‘Defend GP Practices’ – BMA

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THE BMA and GPs have condemned the way that NHS England and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are treating GP Practices. Dr...

Gp Services Buckling Under Tory Attack

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PATIENT care is ‘deteriorating’ in half of GP practices as GP services buckle under rising workload, a new BMA survey warned yesterday. More than half...

Special Forces Back In North

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Northern Ireland Assembly Deputy First Minister and Sinn Fein MP Martin McGuinness yesterday slammed the redeployment of British Army Special Forces in the North...

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...
BMA junior doctors are getting ready for industrial action and will be assembling at Marble Arch at 2.00pm tomorrow to march to Parliament Square

Get ready for industrial action! says BMA

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THE BMA has urged junior doctors to update their place of work details by October 23 so that they can take part in...

Rough Sleeping Doubles!

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HOMELESSNESS charity St Mungo’s revealed yesterday that 129 rough sleepers died in London since 2010 – an average of one a fortnight – while...

‘Spending cuts, job losses and pension attacks must end!’ – RMT leader Mick Lynch...

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SPENDING CUTS, job losses and pension attacks must end, the RMT told the London Mayor yesterday. The Tube workers’ union wrote to Sadiq Khan, emphasising...

OCCUPATION PAYS! say Visteon workers

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‘It’s a massive victory from the situation on March 31 when Visteon sacked us with nothing,’ Piers Hood, Unite deputy convenor at the...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers picketing yesterday morning on the hill near the factory

NO TO A ROTTEN COMPROMISE! sayGate Gourmet workers

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TGWU members on the picket line yesterday condemned the ‘Compromise Agreement, reached between Gate Gourmet and the TGWU leaders. Mr Sangha said: ‘The company...
Workers demonstrate outside the Bank of England in 2009 – they are still paying the price for the bankers’ crash

Workers still paying for 2008 crash says GMB

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‘SINCE the great crash of 2007/8 the twin features of inflation of 27% and little or no pay rises have taken a heavy toll...
‘How do you sleep at night?’ is a good question when at least 46,211 children’s operations have been cancelled over the last four years

12,349 children’s operations were cancelled last year

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THOUSANDS of hospital operations for children are being cancelled every year owing to a lack of beds, staff and equipment in the NHS. NHS figures,...
Syrians show their support for President Assad outside their embassy in London on March 17, the day after a terror bombing in Damascus killed 25

Syrian Armed Gangs Reject Annan Plan

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TURKEY scrambled six F-16 fighter jets near its border with Syria yesterday afternoon after Syrian helicopters came close to the border, but...

Patient records now open to state

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FOR the first time, the Department for Work and Pensions will have access to patients personal GP records, including their ‘fit notes’...

NO CHOICE BUT TO STRIKE! – teachers ready for national action

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THE two largest teachers’ unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, yesterday announced two more regional strikes, rallies and...

Ireland, Norway and Spain formally recognise Palestine

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IRELAND, Norway and Spain formally recognised the state of Palestine yesterday, infuriating leaders of the genocidal Israeli regime, while Hamas described it as ‘a...
The NUT picket line at Ellis Guilford school in Nottingham yesterday – teachers are opposed to a 5-term year

Notts NUT strike action

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Nottingham teachers held a second successful one-day strike yesterday against the City Council’s plan to impose a five-term year. Speaking ahead of yesterday’s strike, John...
Marchers in London on Saturday June 5 demanding an end to the siege on Gaza

END THE SIEGE! – says Arab League’s Moussa

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‘The siege must end and the Arab League’s stance on this is very clear,’ said the body’s Secretary-General Amr Moussa yesterday. Speaking as he entered...

‘CONFRONT ROYAL MAIL’ – Dave Ward tells CWU conference

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EMERGENCY Motion E3 dealing with a ballot for national industrial action was passed unanimously at the CWU Postal Section Conference in Bournemouth yesterday. The Motion,...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers outside Hillingdon TGWU office on Friday insisting that their dispute is still on and that they need their hardship pay

Gmb Shop Stewards Decide On Strike Action Ballot At Asda

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The GMB trade union shop stewards at a meeting yesterday in Manchester voted unanimously to ballot for a national strike in Asda Wal-Mart. The GMB...

Taliban: ‘We have emancipated Afghanistan and made it free’ – Amnesty for all announced...

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THE TALIBAN announced a ‘general amnesty’ yesterday for government workers across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government. ‘We must congratulate the victorious struggle...
Mother of Azelle Rodney, SUSAN ALEXANDER, (beneath her campaign banner) addressing yesterday’s press conference

‘Azelle Rodney Executed!’ – An Unlawful Killing

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‘THIS report has found that there was no lawful justification for my son’s killing by the police. ‘He was shot eight times in only two...

RCN raises the alarm!

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THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is today (Thursday 30 December) raising the alarm over morale, sickness absence and the prospect of rising vacancies...

70,000 lecturers vote for national university strike

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Over 70,000 staff at 150 universities are to strike after University and College Union (UCU) members overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ in two historic national ballots. The...

More Unite ambulance workers to take strike action on May 2

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MORE Unite ambulance workers have decided to take part in industrial action on Tuesday May 2nd. Unite said yesterday that members at South Central, South...

NO TUBE AND RAIL CUTS! – ‘Franchising system in its death throes’

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ENDING damaging staff cuts, bringing all of London’s Tube back into the public sector and getting the network’s upgrade back on track are more...

McDonnell wants a national anti-Brexit government

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LABOUR Shadow Chancellor McDonnell said yesterday that Labour may form the next government, a minority government, without a general election, if MPs don’t back...

‘TORIES WANT TO SUPPRESS THE UNIONS!’ says RMT leader Mick Lynch

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‘GRANT Schapps doesn’t respect the right to strike. He wants to make strikes ineffective. I don’t believe him at all. I don’t think he’s...
Delegates at the TUC Congress earlier this month showing their support for Palestine – a resolution at the Labour Party Conference demanded end the siege of Gaza

‘Stop UK arms sales to Israel and end Gaza blockade’

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END the blockade of Gaza! Stop selling arms to Israel! Investigate Israel for war crimes! delegate to the Labour Party conference, Sarah Jane Potter...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the factory at Heathrow yesterday

Revolutionary Mass Action Defeats Chirac And Villepin

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FRENCH Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was yesterday forced to make a dramatic climbdown by withdrawing the hated CPE (Contrat Premiere Embauche) for youth. The...
CWU leaders BILLY HAYES and DAVE WARD (centre) on the picket line at Mandela Way, south east London last Friday

‘NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO STRIKE!’ – CWU out for 24 hours from evening of...

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yesterday the Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced a further day of strike action commencing the evening of Thursday 12th July and continuing through Friday...
Junior doctors on the picket line at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddingdon on 10th March – they have now stepped up their struggle

Junior doctors escalate struggle – after Tories refuse to talk

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The BMA yesterday confirmed an escalation of the junior doctors industrial action scheduled for April. This follows the continued refusal by the government to step...

US Was Given Notice Of Attack!

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IRAN’S Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) say none of its missiles were intercepted during Wednesday’s heavy strike that targeted two US bases inside Iraq...

Labour’s Winter Fuel cut has plunged pensioners into poverty

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall openly admitted on Tuesday that the Labour government cut the £300 Winter Fuel Payment to 10 million pensioners...

TGWU register 735 tribunal cases

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THERE was a mass picket of over 200 locked out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow airport yesterday. Senior shop steward Mr Dhillon told News...

Welfare and spending cuts are leading to more food banks!

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THE expansion of food banks across the United Kingdom is associated with cuts in spending on local services, welfare benefits and higher unemployment rates,...

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...

‘Generalised strike action!’ – urges bakers union leader

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‘THIS anti-union legislation has to be answered by unified, generalised strike action from the entire trade union movement.’ Bakers Union leader Ronnie Draper was responding...

‘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...

HALT WEST LONDON A&E CLOSURES! says RCN

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THE Royal College of Nursing is concerned that a lack of focus on out-of-hospital care while A&Es are closing will result in an even...

‘Grave concerns’ over Taser roll-out

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‘Grave concerns’ have been expressed over the wider deployment of Taser electro-shock weapons to police officers in ten forces across the UK which are...
Canadian students at a mass demonstration, the main banner reads: ‘Education is not for sale!’

Students Erupt Again In Quebec

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Quebec students and their supporters took to the streets of Montreal last Saturday and promised a summer full of demonstrations unless the dispute over...

All restrictions to be lifted a month early! – announces Johnson despite Covid deaths...

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‘IT IS MY expectation that we will be able to end the last domestic restrictions, including the legal requirement to self-isolate if you test...

1,500 Lorries Still Stuck

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ONE THOUSAND five hundred lorries are still stuck in Kent unable to leave the UK as Tory PM Johnson and French President Macron thrash...
Marchers in defence of the NHS slam STP privatisation of services

BMA votes to scrap STPs

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A MOTION demanding the Tory NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) are ‘abandoned’ was passed with an overwhelming majority at the BMA’s Annual Representative...

Anger erupts outside Chauvin murder trial!

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AS THE murder trial of officer Derek Chauvin continued for the killing of George Floyd, anger erupted outside the Court House where masses of...