Teachers from Sunny Hill school in Southwark joined striking junior doctors on the picket line at Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell yesterday

Junior doctors confident of victory!

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A GOOD picket of junior doctors turned out at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital at 8am. They were in good spirits despite the wind...
Junior doctors at St Thomas’ Hospital in central London during the first day of last month’s 48-hour strike

Hunt refuses BMA offer –TIME FOR THE TUC TO TAKE ACTION

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THE BMA wrote to Tory health secretary Hunt yesterday with a clear offer: lift the imposition of the new contract and junior doctors will...
Youth on the Gaza border with Israel determined to liberate the whole of Palestine

‘We Will Liberate Palestine!’

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THE HAMAS resistance movement says it will not agree to the creation of a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip, warning that US President...

Another 10,000 to be driven onto UC – After Rudd drives through legislation with...

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AS OF TODAY, ten thousand people on the old benefits system will be forced onto Universal Credit (UC) in a ‘pilot study’ in Harrogate,...

Osborne privatisation drive – but forced to retreat over tax credits

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CHANCELLOR Osborne announced a U-turn on the abolition of tax credits in his Autumn Statement yesterday, while massively extending Tory privatisation and cuts elsewhere. Nursing...
Junior doctors fought Hunt – who blamed them for alleged weekend deaths – yesterday he apologised for the breast screening crisis that meant that up to 270 women may have had their lives shortened, but did not offer his resignation

Hunt Apologises Over Breast Screening Deaths

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TORY Health Secretary Hunt yesterday apologised ‘wholeheartedly and unreservedly for the suffering caused’ when he admitted that up to 270 women may have had...

Virgin-Ryanair Job Cuts

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The airlines industry was hit with a wave of job cuts yesterday. Virgin Atlantic announced 600 sackings. Ryanair announced cuts in its summer schedule at Dublin...
A section of yesterday’s 2,000-strong picket in London against the Rajapakse regime

Rajapakse Out! Demand 2000 Tamils

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‘We want freedom! We want Tamil Eelam! Stop the genocide’ shouted 2,000 Tamils demonstrating in central London yesterday. The protest outside the Commonwealth Conference taking...
Young Socialists and WRP members lobbying the TUC last year demanding ‘No Zero-Hours Contracts’ and ‘End Slave Labour for Youth’

Apprentices used as cheap labour

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THE Tories have no plan to stop youth on apprenticeships being ‘exploited as cheap labour by unscrupulous employers,’ Mark Serwotka, general secretary of public...
RMT along with the TSSA and the National Pensioners Convention insist outside Parliament ‘We need guards on trains’

Sunday’s Tube strike in London will have ‘massive impact’

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RUTHLESS cuts on London Underground made by former mayor Boris Johnson ‘seriously threaten the safety of Londoners’, the RMT said on the eve of...

CONSULTANTS 2 DAYS OF STRIKE ACTION! – and further action to follow

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CONSULTANTS in England are holding two more days of strike action today and tomorrow, demonstrating their commitment to fix consultants’ pay in order to...
Labour leader CORBYN (centre) with trade union leaders at a demonstration of steelworkers in London

Anti-Corbyn coup attempt!

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SEVEN right wing Labour shadow cabinet members quit yesterday, with more resignations expected, as a coup attempt got underway to remove Jeremy Corbyn as...

May and Corbyn capitulate to EU

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REFERRING to PM May’s letter sent to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Rory Stewart, the prisons minister, said yesterday: ‘Yes. I think she feels, as...

‘I would agree with a general strike’ says RMT’s Dempsey!

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THE RMT Deputy General Secretary Eddie Dempsey made the call for a general strike when he spoke out on the picket line at Euston...
With their mouths bound with white cloth, Tamil workers and youth continued their daily struggle outside Parliament to get the Labour Government to broker a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, this time with a ‘protest of silence’

Hospital Hit For Third Time In A Week

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TAMILNET reports that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) have fired artillery shells into the makeshift hospital in Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal East, killing at least...

Midwives Launch Action Ballot

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THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched only its second ballot on industrial action in England and its first in Wales in its...
Nurses determined to defend their jobs marching on the ‘NHS Together’ demonstration in Nottingham last September

37,000 NHS Jobs Axe

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Trade unions and health professionals yesterday slammed as ‘very alarming’ and ‘staggering’, the government’s leaked draft NHS pay and workforce strategy for 2008...

Ireland, Norway and Spain formally recognise Palestine

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IRELAND, Norway and Spain formally recognised the state of Palestine yesterday, infuriating leaders of the genocidal Israeli regime, while Hamas described it as ‘a...

No ceasefire – only permanent end to aggression! – tens of thousands march in...

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IRAN will reject any call for a ceasefire in the ongoing war with the United States and Israel, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi insisted yesterday,...

MPs SLAM UNIVERSAL CREDIT!

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Universal Credit (UC) is allowing ‘abusers’ to take control of family finances, an investigation by a parliamentary committee has heard. UC is paid to...

Powerful Night Tube Picket Lines In Place

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POWERFUL picket lines were in place on London Underground (LU) Central and Victoria lines across the weekend, as RMT members took strike action against...
Part of Sunday night’s rally against austerity in front of the Vouli

Monstrous Greek Betrayal!

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EARLIER on Monday the Greek Prime Minister and SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) leader Alexis Tsipras fully submitted to the Eurozone leaders’ diktats...

‘No two-tier workforce!’ 2,000 6th Form College lecturers strike

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AROUND 2,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) began another three days of strike action at 32 non-academised sixth form colleges yesterday, against...
Young doctors with a clear message on NHS cuts and privatisation

Medical companies sold NHS defective pacemakers!

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PRIVATE medical companies have been selling deficient pacemakers to the NHS knowing full well that they have failed tests, the Royal College of Surgeons...

BUDGET DAY STRIKE VOTE! – PCS votes 61% in favour

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CIVIL Servants have voted by a massive 61% majority in favour of strike action in their fight for a pay rise of £1,200, or...
Riot police attack students on the stairs to the Vouli (Greek parliament) building in Athens last Thursday. Photo credit: MARIOS LOLOS

‘We are the opposition!’ – Greek teachers storm parliament

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GREEK striking teachers along with students staged yet another magnificent march of over 6,000 last Thursday against the hated government Education Bill. Once...
CWU Pickets at the Wood Green delivery office last Friday

Rolling Post Strikes Called

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After days of indecision, the Communication Workers Union leadership yesterday announced a series of rolling strikes over two weeks, instead of the indefinite national...

UP TO THEIR NECKS IN DEBT! – Labour and Tories have £58.7m in loans...

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The Labour Party yesterday admitted it faces ‘acute cash flow problems’. It was responding to the publication of Electoral Commission figures showing that the main...

Maudsley CEO joins strikers on the picket line!

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STRIKING catering, cleaning and other support staff working for South London & Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM) were joined on their picket line at Maudsley...

6 children killed in water tanker massacre

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Ten people, including six children, were killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza yesterday. Their bodies were...

West Bank Explodes As Abu Diyak Dies In Israeli Jail!

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HEEDING the calls by political factions, mainly President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement, thousands of Palestinians rallied in several West Bank city centres to protest...
300 trade unionists and council housing campaigners descended on parliament yesterday to demand that the Housing and Planning Bill 2015 is scrapped

Kill the Housing Bill!

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‘DEFEND council housing! No social cleansing!’ shouted three hundred people demonstrating outside parliament yesterday as MPs debated the Housing and Planning Bill...

N Ireland health workers strike!

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NURSES in the RCN union came out on strike for the first time in the union’s 103-year history in the north of Ireland yesterday,...

US & Israel being defeated by Hamas fighters in Gaza!

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US AND Israeli officials have once again conceded the occupying regime’s failure in its months-long aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip, stressing that the...

Ward Closure Storm At Sidcup Hospital

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HEALTH workers have angrily condemned the decision by administrators now running the bankrupt South London Healthcare Trust to close the gynaecology ward at...

10 days of strike action at St Thomas’ Hospital!

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YESTERDAY, marked the first of 10 days of strike action by security staff at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge in central London. Some of...

Eurozone ‘tearing Itself Apart’

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BANK of England Governor King admitted yesterday that risks to the UK economy from ‘difficulties facing the euro area’ are ‘impossible to quantify’. King was...
Striking probation officers and solicitors outside Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday lunchtime

36-hr strike against justice privatisation

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PROBATION officers and solicitors across England and Wales walked out on a 36-hour strike at noon yesterday and they are staying out until...
Children joined the 50-strong mass picket outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning calling for strike action and occupation to save the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward

Keep Ealing Children’s Ward Open!

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‘CHILDREN can get meningitis. If they have to take a child all the way to Northwick Park Hospital they could die on the way!’...
Athens University administration workers and their children marching on Saturday

7th week on strike for Greek admin workers

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ADMINISTRATION workers at eight Greek universities are continuing their strike for the seventh consecutive week against the government’s plan to sack some 1,500 of...

Junior doctors considering more strike actions!

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JUNIOR doctors have been considering more strikes after the chairman of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors’ committee resigned last Friday night, following a...

900 Lebanese killed

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All Israeli troops must leave Lebanon before we can accept a ceasefire, Hezbollah said yesterday as its fighters battled an Israeli force of 10,000...
Demonstrators marching on the London mayor’s office in January demanding more council homes

50 people an hour at risk of losing home!

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ALARMING new figures from housing charity Shelter have revealed more than 8,300 people in England were put at risk of losing their home every...
Junior doctors demonstrate against the government’s NHS ‘reforms’

PFI DAMAGES THE NHS – Private investors are draining away NHS funds say BMA

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Private investors are benefiting from Private Finance Initiative debts which are damaging the NHS, said the British Medical Association this morning. The BMA was responding...

No deal on March 29 means leaving the EU says Brexit Secretary Barclay

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THE UK will be leaving the EU with no deal on March 29th if there are not sufficient changes to the backstop and any...