assistants

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HEALTHCARE assistants whose jobs were wrongly graded are at ‘breaking point’, as managers at Epsom Hospital, St George’s in Tooting and St Helier refuse...

Not guilty verdict in secret state trial

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LAW student Erol Incedal has been cleared at the Old Bailey of planning a terrorist attack in a secret prosecution, closed to the public. Turkish-born...

No to two-tier Maternity! – demand Charter Schools strikers

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‘NO TO TWO-TIER Maternity!’ declare striking teachers at the Charter Schools Multi-Academy Trust in Southwark, south-east London, who begin a further three-day strike this...