‘NHS Together’ lobby of parliament on November 1st demanding no cuts to NHS services

DEVON NHS PCT CRISIS! – all 5,000 employers offered offered voluntary redundancy

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All five thousand Devon Primary Care Trust (PCT) employees across the county have been sent a letter offering voluntary redundancy as a cost-cutting measure....
Lance Corporal JOE GLENTON (far right) and his wife CLARE (left) with PETER BRIERLEY (second from left) whose son Shaun was killed in Iraq, leading off the October 24th march in London against the war on Afghanistan

Glenton – Five Further Charges

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Corporal Joe Glenton, the soldier who faces desertion charges for refusing to return to Afghanistan, has been arrested, imprisoned and charged with five further...

NATO massacres Afghan civilians

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TWELVE Afghan civilians – ten children and two women – and one NATO soldier have been killed in an operation carried out by US-led...

Israeli bulldozers demolishing the homes of Palestinians is a war crime!

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ISRAELI bulldozers yesterday demolished Palestinian homes in Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa village, southeast of Tubas city. Mu’taz Besharat, who monitors Israeli colonial settlement activities in Tubas,...
Hospital defence campaigns marched on Downing Street in October to demand an end to NHS cuts and closures

STPs TO CLOSE 19 HOSPITALS!

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THE NHS is facing its biggest shake up in a generation with 19 hospitals marked for closure, and care from cradle-to-grave put through a...
Student nurses marching in London last month shouting ‘Hand off our bursaries!’ – the RCN calls for all the cuts to be halted

Reverse NHS funding cuts! – RCN responds to new health report

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‘YEARS of squeezing more and more out of an overstretched workforce has left the NHS in a perilous position,’ the Royal College of Nursing...
Young and old marching to save Chase Farm Hospital on the NHS Day of Action on March 3rd

Chase Farm A&E And Maternity To Close

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Chase Farm Hospital Accident & Emergency and Maternity departments must close, the government’s emergency services tsar Professor George Alberti has said. Save Chase Farm campaigners...

Energy Profit Margins Set To Double!

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‘SOMETHING must be wrong’ when profit margins for the big six energy firms are set to double over the next year while families are...
The 500,000-strong TUC demonstration on March 28 last year – the march called for October 20 this year is set to be even bigger

Smash The Pay Freeze!

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Shadow chancellor Ed Balls provoked the fury of the unions at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester yesterday with his refusal to pledge a...

Palestinian PM Shtayyeh calls for international action now! – Hunger striker Hisham Abu Hawwash...

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PALESTINIAN Premier Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday called for international intervention to secure the release of a dying hunger-striking prisoner. He told the weekly cabinet session in...
The funeral of Musaab al-Tamimi in the village of Deir Nitham, northwest of the city of Ramallah, to his last resting place. Photo credit: Tamer Bana/WAFA

Funeral procession of Musaab al-Tamimi attacked

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A NUMBER of Palestinians were shot and injured by Israeli forces, including a critical injury, during clashes in the Ramallah-district village of Deir Nitham...

Electric bills soar 32% gas by 26%

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ELECTRIC and gas bills have soared by as much as 32% for electricity and 26% in gas in the last few months, a new...
A section of the lively picket of teachers and school support workers outside Copland Community School in Brent

Powerful Copland picket

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THERE was a powerful picket on Wembley High Street yesterday morning as 150 teachers and 80 non-teaching staff went on strike at Copland Community...
Stoke CWU members from Burslem were victimised earlier this year – Stoke CWU is out indefinitely

Cwu Must Form Public Sector Alliance

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Another week of postal strikes begins today – affecting East Anglia, London, the South West and other parts of the UK, the Communication...

50 GP surgeries in north of Ireland face closure! – Tories step up war...

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FIFTY GP surgeries in the north of Ireland are threatened with closure, the British Medical Association (BMA) warned yesterday. Sixteen surgeries have handed contracts back...

Over two million Palestinians face relentless bombardment

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THE humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza continues to escalate, with over two million Palestinians – half of whom are children – facing relentless bombardment by...
Electricians union banner on the Athens march last Friday demanding no property tax on electricity bills!

Greek anger over EU diktat

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Greek workers and youth are infuriated with the leaked German government document which proposes that an EU ‘Budget Commissioner’ should be installed in Greece...
Tamil students are continuing their hunger strike to demand an end to the genocide in Sri Lanka

Tamils Continue ‘Death Fast’

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British Tamil Students Suratharsan Sarakumaraval aged 21 and Praranesuraran Subramanian aged 28, lie in a weakened state outside the Houses of Parliament vowing ‘Hunger...
Travel Safe strikers lobbying Transport for London head office yesterday

Travel Safe Action

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‘TRANSPORT for London – do the right thing!’ shouted striking London Overground Travel Safe security workers lobbying TfL head office in Victoria yesterday. ‘What do...

Greek conservatives build ‘front against populism’

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The Greek conservatives New Democracy party is building up a ‘pro-European front against populism’ with the aim of defeating the Coalition of the Radical...
Protest outside the  High Court in London on Monday opposing the attempt to jail the Enfield occupation leaders

Visteon Fun Day Success In Belfast

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‘The Visteon sit-in at Belfast is continuing,’ Unite regional industrial organiser Davy McMurray told News Line yesterday. He added: ‘The convenor John McGuire and six...
The platform at yesterday’s press conference given by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, including his cousins Patricia da Silva Armani (second from left) and VIvian Figueiredo (third from left)

Hold The Police To Account Demands de Menezes Family

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THERE will always be doubts in the minds of Jean Charles de Menezes’ relatives about why there is no CCTV evidence of when armed...

CWU is to be recognised for just three more years says Business Secretary Cable

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BUSINESS Secretary Cable announced the government sell-off of Royal Mail through a flotation on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Cable told parliament the pre-Christmas sale...
GPs, local residents and trade unionists rally against the privatisation of St Paul’s Way surgery in Bow on January 31

GPs GIVEN AN OFFER THEY CAN’T REFUSE! – BMA condemns Labour dictatorship

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The British Medical Association has condemned the government for putting GPs into an impossible position and forcing them to choose between ‘two bad...
March in Enfield to stop the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

Welfare State ‘Not For Sale!’

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thousands of workers, trade unionists, students and youth are marching through London this afternoon, against 13 years of Labour attacks on public services and...

‘No return to northern Gaza!’ as Israel attacks the West Bank!

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THE Israeli military has warned Palestinians against returning to northern Gaza, saying ‘the war is not over’. Israel has said that northern Gaza is out...

Corbyn refuses to call for PM May to resign!

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TORY PM Theresa May hotfooted off to Brussels yesterday to beg the EU for concessions after ‘postponing’ the vote on her Brexit deal on...
Students from the Kareas Athens district stating ‘No to the government’s New School Bill’

School students march in Athens

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THOUSANDS of school pupils and student protesters in Athens tried to breach the barricades in front of the parliament building last Thursday. They faced...

Resist Academies & Free Schools – urge the NUT and the NASUWT

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THE NASUWT and NUT teachers’ unions’ annual conferences at the weekend voted to resist the spread of academies and free schools. Both conferences carried votes...

Ireland-Germany fear ‘no-deal’ Brexit

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IRELAND and Germany have issued warnings about the consequences of a ‘no deal’ Brexit. To ‘prepare for no deal’ the Irish deputy prime minister Simon...
Gate Gourmet locked out workers picketing TGWU Hillingdon office yesterday determined to force their union leaders to rip up the Compromise Deal

‘RIP UP THE DEAL’ demand locked out Gate Gourmet workers

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Gate Gourmet locked out workers are calling on British Airways workers and all workers to join them on their anniversary march and rally in...

‘AN XMAS KICK IN THE TEETH FOR STUDENTS!’ – UCU & NUS condemn Brown...

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A ‘Christmas kick in the teeth’ for both staff and students is how the University and College Union (UCU) described yesterday’s slashing £398m...

1.1m households can’t afford to pay for heating!

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1.1 MILLION households who cannot afford to heat their home to a comfortable level are in work, according to a new report by the...

‘Remain in EU an option’ says Starmer

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‘CONFERENCE, it is right that Parliament has the first say, but if we need to break the impasse our options must include campaigning for...

Voters Reject Tories And Warn Labour

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THURSDAY’S by-elections saw voters completely rejecting the Tories, destroying the LibDems and giving the Labour Party a very stiff warning. UKIP gained its first elected...
Health workers marching against Cameron’s health policies on the TUC’s March 26, 2011 mass demonstration

CAMERON COVERS UP! – as Hunt hands over his e-mails

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Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt yesterday said he will hand over private e-mails to his special adviser about the BSkyB takeover bid to the Leveson...
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...

‘REFORM OR DIE’ – Starmer launches major attack on the NHS

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THE NEW Labour government launched its massive attack on the NHS yesterday, with PM Sir Keir Starmer threatening that the NHS must ‘reform or...
Thousands marched in London last February demanding no cuts in NHS services

STOP WASTING BILLIONS ON THE HEALTH MARKET – Nagpaul to tell BMA ARM

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DOCTORS’ leader Chaand Nagpaul is today warning of an ‘all year’ crisis in the NHS as eight in ten doctors say underfunding is significantly...
Striking civil servants, school teachers and college lecturers on the march to defend pensions in June this year

‘Pensions Robbery’ – Challenge By Unions

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SIX unions have mounted a legal challenge on behalf of millions of public sector workers over what inflation index is used to increase their...
NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet (second from right), and BECTU general secretary GERRY MORRISSEY (right) outside Broadcasting House with BBC journalists and technicians at noon yesterday at the beginning of a 12-hour national strike

Stop The Cuts, Stop The Bullying!

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BBC journalists and technicians walked out across the UK at noon yesterday at the start of a 12-hour strike over cuts and a ‘bullying...
The Chase Farm Hospital Maternity banner on last December’s march through Enfield by the North-East London Council of Action against closure

Maternity deaths will rise – UNDER THE HEALTH BILL, WARNS UNISON

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THE Health and Social Care Bill will increase the number of deaths on maternity units, Unison warned yesterday. A leaked NHS report revealed that...
Unite National Officer DAVE OSBORNE opening a TUC fringe meeting on Vauxhall last month. Business Minister Ian Lucas was invited but did not attend

MAGNA JOBS TALKS TODAY! –but Mandelson is in Japan

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talks today on the future of the Vauxhall Ellesmere Port and the GMM Luton plants, with thousands of jobs on the line, will not...
A section of Tuesday’s Co-ordination of Trades Unions demonstration in Athens (Antonis Stamatopoulos on the left with arms folded)

Greek Medicines Crisis

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The Greek Chemist shops Association staged a 24-hour national strike yesterday demanding the payment by the Health Ministry of some 500 million euros owed...
RCN members rally in central London on June 11 when they launched their ‘Keep Nurses Working Keep Patents Safe’ campaign

‘HALT SACKINGS AND CUTS!’ – demand RCN leaders as 20,000 NHS posts are axed

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Royal College of Nursing leaders yesterday warned that over 20,000 nurses face the sack, ahead of handing in a petition to Downing Street today. The...