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‘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...

BMA predicts £54bn NHS shortfall!

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THE Chair of the British Medical Association has warned of an increasing financial shortfall in NHS funding. In his New Year’s message to doctors, Dr...

PM JOHNSON DUMPS PLAN B! – in a desperate attempt to remain PM

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AFTER A DAY of plots, counter plots and demands that he go, PM Johnson, in his lunchtime statement to the House of Commons, attempted...

Javid’s plan is to privatise the NHS

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SAJID Javid, Tory Health and Social Care Secretary, has spoken to the Royal College of Physicians, on Health Reform. He claimed that there is not...
Doctors, nurses and ancillary staff joined a mass march against the destruction of the NHS from the Royal London Hospital to Bart’s Hospital on Wednesday

Bma Revolution!

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Doctors to demand referendum on Health Bill – No confidence in Lansley and Coalition An Uprising among doctors against the government’s plan to smash up...

Port Talbot steelworks – Unite to defend every job

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PORT Talbot’s steelworks will be given up to £500m by the UK government in a bid to keep the plant open and produce steel...

Circle to take £2m profit! –as it cuts and slashes Hinchingbrooke Hospital

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Public sector union Unison yesterday said that some of its worst fears are coming true over NHS privatisation. This came after it was revealed that...

The FBU calls for urgent action by next government to prepare the UK for...

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THE FBU (Fire Brigades Union) has called for ‘urgent action’ from the next government to prepare the UK for rising temperatures following last week’s...

Johnson blasts ‘gloomsters’

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THE NEW PM Boris Johnson, making his first speech outside the doors of 10 Downing Street yesterday at 4pm, denounced the ‘pessimists at home...
Ambulance staff taking strike action at Deptford Ambulance Station were concerned at the way cuts were affecting the service

Ambulance Cuts Are Costing Lives!

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EAST of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) management operated a policy of downgrading target response times for 999 emergency calls from December 18th...

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...
Campaigners fighting to stop the closure of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals at a lobby of the council last Wednesday

Halt NHS Privatisation By Stealth!

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THE Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has written to health minister Lord Howe expressing grave concern that the government is planning to privatise large...

PROTECT OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS – demand unions

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Workers who lost their pensions when their firm went bust gave a cautious welcome to a second High Court victory yesterday. The court rejected an...

TORY VACCINE POLICY CHALLENGED! – unregulated, unlicensed trial is condemned

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THE GAP between the first and second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine must be reduced to three or four weeks to ensure it...

More Leaving Than Joining Nursing

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RESPONDING to the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) figures showing more nurses leaving than joining the profession, Janet Davies, Chief Executive and General...
FBU members demonstrating against the station closures, staff and fire engine cuts which the London Fire Brigade presides over

Sheds with beds death trap!

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THE LONDON Fire Brigade yesterday issued a statement that over the last five years there have been 438 fires in London in factories,...
London Tube workers on a picket of Downing Street during the recent struggle of collapsed privateer Metronet

Safety Fears Halt Tube Lines!

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EMERGENCY brake problems that led to the suspension of the Hammersmith and City, Circle and District lines were first raised on Tuesday, London Underground’s...

Palestinians ready to break off all relations with the USA and to report Israel...

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Netanyahu earlier pledged to ensure the extension of Israeli sovereignty to the Jewish settlements of the Jordan Valley after US Secretary...

RAAB GRILLED BY MPs

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TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab appeared before MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, where he was questioned about the end of the UK’s...

‘LISTEN TO US OR ELSE!’ – US & France warn Syria

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THE US and France yesterday threatened Syria with sanctions. They accused Syrian President Assad of failing to cooperate fully with the UN investigation into the...

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...

150 NHS CONSULTANTS EARNING £8.5m TOTAL!

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ONE hundred and fifty consultants employed to draw up the Tories Sustainability and Transformation plans (STPs) were paid combined annual salaries of at least...

RMT opposes the TUC over 2nd referendum!

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RMT leader Mick Cash hit out to oppose the TUC General Council statement on Brexit saying that it was a staging post to try...

GM GAMBLING WITH WORKERS JOBS – say EU trade unions

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A Joint statement by the European Employee Forum of General Motors (EEF), the European Metalworkers‚ Federation (EMF) and the European Unions was issued yesterday...

Social cleansing condemned – LONDON CLEARED OF 50,000 FAMILIES

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CAMPAIGNERS and housing charities yesterday condemned ‘social cleansing’ of low income families as it emerged that more than 50,000 families have been quietly moved...

‘ANTI-CORBYN COUP!’ – WATSON ACCUSED BY McCLUSKEY

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THE CLAMOUR from senior Labour figures, including deputy leader Tom Watson, shadow chancellor John McDonnell and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, for Labour to...

Corona spreading through England’s school system!

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DESPITE warnings from unions the Tories re-opened schools last week, and now coronavirus has begun spreading through the school system across England. Five teachers at...
Syrians demonstrate outside the US embassy in May against foreign intervention and imperialist support for terror gangs

CAMERON GOES FOR WAR!– while millions in the UK say ‘No’

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THE UK National Security Committee met midday yesterday to put the final touches to the UK contribution to a massive cruise missile strike that...

Global Climate Change Strike

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HUNDREDS of thousands of school youth are walking out on strike today in more than 100 countries around the globe over climate change. School youth...
Greek university students on the march

‘THROW OUT THE GOVERNMENT’ – demand Greek workers and students

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OVER 5,000 university students and public sector workers held an impressive and militant rally and march in Athens last Thursday against the government’s plans...

Free School–‘financial misconduct’

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KINGS Science Academy in Bradford, one of the government’s flagship free schools, has been accused of serious financial mismanagement. An Education Funding Agency (EFA) report...
Construction workers rallying in Oxford Street yesterday morning in defence of jobs, pay and working conditions in the industry

Sparks demand strike action!

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HUNDREDS of electricians blockaded Oxford Street in central London yesterday morning, against the major attack by a ‘cartel’ of contractors who have declared they...
FBU strike tonight

FBU strike tonight

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ESSEX fire chiefs are putting the people and communities of Essex at unnecessarily increased risk by notifying all wholetime firefighters they will not be...

Russian Ambassador In Talks With Al-Sadr

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The Russian ambassador to Iraq yesterday flew to Najaf and started talks with leading Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who led the uprising against US...

Bonus For Not Sending An Ambulance!

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LONDON Ambulance Control Room workers are being offered bonuses of up to £250 if they can reduce by 30 per cent the number of...

Corbyn wants Customs Union & Single Market

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‘THERE is no deal which comes without a backstop and without a backstop there is no deal,’ Tory PM May said yesterday afternoon while...
The De Menezes family taking flowers to Stockwell tube on the anniversary of Jean Charles de Menezes’ death at the hands of police gunmen. They now fear that their phones may well have been hacked into

De Menezes family ‘may have been hacked’

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The family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday called upon Prime Minister Cameron to extend the remit of the inquiry into the phone hacking scandal. They demanded...
Thousands marched for free education through central London – students are determined to drive the market out of education

University privatisation plan outrage

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STUDENTS will be ‘outraged’ at Tory proposals to raise tuition fees even higher and privatise education, the NUS said yesterday. Tory Universities Minister Jo Johnson...

AFGHAN MASSACRE – 80 civilians killed in US/UK air strikes

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EIGHTY Afghan civilians were murdered in US and British air strikes last Friday in the Gereshk district of Helmand province in Afghanistan. Three...

TUC’s Nowak condemns Israeli genocide of Palestinians!

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‘IN Gaza there’s a humanitarian crisis that shames the world. Thousands of starving civilians – women and children killed while queuing for food, hospitals,...
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...

Labour Demanding Windfall Tax Vote!

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LABOUR is tomorrow demanding a vote in the House of Commons to introduce a windfall tax on oil and gas companies, with former leader...

MASS EXPULSIONS! – being prepared by Israel

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New Israeli military orders target tens of thousands of Palestinians for deportation, a rights group reported yesterday. Two signed military orders come into force this...

‘TROUBLE AHEAD FOR MAY’ – warns the ERG’s Steve Baker

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TORY MP Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Eurosceptic group the European Research Group (ERG), warned yesterday there is ‘trouble ahead’ for May. He tweeted:...
Students, teachers and staff holding a ‘noise demonstration’ during yesterday’s march against privatisation

Sussex uni marches against privatisation

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ONE hundred Sussex students, UCU members and students from other universities marched through the campus of a snow-bound University of Sussex yesterday lunchtime. The ‘Fight...