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Hunt rationing healthcare!

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The BMA yesterday accused Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt of rationing health care. Hunt has announced a £250m drive to eliminate ‘unacceptable’ 12-month waits, with more...

Pay cuts or the sack doctors and nurses to be told

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THOUSANDS of doctors and nurses face being sacked unless they agree to drastic changes to their pay and conditions as hospitals tackle an escalating...

‘THE STRIKE IS STRONG – PUBLIC ARE STILL BEHIND US!’ says RMT

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‘The strike is strong, the public are still behind us and members are strong and want to continue,’ striking RMT London Area Council Rep...

LARCO Industrial Workers Protest At Mass Sackings!

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IN an unprecedented 12 hours long rally under a scorching sun and temperatures exceeding 45ºC, hundreds of LARCO industrial workers and miners, along with...
In June Swindon Young Socialists marched through the town demanding a future for youth including jobs at trade union rates of pay and the restoration of free state education

1800 YEARS OF JAIL! – for youth charged over Duggan assassination riots

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PRISON sentences totalling more than 1,800 years have been handed to youth following the uprising after the police ‘assassination’ of Mark Duggan, in Tottenham,...

BLAIR MUST ANSWER FOR WAR LIES say Military families against war

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Rose Gentle, Susan Smith, Peter Brierley and Karla Hewett, whose sons and brother died in the Iraq war, set up a 24-hour Peace Camp...
Unison healthworkers from St Georges Hospital on a TUC demonstration – they demand more staff or patients will die

Nursing Staff Levels Dangerously Low!

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‘My department is running at VERY UNSAFE levels due to inadequate staffing,’ said one of almost 3,000 nurses from across the UK who took...

‘No end to austerity’ – Hammond

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NEW Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond made it absolutely crystal clear yesterday that there would be no end to austerity under his watch. Speaking to the...

‘LIVES AT RISK’ – warns Patients Association over Ambulance Review

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‘Sending lay first aiders could be dangerous and in some cases risk lives,’ Michael Summers, chairman of the Patients Association told News Line yesterday. He...

STAND FIRM! Airport trades unionists urge Gate Gourmet workers

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers got great support yesterday as they campaigned at the TGWU office in Hillingdon to defeat the sell-out Compromise Agreement. Mohammed...
RMT General Secretary BOB CROW at a demonstration against the rail privateers outside Waterloo station on August 14

RENATIONALISE! – ‘end privatisation chaos once and for all’ says Crow

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‘RENATIONALISE West Coast and all the other franchises under one single umbrella, and end the profiteering and chaos of rail privatisation once and for...
Striking ambulance workers at Greenwich depot in south east London – patients lives will be endangered if ambulances are replaced by Skype

999 calls diverted – ‘Gambling with patients lives!’

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‘AMBULANCE workers skills are being downgraded by schemes which suggest that a video call can be a substitute for an emergency service arriving at...

Israel kills dozens in Gaza Strip shelling!

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DOZENS of civilians were killed yesterday and others sustained various injuries, in the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip, which entered its...

UK Economy Broken!

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unemployment rose by 128,000 in the three months to October, to 2.64 million people. This is the highest level since 1994, the Office for...
Part of the massive anti-austerity demonstration on June 20th when 250,000 marched on parliament – many more will march and take strike action to defend trade union rights

Unite and fight this brutal assault says RMT

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‘THIS Tory government is coming after the one group of people – the trade unions – who are able to stand up for ordinary...
An abductee of Jaish al-Islam terrorist group, freed by the Syrian army in Douma, is reunited with his family

DIRE CONSEQUENCES! – Moscow warns against Syria intervention

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‘ANY military interference in Syria conducted under far-fetched or fabricated pretexts’ would be ‘absolutely unacceptable’ and could lead to ‘dire consequences,’ warned Russia yesterday....
Workers turned out in their hundreds of thousands on March 26 2011. They are determined to defend their jobs, pay, conditions and employment rights

‘WE’LL OPPOSE ATTACKS ON RIGHTS’ –pledges TUC

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‘Unions stand ready to oppose the attacks on workplace rights contained in the Beecroft Report,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line yesterday. ‘Attacking workers’ rights...
Junior doctors midday rally in Hackney

‘No option but to escalate!’ says Doctor Malawana

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THOUSANDS of junior doctors joined more than 140 picket lines across England yesterday to protest against the imposition of a new contract. Junior doctors took...

Seafarers will be criminalised for saving refugees lives says RMT as Patel launches Borders...

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SEAFARERS’ union RMT has raised alarm over government legislation criminalising seafarers for saving lives at sea. The proposals, contained in the government’s Nationality and Borders...
A section of the huge TUC march on October 20 through London against the Coalition’s attacks

NHS is not Tesco! – no to seven-day working

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The NHS Commissioning Board will announce compulsory seven-day working in the NHS when it publishes its ‘planning guidance’ for the NHS for the first...

Greek State Of Siege Is Defied

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THOUSANDS of youth and workers participated throughout Greece in the annual Athens Polytechnic Uprising marches and mobilisations last Tuesday, defying a state of siege...
NUJ protest against the BSkyB takeover outside the Culture Ministry last year

Cameron hiding behind Hunt

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PRESSURE mounted on prime minister Cameron yesterday over his refusal to refer the actions of Culture, Media and Sports Secretary Jeremy Hunt to...
London firefighters marching in September last year in defence of their jobs

FIREFIGHTERS PREPARED TO STRIKE – if Authority carries out mass sakings threat

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FIREFIGHTERS are prepared to strike to defeat the Tory-controlled London Fire Authority if it carries out its threat to sack all 5,500 London firefighters...

Britain Trains Saudi Snipers

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It emerged yesterday that the UK is training Saudi Army troops who are being used to suppress demonstrators against the feudal ...

‘UNAFFORDABLE!’ £718–average monthly rent in England & Wales

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‘AVERAGE private rents are unaffordable for ordinary working families in over half (55%) of local authorities in England,’ Shelter the housing charity said yesterday....
Protesters outside Downing Street on July 11 condemned Israeli war crimes against Lebanon – Amnesty International has said Israel bombed  civilians deliberately

Israel in crisis over failed war

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Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert is under pressure to authorise an independent commission of inquiry into the conduct of the recently failed war in...
Ealing Hospital workers on their picket line yesterday made clear that they want negotiations for a living wage, sick pay and improved annual leave

Ealing Hospital strike action!

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MORE than 100 Ealing Hospital porters, domestic, catering and help desk workers took their first day of strike action from 6am-6pm yesterday and are...

Bank of Ireland pre-tax loss of 1.25bn euros

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BANK of Ireland has recorded a pre-tax loss of 1.25 billion euros for the first six months of the year compared to a 556m...

Public sector must unite to smash privatisation

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THOUSANDS of firefighters are marching on Westminster today against government cuts to the fire and rescue service and attacks on their pensions. Coachloads of firefighters...
‘The Building Worker’ memorial in Tower Hill

Ruling Class Snob Attacks Builders

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CONSTRUCTION union UCATT, has reacted with fury after their memorial to construction workers killed in the building of London was criticised on The...

Abu Ghraib Contractor Producing Drones For Usa

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THE defence contractor which reached a settlement with alleged victims of torture in the notorious prison of Abu Ghraib is now again at the...
Ealing Hospital Medirest strikers on the picket line during their seven-day strike last month – they have now won a 16 per cent pay increase

Big victory for Ealing Hospital workers

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THE GMB trade union yesterday declared a massive victory for low-paid Ealing Hospital ancillary workers. The union called off strike action, due from yesterday by...

PROSECUTE P&O FERRIES – RMT condemns Tories for refusal to act

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SEAFARERS union RMT has written to the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, to demand a meeting to discuss the government’s failure to...

Rolls Royce jobs massacre! – Unite calls for National Recovery Council with Tories

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THE UNITE trade union has responded to the news that Rolls Royce is to cut 9,000 jobs globally, 3,375 of them in the UK,...

Israeli government committing genocide

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A GROUP of lawyers representing Palestinian victims of Israeli attacks on Gaza have filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC), arguing that...

Russia issues defence warning!

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RUSSIA has issued another warning against a proposal made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on ‘a true European Defence Union’. The Kremlin...

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...
Osborne told firefighters yesterday that the service must agree to ‘substantial operational reform’

500,000 Public Sector Jobs To Be Slashed

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TORY Chancellor Osborne confirmed yesterday that the coalition government was pressing ahead with the most savage attack on the working class since the Second...
CWU pickets at the E3 delivery Office showing confidence that they will win their struggle

Postal workers defy Crozier and Mandelson!

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Postal workers yesterday condemned the Labour government and Royal Mail bosses for colluding to smash their union, and casualise and privatise the industry...
Trade union banners on the march to Defend the Welfare State last April in London

Coordinated strike action motion for TUC

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TRANSPORT union RMT has tabled a motion for the TUC Congress in Manchester next week which sets out a blueprint for a coordinated trade...
Delegates to yesterday’s SRM vote to oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill which would smash up and privatise the NHS

LANSLEY MUST GO! – BMA SRM told

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DOCTORS at the British Medical Association Special Representative Meeting yesterday morning voted unanimously to oppose the government’s Health and Social Care Bill, and demand...
Hospital staff and local residents marching to save Whittington Hospital in February. There is massive opposition to NHS cuts

‘BUILD ALLIANCE TO FIGHT ATTACKS!’ – Prentis urges health conference

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‘WE will build alliances needed to fight future attacks’ Dave Prentis, the Unison leader, told its Health Conference in Brighton yesterday. Addressing health workers, including...
Canadian students at a mass demonstration, the main banner reads: ‘Education is not for sale!’

Students Erupt Again In Quebec

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Quebec students and their supporters took to the streets of Montreal last Saturday and promised a summer full of demonstrations unless the dispute over...

RCN SETTING UP A £35m STRIKE FUND

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FOLLOWING the recommendation of the ‘slap in the face’ 1% pay award by the Department of Health and Social Care in its evidence to...

‘When we start you will know’ – says Nasrallah

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THE head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has vowed that his militant group would oust militants from a region on the border with Syria, but declined...