GENERAL HOSPITALS MAY HAVE TO CLOSE says NHS Chief Executive Sir Ian Carruthers

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Health service union UNISON yesterday condemned the suggestion by the acting NHS chief executive that whole district general hospitals will face closure. Warning of...
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...

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...
Workers from Huddersfield Royal Infirmary marching to 10 Downing Street to tell PM May that their hospital must remain open and fully functioning

NHS ‘CAN’T DELIVER WHAT IS REQUIRED!’ says Hopson

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‘WE FACE the greatest challenge in a generation,’ NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson told its annual conference in Birmingham yesterday. The just launched The...

PALESTINE ERUPTS! As US opens embassy in Jerusalem

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PALESTINE erupted yesterday into furious protests throughout Gaza and the West Bank as the US opened its embassy in Jerusalem. While the embassy opened,...

Charge RBKC officers & councillors! – demand Grenfell campaigners after prosecutions announced

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NEARLY nine years after the Grenfell Fire, on 14th June 2017, the Metropolitan Police only yesterday announced that up to 57 individuals and 20...
Marchers carrying the Lebanese flage denounce the US and Israel on last Saturday’s 30,000-strong march in central London

HEAVY CASUALTIES! – Thirteen Israeli soldiers killed and twelve wounded in Bint Jubayl

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Hezbollah fighters yesterday inflicted heavy casualties on Israeli forces in fierce fighting in the town of Bint Jubayl two miles north of the...

‘Free Sudanese journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ – NUJ

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‘SUDANESE generals must free journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland demanded yesterday joining calls from...

Derby schools 25% pay cut

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UNISON is accusing Derby City Council of inflaming tensions and escalating a dispute with school support staff who have seen their pay slashed by...
GMB Acting General Secretary PAUL KENNY speaking to a delegation of Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC on November  2nd

Unison Condemns NHS ‘Health Rationing’

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Britain’s biggest public sector union, UNISON yesterday condemned the decision of three Suffolk Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to deny operations to overweight patients. ‘It’s against...
Members of the Transport and General Workers Union issued a call to ‘Defend our Public Services’ outside parliament yesterday

TAKE ACTION – to defend the Public Sector

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OVER 1,000 trade unionists from all the public services joined a TUC rally at Westminster yesterday, where they demanded that their leaders call action...

Police Commissioner takeover of Cumbria fire services! – Three fire stations are now at...

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THREE Cumbria fire stations risk closure as the entire service is under threat of being taken over by the Police and Crime Commissioner, the...

Devolving Manchester is wrecking NHS

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‘THESE plans for the devolution of the health budget to a Greater Manchester regional government truly lob a wrecking ball at the National Health...

GPs SLAM ‘RISKY’ TORY PLANS – including floating GP practices on stock market

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THE vast majority of doctors believe the Tory-LibDem coalition government’s health policies threaten the future of the NHS, finds a poll for the BMA. The...

Second referendum on the table! says shadow Brexit secretary Starmer

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SIR Keir Starmer, Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary was asked by Andrew Marr on his show yesterday morning: ‘700,000 people marching in London yesterday. If...
Demonstration in Tower Hamlets in January 2008 against the privatisation of GP surgeries

NO PAYMENTS FOR NHS SERVICES – urges BMA

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Plans to allow patients to pay directly for services could undermine equality in the NHS in England, create a new layer of bureaucracy, divert...
Demonstrators – Vestas workers and supporters marching to the Magistrates Court in Newport yesterday morning

‘WE ARE MORE DETERMINED THAN EVER’ – Vestas occupiers

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‘FANTASTIC,’ was how Vestas factory occupier Chris Ash responded to the decision at Newport Magistrates Court yesterday to adjourn the wind turbine company’s attempt...
FBU members from the Midlands with their banner on last October’s TUC demonstration against austerity

West Midlands firefighters strike looms – over 300 jobs threatened

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FIREFIGHTERS in the West Midlands have warned they could be forced to take industrial action over plans to cut 300 firefighting posts, leaving the...
Ten thousand students marched through central London last month demanding the restoration of free education

Warwick students sprayed with CS gas

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STUDENTS demanding the abolition of tuition fees, who had occupied Senate House at the University of Warwick on Wednesday afternoon, were sprayed in...
Trade unionists march on Parliament last July demanding ‘Tories Out!’ – The TUC leadership is now collaborating with them

Tuc Joins Tory Taskforce!

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THE TUC has joined the Tory government’s new National Taskforce on Carillion. In fact it had launched the call for May to form the taskforce. The...
Southampton council workers demonstrating their determination to defeat the attempts to slash their wages

NO PAY CUTS! Southampton strike continues

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PUBLIC services staff in Southampton have rejected a revised pay proposal by the Tory city council and voted to continue their programme of rolling...
Families demonstrating outside Hammersmith Town Hall in west London against the Tory-LibDem coalition’s savage cuts programme, which also means savage cuts in wages, pensions and benefits

WAGES WILL BE FROZEN UNTIL 2015 – says Miliband

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Ed Miliband yesterday warned that average pay will be no higher in 2015 than it was in 2003, quoting figures published by the Resolution...
Lively picket line outside Bow  bus garage yesterday morning

Busworkers Fight Zero Pay Rise Deal!

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Nearly 2,500 members working for the East London Bus Group took part in a 24-hour strike from 3am yesterday in a dispute over the...
There is massive support in Britain for the Calais refugees and their right to make a home in Britain if they wish

12,000 police plus troops ready to assault Calais ‘camp’

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TENSIONS were high in the ‘Jungle’ Calais refugee camp yesterday as defiant occupants braced themselves for today’s scheduled closure. There were clashes with French...

MILIBAND ADOPTS ‘ONE NATION’ TORY POLICY! – and pledges full support for the private...

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LABOUR leader Miliband adopted the traditional Tory slogan of ‘One Nation’ at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester yesterday. ‘In this most difficult economic time...

Tribunal Fees Challenge

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UNISON public sector union has pledged to ‘fight on’ in the face of the High Court ruling rejecting Unison’s challenge to the government’s...

UK ECONOMY IS CRASHING! – facing its biggest ever slump

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TORY CHANCELLOR SUNAK yesterday said it is ‘very likely’ the UK is in a ‘significant recession’, as figures show the economy contracting at the...

NATIONALISE BRITISH STEEL says Unite trade union

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THE UNITE trade union yesterday urged ministers to take British Steel into public control if a deal cannot be struck between owners Greybull, its...

Tories Savage Unemployed!

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The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) yesterday slammed plans by new Works and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to force five million people...

Hands off fire service says Norfolk

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THE Police and Crime Commissioner’s (PCC) proposal to take control of Norfolk fire service will put ‘public safety at risk’, a councillor has said. Norfolk...
Lobby The Tuc!

Lobby The Tuc!

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Monday September 11th, Brighton

‘Stop state-sponsored racism!’ – Take ‘hate vans’ off the streets

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DOREEN Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, has asserted that ‘racial profiling’ is being used in immigration police stop-and-check operations. She spoke out...

NHS workers immigration status victory – Home Office forced to U-turn yesterday morning!

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THE TORIES, under fire from all sides have had to make a U-turn on their policy over the immigration status of NHS workers. Until yesterday...

BA Pensions Ballot!

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Details emerged yesterday of a deal, yet to be agreed by workers, which means the end of final salary pensions at British Airways. The TGWU...

Unite and GMB surrender to BA and mass sackings!

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BOTH the Unite and GMB trade unions have given up the fight to halt the mass sackings organised by British Airways, centring on Heathrow...

NO TO PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES! say 20,000 Greek students and teachers

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TWENTY thousand university and school students, primary and secondary school teachers and universities staff marched through Athens last Thursday in a determined and enthusiastic...

‘WE ARE NOT THE AGGRESSORS’ – Putin condemns US support for Georgia

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Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin yesterday accused the US of trying to disrupt the Russian military operation in South Ossetia by transporting Georgian troops...
Teachers, parents and schoolchildren earlier in the year protesting at cuts to Brent schools – teachers at The Village School in Kingsbury, Brent, are taking strike action against forced academisation

Return all academies to council control!

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‘SCHOOLS must be returned to their local authority family of schools,’ Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said, responding...

Ukrainian soldiers refuse to fire on workers

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KIEV’S military faced off with protesters in east Ukraine on Wednesday to sort out their differences. . . and found none. Soldiers appeared reluctant...
Greek workers on the march – tens of thousands of workers yesterday put an end to the traditional military parade in Salonica and called the government ‘traitors’ for carrying out the orders of EU imperialism

NO BANKERS OCCUPATION! – Greek workers condemn government ‘traitors’

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FROM NICK AXARLIS IN ATHENS TRULY unprecedented spontaneous mass demonstrations of thousands of furious workers and students have forced the cancellation of the official military...

Heathrow security guards OK 33 strike dates over 3 months!

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OVER 2,000 security guards at Heathrow Airport are holding a further 33 days of strike action throughout the summer. The 33 days of strike action...

Workers pressure mounting but the TUC still won’t call a general strike!!

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WORKERS pressure is mounting on the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories at its Annual Congress in Brighton next...

Eu: ‘Moment Of Truth’ Near!

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THE PRIME Minister will ‘never agree’ to a permanent Customs Union with the EU, said 10 Downing Street yesterday. However despite Downing Street assurances...

Gaza death toll passes 39,000!

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THE GAZA death toll passed the 39,000 mark yesterday with the Health Ministry reporting at least 39,006 Palestinians have been killed and 89,818 wounded...

‘Working Poor’ Evictions Scandal!

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THE WORKING poor have now become the working homeless, as nurses, teachers and firefighters are among those being thrown out of their homes...