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Ambulance workers on the picket line outside Deptford Ambulance Station striking over pay – there is a massive lack of ambulance staff, creating an enormous crisis

AMBULANCE CRISIS: Patients are dying!

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AN AMBULANCE staff shortage has reached such a critical point, GPs warn, that very young and elderly patients are dying before getting to hospital. This...

£22bn more NHS cuts planned

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NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) will have to deliver £22bn in cuts by 2020/2021 in order to balance health and social care spending...

Forced labour for ex-Calais children

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REFUGEE children sent from the demolished ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais are being used as forced labour in fruit farms, a charity has claimed. So far...
Striking junior doctors pointed out that they were defending the NHS against a Tory onslaught and that it needed saving

Reading’s massive STP cuts!

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READING Borough Council has become the latest local authority to publish the NHS’s Draft Local Sustainability and Transformation Plan for its...
The battling junior doctors showed every worker that the Tories were determined to smash the NHS

Defend The NHS! Kick Tories Out!

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THE government’s hospital closure programme could be derailed if masses of people take to the streets, said Chris Hopson, the leader of NHS England’s...

The ‘Elite’ Russell Group Is Super-Exploiting Lecturers

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THE UK’s so-called ‘elite Russell Group’ universities are the worst offenders when it comes to employing academics on precarious contracts, reveals a just released...
Riot police attack workers and youth in Athens on Tuesday night. Photo credot: MARIOS LOLOS

RIOT POLICE ATTACK WORKERS – as Obama arrives in Athens

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HUNDREDS of armed riot police (MAT) in full gear viciously attacked a militant march in Athens against the visit of US President Barack Obama...
Prison officers outside Brixton prison forced to take strike action for health and safety reasons

May uses courts against prison officers!

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THE government was in the High Court yesterday where it won an injunction against striking prison staff. The court ordered prison staff to return to...
March through north London to stop the closure of Whittington hospital A&E – leaked STPs reveal that is exactly what is on the agenda

Secret plans to destroy NHS

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PLANS to close A&Es, maternity services, children’s departments and entire hospitals up and down the country have begun to emerge as the Tory government’s...
Demonstrators in London last month fighting against the closure of the maternity department at Horton Hospital in Oxfordshire

STPs are to dictate budget & service cuts – says BMA

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THE government must not use ‘transformation’ plans as a cover for further cuts to the NHS, says the British Medical Association. Responding to a...

Anti-Brexit insurgents gather!

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LIBERAL Democrat, Labour and SDLP MPs have said they are prepared to vote against triggering Article 50 which begins the process of leaving the...

FOODBANK USE ROCKETS! – huge demand for emergency food supplies

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THE number of emergency food supplies given out by Farnborough Foodbank has risen by 5.27% in the last year. Farnborough Foodbank is part of The...

May welcomes Trump victory

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EARLY on Wednesday morning Donald Trump’s Republican Party reached the all-important 270 electoral college votes, meaning that he had won the election to become...
PCS leader MARK SERWOTKA (centre) at a rally against cuts

‘A despicable act of bad faith’ – PCS condemns government

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THE Public and Commercial Services union has described the government’s imposition of further cuts to redundancy terms as a ‘despicable act of bad faith’...
The Tory benefit cap came into force yesterday, plunging tens of thousands of families into poverty

Benefit cap plunges families into poverty

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‘CUTTING social security even further and plunging more families into poverty is simply cruel, punishing the poorest in our society for the Tories’ economic failure,’ Public...

Brexit crisis continues

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‘THE goverment’s priority at every stage following the European Union referendum has been to respect the outcome of that referendum and to ensure it...

Junior doctors considering more strike actions!

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JUNIOR doctors have been considering more strikes after the chairman of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors’ committee resigned last Friday night, following a...
Camden librarians on Saturday’s march

‘Keep Our Libraries Open’

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OVER 5,000 library campaigners, trade unionists, their families and supporters marched against cuts and closures from the British Library through central London to Trafalgar...

Get Ready For Crisis Election

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STEPHEN Phillips Tory MP for Sleaford and North Hykeham quit as an MP yesterday. He had a majority of more than 24,000 over Labour in...

120,000 children homeless this Xmas

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ONE hundred and twenty thousand children will wake up homeless this Christmas across Britain, Shelter warned yesterday. Shelter has launched an urgent appeal after...

Judges back Parliament against the people!

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THE JUDICIARY yesterday sought to rescue the Parliament from the people with its ruling that the House of Commons must agree before the process...

Winter A&E Crisis Now All Year Round

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THE Royal College of Emergency Medicine yesterday welcomed the findings of the report into the pressures facing emergency departments throughout the winter. The report finds...

THIRD OF A&Es SET TO CLOSE

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A THIRD of all A&Es across the country are set to close under the Tory government’s new Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), causing the...
RMT president SEAN HOYLE, assistant general secretary STEVE HEDLEY and general secretary MICK CASH (all behind the banner from the front, left) on the union’s 300-strong protest opposite parliament against driver-only trains

RMT Calls For General Strike!

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RMT leaders yesterday responded defiantly to Southern rail’s threat that if guards strike and do not sign new contracts by Friday, they will be...

Tory NHS Funding Scandal

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THE TORY government’s claim that it is injecting an extra £10bn into the NHS in England over the next five years is simply ‘misleading,’...
Mounted police cavalry charge striking miners at the Orgeave coke depot – Rudd announced no inquiry into police violence

Fury At No Inquiry Into Orgreave

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‘I HAVE concluded that there is no case for either a statutory inquiry or an independent review,’ into the battle of Orgreave, home secretary...

Scrap Capability Assessments! – the cause of ‘needless misery’

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Damian Green is today set to announce a consultation on reforming the hated Work Capability Assessment Tests of claimants of...

‘A MONUMENTAL VICTORY!’ – GMB wins Uber Tribunal

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‘A MONUMENTAL victory!’ the GMB union declared yesterday as the London employment tribunal ruled against Uber and in favour of the workforce who are...

MoJ presiding over a bloodbath

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‘THE Ministry of Justice is presiding over a bloodbath of assaults, suicides and self-injury in prisons,’ Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League...

Sanctions Linked To Foodbanks!

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NEW University of Oxford research confirms there is a strong link between increased benefit sanctions and higher foodbank use. The University of Oxford researchers analysed...
A ‘Refugees Welcome’ rally on the Millennium Bridge yesterday morning makes its message very clear

Refugees Are Welcome Here

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‘HAVE a heart London,’ chanted a whole crowd of Refugees Welcome demonstrators waving red hearts on the Millennium Bridge over the River Thames yesterday. One...

Resolution’s £84bn black hole

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THE Resolution Foundation economic think tank is warning in a report, Pressing the Reset Button, published yesterday that the Chancellor faces an £84bn borrowing...
‘Hands off our Horton’ demand demonstrators from North Oxfordshire in Trafalgar Square, London on October 10th

NHS Alarm Bells Ringing!

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THE NORTH Central London Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) has been unveiled, only the second in the country to do so, and it has...

France & UK halt child transfers

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THE HOME Office announced yesterday that the transfer of refugee children from Calais to Britain has been halted while the destruction of the camp...
There is massive support in Britain for the Calais refugees and their right to make a home in Britain if they wish

12,000 police plus troops ready to assault Calais ‘camp’

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TENSIONS were high in the ‘Jungle’ Calais refugee camp yesterday as defiant occupants braced themselves for today’s scheduled closure. There were clashes with French...
Junior doctors fighting Hunt’s contract imposition – now all NHS unions face the same threat and treatment

Hunt to ‘reform’ all NHS contracts!

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TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt, after attempting to impose an unsafe and unfair contract on junior doctors, now wants new contracts for one million...

Derby schools 25% pay cut

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UNISON is accusing Derby City Council of inflaming tensions and escalating a dispute with school support staff who have seen their pay slashed by...
TUC deputy general secretary PAUL NOVAK (back row, centre) was among the enthusiastic pickets at Victoria Station yesterday morning. He brought the support of the General Council

Southern rail ‘gambling with passenger safety’ – TUC

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TUC deputy general secretary Paul Novak joined RMT striking Southern rail guards on their morning picket line at London’s Victoria station yesterday. Novak told News...

Rough Sleeping Doubles!

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HOMELESSNESS charity St Mungo’s revealed yesterday that 129 rough sleepers died in London since 2010 – an average of one a fortnight – while...

Huge sussex education cuts!

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HEAD teachers from all 250 primary schools in West Sussex have written to Theresa May to demand an extra £20 million as they face...
Rock solid picket line outside Victoria station yesterday morning on the first day of the three-day Southern guards strike

Aslef Driver Only Strike Ballot

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TRAIN drivers in the ASLEF union are to join their RMT colleagues in an escalating struggle against Driver Only Operated (DOO) on Southern...

MOSUL OFFENSIVE BEGINS – ‘The hour of our victory has come’ says Iraqi PM

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THE ASSAULT on the Iraqi city of Mosul has begun, with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announcing in a televised address in the early...

‘Obsessive’ Grammars Slammed

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CHIEF Inspector of Schools Sir Michael Wilshaw has criticised Tory PM Theresa May’s ‘obsessive’ plan to approve a new wave of selective grammar schools...

Cut £72m agency spend! – to solve the midwife crisis

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CUTTING the amount the NHS spends on agency midwives would solve the midwife shortage, says the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in a new...