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GPs demand 15 minutes per patient!

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GPs DEMAND a minimum of fifteen minutes to spend with each patient, rather than the current ten, which they rightly say is not enough...

Bma White Paper ‘Concerns’

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THE BMA has been shocked and shaken by the resistance of its members to the Tory-LibDem NHS White Paper which seeks to make GPs...
Under planned new Tory powers targeting ‘all forms of extremism’ – views of protesters on demonstrations like this one which took place last Saturday in Sheffield would be considered ‘extreme’ and individuals and organisations targeted by the state

Tories launch war on ‘all extremism’

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‘IT is no good simply talking about violent extremism, we need to confront all extremism, we need to recognise that the poison of extremism...
BMA delegates show their opposition en masse to NHS privatisation at their Annual Representative Meeting in Liverpool yesterday

‘Bring PFI into public ownership’ – BMA conference decides

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DOCTORS at the BMA conference yesterday voted for Motion 269, which stated: ‘That this meeting requests government, in view of new-found enthusiasm...

Bring LT cleaners back in-house

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AS THE Omicron crisis grips the capital, Labour politicians yesterday called for public ownership of London Transport cleaning services. The MPs and peers made the...

Pathology Privatisation Fiasco

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The Serco-led public-private partnership which runs London’s St Thomas’ and Kings College hospitals’ path labs, GSTS Pathology, has run into trouble having made a...
Ambulance staff taking strike action in October – they know that doubling ambulance times will cost people’s lives

Plans to double ambulance times condemned!

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DOCTORS’, nurses’, ambulance staff leaders and Labour yesterday slammed plans to more than double target times for ambulances to reach some seriously ill patients. A...
Students and trade unionists march through Manchester last weekend, inspired by the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia to fight the savage cuts in jobs and services

THUGS ATTACK TAHRIR DEMO – hundreds injured while Mubarak’s army looks on

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TENS OF THOUSANDS of anti-Mubarak protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo were attacked by pro-Mubarak thugs and plain-clothes police yesterday afternoon, as Egyptian Army soldiers...

‘We’re here to stop the genocide!’ say UCL occupiers

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AROUND 50 students have occupied the entrance on the forecourt of University College London (UCL) since last Friday in protest at Israeli genocide in...
Young Socialists lobby TUC Conference for a general strike

‘Food banks and pay cuts for the many – tax cuts for the few!’

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‘FOOD BANKS, zero hours and pay cuts for the many – tax cuts and pay growth for the few,’ that’s what ‘recovery’ means to...

Syriza Submits To Troika

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THE Greek government decided on Saturday to accept all terms laid down in a statement agreed at last Friday’s Eurogroup Finance Ministers’ meeting that...

Gate Gourmet Workers – Good Support For March 25 Demo

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A DELEGATION of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers visited Hillingdon Direct Works Council Depot yesterday to publicise their march through Hounslow on the 25th of...

Manchester specialist fire rescue unit shut!

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‘LIVES will be at risk’ if Manchester is targeted again by terrorists because a specialist fire service unit has shut, a watchdog warned yesterday. Concerns...

Prisons Handed Over To Privateers Says Poa

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THE PRISON Officers Association (POA) has condemned as ‘repugnant’ the Tory plan to hand over the running of two new prisons to privateers and...

Savage attack on migrants – organised by PM Cameron

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PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday announced plans for a new raft of savage attacks on migrant workers. In a widely publicised speech given in a...

Chronically ill thrown off benefits – because GPs ‘misled’ by DWP

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PATIENTS suffering from serious and chronic illnesses have been driven to the brink of homlessness after being declared ‘fit-for-work’ and thrown off their benefits....
Gate Gourmet workers sacked by Texas Pacific condemn the sell-out of their struggle by TGWU leader Woodley at last year’s May Day demonstration in London

T&g Backs Sainsbury Family Against Texas Pacific Raiders

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The Transport and General Workers Union yesterday issued a statement backing ‘the Sainsbury family’s hostile position to the private equity bid for the supermarket...
Campaigners to keep Lewisham Hospital open celebrate the High Court’s decision that Health Secretary Hunt was breaking the law with his decision to run down the A&E and other departments in the hospital

Hunt ‘No’ To Setting NHS Staffing Levels

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THE Unison trade union has welcomed the Cameron-commissioned Berwick Review of patient safety and said that the government should listen to it. Unison said:...

‘They are liars–they want to destroy everything!’ – Nasser Hospital doctor reports on raid

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‘DO you think they need any reason to attack this hospital? What kind of reason? They are liars! liars! They just want to destroy...

Workers Revolutionary League statement – Soviet section of the International Committee of the Fourth...

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STATEMENT of the Workers Revolutionary League – the Soviet section of the International Committee of the Fourth International: During this time we’re facing the new...

Johnson not aiming for No Deal

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BORIS Johnson told his supporters yesterday midday that he is ‘not aiming for a no-deal outcome’ for Brexit. Launching his campaign for the Tory leadership,...

WORKING CLASS MUST TAKE POWER IN 2020! New Year’s Day Manifesto

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2020 to all our readers, and to the working class, youth and the poor who...

Doctors condemn £55 ‘bounty’

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DOCTORS have condemned a ‘bounty’ scheme launched by NHS England at the beginning of this month under which GPs receive a payment of £55...

Great support for Southall WRP candidate!

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THE Elect Hassan Zulkifal WRP Ealing Southall campaign got great support on Southall Broadway yesterday. Heathrow Airport worker and GMB member Kutesh Sashikint said: ‘I...

4,000 Striking Greek Teachers March Through Athens!

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OVER 4,000 striking teachers and students marched through Athens city centre last Monday afternoon in a joyful mood sensing that they were winning the...

Syriza Willing To Suspend Election Pledges

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THE Italian state TV and radio reported on Friday that according to the Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek government was prepared to...

Starmer right-wing move causing ‘chaos’ in Labour Party – warns Unite

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THE THREE-DAY Labour Policy Forum (LPF) held in Nottingham over the weekend was ‘chaotic’, Unite said yesterday, with the Starmer party leadership seeking to...

US TASK FORCE HEADS FOR HAITI says Admiral Mullen

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Aircraft carrier USS Vincent arrived off the coast of earthquake-hit Haiti yesterday as Admiral Mike Mullen announced a huge US task force. Speaking at a...
Young Socialists banner on the May Day march

PM ‘SQUATTING IN DOWNING STREET’ says Labour’s Emily Thornbury

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INTERVIEWED on BBC TV’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning, Labour leader Corbyn said of the Tories: ‘They are trying to form a government at...

NO MORE STALLING ON PAY! – warn physios as they launch strike ballot

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‘VOTE YES,’ the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) urged as it launched a strike ballot of the remainder of its 63,000 members in England...

Miliband ‘Rent Cap’

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LABOUR Party leader Miliband yesterday pledged that the next Labour government will introduce legislation to cap rents so they cannot rise by more than...

Scottish Schools Re-0Pening Failure

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DESPITE the Scottish experiment of opening schools in August proving to be a total failure, the Tories proceeded with the re-opening of schools in...

CUTS FOR THE DISABLED AND THE JOBLESS – but there’s billions for the bankers

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown yesterday pledged to a gathering of businessmen in London to ‘intensify’ the government’s attacks on the Welfare State, whilst continuing...

64% Say End Afghan War

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A total of 64 per cent want all British forces to be withdrawn from Afghanistan ‘as quickly as possible’, with 33 per cent in...
Doctors, local residents and trade unionists demonstrating against the privatisation of GP surgeries in Tower Hamlets

Defend NHS With Occupations!

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THE government yesterday sought to head off an eruption of demonstrations and occupations against the closure of wards, A&Es, and maternity, children’s and...
Demonstrators show their determination to get wage rises that match or are bigger than the rate of inflation

‘Students and lecturers on the streets – this is just the start!’

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OVER 2,000 FE lecturers, staff and students marched through central London yesterday demanding fair funding for colleges. They demanded fair pay for FE lecturers,...

Bankrupt Budget!

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In his first budget, Chancellor Darling hit the working class and middle class with big hikes in alcohol, tobacco and vehicle taxes while giving...
Labour Shadow Chancellor JOHN McDONNELL (right) alongside TOM WATSON supporting striking BA workers lobby of parliament

‘I want to transform Capitalism’ says John McDonnell as he disowns Marx

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LABOUR will not raise taxes for the vast majority of workers but will increase rates for those earning over £80,000, John McDonnell said yesterday. He...

Blair Whitewash –

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‘The way things are going they are going to wrap everything up – they are covering up everything,’ the cousin of murdered Brazilian Jean...

HOME OFFICE CAN’T STARVE REFUGEES – Law Lords reject Blunkett’s law

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Homeless charity Shelter and the Refugee Council yesterday both welcomed the Law Lords’ unanimous rejection of the controversial law pushed through by former Home...

Johnson refuses to rule out raising taxation!

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PRIME Minister Boris Johnson yesterday refused to rebut his Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s warning in Saturday’s Daily Mail newspaper that ‘very real shortages’ can be...
Defiant cabin crew marching around Heathrow to show that they are looking forward to the next round of the struggle with BA union-buster Walsh

‘WE’RE READY FOR THE NEXT ROUND’ say BA cabin crew

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THOUSANDS of British Airways cabin crew marched around Heathrow Airport yesterday afternoon waving flags, chanting: ‘Willie, Willie, Willie! Out! Out! Out!’ They received enthusiastic...

George Floyd murder trial begins ‘Whole world is watching’

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‘GEORGE Floyd was living, breathing, walking and talking just fine until the police put him face down in handcuffs and put a knee on...

Special Forces Back In North

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Northern Ireland Assembly Deputy First Minister and Sinn Fein MP Martin McGuinness yesterday slammed the redeployment of British Army Special Forces in the North...
Junior doctors fought Hunt – who blamed them for alleged weekend deaths – yesterday he apologised for the breast screening crisis that meant that up to 270 women may have had their lives shortened, but did not offer his resignation

Hunt Apologises Over Breast Screening Deaths

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TORY Health Secretary Hunt yesterday apologised ‘wholeheartedly and unreservedly for the suffering caused’ when he admitted that up to 270 women may have had...