Tens of thousands marched in April against the planned closure of four west London A&Es. Ex-Labour Health Secretary Hewitt supports closing NHS hospitals and sending patients to India

NHS CRISIS – SEND THE PATIENTS TO INDIA says Hewitt

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TRADE unions yesterday slammed plans for NHS trusts to make money out of India. This came after the former disgraced Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt...

ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant!

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THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. It has also wrongfully...

Livingstone Is To Appeal Against Suspension!

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FORMER Labour Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has announced that he is to appeal against his two-year suspension from standing for office or representing...
The 500,000-strong TUC demonstration on March 26, with the lead banner insisting ‘cuts are not the cure’

JOBS CRISIS – WORSE TO COME – says TUC

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CLAIMS by Chancellor Osborne and Prime Minister Cameron that Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures showing 0.5 per cent growth is ‘good news’ were...

‘Disastrous’ contract changes GPs ready for industrial action

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GPs HAVE voted overwhelmingly to ballot for industrial action if ‘disastrous’ changes to their working contract, which they say threaten patient safety, are not...
Tens of thousands marched to condemn Israel’s massacre of aid workers on the ‘Mavi Marmara’ ship in June. A new convoy has now departed from London

Convoy Leaves For Gaza!

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THE largest aid convoy yet is on its way to the besieged Gaza Strip, four months after the massacre of activists by Israeli forces...

‘RESTORE OUR HARDSHIP PAYMENTS’ – demand Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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Gate Gourmet locked out workers are calling on all trade unionists to act in their support. The TGWU members are fighting for reinstatement on their...
Marchers in Hammersmith determined to stop the closure of Charing Cross Hospital

‘REVERSE GP CUTS!’ – Dr Gerada warns coalition

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PATIENTS are bearing the brunt of savage cuts to GP surgeries, said the Royal College of GPs yesterday. The RCGP said: ‘GPs are facing a...

80,000 Civil Servants Out!

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Up to 80,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), today begin a...
Striking Bectu members on the picket line outside the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton on Friday morning

Ritzy Strike

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A LIVELY crowd of 50 Ritzy cinema workers attracted a lot of support in Brixton yesterday, shouting ‘pay the living wage’ and ‘living staff,...

End Eurozone Austerity!

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UNEMPLOYMENT in the eurozone will rise by another 4.5 million in the next four years under the current austerity programme, the International Labour Organization...
WRP candidate ARJ THIARA and his team got great support yesterday on the Golf Links estate near to the closure-threatened Ealing Hospital

Vote Wrp Vote Arj In Southall

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CAMPAIGNING on the big Golf Links council estate, five minutes walk from Ealing Hospital, the Arj Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party for Ealing Southall canvas...
Confident CWU picket line at the West London Mail Centre in Paddington on Thursday morning

‘PEOPLE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!’ – postal workers demand action to win the struggle

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TWO weeks of postal strikes began with night shift Mail Centre workers across the UK walking out for 24 hours last Wednesday night at...

Hold police to account over deaths – demand relatives to IPCC report

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RELATIVES of people who died in police custody yesterday insisted that reforms pledged by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) be implemented without delay...

US BEGINS NEW ARMS RACE! – as Senate agrees to spend £1.37 trillion next...

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THE US has begun a new arms race with President Trump’s announcement of the US’ formal withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). This...
Marios Lolos addressing a rally of trade unionists in Athens

Greek riot police condemned!

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THE leaders of the Greek journalists and photoreporters’ trade unions have demanded that the police leadership stops its violence against press workers and releases...

‘Hostile environment’ remains! – as a new deportation scandal erupts

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THE MAY government is caught up in another deportation scandal! This time it is accused of wrongly using a section of the Immigration...
GPs demonstrating in Rugby against the privatisation of surgeries

BMA collaborating with Tory White Paper!

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Leaders of the British Medical Association (BMA) are pressing ahead with assisting GP commissioning, as outlined in the government’s White Paper to privatise the...

London Bombings Linked To Iraq War

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Former Labour cabinet minister Clare Short yesterday insisted she ‘had no doubt’ the July 7th London bombings were linked to Iraq and Palestine. Short...

BMA Council votes to call special conference

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The following motion was passed by a large majority at the BMA (British Medical Association) Council meeting in London yesterday. ‘This meeting recognises that legislation...
A section of Saturday’s rally in Hammersmith against the closure of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospital’s A&Es Photo credit: BETA LUCIANO

NHS HUGE BEDS CRISIS! – as government readies for more savage cuts

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ENGLAND’S hospitals have been dangerously full of patients during the month of January, the Labour Party warned yesterday. Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said: ‘Too...
Scottish power workers fighting to stop BiFab from closing – the proposed £16bn nuclear power station in Wales has been shelved

Plug pulled on £16bn Welsh power station Hitachi suspends all work

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‘IT IS foolish to rely on foreign companies and foreign governments to keep Britain’s lights on and our economy powered when we could easily...

Hunt in charge of health & social care

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HEALTH secretary Hunt was yesterday promoted by PM May with social care being added to his portfolio. The decision will infuriate health workers and...

‘Education needs more money NOW!’ – insists Courtney as 300,000 teachers strike today

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HUNDREDS of thousands of members of the National Education Union (NEU) are on strike in 23,400 schools throughout England and Wales today and next...
ASLEF picket line at London Bridge Station earlier this week

ASLEF OUT TODAY – RMT announces more Tube strikes

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WHILE Aslef drivers are striking today against Southern rail’s attempt to impose driver only operation, the RMT union yesterday announced further strike action...
Palestinian-British schoolgirl Leanne Mohamad was crowned regional finalist in the ‘Speak Out’ Challenge has been barred from progressing further in the competition

Palestinian gagged after winning the ‘Speak Out’ Challenge!

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A PALESTINIAN-British schoolgirl Leanne Mohamad, who was crowned regional finalist in the ‘Speak Out’ Challenge has been barred from progressing further in the competition...

Corbyn demands that May resign!

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SPEAKING in central London yesterday morning, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called on PM May to resign. He said: ‘The prime minister called this election...

UN Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide In The Gaza Strip!

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A UNITED Nations investigation has found that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, systematically targeting reproductive healthcare facilities as part of...
Cleaners outside the blockaded Finance Ministry building in central Athens

Athens Cleaners Defiant!

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SOME 1,500 workers marched through the Athens city centre on Thursday evening, in a militant demonstration of solidarity with the nine-month-old fight of the...
Defiant Junior Doctors are ready to strike again

Junior doctors considering strike action

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JUNIOR doctors, furious at being offered only a 2 per cent pay rise last month, are considering strike action. The British Medical Association (BMA)...

Ingram misled parliament over Baha Mousa hooding

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ADAM Ingram – Armed Forces Minister during the British occupation of southern Iraq in 2003 – has admitted wrongly informing MPs that Baha Mousa...

Senior Hamas delegation in Turkey to discuss ceasefire

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A senior Hamas delegation led by Dr Khalil al-Hayya met on Wednesday with Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin in Istanbul to discuss ceasefire developments...

Bma Condemns ‘Junk Healthcare’

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GPs in the West Midlands are up in arms over plans to franchise out services along the lines of fast food outlets or estate...

A WAR ON CHILDREN! – says Save the Children

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ABOUT 130,000 children aged under 10 have been trapped for 50 days in areas in northern Gaza that are almost entirely inaccessible to aid...
With a police car blocking the road protesters are searched and filmed a mile from their camp

Downing Street Warning To Climate Change Camp

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Police yesterday stopped and searched youth arriving for the Camp for Climate Change a mile away from the protest camp at the northern perimeter...
Striking BA cabin crews leaving yesterday’s early morning rally to set up picket lines around Heathrow Airport

McDonnell launches 3-day BA cabin crew strike!

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A HUNDRED British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew, members of Unite, attended a rally at the Bedfont Sports centre at Heathrow yesterday morning to...

Bank of Ireland pre-tax loss of 1.25bn euros

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BANK of Ireland has recorded a pre-tax loss of 1.25 billion euros for the first six months of the year compared to a 556m...

Corbyn Still On Both Sides

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JEREMY Corbyn hemmed and hawed yesterday over whether Labour may back Tory PM May’s EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill which she intends to put before...

US and Israel behind Iran riots

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IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian says the nation should not allow rioters to cause insecurity in the country, stressing that protesting is different from rioting. ‘If the people...
Ambulance workers on the picket line outside Deptford Ambulance Station during Monday’s nationwide NHS strike to demand a decent pay rise

PUBLIC SECTOR ERUPTS! – TUC call a General Strike now!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of public sector workers from across the UK, joining the TUC demonstration through central London today, are furious that while rent,...

‘The biggest war in Europe since 1945’ – predicts PM Boris Johnson

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TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed yesterday that Russia is on the brink of ‘invading’ Ukraine and threatened that what would ensue would be...
Tens of thousands joined a mass demonstration outside parliament yesterday demanding immediate action from the Brown government to stop the slaughter of Tamils by the Sri Lankan army

‘brown Must Act To End Slaughter’

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‘Stop killing Tamils! Brown wake up! Rajapakse – terrorist!’ shouted tens of thousands of Tamils holding a sit-down protest in the road opposite Parliament...
Banners of the campaigns of the Mark Duggan and Sean Rigg families on a United Families and Friends demonstration

Duggan family wins Judicial Review

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Mark Duggan’s family has won the right to challenge last year’s coroner’s court verdict that he was lawfully killed when he was shot dead...

Eu Slump Deepens!

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THE slump deepened across the eurozone in the final three months of 2012, official figures out yesterday show. Eurozone GDP shrank by 0.6% in the...

South African Strike Wave Spreads

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THE strikes that have halted work at seven of South Africa’s gold and platinum mines have spread to the chrome sector. It emerged yesterday that...