‘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...
Demonstrators outside Downing Street on Wednesday night condemned Blair’s silence over the Israeli bombardment of Gaza

Israel Threatens To Bomb Beirut

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Israel yesterday threatened to target Lebanese airports, other than Beirut’s international airport, and attack areas of Beirut where Hezbollah leaders live and where it...

‘A DAMNING INDICTMENT’ – of Labour’s social care system

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‘This is a damning indictment of a social care system that is failing older people’, Age Concern’s Director General, Gordon Lishman said yesterday. He was...

Crucial Tsipras-Merkel talks

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GREEK Prime Minister Tsipras is meeting German Chancellor Merkel in Berlin today, with officials in Brussels, Berlin and the ECB now openly acknowledging the...

More London bus strikes

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THOUSANDS of London bus workers will take strike action next Thursday 5th July followed by action on Tuesday 24 July in a dispute over...

US threatens Ukraine intervention if conflict escalates

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AMERICAN and allied forces may directly intervene in the ongoing Ukraine conflict against Russia even without a threat to any member of the US-led...

‘WE ARE FIGHTING TO PRESERVE NHS’ – says BMA

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday insisted it is ‘fighting to preserve the NHS’. Responding to a news article in Pulse magazine on the BMA’s...

‘Strike action rock solid’

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‘I CAN report that the strike action this morning is rock solid across the Southern Rail network as we fight to put rail safety...
Riot police attack students on the stairs to the Vouli (Greek parliament) building in Athens last Thursday. Photo credit: MARIOS LOLOS

‘We are the opposition!’ – Greek teachers storm parliament

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GREEK striking teachers along with students staged yet another magnificent march of over 6,000 last Thursday against the hated government Education Bill. Once...

24,000 Jobs Under Threat

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Over 24,000 manufacturing jobs are at risk over the next three months as UK firms struggle with falling orders, bosses warned yesterday. The latest Regional...

Picket Line Victory

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers won a victory yesterday, when they successfully carried out their picket at the Gate Gourmet plant front gate, despite a...

Abbas welcomes Trump as Palestine explodes

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed US President Donald Trump at the Palestinian presidential palace in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem yesterday morning. Some...

TUC National Day of Action on March 15!

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There will be a National Day of Action on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak announced yesterday, as hundreds of...
Friends and families of those who have died in police custody marching last October –  co-chair of the campaign, Stephanie Lightfoot-Bennett said the new police tactics will lead to more innocent citizens’ deaths

Police will shoot to kill drivers – ‘carte blanche to kill innocents’ says United...

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ARMED police have adopted a new shoot-to-kill tactic: fire sub-automatic assault rifles at moving vehicles to ‘neutralise’ the driver, sparking fears that many more...

British Steel – placing 2,700 Scunthorpe jobs at risk!

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BRITISH Steel has announced the start of a formal consultation that could lead to the closure of its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, placing...

Call Off The Talks!

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‘Our union executive should immediately call off the talks with Royal Mail until the threats of redundancy, total flexibility, and attacks on our pension...

Thousands Mourn 47 Dead

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Tens of thousands of Palestinians yesterday attended a funeral procession for 47 defenceless civilians who were killed on Tuesday when Israeli artillery shelled a...
Banner reads ‘No illusions, no self deceptions, we must overthrow the government ourselves’ Greek workers declare outside the Voula Hospital

Overthrow Government keep hospitals open! say Greek medical workers

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HUNDREDS of hospital workers staged a rally outside the Greek Health Ministry in Athens last Thursday morning against the planned closure by the coalition...
Marchers defending the NHS and making the point that one of the best ways to finance it would be to get rid of Trident

50,000 NHS Patients Being Left In Pain And Misery!

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IT WAS announced on Tuesday night that all operations during the month of January are cancelled, leaving over 50,000 patients in pain and misery. Also...

THIRD OF A&Es SET TO CLOSE

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A THIRD of all A&Es across the country are set to close under the Tory government’s new Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), causing the...
Nurses demanding wage rises – the NHS budget is being squandered on purchasing staff from private agencies who are making huge profits

Agency staff costing NHS £2.5bn a year!

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A FAILURE to train enough staff in the NHS is leading to an over-reliance on agency staff, locums and overseas recruitment which is wasteful...

Charge RBKC officers & councillors! – demand Grenfell campaigners after prosecutions announced

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NEARLY nine years after the Grenfell Fire, on 14th June 2017, the Metropolitan Police only yesterday announced that up to 57 individuals and 20...

Cotton Goes – Savage Fire Cuts In Surrey

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LONDON Fire Brigade Chief Dany Cotton is to leave the service four months early. Cotton, 50, previously announced she was standing down from the London...

Euro Arrest Warrant Out For Puigdemont!

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SPAIN’S state prosecutor yesterday requested a European arrest warrant for the deposed Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, and four of his former regional ministers...

CWU BT Group to ballot all members for action!

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THE Telecoms & Financial Services Conference voted yesterday to serve legal notice to BT Group of the union’s intention to ballot all appropriate members...

One million to strike

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OVER a million council workers and school support staff are to strike on 14 October over the government’s 1% pay ‘offer’. Unions representing over a...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaigning on Southall High Street with KIRAN GILL (extreme left) and THOMAS MURPHY

Big Support For Gate Gourmet Workers Meeting!

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Gate Gourmet locked-out workers were campaigning yesterday on Southall Broadway near Heathrow Airport for their public meeting on Sunday November 5th. The meeting is being...
ALEX and ALESSANDRO PEREIRA and PATRICIA DA SILVA ARMANI outside the venue for their cousin Jean Charles De Menezes’ inquest yesterday morning

de Menezes Inquest Begins

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‘Today is the first day of the process which will hopefully bring my family closer to the truth,’ cousin of Jean Charles De Menezes,...

‘Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is unlawful!’ says International Court of Justice

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JOSEP BORRELL, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, yesterday commended the advisory opinion that Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is...

‘Drop commitment to Trident and save £205bn’ – McDonnell urged!

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THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday supported the call by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell for ‘an emergency Budget for our public services’. The...

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,...
Bodies of some of the large numbers of Palestinians slain in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in 1982 in Lebanon by Phalangists who were allowed into the camp by Israeli soldiers, the same year as an Israeli submarine sank a Lebanese refugee ship

Israel Admits Sinking Lebanese Refugee Ship

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ISRAEL has officially admitted that its military ordered a deadly attack on a Lebanese ship carrying refugees during the regime’s invasion of the country...
Defiant striking busworkers outside the Lea  Interchange garage in north London yesterday

London Bus Strike ‘Solid’

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‘The strike was properly solid! Only four buses went out of 142 buses,’ Unite Rep Mickey Leachman said when he spoke to News line...

Power cuts and 43% unemployment dominate SA State of the Nation Address!

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THE following is a statement by COSATU: ‘DESPITE three vacancies in the executive and a deputy president who wants out, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa...
AYSAR SHAMALLAKH (left) launching his hunger strike at 6.00pm on Tuesday 2nd May in Parliament Square under the statue of Nelson Mandela in solidarity with 1,600 Palestinian prisoners of Israel

Palestine solidarity hunger strike

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A BRITISH national of Palestinian origin, Aysar Shamallakh, who is an active and co-founder member of the ‘17 April Group’, has started an awareness...
Marchers got a great reception in Coventry city centre from some very generous supporters

Youth Being Treated Like Slaves

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POURING rain made the Young Socialist marchers even more determined and their chants of ‘Youth demand a future, Youth demand jobs’ even louder on...

47 Palestinians killed in intense Nuseirat air strikes

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NEARLY four dozen Palestinian civilians, including many women and children, were killed in central Gaza as the Israeli regime launched another wave of assaults...
CAM STOCKS (far right in hat) joins junior doctors, nurses and supporters on the picket line outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London during last Tuesday’s strike

Junior doctors strike suspended by BMA

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THE BMA has suspended next week’s 48-hour junior doctors strike. In a statement, the BMA said: ‘The decision comes as ACAS talks continue this week...

FBU demands emergency funding – London Fire Brigade is facing £20m cuts

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PM Johnson has been urged to deliver emergency funds to protect London from £20m of fire cuts. The London Fire Brigade faces £20m of cuts...

Trump Blasts G7 Summit

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AFTER departing early from the G7 summit in Quebec for Singapore, President Donald Trump called on US representatives not to endorse the joint communique...
West London Council of Action picketing yesterday morning to keep Ealing Hospital open

Defend West London hospitals!

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THOUSAND of angry hospital workers, trade unionists, local residents and youth are marching today determined to defeat the government’s plan to close four West...

Foreign doctors witness a dire situation & war crimes in Gaza!

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FOREIGN doctors volunteering in Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals have shared distressing accounts of the dire medical situation and war crimes they’ve witnessed. With 80% of the...

TEACHERS MASS STRIKE ACTI0N! – fighting for a 12% pay rise

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TEACHERS in the NEU (National Education Union) are taking mass strike action this week in their fight for a national 12% pay rise for...

Chancellor ignores the crisis!

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday that the NHS will get ‘whatever resources it needs’ to cope with a coronavirus epidemic. He alleged to the...

Three-day general strike action brings Belgium to a standstill

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A GENERAL strike in Belgium, on its third day on Wednesday paralysed major transportation and public services, including the construction sector, said the Building...