Junior doctors block Whitehall during their strike – doctors oppose NHS England’s new dangerous ‘Stay Well Pharmacy’ campaign

‘Go to pharmacist, not GP or A&E’ – NHS England campaign slammed as dangerous

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TAKE your sick children to see the pharmacist, rather than the GP or to an A&E. . . this is the message of a...

UK returning ‘East of Suez’

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THE UK military is returning ‘East of Suez’ to its former naval base in Bahrain, 40 years after withdrawal of every military garrison. ‘This new...

IRAQ RISES UP! – thousands clash with police & army

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TENS of thousands of Iraqis marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq yesterday, in the largest and...

250,000-strong London march for Palestine

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OVER 250,000 workers, students and youth marched for Palestine from Hyde Park towards the Israeli embassy in Kensington west London on Saturday afternoon. There were...

Starmer Told Quit Now! Forward To A Workers Government & Socialism!

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PRESSURE mounted yesterday on Labour PM Sir Keir Starmer to quit now in the wake of his appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador. After...

‘There Must Be National Strike Action! – To Win Back Our P&O Members’ Jobs’

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‘THERE must be national strike action by the whole RMT to win our P&O members their jobs back,’ leading RMT rep Darren Lalli said...

Johnson is risking a second spike – warns BMA – While Unite wants permanent...

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‘SO WE ARE at real risk, without any coherence without any safeguards, that the infection could have a second surge,’ warned Chaand Nagpaul, Chair...

Hands Off Our Hospitals!

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ANY attempt to use a new ‘Ofsted-style’ hospital inspection regime to justify closure of any South-West London hospital will be ‘vigorously fought,’ leading local...
Ealing North Labour MP STEPHEN POUND joined the mass picket of Ealing Hospital to stop the closures

Mass Picket–Keep Ealing Hospital Open!

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‘SAVE our hospital! Defend the NHS!’ shouted up to 50 local residents and health workers who braved the pouring rain to join a...

Italy Vote Sends Shudders Through Markets

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EUROPEAN stock markets fell sharply yesterday, with the election result in Italy producing no government, but marking a massive vote against austerity. Italy’s FTSE MIB...
BA cabin crew fighting resolutely against another bosses’ and government attack

Tuc To Lobby Tories!

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TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber yesterday warned that the coalition’s cuts ‘not only threaten services but risk economic recovery’. He was speaking ahead of the...

£23bn PROFIT FROM NHS – being made by PFI companies

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Banks and developers will make £23 billion in profits and interest over the next 30 years by building NHS hospitals under the government’s Private...

ISRAEL SET TO THUMB NOSE AT OBAMA – over settlements

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Netanyahu was yesterday set not to extend the moratorium on settlement building in the West Bank, thumbing his nose at both...
Save Chase Farm campaigners join workers from around the country to lobby MPs against hospital closures

Occupy Chase Farm!

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HEALTH chiefs on the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Clinical Strategy Board, yesterday denied that the decision has already been taken to shut the A&E...
The 32-strong picket line at Bilborough College in Nottingham yesterday

Nottingham school strike!

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NUT members at Bilborough College, Nottingham went on strike yesterday against compulsory redundancies, downgrading of teachers’ jobs and workload, with a picket from 7.45am...
London Overground Travel Safe officers in the RMT are fighting for sick pay, job security and proper contracts

RMT Names Overground Strike Dates!

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RAIL union RMT confirmed yesterday that London Overground guards will take strike action, together with an overtime ban, for 48 hours over the coming...

Prentis Warns Labour

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UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday pledged ‘our union will bring together an alliance of all public service unions’ to defend jobs and public...

‘SERIOUS UPHEAVALS’ – predicted by head of World Bank

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WORLD BANK chief Robert Zoellick has warned that the global economic crisis could lead to serious social upheavals. The head of the World Bank has...

LIBYAN CEASEFIRE! – but imperialists proceed with war plan

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Libyan Foreign minister Moussa Koussa yesterday announced: ‘My country will do its best to deal positively with this resolution’, in the wake of Thursday...

ISS hospital workers demand Living Wage

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OVER 30 GMB members held a lively picket of the private contractor ISS at the company’s HQ in the South Quay Building, Canary Wharf,...

UKRAINE WAR BOOSTS INFLATION! – says World Bank President

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THE war in Ukraine is ‘a catastrophe’ for the world which will cut global economic growth and boost inflation, the president of the World...

Bma Condemns ‘Cruel And Vindictive’ Whorlton Hall

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THE BMA has condemned the ‘cruel, vindictive and abusive’ behaviour exposed by Panorama at the private Whorlton Hall hospital. Responding to last night’s Panorama programme,...

Workers ‘will pay for recovery’ says Sunak

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‘I HAVE to be blunt with you, our recovery comes with a cost,’ Chancellor Rishi Sunak told the Tory Party conference yesterday outlining his...
Angry fishermen outside DEFRA (the Department of the Environment, Fisheries and Rural Affairs) yesterday

BLOCKADE THE PORTS – say fishermen after no progress in talks

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‘BLOCKADE the Ports’ was the cry that went up from up to 300 fishermen, at the outcome of their meeting yesterday with Jonathan Shaw,...
Congress delegates voting for the main resolution on Monday

Barber supports low pay! – Congress shaken by his ‘reservations’

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BRENDAN Barber yesterday shook the TUC to its foundations when he told Congress that this was not the time to raise the minimum wage...

Iran dismisses claims that a deal with the US is imminent

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IRAN has dismissed claims that an agreement with the US is imminent or that the nuclear file and management of the Strait of Hormuz...

Labour Defeats The Snp Nationalists!

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THE Labour Party has defeated the SNP to win the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. The party’s candidate, Michael Shanks, took the Westminster seat with...

Railworkers will resist any Tory attack on their right to strike!

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RAIL unions yesterday slammed Tory plans to illegalise rail strikes. Page 60 of the Conservative Party general election manifesto says: ‘We will work with train...
CT Plus busworkers on the picket line in East London on Friday in the second of four Friday strikes

Hackney Bus Workers Want Decent Pay!

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BUS workers were in high spirits yesterday on the second Friday out of four consecutive Fridays of strike action over low pay and management...

Privateers take £1.5bn out of the NHS since 2012!

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A NEW investigation by Unite has found that since 2012 a scandalous £1.5 billion has left the NHS and gone into the pockets of...

Taxpayers Robbed To Bail Out Banks!

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The Bank of England yesterday mortgaged £11 billion more of taxpayers’ money to shore up the big UK banks, as bank bosses held talks...
Yesterday was a brilliant campaigning day for Jonty Leff and his team, shown above at Hackney Community College

GREAT CAMPAIGN WITH WRP’s LEFF IN HACKNEY

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STUDENTS enthusiastically joined the campaign to elect Jonty Leff as WRP candidate for Hackney South and Shoreditch yesterday. They campaigned hard, giving out leaflets, speaking...
Young NHS workers march against Tory government cuts

530 lifesaving cancer operations axed

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HUNDREDS of cancer operations were cancelled during the NHS winter crisis, meaning that for some patients, by the time they are treated, their cancer...

Bank Rate Rise Fears!

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The Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has been shaken by the ‘increase in inflationary risks’ which if...

NHS Faces ‘Worst Ever Winter!’

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THE LATEST ‘catastrophic’ NHS performance figures have sparked fears that the health service is on track for the ‘worst ever’ winter, the BMA doctors’...

Tory police, fire & ambulance merger plan slammed

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TORY plans to merge fire, ambulance and police services are being pushed forward as the Home Office called for ‘shared control rooms’ yesterday. The proposal...

UNISON TO BALLOT – over 3-year NHS wage-cutting deal

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DELEGATES at the UNISON Health Conference in Manchester yesterday voted to ballot over the government’s staged three-year pay deal. The UNISON leaders had previously accepted...
A demonstration in Windrush Square, Brixton in solidarity with the Windrush generation. There is to be a Support Windrush  Generation demonstration in Parliament Square today from 4.00-7.00pm

Windrush promises must have legal backing

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MORE than 200 MPs have signed a letter to the prime minister calling for government promises to Windrush migrants to be written into law....

New UCL rent strike –against rat and insect infestation

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INSECTS and rats have infested UCL students’ halls of residence sparking a new rent strike against the terrible conditions students are expected to live...

UNIONS MUST JOIN ACTION! say Defend Chase Farm NHS fighters

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‘SAY “No’’ to this sham consultation!’, shouted dozens of angry local residents fighting to save Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, as they demonstrated outside...

CRASH GOES INDUSTRY! – while A&L profits fall to £2m

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A group from ‘Tent City’ occupation in Wembley occupied the London headquarters of ARK (Actual Return for Kids) the proposed sponsors of the Wembley...

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...

Yashika Deportation Stopped!

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THE Home Office’s forced deportation of 19-year-old female Mauritian student Yashika Bageerathi was stopped yesterday after Air Mauritius refused to fly her. Yashika, who remains...
Protesters demanding troops out of Afghanistan picketing Downing Street yesterday

Rice-Brown War Talks

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Prime Minister Brown had war talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at Downing Street yesterday afternoon. The pair discussed tensions within NATO over...

No Action Against The Police Over The Chris Kaba Killing

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THE Independent Office for Police Conduct announced yesterday that it has dropped gross misconduct proceedings against Martyn Blake, the Metropolitan Police firearms officer who...