Record 5.45m NHS waiting list – Nurses warn of staffing crisis

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A RECORD number of people, more than 5.45 million, are waiting for NHS hospital treatment in England. Responding to the latest NHS England performance data,...

East Kent hospitals under threat

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EAST Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serving a population of more than 750,000 people across five different hospitals has been placed under special measures. ‘This...
Strikers picketing the East London Mail Centre on October 22nd

REMOVE THESE LEADERS! Postal – workers react to ‘Interim Agreement’

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Postal workers yesterday reacted angrily when details of the ‘interim agreement’ reached between the Communication Workers Union (CWU ) leadership and the Royal Mail...

BA PROFITS CRASH – as annual car production falls by 55 %

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British Airways boss Willie Walsh yesterday said he could not rule out further job cuts and called on BA workers to take a holiday...

‘Free pass to commit war crimes’ – Amnesty slams army immunity from prosecution

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‘IT IS in no-one’s interests for members of the armed forces to be given a free pass over alleged war crimes’ said Kate Allen,...

Bolivian unions mobilise against ‘right-wing coup plotters’

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FELIPA MONTENEGRO the leader of the Bartolina Sisa Movement, which represents the rights of rural Indigenous women in Bolivia denounced that she and her...

DOCTORS ‘FEEL LIKE CANNON FODDER’ says Chair of Doctors’ Association UK

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Doctors ‘feel like lambs to the slaughter and cannon fodder’, said the chair of the Doctors’ Association UK yesterday morning, demanding that frontline NHS...

UP TO THEIR NECKS IN DEBT! – Labour and Tories have £58.7m in loans...

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The Labour Party yesterday admitted it faces ‘acute cash flow problems’. It was responding to the publication of Electoral Commission figures showing that the main...

New financial year hits families hard!

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THE NEW financial year was ushered in yesterday with a series of price hikes that hit working class families hard. Council Tax went up, water...
Trump’s letter to Kim Jong-un

Trump cancels N Korean summit

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US PRESIDENT Trump released a letter yesterday afternoon which stated that the summit between him and North Korean President Kim Jong-un has been cancelled....

Israel Escalates Violence Across West Bank & Gaza!

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ISRAELI forces carried out a series of demolitions and violent raids across occupied Palestinian territories yesterday, further escalating the ethnic cleansing in the West...
Rally in front of Ealing Hospital in May to defend children’s services

A&Es being slashed all over the country!

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THE Tories are proceeding with savage cuts to the NHS, with A&Es being scaled back or closed across the country. Just a few examples are...

We shall never tolerate such crimes–Putin

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‘WE will never tolerate such crimes,’ Russian President Putin declared yesterday, after Turkish fighter planes shot down a Russian Su-24 on the Syrian border. Putin...
Protesters outside Downing Street on July 11 condemned Israeli war crimes against Lebanon – Amnesty International has said Israel bombed  civilians deliberately

Israel in crisis over failed war

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Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert is under pressure to authorise an independent commission of inquiry into the conduct of the recently failed war in...

‘Full Public Inquiry Into Blacklisting’

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‘WE demand a full public inquiry into blacklisting!’ Gail Cartmail, assistant general secretary of Unite said while addressing the TUC conference in Brighton yesterday. Speaking...

‘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...

‘Don’t use anti-strike laws against us!’ – FBU leader Matt Wrack urges fire chiefs

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THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has called on all fire service employers to refuse to implement the government’s new minimum service levels, condemning the...
The CT Plus picket line in Hackney on their fourth Friday of strike action

‘Our resolve is as strong as ever’

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‘OUR resolve is as strong as ever,’ said TGWU union rep Derrick Campbell, as five new days of strike action by Hackney CT Plus...
Marchers on last October’s TUC demonstration against the coalition’s austerity measures

Food Prices Causing Widespread Stress!

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ONE-THIRD of the UK population struggles to pay for food, with almost a quarter saying that growing food prices remain one of the main...
A section of the 4,000-strong ‘Not Fair Not Safe’ demonstration of Junior Doctors outside Leeds City Art Gallery on Wednesday

Mass support for doctors!

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OVER 4,000 junior doctors and their supporters staged a three-hour mass rally outside the City Art Gallery in the centre of Leeds on Wednesday...

STOP HINCHINGBROOKE PRIVATE TAKE-OVER – defend NHS demands Unison

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UNISON, the biggest health service trade union, yesterday called for Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire to remain in the public sector. The union condemned plans to...

Syriza Willing To Suspend Election Pledges

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THE Italian state TV and radio reported on Friday that according to the Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek government was prepared to...
RMT and TSSA on a ‘Ghost Train’ protest in Hammersmith against the closure of every ticket office across London Underground and the sacking of 1,000 staff

Tube Strike Tonight!

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TUBE workers are walking out on the first of two 48-hour strikes tonight over plans to close all 278 of the capital’s Underground ticket...
Students and teachers join together in a Westminster demonstration last July against the coalition’s ‘Big School Fiasco’

School buildings axe challenged

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A Judicial Review into the government’s decision to scrap the Building Schools for the Future scheme opened yesterday at the Royal Courts of Justice. Six...
GMB members working for NCP demanding union recognition yesterday outside the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane

3i UNION BUSTERS – will be beaten says GMB

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‘DESPITE five days of strike action by 55 members of the GMB, NCP, owned by private equity group 3i, is refusing to recognise the...
Firefighters marching through Aylesbury demanding the reinstatement of sacked colleague Ricky Matthews – after Maude’s statement they know that the biggest battle is directly ahead to stop the privatisation of the fire service and all public services

Privatise Fire Service & NHS plus wage & job cuts – Tory plan for...

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HOSPITALS and fire services will be run ‘outside the public sector’ Francis Maude, Tory Cabinet Office minister revealed yesterday, speaking to the Daily Telegraph. Firefighters...

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...

Hamas agrees 60-day ceasefire!

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HAMAS negotiators in Cairo have agreed a new proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, which calls for an initial 60-day truce and hostage release...
Marchers demand arrests and corporate murder charges over the Grenfell Tower inferno that killed large numbers of men, women and children

Grenfell Mass Protest Tonight

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ONLY a fraction of the donated £20 million has reached the survivors and families of the victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy which claimed...

Palestinian mother & child arrested

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ISRAELI forces detained at least seven Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank overnight, including a mother and her 14-year-old child. Local and security...
Workers turned out in their hundreds of thousands on March 26 2011. They are determined to defend their jobs, pay, conditions and employment rights

‘WE’LL OPPOSE ATTACKS ON RIGHTS’ –pledges TUC

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‘Unions stand ready to oppose the attacks on workplace rights contained in the Beecroft Report,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line yesterday. ‘Attacking workers’ rights...

400,000 March On Downing Street For Victory To Palestine!

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Over 400,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street on Saturday, while thousands more marched in other towns and cities around Britain, including...

Kurds march on Downing Street

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AROUND 1,000 Kurds and their supporters marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street yesterday afternoon in protest against the police attack on the Kurdish...
The Finucane family outside 10 Downing Street in 2000 when they saw Labour Prime Minister Blair and demanded a public enquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane

Finucane Report Is A Whitewash Says Family

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‘YET another British government has engineered the repression of the truth behind the murder of my husband Pat Finucane.’ This was the response of Geraldine...

Bma Warns Brown Don’t Destroy NHS

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‘we will not stand by and see you decimate hospitals for purely financial reasons. We will not stand by and let you damage patient...

High Court move to ban UK arms sales to Israel!

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LAWYERS seeking an order to prevent the United Kingdom government from continuing to grant arms export licences to UK companies selling arms to Israel...
Firefighters defiantly lobbying the Fire Brigade HQ in Waterloo making clear they will not accept any cuts or sackings

FBU to strike – Oct 19

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FIREFIGHTERS in England and Wales will strike again over government attacks on pensions next Saturday, 19 October, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced yesterday. 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...
Striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew on the picket line at Heathrow Airport yesterday during their latest 4-day strike over pay

BA profits £1.47bn–cabin crew outraged

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STRIKING British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew were outraged yesterday by the announcement of £1.47 billion profits for BA for the last financial year,...
Junior doctors marched through central London three days before their second strike – they call for Jeremy Hunt to go!

‘HUNT MUST GO!’ – ‘No confidence’ petition reaches 284,244

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A PETITION calling for a vote of no confidence in Tory Health Minister Jeremy Hunt reached 284,244 signatures by yesterday afternoon, after his decision...

Sack Serco demand Ealing Unite strikers

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EALING Council Parking Services workers are striking again today and tomorrow demanding that Ealing Council sacks the Serco public services privateer and takes their...
Young Syrians join the thousands of protesters who took to the streets of London when ex-PM Cameron tried to get parliament’s approval for the UK to join a US-led war on Syria – he lost the vote and the UK and then the US were forced to pull back

Trump Beats War Drums!

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‘WE HAVE a lot of options militarily,’ US President Trump said yesterday banging the war drums against Syria, adding that a response would be...

Rising prices ‘are a price worth paying’ says Johnson

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WHILST pledging a further half-a-billion pounds cash for the Ukrainian army yesterday, Tory PM Boris Johnson said that rising prices at home are ‘a...

MPs REJECT ATTACK ON NO-DEAL BREXIT Starmer-Corbyn motion defeated

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MPs yesterday voted by 309-298 against a Labour-moved motion that sought to prevent a no-deal Brexit on October 31! The Labour-led plan was to force...
March on the 63rd anniversary of the NHS, was supported by BMA members who fought for their union’s policy that the Health Bill be immediately withdrawn

NO CONFIDENCE IN MELDRUM! – London BMA demands huge campaign to smash Health Bill

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BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum has been rocked by a ‘no confidence’ vote at last week’s meeting of the London Region of the BMA. ...