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Young mother GLEISA LIMA with her one month-old baby Victoria joined the West London Council picket of Ealing Hospital to demand the hospital’s Maternity Department be reopened

Reopen Ealing Maternity!

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‘MY BABY Victoria was born at Ealing Hospital and is one month old today,’ said mother Gleisa Lima outside the hospital yesterday morning. She...
Health workers show their angry opposition to the Tory coalition’s privatisation of the NHS

REFORMS ‘A THREAT TO NHS’ – GPs Conference resolution

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OVER half of GPs planning to retire in the next two years say NHS reforms are a reason for them going, according to preliminary...
School students marching in Athens on the 6th anniversary of the police shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulis on 6th December 2008

Greek Government Is On The Way Out

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THE Greek coalition government has once again failed in a parliamentary vote to elect its candidate Stavros Dimas as the new President of the...
Grenfell resident holds up a piece of charred cladding which had fallen during the Grenfell Tower inferno

Only three towers re-clad out of 160!

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ONLY three out of 160 social housing towers have been reclad since the Grenfell fire, over seven months ago, leaving tens of thousands of...

Blair – The Vultures Are Gathering Gathering!

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‘It’s true we have had people who got themselves into difficulty and ministers been dismissed. We’ve had huge problems on this front,’ Prime Minister...

Palestinian prisoners – indefinite hunger strike

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HUNDREDS of Palestinians being held inside detention facilities across the occupied territories have launched an indefinite hunger strike to protest at mistreatment by prison...

FULL SUPPORT! – pledge the TUC and trade union leaders

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‘NO to redundancies!’ ‘We want our jobs!’ ‘We want justice!’ shouted over 300 locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday inside the TUC Congress in...

‘CONTINUE THE STRUGGLE’ – Gadaffi urges in his will

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THREE days after his death, a website has published the last will written by murdered Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi. In his will, the Libyan leader...
Supporters of Julian Assange demonstrate outside the embassy of Ecuador yesterday afternoon

UK Threatens To Storm Ecuador Embassy!

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ECUADOR yesterday granted political asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and called on the UK to ‘guarantee safe passage to Mr Assange to complete...

‘NO MORE RACIST STOP AND SEARCH’ – says Liberty

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Rights group Liberty has warned the government against draft police guidance that would allow race to be a basis for stop and search operations...

Anti-monarchy protesters arrested in police state UK

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‘SOMETHING out of a police state,’ was how Republic director Harry Stratton described the way in which London’s Metropolitan Police arrested 52 anti-monarchy protesters...

£300m more arms for Ukraine – nothing for struggling households

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TORY PM Boris Johnson acted the buffoon yesterday as he described Ukraine’s war against Russia as the country’s ‘finest hour’, in a video address...
Teachers marching in London on the October 20 TUC demonstration against the Coalition’s austerity cuts

1.2 million miss out on daily school meal!

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THE Children’s Society is warning that 1.2 million children living below the poverty line in England miss out on a school meal each day. Some...

Grenfell Tower council opted for flammable cladding

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KENSINGTON and Chelsea council turned down a proposal to clad Grenfell Tower in fire resistant material and instead opted for a cheaper option, allowing...
Labour Shadow Chancellor JOHN McDONNELL (right) alongside TOM WATSON supporting striking BA workers lobby of parliament

‘I want to transform Capitalism’ says John McDonnell as he disowns Marx

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LABOUR will not raise taxes for the vast majority of workers but will increase rates for those earning over £80,000, John McDonnell said yesterday. He...

MAY’S WAR ON MIGRANTS! – condemned by Institute of Directors

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‘WE MUST work to control immigration and put Britian first,’ Tory Home Secretary Theresa May said yesterday, stepping up her war on refugees. The economic...

Thousands Of Parents, Pupils & Teachers To Defy Tories Today!

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THOUSANDS of teachers, as well as the parents of hundreds of thousands pupils, are set to defy the government’s instructions for Reception, Year 1...
Father Christmas and child at the Young Socialists Christmas Bazaar – many families are having a very tough Christmas because of Scrooge employers

‘SHOP A SCROOGE BOSS THIS XMAS’ – urges TUC

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THE TUC has urged workers to ‘Shop a Scrooge’ this Christmas. It’s message is dial the National Minimum Wage helpline – 0845 6000 678,...
Gazan victim suffering massive bullet wound in his leg

Gaza patients: fist- sized bullet wounds

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WORKING in Gaza on patients hit by Israeli fire, medical teams noted ‘the injuries include an extreme level of destruction to bones and soft...

TORIES TO USE ARMY TO BREAK STRIKES! – PCS leader condemns strike-breaking plans

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THE TORY government has revealed that it is set to begin training hundreds of British Army personnel as strike-breakers this month, to be mobilised...

South Western guards strike is rock solid!

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THE SOUTH Western Railway workers’ strike was rock solid yesterday morning in their escalating battle to keep the guards on the train. They are...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and supporters campaigning for their march and rally on Southall High Street yesterday

Support Builds For Gate Gourmet Workers Rally

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Gate Gourmet locked-out workers got great support for this Sunday’s anniversary march and rally on Southall’s busy High Street yesterday. Locked-out worker Parmjit Bains told...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers demand the end of the  sell-out ‘Compromise Agreement’ on their march in Southall earlier this month

Only 137 have signed ‘Compromise’ deal

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LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line yesterday were determined that they will win their struggle to return to their jobs on their...
Thousands marched through Ealing on April 24 2013 to stop the closure of the Hospital

Occupy to stop Ealing closure

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EALING Hospital workers, patients and visitors yesterday called for an occupation by the trade unions to stop the closure of the hospital’s...
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Palexpo – June 6th & June 7th, 2019

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Union Leaders Helping Bosses Say Gourmet Workers

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angry Gate Gourmet workers told News Line over the weekend that they want their union, the TGWU, to provide them with information on who...

Stop arming US police – demands 250,000-strong petition to UK government

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AFTER last Wednesday’s massive march demanding justice for George Floyd, over a quarter of a million people in the UK have intervened in the...
GPs and patients march through Tower Hamlets in defence of GP surgeries – nationally there are 98 surgeries under threat from funding cuts

Much More Funding Of Gp Services Needed

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NHS England’s announcement of short-term help for a limited number of under-threat GP practices in London needs to be followed by a national, long-term...

‘People are supporting our demand to reopen all closed NHS services!’

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‘PEOPLE are really supporting our cause to reopen all the closed services at Ealing Hospital,’ Ealing Southall WRP general election candidate Hassan Zulkifal said...

Jowell Under Attack!

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The Tories are demanding the Cabinet Office state whether or not Culture Minister Tessa Jowell has breached the ministerial code of conduct over her...
British police working with the French government taking action to stop a convoy boarding a ferry going to Calais

Child refugees in squalid conditions in Calais refugee camp

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CHILD refugees languishing in squalid conditions in camps in Calais without their parents or any family member to look after them urgently need...
Swindon Hospital Carillion workers demonstrate outside the company’s HQ in London against the company’s work practices

Carillion workers in Qatar sleep 10 in a room

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WORKERS for Carillion in Qatar sleep ten to a room in lodging reminiscent of tenement slums in Victorian London and nothing has changed despite...
A section of the 100-strong vigil outside the Syrian embassy on Friday evening in memory of the over 70 killed in the latest bombing in Damascus

Syrians Support Assad

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Around 100 Syrians and supporters held a vigil outside the Syrian embassy in London last Friday evening, to condemn last Thursday’s terrorist bombings in...

TORTURE CONTINUES! ‘IT’S NOT ALL OVER’ – states Binyam Mohamed

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‘Many remain in those torture chambers’, just-returned Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed said in a statement read out at a London press conference...

‘NO CREDIBLE OFFER!’ – striking doctors slam Tories

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TENS of thousands of junior doctors in England begin an unprecedented six days of strike action at 7am this morning, with an 8am-10am mass...
Part of the audience at the recent TUC Public Services rally in Westminster applauding calls for public sector-wide strike action

Unison Vote For Sustained Strike Action

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UNISON’s local government members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have voted by 55% to 45% for a programme of sustained strike action over...
CWU members and their families in Corby fighting the Labour government’s attempt to privatise Royal Mail – they are now poised to take on the Tory-led coalition

DEFEND ROYAL MAIL! – against Tory-Lib Dem rush to privatisation

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‘THIS IS a match-fix for privatisation,’ the leader of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday, after the Tory-Lib Dem coalition announced it was...

‘People’s Convoy’ to rescue refugees! – 69,000 to march in London

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REFUGEES stood their ground yesterday in Hungary, defied the police and refused to go to a ‘refugee camp’. They said that they had purchased rail...

EGYPT ERUPTS – Mubarak calls in army

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called on the army to take charge of security along with the riot police after hundreds of thousands of Egyptians...
Demonstration in Tower Hamlets in January 2008 against the privatisation of GP surgeries

NO PAYMENTS FOR NHS SERVICES – urges BMA

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Plans to allow patients to pay directly for services could undermine equality in the NHS in England, create a new layer of bureaucracy, divert...

40,000 Railworkers Strike Today!

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BRITAIN is in shutdown again today as 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies strike in defence of jobs, pay, conditions,...
Cabin crew rejoice at the good news that the judiciary had dumped the strike ban

Law Lords Retreat!

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British Airways (BA) cabin crew outside the High Court cheered and danced yesterday morning after a panel of three senior judges overturned a...

Hunt rationing healthcare!

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The BMA yesterday accused Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt of rationing health care. Hunt has announced a £250m drive to eliminate ‘unacceptable’ 12-month waits, with more...