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Poisonous attack on immigrants

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MPs AND peers yesterday launched a poisonous attack on people coming to live in the UK. A new report says that ‘migrants’ should be ‘obliged’...

Private companies are screening GP referrals

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PRIVATE companies are acting as a barrier between GPs and the NHS, putting patients’ lives at risk. Millions of pounds are being spent on privately-run...
Teachers, parents and school pupils demonstrate in Bellingham in south east London against vicious education cuts

School funding cuts devastate a generation of children

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AS PUPILS return to school after the Christmas break, teachers’ unions warned yesterday that funding cuts are much worse than predicted, hitting working class...
Passengers and rail staff united in their call to renationalise the rail network – fares were hiked up, in some cases by up to 43%

Renationalise the railways –demand passengers after massive fare hikes

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‘SOUTHERN Rail is an example of privatisation gone rogue, backed by the Department for Transport. Public ownership of the railways is long overdue,’ NOR4NOR...

Israel to annexe settlement!

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ISRAEL’S education minister and leader of the far right, pro-settlement Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett, said yesterday morning he would propose a bill by...
FBU demonstration against Fire Service cuts

Fire Service stretched to the limit!

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A VERY STRETCHED fire service has been hard at work throughout New Year’s Eve and the early hours of New Year’s Day, the London...
Railworkers defy the bosses and the government and demand renationalisation

Forward To The World October!

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New Year’s statement by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2017...
Junior doctors recently came out to defend the whole of the NHS – they were allowed to fight alone

‘General Practice–is in danger of going under!’

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HELEN Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs Council, the UK’s leading doctor, warned yesterday that General Practice is in danger of...

Syria – nationwide ceasefire proposed

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RUSSIA and Turkey have reached an agreement on a proposal for a nationwide ceasefire in Syria from midnight, Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency...
Workers demonstrate outside the Bank of England in 2009 – they are still paying the price for the bankers’ crash

Workers still paying for 2008 crash says GMB

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‘SINCE the great crash of 2007/8 the twin features of inflation of 27% and little or no pay rises have taken a heavy toll...
All over the country, NHS staff, their patients and supporters are battling to save the NHS from the Tory government

No NHS Bed Cuts!

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CALLS by NHS England chief nursing officer Jane Cummings to cut acute care beds and close District General Hospitals, were roundly condemned by a...
Lively mass Xmas picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning demanding that the STP closure plans are thrown out

Throw STP plans out!

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‘THROW the STP plans out!’ said Roseline Nwangwu an Ealing Hospital worker yesterday morning. Unite union member Roseline added: ‘If they close Ealing Hospital...
French trade unionists, members of the CGT, joined RMT picket lines to show their support. Trade unionists across the world are watching very closely the developments in the British rail industry

TUBE STATION STAFF TO STRIKE ON JAN 8th & 9th

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FOLLOWING last month’s ballot result in favour of taking industrial action, RMT’s National Executive Committee has taken the decision to call action and...

Steelworkers are resisting TATA plan – while unions stay on the fence

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A DEAL to change Tata’s pension scheme has proved harder to sell to staff than was expected. It is being resisted by steelworkers who have...
Horton Hospital is one of many that have been lobbying 10 Downing Street to tell the government ‘Hands off our Maternity Services’

Defend Maternity Services – THEY MUST NOT CLOSE!

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CAMPAIGNERS fighting the closure of maternity services in Lincolnshire say they will ‘not back down!’ Plans to remove consultant-led services in Boston and ‘centralise them’...
Postal workers among the 100-strong rally outside the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy demanding no closures of Crown Post Offices

Nationwide Post Office strike

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‘UNLESS we fight now, the future of the whole of the Post Office network is threatened. The high street Post Offices will no longer...
RMT pickets at Victoria Station emphasising what the Southern rail strike is all about

Grayling wants to bust unions – RMT condemns Tory witch-hunt

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‘THIS is an industrial dispute about safety, we are not trying to bring the government down,’ RMT general secretary Mick Cash insisted yesterday. He was...

Bed shortages ‘threat to patient care’ says the RCN!

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WINTER hospital bed shortages pose a ‘real threat’ to patient care, the Nuffield Trust warned yesterday. On average, about 95% of English hospital beds were...

Abolish pensioners’ bus passes and triple-lock pensions! – urges Stephens & Health Secretary Hunt

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HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stephens, has angered millions of workers with his suggestions that pensioners’ free bus passes and their triple-lock pension arrangements...

Abolish pensioners’ bus passes and triple-lock pensions! – urges Stephens & Health Secretary...

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HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stephens, has angered millions of workers with his suggestions that pensioners’ free bus passes and their triple-lock pension arrangements...
Hundreds of Chagossians rally outside the Foreign Office condemning the British government for preventing them from returning home to the Chagos Islands

Chagos Islanders Betrayed

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SOME 100 Chagossians demonstrated opposite Downing Street yesterday over their treatment by the British government. Frankie Bontemps told News Line: ‘We’re here following the decision...
Pickets at Heathrow during the 2010 cabin crew strike that brought in cut-price cabin crew

Cabin Crew Strike Over Poverty Pay!

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THOUSANDS of cabin crew working for British Airways ‘Mixed Fleet’ have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action over poverty pay and broken promises. Seventy-nine...

£3bn of savage education cuts

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CHILDREN will pay a terrible price for £3 billion of savage Tory school budget cuts, education unions warned yesterday. State schools in England will have...
Southern rail Aslef pickets at the Selhurst depot yesterday morning

Aslef strikes for safety!

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STRIKING train drivers brought the Southern rail network to a halt yesterday in their dispute over safety. Members of the Aslef union walked out for...
Aslef drivers on the picket line during a previous strike – they are out for 48 hours in an escalating struggle over safety

Aslef strike today!

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SOUTHERN rail yesterday lost its appeal to attempt to ban the Southern rail drivers’ strike, so the two day strike has gone ahead. The strike...

Merger of Fire Service and Police rejected by FBU!

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THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has said a new report that calls for Staffordshire Fire and Rescue to be merged with the police is...
Riot police confront thousands of Greek youth who marched on December 6th to remember the assassination of 15-year-old  Alexandros Grigiropoulos who was shot dead in cold blood on December 6th 2008

Greek general strike against tax hikes & labour laws

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SOME 15,000 workers, youth and students marched through the Athens city centre last Thursday morning in two different demonstrations as part of the one-day...

Terrorists firing on fleeing civilians!

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THE UN human rights office has finally admitted that foreign-backed terrorist bands are blocking civilians from fleeing eastern parts of the Syrian...
Tata steel workers march through London in defence of their jobs

Tata Steel – pension cuts and no jobs guarantees!

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THE DEAL, struck between unions and Tata Steel, which guarantees no compulsory redundancies at Port Talbot for five years and accepts the end of...
Last week’s mass picket of Ealing Hospital – West London Council of Action is calling on the trade unions to occupy the hospital and defend all its departments

Stp Onslaught On Ealing & Charing Cross Hospitals

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EALING and Charing Cross District General Hospitals are to have their Accident and Emergency Departments closed under the North West London Sustainability and Transformation...

Article 50 Showdown Postponed

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ON Tuesday, facing a rebellion from an estimated 40 pro-EU Tory MPs and likely defeat in the House of Commons, the government made an...
Morale was high on the Southern rail picket line at Victoria Station yesterday morning

‘The slippery slope to privatisation!’

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RAIL union RMT said yesterday it will fight Transport Secretary Chris Grayling’s plans to privatise Network Rail. The RMT lobbied a major speech on rail...

Syria: cusp of victory!

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THE SYRIAN government forces are on the cusp of victory! They have liberated the majority of eastern Aleppo and are driving the terrorist...
In this period of vicious attacks on the NHS every hospital is fighting for survival

Critical Stroke Surgery Is Being Denied!

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THOUSANDS of patients are being put at risk of major strokes because the NHS is failing to give them critical surgery in time, a...

Legal bid to halt Aslef strike

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SOUTHERN rail owner Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) yesterday launched a legal bid to stop ASLEF’s strike action. GTR issued proceedings at the High Court to...
Junior Doctors defending the NHS – now vital training is being axed

‘VITAL TRAINING IS BEING SACRIFICED’ says Junior Doctors chairman

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SLEEP-deprived junior doctors, subjected to an ever increasing heavy workload, are losing out on vital training and this, in turn, is impacting patient care,...

Labour Stabs Iraq In The Back

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LABOUR leader Corbyn absented himself from the vote on Wednesday night when Labour and Tory MPs voted down an SNP motion condemning the ...
Student nurses and midwives campaigning against the ending of bursaries – now they are to be saddled with £51,600 of fee debt

No To Nurse Apprentices!

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TORY Health Secretary Hunt’s announ-cement yesterday that there are to be 1,000 nurse apprentices in hospitals was condemned by health professionals and unions yesterday. Rehana...
Workers from Huddersfield Royal Infirmary marching to 10 Downing Street to tell PM May that their hospital must remain open and fully functioning

NHS ‘CAN’T DELIVER WHAT IS REQUIRED!’ says Hopson

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‘WE FACE the greatest challenge in a generation,’ NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson told its annual conference in Birmingham yesterday. The just launched The...
Striking Southern rail guards on the picket line at the Selhurst depot on November 23rd. Photo credit RMT

Southern drivers 9-day strike

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SOUTHERN train drivers in the ASLEF union are bringing the network to grinding halt over the Xmas period with nine days of strike action. The...
Huddersfield Royal Infirmary workers demand  a united fight to stop all NHS hospital cuts and closures

NHS Patient Care Is Under Threat

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THE quality and safety of patient care in general practice in England is under threat from rising workload pressures according to a major new...
A lively mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning demanded the reopening of the maternity and children’s services

ANGRY EALING NHS PICKET – closed maternity department now a film set

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‘I HAVE never seen, in the whole world, a hospital, which is meant to save people’s lives, which is meant to treat pregnant women...

‘Dreadful Outlook For Wages!’

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LIVING standards are the worst since the last war ‘if not since the 1920s’, the leader of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) declared...
Protest against the Housing Act outside Parliament as Tory Chancellor Hammond delivered his Autumn Statement

Tory War On Workers

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CHANCELLOR Hammond used his Autumn Statement in the House of Commons yesterday to warn that the Tory war on the working class and poor...

Storm Disaster Anger Erupts!

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STORM Angus, after ripping through the UK, has caused torrential downpours and flash floods that have destroyed homes, turned roads into rivers and left...