NURSES DRIVEN OUT – Low pay & axing bursary has caused 37,821 vacancies

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THERE are now 37,821 nurse vacancies in the NHS, NHS England confirmed yesterday, releasing the latest data. This is a rise of 1,738 from the...

Campaign saved lives!

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‘THIS CAMPAIGN is a life saver!’ Devinder Bhambra told News Line on the mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning to celebrate the news...
BMA members marching on the November 3rd ‘NHSTogether’ demonstration in London

‘Bully’ Brown Puts Targets Before Healthcare

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THE BMA yesterday condemned the Brown government for putting the drive to reach its political targets before patient healthcare. ‘We are being bullied so...
Travel Safe workers lobbied City Hall yesterday against their treatment by STM Security Group UK

Travel Safe workers to strike for their rights!

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‘SLAVERY should go and our rights given!’ demanded London Overground workers who were lobbying the London Mayor’s office yesterday in preparation for their February...
Nurse on the TUC march – working families are taking out credit cards to pay their bills, debt is rising, not wages

Credit Card Crisis!

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FAMILIES’ credit card debt is set to soar at two-and-a-half times the rate of wages, as families desperately take out credit to avoid starvation...

London Transport Strikes Escalating!

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LONDON transport strikes are escalating with 1,100 TfL and Tube Unite members joining the planned August 19th strike, said Unite the union yesterday. A pay...

Corus Sacks 3,500 – Llanwern To Be In Mothballs

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TRADE unions yesterday called on the government to bail out the manufacturing bosses in the wake of steelmaker Corus’ confirmation that it is cutting...

Mass Delhi rally called against power privatisation!

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WORKERS in the power industry across India will hold a massive rally in Delhi on November 23 against the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022, which...

Greek Students & Workers March Against Private Universities!

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TENS of thousands of Greek university and school students, along with teachers and universities’ staff, participated in protest marches in all major cities against...

Stop Nato Exercises In Ukraine!

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STOP The War yesterday condemned the government for blocking a petition submitted to its e-petitions website which called for an end to NATO exercises...

Sse 18% Gas Price Rise!

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PUBLIC sector union Unison yesterday reiterated its call for the government to take action to tackle fuel poverty. It was responding to Scottish and Southern...

Zahawi Denies Blackouts Ahead

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TORY Minister for Equalities Nadhim Zahawi claimed yesterday morning that ‘blackouts are extremely unlikely this winter,’ when he did the rounds of the TV...

Israeli Occupation Forces Carry Out Four Massacres

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ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over 24 hours yesterday, resulting in the tragic killing of 40 Palestinians...

Prentis And Woodley Praise Brown

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In a nationalistic speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday, prime minister Brown made sweeping promises to improve public services. Hardly mentioning the world capitalist...
Royal Mail workers out on strike against privatisation at East London Mail Centre

PO-ROYAL MAIL SPLIT – threatens tens of thousands of jobs

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‘We must demand the TUC call a General Strike to defend public services, because that is what Royal Mail is,’ leading postal workers’ union...

CWU to be reformed to suit Royal Mail

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A DOCUMENT, entitled ‘Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond – a National Agreement Between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union’, is to go before...
BMA, RCN and other unions demonstrating in defence of the NHS in March

NHS ‘running on nothing but fumes’ – BMA

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THE TORY ‘government has the NHS running on nothing but fumes’, warns British Medical Association (BMA) Council Chair Dr Mark Porter. Addressing doctors at the...
Clashes between Greek workers and the capitalist state are taking place around the clock every day as workers defend their rights

Ecb Plan Sets Off Germany’s Alarm Bells!

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THE euro strengthened to a two-month high against the US dollar yesterday, as investors’ euphoria overflowed at the ECB’s plan to purchase bonds from...

38% increase in A&E waiting times – caused by government staff cuts

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A KING’S Fund report has warned that government cuts and staff shortages led to a 38 per cent increase in A&E waiting times in...
The YS March for Jobs called for a General Strike to bring down the coalition as it marched through east London on Sunday November 21

FIGHT MASS SACKINGS – 200,000 jobs to go in the next three months

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THE GMB has warned that 200,000 jobs will be cut by councils in England in the next three months. GMB national officer...
There was a very lively picket at Mile End station where pickets agreed that the big issue was safety

DEFIANT TUBE STRIKERS! –determined to defend safety and jobs

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London traffic was gridlocked during yesterday’s 24-hour strike, as Tube workers on picket lines expressed their determination to defend jobs and safety. At Mile End...
Part of the 400-strong lobby of Barnet council on Tuesday night against its savage cuts programme

Barnet Council Mass Lobby

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Over 400 workers, youth, pensioners and local service users lobbied Barnet Council on Tuesday, furious at the massive cuts and privatisation imposed by the...

STOP NHS PRIVATISATION! – NHS Logistics strike today

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UNISON members at five NHS Logistics sites – supplying 43,000 items from beds to surgical supplies to hospitals and GPs across England – will...

Authorities Face Financial Collapse – Defend Jobs & Services!

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‘MULTIPLE local authorities’ are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts, MPs on the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned. The...
ALEX PEREIRA (second from right) addressing a de Menezes family press conference in July this year

DE MENEZES EVIDENCE ‘JUSTIFIES A PROSECUTION FOR MURDER–say lawers

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‘We have to have a judicial review; you can see from the day he was shot, everything was wrong,’ the cousin of murdered Brazilian...
Barts and Royal London staff and supporters marched against mass sackings last month

Barts To Cut Nurses!

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Barts and London NHS Trust is planning to reduce the proportion of qualified nurses on its wards as part of a two-year programme of...
The marchers were given a great reception by Unison and GMB members as they arrived in Harrow

Workers support march to TUC!

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ON THE first day of the Young Socialists March for Jobs from London to Liverpool, as the marchers made their way through Harrow, on...

No protection from unfair dismissal–for 7.5 million!

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THE TUC yesterday warned that millions of workers lack basic protections if they lose their jobs in the coming months. New analysis shows that 7.5...

Labour supports key NHS role for health privateers!

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PRIVATE health trade body the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) has welcomed the cross-party consensus on the key role of the independent sector in...

Trust Boss Quits Over Dangerous Targets

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The British Medical Association yesterday repeated concerns about government targets that ‘compromise patient safety’, in the wake of the resignation of United Lincolnshire Hospitals...
MARY BOUSTED leads a protest of teachers and pupils demanding more funding for pupils special needs – many more are in poverty

‘HOLIDAY HUNGER HITS CHILDREN’! A NATIONAL Education Union snapshot poll of 1,026 teachers ...

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A NATIONAL Education Union snapshot poll of 1,026 teachers in England paints a harrowing picture of the increase in poverty seen in our schools...
Post workers lobbying the Labour Party Conference last month demanding an end to job cuts and privatisation plans

Royal Mail Bosses’ Bonus Scandal

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Postal workers yesterday condemned as ‘obscene’ over £10m in ‘performance-related bonus’ payments to Royal Mail executives for pushing through ‘efficiency savings’. Royal Mail Group has...

May Is Full Of Praise For Labour Right Wing

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PM MAY danced onto the stage at the Tory Party conference in Birmingham yesterday to the strains of Abba’s Dancing Queen and claimed that...

Cable’s blitz on HE

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‘What we have here is a repackaging of student debt. Debt is one of the greatest deterrents to students,’ University and College Union (UCU)...

NHS pay fury at 3% pay rise – unions consider strikes

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HEALTH workers, furious about the government’s offer of a below-inflation 3% pay deal are to be consulted by their unions, the BMA, RCM, RCN,...
Hammersmith and Fulham council staff picketing outside the Bagleys Lane depot during July’s national pay strike byl local government workers

ITS WAGE CUTS OR THE SACK! – 4,000 Hammersmith & Fulham council workers told

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MORE THAN 4,000 council staff at Hammersmith and Fulham have been threatened with the sack unless they agree draconian cuts to their wages, and...
Cleaners, security and catering staff at the Royal London Hospital took strike action against their employer Serco last year

Carillion crash hits NHS hospitals hard

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THE LIQUIDATION of Carillion has created such a crisis in the NHS that 14 hospital Trusts have had to trigger their emergency ‘contingency...

Axis of evil – Blair meets Olmert

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PRIME Minister Blair shook hands with Israeli leader Ehud Olmert at Downing Street yesterday, saying that there were the strongest links between Britain and...

‘More Children Than Ever Are Homeless!’

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THE homelessness charity Crisis said yesterday that what was already an emergency now risks becoming ‘a growing catastrophe’. Chief executive Matt Downie said: ‘The Scottish...

Labour attacks BA strike

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THE Labour Transport Secretary Lord Adonis yesterday demanded that Unite cancel the planned strike action by British Airways cabin crew, despite an overwhelming vote...

NHS 50,000 Doctors Short!

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THE NHS is 50,000 doctors short new British Medical Association (BMA) re-search released yesterday has found. The number of doctors in England has fallen even...
Student nurses and midwives outside the Department of Health demanding that their bursaries are restored

Restore NHS bursaries – Student nurses & midwives lobby today

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STUDENT nurses and midwives are lobbying parliament today in opposition to Tory plans to end the student bursaries by August 2017. And a national march...
Marching against the privatisation of GP surgeries in Camden

GPs opposing Tory Health Bill

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A survey of East Sussex GPs has found that more than 70 per cent of them fear patient care will suffer when changes to...
Junior doctors out in force on the picket line at Hammersmith Hospital in west London – they are escalating their strike against the Tories’ imposed contract

Tories throw down gauntlet to junior doctors

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THE Tories have ruled out any fresh talks with the junior doctors and in doing so have thrown down the gauntlet for a fight...