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March in London earlier this month against the Housing Bill

Tory Bill will ‘kill social housing’ warn councils

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THE new Tory Housing and Planning Bill will ‘kill social housing’ a leading West Midlands councillor Frank Allen warned yesterday. All over the country council...

Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian Homes

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ISRAELI forces yesterday made preparations for the punitive demolition of the family houses of three Palestinians suspected of carrying out a fatal attack outside...
Teachers marching against the Tories’ forced academies – now the NUT conference has voted to scrap the ‘Prevent Strategy’

NUT rejects the ‘Prevent’ policy

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THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for the scrapping of the Tory ‘Prevent Strategy’. Delegates condemned the government’s...

Palestinian Killed At Point Blank Range

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VIDEO footage has emerged showing a Palestinian being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier at point-blank range despite lying motionless and severely...
Refugees in the Moria camp are in a prison until they are to be moved out of Greece by the police and army. Photo credit: left.gr

Army & police will be deployed in the removal of refugees

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REFUGEES staged protests shouting ‘freedom’, in English, last Wednesday and Thursday, at the main gate of the Moria village ‘Detention Centre,’ that is, concentration...

370,000 Council Homes To Be Sold Off!

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370,000 council and housing association homes will be sold off in England by 2020, the head of the Chartered Institute of Housing has warned. Terrie...
Traditional Indian Dhol drum beat to the rhythm of the 50-strong picket’s chants of ‘Hands off Charlie Chaplin Ward! Save Ealing Hospital!’

Charlie Chaplin Children’s Ward Must Not Close!

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‘THE Charlie Chaplin Children’s Ward must not close!’ Jaswinder Pannu exclaimed yesterday morning. She spoke to News Line during the 50-strong mass picket of Ealing...
Junior doctors on the picket line at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddingdon on 10th March – they have now stepped up their struggle

Junior doctors escalate struggle – after Tories refuse to talk

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The BMA yesterday confirmed an escalation of the junior doctors industrial action scheduled for April. This follows the continued refusal by the government to step...

Arrogant Osborne refuses to apologise – McDonnell calls for him to go!

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‘LET me say to him (Tory chancellor Osborne) I certainly think for the sake of this country that it is time for him to...
The 60-strong picket outside the Maudsley hospital was rock solid with vuvuzelas and whistles – strikers shouted: ‘Ten pounds an hour!’

Maudsley Hospital strike

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AS MANY as 200 cleaners and domestic workers at four south London hospitals took strike action yesterday demanding their wages are increased to £10...

‘Osborne & Cameron must quit’

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TORY Chancellor Osborne refused to appear in parliament yesterday to answer an urgent question on the crisis surrounding last Wednesday’s budget, which cut disabled...

Tory Split Deepens!

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THE Tory government risks dividing society, Iain Duncan Smith warned yesterday in his first interview since resigning as Work and Pensions Secretary. He attacked the...
100,000-strong ‘Refugees Welcome’ march proposes a different kind of deal for Cameron

Gunboat diplomacy! – Cameron targets refugees

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TORY PM Cameron has been accused of ‘gun boat diplomacy,’ after the announcement that Royal Navy vessels will be deployed this summer to turn...

£1.9bn black hole pensions raid –as Corbyn ready to force vote on disabled cuts

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A PENSIONS black hole has been identified in the Tory Chancellor’s budget plan with figures emerging yesterday showing that the...

Benefit Cuts Revolt!

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A TORY disability campaigner has handed in his party membership and sabotaged a Tory Party website in protest over brutal disability benefit cuts. Graeme Ellis,...

CUTS FOR THE WORKERS – tax cuts for the rich

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TORY Chancellor Osborne delivered a class war Budget yesterday offering whole swathes of new tax breaks for the rich, while hammering benefits, public services,...
Striking sixth form teachers massed outside parliament yesterday against Tory cuts to education

NUT sixth form strike defiant!

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NUT SIXTH form teachers walked out on strike yesterday morning at colleges across the country against Tory funding cuts that are driving up...
NUT members on the TUC march demanding that education is defended – 6th form college members are on strike today

NUT strike is on!

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TODAY’S NUT 6th form college strike is on! The Tory government took the NUT to the High Court yesterday in an attempt to rule...
A section of the 10,000-strong ‘Kill the Bill’ march as it entered the Strand yesterday

Hands Off Our Homes! Say 10,000 Marchers

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HANDS off our Homes! Kill the Bill! Homes for People! Not for Profit!’ chanted protesters yesterday on a 10,000-strong march through central London against...

More Budget Cuts!

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TORY Chancellor Osborne warned yesterday that the deepening world crisis of capitalism means he must ‘act now rather than pay later’ and include...

Hand all academies & free schools back

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CHIEF Inspector of Schools Michael Wilshaw has criticised the heads of some academy chains for being paid vast salaries, up to £225,000 a...

USDAW delighted at Tory defeat!

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SHOPWORKERS trade union leader John Hannett is delighted with the House of Commons vote that defeated the government and removed Sunday trading changes...

Legal threat to Sheffield occupation!

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THE University of Sheffield has been granted a court order to remove 19 students who have been occupying a lecture theatre for more than...
Junior doctors out in force on a demonstration three days before their last strike on February 10th – this time they are out for 48 hours

Junior doctors 48hr strike today

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‘OTHER trade unions should take action to support us and defend the NHS and I really hope we are all going to come together...

500,000 sanctioned in 12 MONTHS

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CAMPAIGNERS will be protesting outside Jobcentres in over 70 towns and cities across the UK on Wednesday (9 March 2016) as part of...

Property crash fears!

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BANKS and speculators are attempting to offload mortgage default risk onto unsuspecting taxpayers and pension funds amid fears of a looming property crash in...
HELEN PANKHURST, great-granddaughter of suffragette founder, Emmeline (centre left, in hat) next to RACHEL HOLMES  (centre, author of ‘Eleanor Marx: A Life’) with the crowd at the ‘Walk in Her Shoes’ rally

Walking in the shoes of the suffragettes

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LEADING stars, joined crowds at a rally and march yesterday morning, led by two generations of the historic suffragette Pankhurst family in London on...

Refugee crisis doubles

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THE number of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has doubled to 1,255,600 during 2015, figures released yesterday show. Imperialist wars in Iraq Afghanistan and...

‘Police spy should have been charged’ – say Stephen Lawrence’s parents

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THE police officer involved in an alleged plot to spy on the parents of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence should have faced disciplinary charges...

300 GP surgeries are facing closure

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ALMOST 300 GP practices are facing closure, a new BMA survey released today has warned. The crisis in general practice is set to worsen according...

‘Shut down Harmondsworth’

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‘SHUT down Harmondsworth immigration centre!’ demanded the Movement for Justice yesterday, in response to a damning report which exposed the centre as being...

PSPOs criminalise homeless & youth

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‘IN KETTERING it is illegal to go out after 11 at night if you are under 18. In Hillingdon you cannot gather in...

Police clash with refugees in Greece & Calais

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REFUGEES broke down the barbed wire fence on the Greek border with Macedonia yesterday, using a steel pole as a battering ram. The protesters shouted:...

Defend Heathrow jobs rally today!

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HUNDREDS of British Airways workers are demonstrating outside the airline’s Heathrow HQ today against the outsourcing and offshoring of their jobs to Tata Consultancy...
Picture shows the two refugees hanging from a tree in central Athens’ Victoria Square. They had been extremely depressed after  continual refusals to allow them to travel further into the EU

Refugees hang in Victoria Square, Athens

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TWO desperate refugees tried to commit suicide by hanging themselves in central Athens’ Victoria Square on Thursday. With the EU states bordering Greece...
A strong and determined mass picket at Ealing Hospital yesterday morning vowed that action will be taken to stop the closure

Ealing Hospital mass picket

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‘STRIKE action is the only way forward. How can we drive our buses safely if there is no A&E at Ealing hospital?’ bus driver...
Greek farmers attacked by riot police while protesting against a massive attack on pensions imposed on Greece by the European Union Photo credit: Marios Lolos

‘GREECE WILL NOT BECOME THE EU’s LEBANON’

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GREECE has recalled its ambassador to Austria amid sharp divisions among EU states over the migrant crisis. The move came after Austria hosted a meeting...
Unison and UCU strikers on the picket line at the College of North East London carrying out a one-day strike action against the proposal to continue with a pay freeze

Sixth Form Colleges Fighting Pay Freeze!

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LECTURERS, librarians, technicians, cleaners and caretakers in Unison and the UCU union walked out on strike in Sixth Form Colleges around the country yesterday,...

Three new junior doctors strikes

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JUNIOR doctors in England have confirmed three further strike dates. In a BMA ballot of junior doctors last November, 98 per cent of those who...
Lecturers at Lambeth College marching through Brixton during their strike action last year

Colleges strike today

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THOUSANDS of furious staff walked out of Further Education colleges across England from 7.00am this morning in a one-day strike to oppose a proposed...
Junior doctors demonstrating three days before their last strike which won mass support

‘Escalate strike action! End the imposition’ says Junior Doctors Committee

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‘THE Junior Doctors Committee has made clear the decision that further industrial action is inevitable and that we will consider escalating any action to...
Junior doctors picketing North Middlesex Hospital during their strike on February 10th – they are fighting an imposed contract for a safer NHS

A&E patients told ‘go home!’

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MANY http://www.wrp.org.uk/admin.php?op=adminStorypatients who had been waiting seven-hours in the A&E department at Edmonton’s North Middlesex Hospital were told on Friday night to go home...

Tories Split Over Eu

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PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday defended his renegotiation of Britain’s terms of EU membership, as a number of his cabinet ministers lined up to call...

US terror raid on Libya!

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US WARPLANES launched a major airstrike in Libya early on Friday morning killing, 40 people in one hit. The terror raid was launched from the...
Junior doctors on the picket line – they are now preparing to come out on strike again

Imposed junior doctors contract hits cancer patients

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470 CANCER doctors have signed a joint statement warning Health Secretary Hunt that the new imposed junior doctors contract ‘will lead to worse outcomes...