‘NOW PUNISH THE GUILTY!’ – demands Palestine Red Crescent

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THE Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) demanded an independent investigation into Israel’s killing of 15 paramedics in Gaza last month, when it held a...

£15bn PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS, PLEDGES DARLING – as unemployment leaps by 177,000

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Chancellor Alistair Darling announced £15bn public sector ‘efficiency savings’ and slave labour schemes for youth in yesterday’s Budget. This came as the latest figures showed...

Scottish midwives industrial action vote!

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MIDWIFE and maternity support worker (MSW) members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) across Scotland have overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ on taking industrial action,...

COUNCIL WORKERS 2% PAY INSULT – as inflation rises to 4.6%

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COUNCIL worker unions angrily rejected a 2 per cent wage cut pay offer yesterday, as inflation hit 4.6 per cent, the highest in 16...

HYPOCRISY! – No pay for snowbound tube workers

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London Mayor Boris Johnson was yesterday accused of ‘gross hypocrisy’ by rail union TSSA after tube staff were told they will not be paid...

STOP PRESCRIPTION CHARGES! – End unfair NHS in England urge Welsh doctors

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DOCTORS in Wales yesterday called for doctors’ prescriptions to be made free to all patients in England. On the second anniversary of the abolition of...

Fox-Gove Brexit Surrender

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THE TORY Brexiteers are starting to split with a number moving to support PM May and a Customs Union with the EU. The UK...

‘Unite, Rise Up And Resist The Invaders’

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President Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis to ‘unite, rise up and resist the invaders’, at his show trial yesterday. This prompted chief judge Rauf Abdel...

BMA leader to condemn unreal government demands!

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ADDRESSING the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) this morning, Dr Mark Porter will reaffirm the BMA’s position on seven-day hospital services – that patients...

UK-CIA Inquiry Boycott

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NINE rights groups have said they will boycott a parliamentary inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the CIA’s torture and rendition programmes. Amnesty International, Reprieve,...

Arab League Condemns US Veto!

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The Arab League has criticised the United States for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution that sought to condemn Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip. The...

BUSH – NO DEAL! – as capitalism crashes

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Bush made a two-minute statement on the White House Lawn yesterday following his failure to get agreement on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s massive $700...
Junior doctors and nurses are battling to defend the NHS from the attacks of the Tories led by health secretary Hunt

Austerity has produced the healthcare crisis says BMA

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THE GP funding crisis is seeing patients in the most deprived areas of England facing poorer levels of care due to an over-reliance on...

Israeli tanks close Rafah crossing!

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AS the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 214 yesterday, aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and target different...

Junior Doctors Still Demanding 35%

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RESPONDING to yesterday’s recommendation from the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (DDRB) and the government’s acceptance of that recommendation, the BMA says...

School And Market Targeted As Israeli Genocide Escalates

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‘BOMBARDMENT is overwhelming the entire Gaza Strip, with no respite since the early hours of this morning,’ Palestinians reported from Gaza yesterday. At least nine...

Junior Doctors – nine more strike dates

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JUNIOR Doctors are to strike for three days before Christmas and six early in the New Year following five weeks of fruitless talks between...
GM Luton convenor GARY REA waves goodbye to Business Secretary Mandelson after their meeting in which Mandelson refused to guarantee jobs at the Luton plant – workers now expect a mass meeting

Magna To Send Business Plans To Mandelson

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Business Secretary Mandelson has signalled that the government may provide a bridging loan or loan guarantees to help finance the sale of GM...

27,000 NHS Jobs To Go

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned that nearly 27,000 NHS jobs have been earmarked to be cut in the UK, 18,000 of...
The NUT picket line at Ellis Guilford school in Nottingham yesterday – teachers are opposed to a 5-term year

Notts NUT strike action

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Nottingham teachers held a second successful one-day strike yesterday against the City Council’s plan to impose a five-term year. Speaking ahead of yesterday’s strike, John...
Postal workers in the front line of the strike against Brown’s privatisation policies – they are determined to defend the Royal Mail

PANIC RESHUFFLE! – while the rats continue to leave sinking ship

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Prime Minister Brown held a press conference late afternoon yesterday to announce the cabinet changes in a hurried reshuffle following the resignations of five...

‘Single Status Used To Cut Wages’

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PUBLIC sector union UNISON finds itself in conflict with employers using equal opportunity legislation supposed to protect the most vulnerable workers, to oppress them...

Chagossians Lobby Mauritian Embassy

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OVER 60 Chagossians lobbied the Mauritian Embassy in London yesterday to ask what had happened to all of the compensation paid by the British...

Inflation Surge!

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inflation leapt in December with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rising to 3.7 per cent, up from 3.3 per cent in November, and the...

Israeli forces continue bombardment of Gaza

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ISRAELI forces continued to bombard the Gaza Strip on Thursday despite an announcement by mediators that a ceasefire agreement had been reached to end...

DNA DATABASE ‘BY STEALTH’! – 40,000 innocent children among 4 million on base

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The Brown government was yesterday accused of building up a national DNA database ‘by stealth’ by retaining profiles of nearly 40,000 children never...

Furlough scheme will be extended till October 31

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THE FURLOUGH scheme, where currently 6.2 million workers who are not working during the coronavirus crisis are getting 80% of their wages paid by...

RCN warns ‘Patients are suffering!

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PATIENTS are suffering as the prime minister fails to tackle the waiting list crisis, RCN warns, as new analysis reveals decade of misery. The prime...

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...

Warmongers meet in Wales!

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WESTERN leaders yesterday criticised Russia for its ‘destabilising’ influence on the crisis in Ukraine, at the start of a Nato summit in Wales. Nato and...
Greek workers marching on May Day with a banner reading ‘The bosses’ junta is not invincible’ referring to the European union

MERKEL DEMANDS POLITICAL UNION! –as the price for Spanish bailout

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THE Bank of England yesterday left UK interest rates unchanged at 0.5 per cent and announced no expansion to its quantitative easing (QE-printing money)...

Battle For Marjayoun!

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Hezbollah fighters yesterday took out two Israeli tanks, killing and wounding their crews, as they fought off an enemy attempt to take Marjayoun just...
Tamils in Parliament Square on Monday demonstrate against the Sri Lankan Army genocide against the Tamil people

TAMIL LEADERS TREACHEROUSLY KILLED WHILE UNDER WHITE FLAG – Prabakaran still alive and fight...

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WHILE rejecting Colombo’s claim of the killing of LTTE leader V Prabakaran and assuring his safety and well-being, LTTE’s International Relations Head S...

Prison staff at breaking point

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‘WE NEED a general strike before this government dismantles everything. The trade union movement must stand up as one. There is a breaking point...

May hands Parliament power to delay Brexit

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TODAY a motion is to be put to Parliament where MPs will vote on the sequence of events leading up to Brexit. On the eve...
Labour MP TOM WATSON (holding poster on left) joins the GMB demonstration outside McDonald’s headquarters in Finchley yesterday morning

NO ZERO HOURS CONTRACTS AT McDonald’s

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RENT payments aren’t flexible and neither are gas bills or the weekly shopping bill, so flexible wages are not much use to anyone except...
Radiographers outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London during the national pay strike – the Royal College of Radiologists have declared a ‘Red Alert’

Radiologists ‘Red Alert!’

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BY THE END of this week Raigmore Hospital in Inverness Scotland will lose its last radiologist, prompting the Royal College of Radiologists to declare...

‘WE ARE LOSING IN IRAQ’ says US Senator Chuck Hagel

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Leading Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has warned the US is ‘losing in Iraq’. He slammed the George W Bush administration’s Iraq policy as ‘disconnected from...
Sacked Lindsey workers and their supporters marching on Tuesday in a 2,000-strong show of strength

LINDSEY VICTORY! – all 647 sacked men to return to work‘It’s a good deal,’...

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‘It’s a good deal,’ sacked Lindsey oil refinery worker Dave Pritchard told News Line yesterday. He was responding to the agreement reached on Thursday night...

Scunthorpe scaffolders step up strike

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SCUNTHORPE scaffolders have stepped up strike action at a British Steel site. The British Steel plant in Scunthorpe faces further disruption this month as scaffolders...

Gate Gourmet locked-out workers are aiming for a New Year victory!

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‘OUR fight is continuing and so is our picket,’ locked out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News Line yesterday. ‘We have rejected the Compromise...
Victorious dancing in the square in front of the Vouli as the Papandreou government falls

Greek General Strike Topples Government!

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THE massive united action of workers and youth in Greece, unleashed in the enormous one-day general strike last Wednesday, has toppled the hated government...
Crowds of supporters celebrate the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader at the Refugees Welcome march in September 2015

KICK TORIES OUT ON JUNE 8th

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‘I HAVE just chaired a meeting of the cabinet, where we agreed that the government should call a general election, to be held on...
Angry students marching through central London demanding an end to all tuition fees, the restoration of grants and no privatisation

‘Organise and fight!’ – education must be free!

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STUDENT Unions (SU) across the country have slammed the National Union of Students (NUS) President Toni Pearce’s decision to pull out of today’s national...

TORY PARTY ‘IN THE GRIP OF THE DUP AND THE ERG’ – 3...

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THREE Tory MPs resigned yesterday to join the independent pro-EU group, set up by seven former Labour MPs who have now been joined by...