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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...

A NUMBER OF HOSPITALS ARE FALLING DOWN! – PM Johnson’s rebuilding claim ridiculed

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‘A NUMBER of our hospitals are literally falling down,’ Nigel Edwards, Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust health think tank said yesterday as he...
CHRIS KAVANAGH (right) with fellow fire alarm engineers, they called for the TUC to act to defend the NHS

Hounslow Campaign Goes Well For Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers

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THE campaign team of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers was in Hounslow yesterday working for their mass picket this Sunday and their conference in London...

‘This war is America’s war against people of Palestine!’

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THE number of people killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since yesterday morning has now risen to at least 54, according to...

BLAIR MUST GO – says RMT

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RMT rail union general secretary Bob Crow repeated a call for Blair to go yesterday in the wake of Wednesday’s Terrorism Bill defeat. Crow said:...

Police Drag Assange Out Of Embassy

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WIKILEAKS co-founder Julian Assange was forcibly arrested and dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London yesterday. In an unprecedented move the embassy allowed...
North East London Council of Action demonstration in Enfield last June demanding that Chase Farm Hospital be kept open

HEADING FOR MAJOR CRISIS! – says BMA’s ‘London’s NHS on the Brink’

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Hospital services in London will be closed and down-graded as healthcare in the capital heads towards ‘a major financial and organisational crisis’, a...

PM Johnson refuses to resign despite damning Gray report!

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TORY PRIME Minister Boris Johnson refused to resign yesterday despite calls to do so from MPs of all parties across the House of Commons,...

UK faces further tax increases within months

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BRITAIN will face further tax increases within months after Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement left the economy precariously balanced, according to the Office for...
BMA members marching on the NHSTogether demonstration in London on November 3rd

BMA CONDEMNS SECOND CLASS PRIVATISED GPs!

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Government plans to introduce a new type of GP practice involving the commercial sector could leave patients in deprived areas with a second class...

UN condemns Israel’s man-made famine as a ‘war crime’

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THE humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip has turned into a man-made famine, the United Nations human rights chief has said, adding that Israel’s...
Lively West Hendon tenants determined to fight privateers ‘regeneration’ of their estate creating evictions

New Era Tenants Face Eviction!

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TENANTS on the New Era estate in Hoxton, Hackney, east London, face eviction ‘ASAP’ after a promise not to impose huge rent increases had...

600,000 workers take part in nationwide protests in France! – CGT union opposes savage...

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NEARLY 600,000 people participated in nationwide protests across France on Thursday, according to the CGT union, responding to a strike call by trade unions...

13 schools with RAAC had funding to rebuild – ruled out by Tories!

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At least 13 schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) had funding to rebuild approved under a Labour scheme which was later...
Junior doctors marching last month through central London against the imposition of a new contract forcing them to work unsafe and unfair hours and a big cut in their pay

Junior doctors strike suspended

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AT THE eleventh hour, talks between the BMA on behalf of the junior doctors and the government at ACAS reached the following decision: ‘Following talks...

ENERGY BILLS SET TO RISE! – economy is heading for a 2008-style crash

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UK ENERGY bills are set to rise even higher, with suppliers warning of a ‘nationwide crisis’ and a 2008-style financial crash. Several ‘providers’ including Good...

Kwarteng declares war on the working class – after humiliating turnaround

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FOLLOWING his humiliating U-Turn in the small hours of yesterday morning, when Chancellor Kwazi Kwarteng’s announced the abolition of the 45p rate of tax...

Parents support Northolt teachers

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TEACHERS on a second day of strike action at the Alec Reed Academy in Northolt, west London yesterday, were joined in support outside the...
Radiographers outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London during the national pay strike – the Royal College of Radiologists have declared a ‘Red Alert’

Radiologists ‘Red Alert!’

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BY THE END of this week Raigmore Hospital in Inverness Scotland will lose its last radiologist, prompting the Royal College of Radiologists to declare...

July deficit alarms City!

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THE UK government borrowed £600 million in July to cover the gap between spending and revenue, the ONS reported yesterday. The city is aghast...

Long A&E waits led to 23,000 deaths last year!

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LONG A&E waiting times contributed to some 23,000 ‘excess patient deaths’ last year, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said yesterday. In 2022, 1.66...

Parents demand judge-led inquiry

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday dodged the question as to whether the inquiry he announced into baby deaths at the Countess of Chester...
Health workers marching to defend the NHS, demanding no cuts, no closures and no privatisation

London NHS Rationing Plans ‘Are A Disgrace!’

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‘MASS rationing of operations to London’s patients’ is being planned under the London Choosing Wisely Programme, which was launched by the Healthy London Partnership...
HENGRIDE PERMAL (centre) leader of the Chagos Islands Community Association lobbying the House of Lords in October 2008

Chagos Fury – Over Cable Betrayal!

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THE Chagossian community in Crawley have reacted with fury after an offer from the coalition government and Vince Cable to allow the islanders...
The Wednesday picket outside Lewisham Hospital yesterday midday – determined to keep it open

Coalition cuts doctors and then turns away patients!

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THE Care Quality Commission has put a cap on the number of people who can be admitted to the ‘Majors’ section of the A&E...

Johnson ignores the crisis & praises USA!

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‘IT WAS CAPITALISM that ensured we had vaccines in less than a year,’ Tory PM Johnson boasted in his closing speech at the Tory...

The Serious Crime Agency is involved in Afghan ‘Kill List’ – legal proceedings issued...

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LEGAL proceedings have been issued in the High Court against the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) saying that the agency’s involvement in a...

‘Stay Off Work From Next Monday’ Say Neu Leaders!

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MANY schools across the UK will not be able to remain open past the end of the week, say teachers’ leaders. ASCL general secretary Geoff...
Campaigners took to the streets in London last November on the day Osborne announced permanent austerity in his Autumn Statement

Tory Cuts & Closures –A ‘Lethal Cocktail’

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‘I HAVE a very clear warning: last year was the worst for global growth since the crash and this year opens with a dangerous...

Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital Under Siege!

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AT LEAST 20 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza yesterday morning, with the houses of...
GM Luton convenor GARY REA waves goodbye to Business Secretary Mandelson after their meeting in which Mandelson refused to guarantee jobs at the Luton plant – workers now expect a mass meeting

Magna To Send Business Plans To Mandelson

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Business Secretary Mandelson has signalled that the government may provide a bridging loan or loan guarantees to help finance the sale of GM...
Marchers opposed to the occupation of Iraq demonstrate in March 2005

‘REASONABLE CASE’ – For the slaughter of Iraqis

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Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith yesterday told the Iraq Inquiry, that he was not pressured into discarding his opposition to going to war without...

300 GP surgeries are facing closure

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ALMOST 300 GP practices are facing closure, a new BMA survey released today has warned. The crisis in general practice is set to worsen according...
RMT pickets at Victoria Station emphasising what the Southern rail strike is all about

Grayling wants to bust unions – RMT condemns Tory witch-hunt

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‘THIS is an industrial dispute about safety, we are not trying to bring the government down,’ RMT general secretary Mick Cash insisted yesterday. He was...

Close down every immigration centre

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ALL IMMIGRATION centres should be shut down because they are extremely damaging to the health of the refugee and asylum seekers who are incarcerated...

‘We are starting fightback against pay-pension cuts!’

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OVER 300 University and College Union (UCU) striking lecturers and student supporters rallied and marched to the Royal Exchange Building in the City of...

Brixton Public Meeting: Quit EU on October 31! – October 16th, 2019

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News Line & Workers Revolutionary Party Public meetings: Trade unions must act to make sure we quit EU on October 31st! For a workers government and...
RCN members marching on the TUC demonstration last March against the coalition’s cuts that have cost over 3,000 nurses’ jobs

Nurses Heckle Lansley

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Nurses at the RCN Annual Conference in Harrogate yesterday heckled and poured scorn on claims by Health Secretary Lansley that clinical staffing levels in...

‘STATE OF COMPLETE COLLAPSE’ – healthcare system in Gaza

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THE HEALTHCARE system in Gaza is ‘completely out of service and in a state of complete collapse’, Palestinian health ministry spokesman, Dr Ashraf al-Qudra,...

‘BOMBING RAQQA WILL KILL LARGE NUMBERS OF CIVILIANS’ – warns Corbyn

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BOMBING Raqqa will see a large number of civilians killed, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn warned yesterday. He was asked by Andrew Marr: ‘What do...
A section of the rally on Tuesday night in the port of Piraeus

Civil Conscription Defied!

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THE Greek coalition government ordered the forced ‘civil conscription’ of the seafarers on Tuesday on the sixth day of their 100 per cent solid...

Metro Bank Shares Crash!

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METRO BANK’S shares have crashed after reports it is seeking to raise millions to bolster its finances. The bank’s shares sank 27% in early trading...

Free School ‘Theft’ Continues – Atl

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ASSOCIATION of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) president Hank Roberts last night alleged that there is a widespread theft of tax-payers’ money by schools...
Junior doctors recently came out to defend the whole of the NHS – they were allowed to fight alone

‘General Practice–is in danger of going under!’

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HELEN Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs Council, the UK’s leading doctor, warned yesterday that General Practice is in danger of...

One million Gaza City residents are refusing to move!

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WHILE the Israeli regime escalated its ground invasion of Gaza City yesterday, around one million Palestinians are resisting the occupying force’s attempts to forcibly...