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‘Forced out by company greed’ – Unite condemns BA mass sackings and wage cuts

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A BLEAK day for staff ‘forced out by company greed’ will scar spiteful BA indefinitely the Unite union said yesterday, It added: ‘On the day...
Pickets fighting to save Maudsley Emergency Clinic demonstrated outside the meeting of Lambeth Primary Care Trust after staging an all-night vigil

Stop Maudsley Closing!

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OVER 50 people picketed a meeting of Lambeth Primary Care Trust (PCT) yesterday, in opposition to the closure of the renowned Emergency Clinic at...
Student nurses demanding bursaries are restored – the number of applicants is down 10%

Student nurse numbers plummet again

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THE TORIES axing of the student nurses and midwives bursary has caused numbers applying to plummet even further, this time by 10%, meaning that...

Free School ‘Theft’ Continues – Atl

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ASSOCIATION of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) president Hank Roberts last night alleged that there is a widespread theft of tax-payers’ money by schools...
ATEF (left) and MANSOOR (right) both said that they would come on the march from Ealing Hospital on May 2nd

Vote Wrp – Says Scott Dore Campaign

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NEW young members joined the Vote Scott Dore WRP campaign team in West Ealing on Saturday afternoon. Atef Azeb, aged 17, said: ‘I don’t like...

Crisis Hitting Jobs

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Unemployment is set to increase sharply this year, economists have warned, after a Bank of England report showed more firms were looking to axe...

‘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...

‘Unfunded and unsafe!’ –BMA condemns Tory plan for 7 day working

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DOCTORS will not sign up to the Tory government’s proposals for a seven-day-a-week, 24-hours-a-day NHS service because the plans are ‘unfunded, undefined’, ‘wholly unrealistic’...

Tory Civil War Rages!

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THE TORIES’ civil war over Brexit continued to rage yesterday after PM May received a letter from 30 Tory MPs. The letter...

Summary Powers!

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Civil rights groups yesterday slammed calls from police chiefs for summary powers to dish out ‘instant justice’. Surrey Police chiefs went on television and gave...
Junior doctors showing their determination to defend the National Health Service on their demonstration on March 17th

Anger Over Doctors For Export!

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Junior doctors, angry at the prospect of thousands being without jobs and government plans to ship them overseas, are lobbying MPs today. The British Medical...

‘Working Poor’ Evictions Scandal!

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THE WORKING poor have now become the working homeless, as nurses, teachers and firefighters are among those being thrown out of their homes...
Striking Southern rail guards on the picket line at the Selhurst depot on November 23rd. Photo credit RMT

Southern drivers 9-day strike

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SOUTHERN train drivers in the ASLEF union are bringing the network to grinding halt over the Xmas period with nine days of strike action. The...

CWU calls Nov 4th strike action

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POSTAL workers in Royal Mail yesterday voted by 4 to 1 (78%) in favour of strike action in a move to protect their jobs,...

RAF joins US in Syrian air strike – 62 Syrian army killed

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THE BRITISH airforce has admitted its involvement in the US-led airstrikes which killed over 60 Syrian Army troops and injured over 100 more. It has...

Israeli tanks, copters and drones fire on thousands–21 killed 150 wounded

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AT least 21 starving Palestinians were killed after Israeli tanks, helicopters and drones opened fire on thousands of people waiting for aid in Gaza...

‘BOMBING RAQQA WILL KILL LARGE NUMBERS OF CIVILIANS’ – warns Corbyn

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BOMBING Raqqa will see a large number of civilians killed, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn warned yesterday. He was asked by Andrew Marr: ‘What do...

Ukrainian soldiers refuse to fire on workers

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KIEV’S military faced off with protesters in east Ukraine on Wednesday to sort out their differences. . . and found none. Soldiers appeared reluctant...

Nurses Cost Of Living Crisis

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EIGHT nurses every day seek urgent help from a support line to cope with the cost of living, new figures released by the RCN...
The DEH Computer Centre building under occupation. Banners state ‘We resist’ and ‘We will not cut off the electricity supply to the poor even if they put us in prison’ – signed by the DEH trades union

‘POSTPONE GREEK ELECTIONS’ – demands EU dictator

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THE Greek coalition’s Finance Minister Evagelos Venizelos has said that the general election date agreed for February 19 by both the ex-Prime Minister Papandreou...

Australian doctors demand ‘humane stance’

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IN THE British Medical Journal today, a leading doctor is calling on the Australian government to stop constraining doctors in the care of asylum...
Demonstrators outside parliament commemorate the 60th anniversary of the ‘Nakba’ (catastrophe) and demand freedom for Palestine and the lifting of the siege of Gaza

‘We will return!’

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‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 800 protesters at a Nakba (Catastrophe) Day demonstration opposite Downing Street on Saturday. The protestors insisted that Palestinian refugees must have...

Worldwide media protest against Zionist genocide

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MORE than 250 media outlets in over 70 countries staged a front page protest yesterday, highlighting the killing of more than 200 journalists in...

‘The Tories have left us with a black hole of £22bn this year’ Labour’s...

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LABOUR PM Sir Keir Starmer, after a few warm words about how special Brighton was to him, got down to business to tell the...

Brown Rejects Withdrawal Timetable

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Gordon Brown has ruled out setting a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, saying they still have ‘an important job to...

Hamas opens fire on Israel

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HAMAS'S military wing, the Qassam Brigades, launched a ten-rocket missile attack on Israel yesterday, causing loud explosions in the Tel Aviv area, triggering alarm...

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...
Staff, local residents and supporters rallying against trust plans to axe St Helier Hospital A&E department

ST HELIER STRIKE WARNING – after Trust debt leaps to £41 million

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Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, two busy Surrey General Hospitals with bustling Accident and Emergency Departments, are to be replaced by a single hospital...

5,500 petrol stations run dry! Bad pay & conditions force truckers to quit!

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THE SPIRALLING cost of energy, combined with a lorry driver shortage and now panic buying, has resulted in 5,500 petrol stations across the country...
Pickets were solid on day 2 of the 3-day Southern rail strike, after which 11 more days are planned

‘General strike to defend Southern guards’ – RMT

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‘THIS attack on our union is an attack on all unions,’ John Reid, RMT NEC told News Line yesterday morning. Reid was speaking on the...

NHS Being Cut To Aid Private Sector!

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed concern over the cancellation by an Oxford hospital of a routine heart procedure because of lack of...

‘From The River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free!’

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MORE than 80,000 workers, students and youth marched through central London from Russell Square to Parliament Square on Saturday, chanting: ‘From the River to...

Thousands turn out to save Honda car factory!

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SWINDON residents turned out in their thousands on Saturday’s march to save the Honda car factory and stop its closure. There were 6,000 on the...

Fallon Wants Lawless Army!

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UK DEFENCE Secretary Michael Fallon yesterday called for withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph he...

Labour Mounts Attack On Disabled

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Disability charities yesterday expressed concerns over Labour’s plans to introduce harsh work tests and force almost two million people off incapacity benefit. In his Budget...

‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University’ say UCU strikers

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‘WE ARE STRONG, united and determined to win,’ and ‘We are fighting for the survival of Brunel University,’ University and College Union (UCU) strikers declared...

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...

Go North West bus drivers strike against Fire & Rehire on lower pay

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Scores of striking Go North West bus drivers massed outside the company’s Queens Road depot in Manchester yesterday, on the first day of their...

BIG WAGE AND JOB CUTS IN NORTH – warns TUC

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WORKERS in England’s Northern region are up to £4,264 worse off per year since the Tory-led coalition came to power. The Northern TUC 10-Point Plan...
Last November 30 saw a massive pensions strike against the coalition government

Pensions strike March 28th!

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MARITIME and transport union RMT confirmed yesterday that its members in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ‘will strike alongside public sector colleagues on the 28th...

‘WE NEED NEW LEADERS’ – say Gate Gourmet workers

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LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers were very angry on the picket line at the weekend after many of them had received special delivery letters informing...
The South-East London Council of Action marching to defend tenants on Heygate and Aylesbury council estates

4.5m ON WAITING LISTS – privatisation creates housing disaster

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THE privatisation of housing has been a complete disaster. Completely inadequate numbers of new homes have been built in every region in England since...
Firefighters lobby the London Fire Authority on February 11 demanding ‘No cuts’

FBU fighting pension cuts!

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FIREFIGHTERS’ leaders are meeting this week to discuss an industrial action ballot over the government’s attack on their members’ pensions. The FBU is being...

TRAITORS! – locked-out Gate Gourmet workers condemn TGWU leaders’ betrayal

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THIRTY FIVE locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday went to see Brendan Gold, the TGWU’s Head of Civil Aviation. He is one of the trade...
Saturday’s demonstration in London which demanded all attacks on Syria must halt immediately

British crisis frightens Obama

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US President Barack Obama announced on Saturday that, despite deciding as ‘Commander-in-Chief’ to take military action against Syria, he will seek congressional support for...