‘Don’t put children ‘at the mercy of the market’

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THE increasing marketisation of the education system is putting profit before the interests of pupils, teachers and the public, representatives at the Annual Conference...

No sprinklers in car park inferno

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‘CLEARLY the fact that there were no sprinklers had its affect,’ Chief Fire Officer of Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, Dan Stephens said yesterday. He...

GOING TO SCHOOL HUNGRY! – EIS survey

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AN increasing number of pupils in Scotland are going to school hungry and a number are displaying signs of stress and lethargy, according to...

TORIES TO USE ARMY TO BREAK STRIKES! – PCS leader condemns strike-breaking plans

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THE TORY government has revealed that it is set to begin training hundreds of British Army personnel as strike-breakers this month, to be mobilised...
Student midwives with a clear message marching in Nottingham last September

MIDWIFERY CRISIS! – ‘Reverse diploma cut decision’ – RCM urges

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The Royal College of Nursing yesterday accused the government of exacerbating an already serious midwifery crisis. Student midwives’ leaders expressed alarm over the government’s decision...
Chase Farm Clock Tower is occupied

Police take action against Chase Farm occupation!

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THE Chase Farm occupation was ended at 9pm on Saturday night after the police received government orders to evict the occupiers. The occupation began...

‘ABHORRENT BEYOND WORDS!’ – RCN & BMA condemn Farage threat to deport thousands

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‘THREATENING to sack thousands of migrant nursing staff is abhorrent beyond words,’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola...

Carry Out Pledges – Demand Greek Workers

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THE Greek Finance Minister has sent a letter of capitulation to the EU’s diktats, dated Wednesday 18 February 2015. It was sent to Eurogroup President...
Hospital defence campaigns marched on Downing Street in October to demand an end to NHS cuts and closures

STPs TO CLOSE 19 HOSPITALS!

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THE NHS is facing its biggest shake up in a generation with 19 hospitals marked for closure, and care from cradle-to-grave put through a...

NATIONALISE JLR AND CORUS – the only way to defend jobs

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Trade union leaders were yesterday impotent in the face of threatened mass sackings at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Corus by owner Tata of...

3.7m FAMILIES ARE JOBLESS!

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THE UK economy will contract by 0.7 per cent this year, the OECD said yesterday, in a sharply revised prediction from that made in...

Saudi’s Aim Is To Buy Nukes From Pakistan

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SAUDI officials are trying to strike a deal with Pakistani Prime Minister Pervez Ashraf to buy nuclear weapons from Pakistan. The recent meeting between King...

Exercise Cygnus exposed! Tories were asked to simulate turning off all UK ventilators

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A CROSS Party ‘pandemic simulation’ carried out just three years before Covid-19 struck ‘played-out’ a scenario in which the health minister was asked to...

CIA Drone Terrorism Targets Rescuers

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A REPORT published yesterday by Stanford University and New York University warns that the CIA’s drone campaign ‘terrorises men, women and children’ in North-West...

STOP £3bn of education cuts!

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TEACHERS’ and heads’ unions, the NUT, ATL and NAHT, are asking every candidate in every constituency in England and Wales to promise that they...
The railway tunnel collapsed as a result of the new Tesco superstore being built in the area near Ge

VOTE NO TO ID CARDS – Trade unions and Liberty urge MPs

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Yesterday claims were made that the government was in discussions with businesses on the sale of personal information that will be contained in the...
Childrens services are under attack all over the country – picture shows them being defended at Ealing Hospital

‘We will not stand by and watch them destroy our fabulous service!’ – says...

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THREE of the 13 hospitals across England that provide complex heart care have been ordered to stop doing so by NHS England, alleging concerns...
Demonstrators outside the Israeli embassy were confident that the Palestinan masses would stand fast and force the arrogant Israeli aggressors back

‘Victory for defiance in face of death!’

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GAZA prime minister Ismail Haniya has hailed the Egyptian-brokered truce agreement between the Palestinian resistance and Israel as a triumph for the Palestinian people. He...

Defend national pay rates! –TUC must call a general strike

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‘ANY attempt to break national pay rates must be met by the TUC calling an indefinite general strike to bring down this Tory-LibDem Coalition...
Children whose lives have been saved by the Royal Brompton Hospital marching against the closure of its heart unit

Artificial heart saves 13-year-old – Royal Brompton must not close!

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THIRTEEN-year-old Chloe Narbonne would have died if it wasn’t for a revolutionary pioneering operation that gave her a new artificial heart, all thanks to...
PCS strikers with their General Secretary MARK SERWOTKA outside Parliament yesterday lunchtime

‘Enough is enough!’ say striking PCS members

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PUBLIC and Commercial Servants union (PCS) members were out on picket lines since before dawn yesterday as tens of thousands came out in support...

Grenfell fury over new ‘fire risk’ skyscraper! – 40% of cladded buildings still unsafe

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THE GRENFELL community spoke out in furious anger yesterday that a building almost two and a half times taller then the Grenfell Tower is...
Teachers at the NUT confrence demand Gove’s resignation

Nut Opposes Gove Plans

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NATIONAL Union of Teachers (NUT) leaders yesterday opposed government plans for unannounced school inspections and taking state schools out of Birmingham City Council’s control...

Brown Calls May Election

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Prime Minister Brown confirmed yesterday that the general election will be held on Thursday 6th May. Flanked by the cabinet outside 10 Downing Street, following...

Hezbollah – a strategic threat to Israel

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NAIM Qassim, deputy secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, has underlined the continued resistance against the US and Israel will never surrender. ‘The only...
International Sorting office strikers at Langley near Heathrow on 27th July

NAME STRIKE DATES! – demand CWU branches and members

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Postal workers across the country are up in arms demanding their union, the CWU, proceeds to immediately name strike dates after Royal...
Remploy workers occupying the Department of Work and Pensions head office yesterday, surrounded by police. The protesters demanded that the 28 Remploy factories be kept open

28 REMPLOY FGACTORIES WILL CLOSE – decides work and pensions secretary Hain

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Trade unions yesterday reacted angrily to the announcement by work and pensions secretary Peter Hain that he will proceed with the closure of 28...

Musa Ibrahim Reports From Libyan War Fronts

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MUSA Ibrahim, spokesman for Colonel Gadaffi, gave an interview to the Syria-based Al-Ra’y TV on the evening of September 18. He said: ‘We...

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...

Firefighters role under attack

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A PROPOSAL by fire chiefs to expand a firefighter’s role at will and without boundaries has been overwhelming rejected by firefighters by 97%. The proposals...
Part of the contingent of Gate Gourmet sacked workers with their historic banner outside the TUC Congress yesterday

‘THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS CASUALISED’ – Woodley admits TUC responsibility

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Delegates voted unanimously for Composite 3: ‘Agency Workers’ at the TUC Congress yesterday calling for ‘legislation to outlaw discrimination against agency workers’. It called on...
The head of yesterday’s march of more than 100 youth and tenants through the Aylesbury estate in south London

Don’t privatise the Aylesbury estate

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‘DEFEND Council Housing! Kick Blair out!’ shouted more than 100 tenants, youth and trade unionists as they marched through the Aylesbury Estate in south...
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...
PCS members on strike against moves to privatise jobs at Caxton House, part of the DWP

80,000 vote for strike action!

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The 80,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have voted two to...
Bailiffs cutting their way through the chain binding occupier Hank Roberts to a pole

Bailiffs invade Brent occupation

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THIRTY policemen and 20 bailiffs invaded the Wembley Park Sports Ground anti-academy occupation at 6.30am Friday morning and used grinding equipment to remove Hank...

‘All asbestos must be removed from schools!’

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Education unions in the UK have reaffirmed the urgent need to protect students and education workers from asbestos in schools, demanding that ‘all asbestos...
Marchers in Hammersmith determined to stop the closure of Charing Cross Hospital

‘REVERSE GP CUTS!’ – Dr Gerada warns coalition

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PATIENTS are bearing the brunt of savage cuts to GP surgeries, said the Royal College of GPs yesterday. The RCGP said: ‘GPs are facing a...

UK To Cut And Run From Kabul

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PM Cameron has announced that 3,800 British troops are to be withdrawn from Afghanistan next year. Troop numbers are being cut from 9,500 to 9,000...

NO MORE WAITING – demand Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet pickets said yesterday they were fed up with waiting. They poured scorn on a Transport and General Workers Union plea to British Airways...

Greek Youth Unemployment Now At 52.8%

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THE Greek Statistics Authority (EL.STAT.) has announced that the official unemployment rate for last March rose to 21.9 per cent, a huge increase compared...

‘EU dead in the water!’ says Bank of England MPC member

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EXPORTS to the EU, the UK’s biggest trading partner, are ‘dead in the water’, a member of the Bank of England’s interest rate-setting Monetary...
The campaign team for the Gate Gourmet workers anniversary rally in Southall yesterday

BA workers coming to Gate Gourmet rally

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BRITISH Airways workers are coming to the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers first anniversary march and rally in Southall this Sunday. Buying his ticket for the...
Far from being a friendly ‘4th emergency service’ the GMB states the AA has introduced an ‘oppressive work regime’ and has picketed AA centres like Cheadle to defend sacked disabled members

‘SKATING ON THIN ICE!’ – RCN warns Blair on NHS while UNISON will back...

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Yesterday the two biggest health unions warned prime minister Blair about the state of the health service. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Dr...

Budget Signals Countdown To The General Election

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CHANCELLOR Alastair Darling yesterday delivered his Budget speech in the middle of the civil servants’ strike action, starting it by claiming that the UK...
MICK WHELAN, Aslef general secretary (ASLEF T-shirt) and Unite leader LEN McCLUSKEY (3rd from left) at the front of the National Austerity Protest last

Defend right to strike!

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THE TRADE Union Bill, to be outlined tomorrow in parliament by the Tory government, is designed to railroad through legislation which will make it...