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3,300 STAFF & 1,500 BEDS CUT SINCE 2010! – in the mental health service

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MENTAL health services across the UK are under unprecedented strain, with a steep fall in nurse numbers and available beds at a time of...

Stop ‘bedroom tax’ evictions

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The Bedroom Tax will lead to massive rises in rent arrears and homelessness, hitting the poorest people the hardest, Margaret Hodge, Chairwoman of the...
Ambulance workers picket at Waterloo – four more years of 1%wage ‘rises’

SACK HUNT! –80,000 sign petition for action

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A PETITION to remove Tory Health Secretary Hunt from his post is already heading towards the 100,000 mark. Some 80,000 people have signed a petition...

Labour to launch war on disabled

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THE LABOUR government will declare war on the disabled when Chancellor Reeves returns from China this week it was reported yesterday, as the media...
The 50-strong mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning was joined by nurses and doctors

Ealing mass picket supports junior doctors

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‘DEFEND Ealing Hospital! Support the junior doctors! Kick the government out!’ shouted the fifty-strong mass picket of Ealing Hospital to defend its vital...

Starmer beats war drums at Scottish Labour Party Conference!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer beat the war drums at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Glasgow yesterday. He said that ‘we can’t cling...

Javid gambling with people’s lives! – self-isolating rules abandoned

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GAMBLING with people’s lives, the new Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid made a statement on removing Covid-19 restrictions yesterday. He told Parliament: ‘We...
Protest outside a court hearing for Babar Ahmad in London in May 2005

Babar Ahmad was subjected to violent assaults and religious taunts by police

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The Metropolitan Police has agreed to pay £60,000 damages to IT analyst Babar Ahmad during a civil action hearing at the High Court which...
Students marching against tuition fees. They are now even angrier as fees are being hiked above £9,000!

Unis already raising fees to £9,250

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UNIVERSITY tuition fees in England will rise to £9,250 per year from 2017 and the increase could apply to students who have already started...
Mau Mau detainees outside London’s High Court recently won massive compensation for British army atrocities committed against them

‘Prosecute those who murdered my son’ says Colonel Mousa

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BAHA Mousa’s father, Colonel Mousa, considers it is imperative that those responsible for the death of Baha Mousa, including the commanding officer, are prosecuted. Public...

£50-£300 Fines For ‘Preventable Errors’

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The PCS union and Citizens Advice yesterday slammed government plans to claw back £60m from hundreds of thousands of benefit claimants who are expected...
BMA junior doctors are getting ready for industrial action and will be assembling at Marble Arch at 2.00pm tomorrow to march to Parliament Square

Get ready for industrial action! says BMA

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THE BMA has urged junior doctors to update their place of work details by October 23 so that they can take part in...
Junior doctors are putting the case that Hunt is assuming dictatorial powers to which he has no right and which are illegal

Hunt ‘assumed powers’ he never had

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TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to forcibly impose the new contract on the junior doctors was wrong because he does not have the...

1,000 CLASH WITH POLICE IN SAMAWA – Iraqis angry over no water or electricity

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At least one person was killed and sixty others were wounded yesterday when over 1,000 angry Iraqis clashed with police in Samawa, south of...

Bus Workers Support General Strike

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‘WE HAVE to do 12-hour split shifts here and it really affects our family life,’ Unite bus driver Andreas Almeida said yesterday while giving...

Jenin is facing complete Gazafication – destruction

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AN anti-occupation group of Israeli army veterans has issued a stark warning about the escalating situation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin,...

British Soldiers Die In Basra

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Two British soldiers were killed and two others wounded, by a roadside bomb in Basra last Sunday evening, the Ministry of Defence revealed yesterday. The...
PCS contingent marching with health workers and their supporters in Leeds on Saturday

6,000 March In Leeds To Defend The NHS!

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MORE than 6,000 trade unionists and NHS supporters marched through Leeds last Saturday afternoon against Tory government cuts and the privatisation of the NHS...
Student midwives with a clear message marching in Nottingham last September

MIDWIFERY CRISIS! – ‘Reverse diploma cut decision’ – RCM urges

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The Royal College of Nursing yesterday accused the government of exacerbating an already serious midwifery crisis. Student midwives’ leaders expressed alarm over the government’s decision...

RELEASE ALL 11,000 PRISONERS – demands Palestine National Authority

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The Palestine National Authority (PNA) said yesterday Israel’s promised release of 400 Palestinian prisoners was ‘not enough’. Palestinian Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Hasan...
At their rally outside the House of Commons yesterday nurses made it very clear they they intended to smash the pay cap

‘SCRAP THE CAP!’ – ‘We deserve better’ say angry nurses

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‘SCRAP the cap!’ shouted thousands of nurses from all over the UK rallying in Parliament Square yesterday. The rally was organised by the Royal College...
Demonstrators outside yesterday’s hearings where MPs questioned the Murdochs and sacked police chiefs, demanding that Cameron and Murdoch go

Out with Cameron! – nationalise Murdoch empire under workers control

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RUPERT and James Murdoch yesterday sought to stonewall MPs questioning them about phone-hacking at the ‘News of the World’, denying any responsibility or knowledge...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TGWU biennial conference last Monday

TAKE ON ANTI-UNION LAWS – Rob Williams tells TGWU conference

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THE leadership of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was shaken at the union’s biennial delegate conference in Brighton yesterday, when a substantial...
JOHN WALKER, PADDY HILL, HUGH CALLAGHAN, Labour MP CHRIS MULLEN, RICHARD McILKENNY, GERRY HUNTER and BILLY POWER outside the Old Bailey after their convictions for the Birmingham pub bombings were quashed on March 14, 1991

‘BIRMINGHAM POLICE ARE ROTTEN!’ – Paddy Hill says

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INQUESTS into the deaths of 21 people in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings are to be reopened, a coroner ruled yesterday. Louise Hunt, the senior...
General Motors UAW members demonstrate against the attack on their conditions

Herts FBU – Two Eight Hour Strikes

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HERTFORDSHIRE fire crews have given seven day’s notice of two eight hour blocks of industrial action on 15 and 20 May. They said late proposals...

Rover–No Prosecutions!

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THE Serious Fraud Office announced yesterday that there will be no criminal charges brought over the sale and subsequent collapse of MG Rover. Bert Hill,...

Starmer announces militarisation of UK economy

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‘BOOTS on the ground, planes in the air,’ Labour Prime Minister Starmer declared in the House of Commons yesterday. In a speech to a packed...

Primark Slave Labour Claims

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The GMB trade union yesterday called for tougher enforcement of the National Minimum Wage in the wake of allegations that a Primark supplier in...

‘Fight Nato Aggression With All Strength’

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LIBYAN government and civilian forces are dealing deadly blows to the NATO-backed counter-revolutionary ‘rebels’ and mercenaries holed up in Tripoli and other areas of...

RMT East Mids Strike Is On

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THE RMT East Midlands Trains (EMT) strike is to go ahead on Saturday after the company bosses snubbed talks. The dispute is over EMT management’s...

NO TO 90 DAYS! – Blair and police suffer major defeat

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‘BLAIR should go’, said former Labour minister Glenda Jackson yesterday after a rebellion by 49 Labour MPs saw the government defeated by 322-291 votes...

50 Workers Chasing Every Job

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AROUND 20 unemployed workers are chasing every job vacancy in poorer parts of the UK, with that number rising to 50 in the areas...
Firefighters and their supporters marching in Clapham last Saturday against the closure of the fire station

Stop Fire Station Closures!

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THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has demanded London mayor, Boris Johnson, abandon plans to shut 12 fire stations. The demand was made after firefighters...
Palestinian youth battle with Israeli troops and settlers on the West Bank

Ashrawi Denounces New Israeli Settlements Move

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HANAN ASHRAWI, a Member of the PLO Executive Committee, has strongly condemned the so-called Israeli Civil Administration’s decision to grant the approval for the...

Blair Threatens To ‘Close The Book’ On Ulster Power Sharing

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The British and Irish governments yesterday set a November 24 deadline for north of Ireland politicians to agree to work together in a restored...

US NOT OUT OF WOODS YET –warns Fed Reserve boss Bernanke

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America’s central banker, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, has warned that the US economy is ‘not out of the woods yet’. In a speech delivered...

70,000 Car Jobs Threatened Says Unite’s Woodley

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THE Unite trade union has renewed its call on the government to bail out UK car industry bosses, warning that 70,000 car jobs are...
One demonstrator on the TUC march on October 20 2012 speaking for the many

Cost of living soars – but CPI inflation rate stays the same

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Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation remained at 2.7% in December, according to figures released yesterday, despite electricity, gas and food prices soaring, and wages...

Restore junior doctors’ 25% pay cut now!

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TENS of thousands of junior doctor members of the British Medical Association (BMA) are holding a 72-hour strike from today until Wednesday. At the weekend...
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)...
Medical students demonstrating in June last year against the loss of accommodation allowance for first year junior doctors

COMMERCIALISATION THREATENING FUTURE OF THE NHS – warns doctors leader

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‘The government’s dogmatic and misguided plan to commercialise the NHS has gone too,’ British Medical Associatoin (BMA) Chairman of Council, Dr Hamish Meldrum warned...
Serco workers outside the Royal London Hospital during strike action last year – Serco have now been awarded Carillion’s contracts

FIRE SALE! Serco takes Carillion NHS contracts

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IN THE WAKE of the collapse of Carillion, another outsourcing giant, Serco has taken over 15 healthcare contracts at a bargain basement price in...

The Great Care Home Massacre!

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A series of ‘shockingly irresponsible’ government decisions put tens of thousands of older people’s lives at risk and led to multiple violations of care...
PETER HAIN being confronted by Remploy convenor PHIL DAVIES protesting against Remploy factory closures  at the TUC Conference last September

HAIN QUITS! – after police called in

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Work and Pensions Secretary and Welsh Secretary Peter Hain yesterday quit the Cabinet after his late declaration of £103,000 of donations to his Labour...

EGYPT ERUPTS – Mubarak calls in army

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called on the army to take charge of security along with the riot police after hundreds of thousands of Egyptians...