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Demonstrators outside the Israeli embassy were confident that the Palestinan masses would stand fast and force the arrogant Israeli aggressors back

‘Victory for defiance in face of death!’

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GAZA prime minister Ismail Haniya has hailed the Egyptian-brokered truce agreement between the Palestinian resistance and Israel as a triumph for the Palestinian people. He...

£3,500 CUT IN BASIC PAY – West Midlands & Shropshire Ambulance workers to strike

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Ambulance crews in the West Midlands and Shropshire are set to start industrial action, beginning with an overtime ban next Wednesday, followed by a...

SAVE LEGAL AID! – first ever barristers strike today

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‘Save Legal Aid!’ barristers and solicitors are demanding as they take historic strike action today, starting with a 9.30-10.30am demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court,...

Primary schools are cutting teaching assistants

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‘ALMOST a decade of Conservative education cuts has left our children’s future in a perilous state,’ says the GMB trade union. It has responded to...

‘TRUST HAS BEEN BREACHED!’ – Ellwood demands ‘stock check’ on Johnson

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SENIOR Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has called on fellow Conservative MPs to assess whether Boris Johnson is still fit to be leader of the...

Israeli forces intensify West Bank demolitions!

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ISRAELI forces have intensified demolitions in the occupied West Bank and face growing accusations of pursuing a coordinated campaign to erase Palestinian presence and...

Dozens of US banks on verge of collapse!

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DOZENS of banks in the United States are on the verge of collapse despite the Biden administration’s recent measures to calm the turbulent markets,...

SUDDEN AND CATASTROPHIC – OILC leader Jake Malloy describes Morecambe Bay disaster

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‘Last night’s event appears to suggest that something sudden and catastrophic happened,’ offshore workers’ union, OILC leader Jake Malloy told News Line yesterday. Six bodies...

Corbyn pledges council house building programme

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‘A NEW, very large, very active council housing building programme is what we will launch,’ the new leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn...
Chagos Islanders picketing Downing Street demanding their right to return to their homes

Diego Garcia used for ‘extraordinary rendition’

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Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday admitted that on two occasions, both in 2002, UK overseas territory Diego Garcia had been used for US rendition...

Don’t implement contract urges BMA

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DO NOT implement the new junior doctors contracts, the BMA urged NHS Trusts yesterday, the day the new contracts were due to be rolled...

ASLEF & TSSA strike action ballot

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RAIL unions ASLEF and TSSA have announced that they will ballot their members for strike action on the railways. If the ASLEF ballot is successful...
A section of last Saturday’s determined march against plans for a new immigration detention centre at Gatwick

‘End These Cruel Detention Centres’

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UP TO 500 protesters marched in Crawley on Saturday to demonstrate against the building of a new immigration detention centre at Gatwick Airport. The...

Plymouth principal Phillips quits

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UNDER-FIRE City College Plymouth (CCP) principal Garry Phillips resigned yesterday after a damning report earlier this month exposed serious leadership failings at his previous...
YS MARCH FOR JOBS! – London to the TUC in Liverpool

YS MARCH FOR JOBS! – London to the TUC in Liverpool

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Began in London on Tuesday, August 19 and and have now arrived in Liverpool! – they will be marching to the TUC Congress from...
Norwich Remploy picket line urged the unions to get together so as to have the force to deal with the government

Remploy Strike

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WORKERS at all 54 Remploy sites, members of the GMB and Unite unions, went on strike yesterday in a bid to save 2,800 disabled...
Congress delegates voting for the main resolution on Monday

Barber supports low pay! – Congress shaken by his ‘reservations’

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BRENDAN Barber yesterday shook the TUC to its foundations when he told Congress that this was not the time to raise the minimum wage...

‘CHARGE THOSE RESPONSIBLE WITH MURDER’ – demands Phil Shiner

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THE lawyers acting for Colonel Mousa, Baha Mousa’s father, today responded to the latest evidence given by ex-soldier Donald Payne in the Baha Mousa...

Job Centre Strike!

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Thousands of Jobcentre Plus (JCP) call centre staff will strike on April 18 after bosses refused to improve working conditions and customer service, the...

Death toll from Israel’s genocidal war has now reached 48,329!

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DURING the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of 14 martyrs, who had been reported missing during the war,...
Hospital workers marching through Haringey on June 24 to keep the hospital open

Unions unite to defend the NHS

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‘I would support a Day of Action to defend the NHS. That’s what I’ll be recommending to my executive,’ GMB National Officer for Health,...
Junior doctors refused to be intimidated by Hunt’s threats during their long dispute over an imposed contract

Hawking slams Tories over NHS privatisation!

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PROFESSOR Stephen Hawking has attacked the government’s NHS policies, and health secretary Jeremy Hunt in person, and warned they are seeking to bring in...

TREATMENT BY TELECARE! – Brown’s alternative to District General Hospitals and elderly care

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Speaking yesterday to charities, NHS workers, trade unions and local government leaders, prime minister Brown announced the publication of a consultation document on ‘options...
Basic rights were under attack on all fronts yesterday. Picture above shows demonstration in support of the jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange outside Westminster Magistrates Court where he was bailed but not immediately freed

‘Kettling Is Illegal!’

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Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) yesterday commenced a legal case against the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. They are challenging the unlawful imprisonment, through kettling of...

Three Raf Airmen Killed In Iraq

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Three RAF servicemen were killed on Thursday in one of the daily mortar attacks on their base in Basra, southern Iraq, spokesman Major Matthew...
Demonstration in London to defend the capital’s A&Es – workers are determined that the NHS must remain a service providing the necessary quality care for all who need it

Monitor wants NHS ‘production line’ to cut costs!

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THE NHS watchdog, Monitor, has proposed to import ‘production line’ surgery techniques from other countries to plug ‘gaps’ in NHS funding. Monitor’s chief executive David...

Corbyn must pledge that theChagos Islanders will return home under a Labour government!

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A UN COURT has ruled the UK must return Diego Garcia and the Chagos Islands, which it found were under illegal UK occupation and...
The banner of the North-East London Council of Action on the July 5 march to parliament on the 63rd anniversary of the NHS

Brazen Cameron! Tries To Tough It Out

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PRIME Minister Cameron was repeatedly challenged yesterday over his hiring of Andy Coulson during the discussion on his statement over the News International crisis. Cameron...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line at the Beacon roundabout near the factory yesterday midday

Come to our conference on January 29TH

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THERE was a determined picket of locked out Gate Gourmet workers on the Beacon Hill near Heathrow Airport yesterday. It is now nearly five months...
Pensioners and trade unionists at a Trafalgar Square rally. They are determined to defend all public services

‘MANIFESTO TO BREAK UP PUBLIC SERVICES’ – as Southern Cross goes bust

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‘This is nothing less than a manifesto to break up our public services, smuggled out while all attention is focused on the misdeeds of...
Tamils continuing their demonstration outside Parliament yesterday against the slaughter of Tamils by the Sri Lankan armed forces

‘WE WILL NOT GIVE UP’ – say Tamil students

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‘We are not going to give up!’, declared the comrades of 23-year-old Parameswaran Subramaniyan who after 18 days on hunger strike is too weak...

Syrian government absolutely rejects allegations

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THE SYRIAN government absolutely rejects the allegations ‘that the army used in the past or uses now or will use in the future any...
Students on yesterday’s march in Whitehall determined to end fees and get EMA grants back

Police Attack Peaceful March

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TENS of thousands of school, college and university students demonstrated against education cuts, tuition fees and the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)...
‘Mayor come down! Don’t cut our service!’ shouted families fighting against cuts to the disability service outside Tower Hamlets Town Hall yesterday lunchtime

East London families march against disability cuts

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AROUND 100 angry family members demonstrated against the threatened closure of their Bangladeshi Parent Adviser (BPA) service yesterday, marching from Chrisp Street Market in...

CORUS INDUSTRIAL ACTION POSSIBLE say steel union leaders

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‘WE don’t rule out industrial action,’ Michael J Leahy, General Secretary of Community, the steelworkers’ union said yesterday. This was after the Tata...

SANDERS TO STAND

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US Senator Bernie Sanders announced yesterday that he will run again for president in 2020, making a second attempt to win the Democratic Party’s...

Working class kids denied education!

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THE CHILDREN of working class families are being denied an education during the coronavirus lockdown as many families do not have access to laptops,...

Bus Drivers Determined To Win!

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LONDON bus drivers employed by French government-owned privateer RATP took their third day of strike action against £2,500 pay cuts yesterday, with another two...
CWU pickets at Brockley Delivery Office during their strike on August 7th

London Postal Workers Out Today

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ALL London postal districts are taking 24-hour strike action today, as the CWU (Communication Workers Union) fights the Royal Mail/Labour government onslaught on postal...

Forty universities infected by Covid

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AS MANY as 40 different universities around the UK have now reported corona cases as the virus sweeps through the education system. After the University...

Bosses Call For Zero Wage Rises!

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CONSUMER price inflation fell in January, much less than was expected by the so-called experts. The Consumer Prices Index reached an annual rate of...

Uber drivers descend on High Court

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HUNDREDS of Uber drivers descended on the Royal Court of Justice yesterday as Uber appealed once more, attempting to overturn the historic landmark ruling...

Saudis systematically targetting Yemen’s water infrastructure

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WHILE a United Nations panel has found that the daily Saudi-led air raids on Yemen have caused more than 18,000 civilian casualties since 2015,...

Netanyahu Bans Al Jazeera

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IRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted unanimously to close Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel yesterday. Netanyahu announced the decision on X. ‘The government, headed...