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The front of a very determined and enthusiastic march in Enfield in June 2009 to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

WITHDRAW CHASE FARM CLOSURE – Enfield Council legal challenge

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Enfield Council has condemned health secretary Andrew Lansley’s authorisation of the closure of Chase Farm Hospital A&E, Maternity and Paediatrics departments. It has also declared...

Renationalise the railways – Demand unions as fares hike announced

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RAIL fares are to rise by 1.9% in England, Scotland and Wales it was announced yesterday, with unions, campaigners and Labour leader Jeremy...

Profit Drive Caused Fire!

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LIFE as far as private contractors are concerned is cheap! It emerged yesterday that private contractors that refurbished Grenfell Tower a year before it burst...

Half A Million More Rely On Housing Benefits

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THE UK’s failure to build affordable homes has led to a soaring housing-benefit bill – with half a million more people now relying on...

‘Stop shameful deportations!’ of people who came to the UK as children

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THE GOVERNMENT must end the deportation of foreign-born offenders who came to the UK as children, according to a draft report into the Windrush...
50 Swindon striking hospital workers lobby the London headquarters of Carillion demanding an end to bullying, harassment and discrimination

‘Strike against bullying’

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A coachload of fifty Swindon striking hospital workers yesterday descended on the London Headquarters of Carillion in Euston with shouts of ‘Respect at work! They...

58 universities three days of strike action!

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THREE consecutive days of strike action hitting 58 universities begin this morning after university bosses and their representatives refused to withdraw pension cuts or...

NUT to strike on July 5

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THE NUT has announced that members in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action to protect pay and working conditions. In the...
Over 100,000 workers marched through Dublin’s streets yesterday as the general strike shook the country in protest at slave labour being used on Irish Ferries

Gate Gourmet hardship payments – ‘No way will people be allowed to go without’...

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MORE than 20 locked out Gate Gourmet workers were picketing yesterday at Heathrow Airport determined to win their fight. Their lobby of the TGWU ...
Teachers from Sunny Hill school in Southwark joined striking junior doctors on the picket line at Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell yesterday

Junior doctors confident of victory!

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A GOOD picket of junior doctors turned out at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital at 8am. They were in good spirits despite the wind...

MARCH FOR JUSTICE – called by TUC for May 1

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‘Speakers from around the world will join the May Day March for Workplace Justice,’ said the TUC yesterday. Top trade unionists from South Africa...
‘Hands off our Horton’ demand demonstrators from North Oxfordshire in Trafalgar Square, London on October 10th

NHS Alarm Bells Ringing!

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THE NORTH Central London Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) has been unveiled, only the second in the country to do so, and it has...

BMA condemns private management consultants

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned the government for spending £171 million on private management consultants, who have been hired to advise NHS...

Harris Confirms Her Unwavering Support For Israel!

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US Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, has unequivocally reaffirmed Washington’s unwavering support for Israel’s genocidal campaign, brazenly asserting Tel Aviv’s ‘right to defend itself’...
PCS members taking strike action on October 31st against compulsory outsourcing

80,000 civil servants strike today!

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JOBCENTRES, benefits offices, the Pension Service and Child Support Agency (CSA) will be hit today as up to 80,000 members of the Public and...
Junior doctors taking strike action against an imposed contract said they were fighting to save the NHS. Now everybody must join this fight

Stop NHS privatisation! Stop bed cuts! Unions must act!

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THE GMB has demanded answers over a plan to privatise services at Barnsley Hospital in a desperate bid to save cash. The trust which runs...
The CT Plus picket line in Hackney on their fourth Friday of strike action

‘Our resolve is as strong as ever’

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‘OUR resolve is as strong as ever,’ said TGWU union rep Derrick Campbell, as five new days of strike action by Hackney CT Plus...

Chancellor warns of ‘significant disruption!’

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a £30bn Budget package to try to keep UK capitalism from being bankrupted and broken apart by the...

UK Refuses To Apologise For Balfour Declaration!

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PALESTINIAN ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, said yesterday that Britain has officially refused to apologise for the infamous Balfour Declaration, and instead has...
Local government workers of the Paiania local council. Their banner reads ‘For a movement to overthrow government and  troika – not a movement of compromise and submission’

48-hour rolling strikes in Greece

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THE Executive Committee of YENOP (the trades unions federation of the Public Electricity Board), the biggest trade union federation in Greece, decided last Friday...
Postal workers marching through Milton Keynes last month determined to keep their Mail Centre open

DEFEND THE ROYAL MAIL– No to 50,000 job losses

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‘We have to strike to defend Royal Mail, to defend our jobs and to defend our pensions,’ CWU HP Section Chairman, South Central No...

Firefighters right to strike under threat

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THE FIRE Brigades Union has responded to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services State of Fire and Rescue 2021 report...
Save Kensal Rise Library campaigners were joined by local children outside the library yesterday morning

Kensal Rise library picket!

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Save Kensal Green Library campaigners are maintaining their round-the-clock presence outside their local library. Outside the library yesterday morning campaigner Phil O’Shea explained: ‘This campaign...
A section of the over 2,000-strong picket of the Israeli embassy in London last night to mark the first anniversary of the Israeli bombardment of Gaza

‘we Must End Gaza Blockade!’

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‘In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians,’ rang out at the mass demonstration of thousands of mainly young people opposite the...
RCN members marching on a TUC demonstration – they are demanding that the NHS is properly financed and thousands of new nurses are brought in to the NHS and trained

Rcn Warning Over NHS Cash And Nursing Crisis

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COMMENTING on Tory Health Secretary Hunt’s plans to cap charges for NHS agency staff, Janet Davies, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the RCN...
Teachers marching in London on the October 20 TUC demonstration against the Coalition’s austerity cuts

1.2 million miss out on daily school meal!

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THE Children’s Society is warning that 1.2 million children living below the poverty line in England miss out on a school meal each day. Some...

MAY ‘A DEAD WOMAN WALKING!’ – says ex-Chancellor Osborne

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THE TORY Party was in increasing disarray yesterday in the wake of the general election, with former Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, calling PM May...

Chancellor ignores the crisis!

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak said yesterday that the NHS will get ‘whatever resources it needs’ to cope with a coronavirus epidemic. He alleged to the...

Saddam Refuses To Plead

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IRAQI President Saddam Hussein, seized by US occupation forces after the invasion of the country, yesterday refused to recognise the authority of the court...

200 steelworkers march on Parliament! – fighting to defend their jobs

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OVER 200 steelworkers from all over the country marched from Trafalgar Square to a rally in Parliament Square yesterday morning. They are fighting against the...
PCS pickets at the Elthorne Road Job centre in Holloway

WE WON’T ACCEPT WAGE CUTS – says PCS

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THERE were picket lines outside Jobcentres and benefit offices in London and across the country yesterday, at the start of a two-day strike by...

LUTON GM WAGE CUTS! – supported by Unite union leaders

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WORKERS at the General Motors Truck and Van plant in Luton were yesterday voting on a management offer that cuts their hours and pay. The...

‘We Won’t Let You Close Lewisham Hospital’

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LEWISHAM East Labour MP Heidi Alexander handed in a 22,000 signature petition to Downing Street yesterday against plans to axe Lewisham Hospital’s A&E and...

43,000 Jobless Rise!

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The number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 43,000 to 2.5 million during the three months to February, its highest level since...
Demonstrators make clear their opposition to NHS privatisation on a march organised by the BMA earlier this year

HINCHINBROOKE JOBS FREEZE! – Circle-run hospital deep in debt

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THE privately-run Hinchinbrooke Healthcare Trust in Cambridgeshire has imposed a jobs freeze after making a £2.3m loss in the three months to the end...

‘Slippery Slope To NHS Privatisation’

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‘THIS SORT of service is the slippery slope towards the privatisation of the NHS,’ Dr Applebee, chair of Tower Hamlets Local Medical Committee warned...
Demonstration in Hammersmith against the closure of four A&Es in west London – meanwhile west London’s Imperial College NHS Trust aims to double its private income

Unions must strike to stop NHS closures

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CAMPAIGNERS against the closure of four west London hospital Accident and Emergency Departments expressed fury yesterday at the declaration by Imperial College Healthcare NHS...
Mothers and children demonstrate against the closure of Sure Start centres, a victim of government spending cuts

£513 Welfare Cut To Families This Year

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FAMILIES across the UK are being forced to cut spending on essential items such as food, clothing and heating as a result of government...

UK Industrial Production & The Euro Both Falling!

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UK industrial output fell by 0.1% in January compared with a month earlier, official figures have shown. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) also reported...
Students who were the victims of a police attack at ULU demanding Justice for Mark Duggan

‘He was executed!’ –Duggan family condemn ‘lawfully killed’ verdict

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‘POLICE MURDERERS’ was the cry that greeted the Jury’s verdict yesterday afternoon at the conclusion of the inquest into the police killing of Mark...

Greek conservatives build ‘front against populism’

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The Greek conservatives New Democracy party is building up a ‘pro-European front against populism’ with the aim of defeating the Coalition of the Radical...

Israeli Onslaught Targets Hospitals And Homes!

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TANKS and armoured vehicles fired on family cars and buses in Gaza yesterday, slaughtering the occupants, while areas around al-Quds Hospital were continuously targeted...
GPs, patients and supporters marched through Tower Hamlets on June 5th showing their determination to keep all GP surgeries open

£1bn NHS privatisation! –Unison demands full disclosure

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UNISON has demanded a ‘full disclosure’ of moves to privatise Staffordshire cancer services and warned NHS commissioners that ‘secrecy is against the public interest’. The...
Very determined road haulage workers gathering at Marble Arch before proceeding to Downing Street to hand in a letter

BLOCKADES IN A WEEK! – road hauliers give Brown 7 days notice

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ANGRY road hauliers yesterday spelled out exactly what they will do when the government tries to ignore their huge protest convoys against soaring fuel...
Students, lecturers and supporters marching against hundreds of job cuts at London Metropolitan University last summer

SAVAGE SPENDING CUTS – ‘will have serious consequences’ says UCU leader

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‘YOU cannot make savage funding cuts without serious consequences, despite Lord Mandelson’s insulting efforts to sell the cuts as an opportunity,’ said UCU general...