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DID YOU APPROVE A CHANGE TO SHOOT TO KILL? – Blair dodges reporter’s question

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‘Did you ever discuss or approve a change in the rules of engagement for British police to shoot to kill, shoot in the head...

PROSECUTE ISRAEl! – says family of James Miller killed by an Israeli sniper

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The family of James Miller, the Devon film-maker killed in Gaza, yesterday urged Attorney General Lord Goldsmith to take a decision on his case...
Unison members demand ‘No NHS cuts or privatisation’ on the TUC 500,000-strong demonstration in London last October

Bring down the Coalition! – the only way to defend the NHS

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Health Secretary Hunt’s attempt to turn the report on the ‘breakdown in healthcare’ at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust into an attack on the NHS...
Young people condemn Israel in last Saturday’s 100,000-strong march in London

BIRRI REJECTS UN DRAFT – as 11 Israeli soldiers killed, many injured in Katyusha...

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At least eleven Israeli soldiers were killed and dozens more were injured, some seriously, yesterday when a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket scored a direct hit...

Strikes will grind Heathrow to a halt

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WORKERS at Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) are launching three 24-hour strikes over plans to fire and rehire its 4,000 workers on vastly reduced pay...

Slum housing drove up Covid-19 deaths – new Public Health England report

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POOR housing conditions contributed to the disproportionate amount of people who have died of Covid-19 in poverty-stricken communities, a new report released yesterday by...

Johnson cannot rule out Xmas lockdown!

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THE TORY government ‘can’t make hard, fast guarantees’ that there will not be a Christmas lockdown, Deputy PM Dominic Raab said yesterday. The cabinet met...

Families Are Being Uprooted!

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FAMILIES are being uprooted from their council flats or housing association flats and ‘decanted’ hundreds of miles from their homes as areas of London...
Dave Prentis, UNISON General Secretary, taking part in the demonstration against privatisation at Kingston Hospital

Massive Support For NHS March!

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THE ‘I LOVE THE NHS’ march and rally is attracting widespread celebrity support from the world of music, sport, TV, comedy and literature. ...
Protest outside the BMA GPs conference last month, which voted against the introduction of charges

Crippling mental health beds crisis!

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A ‘CRIPPLING’ lack of beds for mental health patients has reached such a crisis point that patients are being sent home, told to camp...
Workers at the Ritzy, Brixton are fighting for the Living Wage in the face of a rapidly rising cost of living. They are taking strike action again today

Inflation & House Prices Rise As Wages Fall!

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INFLATION has risen to 1.8% for the first time in 10 months further cutting the value of wages, as transport prices soared over March...

‘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...
Campaigners celebrate winning a judical review against Lewisham closure in July. Health Secretary Hunt has now lost his appeal against the judges’ decision

Hunt did act ‘illegally’ – in seeking to close Lewisham A&E and Maternity

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THE Court of Appeal yesterday upheld the decision of a Judicial Review not to proceed with the reconfiguration of Lewisham hospital, meaning that the...
Demonstrators in London last month fighting against the closure of the maternity department at Horton Hospital in Oxfordshire

STPs are to dictate budget & service cuts – says BMA

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THE government must not use ‘transformation’ plans as a cover for further cuts to the NHS, says the British Medical Association. Responding to a...
Youth marching on the mass march on the anniversary of the Grenfell fire – TUC delegates demand flammable cladding is banned

‘WORST FIRE SINCE BLITZ’ –Congress discusses Grenfell inferno

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DELEGATES at the Trade Union Congress in Manchester yesterday voted unanimously for Composite Motion 3: Grenfell Tower. The motion condemns the tragedy where...

‘THE MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS A LIAR’ says Saddam Hussein

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At his continuing show trial in Baghdad yesterday, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused Bush of lying about Iraq’s non-existent stockpiles of chemical weapons as...

655,000 iraqis have died as a result of 2003 invasion – says Lancet magazine

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AN estimated 655,000 more Iraqis have died as a consequence of the March 2003 military invasion of Iraq than would have been expected in...

NHS – Unison Serves Strike Notice!

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UNISON has served notice of the first week of industrial action on health and social services employers across Northern Ireland. Phase 1 of the Unison...

One Hour Training For Serco Breast Cancer Screeners

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THE CANCER breast screening scandal has been exacerbated by news that the call handlers on the hotline set up by health secretary Jeremy Hunt...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers 2nd Anniversary Benefit

Gate Gourmet sacked workers 2nd Anniversary Benefit

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Sunday 14 October, 2-8pm Southall Community Centre Merrick Road, Southall (nr Southall station) Beat Gate Gourmet & other cheap labour bosses! Support our cases for racial discrimination against...
West London Council of Action picket of Ealing hospital determined to prevent the hospital from closing

‘We must stop the A&E closures’ – Doctors reply to Nicholson

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‘IT can’t be done’ Southwest London hospital consultant Dr Philip Howard told News Line yesterday in response to a call for more A&E closures...

RESTORE PUBLICLY PROVIDED NHS! – reverse all privatising legislation

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MEMBERS of Parliament are to debate a demand that the government restores England’s publicly provided NHS by reversing all privatising legislation, including ending private...

PM Johnson reaches out to Labour!

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‘WE WILL be reaching out to build the biggest possible consensus,’ Tory PM Johnson said yesterday morning, ‘across business, across industry, across all parts...

‘Corridor care seems to have become the norm’ says the RCN’s Patricia Marquis

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‘NEXT week’s strikes are in protest at unsafe care,’ said Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Director for England, Patricia Marquis yesterday, in response to...
McDonald’s restaurant strikers from Cambridge and Crayford take their demand for £10 an hour to Parliament yesterday

First UK McDonald’s strike in history!

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WORKERS at McDonald’s went on strike on Monday for the first time since the burger bar came to the UK in 1974. About 40 workers from...
ABUL KOYAIR and his wounded brother MOHAMMED ABDUL KAHAR after giving a press conference in Forest Gate yesterday

THE POLICE ACTED LIKE ARMED ROBBERS – they will do it to another family...

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THE two brothers released without charge after the massive state terror operation in Forest Gate told a press conference yesterday how they thought they...
Rolls Royce workers marching to Parliament to defend their jobs

RATES KEPT AT 5% – TUC warns its rates cut or slump

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The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday kept interest rates on hold at 5% as the central bank struggles to deal with...
Junior doctors fought Hunt – who blamed them for alleged weekend deaths – yesterday he apologised for the breast screening crisis that meant that up to 270 women may have had their lives shortened, but did not offer his resignation

Hunt Apologises Over Breast Screening Deaths

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TORY Health Secretary Hunt yesterday apologised ‘wholeheartedly and unreservedly for the suffering caused’ when he admitted that up to 270 women may have had...
Campaigning on Saturday afternoon in Southall Broadway to stop the closure of the Ealing Hospital Maternity Department

Keep Ealing Maternity open!

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A CAMPAIGN team was out on Southall Broadway yesterday fighting for this Wednesday’s march and occupation to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity...

Tanker drivers being ‘driven into conflict’ – says Unite trade union leadership

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TANKER drivers are being driven to strike action, the Unite trade union warned yesterday. The UK’s major oil companies, retailers and independents providing fuel for...
Ealing midwives on the picket line outside the hospital during last year’s strike – The meeting tonight is called to plan next Wednesday’s march & occupation of maternity to stop the closure

Save Ealing Maternity! Occupy Now!

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THERE was enormous support for tonight’s meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday morning. Hospital workers, patients, local residents and youth...
Protest demanding safe insulation and cladding – Grenfell families forced onto UC now face the prospect of not being able to heat their homes

Grenfell survivors forced onto UC by Xmas!

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SURVIVORS of the horrific Grenfell fire are to be forced onto Universal Credit just days before Christmas. Documents released ‘quietly on Budget Day’ show...
Greek workers remain completely opposed to the austerity measures and the betrayal of the Syriza government which has now resigned

Greek Election Crisis!

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SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras announced on Thursday evening that he was resigning as Prime Minister and has called an early Greek election. Tsipras, who was...

‘Treated appallingly by Home Office’ – had passport taken and threatened with forcible removal

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A MAN who had lived legally in the UK since 1962 had his passport confiscated and was threatened with forcible removal from the UK,...

GP referrals to Redditch hospital stopped

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REDDITCH GPs have been asked by commissioners not to refer to a local acute trust for at least three months to allow the hospital...

MI5 carrying out serious crimes is lawful rules Judicial Tribunal

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FIVE judges of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal have given a divided ruling over a secret MI5 policy allowing security service agents to commit...

OCCUPY GM PLANTS – Nationalise motor car industry

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‘THE news that General Motors is heading into bankruptcy means that the future of all GM plants is in the balance, especially the two...
Young Socialists banner on the July 1st march to kick the Tories out demanding the TUC call a general strike

£490bn GOES MISSING! – as bosses move to crash UK economy

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REVISED figures from Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) ‘Blue Book’, which measures economic activity in the UK, show that Britain’s global investments have collapsed...

‘Unlawful Killings’ On Bloody Sunday

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The Tory-led coalition government yesterday protested against leaks which revealed that the Saville Inquiry report into Bloody Sunday has found that some of the...

250,000 IN NEGATIVE EQUITY! – as Ryanair announce 10% fleet cut

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CITIGROUP bank has warned the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) against upping interest rates when it meets this week. It noted that already...
A delegation of nurses and representatives of patient charities outside Downing Street yesterday

Rcn Demands ‘A Pause’

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A PETITION signed by over 46,000 nurses and members of the public was delivered to 10 Downing Street yesterday by a delegation from the...

Hamas Rejects Israeli Gaza ‘Conquest’ Threat

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‘HAMAS rejects Israel’s Gaza conquest threats’, senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi declared yesterday after Israel announced plans for the ‘conquest’ and indefinite occupation of...

Tanker Drivers Offer: 14% Over 2 Years

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Shell tanker drivers working for contracted suppliers Hoyer UK and Suckling are being balloted on a 14% rise over two years pay deal reached...

Inquiry into undercover police spies opens!

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THE Public inquiry launched yesterday into the Police Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) ‘will expose both creditable and discreditable conduct, practice and management’, Justice Pitchford...