Public Sector pay freeze ‘A kick in the teeth for millions!’ say GMB

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PUBLIC SECTOR employees, many of whom are essential Covid-19 workers, should not be subject to a continuing pay freeze from a government that has...
TGWU members from the closure-threatened HP Sauce factory in Birmingham lobbying the Heinz headquarters in Hayes, yesterday

57 Varieties Of Corporate Greed

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Angry sack-threatened workers from the HP Sauce factory in Aston, Birmingham were yesterday stopped from protesting at the parent company Heinz headquarters in Hayes,...

‘WE HAVE PUNISHED THE AGGRESSOR’ – Medvedev tells Sarkozy

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PRESIDENT Dmitry Medvedev said in Moscow yesterday that he had ordered an end to the ‘peace enforcement’ operation in Georgia, after five days of...

Budget cuts of up to £5bn a year are provoking a Labour rebellion!

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WORK AND PENSIONS Secretary Liz Kendall is making changes to her package of welfare reforms in a desperate attempt to reassure Labour MPs who...

Sri Lankan Troops Caught In Tiger Booby Traps

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COLOMBO – TamilNet reports that last weekend more than sixteen Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops lost their legs after being caught in...

Trust Boss Quits Over Dangerous Targets

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The British Medical Association yesterday repeated concerns about government targets that ‘compromise patient safety’, in the wake of the resignation of United Lincolnshire Hospitals...

‘Death Of Patient Confidentiality’

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Healthcare privateers and drug companies are to be given access to patients’ records and other NHS data under plans to be unveiled by prime...

Record Borrowing And Record Inflation Rate

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INFLATION soared upwards last month, with the government’s preferred Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure rising to 4.4 per cent, up from 4 per cent...

Gaza ceasefire possible if Israel stops setting new conditions says Hamas

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HAMAS said yesterday that ‘a Gaza ceasefire is possible if the occupation stops setting new conditions’, while Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was reportedly heading...

Hounslow Council Leader To Speak At Rally

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Gate GOURMET locked out workers were yesterday campaigning for their march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th March. At Hounslow Civic Centre, where the rally is...
Postal workers marching in Wolverhampton against Royal Mail privatisation

ROYAL MAIL 20% JOB CUTS – ‘Conflict inevitable’ – CWU

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The Communication Workers Union yesterday warned that planned job cuts by Royal Mail will threaten services and downgrade staff to a part-time workforce. Plans seen...

FRESH JUNIOR DOCTORS STRIKES ARE LOOMING! – as Tories exclude them from ‘pay award’

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THE BMA is to survey junior doctors on possible action to take following massive anger over their exclusion from the NHS ‘pay award’. The BMA...
Hundreds of demonstrators yesterday re-enacted the humiliation of detainees by US troops at Guantanamo Bay, demanding the concentration camp’s immediate closure

Close Down Guantanamo! Demands Amnesty

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HUNDREDS of demonstrators in orange boiler suits assembled next to the American Embassy in London yesterday, demanding: ‘Close Guantanamo Bay!’ They were demonstrating on the...
Nationwide, people are taking to the streets to defend their hospitals. Picture shows 10,000-strong march in Ealing last September

NHS Francis Inquiry Slammed

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THE Francis inquiry into what happened at Mid-Staffordshire ‘has allowed the government to blame frontline clinicians rather than those in charge.’ This was the...

6th form teachers strike today!

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TEACHERS are striking today and have announced further strike dates due to the government’s ‘failure to resolve a clear pay discrepancy’ between staff in...

‘TUC GET OFF YOUR KNEES AND CALL A GENERAL STRIKE!’ – YS lobby gets...

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‘TUC GET OFF YOUR KNEES, CALL A GENERAL STRIKE!’ rang out outside the Brighton conference centre as the TUC three-day Congress opened yesterday. Hundreds of...

LIBYAN CEASEFIRE! – but imperialists proceed with war plan

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Libyan Foreign minister Moussa Koussa yesterday announced: ‘My country will do its best to deal positively with this resolution’, in the wake of Thursday...
Part of the BMA march against the Health and Social Care Bill becoming law – the BMA at their Annual Representative Meeting earlier this year called for the resignation of Health Secretary Lansley

Circle taking £1bn out of NHS!

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THE first private company to run an NHS hospital claims it has cut waiting times, improved care and delivered savings in its first six...
PCS members demonstrate outside the High Court during their appeal to defend their conditions

PCS gearing up for massive jobs fight

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Civil servants union, the PCS, is gearing up for action to fight over 300,000 public sector job cuts, planned by the Tories. PCS NEC...

Labour to restore 50% tax on rich – Balls pledges a budget surplus

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LABOUR SHADOW chancellor Ed Balls yesterday rejected claims that his pledge that a Labour government will bring back the 50p top rate of income...
Greek youth lead a massive anti-austerity march in Athens

Samaras Puts Up ‘Greece For Sale’ Sign

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GREEK Prime Minister elect Antonis Samaras has declared a massive privatisation plan for the entire transport and energy sectors as well as dozens of...

No date for next meeting – Merkel

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TORY PM May was slapped down again yesterday as German Chancellor Merkel said that no progress was made on Brexit and that a date...

Great Gold Rush Underway

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THE GREAT gold rush has begun! Gold surged 5% on Thursday to a five-year high as plummeting world markets have driven investors to search...

Rattled Labour Bails Out 28 NHS Trusts

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HEALTH unions yesterday welcomed a forced government retreat on the notorious ‘double whammy’ NHS accounting system whereby trusts have their funding cut twice if...

Tories, Labour & SNP join forces to attack China!

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TORY Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s latest attack on China – suspending the UKs extradition treaty with the country, was supported by all Parties, turning...

‘Fight Nato Aggression With All Strength’

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LIBYAN government and civilian forces are dealing deadly blows to the NATO-backed counter-revolutionary ‘rebels’ and mercenaries holed up in Tripoli and other areas of...

Theatre Nurses Picket St Thomas’ Hospital!

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THEATRE nurses, members of Unite, were yesterday picketing on the second day of their current strike action at St Thomas’ hospital by Westminster Bridge. Some of...

Private midwifery company operating within the NHS!

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A PRIVATE midwifery company now has a contract with ten NHS trusts, with up to 300 women a year using a private midwife during...

ROYAL MAIL £50m OFCOM FINE!

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COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) deputy general postal secretary, Terry Pullinger, has reminded the communications industry regulator that its primary statutory duty is ‘to protect...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers at the TUC, demanding  union leaders who will fight, and action against the venture capitalists

RENATIONALISATION – demands TUC Congress

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DELEGATES to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) yesterday voted overwhelmingly to demand the re-nationalisation of public utilities, in opposition to the TUC leadership’s ‘reservations’. TUC...
RCN leader BEVERLY MALONE with UNISON health official KAREN JENNINGS at the centre of the ‘NHS Together’ platform yesterday morning

‘A PAY CUT OF 7-10 PER CENT’ – NHS unions don’t rule out industrial...

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Fourteen trade unions representing nurses, physiotherapists, radiographers, occupational therapists and other NHS staff have joined forces to challenge the government’s 1.5 per cent limit...
Protest outside the US embassy in London on January 11 – five years since the first prisoners were inarcerated at Guantanamo Bay

HUNGER STRIKE – against Guantanamo Bay’s new isolation units

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A MASS hunger strike is being waged by inmates in America’s Cuban Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, against being transferred into ‘maddening’ new isolation units. Thirteen...

Egypt Parliament: Put Under Seige!

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Tens of thousands of anti-Mubarak protesters gathered outside Egypt’s parliament yesterday, bringing business to a halt, just several hundred yards from the continuing mass...

Al-Awda Hospital Fire Rages As Doctors Call Out For Support!

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AL-AWDA Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, northern Gaza, has issued an urgent appeal to international humanitarian bodies after an Israeli airstrike ignited a catastrophic fire...

Netanyahu orders 800 new settlement units!

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ISRAELI PM Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday approved 800 new illegal settlement units in the West Bank, determined to drive through the mass expansion while Trump...
Firefighters greet the marchers at Studley Road Fire Station, Luton

FBU welcomes Jobs March

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SUPPORT for the 248-mile Young Socialists March for Jobs from London to the Liverpool TUC Congress grew on its second day, as Bedfordshire firefighters...
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Palexpo – June 6th & June 7th, 2019

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Limehouse surgery practice nurse JUNE GRAY addressing yesterday’s protest against cuts to east London GP surgeries

Limehouse ‘Save Our Surgeries’ protest

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EAST London GPs, patients and supporters yesterday staged a protest in Limehouse against cuts in funding that threaten to bankrupt around a dozen surgeries...

Biden discussing plans to strike Iranian oil industry

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US President Joe Biden has stated that his administration is ‘discussing’ potential Israeli plans to strike Iran’s oil industry in response to the recent...

Health Workers March On Downing Street!

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OVER 250 London NHS doctors, nurses and hospital workers demonstrated through the West End on Saturday, demanding a 15 per cent pay increase and...
Irish workers demanding ‘Equal Rights for Everyone’ on last Friday’s 100,000-strong march through Dublin

General Strike in Ireland

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OVER 100,000 workers turned out for a massive demonstration through Dublin yesterday, as the country was brought to a halt in a general strike...
Defend the Welfare State rally in London in April demanding ‘Look After Our NHS’

Savage Cuts Risk ‘death Spiral’

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THE new allegedly independent fiscal watchdog has downgraded the economic growth projections for the UK economy, and also cut its debt projection as a...

BBC unions to ‘trawl for volunteers’ for the sack

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‘The BBC unions agreed ‘a trawl for voluntary redundancies’ during last Wednesday’s four-hour meeting with BBC Director General Mark Thompson. Thompson would give no guarantee...

SAVE LEGAL AID! – first ever barristers strike today

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‘Save Legal Aid!’ barristers and solicitors are demanding as they take historic strike action today, starting with a 9.30-10.30am demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court,...

193 Palestinians killed in 24hrs by Israeli forces!

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A TOTAL of 193 Palestinians were killed in 16 massacres perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces over the last 24 hours in the Gaza...