CAPITALISM IS SICK – admits Mandelson

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NEW Business Secretary Peter Mandelson admitted yesterday that he had checked in with his old boss Tony Blair before he agreed to take up...

Felixstowe & Merseyside dockers striking this month!

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DOCKERS at Britain’s two major ports – Merseyside and Felixstowe – are to strike together at the end of this month and the beginning...
Millions of trade unionists are fighting to defend their jobs, wages and pensions and are convinced that crisis-ridden capitalism must go

Banks New Quantitative Easing Fears

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PRESSURE is mounting on the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to consider another round of emergency Quantitative Easing (QE – printing money)...

‘ABHORRENT BEYOND WORDS!’ – RCN & BMA condemn Farage threat to deport thousands

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‘THREATENING to sack thousands of migrant nursing staff is abhorrent beyond words,’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola...
The new 30x6ft banner erected outside Chase Farm Hospital that replaces the 3x3ft sign that was there when a 2-year-old child was taken by his mother to what she thought was the A&E, only to find the door to the Urgent Care Centre was locked. The child di

Chase Farm ‘needs its A&E back – not a new sign!’

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ON 15th January a two-year-old child died at North Middlesex Hospital after having been taken to Chase Farm Hospital. The baby’s name was Muhammad Hashir...

Nurses – Jobs At Risk!

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A government ruling on nurse recruitment and work permits that came into force yesterday, puts over 38,000 overseas nurses and their families at risk,...

Milwaukee uprising after police shooting

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CROWDS of protesters gathered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Saturday night after a police officer fatally shot a fleeing man. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett appealed for...

BMA Wales 3-day February strike

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British Medical Association (BMA) Cymru Wales junior doctors committee has announced new strike dates as part of the dispute over pay. ‘In the absence of...

‘WE WON’T SIGN AWAY OUR RIGHTS’ says Gate Gourmet shop steward

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers received a report back yesterday morning on the picket line at Heathrow Airport from their shop stewards, of a...

‘Obsessive’ Grammars Slammed

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CHIEF Inspector of Schools Sir Michael Wilshaw has criticised Tory PM Theresa May’s ‘obsessive’ plan to approve a new wave of selective grammar schools...

‘Grenfell Tower was a death trap before any firefighter arrived!’ – says Matt Wrack...

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MATT WRACK, the FBU general secretary, said yesterday in response to the Grenfell Tower inquiry phase one report: ‘The Inquiry’s interim report must finally...
British police working with the French government taking action to stop a convoy boarding a ferry going to Calais

Child refugees in squalid conditions in Calais refugee camp

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CHILD refugees languishing in squalid conditions in camps in Calais without their parents or any family member to look after them urgently need...

Bombardment Of Gaza Civilians Condemned By Report

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ISRAELI conduct during their 50-day war on the Gaza Strip last summer greatly increased the number of civilian casualties, an independent report has...

NHS ‘savings’ from wage cuts!

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SAVINGS in the NHS over the past five years have been paid for by the workforce, a pre-election health debate heard yesterday. The packed hustings...
Queen Elizabeth Hospital workers on the picket line yesterday morning, determined to win parity

‘NO TWO-TIER WORKING IN THE NHS!’ say Woolwich NHS strikers

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QUEEN Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, south east London, saw GMB members employed by privateer ISS out in force yesterday for a 24-hour strike from...

Cases of police sexual abuse are rising! – Warns Independent Office for Police Conduct...

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CASES of police abusing their role for sexual gain have risen sharply, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) warned yesterday, revealing the fact...

10 days of university workers strikes begin

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STRIKING UCU union university lecturers and students set up picket lines at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) yesterday morning at the...
Tube staff picketing Finsbury Park station during one of their strike actions against staff cuts that endanger public safety

Reverse Tube staffing cuts! – after a fire under London Bridge escalator

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THE RMT has re-iterated its call for a reversal to Tube station staffing cuts in the light of a major fire-related incident at London...
Young Socialists lobby of last September’s TUC Congress in Brighton demanding no zero-hours contracts

Accept Zero Hours Or No Benefits!

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UNEMPLOYED workers are to be thrown off benefits if they refuse to go on slave labour zero-hours contracts, the government announced yesterday. Employment Minister Esther...

DWP staff to get police powers! – to investigate the poorest people on Universal...

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DWP STAFF are to get police powers, the Tory government announced yesterday to investigate the poorest people on Universal Credit. The DWP (Department for Work...

‘Where will the staff come from?’ – BMA demands answers over Nightingale facilities

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THE BMA (British Medical Asociation) has asked the government for more clarity on staffing of new Nightingale facilities. Commenting on the planned new Nightingale facilities...

Students begin occupying UK universities in support of Palestinian Revolution!

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PRO-Palestinian students have occupied several university campuses in the UK, to protest against the Israeli war on Gaza. Students in Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester,...

Dramatic Slump In GP Numbers!

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DOCTORS union the BMA yesterday responded to the shocking latest England GP workforce data and Health Foundation forecasts, showing a dramatic slump in the...
Sparks demonstrating against 30 per cent wage cuts outside the Kings Cross construction site last September

Balfour Beatty’s Sack Warning To 12,000

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Construction giant Balfour Beatty has warned its 12,000 staff in the UK they could lose their jobs as a result of the slump in...

Grim prospects for capitalism warns IMF

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THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund is projecting a deep recession in 2020, with global growth projected to be -4.4% in its latest update to the...
Stop Maternity Closure Tomorrow!

Stop Maternity Closure Tomorrow!

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The Maternity unit at Ealing Hospital is set to close tomorrow, Wednesday 24 June. This is a disaster for the densely populated part of...
Ealing midwives on the picket line outside the hospital during last year’s strike – The meeting tonight is called to plan next Wednesday’s march & occupation of maternity to stop the closure

Save Ealing Maternity! Occupy Now!

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THERE was enormous support for tonight’s meeting to stop the closure of Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit yesterday morning. Hospital workers, patients, local residents and youth...
Greek school youth demonstrating through Athens in support of their teachers last week

Salonica Teachers Clash With Police

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ANGRY teachers and students fought with police yesterday in Salonica, turning Tsimiski Street, a central highway of the city, into a battleground. The normally festive...

Close Down Torture Camp!

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The United States government is torturing inmates at its Guantanamo Bay concentration camp on the tip of Cuba, and it should be shut down. That...

Renault Told: Pay Compensation Or Else!

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Workers at New Fabris, a bankrupt French car parts supplier, are ready to blow up their factory unless carmakers Renault and PSA-Peugeot pay them...
RMT rally outside Clapham Common Tube yesterday morning insisted that Glen Hart will be defended against any attempt at victimisation by management

Tube workers rally to defend RMT activist

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AN RMT demonstration outside Clapham Common underground station yesterday called for the dropping of disciplinary charges against RMT member Glen Hart. Speaking to News Line...

South African Strike Wave Spreads

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THE strikes that have halted work at seven of South Africa’s gold and platinum mines have spread to the chrome sector. It emerged yesterday that...

Israel threatens 14,000 people in Gaza’s Al Quds Hospital!

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ISRAEL is threatening Gaza’s Al-Quds Hospital and the 14,000 people who are sheltering there with bombardment. The Israeli occupation authorities issued their threat to completely...

LABOUR’S POLICIES ‘MAD’ – GPs leader meldrum threatens action over pensions

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Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association’s GPs Committee yesterday warned Labour not to marginalise family doctors. He was referring to Practice Based...
The Young Socialists marched from London to the TUC Congress to demand action to secure real jobs at trade union rates of pay for youth

‘Only one in forty new jobs is full time’ – says TUC

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ONLY one in every forty new jobs since the onset of the crash in 2008 is full-time, with the other 39 either part-time...
‘No Blood for Oil’ chanted a lively picket of the Bank of England demanding the bank returns $1.3bn worth of gold to Venezuela

‘Give Venezuela back its gold!’

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‘BANK of England you’ve been told – Give Venezuela back its gold’ chanted a 60-strong picket line outside the bank yesterday lunchtime....

Israeli occupation forces open fire on families!

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THE Israeli occupation forces yesterday morning opened fire and executed at least two displaced families who were taking shelter inside a school run by...

END GAZA BLOCKADE! – UK agencies urge UK, US, Russia and UN

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UK agencies yesterday called on members of the Mid-East Quartet meeting in London (the US, EU, Russia and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon) to put...

Labour will renationalise water, power & Royal Mail ‘and we’re ready to win election’...

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‘WE WILL be bringing water, energy, Royal Mail, rail back into public ownership again,’ shadow chancellor John McDonnell said to cheers during his speech...

Tories Attack The Disabled

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HALF a million disabled people and their families are set to lose thousands of pounds a year under the government’s proposed Universal Credit, a...

JOHNSON FACING REBELLION – 60 Tories preparing to vote against Plan B

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THE JOHNSON government faces an expected rebellion by about 60 Conservative MPs in tomorrow’s House of Commons votes to pass new ‘Plan B’ Covid-19...
NHS workers in Norwich picket during the recent strike action – they are determined to prevent the privatisation of the NHS

Opportunist SNP! –would not vote against NHS privatisation in England

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THE SNP would not vote against privatisation in the English health service provided it has no impact on Scottish spending, Scottish Health Secretary Shona...

Israel Arrests Birzeit Students!

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THE Right to Education Campaign (REC) today condemned the Israeli military raid that resulted in the detention of 10 students of Birzeit University as...

Ealing strikers in high spirits

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THERE were high spirits on the parking services workers’ picket line outside Ealing Town Hall in west London yesterday morning, with dhol drummers keeping...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and their campaign team won big support on Southall High Street and from postal workers at Greenford Mail Centre yesterday

Postal workers back Gate Gourmet rally

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POSTAL workers from the Greenford Mail Centre, one of the biggest in the country, are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ first...