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STOP TEARING NHS APART! – UNISON tells Blair and Hewitt

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UNISON has called on Health Secretary Hewitt to ‘stop tearing the NHS apart’. Speaking ahead of yesterday’s publication of the government’s health White Paper, the...

Airport Crisis – ‘This Chaos Is One Of Their Own Making’

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AS the crisis across UK airports deepens, the leading aviation union, Unite, is blaming businesses for taking public money but then slashing jobs during...
Young mother GLEISA LIMA with her one month-old baby Victoria joined the West London Council picket of Ealing Hospital to demand the hospital’s Maternity Department be reopened

Reopen Ealing Maternity!

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‘MY BABY Victoria was born at Ealing Hospital and is one month old today,’ said mother Gleisa Lima outside the hospital yesterday morning. She...

GAMBLING WITH PEOPLE’S LIVES – 700 Blood Service job cuts condemned

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Health unions yesterday accused the government of a ‘reckless gamble that could risk people’s lives’ over plans to close centres and axe 700 Blood...

TORIES DECLARE WAR ON BMA! –TUC must call a general strike now demands Chingford...

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'WE are striking to defend the NHS,’ consultants told News Line on their picket lines as Tory Health Secretary Barclay issued a declaration of...

Eu Shares And Banks Crash

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UK share prices crashed yesterday, wiping over £85bn off the London Stock Exchange, with the FTSE 100 index crashing 391 points or 7.85% to...

MAY QUITS! Now bring down Tories

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AT 10:36 yesterday morning PM May announced that she will resign as PM on June 7. She said: ‘I have agreed with the Party Chairman...

Tens Of Thousands March Against Athens Riot Police

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TENS of thousands of school and university students demonstrated last Friday in Athens and in all Greek major cities against the oppression and violence...
Junior doctors out in force on a demonstration three days before their last strike on February 10th – this time they are out for 48 hours

Junior doctors 48hr strike today

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‘OTHER trade unions should take action to support us and defend the NHS and I really hope we are all going to come together...

ASLEF calls July 8 Tube strike

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ASLEF has announced a July 8 strike on London Underground after members voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over pay and...

‘WE WILL HAVE TO STRIKE’ – UNISON Conference is told

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UNISON members at their national delegate conference in Manchester yesterday voted unanimously to oppose the attack on their pensions with coordinated industrial action. Before debating...
Postal workers on the picket line at Bow E3 delivery office in east London during last year’s strike action over low pay and the threat of 40,000 sackings in Royal Mail

TAKE ACTION NOW! – POA calls for one-day general strikes

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The Prison Officers Association is calling for a series of one-day general strikes to force the repeal of the anti-union laws. Its motion on Trade...
Engineers and construction workers demonstrated in Parliament Square during the February dispute in the industry

STOP THE COUNTRY! – to beat union busters

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The GMB trade union yesterday accused senior managers of provoking the unofficial dispute at Lindsey oil refinery by the sacking of 51 workers in...

Unemployment highest in 5 years!

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UNEMPLOYMENT in the UK rose to its highest rate in nearly five years at the end of 2025, official figures show. The unemployment rate climbed...

Two million Gazans face hunger, thirst, disease, fear & flooding!

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MORE than two million people in the Gaza Strip are besieged by hunger, thirst, disease and fear and obtaining meals has become an impossible...

Johnson squirms over ‘surrender’ to the ‘Surrender Act!’

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Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to deliver a squirming account of his failure to take the UK out of the EU on...

STOP PRIVATISING THE NHS! say BMA and Unite strikers

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BMA AND UNITE strikers picketed and marched round Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday. BMA member Elizabeth Hobbs told News Line: ‘I’m showing my solidarity...

‘Scrap the charges for overseas NHS staff!’ – say Doctors for the NHS

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AFTER lauding NHS workers as ‘heroes’ and giving them ‘a clap’ the Tories have upped the amount that overseas NHS and care workers and...

‘MASSIVE VOTE FOR STRIKE ACTION!’ – CWU leaders urge membership

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THE COMMUNICATION Workers Union is calling for a massive vote for strike action against Royal Mail management’s attempts ‘to virtually de-recognise the CWU and...
PCS lobby outside the HMRC yesterday morning demanding that all the HMRC Enquiry Centres be kept open

All tax advice centres to close!

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PCS members held a lively protest outside HM Revenue and Customs Whitehall headquarters yesterday opposing the closure of 281 tax advice centres. Chris Baugh, PCS...
The picket line at East London Mail Centre during this month’s unofficial strike over Royal Mail’s imposition of new starting times

REJECT CWU SELL-OUT – call angry CWU members

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THE CWU (Communications Workers Union) yesterday accepted the Royal Mail offer on pay along with plans to modernise the company and reform the...
Mothers from across the US marched into Washington DC on Saturday condemning the killing of unarmed black teenagers by police

‘Million Moms March’

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MOTHERS from across the United States poured into Washington, DC on Saturday, choosing Mother’s Day weekend to march for justice for the ‘epidemic’ of...

Record Unemployment!

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UK unemployment rose to 2.261 million in the three months to April, the highest since November 1996, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said...
Midwives demand ‘No cuts’ to the NHS

Cameron Breaks His NHS Spending Pledge

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Prime minister Cameron has broken the coalition’s pledge to increase funding for the NHS, both Labour and the Institute of Fiscal Studies have warned. Labour’s...

Williamson readmitted to the Labour Party – split widens as 90 MPs oppose his...

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LABOUR MP Chris Williamson was allowed back into the party yesterday morning after an investigation into comments he made about the party’s handling of...

UK is bankrupt! – UK national debt is 103.5% of GDP

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UK GOVERNMENT borrowing hit £36.1bn in September as the UK continued heavy spending to support the economy during the coronavirus pandemic. The figure was £28.4bn...
Greeenwich Library strikers on the picket line in Woolwich during their strike on October 14

Greenwich libraries workers victory!

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THE dispute over pay and staff cuts affecting Greenwich’s 12 libraries has been settled in what the Unite union described as ‘a great victory...
The CWU has been campaigning against the privatisation of Royal Mail since the days of the last Labour government. The picture shows its campaign in Corby in 2009

Royal Mail sell-off begins!

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THE Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday slammed the government’s announcement that it plans to begin selling off Royal Mail in the next few...

Powerful May Day March Calls Kick The Tories Out! Forward To Socialism!

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THERE was a powerful May Day March from Clarkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square yesterday with more than 10,000 trade unionists, workers, youth and students...

Families face debt crisis!

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2.5 MILLION children are living in families struggling with ‘problem debt’, said a shocking new report released yesterday. The report, aptly entitled ‘The Dept Trap’,...

Bank of England raises interest rates! – predicts energy costs rise of 40% by...

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UK INTEREST rates have risen to the highest level since 2009 as the Bank of England tries to slow the pace of rapidly rising...

400 Exxonmobil workers sacked and locked out!

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MORE than 400 workers were sacked and locked out of the Exxonmobil petrochemical site in Fife, Scotland yesterday, as the company announced a plan...

Ireland – ‘no desire’ to delay Brexit

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IRELAND’S deputy prime minister, Simon Coveney has said his country has ‘no desire’ to delay the UK’s Brexit talks. While Ireland was not looking for...
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...
Marchers got a great reception in Coventry city centre from some very generous supporters

Youth Being Treated Like Slaves

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POURING rain made the Young Socialist marchers even more determined and their chants of ‘Youth demand a future, Youth demand jobs’ even louder on...

Ni NHS In Crisis!

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THE financial crisis facing the North of Ireland’s Health Trusts is so severe that four out of five Trusts have failed to break even...
Greek soldier kicking a girl on a demonstration in Athens on the anniversary of the police shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulis. Photo credit: Left.gr

Greek Stocks ‘Meltdown’

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THE Athens Stock Exchange collapsed again by 7.35 per cent on Thursday wiping 13 billion euros off shares. In the last three days it has...

TORTURE CONTINUES! ‘IT’S NOT ALL OVER’ – states Binyam Mohamed

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‘Many remain in those torture chambers’, just-returned Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed said in a statement read out at a London press conference...
McDonald’s restaurant strikers from Cambridge and Crayford take their demand for £10 an hour to Parliament yesterday

First UK McDonald’s strike in history!

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WORKERS at McDonald’s went on strike on Monday for the first time since the burger bar came to the UK in 1974. About 40 workers from...
Nurses marching against NHS cuts in Nottingham on September 23

NHS Referrals Scandal

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed its concerns over Primary Care Trusts diverting patient referrals to private...
Nurses and junior doctors march against Hunt’s plans to smash the NHS

Plans to axe thousands of doctors and nurses!

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PLANS to axe thousands of nursing, doctor and NHS staff posts under the Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) were revealed yesterday by the Health...

Tax Credit Revolt Threatens Tories!

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‘TORY MPs could lose their seats at the next General Election if they support George Osborne’s tax credit cuts,’ said Seema Malhotra MP, Labour’s...

Global protests over assassination of Gaza journalists!

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ISRAEL’s continued assault on Gaza has killed at least 89 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, including 31 people seeking aid, and injured 513...
Pickets were solid on day 2 of the 3-day Southern rail strike, after which 11 more days are planned

‘General strike to defend Southern guards’ – RMT

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‘THIS attack on our union is an attack on all unions,’ John Reid, RMT NEC told News Line yesterday morning. Reid was speaking on the...

Labour Right Wing Plans For Two Parties!

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TORY MP Andrew Bridgen yesterday claimed that Labour MPs who expect Jeremy Corbyn to retain the leadership of the party by winning...