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Nurses marching in Nottingham last month against cuts and sackings in the NHS

A&E VISITS 1 MILLION UP! – while Labour embarks on A&E...

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Official figures revealed yesterday that there were one million more visits to Accident and Emergency departments in 2005-2006 as the government prepares to ‘reconfigure’...

Sheffield lecturers are determined to beat the attack on their pay!

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THERE were picket lines outside every department at Sheffield University’s many buildings yesterday morning with striking lecturers and staff determined to fight until they...
Demonstrators outside the House of Commons yesterday evening

Blair Ducks Iraq Debate!

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PREMIER Blair boycotted the House of Commons debate on Iraq yesterday in an unprecedented show of contempt for the bourgeois parliament. Before he left the...
Disabled claimants protesting in Norwich in February – new claimants now face a £30 a week cut to their benefit

Tories step up war on poor

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THE TORY government has launched an all-out assault on the poorest and most vulnerable sections of society, slashing disabled people’s money, cutting child tax...

CALL FOR £168bn OF CUTS – to reduce ‘Debt Time-bomb’

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THE Institute of Economic Affairs has called for draconian cuts by the government and has said that government spending will have to...

1,000 British-Danish Troops Attack Basra

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Five Iraqis were arrested yesterday after a massive pre-dawn assault on the city of Basra by a force of more than 1,000 UK and...

SPECIALIST NURSES FEAR FOR THEIR JOBS – as the NHS heads for a £1.8...

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VACANCY freezes and fears of redundancy and downgrading are continuing to plague the NHS as it heads for a £1.8bn surplus, a Royal College...

‘THE TRUTH MUST COME OUT’ ‘Hard questions must be answered’ – Corbyn

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‘THE TRUTH must come out and it will,’ Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday afternoon as the number who died in the Grenfell Tower...
Southall College students give their support to tomorrow’s march to Ealing Hospital to occupy the maternity unit

Ready To Occupy!

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‘IT’S BABIES, the newborns coming into this world, they must be protected and they must continue to be born in Ealing Hospital,’ Southall College...

Labour Is Ready To Abstain Once Again – In The Coming Brexit Vote

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LABOUR leaders refused to confirm whether they would vote in favour of a Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU or abstain...

‘I want to campaign for Remain!’ says Shadow Chancellor McDonnell

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SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell was asked by the BBC’s Andrew Marr yesterday morning: ‘When is Jeremy Corbyn going to come out for a new...

Tories instruct students to stay on campus till Dec 22

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STUDENTS and university staff are furious after the Tory government inst-ructed them to remain in their student halls and not to return home before...

Tory rights ‘smash and grab’ – threat to ban support for Palestine

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‘THE UK government’s extremism definition is a smash and grab on our human rights,’ Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International Chief Executive, said yesterday. He was speaking...
Defend the NHS demo at Barts Hospital in central London

Unison condemns A&E charges for migrants

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TORY-LIBDEM Coalition plans to charge fees to immigrants and overseas visitors attending District General Hospital Accident and Emergency Departments were condemned by Unison yesterday. ‘The...

LLOYDS HBOS MASS SACKINGS – as banks go for £17bn more bailout cash

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The Unite trade union yesterday urged Lloyds TSB and HBOS ‘to start thinking about the human consequences of this takeover’. It was responding to...
The North East London Council of Action has been conducting a massive campaign to occupy Chase Farm Hospital to stop its closure

Drive To Close London NHS Hospitals

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HOSPITALS are facing closure across London as the government begins making savage cuts to the NHS budget to deal with its debts crisis. With the...

NHS Being Cut To Aid Private Sector!

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday expressed concern over the cancellation by an Oxford hospital of a routine heart procedure because of lack of...
Assange supporters demonstrating outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London against attempts to extradite Julian Assange

US Is Preparing Assange Charges

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THE US Justice Department is preparing charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose website published thousands of classified US government documents. US federal prosecutors inadvertently...

JOIN US AT GLENEAGLES! –urges G 8 Alternatives

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‘We are calling on thousands to pile on buses and trains and join us at Gleneagles today,’ G8 Alternatives movement spokesman Mike Arnott told...
The 500,000-strong TUC demonstration on March 26, with the lead banner insisting ‘cuts are not the cure’

JOBS CRISIS – WORSE TO COME – says TUC

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CLAIMS by Chancellor Osborne and Prime Minister Cameron that Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures showing 0.5 per cent growth is ‘good news’ were...

Strike now across Britain and globally to defeat Netanyahu’s Gaza plan!

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MORE than 300,000 workers, students and youth marched through London from Russell Square to Whitehall on Saturday on the 29th National March for Palestine...
GPs turned out in force to support striking junior doctors during their year-long struggle – GP practices are under attack from Tory NHS cuts

‘General Practice is cracking’ – Dr Vautrey tells BMA Representative Meeting

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‘GENERAL Practice is cracking,’ Dr Richard Vautrey, GP committee UK chair, told the BMA Annual Representative Meeting in Brighton yesterday, highlighting the closure of...

Tube pickets call for a general strike to bring down the Tories

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‘I HOPE this action is the beginning of a wider movement of the working class standing together in solidarity and working towards a general...

No demolition before prosecutions! – demand Grenfell bereaved

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GRENFELL Tower bereaved and survivors expressed anger at Labour Deputy Prime Minister Angela Raynor’s announcement yesterday that the building is to be demolished starting...

Home births risk lives!

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MORE WOMEN and babies will die during childbirth if they are told to give birth at home or in ‘midwife-led birth-ing units’ as opposed...

Tory advisor OK’d flammable cladding

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THE TORY party official fire safety advisor Ken Knight rubber-stamped the use of the flammable cladding, responsible for the rapid spread of the Grenfell...

Zionists tout Blair as agent to ‘relocate’ Palestinians

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FORMER UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is being touted by sections of the Israeli genocide cabinet as an agent to lead the ‘relocation’ of...

McDonnell capitulates to the EU!

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JOHN McDONNELL, Labour’s shadow chancellor said yesterday that Labour will vote down May’s Brexit deal, will not accept No Deal, and instead will propose...

Al Shifa hospital runs out of fuel today!

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THE al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s biggest hospital, will run out of fuel today, or tomorrow at the latest, with 35,000 men, women and children crammed...

Ireland Brexit threat!

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IRELAND’S EU commissioner yesterday threatened that his country will continue to ‘play tough’ on the border issue, claiming that the solution is for the...

Greenford Bus Workers To Join Mass Picket

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are holding their monthly mass picket at the Beacon Roundabout, Beacon Road, near Heathrow Airport, Terminal Four from 11am to...

REINSTATE ENFIELD GP – Haringey BMA condemns surgery closure

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A MEETING of Enfield and Haringey Division of the BMA yesterday stated that it was appalled by the treatment of Dr...

Two Pumas Down – Two Dead, 15 Injured

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Two UK servicemen were killed yesterday when two British helicopters crashed in northern Iraq in the early hours, Defence Secretary Des Browne...
Student nurses demanding bursaries are restored – the number of applicants is down 10%

Student nurse numbers plummet again

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THE TORIES axing of the student nurses and midwives bursary has caused numbers applying to plummet even further, this time by 10%, meaning that...

Canadian grocery workers strike

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THE employees of a Your Independent Grocer (YIG) franchise – in Cornwall, Ontario – have been on strike since November 23rd, as employer and...

Fierce Fighting In Sirte

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FIERCE fighting continued on the outskirts of Sirte yesterday, with Gadaffi loyalists dealing deadly blows against the counter-revolutionary ‘NTC’ mercenaries, while NATO warplanes pounded...
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...

Fury over US health firms takeover of GP practices Doctors in Unite protest tomorrow

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A PROTEST against GP practices being taken over by US health insurance giant Centene Corporation – branded as ‘the accelerating privatisation of the NHS...

MILLIONS STRIKE IN SPAIN! – against wage cuts & sacking legislation

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Spain was gripped by a 24-hour general strike by millions of workers yesterday. It was called in protest against a new law making it...
Mass picket of Ealing Hospital against the closure of the Charlie Chaplin children’s ward – the closures of the A&Es at Ealing and Charing Cross Hospitals are imminent

STPs preparing savage NHS cuts & hospital closures

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‘TOP TIPS on making difficult decisions’ are being distributed to health bodies around the country to aid them in broaching the subject of hospital...

Parliament taking control from government!

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‘THE APPROACH to today’s business sets an extremely concerning precedent for our democracy,’ Tory leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom said yesterday,...
Demonstration in Southall in July 2015 to stop the closure of the Maternity Department at Ealing Hospital – maternity closures have contributed to greater numbers of mothers and babies dying during childbirth

Lack of staff contributed to baby deaths

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LACK of midwives and the closure of maternity units have resulted in more babies suffering from brain damage, dying during childbirth, or dying soon...

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...
EARLY Thursday morning a large group of police escorting over a dozen bailiffs, arrived at the council estate on Benhill road, Camberwell south London to make a second, surprise attempt to evict Aminata Sellu and her three children.

42,728 evictions in 2015!

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42,728 evictions in 2015 are ‘clear proof of the devastating impact that welfare cuts and the chronic shortage of affordable homes are having on...