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Grimsby maternity support workers begin two week strike

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MATERNITY support workers in Grimsby began two weeks of strike action yesterday, over their employer’s failure to compensate them fairly for the many years...

‘We need properly funded GP services!’ – says BMA’s petition to government

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MORE than 10,000 people have signed the BMA’s petition calling for the Westminster government to properly fund general practice and source more desperately-needed GPs. The...
Ambulance workers marching on a TUC demonstration against cuts

A&E staffing levels crisis

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UNIONS warned yesterday that savage cuts to ambulance services and staffing levels are causing the A&E crisis to ‘spiral out of control’ and ‘will...

‘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...

‘Bring companies guilty of corporate murder to justice’

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ONE HUNDRED and forty four workers have lost their lives while on the job in 2017-18, with the GMB at its Annual Conference in...

Unite opposed to nationalising GM Luton

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‘AN occupation now is the way forward for GM Luton and Vauxhall Ellesmere Port to defend jobs. A mass meeting at GM Luton is...

£22bn more NHS cuts planned

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NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) will have to deliver £22bn in cuts by 2020/2021 in order to balance health and social care spending...
A section of the 25,000-strong march on London’s Embankment yesterday

RESTORE FREE EDUCATION! – demand 25,000 marching students

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‘IN GREECE and France they have changed things by taking to the streets – you can change things,’ University and College Union joint general...

‘We Need Our Hardship Pay’

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‘THE TGWU leaders are doing everything they can to try to make us give up the fight and sign the Compromise Agreement but we...

UN ratchets up war against Russia – accusing Russia of ‘war crimes’

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‘RUSSIA is outraged that its request for an extraordinary meeting has been denied,’ Vasily Nebenzya the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the...

NO TRIAL BY MEDIA! mass protest in support of Grenfell firefighters

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A MASS protest in support of the fire service took place outside Ladbroke Grove fire station on Monday night, by residents who live in...

Strike Breaker Gove Is Condemned!

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Schools unions have reacted angrily to a letter to heads from education secretary Gove, advocating strike breaking during their June 30 pensions action. His letter...
School youth lead a mass demonstration through Athens in protest at the police shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos

Greek Youth Tv Takeover

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Throughout Greece last Tuesday school and university students continued with demonstrations and occupations against the right-wing government of Kostas Karamanlis. Virtually all schools and...

‘We want to abolish poverty!’ – says Labour’s John McDonnell

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SPEAKING in Birmingham yesterday morning, Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said: ‘On Tuesday a new Shelter report found 135,000 children will be without a...
GMB Medirest strikers at Ealing Hospital early on Friday morning – the first day of their seven-day strike

Ealing Week-Long Strike!

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150 workers began a week-long strike at closure-threatened Ealing Hospital in west London yesterday against the privateer Medirest. The porters, catering and domestic workers, all...
Part of the 3,000-strong crowd in Trafalgar Square yesterday afternoon demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Lebanon

COMPLICITY IN WAR CRIMES! – Bush and Blair are accused

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‘THE position of Israel and its heinous crimes against our civilians will not break the will of the Lebanese people. There...
West London Council of Action picket at Ealing hospital determined to keep it open and calling for a big turnout for Sunday’s ‘Big Bike Ride’

Join Our Big Bike Ride!

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‘CALLING all cyclists – join our Big Bike Ride from Ealing Hospital to Charing Cross Hospital on Sunday morning. And if you’re not...

Brexit Turncoats Rally Behind May

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ONE-TIME leading Brexiteers in the cabinet, now ‘turncoats’, have rallied behind Theresa May amid attempts to unseat her by Tory MPs. Michael Gove said...
The picket line at East London Mail Centre during this month’s unofficial strike over Royal Mail’s imposition of new starting times

REJECT CWU SELL-OUT – call angry CWU members

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THE CWU (Communications Workers Union) yesterday accepted the Royal Mail offer on pay along with plans to modernise the company and reform the...

Fight Barking NHS Jobs Massacre!

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THE UNISON public sector union yesterday reaffirmed it will back strike action to defend NHS jobs. It was responding to the news that the huge...

Easyjet Pilots Will Fight For Every Job – Balpa

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MORE than 2,000 easyJet pilots (99.9%) have voted overwhelmingly to express no confidence in the company’s Chief Operations Officer, Peter Bellew. BALPA, which organised the...
NUT picket line outside the Tech City College in Islington yesterday morning

Hand academies back to councils

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‘ALL ACADEMIES must be handed back to local council control’, Hank Roberts past national president of ATL said yesterday. He was speaking after Tory Education...

20,000 wounded still trapped in Gaza Strip

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OVER 20,000 wounded Palestinian people are still trapped in the Gaza Strip with ‘limited access to healthcare’, according to Doctors without Borders (MSF), despite...

Doctors To Take Action Over 1% Pay Offer

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SENIOR doctors in England will be consulted on taking industrial action if the government’s 1% pay rise offer is not improved. The British Medical Association...

Labour Right Wing To Vote Against Brexit!

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LABOUR Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has ordered Labour MPs to back the Bill that allows the government to trigger the Brexit process. The Bill asks...
Teachers on strike in Norwich last year – the NUT is opposed to Free Schools and Academies and demands properly funded conncil-run state schools

Schools in poorest areas starved of funds

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COUNCIL-run schools in the poorest areas of the country are being starved of funds by the Tory-led coalition, which is pumping money into privately...
Demonstrators in London last month fighting against the closure of the maternity department at Horton Hospital in Oxfordshire

STPs are to dictate budget & service cuts – says BMA

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THE government must not use ‘transformation’ plans as a cover for further cuts to the NHS, says the British Medical Association. Responding to a...
RMT rally outside Clapham Common Tube yesterday morning insisted that Glen Hart will be defended against any attempt at victimisation by management

Tube workers rally to defend RMT activist

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AN RMT demonstration outside Clapham Common underground station yesterday called for the dropping of disciplinary charges against RMT member Glen Hart. Speaking to News Line...

Cameron’s Police State

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PM CAMERON addressed the House of Commons yesterday on the crisis with Russia, the IS movement in Iraq and security in the UK. On the...

‘Government is in chaos’ – says Corbyn

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‘THE GOVERNMENT is in chaos,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Parliament yesterday, responding to Tory PM May’s speech attempting to defend her Brexit capitulation...

B&B TO BE NATIONALISED – to head off run on the bank

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Mortgage bank Bradford & Bingley is to be nationalised to prevent a run on the bank and its complete collapse, possibly spreading...
West Hendon tenants fighting for council housing – the government is now planning mass evictions of council tenants

Plan to evict council tenants

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THE government is planning to end the right of council tenants to stay in their homes for life. An amendment to the Housing Bill,...

Hamas, Fatah Gun Battles In Gaza

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Palestinian resistance movement Hamas yesterday accused Palestinian National Authority President Mahmud Abbas of attempting a military coup after Fatah forces sealed off two Hamas-led...

Failure To Invest Will Mean Disaster For NHS, Says RCN!

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‘FAILURE to invest more now to tackle the nursing workforce crisis will mean disaster for the health and care services this winter,’ the Royal...

Assad visits Damascus Catholic church

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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has made a visit to a Christian church in an eastern suburb of the capital Damascus as Christmas is approaching. Assad...

‘Get rid of all privatised companies’ urge the striking Junior Doctors

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Junior doctors manned a lively and determined picket outside the Maudsley Hospital in south London yesterday, determined to defend their patients and the NHS. Laith...

Fearful Kiev ‘warns’ Russia

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THE SELF-STYLED Ukrainian interim President Olexander Turchynov yesterday warned Russia against any ‘military aggression’ in Crimea. He said Russia’s troops from its Black Sea Fleet...
Thousands of demonstrators on Westminster Bridge on Sunday demanding the scrapping of the Tory coalition’s Health Bill

‘OPPOSE HEALTH BILL!’ – Unison urges

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UNISON yesterday called on peers to oppose the Health Bill today, during its second reading in the House of Lords today. The UK’s largest public...
BA cabin crew pickets in high spirits at Heathrow yesterday morning

‘Walsh will never crush BASSA’

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‘THE rest of the British Airways workforce must be called out on strike to join us in our fight to beat Walsh,’ said striking...

Government Is Wasting Money On Free Schools – Say Teachers

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TEACHING unions yesterday condemned the Tory-led coalition government’s free-school policy, as more than half a million families were discovering which primary schools their children...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers marching through Southall on the first anniversary of their dismissal

Replacement workers were brought into Gate Gourmet transport department

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GATE Gourmet managers yesterday continued to present their witness statements on the third day of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers employment tribunal in...

13 schools with RAAC had funding to rebuild – ruled out by Tories!

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At least 13 schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) had funding to rebuild approved under a Labour scheme which was later...
Students joined lecturers’ picket line during their strike action earlier this month

Gate Gourmet workers win support for march

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers are campaigning every day for their march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th March. Lakhinder Saran told News Line yesterday: ‘I went...
A small section of the march around the Durham Miners banner on Saturday

100,000 Turn Out At Durham Miners Gala

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UP to 100,000 workers and youth gathered at the 128th Durham Miners Gala on Saturday. Pride of place on the platform after the march through...

Sick Babies Besieged By Israeli Snipers!

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EVERY hospital in Gaza City is out of service, with 36 premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital facing death within 48 hours because there is...