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GMB Carillion members on strike at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon – unions are calling for all contracts to be brought back in-house

INTERSERVE SHARES COLLAPSE 70% ‘Toxic bandit capitalism’ – RMT

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‘ONCE AGAIN, we see the reality of bandit capitalism and its toxic impact on our public services,’ Transport union RMT said yesterday, calling for...
Workers marching on Parliament in July 2017 after Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell called for the Tories to go

‘We Have To Prepare For No Deal’ –Johnson

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‘We have to prepare for no deal... We have to prepare convincingly for no deal,’ former Tory Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told the BBC’s...
Thursday’s march in Athens. School and university students banner reads, ‘Cash to the banks – Bullets to the youth. This is the time for our days, fight for freedom and justice’

Greek Students Clash With Police

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THOUSANDS of Greek school and university students staged protest marches in Athens and 20 cities throughout the country last Thursday on the 10th anniversary...

130,000 homeless children this Xmas

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MORE than 130,000 homeless children will be living in temporary accommodation this Christmas in Britain, according to estimates by the homeless charity Shelter. In...

McDonnell capitulates to the EU!

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JOHN McDONNELL, Labour’s shadow chancellor said yesterday that Labour will vote down May’s Brexit deal, will not accept No Deal, and instead will propose...
Yellow Vests protesters out in force last week – after winning a victory the biggest ever protest is expected tomorrow

Macron Calls Off Fuel Hike

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FRENCH President Macron has been forced to completely back down and abandon his hated fuel tax hike. Spurred on by their victory the...

DON’T LET MPs STEAL BREXIT! says senior Cabinet Minister Fox

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THERE is a risk MPs will ‘steal Brexit from the British people’ if Theresa May’s proposed ‘backstop’ deal is rejected, senior cabinet minister Liam...
Hospital workers demanding no bed cuts in the NHS

‘NHS Needs 10,000 More Beds This Winter’

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A NEW BMA analysis shows that the NHS needs up to 10,000 more beds to meet pressures this winter. Hospital emergency care departments...
FBU control staff in Essex in the South East Region – East Sussex FBU has voted unanimously no confidence in their bosses

No confidence in Sussex fire bosses – FBU votes unanimously

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THE FIREFIGHTERS’ East Sussex union branch has unanimously passed a vote of no confidence in the senior leadership team of East Sussex Fire and...

May government found in contempt of Parliament!

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‘IT IS I think unprecedented for this House to find government ministers in contempt,’ Keir Starmer, Labour’s shadow Brexit Secretary said yesterday, after a...

Bring May into contempt – Labour tells Speaker Bercow

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‘I MAKE no bones about it I would have preferred to have seen a unilateral right of termination in this backstop,’ Tory Attorney General...
Marchers outside Parliament demanding the scrapping of Universal Credit

Universal Credit Cancels Christmas

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‘PREMEDITATED cruelty,’ is how Norfolk campaigners have described Universal Credit, which they call to be immediately scrapped. They have organised a meeting at City...

Labour To Charge May With Contempt Of Parliament!

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All opposition parties in the House of Commons plan to join forces today in a bid to force the government to publish the full...
Massive damage to Raqqa after US-led coalition bombing – raids are continuing with many more dead

US Air Raids Kill Over 200 Civilians

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THE Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that more than two hundred civilians lost their lives as the US-led coalition...

Labour Backs Knife Brexit Bid!

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THE LABOUR Party is backing a cross-party bid to ensure the UK cannot leave the EU without a deal, knifing in the back the...
GM workers face closing plants as Trump’s America First strategy crumbles

Global Free Trade Worst Crisis Since 1947

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THE HEAD of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) said yesterday that global free trade is facing its ‘worst crisis’ since 1947. Roberto Azevedo said that...
A section of Wednesday’s march in Athens

24-Hour Greek Nationwide Strike

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DOCKERS, seafarers, railway and Athens Metro workers participated 100% in a private-sector-only 24 hour national strike on Wednesday called by the GSEE (Greek TUC)...

Patient diverts neither safe nor effective – Confirms new EMJ research

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DIVERTING patients, who are ‘not seriously ill’, away from emergency departments is neither safe nor effective, new research published in the Emergency Medicine Journal...

‘Finances prioritised over patient care!’ – BMA reviews Scottish NHS

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A SUBSTANTIAL majority of doctors in Scotland feel that patient care is being given a lower priority in Scotland’s NHS than both finances and...

Hunger strike to shut Yarl’s Wood

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A HUNGER strike was launched by 43 women at Yarl’s Wood Detention centre in Bedford yesterday against indefinite detention, forced removal and appalling conditions....

Corbyn wants Customs Union & Single Market

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‘THERE is no deal which comes without a backstop and without a backstop there is no deal,’ Tory PM May said yesterday afternoon while...
Young doctors with a clear message on NHS cuts and privatisation

Medical companies sold NHS defective pacemakers!

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PRIVATE medical companies have been selling deficient pacemakers to the NHS knowing full well that they have failed tests, the Royal College of Surgeons...

Vauxhall And Cammell Laird Walkouts

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EVERY member of the GMB and Unite unions walked out last Friday evening at the Vauxhall car plant in Ellesmere Port in...

MACRON OUT! – demands 287,000 workers

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MORE than 287,000 people attended marches and clashed with police across France again on Saturday, wearing yellow vests to oppose tax rises on fuel...

BACK ME AGAINST REBELS! – failure May appeals to people

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‘IF THIS deal doesn’t go through, we go back to square one,’ PM May said in her interview with Radio Five Live, where she...
Bodies of some of the large numbers of Palestinians slain in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in 1982 in Lebanon by Phalangists who were allowed into the camp by Israeli soldiers, the same year as an Israeli submarine sank a Lebanese refugee ship

Israel Admits Sinking Lebanese Refugee Ship

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ISRAEL has officially admitted that its military ordered a deadly attack on a Lebanese ship carrying refugees during the regime’s invasion of the country...

‘Brexit deal fails Labour’s six tests’ says Corbyn

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TORY PM May announced yesterday that a political declaration has been ‘agreed in principle’ between the UK and the EU outlining how trade, security...

McDonnell wants a national anti-Brexit government

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LABOUR Shadow Chancellor McDonnell said yesterday that Labour may form the next government, a minority government, without a general election, if MPs don’t back...

Police hostile takeover of fire service opposed

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‘THERE’S no support for it among firefighters and there’s no support for it among police officers, there’s no support among local communities and yet...

May tries to convince CBI of her Brexit plan

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‘MY JOB is to get the best deal, Parliament must then examine it and do what is in the national interest,’ Tory PM Theresa...
Ealing Hospital Christmas picket – the hospital’s Charlie Chaplin Children’s Ward is one of many paediatric departments closed around the country

Nursing shortage shuts cancer units

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CHILDREN’S wards and cancer units are closing hand over fist across the entire country with the nurses union RCN warning that ‘skeleton staffing’ means...

‘Next Seven Days Are Critical’–May

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PM MAY yesterday warned Tory rebels pushing for a leadership contest that a new Conservative Party leader would not make negotiations with...
Assange supporters demonstrating outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London against attempts to extradite Julian Assange

US Is Preparing Assange Charges

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THE US Justice Department is preparing charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose website published thousands of classified US government documents. US federal prosecutors inadvertently...

Brexit Turncoats Rally Behind May

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ONE-TIME leading Brexiteers in the cabinet, now ‘turncoats’, have rallied behind Theresa May amid attempts to unseat her by Tory MPs. Michael Gove said...

May Rejected By House Of Commons

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‘THE BREXIT talks are about acting in the national interest and that means making what I believe to be the right choices not the...

‘Government is in chaos’ – says Corbyn

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‘THE GOVERNMENT is in chaos,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Parliament yesterday, responding to Tory PM May’s speech attempting to defend her Brexit capitulation...

APPALLING CAPITA FAILURE! –fails to send screening letters to 48,000 women

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THE BMA has criticised the ‘appalling’ failure by health privateer Capita to send cervical screening letters to up to 48,000 women. It has written...
Demonstration in Southall in July 2015 to stop the closure of the Maternity Department at Ealing Hospital – maternity closures have contributed to greater numbers of mothers and babies dying during childbirth

Lack of staff contributed to baby deaths

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LACK of midwives and the closure of maternity units have resulted in more babies suffering from brain damage, dying during childbirth, or dying soon...

Plymouth principal Phillips quits

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UNDER-FIRE City College Plymouth (CCP) principal Garry Phillips resigned yesterday after a damning report earlier this month exposed serious leadership failings at his previous...

‘Catastrophic’ Gloucester surgery move not safe! – warn 60 consultants

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A PLAN to move out-of-hours surgery from Cheltenham General Hospital seven miles away to Gloucester has been slammed by almost 60 consultants and senior...

THORNBERRY FAVOURS ‘PEOPLE’S VOTE’ – unless May agrees to ‘Six Tests’

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LABOUR’S SHADOW foreign secretary Emily Thornberry joined hands yesterday with resigned Tory Transport Minister Jo Johnson in declaring for a second referendum to reverse...
Rail workers celebrating two years of their strike to keep guards on the trains – out on Northern Rail today

REVERSE PLAN TO AXE GUARDS! – Tory minister admits they are vital

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RMT is calling for an immediate halt and reversal of plans to axe guards from trains after a government minister admitted that they are...

Half of A&Es in Red Zone

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‘OVER half of all major Emergency Departments are currently operating in the Red Zone,’ Dr Adrian Boyle of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine...

John Roan resists! – No Academisation!

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‘JOHN Roan Resists!’ is the battle cry of 1,200 pupils, their parents and 60 teachers who are in an escalating struggle to stop their...

Prisons Handed Over To Privateers Says Poa

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THE PRISON Officers Association (POA) has condemned as ‘repugnant’ the Tory plan to hand over the running of two new prisons to privateers and...