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ALL LABOUR MPs FACING RE-SELECTION! – Corbyn tells campaign launch

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JEREMY Corbyn launching his official campaign to remain the leader of the Labour Party promised to ‘hold out the hand of friendship’...
Junior doctors battling against the attempt by Health Secretary Hunt to dictate their contract to them

DROP IMPOSED CONTRACT – Royal College urges Secretary Hunt

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HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s decision to impose the new contract onto junior doctors must be reversed since the premise behind the contract’s...

Google handed private medical records

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PATIENTS, NHS workers and privacy campaigners alike are outraged that people’s private medical records are to be put on the internet without their consent...
Nurses, doctors and NHS staff say the NHS is ‘Not Safe in Tory Hands’ – the Tories invested £3.9bn less in the NHS than they said

Tories short-changed NHS by £3.9bn

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THE TORY government gave the ‘wrong impression’ about how much extra they are spending on the NHS, the Health Select Committee said. The committee disputed...
Student nurses marching in London last month shouting ‘Hand off our bursaries!’ – the RCN calls for all the cuts to be halted

Reverse NHS funding cuts! – RCN responds to new health report

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‘YEARS of squeezing more and more out of an overstretched workforce has left the NHS in a perilous position,’ the Royal College of Nursing...
Labour leader CORBYN marching with steelworkers in London in May

Labour Right Wing Ready For Breakaway!

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150 LABOUR MPs are plotting to form a breakaway party codenamed ‘Continuity Labour’ when Jeremy Corbyn wins the leadership battle. Pontypridd Labour MP Stephen Kinnock...
Demonstration to defend the NHS marching from Bart’s Hospital on Thursday evening

NHS AT RISK! – warns Public Accounts Committee

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MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned that the disproportionate growth in spending on specialised services poses a risk to the financial...

Reducing staff levels puts patients at risk

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THE ROYAL Colleges, nurses, and NHS workers have reacted angrily to NHS Improvement chief executive Jim Mackey’s outrageous comments that ‘safe staffing levels had...
Junior doctors condemn Hunt and his campaign to impose a contract and impose 7-day working without 7-day funding

May keeps Hunt as NHS Secretary

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TORY Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and ex-Education Secretary Michael Gove were both sacked from the Tory cabinet yesterday as new Tory PM Theresa May...

NURSES FACE SACK! –no more bail-outs says Mackey

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NURSES and other vital health workers face the sack within weeks, Jim Mackey, the chief executive of NHS Improvement, the body which is now...

US refused to prosecute HSBC money launderers

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US officials refused to prosecute UK-based HSBC bank for money laundering in 2012 because of fears that it would cause a ‘global financial...
Thousands of parents on May 3rd took their children out of school to boycott the SATs – over 10,000 call for Education Secretary Morgan to quit

MORGAN MUST GO! – Demand 10,000-strong petition & NUT

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TORY Education Secretary ‘Nicky Morgan has failed and must resign!’ teachers union NUT demanded yesterday. Teachers, parents and school students are furious at the chaos...

McCLUSKEY CONDEMNS WATSON FOR ‘SABOTAGING’ PEACE EFFORTS

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UNITE general secretary Len McCluskey on Saturday issued an important statement refuting claims that Jeremy Corbyn was responsible for Tom Watson’s withdrawal from...
Jeremy Corbyn marches with steel workers through London

Corbyn will fight any bid to keep him off ballot paper!

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn told the BBC yesterday that he was ‘disappointed’ Angela Eagle had chosen to run against him and would fight any...
Childrens services are under attack all over the country – picture shows them being defended at Ealing Hospital

‘We will not stand by and watch them destroy our fabulous service!’ – says...

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THREE of the 13 hospitals across England that provide complex heart care have been ordered to stop doing so by NHS England, alleging concerns...
Steel workers march past parliament in May demanding action to save the steel industry

Unite demands Guarantee for Port Talbot steel!

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TATA steel at Port Talbot in Wales is being allowed to ‘wither on the vine’ while the specialised side of the business...

‘Blair Lied Thousands Died’

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‘Blair lied, thousands died! Tony Blair, war criminal,’ chanted hundreds assembled outside the QE2 Centre, Westminster, yesterday. They were taking part in a demonstration organised...
Yesterday’s rally outside the QE2 Centre as Chilcot made his long awaited report public

Blair ‘the world’s worst terrorist!’

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‘There is one terrorist in this world that the world needs to be aware of and his name is Tony Blair, the world’s worst...
Thousands of teachers march through central London yesterday during their nationwide strike against savage cuts

‘We are defending education’ from massive Tory cuts!

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‘THIS demo is just the start, this strike is just the start,’ Kevin Courtney NUT acting General Secretary told a mass rally of teachers...

58% of Junior doctors reject Hunt contract!

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JUNIOR doctors have voted to reject the latest contract by 58% on a 68% turnout, a contract which doctors rightly insist is ‘unfair’ and...
Teachers joined junior doctors on a mass march through central London last month – teachers are out on strike today

Teachers strike today – worst funding cuts since 1970s

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‘SCHOOLS are facing the worst cuts in funding since the 1970s,’ the NUT warned as teachers at every school in the country walked out...
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addresses a huge crowd of supporters outside SOAS last Wednesday evening

McCluskey slams Blairite coupists – but calls on unions to broker a deal

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Unite leader Len McCluskey said yesterday that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been the victim of a ‘political lynching’ orchestrated by ‘sinister forces’,...

‘We can’t allow the City to sink beneath the waves’

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‘WHILE there is a need for fundamental reform for the City, neither should we just allow it to sink beneath the waves,’ shadow Chancellor...
Mass picket outside Ealing Hospital yesterday morning – the day the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward was due for closure, putting children’s lives into jeopardy

Ealing mass picket condemns the closure of Children’s Ward

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A LOUD and angry mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning condemned the closure of the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward and the barring of...
With Charlie Chaplin leading the way, the marchers reached Ealing Hospital where they demanded that the children’s ward be kept open

‘Save Charlie Chaplin ward’! – Occupy!

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‘TRADE unions must act – save our children’s services!’ rang out as the three hundred-strong march from Southall to Ealing Hospital proceeded yesterday afternoon. The...

Chagos Islanders ‘Cannot Return’

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FORMER residents of the Chagos Islands who were forcibly removed from their homeland more than 40 years ago have lost their legal challenge to...

Cambridge Lecturers Striking Tomorrow!

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CAMBRIDGE University lecturers are striking tomorrow in the increasingly bitter tidal wave of strikes being waged nationally by the University and College...
JEREMY CORBYN with a number of trade union leaders at the front of a recent steelworkers demonstration in London

100% behind Jeremy Corbyn says BFAWU, RMT, ASLEF, PCS, GMB and FBU

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‘I AM absolutely 100% behind Jeremy Corbyn,’ BFAWU Bakers Union General Secretary Ronnie Draper told News Line yesterday, as the attempted coup by a...
Labour leader CORBYN (centre) with trade union leaders at a demonstration of steelworkers in London

Anti-Corbyn coup attempt!

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SEVEN right wing Labour shadow cabinet members quit yesterday, with more resignations expected, as a coup attempt got underway to remove Jeremy Corbyn as...

WORKERS BRING DOWN CAMERON –with massive vote against EU

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YESTERDAY British capitalism was rocked to its core as the consequences of the massive Brexit vote to leave the EU emerged. Tory leader Cameron...
Greek dockworkers marching against privatisation and drastic changes in labour conditions

Greek dockers fight privatisation

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DOCKWORKERS of the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki have completed one month of strike action against privatisation and consequent dramatic change...

NUT to strike on July 5

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THE NUT has announced that members in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action to protect pay and working conditions. In the...
ScotRail RMT members on the picket line at Glasgow Central Station on the second day of their strike over safety

Railworkers fighting for safety!

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ON THE second day of the ScotRail strike, the RMT revealed that the Dutch-state parent company and top bosses are raking it in at...
Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists marching on May Day giving a lead to the whole working class

VOTE TO ‘LEAVE’! – and to kick Cameron out

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MILLIONS of workers today will be following the lead of the RMT, ASLEF and the Bakers’ trade unions in voting to leave the European...
MICK CASH RMT general secretary (second from left) joined the RMT picket line at Eastbourne yesterday morning

Southern Rail strike ‘rock solid’!

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RMT General Secretary Mick Cash joined the Southern Rail picket line in Eastbourne yesterday morning, declaring the strike ‘rock solid’. ‘Our members on Southern are...

‘Don’t blame me’–if ‘Remain’ loses says Corbyn!

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ASKED if he would take the blame if Britain votes to leave the EU tomorrow, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn replied: ‘I’m not going...
Junior doctors in the front line against imposed contracts, privatisation and not getting the number of staff that the NHS requires

Bma Slams Tories And Privatisation!

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IN his speech to the BMA’s ARM, Dr Mark Porter, BMA council chair, said: ‘The government is in denial. The chancellor says...

HALT ATTACK ON BURSARIES – RCN, BMA, Unison, Unite, RCM urge government

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LED by the RCN, a coalition of over 20 health care trade unions, charities and professional colleges yesterday called on the government to...
The demonstration to back the Orgeave Justice Campaign’s call for a full inquiry into the police attack on thousands of striking miners at Orgreave thirty two years ago

Orgreave ‘never forget, never forgive’

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OVER 700 trade unionists, former miners and determined supporters, demonstrated on Saturday in Sheffield to back the Orgreave Justice Campaign’s call for a full...
Defiant student nurses and junior doctors – nurses are defending their bursaries and the junior doctors are voting on Hunt’s new contract

80% don’t trust Tories over NHS!

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THE vast majority of the public are worried about the future of the NHS and a majority believe it is heading in the wrong...

TAKE GOVIA INTO PUBLIC OWNERSHIP demands RMT

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A NEW RMT hotline exposes 33 examples of Govia Thameslink cancelling trains due to ‘staff shortage’ or other excuses when a full crew of...

NHS Unions Must Occupy North Mid Hospital

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THE General Medical Council (GMC) has threatened to close North Middlesex District General Hospital including its Accident & Emergency Department. The GMC, which regulates doctors,...

Throw out ‘new’ Junior Doctors’ contract

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JUNIOR Doctors must vote from tomorrow to throw out the junior doctor contract agreed by the BMA and the Department of Health on 27...

Bakers and rail unions say ‘Leave’ – as TUC & Corbyn prop up Cameron

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‘OUR union has just reiterated its stance and that is that it is to vote to leave the EU,’ Ronnie Draper, General Secretary of...
Junior doctors and nurses are battling to defend the NHS from the attacks of the Tories led by health secretary Hunt

Austerity has produced the healthcare crisis says BMA

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THE GP funding crisis is seeing patients in the most deprived areas of England facing poorer levels of care due to an over-reliance on...