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Gp Crisis Deepens

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GP leaders yesterday warned the government that its plans to recruit 5,000 new GPs and introduce seven-day opening are undeliverable, as new figures show...

Carry Out Pledges – Demand Greek Workers

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THE Greek Finance Minister has sent a letter of capitulation to the EU’s diktats, dated Wednesday 18 February 2015. It was sent to Eurogroup President...
Local residents and campaigners from Southend joined Saturday’s 20,000-strong demonstration to defend the NHS

Combining health & social care opens door to paying for NHS says deputy chair...

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‘ONCE the funding of health and social care are combined, then the door is opened for means testing and charging for healthcare,’ Anna Athow,...
Greek postal workers march through Athens with a clear message in English: the postal service is ‘not for sale’!

Down With Privatisation!

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OVER 10,000 workers from the Greek state corporations and organisations (power and electricity, telecommunications, post-office, water authorities etc) took part in a militant and...
Nurses determined to defend their jobs marching on the ‘NHS Together’ demonstration in Nottingham last September

37,000 NHS Jobs Axe

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Trade unions and health professionals yesterday slammed as ‘very alarming’ and ‘staggering’, the government’s leaked draft NHS pay and workforce strategy for 2008...

Tube pickets call for a general strike to bring down the Tories

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‘I HOPE this action is the beginning of a wider movement of the working class standing together in solidarity and working towards a general...

Sunak plans to throw the sick and disabled off benefits – to fund tax...

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to throw the sick and disabled off benefits to fund tax cuts for the rich! He spent the weekend...

‘We must come together to stop no-deal’ – says Labour leader Corbyn

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‘WE MUST come together to stop no-deal. This week could be the last chance. We are working with other parties to do everything necessary...
Students demonstrate against bail-outs for bankers while they are told to pay £9,000 a year tuition fees

Sharp turn for worse! – B of E governor King on UK economy

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‘SINCE we last met, the mood in markets has taken a sharp turn for the worse,’ Bank of England Governor Mervyn King admitted yesterday,...
Women born in the 1950s, who lost out on their state pension when the government raised the retirement age to 65 for both men and women, lobbied MPs yesterday

Hammond’s Stp Attack!

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CHANCELLOR Hammond announced an extra £325 million in yesterday’s budget to fast-track some of the 44 hated STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) of Tory...

‘Yellow Vests who have lost eyes and limbs demand justice’

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Tens of thousands of ‘Yellow Vest’ demonstrators took part in anti-government protests across France on Saturday. Police used tear gas against them in streets across...

‘NO REGRETS’ SAYS GOLDSMITH – over halting Fraud Office inquiry

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Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith yesterday called on the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) not to re-open its corruption probe into the 1986 so-called ‘Al-Yamamah’...

‘Leave our people in Aghanistan’ Taliban warn US while G7 meets – No extension...

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IF THE Americans ask for an extension on the withdrawal from Afghanistan the answer is ‘No’ Taliban spokesperson Dr Suhail Shaheen reconfirmed yesterday at...
The two young Tamil hunger strikers are determined to force the British government to stop the genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka or die in the attempt

200,000 Tamils Rally Today

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‘TWO of our brothers are on a hunger strike to death,’ Janani Paramsothy of the British Tamil students told News Line at Parliament Square...

‘Ofqual insulting teachers’

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TEACHERS and heads unions yesterday slammed a report by regulator Ofqual that claimed teachers ‘marked GCSE coursework too generously’ and this is why results...

ASYLUM SEEKERS RIGHT TO WORK – TUC launches national campaign

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TUC delegates at their Congress in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for Motion 23, Asylum Seekers and Employment to launch a campaign to secure the...
Postal workers demonstrating outside the Royal Mail headquarters in Old Street on Friday July 13th

CWU STRIKES SUSPENDED! – secret talks till September 4th

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FOLLOWING a meeting held yesterday between Royal Mail and the CWU, a Joint Statement was agreed that means detailed discussions will take place on...

Hostile Environment – Youth targeted & charged £2,033 every 30 months

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THE TORIES’ Hostile Environment is alive and kicking with a new extortionate fee of £2,033 charged every 30 months, targeting people whose immigration status...

Syria Ejects Western Diplomats

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Syria declared the ambassadors and envoys from several western states unwelcome yesterday, ordering them out of the country. The move followed last week’s expulsion of...
RCN leader BEVERLY MALONE with UNISON health official KAREN JENNINGS at the centre of the ‘NHS Together’ platform yesterday morning

‘A PAY CUT OF 7-10 PER CENT’ – NHS unions don’t rule out industrial...

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Fourteen trade unions representing nurses, physiotherapists, radiographers, occupational therapists and other NHS staff have joined forces to challenge the government’s 1.5 per cent limit...

Gm To Impose Wage Cuts & Job Cuts

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UNITE union officers met with General Motors bosses on Thursday, to discuss the future of the company’s Luton plant. The 1,400 workers at the Kimpton...

Israeli massacres across Gaza and West Bank

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‘THE Israeli occupation army has committed three massacres in different areas of the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, killing and injuring at...
Doctors voting at their Annual Representative Meeting in Cardiff  yesterday

‘REJECT MARKET POLICIES IN NHS’ –BMA delegates opposed to privatisation

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DOCTORS at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Cardiff yesterday passionately opposed the privatisation of the NHS. The first motion, Motion 20, opposed...
Crowds assemble outside the Kensington Council meeting where Grenfell Tower survivors told the councillors to resign

‘RESIGN AT ONCE!’ – Grenfell Tower survivors tell Kensington Council

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TORY council leader Elizabeth Campbell was called a ‘murderer’ and told to immediately resign by survivors of the Grenfell Tower tragedy after they pushed...

Corbyn wants Customs Union & Single Market

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‘THERE is no deal which comes without a backstop and without a backstop there is no deal,’ Tory PM May said yesterday afternoon while...
GPs demonstrating in Rugby against the privatisation of surgeries

BMA collaborating with Tory White Paper!

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Leaders of the British Medical Association (BMA) are pressing ahead with assisting GP commissioning, as outlined in the government’s White Paper to privatise the...

21st BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN

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ANOTHER British soldier has died in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed yesterday. The MoD said the soldier was ‘shot and...

NHS AUSTERITY – planned by Department of Health

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THE government is already drawing up crisis measures to privatise the NHS. A ‘long list of possibilities’ is contained in a leaked Department of Health...
Mass picket yesterday morning outside Ealing Hospital

Second day of Ealing Hospital strike

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EALING Hospital porters, domestic, catering and help desk workers held their second 12-hour strike yesterday. More than 100 GMB members employed by the privateer Medirest...

ICC MUST HOLD THE ISRAELI LEADERS AND SOLDIERS ACCOUNTABLE! says Human Rights Monitor

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A NEW report documenting several violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israel during its recent military attack on the Gaza Strip from 10-21...
Hundreds march through Brixton on Thursday night to defend their fire station

TUC ‘stands ready to assist FBU’ – O’Grady tells FBU conference

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THE Fire Brigades Union yesterday angrily condemned the government-commissioned Knight Review of the fire service. Ex-Chief Fire Officer Ken Knight recommends privatisation and mergers, suggesting...
Fighting 4 Grantham Hospital campaigners taking part in yesterday’s protest demanding the reopening of their 24-hour A&E

‘Save our NHS!’ – Huddersfield, Banbury, Stafford and Grantham join NHS campaigners in London...

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‘ALL the unions should take part in a Day of Action for the NHS,’ Steve Mathan of Hands Off HRI told News Line yesterday. Over...

CUT FARES NOT STAFF! – demand protesters outside stations across UK

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PASSENGERS protesting against rail fare increases of 3.5 per cent, many of whom were also demanding the urgent renationalisation of the railways, were joined...
NAPO members opposed to privatisation on the October 2012 TUC demonstration in London

Probation Staff Strike Today!

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STAFF working for the probation service in England and Wales are walking out of their offices at noon today in a 24 hour strike...

Unfree Commonwealth Meets In Perth

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MORE than a quarter of countries represented at the ongoing Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth this week have failed to allow...

Royal Mail Wants To Sell Mail Centres

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ROYAL Mail is about to break its truce with the CWU that has lasted since before Christmas through January and February. Latest reports suggest that...

Unemployment set to soar

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UK bosses yesterday warned that the deepening UK slump will see unemployment soar further to 2.9 million next year. The manufacturing sector turned in its...

TUC will not be considering a general strike says Nowak!

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NEW TUC leader Paul Nowak has insisted that tomorrow’s meeting of the TUC General Council in central London will not be considering calls for...
The BMA demonstrating in March to try and stop the Health and Social Care Bill from becoming law

NHS On-Line Surgeries ‘Will Cost Lives!’

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PROPOSALS to ‘save £3 billion’ by transferring NHS services onto the web to end the overcrowding of GP surgeries have been condemned by charities...
BA cabin crew pickets in high spirits at Heathrow yesterday morning

‘Walsh will never crush BASSA’

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‘THE rest of the British Airways workforce must be called out on strike to join us in our fight to beat Walsh,’ said striking...

‘NO ERROR OF JUDGEMENT’ – Cameron defends hiring Coulson

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PRIME minister Cameron claimed yesterday that Andy Coulson, who had resigned as editor of the News of the World and who currently faces charges...
Greek workers battle with riot police

Greece under Franco- German occupation!

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THE European Commission has formed an enlarged Task Force of over 100 German and French technocrats to oversee the implementation of the conditions attached...

Scottish school fire – No smoke alarms!

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EVERY school in the country must be immediately assessed for fire risk, the EIS teachers union urged, after an investigation found that Cairneyhill Primary...

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS faces 430 jobs axe

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Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust yesterday announced plans to axe 430 jobs as part of a cost-cutting plan aimed at saving £84m in the...