Rising Uni Drop-Out Rate

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RISING numbers of students from more disadvantaged homes are dropping out of universities in England before completing their studies, figures show. The proportion of youngsters...

Royal Mail 97% YES for strike

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OVER 97% of members of the CWU (Communication Workers Union) working for Royal Mail, voted ‘YES’ for strike action, it was announced yesterday. Hundreds of...
A section of the 4,000-strong ‘Not Fair Not Safe’ demonstration of Junior Doctors outside Leeds City Art Gallery on Wednesday

Mass support for doctors!

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OVER 4,000 junior doctors and their supporters staged a three-hour mass rally outside the City Art Gallery in the centre of Leeds on Wednesday...
Marks & Spencer suppliers Fenland Foods workers demonstrating last May in defence of their jobs at the M&S Oxford Street store

1.92 Million Unemployed

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UK unemployment rose by 131,000 to 1.92 million between September and November, the highest total since September 1997, figures from the Office for National...

UN Cuts Aid To Palestinians!

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HAMAS yesterday urged the United Nations to reconsider its suspension of food aid for Palestinian refugees, imposed after protesters stormed a UN depot in...
RMT members emphasising cuts cost lives

RMT STRIKE BANNED! –Ruling class justice at work

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THE High Court yesterday followed up its decision to ban strike action at British Airways at Christmas by banning strike action at Network Rail...
West Kensington and Gibbs Green estate tenants lobby Hammersmith & Fulham council against the demolition of their estates

Homeless Families Driven Out Of London

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15,795 HOMELESS Londoners have been forced into temporary accommodation outside their borough, a Freedom of Information request revealed yesterday. Representing a third of the 47,137...

Night Tube Strike Rock Solid! – RMT

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STRIKE action was rock solid yesterday morning in the fight to stop Night Tube staffing plans ripping up drivers’ work/life balance. Pickets were out in...

‘Stop state-sponsored racism!’ – Take ‘hate vans’ off the streets

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DOREEN Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, has asserted that ‘racial profiling’ is being used in immigration police stop-and-check operations. She spoke out...
The E15 Campaign fights for social housing against the policy of social cleansing

‘Uprooting homeless families now the norm in London!’

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HOMELESS charity Shelter yesterday condemned the practice of ‘out-of (London)-borough placements’ as ‘unacceptable’. This came as Labour-run Luton Borough Council, Bedfordshire, is considering legal action...

Close down Gaza ‘killing fields’ say 169 charities

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‘THE KILLINGS near aid distribution hubs are getting immeasurably worse and show no sign of ameliorating, considering how much Palestinians are in need of...

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’...
Postal workers and their supporters rallying against the privatisation of Royal Mail  in January – now a new wave of post office closures is planned

9,000 Post Offices To Close!

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Government plans to sell Royal Mail, ending the inter-business agreement with the Post Office, would lead to over 9,000 post office closures, a poll...

Universal Credit is ‘here to stay’ – says Hammond

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TORY Chancellor Hammond, yesterday in his budget claimed to jeers: ‘the era of austerity is finally coming to an end.’ This is...
Defend Council Housing campaign insisting in Parliament Square during the Budget that council housing must be built to provide homes for everybody

‘A Government No Longer Fit For Office!’

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TORY Chancellor Hammond kicked public sector workers in the teeth in his class war budget yesterday, refusing to lift the seven-year pay freeze which...

Three More US Marines Killed

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Three more US marines were killed in western Iraq on Monday, the US military confirmed yesterday. All three, from the 2nd Marine Division, were taking...

GPs demand 15 minutes per patient!

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GPs DEMAND a minimum of fifteen minutes to spend with each patient, rather than the current ten, which they rightly say is not enough...

Thames Water must be nationalised!

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THE likelihood of Thames Water being taken into public ownership has significantly increased, following the shareholders’ refusal to provide £500m in urgent financial support. This...
The NUT on the march through central London during their strike last year

Teachers Out Today!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of teachers are striking against government attacks on their terms and conditions today, with mass marches planned in towns and cities...

Blair Whitewash –

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‘The way things are going they are going to wrap everything up – they are covering up everything,’ the cousin of murdered Brazilian Jean...
Supporters joined Southern rail striking guards on the picket line outside Victoria Station yesterday. ‘All the rail unions should take action together’ – Steve Hedley

Triple Strike To Keep Train Guards

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TRAIN drivers and guards were on strike in three parts of the country simultaneously yesterday, with Southern, Northern and Merseyside RMT drivers and guards...

‘HALT ALL CUTS AND OUTSOURCING!’ – unions confront Academies Enterprise Trust

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SEVEN UNIONS have warned about their dispute with the UK’s largest academy trust over staff cuts, low pay and outsourcing. The unions have now registered...

Gaza hospitals remain under siege – while ‘Intercept’ says the US is ready to...

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NASSER Medical Complex and Al-Amal Hospital remains under Israeli military siege in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip said the Palestinian Red Crescent...

Unison delegates want action

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UNISON members are gathering at the union’s national delegate conference in Manchester today, determined to defend their jobs, pay, pensions and public services. They will...

‘NHS PRIVATISATION BY STEALTH’ – GP practice operator taken over

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ONE of the UK’s biggest GP practice operators has been taken over by the US health insurance group Centene Corporation. This has been condemned by...
Royal College of Nurses rally against cuts to keep patients safe

No mandatory safe staffing levels for the NHS!

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THE TORY coalition Government’s announcement that they will publish NHS staffing levels on a website are a cover to ‘provide any level of nursing...

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...

Draconian New Laws Are Rushed In By The Tories!

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‘DRACONIAN’ new laws have been rushed in by the Tories ahead of Saturday’s coronation and a letter described by lawyers as ‘intimidatory’, has been...

193 Palestinians killed in 24hrs by Israeli forces!

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A TOTAL of 193 Palestinians were killed in 16 massacres perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces over the last 24 hours in the Gaza...

Gaza City facing urban destruction by Israeli fire power and forced displacement

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THE Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City, is facing extensive urban destruction by Israeli firepower and forced displacement of its residents. The Israeli military...

NO TUBE AND RAIL CUTS! – ‘Franchising system in its death throes’

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ENDING damaging staff cuts, bringing all of London’s Tube back into the public sector and getting the network’s upgrade back on track are more...
Huge numbers of hospital workers turned out on the TUC march on October 20th – they are battling to defend NHS jobs all over the country

61,000 nursing posts at risk – says RCN nurses leader Carter

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday that the NHS is ‘sleepwalking into a crisis’, and demanded immediate action to stop trusts cutting...

The Hague rules UK must ‘relinquish Chagos ASAP’

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THE INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice (ICJ) known as ‘the Hague’ ruled yesterday that Britain’s ‘decolonisation and displacement’ of the Chagos Islanders from the Indian...
Marchers defending the NHS and making the point that one of the best ways to finance it would be to get rid of Trident

50,000 NHS Patients Being Left In Pain And Misery!

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IT WAS announced on Tuesday night that all operations during the month of January are cancelled, leaving over 50,000 patients in pain and misery. Also...
Deen Riders bikers’ ‘Honour Ride for Grenfell’ applauded after the Silent March on Saturday 14th April, ten months after the inferno

Grenfell Fire Was Murder

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A LEAKED ‘interim document’ into the Grenfell Tower disaster on June 14, 2017 shows beyond shadow of a doubt that every death was preventable,...

UK Refuses To Apologise For Balfour Declaration!

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PALESTINIAN ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian, said yesterday that Britain has officially refused to apologise for the infamous Balfour Declaration, and instead has...
Unite representatives and supporters lobbied Agenda for Change talks at the Unison head office yesterday lunchtime

Unions split on NHS pay changes

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UNITE and GMB officers, members and supporters held a lunchtime protest outside the Unison head office in London yesterday, where the NHS staff side...

CORBYN WELCOMED – while right wing refuses to serve

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TRADE unions yesterday welcomed the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader. This was after the explosion of working class anger inside and around...

BEIS indefinite strike!

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OVER 20 PCS catering workers at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), working for contractor Aramark, walked out on indefinite strike...

Gp Services Buckling Under Tory Attack

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PATIENT care is ‘deteriorating’ in half of GP practices as GP services buckle under rising workload, a new BMA survey warned yesterday. More than half...

27,100 REPOSSESSIONS IN 2007 – says Council of Mortgage Lenders

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The number of people in the UK whose homes were repossessed last year rose by 21 per cent, to 27,100, compared to 22,400 in...
London firefighters demonstrating against mass sackings and emphasising that closing fire stations and cutting the service will cost lives

Vauxhall copter crash! – Emergency services save the day

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Two people were killed and 13 injured when a helicopter crashed into a crane on top of a tall building under construction in Vauxhall,...

Palestinian families stranded in Jordan!

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ELEVEN Palestinian families from the Gaza Strip remain stranded in Jordan after Israeli authorities obstructed the return of children who had undergone successful cochlear...

‘Massive building safety crisis in UK!’ – says FBU after classroom ceiling collapse

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PUPILS were quickly ushered out of Rosemead Preparatory School in Dulwich, south London, yesterday morning after a classroom ceiling collapsed. The London Fire Brigade (LFB)...