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RCN leader BEVERLY MALONE with UNISON health official KAREN JENNINGS at the centre of the ‘NHS Together’ platform yesterday morning

‘A PAY CUT OF 7-10 PER CENT’ – NHS unions don’t rule out industrial...

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Fourteen trade unions representing nurses, physiotherapists, radiographers, occupational therapists and other NHS staff have joined forces to challenge the government’s 1.5 per cent limit...

ACUTE MALNUTRITION! – being suffered by one third of Gaza infants

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ONE million children in Gaza are in critical need of life-saving health services and supplies, UNICEF’s West Asia and North Africa regional director warns...
Greek secondary school teachers march in Athens – banner reads ‘We want proper jobs-no to flexible working conditions-slavery has ended!’

Greek Riot Police Attack March

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GREEK riot police attacked last Friday, with tear gas, a 3,000-strong Athens march of teachers and university students who were demanding the staffing of...
The 32-strong picket line at Bilborough College in Nottingham yesterday

Nottingham school strike!

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NUT members at Bilborough College, Nottingham went on strike yesterday against compulsory redundancies, downgrading of teachers’ jobs and workload, with a picket from 7.45am...

‘Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes against humanity!’– UN International Commission of Inquiry

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ISRAELI authorities are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the military operations and attacks on Gaza since 7th October 2023,...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaigning at Hounslow bus garage yesterday where they received lots of support

Gate Courmet Campaign

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‘It’s shameful the way Gate Gourmet workers have been treated by both the company and the union,’ Hounslow local government UNISON assistant branch secretary...

Police Warned Over Press Links

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The ‘close relationship’ between the Metropolitan Police and the media has caused ‘serious harm’, says a report by Dame Elizabeth Filkin. A former Parliamentary Commissioner...
Student nurses are fighting Health Secretary Hunt alongside the junior doctors

Keogh breaks agreement with BMA

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THE BMA has rebuked the NHS National Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh for breaking an agreement with it in an attempt to organise strike...

Massive Victory For Asda Staff!

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THE GMB has hailed a ‘massive victory’ for 40,000 Asda workers in their equal pay claim after the Supreme Court ruled in their favour...

Israeli forces kill more than 71 Palestinians

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ISRAELI forces have killed more than 71 Palestinians in the 24 hours leading up to Thursday in Beit Lahiya, Rafah and Khan Younis, with...

Chase Farm NHS Must Not Close

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Drivers honked their horns enthusiastically saluting the picket line outside Chase Farm hospital on day ten of the daily picket fighting to keep the...

Scottish school fire – No smoke alarms!

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EVERY school in the country must be immediately assessed for fire risk, the EIS teachers union urged, after an investigation found that Cairneyhill Primary...
President ASSAD and his wife ASMA vote in Damascus

Syria Goes To The Polls

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SYRIANS were voting in parliamentary elections yesterday, with the ceasefire holding and the Syrian government gaining more ground against terrorists in the war-hit country. Over...

San Antonio Symphony Orchestra Strike

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SAN ANTONIO Symphony Orchestra musicians have called a strike after management imposed a binding new contract on them from September 13. The Texan San Antonio...

QUIT IRAQ NOW AND BOYCOTT ISRAELI GOODS – decides biennial conference of TGWU

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THE TGWU conference yesterday passed Composite Motion 29 with just one delegate voting against it. This called ‘for the immediate withdrawal of UK troops from...
Workers throught the UK have had enough of Tory coalition austerity – time for action has come

A FRENZY OF BENEFIT CUTTING! – Coalition goes for the poor

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THE Coalition and its supporters are engaged in a frenzy of benefit cutting which is victimising and pauperising the working class and many sections...

Tories plan NHS destruction

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OPERATIONS and drugs will be rationed in a ‘trade-off with improving care in other areas’, Head of NHS England Simon Stevens said yesterday,...

Met ‘failed to perform its legal duty’ when it banned Sarah Everard vigil

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THE Metropolitan Police breached the rights of the organisers of a planned vigil for Sarah Everard, two judges have ruled. The group had to cancel...

30% Wages ‘Sabbatical’ For Vauxhall Ellesmere Port

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General Motors, the owner of Vauxhall, has put forward a plan for its Merseyside workforce to ‘take a break’ from two to nine-months from...
Anti-Academy campainers lobbying parliament last month

COME CLEAN OVER ACADEMIES says GMB

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The GMB trade union, which represents thousands of school support staff across the West Midlands, has written to all schools calling on head teachers...

Pct Lobbied Over Bush Hill Park Closure

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‘BUSH Hill Park medical practice – reopen now!’ shouted members of a lively picket of the Enfield Primary Care Trust yesterday afternoon. The picket organised...

NHS staff facing £845 pay cut during 2021-22 – as a result of soaring...

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AN ANALYSIS by the Health Foundation shows that soaring inflation means NHS staff face an average pay cut of £845 during 2021-22 and will...
Electricians union banner on the Athens march last Friday demanding no property tax on electricity bills!

Greek anger over EU diktat

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Greek workers and youth are infuriated with the leaked German government document which proposes that an EU ‘Budget Commissioner’ should be installed in Greece...

Ventilator Rationing!

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VENTILATORS are to be rationed, using tactics employed on the battlefield, where army medics choose who to treat and who to leave to bleed...
ARJINDER THIARA, WRP candidate for Ealing Southall got massive support at Ealing Hospital yesterday on the eve of the election

Vote For The 5 Wrp Candidates!

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ARJINDER Thiara Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Ealing Southall was greeted with enormous enthusiasm at Ealing Hospital yesterday. Workers, patients and visitors queued...

Hospital consultants to strike on 20 & 21 July!

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HOSPITAL  consultants in England will go on strike on 20th and 21st July if their ballot, which closes at the end of June, is...

Met Police accused of ‘institutional corruption’ – over murder of Daniel Morgan

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AN independent panel has accused the Metropolitan Police of ‘a form of institutional corruption’ for concealing or denying failings over the unsolved murder of...

Bush And Blair Pledge ‘war On Terror’ Will Continue

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At least thirty-three people were killed and hundreds more injured after a series of explosions hit the London Underground network and a double-decker bus...
Marchers show their enthusiasm and determination before the march started in Southall yesterday

‘We will reopen Ealing Maternity!’

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OVER 500 workers and youth marched to Ealing Hospital yesterday on the day that its Maternity Unit was closed, pledging that they would battle...

Corbyn launches election: ‘Remain in EU an option’

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, in launching his party’s election campaign yesterday, reiterated Labour’s plan for Brexit which means renegotiating another deal with the European...

Blairite Campbell Expelled From The Labour Party!

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FORMER Blair spin doctor Alastair Campbell has been expelled from the Labour Party after he revealed that he voted for the Liberal Democrats in...

MPs hear BHS ‘death threat’ allegations over £1.5m

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FORMER owner of BHS Dominic Chappell was accused yesterday of being ‘a liar’ with his ‘fingers in the till’ who ‘threatened to kill’ the...

RMT National Strike Action

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THE RMT national rail strike is back on. A 24-hour strike has been called for Thursday the 4th of June and a 48-hour strike for...
Greek workers on the march fighting the dictatorship of the EU Central Bank – the struggle is now about to spread to Italy

Italy Hits The Rocks!

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Italian finance minister Giulio Tremonti was yesterday in talks with Jean-Claude Juncker, chair of the Eurogroup of finance ministers from the 17 eurozone countries,...

Nurses – Jobs At Risk!

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A government ruling on nurse recruitment and work permits that came into force yesterday, puts over 38,000 overseas nurses and their families at risk,...

‘The Tories crashed the economy while working people are taking the hit’ – TUC

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TRADE union leaders on Thursday gave their response to Chancellor Hunt’s austerity war on workers in his Autumn Statement. TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:  ‘The...
GPs campaigning to defend the NHS in east London

‘IGNORE NHS PATIENTS AT YOUR PERIL’ – Buckman’s message for Brown

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‘IGNORE at your peril the wishes of the most important people in the NHS – the patients,’ British Medical Association (BMA) GPs Committee chairman...
Cadbury’s workers singing Christmas carols outside the Cadbury Schweppes headquarters in Berkeley Square yesterday. The company wants to export their jobs to Poland

Factory Price Inflation Spurs Jobs Crisis!

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Price inflation of goods leaving UK factories reached its highest rate in 16 years, driven higher by petrol and food costs, official figures published...
Chagos Islanders fighting to return to their homeland of Diego Garcia and expel the US Military base there, campaigning on the February 24 demonstration against  the Trident  replacement

STOP TRIDENT! – RMT condemns Blair-Brown government

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THE TENS of billions of pounds the government intends to spend on new weapons of mass destruction should be spent on public services, said...

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...
Postal workers demonstrating outside the Royal Mail headquarters in Old Street on Friday July 13th

CWU STRIKES SUSPENDED! – secret talks till September 4th

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FOLLOWING a meeting held yesterday between Royal Mail and the CWU, a Joint Statement was agreed that means detailed discussions will take place on...

‘No depths to which P&O will not sink!’ says RMT’s Mick Lynch

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‘THERE are no depths to which P&O and their Dubai owners at DP World will not sink to extract the maximum profit from ferry...
Colonel Daoud Musa, father of Baha Musa (who was tortured to death by British troops)  outside the High Court with Public Interest lawyers in 2004

Iraqis killed, abused and tortured by British troops

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Scores of Iraqis were at the High Court in London yesterday demanding an Independent Public Inquiry into allegations that British interrogators abused, killed and...

‘IRRESPONSIBLE TORIES!’ – Unions demand schools fire safety assurances

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THE NUT and ATL teachers unions, and the FBU (Fire Brigades Union), yesterday accused the Tory Government of being ‘grossly irresponsible’ for having brought...

MASS ATROCITIES IN THE WEST BANK – warns Human Rights Watch

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AN ONGOING Israeli army raid on Jenin in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded about 35 yesterday. Israeli settlers also...