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DARZI WORKING FOR PRIVATISATION – BMA told

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DOCTORS and other health professionals participated in a conference organised by the British Medical Association in London yesterday to discuss the government’s ‘Healthcare for...

GRANGEMOUTH SACK THREAT 6.00pm TODAY

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FOURTEEN-hundred workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland face the sack at 6pm today if they refuse to sign a wage- and conditions-cutting...

‘Get Out Of Iraq’ – US Abandons Citizens After Its Terror Attack

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THE US Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has urged all American citizens to run for it and get out of Iraq. This is after...

Grenfell–‘Companies Killed 72 People!’

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THE COMPANIES that carried out the Grenfell Tower refurbishment killed 72 people ‘just as surely as if they had taken careful aim with a...

US in political crisis as Biden faces growing calls to quit!

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A ‘PERVASIVE sense of fear and uncertainty’ hangs over the US Democratic party as 81-year-old president Joe Biden faces increasingly strident calls for him...

NO TO PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES! say 20,000 Greek students and teachers

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TWENTY thousand university and school students, primary and secondary school teachers and universities staff marched through Athens last Thursday in a determined and enthusiastic...

30,000 university staff jobs at risk!

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UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) yesterday launched action to support casualised staff. Over a third of all staff are on ‘fixed-term contracts’ rather than...

The back of the Zionist regime will be broken – Iran

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IRAN will ‘break the back’ of the Israeli regime and continue with its retaliatory military operations against the Zionist aggressors, its defence ministry vowed...

Nursery heads march on Downing Street!

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NURSERY heads marched on Downing Street yesterday, furious at the desperate lack of funding which is now so bad that nurseries are threatened with...

FINANCIAL CRASH! – bankers warning over ‘risky loans’

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Risky loans are leading to a financial crash, leading bankers warned yesterday. William Rhodes, senior vice chairman of Citigroup warned: ‘Lenders all too often, are...

KBR FINED $402m IS TO BE POLICE PARTNER

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KELLOG, Brown and Root (KBR) is on the shortlist for the ‘Business Partnering for Police’ (BPP) project. It is the company which pleaded guilty before...

SECOND COVID PEAK IS LIKELY! say thousands of BMA doctors

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THOUSANDS of doctors say a second Covid peak is very likely and is their greatest fear this winter. A major survey of doctors by the...

Homeless Children Housed In Containers!

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TENS of thousands of homeless children in England are ‘temporarily’ housed in converted shipping containers and office blocks, freezing in winter, sweltering in the...

BMA & RCN condemn Starmer’s NHS ‘Plan for Change’

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PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service,...

‘STAR CHAMBER’ TO PUSH THROUGH £60bn CUTS

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CHANCELLOR Osborne oversaw the creation of a ‘Star Chamber’ yesterday, to force through the planned £60 billion a year spending cuts. Osborne told the...

Capita Shares Plunge 40%

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CAPITA shares plunged over 40% yesterday, provoking speculation that the huge conglomerate privateer is going the way of Carillion and is set to...

129 Million Americans Face Losing Health Coverage

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Without the Affordable Care Act, up to 129 million non-elderly Americans who have some type of pre-existing health condition, like heart disease, high blood...

BMA Wales 3-day February strike

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British Medical Association (BMA) Cymru Wales junior doctors committee has announced new strike dates as part of the dispute over pay. ‘In the absence of...

Largest School Cuts For A Generation!

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TWO National Union of Teachers (NUT)/YouGov polls of parents and teachers reveal the growing crisis in schools, the NUT said yesterday. The polls found: ...

UK ECONOMY NOSEDIVES! – biggest fall in modern times

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THE UK economy nosedived by a record 9.9%, the biggest slump in modern times, with the contraction in 2020 ‘more than twice as much...
Teachers marching in London on the October 20 TUC demonstration against the Coalition’s austerity cuts

1.2 million miss out on daily school meal!

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THE Children’s Society is warning that 1.2 million children living below the poverty line in England miss out on a school meal each day. Some...
Determined PCS strikers outside the British Museum during the one-day national strike on May Day

‘LICENCE TO PRINT MONEY’ – £1.8bn for consultants as thousands sacked

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) this morning accused the government of giving management consultants a licence to print money at the taxpayer’s...

BLAIR WARNING FOR CHAVEZ AND EVO MORALES – at EU-Americas talks

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UK Prime Minister Blair yesterday attacked the Bolivian and Venezuelan presidents over their moves to end the foreign exploitation of their countries’ gas...
Mass picket of striking ambulance workers in Deptford demand ‘Fair Pay’

NHS strike solid!

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ANGRY NHS workers were on picket lines outside hospitals and ambulance stations around the country yesterday as around half-a-million members of ten health...

UK servicing Saudi jets in Yemen – admits Tory MP

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BRITAIN is providing ‘engineering support’ for UK-supplied aircraft operated by the Royal Saudi Air Force, responsible for killing innocent people in Yemen, a British...

PCS Warns Of Further Action

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‘We’ve had just as strong support today as we had for the first day of the strike,’ a Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS)...
The De Menezes family taking flowers to Stockwell tube on the anniversary of Jean Charles de Menezes’ death at the hands of police gunmen. They now fear that their phones may well have been hacked into

De Menezes family ‘may have been hacked’

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The family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday called upon Prime Minister Cameron to extend the remit of the inquiry into the phone hacking scandal. They demanded...
UCU members took strike action alongside members of the PCS civil service union and the National Union of Teachers on April 24

KEELE BOYCOTT! – unless 38 academic sackings are withdrawn

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Keele University has one week to avoid the ignominy of becoming the first university to receive an academic boycott from the University and College...
Doctors voting at yesterday’s GPs conference where they rejected the government’s NHS privatisation plans

NO TO PRIVATISATION! – SAY GPs

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THE BMA GPs conference yesterday voted unanimously, but for a couple of abstentions, for Motion 153: ‘The Market and Any Willing Provider’. The motion from...
West London Council of Action pickets outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning determined to keep the Maternity Department open

‘We must not let the maternity close’

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THERE was a lively picket outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning where a lot of people said they would come to the meeting and march...
25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE

25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE

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Sunday 23rd January 2.00-6.00pm St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)
Protest in Tower Hamlets against the privatisation of GP surgeries

Doctors demand vote on White Paper

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THE BMA council is set to hold a crunch vote on holding an emergency representative meeting to decide its stance on the government’s privatising...

2-year-old Awaab died ‘entirely due to mould!’

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TWO YEARS-OLD Awaab Ishak died on 21 December 2020 shortly after his second birthday ‘entirely’ as a result of extensive mould in his flat,...
GMB hospital workers marching through Swindon against the bullying of privateer company Carillion

‘NO VICTIMISATIONS!’ – Carillion workers rally today

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WORKERS at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital are holding a mass lunchtime rally outside the hospital today, against victimisation by their multi-national privateer employer Carillion. Swindon...

3.5% NHS pay rise a ‘sick joke’ says Unite

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DISMISSING the government’s 3.5 per cent proposal on NHS pay announced on Tuesday as a ‘sick joke’, Unite said yesterday that ‘this will accelerate...
Workers at the Lindsey power station were urging workers to join the strike movement to stop union-busting bosses

‘THIS DISPUTE IS OFFICIAL!’ – GMBs Kenny tells 2000 workers

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‘FROM the moment Total and their contractors dismissed our members at Lindsey, this became an official dispute.’ So said GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny, addressing...
Gate Gourmet workers from Heathrow outside their Employment Tribunal last week – the Irish SIPTU union is concerned over the company’s ‘profiling’ of its workforce in Dublin

‘Sinister’ Gate Gourmet Dublin

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Irish union SIPTU general president Jack O’Connor has expressed concern overplans by Gate Gourmet, Dublin, to carry out profiling of individual workers to ascertain...

TORIES CONDEMN NHS WORKERS PAY CLAIMS – ‘unreasonable’ says Cabinet Secretary Dowden

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THE ARMED forces are being mobilised to break NHS workers’ picket lines this week, Dowden, the Tory minister in charge of the capitalist state’s...
BMA members marching against Tory cuts and privatisation

BMA opposes ex-Tory minister in charge of NHS!

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DOCTORS’ leaders yesterday spoke out against appointing former Tory health minister Lord Prior as Chair of NHS England. Prior, who served in the Tory...

Met ‘failed to perform its legal duty’ when it banned Sarah Everard vigil

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THE Metropolitan Police breached the rights of the organisers of a planned vigil for Sarah Everard, two judges have ruled. The group had to cancel...

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE! – demands Stella Assange outside High Court

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‘DROP this shameful case. It is a shame on every democracy. Free Julian! I ask everyone to rally behind him,’ Stella Assange urged in...

UCU Fights Mass Sackings

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The University and College Union (UCU) has slammed Manchester College after it was revealed that it is paying its top earner almost £200,000, while...

The Great Betrayal – NHS Union Leaders Surrender To Tories

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NHS trade unions suspended the industrial action planned for today following proposals put forward by the government. Unison head of health and the unions’ lead...

‘Intervene to halt Israel’s assault on Gaza!’– Hamas urges the Muslim nations

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HAMAS has urged Arab and Muslim nations to intervene immediately to halt Israel’s resumed assault on Gaza, stressing that regional powers bear a ‘direct...