BMA predicts £54bn NHS shortfall!

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THE Chair of the British Medical Association has warned of an increasing financial shortfall in NHS funding. In his New Year’s message to doctors, Dr...

50,000 RMT members take strike action!

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OVER 50,000 RMT members across Network Rail, London Overground, London Underground and other 14 train operating companies will walk out on strike this week,...

‘TRUST HAS BEEN BREACHED!’ – Ellwood demands ‘stock check’ on Johnson

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SENIOR Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has called on fellow Conservative MPs to assess whether Boris Johnson is still fit to be leader of the...
Greek electricians and power workers marching in Athens last June – will answer the autocratic bankers with a socialist revolution

Greek bankers call for autocratic solutions!

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GREECE will either lower its standard of living, or it will exit the euro and turn decades back.’ This was the message from the...
Rail workers demanding that fares be cut, not rail staff, and that the rail network be nationalised

Rail fares rising three times faster than wages! – 26.6% between 2008 and 2012

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RAIL fares have risen three times faster than wages since the slump began in 2008, according to a new analysis published yesterday by the...
Passenger with hand trapped in train door being dragged along the platform

Safety Case Is Proven!

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THIS is the CCTV image – produced in court this week – which shows that Southern railways is wrong when it says driver-only operation...

Yemenis strike Saudi pipeline

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SAUDI Arabia have been forced to halt pumping oil through one of their major pipelines after a successful Yemeni drone strike yesterday afternoon. Saudi Minister of...

Infection out of control – ‘Isolation exemptions will spread Covid-19’ – BMA stark warning!

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STAFF isolation exemptions are absolutely the wrong answer to the government’s failure to control spiralling infection rates, says doctors’ union the BMA. Responding to news...

£250 A SECOND – £1 million more unemployed will cost taxpayers £8.1billion

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ON THE eve of today’s Budget, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber warned that if the number of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) claimants increases...

Right to strike restored – for those waiting for ‘leave to remain’

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IN LIGHT of the Windrush scandal the government has been forced to change the rules to ensure workers from other countries can participate...

‘We’re NHS workers – bring us back in-house’! – demand striking St George’s staff

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STRIKING cleaners, domestic workers and hostesses employed by the public services privateer Mitie, got great support from local people as they held a powerful...
Greek riot police on Sunday night attacked protesters, who fought back with petrol bombs in scenes which resembled a war zone. Photo credit: MARIOS LOLOS

Police attack Greek pension cuts protest

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FIERCE battles took place outside the Greek parliament building (the Vouli) on Sunday night as riot police attacked the 30,000 youth, workers and poor...

Fierce fighting in Jabalia refugee camp

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FIERCE fighting is taking place in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as Palestinian soldiers battle Israeli troops after they launched another deadly...

‘HONOUR THE GUARD GUARANTEE!’ – RMT challenges South Western

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THE RMT has launched a direct challenge to South Western Railway to honour the guard guarantee on their trains. It wants a ‘yes or no’...
Striking CWU members in Cambridge with their banner

Postal workers say: ‘WE NEED A GENERAL STRIKE’ – ‘All workers are under attack...

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THOUSANDS of striking delivery staff took to picket lines in London and across the country yesterday, on the second day of the national postal...

PROSECUTE KILLER COMPANIES! – demands the GMB

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The GMB trade union says companies who kill employees will face private prosecutions if the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) ‘continues to fail workers’. The High...
Young Socialists marching to the TUC Congress earlier this month demanding Jobs for Youth and a general strike to get the Tories out

ON THE ROAD TO RUIN! – 4.5m self employed and ‘insidious’ zero-hours contracts

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UK registered unemployment fell by 146,000 to 2.02 million in the three months to the end of July, official figures show. The figures do not...
Nurses marching to demand that bursaries are restored to bring many more young people into the profession

Thousands of nurses march today to defend the NHS!

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THOUSANDS of nursing staff from across England will join tens of thousands of workers and youth on a march and demonstration in London today. Royal...
Teachers standing up for education on the TUC march  – an Ofsted report has highlighted an alarming teacher shortage, sixth form funding crisis and youth driven into poor quality apprenticeships

Alarming teacher shortage

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‘AN ALARMING teacher recruitment crisis is gripping England’s schools,’ teachers union NUT warned yesterday, adding that ‘no amount of “golden handshakes” will resolve the...

Hamas reaffirms ‘the right to resist’ Zionists

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On YESTERDAY’S second anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle, Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas, reaffirmed that its top priority is an immediate end to 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...

Arconic warned of cladding fire risk a decade before Grenfell!

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THE COMPANY that made the Grenfell Tower cladding was warned of the risks of a building fire that would kill ‘60 to 70’ people...

Reeves declares war on Welfare State

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves warned yesterday that she intends to launch the biggest ever attack on the working class, the youth and the Welfare...

Grenfell – Schmidt says not his priority to understand fire safety tests!

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CLAUDE SCHMIDT, president of Arconic that made the Grenfell Tower cladding, has said it was not his ‘priority’ to understand fire safety tests and...

MASS VACCINATION CAMPAIGN – pushed by desperate Tories!

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THE UK has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for mass vaccination. Britain’s medicines regulator, the MHRA, says the jab, which offers up...
Junior doctors rally on September 28 – prepared to strike against an imposed contract. Photo credit: Steve Eason

JUNIOR DOCTORS DEMANDING ‘CONCRETE ASSURANCES’ FROM HUNT! – will march to Parliament Square on...

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JUNIOR doctors have demanded ‘concrete assurances’ from Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt before ‘considering’ re-entering negotiations. Junior doctors are furious at the Tory government’s attempts...

DNA DATABASE ‘BY STEALTH’! – 40,000 innocent children among 4 million on base

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The Brown government was yesterday accused of building up a national DNA database ‘by stealth’ by retaining profiles of nearly 40,000 children never...
Junior doctors were out on strike time and time again, rightly insisting that the new contract imposed on them by Tory health secretary Hunt was making them work so many hours that they were extremely tired – a danger to patients and themselves

Doctors at risk from fatigue!

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LACK of sleep resulting from long hours and excessive workloads is jeopardising patient safety and doctors’ health, the BMA has warned, while reports...
Striking PCS civil servants rally outside the House of Commons last Wednesday denouncing Osborne’s Budget

£9 bn of tax rises ahead – after next election says IFS

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TAX rises of up to £9 billion could be imposed on British households and businesses after the next general election in 2015, leading economic...

Syria Writes To US Congressmen

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THE Speaker of the Syrian People’s Assembly, Jihad Al-Lahham, has written an open letter to John Boehner, the speaker of the US House of...
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...

Civil Service Mayhem

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PLANS reported yesterday morning to close all but a handful of HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) 160 remaining UK offices would be ‘devastating’ and...
Thousands of Tamils poured into Parliament Square yesterday, after police broke up their overnight sit-down protest on Westminster Bridge

Police Attack Tamils

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Hundreds of Tamils demonstrated in Parliament Square yesterday after a sit-in of thousands on Westminster Bridge was broken up by riot police. The protesters alleged...
Experienced and skilled overseas doctors demonstrate against Labour’s new ruling which is forcing them out of the NHS

NHS Trusts – No money for surgeons

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THE government’s privatisation drive is threatening the development of a new generation of NHS surgeons. This was revealed yesterday by Britain’s top surgeon, President of...

UNSAFE! – GPs condemn addressing 4 health issues in ten minutes

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BIRMINGHAM GP Dr John Cosgrove and 74 fellow GPs have slammed Health Minister Norman Lamb’s call for GPs to explore four personal health...
Libyan demonstrators at 10 Downing Street on Monday indict Cameron and imperialism and declare their support for Colonel Gadaffi

‘THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IS KILLING MORE CIVILIANS’ – says Libyan government spokesman

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British air and missile strikes have caused ‘numerous civilian casualties’ especially at the civilian airport in Sirte, Libyan government spokesman Ibrahim Moussa said...

Ferguson youth defy curfew

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ANGRY workers and youth defied Saturday night’s midnight-5am curfew imposed in Ferguson, Missouri, where unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot dead by police...

SECOND CLASS CITIZENS! – elderly being mistreated

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Public services often fail to consider the special needs of older people, who are being treated like ‘second class citizens’, Age Concern said yesterday. It...

Junior Doctors Want A 35% Pay Rise!

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PICKETS were out yesterday morning at the Royal London Hospital on day two of the Junior Doctors’ strike. They are determined to fight whatever government...
RMT general secretary MICK CASH and his assistant STEVE HEDLEY were adamant that in the interests of its passengers the rail industry must be renationalised

RMT Protest At Rail Rip-Off Fares

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REGULATED rail fares will increase by 3.6% from January 2018 it was announced yesterday, as the Retail Prices Index (RPI) figure for July was...

Two Koreas ‘Cease All Hostile Acts!’

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HAILING a ‘new era of peace’, North Korea leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, sealed their talks on Friday with a...

One in ten in ‘insecure’ work!

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THE NUMBER of zero-hours contract and low-paid self-employed workers has rocketed by a quarter since 2011 to three million, new research released yesterday by...

Huge Bill Hikes!

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WATER, energy, TV licence and Council Tax bills went through the roof yesterday, with Citizens Advice warning that the finances of millions of people...