Ealing Conference On The NHS

Ealing Conference On The NHS

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EALING CONFERENCE GOES AHEAD: On the eve of the West London Council of Action Conference to defend Ealing Hospital, due to take place on...
UCU lecturers and students were joined by other public sector unions to march against cuts at London Metropolitan University last year, it is now feared to face closure

Cable To Double Student Debt!

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Business and Universities Secretary Cable has confirmed his intention to lift the cap on tuition fees, as recommended in the Browne Review. Lifting the cap...
The front of the Silent March for Grenfell making its way down Kensington High Street

Grenfell Fire Doors Failed

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DOORS for flats in Grenfell Tower could only hold back a fire for half the time they were designed to, a police investigation has...

Maudsley CEO joins strikers on the picket line!

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STRIKING catering, cleaning and other support staff working for South London & Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM) were joined on their picket line at Maudsley...
Health workers marching against Cameron’s health policies on the TUC’s March 26, 2011 mass demonstration

CAMERON COVERS UP! – as Hunt hands over his e-mails

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Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt yesterday said he will hand over private e-mails to his special adviser about the BSkyB takeover bid to the Leveson...

NHS Being Driven Backwards

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The Royal College of Nursing yesterday called for a halt to the closure of hospital beds until trusts can clearly demonstrate that alternative, tried...
Students gathered in their thousands in Trafalgar Square at midday yesterday and many took up their positions on Nelson’s Column

25,000 YOUTH IN WHITEHALL – as LibDem Cable buckles

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Students demonstrated and marched in towns and cities across Britain yesterday in the third day of protests against tuition fees, university cuts and the...
Gate Gourmet sacked workers  on Southall Broadway yesterday campaigning for their march on Sunday

All Out For Gate Gourmet Rally!

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‘WE ARE marching for a future where no employer can sack 800 workers by megaphone at a minute’s notice and where trade union leaders...

Anti-racist protesters who deface statues could get 10 years under Tory legislation!

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ANTI-RACISM protesters who tear down, ‘deface’ or graffiti statues and monuments to imperialism face jail sentences of up to 10 years under a forthcoming...

Pm May Is Canvassing For Labour, Lib-Dem & Snp Votes

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JACOB Rees-Mogg Tory MP for North East Somerset yesterday warned that ‘Brexit is being watered down to the extent where you couldn’t really tell...

Sri Lankan governor and cabinet resign! – as masses defy curfew and protest

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THE CRISIS in Sri Lanka escalated yesterday as wild protests broke out on the streets over spiralling fuel and food prices, and daily blackouts...

70% of medical students can’t afford necessities!

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SEVEN out of 10 medical students cannot afford basic necessities, finds a BMA survey. An annual BMA poll found over two-thirds (70%) of 639 surveyed...

40,000 Railworkers Strike Today!

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BRITAIN is in shutdown again today as 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies strike in defence of jobs, pay, conditions,...

Barristers Strike Growing In Strength

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HUNDREDS of striking criminal barristers held mass pickets outside the Supreme Court in London yesterday, as well as outside Preston, Plymouth and Birmingham Crown...
Cabin crew rejoice at the good news that the judiciary had dumped the strike ban

Law Lords Retreat!

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British Airways (BA) cabin crew outside the High Court cheered and danced yesterday morning after a panel of three senior judges overturned a...
Public sector workers marching in the TUC demonstration on March 26 demanding that the trade unions take action to defend their jobs and to get wage increases matching the leaps in the cost of living

ZERO WAGE RISES! – Millions in Public Sector plunged into poverty

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UNISON yesterday called on the government to end the public sector pay freeze, set to stretch for another two years for local government workers...

54,000 Mothers A Year Lose Jobs

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AHEAD of the House of Commons debate yesterday, the GMB Trade Union says an estimated 54,000 women lose their jobs every year due to...

‘Free pass to commit war crimes’ – Amnesty slams army immunity from prosecution

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‘IT IS in no-one’s interests for members of the armed forces to be given a free pass over alleged war crimes’ said Kate Allen,...

Carney warns on housing collapse

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BANK of England governor Mark Carney yesterday gave his strongest warning yet about the dangers to the UK’s capitalist economy posed by a collapse...
Yorkshire ambulance workers in the Unite union striking to defend patient safety

Yorks ambulance workers fourth strike against cuts

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AMBULANCE workers in Yorkshire walked out on strike yesterday afternoon for the fourth time in an escalating battle against cuts and changes in...

FORD PLANNING CLOSURES – in Belgium, Germany and the UK

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FORD is planning to close its plant in Southampton which makes the Transit van and employs 500 workers. A meeting between Ford’s management and unions...

Fourteen Palestinian factions sign national unity agreement

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FOURTEEN Palestinian factions have signed a ‘national unity’ agreement aimed at maintaining Palestinian control over Gaza once Israel’s war on the enclave is ended. The...
Demonstration against the TV documentary ‘Benefits Street’ which vilified the poor. The abolition of Council Tax Benefit is driving thousands more into debt

COUNCIL TAX DEBT SOARING – reports Citizens Advice

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COUNCIL tax debt is the fastest-growing form of debt, Citizens Advice reported yesterday, revealing that it has now become the number one debt problem...
A section of the 220,000-strong demonstration in Marseille against the Sarkozy government’s cuts

France – 3 Million Take Action

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Three and a half million took to the streets across France in the biggest anti-pensions law mobilisation yet on Tuesday, October 12 in 244...
ASLEF Southern rail picket line – they have just rejected the sell-out deal

Aslef drivers stand fast–throw out GTR-TUC sell-out deal!

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ASLEF drivers have rejected the GTR-TUC proposed ‘resolution’ to the long-running dispute with Southern Railways. ASLEF said: ‘The following question was put to our driver...

May Peddles Tory Charade

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YESTERDAY PM Theresa May set out her ‘vision for Britain after Brexit’ in a key note speech to their party conference in Birmingham in...
The banner of the Coordination of Trades Unions at last Friday’s Athens demonstration. It reads ‘Down with the government and with any government that carries out the orders of the IMF-EC-Capital’.

Eu Jackboot Over Greece

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THE Greek government of Prime Minister Yiorghos Papandreou won the confidence vote in the Vouli (Greek parliament) with a margin of just three last...

HUNGRY KIDS IN UK – Save the Children takes action

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Save the Children has declared a ‘crisis for families’ in the UK, as today it partners UK charity Family Action to distribute cash grants...
Haringey bin men on their picket line on Thursday morning

Haringey Binmen Fight Strikebreaking

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STRIKING Haringey bin men are into the second week of their action against private contractors, Haringey Accord, which plans to cut two dust crews,...

COMPANIES TO LAUNCH MASS SACKINGS – following big cut in furlough payments

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ONE-IN-FIVE companies are planning to sack workers in response to yesterday’s cut in furlough payments, a British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) survey has found. From...
Demonstration outside St Helier Hospital against the closure of the maternity unit at the Epsom Hospital, the A&E and the cuts due to take place in surgery

Save Epsom Maternity!

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Over 60 people protested outside St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, Surrey, yesterday morning, against the ‘downgrading’ of its sister Epsom Hospital. The protest was called...

Keogh Predicts End Of NHS!

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SIR Bruce Keogh, medical director of NHS England, says that the basic principles of the NHS, ‘free healthcare at the point of need’ must...

Three-day general strike action brings Belgium to a standstill

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A GENERAL strike in Belgium, on its third day on Wednesday paralysed major transportation and public services, including the construction sector, said the Building...
Drownings–Greece Accused!

Drownings–Greece Accused!

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THE shocking truth is slowly emerging of last Monday’s ‘several’ drownings of refugees off the Aegean island of Farmakonisi, close to the Turkish coast. The...

Balpa Takes BA Fight To Europe!

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PILOT’S union BALPA told News Line yesterday it will be campaigning to change European law after withdrawing from its High Court challenge to a...

Guys & St Thomas’ theatre nurses are set to take strike action over dangerous...

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GUYS and St Thomas’ theatre nurses are to strike over a dangerous rise in hours. Burnt out nurses warn that a further hour extension to...

Cable tells Vauxhall plants . . . YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN!

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BUSINESS Secretary Cable has warned General Motors that the planned development of the Ellesmere Port and Luton car plants will not get government support. This...

Starmer beats war drums at Scottish Labour Party Conference!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer beat the war drums at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Glasgow yesterday. He said that ‘we can’t cling...

Labour MPs to attend CWU pickets today!

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LARGE numbers of Labour MPs will attend Communication Workers Union (CWU) picket lines again today, in defiance of the anti-union stance taken by party...
A section of yesterday’s 2,000-strong picket in London against the Rajapakse regime

Rajapakse Out! Demand 2000 Tamils

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‘We want freedom! We want Tamil Eelam! Stop the genocide’ shouted 2,000 Tamils demonstrating in central London yesterday. The protest outside the Commonwealth Conference taking...

59 killed & 296 wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza

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THREE days of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip left 59 Palestinians dead by noon yesterday local time, including 14 children and three women,...

5% pay rise and £1,000 bonus offer to NHS – will not be recommended...

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A FINAL pay offer for NHS staff in England, including nurses and ambulance workers, was made yesterday. Unite leader Sharon Graham said that Unite...

‘DOCTORS WON’T TAKE IT ANYMORE’ – says BMA after 98% strike vote

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JUNIOR doctors in England have voted by an overwhelming 98% for strike action in their fight for pay restoration. Almost every junior doctor who cast...

Mobilise! For Gm Demo In Antwerp!

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THE European trade union body, the Engineering Metalworkers Federation (EMF), has called for a mobilisation of GM workers in Europe on Wednesday, 23rd September...

Blair Says Troops To Stay In Iraq

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THE new puppet Prime Minister of Iraq, Jaffari, has just visited both Washington and London to make sure that a beleaguered President Bush and...