Firefighters are determined to defend the fire service from a government that is determined to cut it to pieces

Negotiate or face the consequences! FBU leader Wrack warns government

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DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Bournemouth, yesterday took up the cudgels against privatisation and cuts in the fire, prison and probation services, Royal...

100 TORY MPs READY TO REBEL

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THE TORY civil war is continuing with reports yesterday that as many as 100 Tory MPs are preparing to rebel against PM...
Doctors at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh yesterday

Darzi Rejected – Bma Conference Votes For No NHS Privatisation!

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DOCTORS at the Annual Representative Meeting of the British Medical Association in Edinburgh yesterday voted to stop the privatisation of the NHS, and voted...

‘Enforce British values’ – Cameron

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TORY Prime Minister Cameron yesterday stepped up his war against ‘extremism in all its forms’ both ‘violent and non-violent’, announcing measures to shut down...

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...
Demonstrators in London last May determined to defend the NHS

BMA rejects NHS charging

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) is today warning against NHS charging. Responding to Lord Warner’s call to introduce charging patients a monthly fee to...
Youth demanding justice for the Grenfell inferno victims on last Tuesday’s silent march through North Kensington

71 died in Grenfell inferno! says Police Commander Cundy

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THE POLICE have claimed that the final death toll for Grenfell Tower is seventy one and have for the first time admitted that CCTV...
Thousands of teachers march through central London yesterday during their nationwide strike against savage cuts

‘We are defending education’ from massive Tory cuts!

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‘THIS demo is just the start, this strike is just the start,’ Kevin Courtney NUT acting General Secretary told a mass rally of teachers...

Israel targeting the national & historical rights of Palestinians

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THE Palestinian Land Authority stated that the recent decisions of the Israeli occupation authorities represent a dangerous and unprecedented escalation directly targeting the national...
Palestinians being gassed and under live fire from Israeli troops at the Gaza border with Israel

PROSECUTE ISRAEL! – Erekat urges International Criminal Court

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THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has slammed Israel’s new land grab plans, urging the International Criminal Court (ICC) to speed up its investigation into...

BBC Asian Network 24hr strike

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BBC Asian Network went on a 24-hour strike yesterday against the axing of one out of two editor posts in Birmingham and moving a...

Greek Seafarers National Strike!

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GREEK seafarers of the PENEN trade union (deck hands) staged a most important national strike last Thursday morning against a government Bill which wipes...

Hamas calls for unconditional ceasefire in Gaza

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THE Hamas Movement, along with the Palestinian presidency, welcomed the UN General Assembly’s overwhelming adoption on Thursday of a resolution calling for an immediate,...

Rendition Case Proceeds

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THE Obama Administration cannot use state secrecy doctrine to block Binyam Mohamed’s litigation against aviation company, Jeppesen Dataplan, a US Federal Court ruled yesterday....
‘Unity is strength’ – Scottish workers carrying the Dundee Trades Council banner marching alongside workers from England and Wales on the half-a-million-strong TUC demonstration against government cuts in March 2011

SCOTS WORKERS REJECT THE NATIONALISTS – Forward to socialism

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EARLY yesterday morning it was officially declared that the Scottish Nationalists were defeated as Scotland voted to stay in the United Kingdom after the...

Daily Israeli ceasefire violations!

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HAMAS says that since the ceasefire agreement came into effect last month, Israel ‘has not ceased its daily and continuous’ violations. According to the statement...

£512 billion propping up banks!

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Banks are relying on the taxpayer for £512 billion support this year, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee reported yesterday. The parliamentary...

‘US plots to devalue our currency have failed!’ – says Iran

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THE GOVERNOR of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said yesterday that plots to force a massive devaluation of Iran’s national currency to ruin...

STOP TUC TALKS WITH TORIES – Barber must be sacked!

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‘The TUC-Tory talks must stop’, Dave Wiltshire the All Trades Union Alliance Secretary told News Line yesterday. Wiltshire said: ‘Brendan Barner is discussing with Cameron...

PCS Universal Credit strike ballot

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PUBLIC and Commercial Services (PCS) union members working in Universal Credit are voting on whether to take strike action over workloads and staff recruitment. The...

GAZA BUFFER ZONE – Israelis threaten to shoot-on-sight

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Israeli planes yesterday dropped leaflets in northern Gaza to warn Palestinians that they will be shot dead on sight if they enter a newly...

Lively picket lines outside Imperial College campuses

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THERE were lively picket lines outside Imperial College London in White City and South Kensington yesterday. Imperial College staff resumed strikes last Thursday against a...
CWU pickets at the East London Mail Centre called for national strike action

‘WE NEED A NATIONAL STRIKE!’ – say striking London postal workers

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THE CWU Postal National Executive is meeting next Tuesday and is expected to carry a resolution for a national ballot for national strike action...

‘We are on the brink of making history’ says New York’s first socialist mayor

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ZOHRAM MAMDANI, a self-proclaimed ‘democratic socialist’, was elected the 111th mayor of New York yesterday. He is the first person of South Asian descent and...
Nurses on the march against the pay cap – they are now very angry at their leaders’ sell-out of their pay claim

Angry Nurses Force Re-Call Over Wages!

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NURSES’ anger over the NHS pay sell-out has forced the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) to call an Emergency General Meeting in ‘late September’,...
Queue outside the Northern Rock bank in Harruw on Tuesday of savers determined to take out their money

NORTHERN ROCK CRASHES – as gold reaches $726 an ounce and oil $82 a...

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SHARES in Northern Rock slumped yesterday leaving the Brown government contemplating the £28 billion guarantee it has given to secure its deposits. Financial markets around...

‘WE’RE NOT BORDER GUARDS’ – say doctors’ leaders yesterday

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THE Tory-LibDem Coalition government announced yesterday that it intends to charge all ‘non-EU nationals’ who come to Britain £200 a year for access to...
Sacked cleaners occupying the Greek Finance Ministry barricaded themselves in and chained the doors to keep the riot police out. Photo credit: MARIAS LOLOS

Sacked cleaners occupy Ministry!

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THE sacked cleaners of the Greek Finance Ministry are continuing the occupation of a ministry building in central Athens since Thursday morning. They have barricade...

Food And Clothes Prices Soar

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SOARING food and clothing prices saw the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate measure for March rising to 3.5% from 3.4% in February. The Office...

More than 125,000 skin infections in Gaza!

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MORE than 125,000 cases of skin infections linked to rats and parasites have been recorded in Gaza in the first five months of 2026. United...

‘Free pass to commit war crimes’ – Amnesty slams army immunity from prosecution

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‘IT IS in no-one’s interests for members of the armed forces to be given a free pass over alleged war crimes’ said Kate Allen,...

LEGISLATION IS ESSENTIAL – says Leveson

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LORD JUSTICE Leveson yesterday called for tougher press self-regulation backed by legislation. Announcing the publication of his report at a news conference which took no...

Johnson willing to scrap Iran deal for ‘Trump deal’

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TORY PM Johnson, yesterday morning stated he is willing to scrap the Iran nuclear deal in favour of a ‘Trump deal’. Then, in a move...

Starmer Trashes Labour Renationalisation Policy

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LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves trashed the party’s renationalisation policy yesterday. In a speech in Liverpool, with a back-drop bedecked...
Doctors at the Local Medical Committees conference yesterday said exactly what they thought of Health Secretary Hunt

‘GPs – patients champions!’

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GPs at the BMA Local Medical Committees annual conference in London yesterday debated motions in relation to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and his policies. They...

‘WE ARE NOT THE AGGRESSORS’ – Putin condemns US support for Georgia

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Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin yesterday accused the US of trying to disrupt the Russian military operation in South Ossetia by transporting Georgian troops...

3-day week looms! JCB cuts 4,000 workers’ hours

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DIGGER manufacturer JCB is cutting production and working hours in the UK as it faces a shortage of components from China due to the...
Gate Gourmet locked out workers picketing TGWU Hillingdon office yesterday determined to force their union leaders to rip up the Compromise Deal

‘RIP UP THE DEAL’ demand locked out Gate Gourmet workers

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Gate Gourmet locked out workers are calling on British Airways workers and all workers to join them on their anniversary march and rally in...
An enthusiastic welcome for the marchers when they arrived in Glossop

Great Welcome In Glossop For Marchers

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The Young Socialists March from Manchester to London for Jobs and Free State Education reached Sheffield late yesterday afternoon after a massive reception in...

‘More NHS cuts will harm patients’

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THE British Medical Association yesterday warned that further NHS cuts will compromise patient care. It was responding to the publication of a review into NHS...

NHS crisis rattles coalition!

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THE government plan to set up a £3.8bn a year fund to amalgamate health and social care, has collapsed and has been ‘postponed’. 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...
A section of yesterday’s picket of the Department of health demanding that the Whittington hospital be kept open

NHS IS AT STAKE! –says DoH picket

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OVER 50 people joined a picket of the Department of Health yesterday, demanding that the government honour a pledge from Tory Health Secretary Lansley...
Very determined road haulage workers gathering at Marble Arch before proceeding to Downing Street to hand in a letter

BLOCKADES IN A WEEK! – road hauliers give Brown 7 days notice

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ANGRY road hauliers yesterday spelled out exactly what they will do when the government tries to ignore their huge protest convoys against soaring fuel...

UN Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide In The Gaza Strip!

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A UNITED Nations investigation has found that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, systematically targeting reproductive healthcare facilities as part of...