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JEWS SAY NO TO SALE OF ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS
MORE than 100 politicians have joined calls demanding the government halt the sale of illegal settlements in British synagogues, as campaigners warned against normalising colonisation in Palestine. Jewish anti-zionists protested outside the Great...
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JUDGE’S TERROR RULING ‘UNJUST’
HUNDREDS of protesters gathered outside Woolwich Crown Court against the “completely unjust” trial of four Palestine Action activists who broke into the British factory of Israelbased arms firm Elbit Systems. A judged ruled yesterday that the...
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STARMER DRAMA AS HEALEY BOMBS OUT
SIR KEIR STARMER’S tottering authority crumbled further yesterday as Defence Secretary John Healey quit in a row over arms spending. Mr Healey slammed Sir Keir for not overruling Chancellor Rachel Reeves in an argument over how fast to raise the...
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Concern grows over health official’s Palantir ties at time of NHS bidding ‘STINK OF LEGAL CORRUPTION’
HEALTH campaigners demanded the government put an end to the “dizzying revolving door of corruption” after it was revealed today that a top health official had close ties with Palantir while it was bidding for a £330 million contract with the NHS....
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A WAR ABROAD — BUT A BILLS CRISIS FOR BRITS AT HOME
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PAID TO POLLUTE
SOUTHERN WATER has sparked fury with “absolutely disgusting” plans to dump sewage into a major Isle of Wight tourist hotspot, which is home to rare seagrass and seahorses. The utility firm announced it will add a 22-metre extension to an old sewage...
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STARMER CONDEMNS MUSK FOR TRYING TO ‘WHIP UP DIVISION’
SIR KEIR STARMER told Elon Musk yesterday to stop trying to divide Britain and get out of British politics in a long-overdue pushback against the pro-fascist billionaire. The Prime Minister, who has long avoided offending Mr Musk for fear of upsetting...
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UNFORGIVABLE
NIGEL FARAGE was slammed for an “unforgivable” snub to the grieving family of teen murder victim Henry Nowak yesterday after far-right riots left 11 police officers injured in Southampton. PM Sir Keir Starmer blasted the Reform UK leader’s cynical...
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TIME FOR ENERGY WE CONTROL, NOT THE PROFITEERS
CLIMATE campaigners have warned that a transition that swaps one form of profiteering for another cannot be accepted after the government committed yesterday to an 87 per cent emissions cut by 2040. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband announced the plan,...
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MANDELSON FILES LATEST DEEPENS STARMER’S SHAME
THOUSANDS of documents and messages detailing Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment and activities as US ambassador were published by the government yesterday. The disclosure, including internal emails and WhatsApp messages, is an “unprecedented piece of...
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‘KEEP SPY-TECH CREEPS OUT OF OUR NHS FILES’
CONTROVERSIAL US tech firm Palantir should not be allowed to develop a new NHS system amid fears “creeps” will be allowed access to a patient’s entire medical records, unions warned ahead of a parliamentary debate today. The NHS Modernisation Bill is...
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AI WAR ON REFUGEE CHILDREN
CAMPAIGNERS have slammed the government over plans to use “dangerous and discriminatory” AI facial scanning to guess the age of unaccompanied children seeking asylum. The Home Office announced yesterday that it had awarded a £322,000 contract to...
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GENERATION LOST
MORE than a million young people are not in work or education, a major report found yesterday, warning of a “lost generation.” Former health secretary Alan Milburn warned that a “wholesystem failure” has led to nearly one in seven 16 to 24-year-olds...
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WORKERS PAY TO BANKROLL TRUMP’S WAR
HOUSEHOLDS must not bear the brunt of US President Donald Trump’s illegal war, campaigners warned yesterday, as energy bills are set to rise by 13 per cent. Ofgem’s new price cap from July 1 will see the typical household face an annual energy cost of...
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COURTS DEGRADING BRITONS’ RIGHTS TO PROTEST — REPORT
COURTS are “degrading the right to protest” with 256 Palestine and climate protesters jailed for 136 years since 2019, an expert report revealed yesterday. Palestine solidarity activists are among the most oppressed with three in five held longer than...
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IT’S SPIRALLING OUT OF CONTROL
RECORD NHS spending on private firms to analyse diagnostic scans is “spiralling out of control” amid soaring demand and a lack of in-house capacity, research shows. NHS trusts and health boards gave £241 million to outsourced companies to interpret CT...
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PM JOINS OUTCRY OVER BOYS SPARED CUSTODY FOR RAPING TWO GIRLS
A COURT ruling sparing two boys from jail time after they raped two girls was called “appalling” by the Prime Minister yesterday as campaigners condemned the decision and the Attorney General opened a review of the sentences. Sir Keir Starmer said it...
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BURNHAM: I WILL BRING BACK THE LABOUR OF OLD
ANDY BURNHAM promised voters he will restore Labour to the party “they used to know” as he officially launched his campaign to return to Westminster yesterday. Standing against Reform UK in the Makerfield by-election, the Greater Manchester mayor...
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BE A BIT BRAVER ON PRICE CRISIS
MINISTERS must be bolder in tackling the cost-of-living crisis, TUC general secretary Paul Nowak warned yesterday. He was speaking as Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled a package of measures to ease the impact of spiralling prices on families,...
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BURNHAM BOUNCE CAN BEAT REFORM
LABOUR could see off Reform with a “Burnham bounce” if the Greater Manchester mayor replaced Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister, latest polling revealed yesterday. The findings came as Mr Burnham plunged into the by-election fight in Makerfield, a...
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NO WORK NO HOURS NO HOPE
UNIONS hit out at an “epidemic of insecure work” as the economic fallout from the Iran war was revealed for the first time yesterday. Youth unemployment has risen to its highest rate in more than a decade with one in seven (14.7 per cent) 16 to...
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RACIST ATTACKS ON NHS NURSES: ONE EVERY HOUR
NURSES suffer racial abuse once every 51 minutes amid a “catastrophic rise” in discrimination over recent years, new analysis shows. There have been more than 40,000 incidents involving racial abuse or discrimination between 2022 and 2025, according...
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BRITAIN STANDS AGAINST RACISTS
PROTEST organisers hailed the hundreds of thousands of antiracists turning out in London on Saturday to oppose the far right and defend the right to protest on Nakba Day. Palestine Solidarity Campaign said that 250,000 anti-racists, trade unionists,...
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UNITED AGAINST FAR-RIGHT HATE
HUNDREDS of thousands of demonstrators are expected to march in London today to mark the 78th anniversary of the Nakba and to unite against the far right. Protesters are demanding an end to Britain’s complicity in Israel’s military occupation,...
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QUITTER STREETING TURNS UP HEAT ON PM
LABOUR lurched a step closer to a leadership contest yesterday as Wes Streeting finally resigned from the Cabinet and an MP quit to make way for the return of Andy Burnham. Streeting slammed Sir Keir’s lack of vision and leadership, called out a...
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HEAD TO HEAD
LABOUR stands poised on the edge of a leadership election as Blairite Wes Streeting gears up to challenge Sir Keir Starmer. The Health Secretary is expected to announce tomorrow that he is quitting the Cabinet to fight the Prime Minister for the top...
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PETER MERTENS: MOOD HAS CHANGED AS BELGIUM’S WORKERS STRIKE BACK
TODAY Belgium will grind to a halt. A general strike supported by the three main trade union confederations is expected to paralyse transport across the country. Organisers expect 100,000 people to demonstrate on the streets of Brussels. Given the...
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STOP Left MPs call to block Streeting as WES vultures circle Starmer
STOP Wes Streeting, left MPs were urging yesterday as fears grew that the Blairite Health Secretary is poised to stage a takeover from Sir Keir Starmer in Downing Street. As the mood grew across Labour that Sir Keir’s premiership is holed below the...
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Finger points at PM for Labour defeat as SNP on course to win
North Kincardine constituency, meaning he will be expected to resign his Westminster seat. “It looks to most people like the SNP are going to win a fifth historic term in government in Scotland, and let it be known that soon Scotland will be an...
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Shell announces ‘obscene’ profits thanks to conflict
LABOUR was urged to back hardup Britons by closing energy tax loopholes after Shell reported “obscene” £5 billion profits thanks to the Iran war yesterday. Europe’s biggest oil and gas producer sparked fury as it reported better-than-expected...
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LOOKS LIKE YOUR NUMBER’S UP, PM
LABOUR is facing electoral annihilation across the country today in elections which could bring the hard-right Reform UK a major step closer to power. Much of Britain is set to deliver a damning verdict on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s two years...
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BIG FOUR BANKS MAKE £14BN IN THREE MONTHS
UNIONS have called for a “common sense” increase to the bank windfall tax after the Big Four made £13.8 billion in the first quarter of 2026. The TUC said lifting the surcharge could raise up to £60bn over four years as the latest figures show...
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Starmer cornered over pledge to join £78 billion arms loan
‘WELFARE BEFORE WARFARE’ PEACE campaigners urged the prime minister to put “welfare before weapons” yesterday as Sir Keir Starmer suggested joining a £78 billion arms loan for Ukraine would create jobs. Yesterday, Sir Keir announced Britain’s bid to...
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UNITY IS OUR STRENGTH
TRADE unionists and peace activists have marched in May Day demonstrations across the country commemorating the centenary of the General Strike. Ahead of today’s event in London, Fire Brigades Union general secretary Steve Wright said this year’s...
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CALL TIME ON THE WATER RACKET
CAMPAIGNERS welcomed the resignation of South East Water’s chairman today after a report by MPs said they had “no confidence” in the company’s leadership following major supply outages in Kent and Sussex. Independent non-executive chairman Chris Train...
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OUTRAGE AT ISRAELI FLOTILLA ‘PIRACY’
THE ISRAELI military was accused of “piracy” in European waters yesterday after its forces launched a raid on activists attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Organisers of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), a group of 55 vessels, mostly small...
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PROBE CALL FOR LABOUR TOGETHER
PRIME Minister Sir Keir Starmer faces a fresh threat as the Commons Speaker indicated backing for an inquiry into rogue faction Labour Together. The Prime Minister’s troubles seemed far from over after Sir Lindsay Hoyle endorsed the call from leading...
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JUST WHAT ARE YOU HIDING? REBEL MPs TURN ON STARMER
PRIME Minister Sir Keir Starmer was staring down the barrel of a major Labour rebellion last night as back-bench MPs came out against his plan to block a probe into his handling of the Mandelson scandal. One warned that the cover-up could further...
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RIGHT ROYAL FARCE
THE KING’s visit with Donald Trump was branded a “national embarrassment” yesterday after activists slammed Britain as “complicit” in US attacks on international law and human rights. Campaigners were joined by Amnesty International UK and political...
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MONTHS OF CASH PAIN FOR BRITS AS ENERGY FAT CATS RAKE IN BILLIONS
ENERGY companies posted £23.1 billion in profit so far this year as ministers warn households they could face high prices eight months after the end of the US war in Iran. Returns of 30 major companies involved in the energy sector in Britain were up...
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THOUSANDS SET TO CALL FOR US SUPPORT TO END
THOUSANDS of protesters are expected to call for an end to Britain’s involvement in the Iran war outside RAF Fairford tomorrow amid fears US president Donald Trump will wreck the “fragile” ceasefires. PM Sir Keir Starmer is being urged to end US use...
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RACIAL ABUSE SOARING IN WORKPLACE WARNS TUC
BLACK and ethnic minority workers have faced a “shocking” increase in explicit racism at work in recent years, new research by the TUC reveals today. A survey of workers by the union body ahead of its black workers conference in Bournemouth today...
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PM CLINGS ON AS CABINET TURNS
PRIME Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s slow-puncture premiership was wobbling towards the scrapheap yesterday as Labour MPs and even Cabinet members distanced themselves from his crumbling administration. The Prime Minister insisted that he would carry on...
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PROBE LABOUR TOGETHER NOW
PRIME Minister Sir Keir Starmer must order a full probe into the activities of the right-wing Labour Together faction in the wake of the Mandelson scandal, left MPs said yesterday. The demand came as dismissed top mandarin Sir Olly Robbins told MPs...
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STARMER ON BRINK PM says others are to blame for Mandelson scandal but lame excuse fails to convince
SIR KEIR STARMER is poised on the edge of the political precipice as he struggled to shelter behind failings by officials in the scandal over Peter Mandelson’s security vetting. Labour MPs sat in sullen silence as the Prime Minister told the Commons...
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STAND AGAINST ALL HATE CRIMES
COUNTER-terror police uncovered the third arson attack on Jewish sites in London in a week today as ministers face renewed calls to end the “extremely dangerous” conflation of criticism of Israel with anti-semitism. Officers on “deterrence and...
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FOOD CRISIS THREAT FROM TRUMP’S WAR
BRITAIN faces a looming food crisis because of the war against Iran, ministers conceded yesterday. Chicken and pork could be among the items disappearing from supermarket shelves by the summer, with the government planning emergency measures to combat...
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LABOUR IS FACING MAY POLLS MELTDOWN
LABOUR is facing a May meltdown in elections for devolved parliaments and local authorities, latest polling confirms. The party is on course for wipeout in Wales, a setback in Scotland and evisceration across England, particularly in “red wall”...
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BACK WELFARE NOT WARFARE
SOCIALISTS cannot back warfare over welfare, MPs and campaigners warned yesterday after former Nato boss George Robertson demanded the government axe social spending to finance its arms drive. Lord Robertson, defence secretary under Tony Blair, set...
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DON’T MAKE POOR PAY FOR THIS WAR
THE GOVERNMENT must ignore profiteering oil lobbyists and help those hit hardest by rising energy prices, campaigners demanded yesterday as new data warned living standards will fall for most British households due to the war in Iran. Shocks in the...
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TRUMP SAYS HE’LL BLOCKADE STRAIT AFTER TALKS FAIL
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump ramped up tensions even further in the Middle East yesterday, announcing that the US navy would “immediately” begin a blockade to stop ships from entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz. This followed Iranian and US...
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PROTESTERS FACE ARREST IN RALLY FOR PAL ACTION
THOUSANDS of people are expected to demonstrate against the ban on Palestine Action in central London today despite police lifting their pause on arresting the sit-down sign-holders. Protest group Defend Our Juries said the demonstration is to show...
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ISRAELI BLITZ ON BEIRUT A THREAT TO IRAN TRUCE
ISRAEL issued new evacuation orders for swathes of the Lebanese capital Beirut yesterday, a day after intense bombing of residential areas that killed at least 253 people and wounded more than a thousand. Its escalation of the war threatened to derail...
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2 WEEKS’ RESPITE BUT BOMBS STILL FALL ON LEBANON
ISRAEL launched new devastating strikes on Lebanon yesterday, killing at least 87 people, as Iran and the US agreed to a two-week ceasefire. World leaders rushed to celebrate news that their nations would find some relief from the oil crisis from the...
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14 ARRESTED FOR PEACE BLOCKADE AT LAKENHEATH
FOURTEEN peace activists calling for an end to British complicity in the US’s war were arrested yesterday at Lakenheath RAF base as Donald Trump escalated his violent rhetoric in the war on Iran, claiming “a whole civilisation will die...
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US COLONEL JOINS LAKENHEATH VIGIL AGAINST IRAN WAR
A RETIRED US Army colonel apologised for her country’s illegal wars as a week-long peace camp outside RAF Lakenheath drew to a close yesterday. The camp, which maintained a 24-7 vigil outside the base from April 1, is believed to station US nuclear...
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NOWAK: ACT NOW TO PUT STOP TO TRUMPLFLATION
UNIONS have called for a targeted gas price cap to prevent thousands of job losses in key industries due to soaring energy prices caused by the US and Israel’s illegal war on Iran. The TUC backed temporary bills support for sectors whose energy...
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KEBEDE WARNING TO LABOUR: WE’LL TURN TO GREENS
THE Greens have won teachers’ support from Labour because the country “needs change,” leader Daniel Kebede said yesterday as he lambasted a government that was failing education. In his closing speech to the National Education Union’s (NEU) annual...
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A DARK DAY FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES
TWO pro-Palestine campaigners being found guilty of breaching protest conditions yesterday is “a huge setback for civil liberties,” supporters said. Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) director Ben Jamal and Stop the War vice-chair Chris Nineham made...
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LABOUR ‘SHIFTING GOALPOSTS ON PAY DEAL,’ WARNS BMA
THE British Medical Association (BMA) accused the government yesterday of “moving the goalposts” at the last minute on a pay and jobs deal as the union moves to ballot senior doctors in England over strike action. PM Sir Keir Starmer has accused...
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STARMER IS ‘LYING’ OVER WAR ON IRAN
SIR KEIR STARMER is “lying to the British public” on the war on Iran that has “detonated a bomb” on the world’s economy, campaigners charged yesterday. The comments came as the Prime Minister insisted Britain would not get “dragged into the Iran war”...
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Together we stand...
HALF a million people have taken part in the biggest demonstration ever against the far right, campaigners said. Protesters sent a clear message to the organised far right, saying “No to racism, no to Trump” and “Refugees welcome” as they marched...
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STAND TOGETHER
THOUSANDS are expected to take part in the biggest anti-racist march in a generation for the Together Alliance demonstration in central London today. Protesters will be joined by musicians, actors, authors, politicians, trade unions and campaigners as...
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STARMER URGED TO GET TOUGH ON WAR PRIVATEERS
PROFITEERING companies benefiting from the US-Israeli war on Iran must be taxed to help with the soaring cost of living, campaign groups and unions demanded yesterday. They urged PM Sir Keir Starmer to “pull out all the stops” to mitigate the crisis...
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MPs: END US OIL SIEGE ON CUBA
MORE than 100 MPs have voiced “grave concern” over Donald Trump’s Cuba oil blockade, calling on PM Sir Keir Starmer to oppose the US president’s “collective punishment” of its civilian population. Ministers were urged to reject Washington’s threat to...
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WORKERS CANNOT PAY PRICE FOR WAR
WORKING people must not pay the price for the war of aggression against Iran, TUC leader Paul Nowak warned yesterday. Speaking after Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled a limited and vague package of support for families hit by higher fuel prices on...
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FIRES OF HATE
CAMPAIGNERS condemned an “appalling” arson attack on four Jewish community ambulances yesterday, calling for unity against hatred and racism. The incident in Golders Green, north-west London, was being treated as an anti-semitic hate crime by the...
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Act now to avoid Iran war cost crunch
UNIONS urged the government to “do everything it can” to deescalate the US-Iran war and set up an emergency taskforce to deal with the emerging economic shock and energy crisis already threatening thousands of jobs in Britain. The TUC called on the...
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THOUSANDS PUSH BACK ON LABOUR’S IRAN ‘AGGRESSION’
NATIONWIDE protests against Britain’s involvement in the Iran war will be held today after Tehran slammed its “participation in aggression.” Huge crowds will condemn horrific attacks that have left thousands dead and have sparked a global energy...
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IT’S TIME TO HIT RESET
LABOUR’S left has united to demand a “major reset,” demanding the government take a different path to deliver for working people. The moves comes as the leader of Unite, one of the party’s largest affiliates, said an early move to ditch Prime Minister...
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YOUR TIME IS RUNNING OUT
LABOUR is “running out of time” because it appears to back the Establishment over working people, former deputy premier Angela Rayner has claimed in a fresh blow to PM Sir Keir Starmer. Ms Rayner, widely understood to be preparing a leadership bid if...
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SNUB TRUMP
PRESSURE on Labour mounted yesterday to scrap King Charles’s state visit to Washington because of the US war of aggression against Iran. Campaigners and senior MPs united to demand that PM Sir Keir Starmer pull the plug on the trip as the “special...
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BRITAIN COMPLICIT IN GAZA GENOCIDE, FINDS CORBYN’S TRIBUNAL REPORT
MINISTERS should face investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for failing to prevent a genocide in Gaza, Jeremy Corbyn’s Gaza Tribunal has said. The former Labour leader predicted that the landmark investigation will have a profound...
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DAVEY BLASTED FOR BRITISH NUKE PLAN
ANTI-WAR campaigners hit back yesterday at Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey’s calls for Britain to build its own nuclear deterrent, warning his plans were “a disaster” that would provoke further wars. Peace activists slammed the proposals, saying the...
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WAR SPURS NEW COST OF LIVING CRISIS
TEN straight days of high oil and gas prices are pushing households into another cost-ofliving crisis, campaigners warned yesterday, as costs suffered from the US-Israel attack on Iran. The warning came as Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she had asked...
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PA BAN MAKES A JOKE OF ‘TERROR’
LIFT the ban on Palestine Action immediately, campaigners urged today, after official data showed terror arrests have surged to their highest level on record since the group’s proscription. The government’s data shows 3,034 arrests were made in 2025,...
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