A section of the TUC march on October 20th showing its determination to defend the NHS and the public sector

34 NHS TRUSTS IN DEFICIT – while NHS made £2 billion surplus

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IN A devastating report published yesterday on the NHS crisis, the Public Accounts Committee of MPs revealed that 34 NHS trusts are broke. The report...

Maternity Services Struggling To Cope!

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THE government is responsible for maternity services being overworked, understaffed and struggling to cope, warned the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday. Maternity unit closures,...
A strong picket at the University of East Anglia’s cyclists entrance

UNIVERSITIES WALKOUT! – over 1% insulting pay offer

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ACROSS the UK yesterday morning, university lecturers and staff walked out on strike against an ‘insulting’ 1% pay offer which, when taken into account...

‘Devastating’ Oldham Redundancy Notices

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EIGHT hundred redundancy notices have been issued at Oldham Borough Council. Officials of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council have confirmed to the GMB that the council...

Palestinian fury over Israeli flight to UAE!

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PALESTINIAN political factions have reacted with fury to the first official visit by an Israeli delegation to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to finalise...

IT’S ‘BAD FRIDAY’ FOR MILLIONS OF FAMILIES – facing over £2 billion coalition cuts

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‘THIS year’s holiday will feel more like “Bad Friday” for millions of families as they come to terms with over £2 billion of cuts.’ This...

NHS JOBLESS GROWS – as Department of health sees no crisis

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THREE-QUARTERS of newly-qualified nurses are unable to find jobs because trusts are freezing recruitment, the RCN (Royal College of Nursing) said yesterday. The (RCM) Royal...

21st June ‘unlocking’ postponed – Johnson – Speaker condemns Johnson’s conduct

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WE CANNOT simply eliminate Covid, we must be able to learn to live with it,’ Tory PM Boris Johnson said in announcing a delay...
Friends and families of those who have died in police custody march for justice in October – deaths in police custody have reached a ten-year high

1,662 deaths in police custody –23 this year!

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DEATHS in cells, in the back of police vans, during arrest and in police pursuit have risen to a ten year high, the latest...

Civil Servants Out Solid

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Thousands of HM Revenue and Customs members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) took part in a half-day strike yesterday, coinciding with...

HUGE ANGER! – in Belfast over ‘Roayal Mail bullying’

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BELFAST postal workers, in the second week of their unofficial strike, said there is ‘huge anger’ over what they described as Royal Mail ‘bullying’. Rank...

GOOD ON THE GRANGEMOUTH WORKERS! – say Road Hauliers

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‘I think, good on the striking workers at Grangemouth,’ said Simon Gough, from A E Gough and Sons in mid-Wales, as more than 100...
Students demonstrate last year against tuition fees

‘STUDENT COMMUTERS’ Poorer students forced to live at home and commute

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STUDENTS from poorer backgrounds are being forced to become ‘student commuters’, living in their home town and then commuting back and forth on a...

Night of Hell in Rafah! – All hospitals overwhelmed says WHO

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The ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) have committed new massacres on what was described as ‘a night of hell’ in Rafah yesterday, killing at least...
Health unions have warned that next year’s wage increase must match inflation

Food & Fuel Prices Soaring!

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HUGE petrol and food price increases have pushed up the UK cost of living, cutting workers’ wages and living standards. The Office of National Statistics...

Three-Day General Strike In Turkey

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AS THE mass uprising swept Turkey for a fourth day yesterday, Turkish trade unions called a three-day general strike against prime minister Erdogan’s AK...
The De Menezes family taking flowers to Stockwell tube on the anniversary of Jean Charles de Menezes’ death at the hands of police gunmen. They now fear that their phones may well have been hacked into

De Menezes family ‘may have been hacked’

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The family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday called upon Prime Minister Cameron to extend the remit of the inquiry into the phone hacking scandal. They demanded...

Starmer ignores calls to resign

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‘I KNOW many Members across the House will find these facts incredible (loud jeers) and to that I can only say that they are...
Students who have reoccupied Bramber House, Sussex University are planning a student strike alongside the lecturers on Dec 3rd

Students Will Strike With Lecturers On December 3!

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IN THE early hours of yesterday morning, Birmingham students were forcibly evicted from their week-long occupation of their university. In a defiant statement they said...
Doctors voting at their Annual Representative Meeting in Cardiff  yesterday

‘REJECT MARKET POLICIES IN NHS’ –BMA delegates opposed to privatisation

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DOCTORS at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Cardiff yesterday passionately opposed the privatisation of the NHS. The first motion, Motion 20, opposed...
Unison protest against cuts at Kingston Hospital

ST GEORGE’S TO BE PRIVATISED – £55m to be cut & 500 posts to...

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Campaigners against cuts at the southwest London hospital have warned that St George’s Hospital, Tooting, could be taken over by a private company as...
Young Syrians join the thousands of protesters who took to the streets of London when ex-PM Cameron tried to get parliament’s approval for the UK to join a US-led war on Syria – he lost the vote and the UK and then the US were forced to pull back

Trump Beats War Drums!

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‘WE HAVE a lot of options militarily,’ US President Trump said yesterday banging the war drums against Syria, adding that a response would be...

End British Support For Zionism Now!

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A LARGE and vocal crowd gathered in the lobby opposite the Old Bailey yesterday in support of the Filton 8, whose trial is under...

Circle to take £2m profit! –as it cuts and slashes Hinchingbrooke Hospital

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Public sector union Unison yesterday said that some of its worst fears are coming true over NHS privatisation. This came after it was revealed that...

Merkel Angers Greek Parties

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s telephone call to the Greek President Karolos Papoulias last Friday, when she asked for a referendum to be held on...

‘TORIES WANT TO SUPPRESS THE UNIONS!’ says RMT leader Mick Lynch

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‘GRANT Schapps doesn’t respect the right to strike. He wants to make strikes ineffective. I don’t believe him at all. I don’t think he’s...

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...

Postmasters Convictions Quashed!

JUDGES have quashed the convictions of 39 former postmasters after the most widespread miscarriage of ruling class justice in the history of UK capitalism. The...
Striking teachers and their supporters fighting to stop Kingsbury school being turned into an Academy

Kingsbury Teachers Strike

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STRIKING teachers at Kingsbury High School in north-west London were joined on the picket line by parents and students yesterday morning as they showed...

RMT opposes the TUC over 2nd referendum!

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RMT leader Mick Cash hit out to oppose the TUC General Council statement on Brexit saying that it was a staging post to try...

Food Prices Rocketing As The Supermarkets Impose Rationing

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FOOD prices are rising at their fastest rate for 45 years, with the cost of basics such as milk, cheese and eggs surging and...

‘lives Will Be Lost If Chase Farm Closes’

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‘I HAVE to come on the march to save my job and to save lives. If Chase Farm closes, lives will be lost,’ nurse...

Iraqis storm US embassy

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HUNDREDS of Iraqi members of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) and their supporters stormed the US embassy in Baghdad for the second day in...
Victimised firefighter RICKY MATTHEWS (left centre) with FBU general secretary MATT WRACK at yesterday’s march in Aylesbury

REINSTATE RICKY MATTHEWS! – 2,000 firefighters march through Aylesbury

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‘REINSTATE Ricky Matthews!’ demanded 2,000 firefighters on a national FBU demonstration in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, yesterday. The march took place as firefighters throughout England took 24-hour...
Adam’s mother (holding banner on left) during a United Families and Friends march to Downing Street

RICKWOOD INQUEST TO OPEN –youngest child ever to die in penal custody

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THE inquest into the death of 14-year-old Adam Rickwood in Hassockfield Secure Training Centre on 8th August 2004 will open on Monday 10 January...
Chagossians from the oldest to the youngest were demonstrating in Trafalgar Square over the weekend

All generations of Chagossians join fight

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EXILED Chagos Islanders were yesterday continuing their five-day occupation of Trafalgar Square that was launched on Friday. Jean Paul France of the Chagos Islanders...
Ranks of police charge striking miners at Orgreave in 1984

The police watchdog is considering releasing an unredacted version of its review of South...

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THE police watchdog is considering releasing an unredacted version of its review of South Yorkshire Police’s handling of events at the Battle of Orgreave...
Grenfell families greet firefighters’ Guard of Honour on the Silent March in North Kensington on May 14th

Litany Of Safety Breaches Led To Grenfell

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A LITANY of safety breaches which led to the horrific Grenfell Tower fire were revealed yesterday during the opening of the next stage...

MAY QUITS! Now bring down Tories

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AT 10:36 yesterday morning PM May announced that she will resign as PM on June 7. She said: ‘I have agreed with the Party Chairman...

Royal Mail Wants To Sell Mail Centres

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ROYAL Mail is about to break its truce with the CWU that has lasted since before Christmas through January and February. Latest reports suggest that...
Student nurses demanding the return of bursaries – financial hardships are forcing many student nurses to drop out of their courses

25% Of Nurses Drop Out Of Degree Courses

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ONE-IN-FOUR student nurses are dropping out of their degrees before graduation, according to a new investigation, adding to the ongoing NHS staffing crisis, warns...

Father of Yellow Vest whose hand blown off to sue

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THE FATHER of the Yellow Vest protester who had his hand blown off by a gas grenade in Paris on Saturday says he plans...

Thousands of Nurses protest across USA! – against staff shortages in hospitals

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AMID a steep surge in Covid-19 cases fuelled by the Omicron variant, thousands of nurses on Thursday staged nationwide protests against staff shortage in...

Johnson Hands Power To Decide To Bosses

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‘WE ARE going to give employers more discretion, and ask them to make decisions about how their staff can work safely,’ Tory PM Johnson...

Brown Beefs Up Secret State

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced to MPs that ‘the security service is to double in size to 4,000 personnel’. In a statement to the House...