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800,000 fire-risk dryers in UK homes – Whirlpool admits to Parliamentary committee

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WHIRLPOOL admitted, when grilled by a Parliamentary committee yesterday, that as many as 800,000 recalled dryers known to be prone to sparking potentially lethal...
Tory cuts to beds have created a major crisis where hospitals are attempting to operate at 100% bed occupancy

Nurses sleep on wards – as hospitals hit 100% capacity

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HOSPITAL staff are sleeping on hospital wards during this extreme weather to ensure that patients get treated. They are working in extremely...
Part of the large contingent of midwives on Saturday’s TUC demonstration in London

Maternity Crisis

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‘THE UK’s health services are hopelessly underfunded in terms of resources and staff who are trained to deal with new mothers with mental health...

DEXTER BRISTOL WALK-OUT! – died after being classified illegal

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THE MOTHER and sister of Dexter Bristol (57), who died suddenly earlier this year after being classified as an illegal immigrant, angrily walked out...

‘THE HEART OF REMAIN!’ – Boris Johnson condemns Treasury

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FOREIGN Secretary Boris Johnson has declared civil war in the Tory Party and savaged Chancellor Hammond and the Treasury as being the main...

Capita Pensions Strike

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ON the day that Capita has announced its half year results Unite, representing staff at Capita, has said that staff have...

Life Terms Like ‘confetti’

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THE Howard League for Penal Reform and the Prison Reform Trust yesterday expressed concern over mandatory life sentences being extended to crimes other than...
Junior doctors condemn Hunt and his campaign to impose a contract and impose 7-day working without 7-day funding

May keeps Hunt as NHS Secretary

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TORY Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and ex-Education Secretary Michael Gove were both sacked from the Tory cabinet yesterday as new Tory PM Theresa May...

‘Next Seven Days Are Critical’–May

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PM MAY yesterday warned Tory rebels pushing for a leadership contest that a new Conservative Party leader would not make negotiations with...

Corbyn demands that May resign!

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SPEAKING in central London yesterday morning, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called on PM May to resign. He said: ‘The prime minister called this election...

Unions recommend Tata deal – despite pension cuts and no job guarantees

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UNITE, Community and GMB trade unions yesterday called on Tata steel workers at Port Talbot to vote ‘YES’ when the...

‘TROUBLE AHEAD FOR MAY’ – warns the ERG’s Steve Baker

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TORY MP Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Eurosceptic group the European Research Group (ERG), warned yesterday there is ‘trouble ahead’ for May. He tweeted:...

Amersham Defeat Crisis Hits Tories

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THE TORY government has been plunged into crisis by last Thursday’s Amersham by-election defeat. Around 100 Tory MPs have reportedly joined a WhatsApp group called...

Gp Services Buckling Under Tory Attack

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PATIENT care is ‘deteriorating’ in half of GP practices as GP services buckle under rising workload, a new BMA survey warned yesterday. More than half...

‘The unacceptable face of capitalism’ – Green warned to pay up

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‘IF PHILIP Green won’t do the right thing by the members of the BHS pension fund then he should have his knighthood removed. And...
Junior doctors demonstrate in the lead-up to their second strike. Their fourth strike takes place this week – they will not accept imposition

Legal challenge to Tory contract imposition

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THE BMA has launched a judicial review, challenging the lawfulness of the Tories’ decision to impose a new contract on the junior doctors. Junior doctors...

Lecturers are angry

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UNIVERSITY lecturers union UCU warned yesterday that they will take any university management to court if they dock a full day’s pay from their...

McDonnell capitulates to the EU!

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JOHN McDONNELL, Labour’s shadow chancellor said yesterday that Labour will vote down May’s Brexit deal, will not accept No Deal, and instead will propose...
Meeting – Don't Let Junior Doctors Strike Be Defeated!

Meeting – Don’t Let Junior Doctors Strike Be Defeated!

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THE decision to postpone the 48 hour strike action by junior doctors from 26 January without any attempt by the government to meet the...

TORY PROTEST BAN ‘UNACCEPTABLE!’ – London marchers clash with police

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At least 36 people were arrested for ‘breaching Covid regulations’ after a march of thousands of protesters through central London came under attack by...
Students at Goldsmiths College in New Cross, south London, march to defend the NHS

NHS must remain free! – says RCP

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‘STOP reorganising the NHS, increase NHS funding, and commit to an NHS free at the point of delivery,’ demanded the Royal College of Physicians...
School youth marching to demand the reinstatement of the Education Maintenance  Allowance – the collapse of the retail industry is making it much more difficult for school leavers and youth to get jobs

Retail Collapse Hitting Youth

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THE British Retail Consortium warned yesterday that after zero growth in 2011 and a disappointing Christmas, the new year is seeing a spate of...

Anti-terror laws misused to deport professionals!

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THE TRUE nature of PM May’s ‘hostile environment’ has come to light after it emerged that legislation designed to tackle terrorism has been misused...

China Hits Back At US Trade!

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China launched countermeasures against the United States’ trade war attacks yesterday, with the Chinese People’s Daily saying that Beijing ‘will never waver in its...
NHS health visitors on Saturday’s demonstration to defend the NHS – doctors are demanding £10.3bn extra funding for the NHS and social care

Doctors demand £10.3bn for NHS

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DOCTORS are calling for an extra £10.3bn to be put in to the NHS, ahead of Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond’s budget tomorrow. This, doctor’s union...
Refugees aboard an overloaded boat desperately trying to cross the Mediterranean

170 Refugees Feared Drowned

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AS MANY as 170 people are feared to have died in two separate Mediterranean shipwrecks, the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR said. The Italian navy reports...

GREEK WORKERS MARCH ON MINISTRY

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HUNDREDS of local government workers entered a Finance Ministry building in Athens on Thursday demanding that there will be no cut to their dangerous...

Terrorists firing on fleeing civilians!

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THE UN human rights office has finally admitted that foreign-backed terrorist bands are blocking civilians from fleeing eastern parts of the Syrian...

May government found in contempt of Parliament!

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‘IT IS I think unprecedented for this House to find government ministers in contempt,’ Keir Starmer, Labour’s shadow Brexit Secretary said yesterday, after a...

Appalling Rough Sleeping Rise Says Crisis

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ROUGH sleeping is rising at ‘an appalling rate,’ said the homelessness charity Crisis yesterday, as it emerged that more than 4,000 people a night...
Grenfell families greet firefighters’ Guard of Honour on the Silent March in North Kensington on May 14th

Litany Of Safety Breaches Led To Grenfell

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A LITANY of safety breaches which led to the horrific Grenfell Tower fire were revealed yesterday during the opening of the next stage...

Al-Qaeda driven out of Fallujah

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AL-QAEDA-linked militiamen have been driven out of Iraq’s Fallujah and it is now in the hands of local tribesmen, a senior tribal sheikh said...
The front banner on Saturday’s 20,000-strong demonstration in support of a Palestinian state

Cash for Israeli army scandal!

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ON HER return to the UK after her secret visit to Israel, Secretary of State for International Development, Priti Patel, asked her department...
Huge numbers of hospital workers turned out on the TUC march on October 20th – they are battling to defend NHS jobs all over the country

61,000 nursing posts at risk – says RCN nurses leader Carter

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday that the NHS is ‘sleepwalking into a crisis’, and demanded immediate action to stop trusts cutting...

Splitters should stand down & fight by-election – demands McDonnell

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‘THE HONOURABLE thing, the usual thing for them to do now, is to stand down and fight by-elections, back in their constituencies,’ shadow chancellor...
Nurses outside Chelsea & Westminster hospital during the last NHS pay strike on November 24th

Less than 1% of the £700m emergency care reached A&Es

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LESS than 1% of the £700m allocated by the government for emergency care in England this winter ended up directly in A&E departments, according...

Sixth Day Of Strike Action Against £2,500 Pay Cuts Per Annum!

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UNITE members at RATP London United yesterday held their sixth day of strike action against £2,500 per annum pay cuts being imposed by French...

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...
‘How do you sleep at night?’ is a good question when at least 46,211 children’s operations have been cancelled over the last four years

12,349 children’s operations were cancelled last year

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THOUSANDS of hospital operations for children are being cancelled every year owing to a lack of beds, staff and equipment in the NHS. NHS figures,...
Greek secondary school teachers march in Athens – banner reads ‘We want proper jobs-no to flexible working conditions-slavery has ended!’

Greek Riot Police Attack March

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GREEK riot police attacked last Friday, with tear gas, a 3,000-strong Athens march of teachers and university students who were demanding the staffing of...

MAY’S GRENFELL CLAIM ‘DISGRACEFUL’ says FBU

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FOLLOWING Theresa May’s resignation speech, in which the Prime Minister spoke of her response to the Grenfell Tower Fire, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU)...

Junior doctors & nurses fight for their rights

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‘FOR students like me from a working class background, removing the bursary for nurses will mean that they cannot continue their studies,’ student nurse...

Tories have taken no action to stop another Grenfell

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NEARLY two years since the Grenfell fire, in which 72 people lost their lives, the government has done nothing to adequately prepare fire and...

Israel steps up bombardment of Gaza

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ISRAELI fighter jets continued bombarding high-rise buildings and other targets in the Gaza Strip using F-15 fighter jets yesterday, as Palestinians marked the Eid...
Young Socialists on the march got tremendous support for their demand that the TUC call a general strike to kick the Tories out

‘TRUST ME!’ – May pleads with Cabinet

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UNDER HEAVY FIRE, PM May yesterday was reduced to pleading with fellow ministers and MPs to ‘trust me to deliver’ over Brexit. Writing in...