Sparks demonstrating against 30 per cent wage cuts outside the Kings Cross construction site last September

Balfour Beatty’s Sack Warning To 12,000

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Construction giant Balfour Beatty has warned its 12,000 staff in the UK they could lose their jobs as a result of the slump in...

Iran Accuses US & Britain Of Complicity In Carnage At The Al Nuseirat Camp

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THE spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry has accused the United States and Britain of being complicit in the ‘terrible and inhumane’ crime perpetrated by...
Striking CWU members in Hampstead, north west London, were in fighting mood yesterday

‘NO HIDING PLACE NOW!’ – ‘We need the rest of the country out’ say...

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POSTAL workers were out on strike throughout London yesterday, while Royal Mail drivers were also out in Essex and the Midlands; and Stoke on...
Mass stop and search of youth on the street in west London – May’s proposed powers would drive Britain towards a police-military dictatorship

May Launches Tory Police State

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TORY Home Secretary May’s plans to ban democratic rights, that she proposed to the Tory party conference yesterday, was condemned as ‘worthy of a...
Limehouse surgery practice nurse JUNE GRAY addressing yesterday’s protest against cuts to east London GP surgeries

Limehouse ‘Save Our Surgeries’ protest

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EAST London GPs, patients and supporters yesterday staged a protest in Limehouse against cuts in funding that threaten to bankrupt around a dozen surgeries...

Israel’s permanent occupation of Gaza plan ‘deeply alarming’

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THE NETANYAHU-led Israeli regime’s just-announced plan for the permanent occupation of the Gaza Strip and permanent expulsion of Palestinians from it has been widely...

GATE GOURMET TACTICS! – GMB accuses Airfield Services

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The GMB trade union yesterday accused Stansted security contractor Airfield Services of Gate Gourmet tactics. It said that Airfield Services was showing gross irresponsibility in...

‘Hold The Blacklisters To Account!’

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DELEGATES at the TUC conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 16, Blacklisting and Undercover Surveillance of Trade Unionists. The motion calls on...

‘Unions will take to the streets’ – to defend N Ireland NHS

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MASSIVE health service cuts being proposed for Northern Ireland ‘will put patients’ lives at risk’, Dr Tom Black said yesterday. Dr Black who is chair...

PA signs £80m Gaza reconstruction deal with UN

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WITH support from Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, the United Nations Development Programme and the Arab International Organisation for Reconstruction in Palestine...
Calais Action volunteers waiting for the truck to arrive that will take their aid to refugees in the Greek island of Samos

Calais Action Volunteers Ready To Go!

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VOLUNTEERS from Calais Action yesterday loaded a truck to take aid for refugees to the Greek island of Samos. Calais Action founder Libby Freeman...
Tower Hamlets doctors, local residents and trade unionists demonstrate against the privatisation of GP surgeries in the borough

Privatisation drive stepped up! – Competition panel formed for NHS

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In a new attack on the NHS, the government is driving Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to implement so-called ‘World Class Commissioning’, which involves selling...
Demonstrators expressing their anger at the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon in July – police would like to criminalise slogans on placards they decide to be ‘offensive’

POLICE MUST NOT BE CENSORS – says Liberty

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Civil rights organisation Liberty yesterday urged the government not to give police powers to arrest demonstrators for ‘offensive’ chants and/or slogans on placards. This followed...

NO MORE QUANTITATIVE EASING – Bank of E allowing UK economy to sink

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DESPITE fears of a ‘triple dip recession’, the Bank of England has kept interest rates and its Quantitative Easing (QE) monetary stimulus programme on...

NHS IS BUCKLING BEFORE OUR EYES says RCN leader Patricia Marquis

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‘AS WE begin a new year, the NHS is buckling before our eyes. The pressures are immense with flu cases surging while staff absences...
Migrants on the ‘Right to Homes’ march demanding decent, affordable housing – the Tories want to evict refugees en masse

Tory eviction plan for refugees

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IN A further Tory attack on the working class, landlords will be expected to evict entire families, if they believe them to be ‘illegal...

‘STAR CHAMBER’ TO PUSH THROUGH £60bn CUTS

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CHANCELLOR Osborne oversaw the creation of a ‘Star Chamber’ yesterday, to force through the planned £60 billion a year spending cuts. Osborne told the...
Syrian President Assad breaks his fast during Ramadan with Syrian troops

Trump-Putin To Discuss Crisis In Syria

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin have met for the first time, shaking hands at the start of a G20 summit in...

RATE RISES AND A SHRINKING ECONOMY PREDICTS BoE

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THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday increased interest rates to 1.75% – the highest in 27 years. It warned of 13% inflation...

TORTURE NO CRIME! – no action against MI5

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); will not prosecute an MI5 officer over the torture of UK resident Binyam Mohamed in Pakistan in 2002, Director...

‘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...
Junior doctors demonstrated through London on Saturday March 17th

14,000 Junior Doctors Will Be Without Posts

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the actual number of specialist doctor training posts available in the UK is 18,518 – not between 22,000 and 23,000 as the government had...

IRAQ RISES UP! – thousands clash with police & army

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TENS of thousands of Iraqis marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq yesterday, in the largest and...

PLO slams US-sponsored Bahrain conference

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THE PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) issued a statement slamming the US-sponsored conference in Bahrain on its second and final day yesterday: ‘The PLO Executive Committee...
Determined PCS strikers outside the British Museum during the one-day national strike on May Day

‘LICENCE TO PRINT MONEY’ – £1.8bn for consultants as thousands sacked

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) this morning accused the government of giving management consultants a licence to print money at the taxpayer’s...
Doctors and teachers march against Hunt’s attempts to impose a contract on the junior doctors – now the teachers are under heavy attack from the May government and its attempts to bring back the eleven plus

May Brings Back 11 Plus!

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TORY PM Theresa May yesterday unveiled plans, despite all denials, to drive education back to the 1940s by allowing any school to become a...
Remploy workers and supporters campaigning in Brixton yesterday

HORRIFIC INJUSTICE! – Alder family will not give up

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LIBERTY this week asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to determine if Christopher Alder’s death in police custody has been properly investigated...

Labour loses control of Oldham Council because of its support for the US-UK’s war...

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THE Labour Party has lost control of Oldham Council after losing seats to Independents who support Palestine and are against the Israeli war on...

100,000 march for Palestine and demand the TUC must call a general strike

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MORE than 100,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday afternoon chanting ‘From the River to...
Loyalists opposed to the Sinn Féin protest parade against the British army in Belfast

BRITISH ARMY ‘WRONG IN IRELAND, IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN’ – Gerry Kelly tells Sinn Féin...

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BY JOHN COULTER, IRISH POLITICAL JOURNALIST Sinn Féin and families of the victims of British state violence, yesterday held their rally in opposition to...

Half Of Gaza Population Is Starving

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THE United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that half the population is starving in Gaza. UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini,...

Heathrow – Unite steps up strike action

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WORKERS at Heathrow Airport will next week step up strike action in their increasingly bitter dispute over massive wage cuts that the company is...
Palestinians emerge through clouds of teargas fired by Israeli troops at the Gaza border on the 6th Friday demonstration yesterday

Plo Suspends Recognition Of Israel!

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AT LEAST 37 Palestinian protesters and three journalists were injured by live shots or suffocated from tear-gas inhalation on Friday as Israeli forces attacked...
Bovingdon residents lobbying Downing Street on March 2nd are angry that their firefighter heroes’ reward is the closure of their station

Israeli Missile Attack On Gaza

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Yesterday afternoon, Israeli military forces attacked Gaza from the land, sea and air. Aircraft launched two missile strikes against the Palestinian presidential headquarters in Gaza...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers at the TUC, demanding  union leaders who will fight, and action against the venture capitalists

RENATIONALISATION – demands TUC Congress

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DELEGATES to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) yesterday voted overwhelmingly to demand the re-nationalisation of public utilities, in opposition to the TUC leadership’s ‘reservations’. TUC...

‘International community must make a stand’

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IN the wake of the unlawful US aggression against the peaceful Iranian nuclear sites, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday called on the international...

TUC denied seat at Tories trade table

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THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) complained yesterday that they have been barred from a seat at the table, demanding involvement in the trade negotiations...

‘EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON EU!’ – says Labour’s shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott

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LABOUR, the LibDems, the SNP and pro-Remain Tories are set to vote against the government holding a 12th December General Election in the House...
Birmingham students yesterday demonstrated against the coalition government’s decision to bring in unlimited university fees

‘THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN!’ Coalition’s unlimited fees plan condemned

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Student, lecturers and university staff unions yesterday angrily condemned former BP boss Lord Browne’s recommendation that universities in England should be able to charge...

Palestine PM Shtayyeh calls to establish state and impose sanctions on Israel

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said yesterday that the international consensus on establishing the State of Palestine must be translated into practical steps that...

BRING DOWN THE TORIES! – TUC must call a general strike

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‘EVERY major union is supporting this march. We welcome this opportunity for people to take to the streets to protest at this government. ...

Teachers vote to fight SATs!

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Head teachers have voted overwhelmingly to boycott SATs tests, which unions condemned as ‘focusing on failure’. Teaching unions are also deeply opposed to the league...

Stop ‘Uberisation Of Universities!’

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OVER 300 striking lecturers, university staff and students rallied outside the Universities UK (UUK) HQ in Tavistock Square, central London yesterday shouting: ‘Hey, hey,...

SPOOKS USED STUDENT COVER! – to whip up war fever against N Korea

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THE London School of Economics has demanded the BBC withdraw tonight’s Panorama programme attacking North Korea and describing it as a fascist state. Complaining of...

Ealing Children’s Ward Must Be Re-Opened Urges Xmas Picket

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THE WEST London Council of Action got a huge response at their Xmas picket at Ealing Hospital, yesterday morning. Shaihin, a paediatric nurse at Ealing...