BMA, RCN and other unions demonstrating in defence of the NHS in March

NHS ‘running on nothing but fumes’ – BMA

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THE TORY ‘government has the NHS running on nothing but fumes’, warns British Medical Association (BMA) Council Chair Dr Mark Porter. Addressing doctors at the...

86,000 vacant nhs posts! –between January & March 2017

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MORE than 86,000 NHS posts were vacant between January 2017 and March 2017, figures for the NHS in England suggest. Today’s NHS Vacancy Statistics England...

Raab Refuses To Give End Of Lockdown Date

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FOREIGN Secretary Dominic Raab rebuked the Covid Recovery Group (CRG) of rebel Tory MPs yesterday, insisting that the government won’t be held to an...
Striking London Underground power workers on their picket line opposite Southwark tube station early yesterday morning

Power Workers Strike Extended

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‘YOU have to stand up for what you think is right. It’s all about passenger safety. All the rules are being broken on a...
Patricia da Silva Armani (centre) addressing Thursday’s press conference by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, with Vivian Figueiredo (right) – both cousins of Jean Charles

POLICE MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT – insist de Menezes family

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The family of Jean Charles de Menezes on Thursday demanded action be taken to hold individual police officers to account for the killing of...
Marchers opposed to the occupation of Iraq demonstrate in March 2005

‘REASONABLE CASE’ – For the slaughter of Iraqis

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Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith yesterday told the Iraq Inquiry, that he was not pressured into discarding his opposition to going to war without...
BMA members marching against Tory cuts and privatisation

BMA opposes ex-Tory minister in charge of NHS!

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DOCTORS’ leaders yesterday spoke out against appointing former Tory health minister Lord Prior as Chair of NHS England. Prior, who served in the Tory...

PAY CUTS & JOB CUTS! – Civil servants and nurses condemn budget

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Chancellor Gordon Brown delivered his 10th Budget yesterday featuring more tax cuts for the rich and pay cuts for the working class. Opening his speech...

Israeli army storms Jenin!

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ISRAELI occupation forces stormed the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp overnight on Tuesday and throughout yesterday, destroying infrastructure. Occupation forces launched a...
Aminata – due for eviction yesterday but bailiffs were driven away – thanking everyone for their support outside her home in Camberwell

Camberwell eviction halted!

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''WE are determined not to get evicted. We are determined to fight and we are determined to get a permanent place for me and...
Ambulance staff taking strike action at Deptford Ambulance Station were concerned at the way cuts were affecting the service

Ambulance Cuts Are Costing Lives!

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EAST of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) management operated a policy of downgrading target response times for 999 emergency calls from December 18th...
Medical students ‘tent’ protest at a BMA Annual Representation Meeting – now facing huge increases in fees and massive bills when they graduate

Medical students ‘deep in debt’

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Parents are facing a hidden £15,000 bill to send their children to medical school, says a new BMA report. Many families are being forced to...

Israeli forces attack ambulance crews!

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ISRAELI occupation forces yesterday prevented Red Crescent ambulances and their medical teams from entering the Tulkarm camp and reaching the casualties. The Red Crescent told...

President Abbas meets Blinken in Ramallah!

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‘WE THANK the US for the support given to the State of Palestine,’ President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday at a joint press conference with...

Labour split over Scottish Referendum!

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SCOTTISH Labour may hold a special conference in the spring to decide whether to change its stance on supporting a second Scottish independence referendum. The...

SECOND COVID PEAK IS LIKELY! say thousands of BMA doctors

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THOUSANDS of doctors say a second Covid peak is very likely and is their greatest fear this winter. A major survey of doctors by the...
Confident Gate Gourmet locked-out workers lobbying the Hillingdon TGWU office on Friday

Defiant Locked Out Gate Gourmet Workers Picket Tgwu Office

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‘OUR anniversary march and rally in Southall on Sunday August 20 is very important. ‘We will show our unity and strength and we want everyone...

BROWNE HANGS ON! – as establishment closes ranks

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Yesterday afternoon the establishment closed ranks to prop up the wobbling Labour government and its defence secretary Des Browne. Following Browne’s statement to the House...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet pickets on Saturday morning read news of British Airways’ threats to make more sackings to boost profits

Blunkett Quits The Cabinet

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Announcing Blunkett’s resignation as Work and Pensions Secretary to MPs yesterday, Prime Minister Blair made it clear he had been ready to defy...
Nurses determined to save their hospital marching in Nottingham last September

No Action Over NHS Spiralling Deficits

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The Labour government has decided to put on hold a decision to scrap the ‘double whammy’ NHS accounting rules that are forcing hospital trusts...

DEFUSE CONFRONTATION WITH IRAN – urges Baradei

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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief inspector Mohamed El Baradei yesterday warned that the ‘brewing confrontation’ with Iran over its nuclear ambitions ‘must be...
Angry GMB and PCS members working for Historic Royal Palaces on the picket line outside Hampton Court Palace yesterday lunchtime

Palace Gardeners’ strike action

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ANGRY GMB and PCS members working for Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) were on picket lines outside Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London...
Grenfell Tower survivors demanding justice – many consider that they will not get it from the current establishment-dominated inquiry

‘THE NIGHTMARE IS CONTINUING!’ –‘Inquiry’ angers survivors

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‘THE NIGHTMARE continues as it was like the first night,’ Shah Aghlani, who lost his mother and aunt in the Grenfell fire, said...

Darroch quits – ‘thrown under a bus by Johnson’ say ‘Remainers’

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SIR Kim Darroch has resigned as UK ambassador to the US, amid the row over leaked emails that lampooned President Trump’s administration, and threatened...

Markets Shaken By Bank Losses

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Billions of pounds, euros and yen were wiped off European and Asian share prices yesterday as markets responded to Tuesday’s collapse on Wall Street...

NHS care to be shifted out of OUR hospitals!

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UNDER plans unveiled by the government, NHS care in England will be significantly shifted out of hospitals and into newly proposed ‘neighbourhood health centres’. Prime...

NO ‘COMPROMISE AGREEMENT!’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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SHOP Stewards representing the 670 locked out Gate Gourmet workers are meeting Transport and General Workers Union General Secretary Tony Woodley at the union’s...

‘A Major War Crime!’

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HAMAS yesterday condemned Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza City and relocate its population as a clear violation of international law. The Palestinian resistance movement warned that...

MPs SPLIT ON BREXIT BILL!

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OPENING the debate in the House of Commons on the EU Withdrawal Bill, Brexit Secretary, David Davis, said the bill was ‘the next step...
Chagos Islanders picketing Downing Street demanding their right to return to their homes

Diego Garcia used for ‘extraordinary rendition’

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Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday admitted that on two occasions, both in 2002, UK overseas territory Diego Garcia had been used for US rendition...

Tories forced to U-turn on downgraded results

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‘WE REALISE that we had taken the wrong road and that we needed to change course,’ Roger Taylor, chair of The Office of Qualifications...

11bn euro loan to Ukraine – will mean savage cuts

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THE European Commission has offered Ukraine 11 billion euros, falling well short of the $35 billion needed to service immediate debt repayments and avoid...

‘Fast Track’ deportations illegal

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The Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling declaring the ‘Detained Fast Track’ system for asylum seekers to be unlawful and ‘potentially disastrous’. In...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers SURINDER DHARIWAL and SUKHWINDER MUNDY  outside the TGWU London regional office yesterday

MASSACRE! – Inquiry into 15 civilian deaths in Haditha

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The United States military is investigating whether US Marines who killed 15 civilians, including women and children, near the western Iraqi town of Haditha...

CONTROL CREDIT OR FACE NEW GLOBAL COLLAPSE –warns ex-FSA chief

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RETURN to 1950s-style credit controls or face a credit-fuelled global collapse, was the stark warning given by the former stock market regulator, Jonathan Turner...

Labour making plans to deal with run on pound – says John McDonnell

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THE Labour Party is making detailed plans for government, including ‘war-game-type scenario-planning’ for events such as ‘a run on the pound,’ Shadow Chancellor John...
Sacked Tesco drivers protesting at their unfair dismissal at the Tesco AGM yesterday in London

Sacked Tesco drivers protest

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FORMER drivers, who used to work on the Tesco distribution contract in Doncaster, staged a demonstration yesterday at the Tesco AGM in London, protesting...

ASLEF calls July 8 Tube strike

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ASLEF has announced a July 8 strike on London Underground after members voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over pay and...
The RMT urged voters to vote ‘Leave’ in the EU referendum. Labour’s Manifesto refuses to break with the EU

Labour tinkers with capitalism – won’t break with EU & won’t scrap Universal Credit

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LABOUR’S leaked General Election Manifesto starts with a declaration that ‘Labour understands that wealth creation is a collective endeavour – between investors, workers, public...

200 at South Kensington ICR rally

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AROUND 200 workers rallied at the the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) near South Kensington Tube station yesterday, on their final day of strike...

NHS is in all-year crisis says BMA

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DOCTORS’ leaders yesterday warned that the NHS in England is unlikely to recover from the pressure it faces during the winter, with trends suggesting...
Chase Farm maternity nurses determined to defend their hospital from closure

Government ‘Ignores Bma Warnings’

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Health Secretary Lansley’s decision to push ahead with the coalition’s massive attack on the NHS, in the teeth of fierce opposition, is ‘a...
Nationwide, people are taking to the streets to defend their hospitals. Picture shows 10,000-strong march in Ealing last September

NHS Francis Inquiry Slammed

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THE Francis inquiry into what happened at Mid-Staffordshire ‘has allowed the government to blame frontline clinicians rather than those in charge.’ This was the...
Seasonal fire-fighters outside the Ministry for Interior. Banner demands that the prime minister keeps his electoral promise to employ them on a permanent basis

Greek Universities & Schools Occupied

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Nearly all Greek university departments and over 500 schools throughout the country were yesterday being occupied by students in mass and militant mobilisations commemorating...