Israeli forces carry out another Gaza massacre

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ISRAELI forces carried out a new massacre yesterday as they bombed the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees) school in...
Ealing Hospital strikers employed by contractor Medirest in determined mood during their last 48-hour pay strike

Ealing week-long strike action

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GMB members employed by contractor Compass Medirest at Ealing hospital began a seven-day strike at 7.00am today until 7.00am next Friday, 21 March, for...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers yesterday angrily confronting their TGWU convenor Dhillon, outside the Hillingdon TGWU office demanding that their dispute must be made official and that they must also receive dispute pay

Cornered!

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers cornered their TGWU ex-convenor Dhillon when he came out of the TGWU Regional Office in Hillingdon yesterday midday, where they...

Hamas calls for popular uprising against settlers

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THE Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance groups have condemned an attack by illegal Israeli settlers on the village of Jit in the northern...

‘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...

‘Trump is behind drive to extradite Assange’ – says US lawyer alleging Trump wants...

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US PRESIDENT Trump is behind the politically motivated prosecution of Julian Assange who he said should receive the death penalty, it was alleged by...
Nurses on the ‘Our NHS’ demonstration in central London – in Manchester health and council workers are striking against the merger of their services

STOCKPORT STRIKE – No to NHS & council merger

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A ‘NEW care model’ in Stockport, Greater Manchester, has sparked a 96% ‘YES’ vote for strike action among Unison members. The strike will take...

Criminal Police Officers To Face Automatic Sackings!

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POLICE officers guilty of gross misconduct in England and Wales will face automatic sackings, the government has announced. The change follows high-profile cases of officers...

Junior doctors & nurses fight for their rights

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‘FOR students like me from a working class background, removing the bursary for nurses will mean that they cannot continue their studies,’ student nurse...

Don’t carry out Tory NHS cuts! – Unison urges Northern Ireland NHS Trusts

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UNISON yesterday challenged all five Health Trust Boards in Northern Ireland to refuse to comply with a Tory government demand for cuts. In addresses to...

‘Osborne & Cameron must quit’

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TORY Chancellor Osborne refused to appear in parliament yesterday to answer an urgent question on the crisis surrounding last Wednesday’s budget, which cut disabled...

Stop The Hospital Closures!

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LIBDEM Health Minister Burstow declared on Monday night that the coalition government was ‘right’ to announce the closure of Chase Farm Hospital ‘after years...
Nurses demonstrate outside Parliament against the one per cent pay cap – creating a shortage of nurses

Overwork & Low Pay Driving Nurses Out Of NHS!

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NURSES, midwives, doctors, paramedics and NHS staff are being driven out of the profession because of overwork and low pay... creating a ‘severe staff...

Abolish pensioners’ bus passes and triple-lock pensions! – urges Stephens & Health Secretary...

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HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stephens, has angered millions of workers with his suggestions that pensioners’ free bus passes and their triple-lock pension arrangements...
Marchers in London on Saturday against poverty, war and about climate change

STOP AFGHAN WAR! – Rally US Embassy 2.00pm Wednesday

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50,000 youth and trade unionists marched against, poverty, unemployment, war and about climate change, tens of thousands more people are set to take to...
Junior Doctors demonstrating on Monday September 28th against the Tories and their attempt to impose a 90-hour working week.  Photo credit: Steve Eason

‘Unsafe for patients’ – Junior doctors confront Hunt

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‘DOCTORS working unsocial hours must not have their pay cut,’ was the demand in a letter to Tory health secretary Hunt signed by...

Hamas opens fire on Israel

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HAMAS'S military wing, the Qassam Brigades, launched a ten-rocket missile attack on Israel yesterday, causing loud explosions in the Tel Aviv area, triggering alarm...

Brown Attacks Unions On Pay

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In his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday, Chancellor Gordon Brown declared for ‘New Labour renewed’. Assuming he will succeed Blair as...
Thousands of workers rallied last year outside Whittington Hospital in north London to stop it from closing. Now the government is threatening to close NHS hospitals up and down the country

ADAPT OR BE CLOSED! – warning to NHS hospitals

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NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson yesterday warned that many hospitals will face closure in the ‘new world’ of funding cuts and privatisation. Nicholson told...

Israel targeting the national & historical rights of Palestinians

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THE Palestinian Land Authority stated that the recent decisions of the Israeli occupation authorities represent a dangerous and unprecedented escalation directly targeting the national...

Nationalise Jaguar Land Rover – to save workers’ rights and jobs

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THERE HAS been confirmation that Jaguar Land Rover will build a new all-electric model at its Castle Bromwich plant. Unite said yesterday that the announcement...
NHS trade unionists marching in London on November 3rd to defend the NHS against the privateers

£300 TO CHANGE A SOCKET! – unions slam ‘obscene’ PFI profits

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Public sector unions yesterday condemned the huge fees being charged for making ‘operational changes’ to contracts by PFI privateers. This followed a National Audit Office...
A section of the huge TUC march on October 20 through London against the Coalition’s attacks

NHS is not Tesco! – no to seven-day working

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The NHS Commissioning Board will announce compulsory seven-day working in the NHS when it publishes its ‘planning guidance’ for the NHS for the first...

Nut & Nasuwt To Take Strike Action

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The NASUWT and the NUT have now served notice to employers that NUT and NASUWT members in the North West of England are to...

Nurseries Crisis!

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NEW government funding proposals will force nursery schools to close, warns the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT). Yesterday was the deadline for submissions to...

Inquiry into sub-postmasters scandal opens

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‘I WANT someone tried and jailed like I was, then I am settled,’ Harjinder Butoy, who ran the Post Office in the Nottinghamshire market...

CONSULTANTS TO STRIKE ON 2, 3, & 4th OCTOBER!

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CONSULTANTS in England ended two days of strike action at 7am today. In the absence of any progress in discussions with the government, they will...
Workers on the roof of the Visteon plant in Enfield are becoming more determined to win with every hour of their occupation

Massive Support For Visteon Occupiers

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the occupied Visteon factories received massive support from workers in their areas yesterday, as workers in Belfast, Enfield and Basildon struggled to defend their...

‘SACK SIEGEL FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE HERE!’ say defiant Gate Gourmet strikers

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THE Gate Gourmet strikers have poured scorn on company chairman David Siegel’s departure from Britain to America, which was announced on Wednesday. Picket Mr...

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...

98.7% NO CONFIDENCE IN LANSLEY – frightened Miliband urges ‘junk the Bill’

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NURSES passed a motion of no confidence in Health Secretary Lansley and his Health and Social Care Bill, with a vote of 98.75% in...
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...

LOCKED IN FLOODED CELLS! – Harmondsworth inquiry demand

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On Monday, 23 June, the High Court will respond to a Liberty demand for an independent investigation into the treatment of detainees at Harmondsworth...
Part of the Vouli square with the DEH workers lorry-cranes at the back

Greek Workers Occupy Square!

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TENS of thousands of young people along with workers and their families staged an enormous rally last Wednesday evening in Athens, almost filling up...
Up to 1,000 workers and young people turned up to picket the Israeli Embassy yesterday afternoon and were faced by large numbers of police

‘IT’S LIKE HELL HERE NOW’ – Doctor Mads Gilbert condemns Israeli invasion

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Fifteen Palestinian civilians were killed yesterday and at least 40 others were wounded when Israeli shells hit Gaza City shopping centre. Among those killed by...

Heathrow strike vote!

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THERE has been a strike vote over ‘punishing’ working patterns at Heathrow. International airlines flying from Heathrow Airport face major disruption to the supply of...
Firefighters gather outside the Central Hall, Westminster after their rally to begin lobbying their MPs

FBU Will Fight Cuts & Sackings

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SEVERAL thousand firefighters from all over Britain, lobbied Parliament yesterday, to give notice that they and their union would not accept a 25 per...
Sacked Finance Ministry cleaners marching in Athens

Athens Clashes!

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IN THE early hours of Thursday the Vouli (Greek parliament) voted by 229 to 64 with six abstentions on the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government’s Bill...

Furlough scheme will be extended till October 31

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THE FURLOUGH scheme, where currently 6.2 million workers who are not working during the coronavirus crisis are getting 80% of their wages paid by...

Court rules against disabled!

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A HIGH Court Judge in London ruled yesterday that the government’s decision to close the Independent Living Fund (ILF) is lawful. The Tories plan to...

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...

‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ condemns Washington’s role in Israeli genocide

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Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a US-based advocacy group, has unequivocally condemned Washington’s role in Israel’s genocidal violence against Palestinians. In a series of pointed...

SPECIAL CONFERENCE – Defend every hospital

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Saturday April 6th

CALL FOR OCCUPATION! – as South London Trust put into Administration

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HEALTH Secretary Lansley announced yesterday that he is putting South London Healthcare NHS Trust into administration. The trust was created by merging three hospitals –...
Refugees at Wednesdsay’s march to the EU offices in Athens demanding ‘Freedom!’ Photo credit: voria.gr

Refugees March To Eu Offices Demanding ‘Freedom!’

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OVER 1,000 mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees marched last Wednesday through the Athens city centre to the EU Offices in Greece demanding free and...