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BMA rejects NHS privatisation

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ALMOST every single doctor voted to oppose the introduction and imposition of an insurance-based healthcare system into the UK. The almost unanimous vote...
Doctors and medical professionals on the NHS march in February demanding that they are registered to work in the NHS where they are desperately needed

Home Office: ‘obscene moneymaking machine’

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IN LIGHT of the Windrush scandal, ‘obscene’ Home Office fees have been slammed by campaigners who brand the Home Office as ‘a money-making machine’...
Thousands marched in London last February demanding no cuts in NHS services

STOP WASTING BILLIONS ON THE HEALTH MARKET – Nagpaul to tell BMA ARM

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DOCTORS’ leader Chaand Nagpaul is today warning of an ‘all year’ crisis in the NHS as eight in ten doctors say underfunding is significantly...
Tangmere House residents CISEM STAINES her mother and young son

‘They won’t tell us if our block will be demolished’ – Tangmere resident

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‘THEY haven’t told us how long we are moving temporarily. They haven’t even told us whether they will demolish the block,’ Cisem Staines from...

Towers Threatened With Collapse

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TWO tower blocks on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham are at risk of a ‘catastrophic collapse’. After the horrific Grenfell fire, which left so...
RASHAN CHARLES was just twenty years old when he died

‘I will not stop’ fighting for justice for Rashan!

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‘I WILL not stop with this case while I’m still breathing,’ Rod Charles vowed yesterday. Rod Charles is the great uncle of Rashan Charles...

EU Withdrawal Bill proceeds Lords amendment rejected

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THE GOVERNMENT saw off an attempt by Remainers to adopt the Lords amendment which would have allowed a ‘meaningful vote’ on the final Brexit...
Protest against the privateer benefit assessor Maximus

Tories stripping MS sufferers of mobility

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THE TORIES have been stripping sufferers of multiple sclerosis of the vital funds they need to buy mobility scooters and vehicles if they can...
Joint FBU-Justice4Grenfell march last Saturday – firefighters have been exonerated by fire experts at the Grenfell Inquiry

Refurbishment to blame for fire deaths – Fire expert tells Inquiry

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FIREFIGHTERS were not to blame for the stay-put strategy in the Grenfell Tower, fire expert Dr Barbara Lane told the Inquiry, it is...

Vital local council services collapsing

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VITAL local services are collapsing, council workers have warned in a new survey conducted by their union, Unison. Unison warned that Tory cuts have...

PM May’s 10-year NHS plan a fraud!

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YESTERDAY’S claim by Tory PM May that she will hand over an extra £20bn a year to the NHS was described by Labour’s Shadow...

Horton quits – now renationalise says RMT leader Cash

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THE boss of rail privateer, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is to resign after the company’s new timetables brought the railway to a near halt....

4,600 Rolls Royce ‘jobs devastation’ – Unite & GMB

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FOUR thousand six hundred jobs have been axed at Rolls-Royce which ‘will not only have a devastating impact on workers but also on the...
Writing tributes on the memorial at the base of Grenfell Tower yesterday

Grenfell Anniversary

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‘WE WANT the nation to keep Grenfell in their consciousness, member of the Justice4Grenfell campaign group Yvette Williams said on the anniversary of the...
One year after the fire there has been a lack of progress with no ban on cladding and survivors are still waiting to be properly rehoused

Grenfell Inferno–one year on!

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‘WE FEEL tomorrow is about remembering and honouring the 72 that died,’ Justice4Grenfell campaign co-ordinator Yvette Williams told News Line yesterday ahead of today’s...

Remainers attempts to reverse Brexit defeated

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REMAINER MPs were defeated in their attempts to reverse Brexit yesterday after the majority voted to disagree with Lords Amendment 19 on a ‘meaningful...

‘Complete denuclearisation’ – Trump signs agreement with Kim Jong-un

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US PRESIDENT Trump announced he has agreed to suspend ‘war games’ with South Korea in return for a commitment to the ‘complete denuclearisation of...
Students on the NUS march demand nationwide action – they demand the end of all fees and for living grants to be restored

Restore student grants demand UCU and NUS!

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‘THE POOREST students will graduate with the largest debt. We concur that the reintroduction of grants is essential,’ Emily Chapman, NUS Vice-President (Further Education)...

Trump Blasts G7 Summit

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AFTER departing early from the G7 summit in Quebec for Singapore, President Donald Trump called on US representatives not to endorse the joint communique...
An enthusiastic crowd gathers at the start of yesterday’s Al Quds march outside the Saudi Embassy in central London

Thousands March For Palestine

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‘PALESTINE in its entirety must be handed back to the Palestinians, from the River to the Sea,’ Rasa Maxim spokesperson for IHRC said yesterday...

‘THE HEART OF REMAIN!’ – Boris Johnson condemns Treasury

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FOREIGN Secretary Boris Johnson has declared civil war in the Tory Party and savaged Chancellor Hammond and the Treasury as being the main...
Grenfell firefighters form a Guard of Honour for the silent march – the community supports them 100 per cent

Grenfell Tower ‘a highly combustible deathtrap’ – –Seaward representing FBU tells inquiry

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THE LONDON Fire Brigade (LFB) and the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) gave evidence on Day 11 of the Grenfell Inquiry, answering media slurs at...

Corbyn stays silent over Second Referendum!

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn twice refused to rule out a second referendum yesterday when challenged during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons....

Train chaos – Heathrow expansion – Grayling must go!

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‘THE ONLY reason that the secretary of state (Chris Grayling) is at the dispatch box today is that the Prime Minister is too weak...
North Kensington resident holds up charred insulation from the Grenfell Tower inferno – cladding used on the tower has been revealed to be more flammable than petrol

Grenfell cladding ‘more flammable than petrol!’

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THE REFURBISHMENT of Grenfell Tower ‘rendered it a death trap’ through the installation of cladding ‘more flammable than petrol,’ Stephanie Barwise QC told the...
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...

Hostile environment challenged

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THE TORY government’s ‘hostile environment’, blocking students from studying in the UK, blocking overseas doctors from working in the NHS, while demanding landlords...

Squeeze On Low Paid Is Intensifying!

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THE squeeze on Britain’s 10 million low paid workers is at risk of intensifying over the coming decade said a report on ‘The State...
Health workers on the TUC march on May 12th – thousands of patients have been discharged too soon because of a lack of beds

Thousands of patients sent home too soon!

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THE NHS is so short staffed, with such a lack of beds that patients are being sent home too early, as a result...

Trump Declares Trade War – On The Eu, Canada & Mexico

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THE CAPITALIST world was rocking yesterday after President Trump’s declaration of a trade war on his European Union, Canadian and Mexican rivals. The US...
Riot police attack demonstrators on Wednesday in Athens. Photo credit: Marios Lolos

Greek One-Day General Strike

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UNDER the umbrella of ‘Social Alliance’, the GSEE (Greek TUC), the ADEDY (public sector workers’ unions federation) and the small and medium sized business...

‘Hospitals a thing of the past’ – vicious Tory attack on NHS

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HOSPITALS as we know them will become a thing of the past ‘over the course of the next decade’, with patients being treated...
Support for firefighters who risked their lives saving residents of the Grenfell Tower inferno is solid with survivors and local  residents on this month’s Silent March lining up to shake their hands

Grenfell survivors abandoned by Council

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KENSINGTON and Chelsea council’s response to the Grenfell Tower, which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children was ‘badly flawed’ leaving...

Anti-terror laws misused to deport professionals!

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THE TRUE nature of PM May’s ‘hostile environment’ has come to light after it emerged that legislation designed to tackle terrorism has been misused...

New European banking crash fears

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A FRESH European-wide banking crash has reared its head as the euro tumbled to a six-month low yesterday in reaction to the Italian crisis....

Israeli Jets Strike Gaza

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ISRAELI war planes pounded Hamas positions in Gaza yesterday with a series of air strikes. They said they were responding to the launch of 28...

Eu Appoints The Italian Government!

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FACING calls for his impeachment, Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella yesterday appointed former International Monetary Fund official Carlo Cottarelli as interim Prime Minister. Known as...

READY FOR GENERAL ELECTION says Labour leader Corbyn

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JEREMY Corbyn has put Labour activists on ‘permanent notice’ amid rumours in Westminster of another general election. He said he would ‘absolutely welcome’ a...
Palestinian youth carry a man injured after being shot by Israeli forces on the Gaza border

EXPLOSIVE BULLETS IN GAZA! supported by Israel’s Supreme Court

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THE Israeli Supreme Court rejected on Thursday night two petitions and fully adopted the Israeli military’s position, giving a green light to its continued...
Trump’s letter to Kim Jong-un

Trump cancels N Korean summit

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US PRESIDENT Trump released a letter yesterday afternoon which stated that the summit between him and North Korean President Kim Jong-un has been cancelled....

Emergency GP surgery appointments only!

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SURGERIES are in such crisis that one in six GPs have cancelled all routine appointments at some point over the last year, seeing emergency...
The RMT is in the front rank of the struggle to keep guards on trains and to renationalise the entire rail network

End Taxpayer Bailouts Of Private Railways!

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WITH services collapsing into chaos the RMT has demanded publication of contract documentation which shows that Northern Rail get paid whether they run services...
Health professionals on the march in February demand the government grant overseas doctors visas to come and work in the NHS where they are desperately needed

A&E beds & doctors crisis – May blocks 100 Indian doctors’ visas

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A SEVERE shortfall of both A&E doctors and hospital beds must be tackled, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said in response...

‘Strongest sanctions on Iran in history!’ – US ultimatum

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‘NO ONE can force Iran to do this,’ Iran will stay in Syria as long as it wants, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran...
The silent march on May 14th – 11 months after of the Grenfell Tower Inferno

Bereaved Grenfell relatives left out of UK!

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BEREAVED Grenfell relatives were unable to attend the start of public inquiry yesterday due to Home Office visa delays, with family members who have...