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Junior doctors & nurses fight for their rights

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‘FOR students like me from a working class background, removing the bursary for nurses will mean that they cannot continue their studies,’ student nurse...

Speaker blocks vote on Brexit deal – Parliamentary Committee to investigate his impartiality!

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AS EXPECTED, the Speaker of the House John Bercow yesterday blocked Parliament from voting on the new Brexit deal with the EU. Announcing his judgement...

KBR FINED $402m IS TO BE POLICE PARTNER

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KELLOG, Brown and Root (KBR) is on the shortlist for the ‘Business Partnering for Police’ (BPP) project. It is the company which pleaded guilty before...

Obama OKs murder of US citizens by drones

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A JUST-LEAKED United States Justice Department memo gives details of the ‘legal basis’ for authorising unmanned drone strikes to kill American citizens abroad. The document,...

A&E Visits Halved By Virus Outbreak

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A&E VISITS in England have halved since the coronavirus outbreak started, dropping to their lowest level since records began. Before the pandemic, more than 2.1m...

Lively picket lines outside Imperial College campuses

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THERE were lively picket lines outside Imperial College London in White City and South Kensington yesterday. Imperial College staff resumed strikes last Thursday against a...

UK Military support Saudi entry into Syria!

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THE UK is ready to back up the newly founded Saudi coalition ground army, with air support in Syria, British military sources told the...
The North East London Council of Action has been conducting a massive campaign to occupy Chase Farm Hospital to stop its closure

Drive To Close London NHS Hospitals

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HOSPITALS are facing closure across London as the government begins making savage cuts to the NHS budget to deal with its debts crisis. With the...

Israel prepares for war against Hezbollah

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THE ISRAELI military yesterday launched a large-scale exercise, involving ground forces, naval vessels and aircraft, simulating a war against Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement. The multi-day...
Young Syrians join the thousands of protesters who took to the streets of London when ex-PM Cameron tried to get parliament’s approval for the UK to join a US-led war on Syria – he lost the vote and the UK and then the US were forced to pull back

Trump Beats War Drums!

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‘WE HAVE a lot of options militarily,’ US President Trump said yesterday banging the war drums against Syria, adding that a response would be...

Vicious Tory Onslaught On Asylum Seekers Condemned

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HOME Secretary Braverman issued a vicious onslaught against refugees yesterday, seeking to establish her ultra-right wing credentials ahead of the Tory Party Conference in...
Delegates at the Annual BMA Consultants Conference yesterday morning voting for action to defend their pensions

BMA to fight on pensions

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BMA Consultants at their Annual Conference yesterday made it clear they were determined to fight for their pensions. The tone was set by the Consultants...
RMT members calling for the renationalisation of the West Coast Mainline trains . . . they now call for the East Coast Mainline to remain nationalised

NATIONALISE THE RAILWAYS! – ASLEF, RMT and TSSA launch Judicial Review

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RAIL unions ASLEF, RMT and TSSA have launched a Judicial Review to challenge the government over plans to re-privatise the East Coast railway. The unions...

‘SORRY WRONG HOUSE!’ say Israeli soldiers after murdering 21-year-old

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‘We made a mistake in the house,’ said one of the Israeli occupation soldiers, trying to justify to the mother of Mohammad Ibrahim Shaham,...

COUNCILS SUING RBS – over pension fund losses

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Merseyside and North Yorkshire local authority pension funds are suing Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for compensation. The funds accuse RBS of withholding the extent...
Nurses outside Central Halls on Thursday being reminded about one of the lessons of history

‘WE NEED SERIOUS ACTION’ – nurses tell News Line

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‘Keep nurses working – keep patients safe,’ Royal College of Nursing General Secretary Beverley Malone told 1,000 cheering nurses at Westminster Central Hall yesterday. ‘As...

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...

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...

Stop the War condemns Starmer’s ‘grotesque’ warmongering

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LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer banged the war drums against Russia yesterday and claimed that he intends to make Britain ‘battle-ready’. ‘Russia is already menacing...

Gaza War Crimes Exposed!

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ISRAELI forces slaughtered Palestinians, including women and children, during their Gaza onslaught, under rules of engagement drawn up by the military and approved by...

Tens of thousands rally in Athens

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Tens of thousands of workers and youth participated in yet another mass rally outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens yesterday, demanding the overthrow...

‘Voting for the end of the NHS’

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‘ANY MP who votes for the Health and Social Care Bill next week is voting for the end of the NHS,’ said Christina McAnea,...

‘HONOUR THE GUARD GUARANTEE!’ – RMT challenges South Western

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THE RMT has launched a direct challenge to South Western Railway to honour the guard guarantee on their trains. It wants a ‘yes or no’...
Yesterday’s picket by the North London Council of Action of the Judicial Review hearing into the proposed closure of Chase Farm Hospital A&E department

Chase Farm – closure plan ‘to turn two thirds away’

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THE Judicial Review Hearing into the decision to close the Accident and Emergency Department at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield continued in the...

Heathrow Strike Action

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CARS, lorries and buses hooted support along the busy Bath Road on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport in west London yesterday morning as 1,400...
Tamils sat in the street outside Parliament to protest against the slaughter of 2000 civilians in 24 hours last week

‘WE SILENCE OUR GUNS – TO SAVE THE LIVES OF OUR PEOPLE’ say Tigers

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SELVERASA Pathmanathan, head of the Tamil Tigers International Diplomatic Relations, issued an urgent statement on Sunday morning. He said: ‘Despite our plea to the...

UK Martial Law plan

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A REPORT published in error on National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) website and quickly taken down, has revealed a secret plan for the deployment...

SOCIALISM THE FUTURE FOR YOUTH – no jobs under capitalism

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Teachers and lecturers yesterday congratulated teenagers over the best ever GCSE results, but warned youth faced a tough future in the face of education...

Assad Warns West

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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western nations will pay a ‘heavy price’ for supporting al-Qaeda in Syria, warning that the terrorist group...

Civil Servants Out Solid

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Thousands of HM Revenue and Customs members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) took part in a half-day strike yesterday, coinciding with...
‘Father Christmas’ with Ethan and Larah Otoo on the picket line at Chase Farm Hospital where both the children were born

‘stop This Chase Farm Eviction!’

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A nurse working at Chase Farm hospital is facing an eviction notice that would leave her homeless by the new year. Gloria Ankrah is being...

‘Our NHS is not for sale to the US!’ – Corbyn tells anti-Trump rally

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‘THIS SHOULD not be a debate about how we go forward with a no deal Brexit and at the same time offering up our...

Visa Rules Will Drive Doctors Out Of NHS!

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THE BMA has warned that the Tory government’s recommendations on new visa rules from the Migrations Advisory Committee could lead to UK-trained doctors leaving...

TUC leader calls for banning of zero-hour contracts

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YESTERDAY lunchtime TUC general secretary Paul Nowak gave a press conference ahead of the Congress. The main thing he talked about was the upcoming Employment...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line over Christmas – confident of victory in 2006

WE WILL WIN IN NEW YEAR! – say Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to support their conference in London on January 29th. On the picket line...

NHS WORK FOR NOTHING MEMO CONDEMNED! – by BMA and UNISON

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‘It’s outrageous – asking workers to work more hours for nothing and hand back a day’s pay,’ Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust UNISON...

Another 10,000 to be driven onto UC – After Rudd drives through legislation with...

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AS OF TODAY, ten thousand people on the old benefits system will be forced onto Universal Credit (UC) in a ‘pilot study’ in Harrogate,...

‘SHOCKING ABUSE!’ – at the hands of the state

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PEOPLE who have fled to Britain, seeking help and refuge, are suffering horrifying violence at the hands of the British state, it was alleged...

CATALAN ‘REBELLION’ CHARGE! – as Puigdemont visits Brussels seeking support

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SPAIN’s chief prosecutor has brought back the Franco dictatorship by calling for charges including rebellion to be laid against Catalan leaders following the...

Defend Public Sector Jobs!

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Public sector union Unison, yesterday warned that predicted huge job losses in the public sector could wipe out vital local services such as day...
The four Kenyan claimants with lawyer Martin Day outside the High Court before the start of yesterday’s hearing

MAU MAU HEROES! – take on British state

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The UK government must take responsibility for the torture of Kenyans under the 1950s British colonial government, one of the survivors, 82-year-old Wambugu Wa...

Iran calm restored – ready to rebuff US attack

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THE Iranian foreign minister says calm has been restored across the country after recent unrest, which was fuelled by the incitement of terrorist elements...
FBU members from the Midlands with their banner on last October’s TUC demonstration against austerity

West Midlands firefighters strike looms – over 300 jobs threatened

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FIREFIGHTERS in the West Midlands have warned they could be forced to take industrial action over plans to cut 300 firefighting posts, leaving the...

NHS PORTERS AT RISK – transporting the dead in sheets as body bags...

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NHS PORTERS at Epsom and St Helier Trust, not only have very ‘flimsy’ Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) but they are being forced to transport...

Israel disregarding ceasefire agreement!

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THE Hamas Movement yesterday accused the Israeli occupation government of disregarding the ceasefire agreement and ignoring diplomatic efforts aimed at maintaining calm, warning that...