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NHS HAS ‘FRIGHTENING’ AND ‘UNFORGIVABLE’ STAFF CRISIS says the BMA doctors’ trade union

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ENGLAND has an ‘unforgivable’ and ‘frightening’ NHS workforce crisis that severely threatens patient safety, says the BMA doctors’ union in research published today. The BMA...

UK servicing Saudi jets in Yemen – admits Tory MP

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BRITAIN is providing ‘engineering support’ for UK-supplied aircraft operated by the Royal Saudi Air Force, responsible for killing innocent people in Yemen, a British...
Trade unionists rally in Trafalgar Square to defend the welfare state on April 14

£85bn cuts and tax rises in budget!

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Labour leadership hopeful Ed Balls yesterday accused the Tories of wanting to take Britain back to the conditions of the 1930s. Trade unions are bracing...
RMT marked two years of strikes by the union to ‘Keep the Guard on the Train’ with a demonstration opposite parliament yesterday

Safety Before Profits!

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SOME 200 railworkers and supporters demonstrated opposite Parliament yesterday morning to mark two years of strikes by the RMT union to Keep the Guard...

Youth In Poverty!

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THE government’s new national minimum wage (NMW) rates risk leaving young people even further behind, the TUC warned yesterday. The new rates only apply to...

Turned away from A&E!

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GP SURGERIES will start receiving referrals from A&E departments under a new set of measures proposed by NHS England which were announced yesterday. The plans,...
Junior Doctors to continue defending NHS

Junior Doctors industrial action – reject proposed new contract in full

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JUNIOR doctors are set to renew their strike action in a ‘rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September’. The new chair of...

‘SCANDALOUS’ 10.4% NPOWER HIKE – unions slam energy price rises

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UNISON yesterday slammed Npower’s ‘scandalous’ 10.4% energy hike that will ‘bring misery to millions of households this winter’. While the TUC said that energy prices...

GRANGEMOUTH SACK THREAT 6.00pm TODAY

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FOURTEEN-hundred workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland face the sack at 6pm today if they refuse to sign a wage- and conditions-cutting...
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...

Ward Closures And Bed Cuts At The Norfolk & Norwich

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THE Norfolk and Norwich University Foundation Trust (NNUH) has closed two and half wards, around 68 beds. The closures took place on Monday 15th August,...
Students marching against tuition fees. They are now even angrier as fees are being hiked above £9,000!

Unis already raising fees to £9,250

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UNIVERSITY tuition fees in England will rise to £9,250 per year from 2017 and the increase could apply to students who have already started...
Students and staff from London Metropolitan University lobby of the board of governors on December 15

UNIS WILL BE FORCED TO AXE THOUSANDS – warns Universities UK President

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Thirty per cent funding cuts will force universities to axe thousands of courses, lecturers and students, university bosses’ most senior representative has warned. In...

Brighton & Hove Schools Are Staying Closed Says Council

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BRIGHTON and Hove primary schools in Sussex are staying closed today after the city council held an emergency meeting and ordered all primaries to...

Kenyan Torture Victims Testify Today

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THREE victims of alleged torture at the hands of the British government during the Kenya Emergency in the 1950s and 1960s give evidence in...
Over 1,500 workers and youth attended a solidarity concert in Athens in support of the sacked ERT workers

ERT workers fight on

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OVER 1,500 workers and youth were present at a solidarity concert in Athens last Thursday evening for the sacked workers at ERT (Greek state...

‘OPEN THE DOORS TO THE REFUGEES’ – urge 20,000 marchers in Athens

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‘OPEN the doors to the refugees,’ demanded 20,000 marchers in Athens on Thursday. Some 20,000 people marched through Athens on Thursday night calling for the...

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...
A section of yesterday’s picket to keep open closure-threatened Chase Farm hospital in north London

Chase Farm Mass Picket

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SUPPORT for the occupation of Chase Farm Hospital is growing as more and more residents and staff support the picket against its closure. Passing motorists...

Johnson squirms over ‘surrender’ to the ‘Surrender Act!’

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Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to deliver a squirming account of his failure to take the UK out of the EU on...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers joined the Terminal 5 building workers’ picket line yesterday

Mass Picket A Great Success

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‘We want our jobs back! No to the Compromise Agreement! Kick out Gate Gourmet!’ shouted 150 locked out Gate Gourmet workers and supporters...

One million Gaza City residents are refusing to move!

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WHILE the Israeli regime escalated its ground invasion of Gaza City yesterday, around one million Palestinians are resisting the occupying force’s attempts to forcibly...

Police take action against Oxford students occupation

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SIXTEEN protesters were arrested when police intervened to take action against an occupation on Thursday in support of Palestine by ‘Oxford Action for Palestine...

JDE bosses step up fire & rehire dispute

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UNITE has reported that bosses at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury will stop workers from taking summer holidays to thwart an overtime ban,...

£9,000 fees for Cambridge!

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The University and College Union yesterday slammed the government after it emerged that Cambridge University plans to charge students £9,000 a year fees. UCU general...

10,000 dead in Israel’s month-long Gaza genocide!

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MORE than 10,000 Palestinians have been slaughtered in Israel’s month-long genocide since October 7th, Gaza’s Health Ministry announced yesterday, with 10,022 people, including 4,104...
Part of the contingent of Gate Gourmet sacked workers with their historic banner outside the TUC Congress yesterday

‘THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS CASUALISED’ – Woodley admits TUC responsibility

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Delegates voted unanimously for Composite 3: ‘Agency Workers’ at the TUC Congress yesterday calling for ‘legislation to outlaw discrimination against agency workers’. It called on...
BMA GPs committee member BETH McCARRON-NASH, GPs committee chairman Dr LAURENCE BUCKMAN, GPs committee member Dr PRIT BUTTAR, and BMA Patient Liason Group member NATALIE TEICH before handing in a 1,236,085-signature petition to Downing Street

DARZAI MUST RESIGN! – says the GPs conference!

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FAMILY doctors yesterday expressed their furious opposition to privately-run polyclinics and voted to take ‘unprecedented action’ in response to ‘unprecedented political threats to general...
Clashes between Greek workers and the capitalist state are taking place around the clock every day as workers defend their rights

Ecb Plan Sets Off Germany’s Alarm Bells!

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THE euro strengthened to a two-month high against the US dollar yesterday, as investors’ euphoria overflowed at the ECB’s plan to purchase bonds from...

Labour Condemns ‘Deep Savage NHS Cuts!’

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LABOUR’S shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth yesterday hit out at Tory cuts, saying the NHS winter crisis ‘was entirely predictable and indeed entirely preventable.’ He...

Abu Ghraib Contractor Producing Drones For Usa

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THE defence contractor which reached a settlement with alleged victims of torture in the notorious prison of Abu Ghraib is now again at the...

Israeli forces intensify West Bank demolitions!

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ISRAELI forces have intensified demolitions in the occupied West Bank and face growing accusations of pursuing a coordinated campaign to erase Palestinian presence and...
Baha Mousa after UK soldiers tortured him – Dr Keilloh did his best to cover the torture up

KEILLOH STRUCK OFF MEDICAL REGISTER – after Baha Mousa torture

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THE Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) yesterday struck off the medical register former British Army doctor Dr Derek Keilloh after his misconduct over the...

BLAIR MUST GO – says RMT

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RMT rail union general secretary Bob Crow repeated a call for Blair to go yesterday in the wake of Wednesday’s Terrorism Bill defeat. Crow said:...
Norfolk teachers demonstrating against the savage cuts in education funding – the situation has got so bad that subjects are being axed from schools’ curriculums

Music, drama & art axed from schools

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MUSIC, languages, drama, PE, design technology and art, as well as vocational subjects including engineering, construction, and childcare, have all being axed from secondary...
Determined postal workers demonstrating outside Royal Mail head office in London’s Old Street last Friday

Oxford Cwu Out To Defend Rep

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Communication Workers Union (CWU) members in Oxford, who walked out on strike in defence of a senior rep, have voted to continue their unofficial...

Israel launches deadly attacks on Palestinians

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ISRAEL has launched another deadly attack on displaced Palestinians in Gaza, bombing a school sheltering families in Jabalia an-Nazla, northern Gaza, and killing at...
Trade unionists made their mind up about the role that Cameron and the Tory Party were playing a long time ago – picture shows placards from the October 2012 TUC demonstration against austerity in London

‘There’s something rotten at the heart of the Conservative Party’ – Miliband accuses Cameron

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LABOUR PARTY leader Miliband clashed with Prime Minister Cameron over political donors who held Swiss bank accounts with HSBC, during questions in the House...

‘We are starting fightback against pay-pension cuts!’

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OVER 300 University and College Union (UCU) striking lecturers and student supporters rallied and marched to the Royal Exchange Building in the City of...
Fuel protest convoy arriving in London in the year 2000 – the government is planning to use the army against a tanker drivers strike next month

No Army Strikebreaking!

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Army drivers are being trained as strikebreakers in the event of a national tanker drivers strike which is expected to be called...

‘Unite the West Bank & Gaza’ demand masses of Palestine

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THE Hamas leader in Gaza, Dr Khalil al-Hayya, arrived in Egypt yesterday to begin negotiations on the mechanism for a ceasefire, withdrawal of occupation...
Greek workers remain completely opposed to the austerity measures and the betrayal of the Syriza government which has now resigned

Greek Election Crisis!

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SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras announced on Thursday evening that he was resigning as Prime Minister and has called an early Greek election. Tsipras, who was...
Tamils continuing their non-stop demonstration against Sri Lankan army atrocities outside parliament yesterday

Tamil Protests To Continue Until Permanent Ceasefire

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‘Ceasefire Now! Stop the Genocide! Tamil Tigers – Freedom Fighters!’ shouted Tamils demonstrating in support of brave hunger striker Parameswaran Subramaniyan yesterday. Around 1,000 were...

STOP PRESCRIPTION CHARGES! – End unfair NHS in England urge Welsh doctors

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DOCTORS in Wales yesterday called for doctors’ prescriptions to be made free to all patients in England. On the second anniversary of the abolition of...

LONDON UNDERGROUND TOTAL SHUTDOWN JULY 26 & 28 – ASLEF joining RMT on strike

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ASLEF Tube drivers will strike on Wednesday 26 and Friday 28 July, alongside their RMT colleagues, closing down the London Underground (LU) network at...