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RACIST KILLINGS ‘LOW IMPACT’ says Home Office

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Family and friends of the victims of racist murders have reacted angrily to a leaked Home Office internal memo which describes the murders...

Johnson Tests Positive!

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PM Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus. Johnson said he developed mild symptoms over the past 24 hours, including a temperature and cough. He is...
Doctors and medical professionals on the NHS march in February demanding that they are registered to work in the NHS where they are desperately needed

Home Office: ‘obscene moneymaking machine’

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IN LIGHT of the Windrush scandal, ‘obscene’ Home Office fees have been slammed by campaigners who brand the Home Office as ‘a money-making machine’...
Young Socialists marchers arriving at the TUC Congress in Liverpool demanding No slave labour, no zero-hours contracts and proper jobs for youth

Miliband pledges £8 minimum wage

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ADDRESSING the party’s annual conference in Manchester yesterday, Labour leader Miliband pledged to increase the National Minimum Wage to £8 an hour over the...

Escalate the action – bus workers call for National Strike now!

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‘ESCALATE the action – national strike now!’ bus workers told News Line yesterday on the first day of another two days of strike action...

Call For Day Of Action At The Bma

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A FIERY and chaotic debate took place at the BMA Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) on Labour’s health policy yesterday. At it the ARM representatives strongly...

BA steps up industrial thuggery

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FROM TODAY all 42,000 British Airways workers who have not signed up for voluntary redundancy will be regarded by BA as being willing to...
The front of Saturday’s  50,000-strong ‘Troops Home from Iraq – No war on Iran’ demonstration in London  leaving Parliament Square

HEWITT CALL TO TREAT PATIENTS IN THE COMMUNITY – to cut NHS deficits

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday warned against any ‘quick fix’ plan to keep asthma and heart patients out of hospital ‘just to...

Doctors welcome Tory pensions concessions!

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DOCTORS have welcomed a series of concessions by the Treasury, altering the effect on them of punitive pension rules which are in fact forcing...

Corbyn calls emergency shadow cabinet meeting

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn is to hold an emergency shadow cabinet meeting next Monday to discuss alleged anti-Semitism within the party. The meeting was called...

Rail Guards Strike

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RAIL UNION RMT is taking strike action today in defence of Guards’ jobs on West Midlands Trains. The union has called on the government to...

Energy Bills Are To Rise By 54%!

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THE AVERAGE household’s energy bill will rise by £693 annually after a 54% increase to the price cap announced yesterday which will undoubtedly plunge...

‘Outlaw fire and rehire’ – demands TUC, warning the tactic is widespread during the...

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THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) warned yesterday that ‘fire and rehire’ tactics have become widespread during the pandemic, with new polling finding that nearly...

MOAT FAMILY TO PAY FOR 2nd POST-MORTEM

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The family of Raoul Moat are to pay for a second post mortem, after the first investigation failed to record taser injuries. They say...

Blair Threatens To ‘Close The Book’ On Ulster Power Sharing

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The British and Irish governments yesterday set a November 24 deadline for north of Ireland politicians to agree to work together in a restored...
Sheffield GMB provided a smashing fish dinner and 100 per cent solidarity with the Young Socialist marchers yesterday mid-day

Students rise up against fees

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education had a great day in Sheffield yesterday. The day started with the marchers splitting up...

Truss rail class war!

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THE TORY war on the railways and railway workers is to resume immediately, with reports yesterday of mass ticket office closures being ‘hardwired’ into...
Young Socialists marching in Norwich last Saturday against unemployment and cheap labour

Heading for 1.18m youth unemployed

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Youth unemployment is set to more than treble over the next two years, research group, the Centre for Cities predicts in a report published...

US-UK attack basic rights – says Amnesty Report

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Amnesty International has accused the United States of effectively giving governments a licence to torture. In its annual report covering 2004, the human rights organisation...

Regional benefit cuts next!

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UNISON has condemned calls by a right wing ‘think tank’ for benefit cuts for all claimants living outside of London, and for child benefits...

‘Summary Powers!’

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday unveiled his viciously anti-working class ‘Respect Action Plan’ at a press conference. Announcing his ‘ActionPlan’ Blair said: ‘Anti-Social Behaviour law imposed...

NHS Faces ‘Worst Ever Winter!’

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THE LATEST ‘catastrophic’ NHS performance figures have sparked fears that the health service is on track for the ‘worst ever’ winter, the BMA doctors’...

‘READY TO STRIKE’ –angry Wolverhampton NHS Trust workers reject over 300 job...

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UNISON yesterday backed ‘extremely angry’ members at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, who have voted in a consultative ballot for strike action in defence of...

RCN warns ‘Patients are suffering!

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PATIENTS are suffering as the prime minister fails to tackle the waiting list crisis, RCN warns, as new analysis reveals decade of misery. The prime...
Tata steel workers march through London in defence of their jobs

Tata Steel – pension cuts and no jobs guarantees!

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THE DEAL, struck between unions and Tata Steel, which guarantees no compulsory redundancies at Port Talbot for five years and accepts the end of...

Police to use plastic bullets, firearms and water cannon

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A report published yesterday says that police will be allowed to use water cannons, baton rounds and even firearms to combat any repeat of...
UNISON General Secretary DAVE PRENTIS (second from left) alongside Unite co-leaders SIMPSON and WOODLEY backed by delegates. The three leaders of the two biggest unions in the country are refusing to call for bringing down the coalition government

TUC leaders refuse to call to bring down the coalition

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DELEGATES to the TUC Conference in Manchester on Monday voted almost unanimously – with just one dissenting voice from BALPA pilots’ union leader Jim...

5-year spending freeze – demands Tory MP Fox

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LEADING Tory MP, Liam Fox, has called for Osborne to announce a freeze on all public spending, which would cut spending by 2.5% a...

US shoots down Syrian warplane

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US MILITARY shot down a Syrian military plane last Sunday. Up until yesterday, all sides had agreed to the framework of the Memorandum on...

Greek workers fighting while Russia & China queue up to buy!

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THE Greek National Federation of Railworkers (POS) has expressed its ‘disappointment’ at the government’s intention to privatise TRAINOSE (Greek Railways). In a statement issued on...

200,000 March For Victory To Palestine

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A HUGE 200,000-strong march of workers, students and youth went from Parliament Square to Hyde Park on Saturday, the 13th National demonstration for Palestine...
Mass picket yesterday morning outside Ealing Hospital

Second day of Ealing Hospital strike

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EALING Hospital porters, domestic, catering and help desk workers held their second 12-hour strike yesterday. More than 100 GMB members employed by the privateer Medirest...

Universal Credit– McVey apologises!

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey has apologised to Parliament for making ‘inadvertently misleading’ statements about Universal Credit. She said she had ‘mistakenly’ told...

MAJORITY DEMAND – Keep Chase Farm Hospital open!

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The hugely expensive ‘consultation process’ meant to rubber stamp the closure of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield has backfired, after the majority of returnees...
Junior doctors in a mass sit-down protest outside Downing Street in 2016. Hunt’s imposed contract is now up for renegotiation

New Junior Doctors’ Contract Negotiations

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THE BMA (British Medical Association) announced at the annual junior doctors committee meeting on Saturday that it is participating ‘in a collaborative review and...

May Silent Over Trident Misfire!

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TORY PM Theresa May yesterday refused four times to say if she knew about a Trident nuclear missile misfire just weeks ahead of...

PENSIONS STRIKES! – at 7 major UK airports in january

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WORKERS at BAA’s seven airports across the UK have voted for strike action to defend their final salary pension scheme. Results of the secret strike...

HALT EDUCATION CUTS! – Teachers, pupils, parents and unions demand

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Parents, pupils, teachers, school leaders, governors, local authority representatives and trade unions are lobbying MPs today to ‘Save our Schools’. The lobbyists will be...
Defiant student nurses and junior doctors – nurses are defending their bursaries and the junior doctors are voting on Hunt’s new contract

80% don’t trust Tories over NHS!

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THE vast majority of the public are worried about the future of the NHS and a majority believe it is heading in the wrong...

STRIKERS CALL FOR UNITED ACTION –to defend the public sector

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Civil Servants on the second day of their successful 48-hour strike yesterday called for all public service workers to join in united strike action. Over...

Fight Threat To Chase Farm Hospital

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THE Chief Executive of Enfield, Barnet and Haringey Clinical Strategy Project Board, Ms Johnson, has made it clear the Board intends to press ahead...

BA Sellout!

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THE UNION Unite claimed yesterday that the deal offered to British Airways’ pilots would be acceptable to tens of thousands of its cabin crew...
Hospital staff and local residents marching to save Whittington Hospital in February. There is massive opposition to NHS cuts

‘BUILD ALLIANCE TO FIGHT ATTACKS!’ – Prentis urges health conference

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‘WE will build alliances needed to fight future attacks’ Dave Prentis, the Unison leader, told its Health Conference in Brighton yesterday. Addressing health workers, including...

Women denied treatment

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MIDWIVES, doctors and patients alike are up in arms over moves to deny pregnant women NHS treatment. St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south west...