Doctors taking on coalition!

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A group of 240 doctors are to stand ‘as many candidates as possible’ against coalition MPs in the next general election. They want to show...

‘Fight Nato Aggression With All Strength’

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LIBYAN government and civilian forces are dealing deadly blows to the NATO-backed counter-revolutionary ‘rebels’ and mercenaries holed up in Tripoli and other areas of...

‘We will never back down!’ – Iran warns US and Israel

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‘The criminal US must know that in addition to punishing its illegitimate and aggressive offspring (Israel), the hands of Islam’s fighters within the armed...
Whipps Cross strikers took their campaign to Rentokil head office in Victoria, central London, yesterday

STRIKE WAVE! – Firefighters, hospital workers and postal workers take action

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Firefighters, hospital and postal workers were manning picket lines yesterday as the working class stepped up action to defend jobs, wages and conditions. Over 1,100...
A section of the mass demonstration outside Parliament of road hauliers from throughout the UK demanding Brown act on high fuel prices

Hauliers Have Had Enough!

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Over 900 road hauliers and independent truckers, descended on Parliament yesterday to lobby their MPs to urgently and immediately reduce the price of fuel....
Defiant junior doctors at Downing Street on February 6th are determined to beat Health Secretary Hunt’s attempt to dictate their contract

Junior Doctors Will Not Accept Imposition!

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‘JUNIOR doctors cannot and will not accept a contract that is bad for the future of patient care, the profession and the NHS as...

Maternity cuts despite baby boom

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HALF of the English regions have cut their spending on maternity services despite the ongoing baby boom, according to new figures obtained by the...

UK Economy Broken!

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unemployment rose by 128,000 in the three months to October, to 2.64 million people. This is the highest level since 1994, the Office for...

Hospitals & Staff Under Extreme Pressures! Says NHS Boss Stevens

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‘THE FACTS are very clear and I’m not going to sugar-coat them, hospitals are under extreme pressure and staff are under extreme pressure,’ NHS...
Nurses on the TUC march last November against the attack by the Tory coalition on public sector workers’ pensions

Nurses furious over pay cut!

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NURSES in South West England are furious over leaked plans to sack and re-hire them on lower pay and worse conditions. The government is...
Big Brother Watch campaigning against ID cards outside Parliament – they have now condemned the mass surveillance of shoppers

Major police surveillance op – on tens of thousands of Xmas shoppers

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POLICE are using cameras to scan the faces of tens of thousands of London Christmas shoppers, testing facial recognition technology, in a move that...

TORTURE! – MPs committee given ‘wrong evidence’

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MPs and peers on the parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights are demanding answers from defence chiefs over ‘discrepancies’ in their evidence to the...

Mahdi Army clashes with Iraqi puppet forces

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TWENTY-FIVE soldiers in the puppet Iraqi army were killed yesterday in fierce fighting with the Mahdi Army militia, which is opposed to the US-UK occupation of...

IT’S ‘BAD FRIDAY’ FOR MILLIONS OF FAMILIES – facing over £2 billion coalition cuts

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‘THIS year’s holiday will feel more like “Bad Friday” for millions of families as they come to terms with over £2 billion of cuts.’ This...

Workers Kept In Dark Over Mandelson Visit

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Business Secretary Peter Mandelson is due at the GM Luton plant, Gate 2, at 9.30am this morning. He has been invited by the local Unite...

Israel’s Blockade Has Collapsed Healthcare

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ISRAEL’S ongoing blockade of northern Gaza has brought the healthcare system to near-total collapse, with almost no remaining services, according to the World Health...
UCU members took strike action alongside members of the PCS civil service union and the National Union of Teachers on April 24

KEELE BOYCOTT! – unless 38 academic sackings are withdrawn

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Keele University has one week to avoid the ignominy of becoming the first university to receive an academic boycott from the University and College...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC Gongress last month demanding action to win their reinstatement

NHS CRISIS – hits Chase Farm, North Middx & Grantham

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The leading orthopaedic surgeon at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield has handed in his notice after 30 years in the NHS, because ‘all managers...

TORTURE! MURDER! & tens of thousands displaced in Cameron’s ‘free Libya’

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Armed militias operating across Libya are committing widespread human rights abuses with impunity, warned Amnesty International in a new report released yesterday. The report, Militias...
100,000 students marched through London last Thursday to protest against the huge education cuts and £9,000 fees

Camberwell Art College occupied!

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WE’RE here over Christmas,’ BA painting student Tobias Newbigin said at the occupation of the Camberwell College of Art yesterday. The occupation of the Wilson...
A section of the Tamil demonstration in Parliament Square yesterday afternoon

‘WE WERE ATTACKED BY SEVERAL HUNDRED POLICE’ say Tamil protesters

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ONE THOUSAND Tamil protesters congregated in Westminster Square yesterday afternoon, in defiance of Monday night’s violent Metropolitan Police attack on them in which at...

Gaza’s Children Going Back To School

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EDUCATION is resuming for 300,000 Palestinian students in the Gaza Strip after two years of the Israeli genocide war, with 8,000 teachers coming back...

Iran closes in on Hormuz deal

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Washington and Tehran are close to signing a one-page memorandum to end the armed conflict. The US leadership’s decision to suspend Operation Project Freedom in...

Firefighters right to strike under threat

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THE FIRE Brigades Union has responded to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services State of Fire and Rescue 2021 report...
Greek riot police squads and buses block the road to demonstrating teachers last Thursday

Greek Riot Police Attack Demonstrators

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SACKED Finance Ministry cleaners demanding re-employment, occupied the Athens district tax office in Kallithea yesterday morning. At the same time, state teachers on the ‘mobility...

Ryanair ‘declaration of war’

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RYANAIR has made a ‘declaration of war’ unions said after it embarked on a campaign of closures and ‘fleet reductions’. This, according to pilot and...

£9,000 fees for Cambridge!

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The University and College Union yesterday slammed the government after it emerged that Cambridge University plans to charge students £9,000 a year fees. UCU general...
Unite members rallied at St Thomas’ Hospital before marching to the meeting of the striking unions at Central Halls, Westminster

Hundreds of thousands strike to defend pensions

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ACROSS the UK, hundreds of thousands of public sector workers were on strike yesterday against government plans to make them work longer and pay...
Teaching unions marching – in the front line of defending national pay agreements

Defend National Pay Rates

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GOVERNMENT plans for ‘postcode pay in the public sector’ are unfair and would be bad for NHS patients and schoolchildren in poorer areas, according...
BMA banner on the march to keep Lewisham Hospital open – BMA is emphasising that council cuts do have a negative affect on heath

Cutting council funding will harm public health!

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FURTHER funding cuts to local councils will impact on long-term health outcomes, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. The government last week announced a...

Assad Forces Go On The Offensive

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SYRIAN government troops late on Sunday repulsed an attack by an armed gang on a police school in the northern city of Aleppo. This came...

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...
Metroline, now bankrupt with its RMT workforce demanding nationalisation

King Warns About Intensifying Crisis

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In a paper submitted to the House of Commons Treasury Committee, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England warned yesterday: ‘The recent turmoil...

Power cuts and 43% unemployment dominate SA State of the Nation Address!

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THE following is a statement by COSATU: ‘DESPITE three vacancies in the executive and a deputy president who wants out, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa...

UK ‘The Sick Man Of Europe!’ Say Nurses

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has called on the Health Secretary to open negotiations on NHS pay as new research shows the UK...

TORIES SET TO USE ANTI-STRIKE LAWS! – against NHS and rail workers

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THE TORIES are set to mobilise their new anti-strikes law against railway workers and their unions as further strike action takes place during the...
Marchers demanding the sacking of ATOS

GPES & ATOS slammed

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THE General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) IT system, designed to extract data from the four major clinical IT systems used by GPs, is late,...
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...

‘Industrial action inevitable’ – Unite

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‘LEGAL and industrial action is inevitable,’ Unite said yesterday, the day a mass meeting took place at the grounds of Bedfont FC in Feltham,...
A large GMB contingent on the Ealing Save Our Hospitals march in April against the closure of four A&Es in west London

Stop £1bn privatisation – GMB warns against Cambridgeshire sell-off

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THE GMB union is calling for an immediate halt to the tendering process for the up to £1bn Cambridgeshire Elderly Care contract. The union ...
After bursting through police lines students took over the whole of Kingsway in Holborn yesterday

100,000 March To Parliament

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Tens of thousands of students and youth marched from University of London Union (ULU) near Euston down to parliament yesterday lunchtime, shouting against the...

GMB warn of furlough cliff edge

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‘INSTEAD of driving us off a furlough cliff edge later this year, the government should provide continued support for employers,’ the GMB union said...

Let child refugees in to UK! – Demands damning MPs committee report

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‘SIGNIFICANT numbers’ of child refugees must be ‘promptly taken in by the UK and cared for’ a Parliamentary committee has demanded. The UK’s European Union...
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...

Over 800 doctors urge Justice Secretary Lammy to save hunger strikers!

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OVER 800 doctors, legal experts, and family members have signed an open letter urging Justice Secretary David Lammy to meet to save the pro-Palestine...