Nurses on the TUC demonstration against the coalition cuts in March 2011

RCN slams attacks on nurses

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making nurses work as Health Care Assistants for a year before they can start to train as a nurse is ‘a stupid idea’, Royal...
Riot police attack students on the stairs to the Vouli (Greek parliament) building in Athens last Thursday. Photo credit: MARIOS LOLOS

‘We are the opposition!’ – Greek teachers storm parliament

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GREEK striking teachers along with students staged yet another magnificent march of over 6,000 last Thursday against the hated government Education Bill. Once...

No date for next meeting – Merkel

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TORY PM May was slapped down again yesterday as German Chancellor Merkel said that no progress was made on Brexit and that a date...

860,000 jobseekers are sanctioned in 2013

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A HIGHLY critical report, published by a committee of MPs yesterday, suggests that Jobcentre staff are given targets for kicking people off benefits. The...

110,000 Palestinians killed, missing or injured

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‘APPROXIMATELY 110,000 Palestinians are reported killed, missing or injured, leaving many suffering long-term disabilities four months into Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip,’ Euro-Med...

Barts strikers fighting for the NHS

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WORKERS at the Barts group of hospitals in east London, began a 12 day strike yesterday, running until 17 November, fighting for safe staffing,...
Greek workers completely rejected the EU but their leaders crumbled– a lesson for British workers

Arrogant Barnier to ‘teach British a lesson!’

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EU COMMISSION chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, gave a master class in arrogance yesterday as he looked down his nose at the UK...

Ledbury tenants moved! – council fears gas explosion

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HUNDREDS of Peckham, southeast London, tenants living in tower blocks on the Southwark Council’s Ledbury Estate are being moved out after safety checks carried...
TGWU members at this month’s ‘Defend our Public Services’ rally

PAYING FOR NHS OPERATIONS REJECTED! – by BMA and UNISON

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‘There should be no question of making patients pay for operations that are considered essential by their doctor or consultant,’ insisted UNISON head of...
Workers on the TUC march last October making it clear they want a general strike now!

TUC must call – GENERAL STRIKE NOW!

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TODAY’S meeting of the General Council of the TUC must go beyond considering the practicalities of a general strike and actually call one, Dave...

Israeli forces carry out another Gaza massacre

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ISRAELI forces carried out a new massacre yesterday as they bombed the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees) school in...
A section of the passionate crowd demanding an end to the Israeli terror state at a recent protest outside its embassy in west London

Gaza-West Bank one struggle!

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HAMAS leader and member of parliament Mushir al-Masri said on Friday that the group had not agreed on a ceasefire with Israel, despite tentative...

Guys & St Thomas’ theatre nurses are set to take strike action over dangerous...

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GUYS and St Thomas’ theatre nurses are to strike over a dangerous rise in hours. Burnt out nurses warn that a further hour extension to...

NHS Crisis: 82 ‘Ghost Wards’ Contain 1,400 Empty Beds

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YEARS of savage Tory cuts to the NHS have created the unprecedented situation where there are not even enough staff to run wards. It...

NHS Being Cut To Aid Private Sector!

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed concern over the cancellation by an Oxford hospital of a routine heart procedure because of lack of...

SERCO STRIKE – battle against low pay & exploitation

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HUNDREDS of key NHS workers, employed by the giant outsourcing company Serco, will stage a two week strike across Barts Health NHS Trust in...
Junior doctors in a mass sit-down protest outside Downing Street in 2016. Hunt’s imposed contract is now up for renegotiation

New Junior Doctors’ Contract Negotiations

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THE BMA (British Medical Association) announced at the annual junior doctors committee meeting on Saturday that it is participating ‘in a collaborative review and...
Civil servants on the picket line during their national strike on January 31

20,000 Civil Servants On Strike Today!

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Approximately 20,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) working for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Identity and Passports Service (IPS)...

Suspend Ofsted inspections demands teachers union NEU – Exams for 2021 cancelled in Wales...

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‘SUSPEND Ofsted inspections’ demanded Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) yesterday, responding to Ofsted’s second report into the...
ENID MUTESI was evicted last Wednesday – shown holding a framed picture of her parents which she found in the bin

‘They are trying to get rid of all the poor people!’

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TENANTS facing eviction and already evicted tenants at Sweets Way housing estate in Barnet, north london, came together for a community ‘Fun Day’ yesterday. They...

‘How can the world remain silent in the face of the killing and injury...

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that there are no words to describe the genocidal Israeli war and destruction inflicted upon our Palestinian people...

JOINT ENTERPRISE–JURIES HAVE BEEN MISDIRECTED!– hundreds of appeals now expected

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JUDGES have misdirected juries in murder trials for thirty years, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that ‘joint...
Young Socialists marchers arriving at the TUC Congress in Liverpool demanding No slave labour, no zero-hours contracts and proper jobs for youth

Miliband pledges £8 minimum wage

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ADDRESSING the party’s annual conference in Manchester yesterday, Labour leader Miliband pledged to increase the National Minimum Wage to £8 an hour over the...

UK £120bn banking shortfall!

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THE Bank of England has warned that the biggest banks and building societies operating in Britain face a £120bn shortfall in their finances. In a...

STOP ARMING ISRAEL! RECOGNISE PALESTINIAN STATE NOW! – say 100,000 marchers

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OVER 100,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through central London on the 17th London National March for Palestine on Saturday. Speakers at the...

HYPOCRISY! – No pay for snowbound tube workers

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London Mayor Boris Johnson was yesterday accused of ‘gross hypocrisy’ by rail union TSSA after tube staff were told they will not be paid...
Migrant workers’ protest outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday morning

‘END MODERN SLAVERY!’ – Migrant workers lobby Parliament

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MIGRANT domestic workers lobbied Parliament yesterday, World Human Rights Day, demanding an end to modern slavery. Workers were joined at the lobby by supporters including...
Dale Farm residents defying bailiff and police moves to evict them yesterday

Eviction Reprieve – At Dale Farm

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DALE Farm residents won an injunction late yesterday, restraining police and bailiffs from dismantling structures on the site until a hearing at the High...

GPs pensions action!

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DOCTORS have made an overwhelming call to their leaders to reject the government’s proposed changes to the NHS Pension Scheme and shown a willingness...

Four Day Strike At Maudsley And Bethlem Hospitals!

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FACILITIES staff at Maudsley and Bethlem mental hospitals began a new four-day strike yesterday against the ISS offer of a meagre 30p wage increase,...

Workers pressure mounting but the TUC still won’t call a general strike!!

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WORKERS pressure is mounting on the TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Tories at its Annual Congress in Brighton next...

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...

PROVOCATION – AUT denounces threat to cut lecturers wages

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University of Strathclyde Association of University Teachers (AUT) representative David Blieman yesterday described as ‘provocative’ a threat to dock lecturers’ pay if they don’t...

Personal budgets cutting care!

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The personal budgets being introduced for social care are being used to implement the government’s spending cuts, charities warned yesterday. On November 16, Care Services...

Murdoch Quits News International

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James Murdoch quit as executive chairman of News International yesterday, but said he will remain as deputy chief operating officer of parent group News...

GUAIDO SETS THE SCENE FOR US MILITARY INTERVENTION

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VENEZUELA’S self-declared interim leader Juan Guaidó has set up a confrontation over US aid by calling for Venezuelans to cross borders and bring it...
Southern rail picket line at Victoria Station yesterday morning

Southern guards remain rock solid

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‘RMT guards on Southern Rail remain rock solid and absolutely determined in their action in defence of rail safety,’ General Secretary Mick Cash said...
The George Fox Six.  Photo credit: George Fox Six Supporters Group

Police threat to arrest Gate Gourmet pickets

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers were made to dismantle their picket tent and move from the Gate Gourmet factory gates by Heathrow Airport police yesterday. ‘I...

Striking ASLEF train drivers defiant!

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ASLEF train drivers start another programme of rolling one-day strikes today, which will run alongside their nine-day overtime ban which began yesterday, having now...

BA Boss Cruz Sacked

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ALEX Cruz, the author of the notorious BA ‘fire and rehire’ policy, has been sacked as chief executive and chair of British Airways with...

Bma Will Discuss Strike Action!

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The British Medical Association will put ‘absolutely everything’ on the table including strike action when members determine their response to the government’s...

Tories Starve The Disabled!

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DISABLED people in Scotland are being starved by the Tory government, with some people waiting as long as 15 months without receiving a single...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers marching to Trafalgar Square shouting their slogans demanding that their dispute be made official and that their hardship pay be resumed

MAY DAY MANIFESTO: BUSH AND BLAIR IN CRISIS – as workers throughout the world...

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MAY DAY 2006 is historic. It is taking place in a period of an enormous crisis of world capitalism and rapidly developing world revolution. This crisis...

SCRAP THE BEDROOM TAX! – a third of all tenants in rent arrears

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SINCE the bedroom tax came into force this year, one in three council tenants have fallen behind in their rent, the TUC’s False Economy...

RMT will fight any new anti-union legislation

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RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch spoke out defiantly yesterday in response to Tory strike breaking threats to pass laws to ‘ensure minimum staffing levels...