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Junior doctors won mass public support when they took to the streets in their thousands in March after the introduction of MTAS and MMC ‘reforms’ caused chaos

PATIENTS’ SAFETY AT RISK! – warn consultants and junior doctors

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Leading consultants and junior doctors have warned that the medical training crisis is risking patient safety as the NHS faces upheaval on August 1st...

200 UNLAWFUL KILLINGS – will be the subject of Public Hearings

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THE families of Iraqi civilians killed and tortured by British troops, yesterday won their legal battle for public hearings. Their lawyers, Public Interest Lawyers, announced...
Greek youth marching against austerity

Terms Of Greek Bail-Out ‘No Longer Apply’

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THE leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras stated on Tuesday ‘the expression of the public’s will has made the...

110,000 Using Food Banks!

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THE NUMBER of people seeking emergency food aid in the UK has doubled in the past six months, the largest organiser of food...

Kiev ‘Terrorist Regime!’

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THE EXTREME right wingers making up as the self-declared ‘new Ukrainian authority’, yesterday issued an ‘arrest warrant’ for the President of the Ukraine, Viktor...

Gchq Was Listening To Omagh Bombers

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THE Cheltenham-based electronic spying agency, GCHQ, recorded mobile phone exchanges between the Omagh bombers on the day of the attack in 1998. The...

Greece A Colony Of The Ec-Imf Lenders!

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GREEK civil servants employed at Inland Revenue offices picketed a Finance Ministry building in Athens on Thursday morning against a government ‘multi-Bill’ which scraps...

Disaster At Royal Free

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ROYAL Free Hospital bosses have been putting doctors under pressure to accept as much as ten per cent pay cuts as part of a...
Greek farmers attacked by riot police while protesting against a massive attack on pensions imposed on Greece by the European Union Photo credit: Marios Lolos

‘GREECE WILL NOT BECOME THE EU’s LEBANON’

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GREECE has recalled its ambassador to Austria amid sharp divisions among EU states over the migrant crisis. The move came after Austria hosted a meeting...

Palestinian infants are dying from the cold!

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A PALESTINIAN infant died on Friday from severe cold while sheltering with her family inside a makeshift tent in Gaza, as Israeli restrictions continue...

100,000 CIVIL SERVANTS OUT ON APRIL 24th

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Over 100,000 Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), working across 10 government departments and agencies will be on strike at the...

Aziz Defends Saddam

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IRAQ’s former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz took the witness stand Wednesday to defend Saddam Hussein and his associates from charges that they massacred...
North East London Council of Action march in Enfield last month demanding that Chase Farm Hospital’s A&E be reopened

Chase Farm Land Sell-Off!

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THE Hampstead-based Royal Free Hospital NHS trust, which will take over Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield and Barnet Hospital this July, has confirmed its...
Notting Hill Carnival goers had a great time all day

A million turn out for Carnival

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MORE THAN one million people from all around the world attended the two-day Notting Hill Carnival yesterday and on Sunday, with its fantastic...
The Haringey community rose up in January against plans to force Noel Park primary school to become an Acadamy

‘Resist forced Academy status’

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‘The NUT will support all those school communities – heads, teachers, parents and governors – who resist forced Academy status’, pledged NUT General Secretary...

Blair Gang Turn On Each Other

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LEADING people at the centre of the three Blair governments have published their memoirs for big cash payments, knowing full well that...
Postal workers marching through Milton Keynes last month determined to keep their Mail Centre open

DEFEND THE ROYAL MAIL– No to 50,000 job losses

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‘We have to strike to defend Royal Mail, to defend our jobs and to defend our pensions,’ CWU HP Section Chairman, South Central No...

Osborne War On Benefits

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‘WITH this abhorrent proposal, the Chancellor is saying that some children will be marked out from birth as second class citizens with their lives...

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...

Unions Reject Pay-Cut Cartel

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HEALTH unions, Unison, the BMA, and RCN have refused to recognise a South West regional NHS cartel set up to cut pay and conditions. The...
Grenfell survivors and their supporters demonstrate outside the Kensington & Chelsea Council Town Hall which ignored all  warnings of the dangers of an inferno at Grenfell Tower and then ignored them after it

Sheltered accommodation contains Grenfell cyanide

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THE insulation used at Grenfell Tower – which releases cyanide if burned – is installed at sheltered accommodation in east London, it was reported...

UK ECONOMY IS CRASHING! – facing its biggest ever slump

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TORY CHANCELLOR SUNAK yesterday said it is ‘very likely’ the UK is in a ‘significant recession’, as figures show the economy contracting at the...

Royal Commission ‘to break up the NHS’ says KONP

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KEEP Our NHS Public (KONP) is demanding that Labour oppose the setting up of a Royal Commission to look at the NHS and...
Teachers joined junior doctors on a mass march through central London last month – teachers are out on strike today

Teachers strike today – worst funding cuts since 1970s

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‘SCHOOLS are facing the worst cuts in funding since the 1970s,’ the NUT warned as teachers at every school in the country walked out...
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...

Tens Of Thousands To March Against Fees!

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TENS of thousands of students and youth are taking to the streets of London today to protest against £9,000 tuition fees and the savage...

Obama gives May dressing down!

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OUTGOING US President Barack Obama yesterday warned PM May that Britain was wrong to vote to leave the EU and suggested it is still...
Demonstrators insist that those responsible for the Grenfell Tower inferno and its aftermath should face jail sentences

‘Those responsible must be jailed’ say Grenfell survivors

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‘WE HAVE been strong and we are not prepared to be walked over and we do want answers,’ Grenfell survivor Jaquie Hayes said yesterday. She...

Pm May Refuses To Debate!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn said in the House of Commons yesterday that workers ‘cannot trust’ PM May. He spoke before the vote...

49 Labour MPs call for a Gaza ceasefire now!

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NEARLY a quarter of Labour MPs have called fora ceasefire in Gaza. Forty-nine of the party’s 199 MPs have either said they want a ceasefire...

ISRAELI BOMBERS FLATTEN 3-STOREY HOME – 100 feared dead, many children

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AT LEAST 40 Palestinians only just displaced from Rafah were killed when a residential building in the Nuseirat refugee camp was bombed by Israeli...
Bill Rogers, from the North-East London Council of Action, addresses the St Paul’s Assembly on Saturday evening

Assembly Supports Chase Farm Occupation!

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‘WE will defend Chase Farm Hospital with an occupation!’ was the message Bill Rogers, secretary of the North East London Council of Action, delivered...

Grenfell Tower survivors threatened with eviction

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MAHAD Egal, Jamie Murray and their two young children, who survived the Grenfell Tower fire, like so many others have still not been permanently...

MAYHEM THIS WEEKEND Winter flu epidemic creating hospital chaos–SAM

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AS TEMPERATURES plummet the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) anticipates ‘mayhem this weekend’ with the winter flu epidemic kicking in, affecting hundreds of hospitals...

Agencies ripping off schools – NUT supply teachers conference today

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‘THE GOVERNMENT needs to take urgent action on supply teaching. Agencies have been ripping off schools for years and have no place in the...
Youth from Forest Gate demonstrating outside New Scotland Yard yesterday afternoon

‘WE SUFFERED A NIGHTMARE’ says sister of jailed men

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,?her innocent family should be forced to go through the same nightmare we went through,’ said Humeya Kalam, the sister of brothers Abdul Kahar...
Athens Metro workers at a meeting to discuss the attempts of the government to make their trade union activities illegal

Emergency powers used against Greek Metro workers

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AT lunchtime yesterday the Greek Development Minister K Khatzidakis announced that the three-party coalition government has decided to place the striking Athens Metro workers...

Pensions Battle Ahead!

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THE NUT and ATL teachers unions announced overwhelming votes for strike action yesterday, against the coalition government’s massive attacks on their pensions. In the...

Tories Can Still Win Says Sunak

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TORY PM SUNAK has insisted the Conservatives can still win the next general election, despite suffering two damaging by-election defeats. Labour and the Lib Dems...

China No! To North Korea Blockade!

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China has refused to search North Korean ships, throwing US attempts to enforce a blockade and sanctions into disarray. The United States is urging China...

‘EU dead in the water!’ says Bank of England MPC member

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EXPORTS to the EU, the UK’s biggest trading partner, are ‘dead in the water’, a member of the Bank of England’s interest rate-setting Monetary...
Refugees are not criminals – say demonstrators protesting against plans to build a new immigration detention centre at Gatwick

Asylum System ‘Shame On UK’

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The most comprehensive examination of the UK’s asylum system ever conducted has found it ‘marred by inhumanity’ and ‘not yet fit for purpose’. An interim...

TEACHERS STRIKE ‘A NOBLE PURPOSE’ – says NEU leader Courtney

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HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers, university workers, civil servants and transport workers are striking in the biggest strike day in more than a decade...

Trump Pushes For UK Regime Change

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NIGEL Farage should be involved in the government’s Brexit negotiations and the UK should be prepared to leave the EU with no deal, Donald...

‘CHARGE THOSE RESPONSIBLE WITH MURDER’ – demands Phil Shiner

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THE lawyers acting for Colonel Mousa, Baha Mousa’s father, today responded to the latest evidence given by ex-soldier Donald Payne in the Baha Mousa...