NHS 32,000 Beds Loss!

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‘My personal view is the unions should be up in arms over the number of beds lost in the NHS,’ East Surrey UNISON official...

US CIVIL WAR! – Trump vows to send federal officers into NY, Chicago and...

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US PRESIDENT Trump announced yesterday that he is sending ‘a surge of federal security forces to US cities in a crackdown on crime’. Chicago, New...
Teachers and their supporters demanding ‘save our pensions’. More public sector workers are expected to join the struggle in the coming months

Pensions Strikes

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AHEAD of today’s TUC Congress, the leaders of two of the country’s biggest unions warned that their members’ anger over cuts in their jobs,...
Trade unionists rally in Trafalgar Square to defend the welfare state on April 14

£85bn cuts and tax rises in budget!

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Labour leadership hopeful Ed Balls yesterday accused the Tories of wanting to take Britain back to the conditions of the 1930s. Trade unions are bracing...

Dover shutdown threatens supplies – Johnson at loggerheads with Macron to ‘unblock the ports’

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‘I WANT to update everyone on one thing and that is what has been happening at our borders in Dover,’ Tory PM Johnson said...
A big part of the 60-strong picket at Chase Farm Hospital yesterday

March to save Chase Farm today!

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YESTERDAY’S 60-strong mass picket to save Chase Farm Hospital drew big support from patients and local residents who all said they would join today’s...
Angry GMB and PCS members working for Historic Royal Palaces on the picket line outside Hampton Court Palace yesterday lunchtime

Palace Gardeners’ strike action

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ANGRY GMB and PCS members working for Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) were on picket lines outside Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London...
GPs show their support for junior doctors on the march in London on October 17th

GPs want action ballot!

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ALMOST two thirds of GPs want the BMA to ballot the profession over industrial action, a GPonline survey has revealed, as the BMA’s Local...

Nottingham City goes bust while HSBC makes £24bn!

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THE government has appointed commissioners to help run Nottingham City Council after the authority declared itself effectively bankrupt. The Labour-run authority issued a section 114...

NURSES DRIVEN OUT – Low pay & axing bursary has caused 37,821 vacancies

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THERE are now 37,821 nurse vacancies in the NHS, NHS England confirmed yesterday, releasing the latest data. This is a rise of 1,738 from the...

Five surgeons resign over £20bn NHS cuts!

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The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) is to review surgical services at Barts and Royal London hospitals, east London after five surgeons submitted their...

Powerful Night Tube Picket Lines In Place

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POWERFUL picket lines were in place on London Underground (LU) Central and Victoria lines across the weekend, as RMT members took strike action against...

May’s project fear – ‘Reject my deal and the only certainty will be uncertainty!’

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SPEAKING in Grimsby last Friday May peddled her  own ‘project fear’ line before the new vote on her deal with the EU tomorrow in...
Junior doctors are putting the case that Hunt is assuming dictatorial powers to which he has no right and which are illegal

Hunt ‘assumed powers’ he never had

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TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to forcibly impose the new contract on the junior doctors was wrong because he does not have the...

BBC strikes ‘suspended’ but mass sackings to continue

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IN a major climbdown the BBC trade union leaders have suspended, ie cancelled, next week’s 48-hour BBC strike and will be holding a meeting...
Junior doctors, members of the BMA, demonstrate against the government imposed Medical Training Application Service leaving thousands without posts. The latest government move threatens GPs

BROWN PRIVATISING GPs! – BMA leaders condemn policy

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday repeated its concerns that the government is out to privatise GP surgeries. A spokeswoman told News Line: ‘The BMA...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet workers angrily lobbying a member of the TGWU National Executive at their meeting yesterday

Woodley Refuses Gate Gourmet Workers Hardship Payments

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‘WOODLEY said “You can stand outside the T&G office for as many years as you want to, it’s not going to change anything’’,’ Gate...

Mass Sackings For NHS!

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LABOUR and the RCN have reacted angrily to instruction from NHS bosses and regulators to impose a ‘headcount reduction’ to reduce their deficits...

Starmer Calls For A Ban On Russia Today

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‘WE MUST do more to defeat Putin’s campaign of lies and disinformation,’ Labour leader Keir Starmer told the House of Commons yesterday at PMQs. ‘Russia...

‘LISTEN TO US OR ELSE!’ – US & France warn Syria

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THE US and France yesterday threatened Syria with sanctions. They accused Syrian President Assad of failing to cooperate fully with the UN investigation into the...

MPs hear BHS ‘death threat’ allegations over £1.5m

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FORMER owner of BHS Dominic Chappell was accused yesterday of being ‘a liar’ with his ‘fingers in the till’ who ‘threatened to kill’ the...

Hand over redacted UK torture material! – MPs committee tells US administration

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THE House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee is to request that the US hands over any material documenting the UK’s role in the...

Cameron-Heseltine-Tuc Unholy Alliance

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The TUC has welcomed the government’s announcement that it will adopt most of Tory former deputy prime minister Heseltine’s plans for the privatisation...

‘Grave concerns’ over Taser roll-out

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‘Grave concerns’ have been expressed over the wider deployment of Taser electro-shock weapons to police officers in ten forces across the UK which are...
Midwives and nurses taking strike action last month – they are not prepared to put up with permanent wage-cutting and pension busting

Cuts and more cuts from Osborne!

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CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a class war Autumn Statement yesterday which revealed Tory plans to completely smash up the Welfare State. Starting with a gloomy assessment...

‘time For Apologies Over’ – Barclays Bank Boss Tells Mps

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THE Tory-LibDem coalition has given the banks an assurance that they are at liberty to continue to pay unlimited bonuses, with no government regulation. The...

Labour Is Planning Big Welfare Cuts!

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning to initiate a new regime of widespread welfare cuts, throwing thousands of sick, disabled and mentally ill off...

Weak Osborne declares ‘We are not powerless’ – as he demands EU Monetary Union

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Chancellor Osborne and Bank of England Governor King announced a massive £140bn emergency stimulus package for ailing British capitalism on Thursday night. Both were speaking...
Junior doctors on strike against the ‘unfair, unsafe’ imposed contract in 2016

JUNIOR DOCTORS DOG-TIRED 63,000 contract breaches

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TENS of thousands of junior doctors are working beyond contracted hours without a break, making them extremely tired which, in turn, puts patients’...

A NUMBER OF HOSPITALS ARE FALLING DOWN! – PM Johnson’s rebuilding claim ridiculed

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‘A NUMBER of our hospitals are literally falling down,’ Nigel Edwards, Chief Executive of the Nuffield Trust health think tank said yesterday as he...
Demonstration to defend Whittington hospital against cuts and closure

NHS trusts proceeding with £20bn cuts

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NHS bosses have started to implement the £20 billion savage cuts programme, officially described as ‘efficiency savings’, that the new Tory government insists must...

Starmer urges EU war on Russia!

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LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday that he is ‘ready and willing’ to put UK ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine, just as...
Rally of short term ‘Stage’ training workers in Athens last Tuesday

Clashes In Athens

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Clashes broke out yesterday between police and demonstrators across Greece as marchers commemorated the first anniversary of the fatal police shooting of 15-year-old Alexis...

Gate Gourmet has to be central question for TUC Crow tells pickets

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THE Gate Gourmet mass picket at Heathrow airport was visited yesterday by RMT general secretary Bob Crow, along with a number of RMT executive...

£4bn claim against RBS – taxpayers will have to pay bill

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THOUSANDS of investors have launched a joint compensation claim for more than £4.0bn against Royal Bank of Scotland, claiming the 82% state-owned bank deliberately...

Record petrol price rises!

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Petrol prices yesterday hit a record average level of 121.76p for a litre of unleaded petrol. It is expected that fuel prices will rise daily...
Youth in Hounslow showing their support for the locked-out Gate Goumet workers marching in Hounslow

Harrier jets to stay in Afghanistan

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Six RAF Harrier GR7 jets are to stay in Afghanistan until 31 March 2007 to support UK troops and their allies on the ground,...

Airlines ‘Staring Bankruptcy In The Face’ – Balpa

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BALPA the pilots trade union yesterday called on the government to rescue the air industry with the ‘same approach that kept the banks afloat’....

Fresh Round Of College Strikes Begins

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THE FIRST day of a five-day strike yesterday marked an escalation in the college lecturers’ struggle with eleven colleges out on strike. At the College...
Palestinian AYSAR SHAMALLAKH (centre in white jacket) on hunger strike in solidarity with over 1,600 hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Picture shows Aysar and supporters demonstrating in Parliament Square on Wednesday evening

‘OUR CHAINS WILL BE BROKEN BEFORE WE ARE’ says Barghouthi

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‘ISRAEL cannot silence us, nor isolate us, nor break us, our chains will be broken before we are,’ Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi has said...

£50-£300 Fines For ‘Preventable Errors’

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The PCS union and Citizens Advice yesterday slammed government plans to claw back £60m from hundreds of thousands of benefit claimants who are expected...
Ealing Hospital workers employed by contractors Medirest have taken a number of strike actions against low pay

NHS ‘slap in the face!’ – no pay rise in 2014-15

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NURSES, doctors and other health workers were ‘slapped in the face’ by the coalition government yesterday, as it emerged that NHS workers...
The Duggan family release doves at the end of the vigil outside Tottenham police station to emphasise the peaceful, but very determined nature of their protest

Apology for Duggan family! – from the Police Complaints Commission

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THE Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has apologised to Mark Duggan’s family for ‘wrongly’ telling the media he had fired at police before he...

ENERGY PRICE RISE CONDEMNED – UNISON demands profits inquiry

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Yet another energy supplier, E.On, yesterday announced huge increases in gas and electricity prices to domestic consumers. It is hiking gas prices by 15...