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Manufacturing Orders Decline

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UK manufacturing growth fell to its lowest rate for 21 months in June as new orders declined, the latest Markit/Cips survey says. The groups’ manufacturing...

GP surgeries to be closed!

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THE government appointed watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), will be able to use new powers from 2012 to close GP practices, British Medical...

Junior Doctors Want Their Pay Restored!

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‘EVERY day junior doctors despair as they see operations cancelled and treatment postponed for the millions on the waiting lists because our health services...

‘KEEP ROYAL MAIL IN PUBLIC SECTOR’ – but unions refuse to strike against privatisation

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‘Today’s positive results are more compelling evidence of why Royal Mail should be kept in the public sector,’ CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward,...

POINTS INCORRECTLY SET UP – were the cause of Grayrigg disaster

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Rail union RMT yesterday renewed its call for a joint public inquiry into the Grayrigg and Potters Bar rail crashes and a reversal of...

KING CRISIS WARNING –prepare for Eurozone break-up

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Bank of England Governor Mervyn King yesterday urged banks to brace themselves for a eurozone collapse. Introducing the latest financial stability report, King said: ‘Faced...

Call general strike! Bring down coalition! Forward to workers government!

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TODAY’S march called by the TUC must not be just another mass demonstration against the drive by this coalition to bail out the banks...

‘Spectre of Iraq’ hangs over debate!

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PRIME minister Cameron repeatedly refused to apologise, as he opened the debate on bombing Syria, for calling Labour MPs who oppose the bombing ‘a...

PAKISTAN BLOCKS NATO ROUTE! –after US gunship kills three Pakistani soldiers

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Mounting fury over a number of NATO air strikes into Pakistani territory, yesterday saw Pakistan seal its border with Afghanistan blocking the NATO supply...

Jobless Student Midwives!

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More than 90 per cent of final year midwifery students are struggling to find a job, a new survey published today by the Royal...

DAMN THIS DEAL! – says Cyprus Speaker

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‘THIS decision is painful for Cypriot people. This decision was a defeat,’ Cyprus Parliamentary Speaker Yiannakis Omirou said yesterday. He was referring to the deal...
Firefighters are determined to defend the fire service from a government that is determined to cut it to pieces

Negotiate or face the consequences! FBU leader Wrack warns government

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DELEGATES at the TUC Congress in Bournemouth, yesterday took up the cudgels against privatisation and cuts in the fire, prison and probation services, Royal...

No Xmas Wages For 600 Workers

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THE collapse of construction firm Clugston has halted work on Newcastle University’s new £39m extension and £25m sports centre. Clugston, which employs more than 600...
Lecturers at Lambeth College marching through Brixton during their strike action last year

Colleges strike today

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THOUSANDS of furious staff walked out of Further Education colleges across England from 7.00am this morning in a one-day strike to oppose a proposed...

GPs SLAM ‘RISKY’ TORY PLANS – including floating GP practices on stock market

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THE vast majority of doctors believe the Tory-LibDem coalition government’s health policies threaten the future of the NHS, finds a poll for the BMA. The...

JOINT ENTERPRISE–JURIES HAVE BEEN MISDIRECTED!– hundreds of appeals now expected

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JUDGES have misdirected juries in murder trials for thirty years, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that ‘joint...
Chagossians demanding the right to return to their homes in the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia marching alongside the West London campaign to keep Ealing Hospital open

Junior Doctors Still Being Left To Fight Alone

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OVER 10,000 trade unionists and youth took part in the London May Day march yesterday from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. As well as trade...

Unite Urges Tories To Avoid Petrol Clash

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Unite has sent a letter to Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change yesterday, pleading with him to intervene in the...

Johnson and EU agree new Brexit deal!

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YESTERDAY morning the President of the European Commission and Tory PM Johnson announced that they had agreed a Brexit deal. That deal now has...

Police Drag Assange Out Of Embassy

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WIKILEAKS co-founder Julian Assange was forcibly arrested and dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London yesterday. In an unprecedented move the embassy allowed...

Tory police, fire & ambulance merger plan slammed

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TORY plans to merge fire, ambulance and police services are being pushed forward as the Home Office called for ‘shared control rooms’ yesterday. The proposal...
Workers at the Ritzy, Brixton are fighting for the Living Wage in the face of a rapidly rising cost of living. They are taking strike action again today

Inflation & House Prices Rise As Wages Fall!

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INFLATION has risen to 1.8% for the first time in 10 months further cutting the value of wages, as transport prices soared over March...

Cameron admits to donor dinners

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PRIME MINISTER Cameron admitted yesterday that major Tory Party donors have been invited to dinner in Downing Street on four occasions since 2010. He said:...

Johnson Hopes That ‘EU Friends Will Compromise’

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A WEAKER than usual Boris Johnson broke with the pre-speech propaganda that he would take a very defiant ‘do or die’ stance on leaving...

Junior Doctors Ballot For Action

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JUNIOR doctors across England are to be balloted by the BMA over industrial action in response to the government’s plans to impose a new,...
A section of the 10,000-strong demonstration against the closure of four west London hospitals last September. 30,000 marched against the closure of Stafford Hospital last Saturday

30,000 March To Save Stafford Hospital

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OVER 30,000 workers, trade unionists and local residents marched through Stafford on Saturday against Coalition plans to ‘downgrade’ Stafford District General Hospital and close...

Benefits Cap Hits Poorest

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THE Benefits Cap came into force nationally yesterday, setting poor families and the unemployed as its main target, capping the total amount of benefits...

Murdoch Quits News International

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James Murdoch quit as executive chairman of News International yesterday, but said he will remain as deputy chief operating officer of parent group News...

Trump Supporter Shot Dead In Portland

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A MAN was shot dead in Portland, Oregon as a large demonstration of supporters of President Trump clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters. The city...

‘We Are Fighting For Reinstatement’

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WHILST maintaining their daily picket near Heathrow Airport Terminal 4, Gate Gourmet locked-out workers are campaigning for their march through Hounslow on Saturday March...
Grenfell survivors and local residents outside Kensington & Chelsea Council Town Hall demanding the resignation of the council

GRENFELL INFERNO! – unprecedented trauma

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THE GRENFELL Tower disaster triggered a mental health crisis of an ‘unprecedented’ scale, a leading doctor has said 100 days on from the fire. NHS...
The lobby calling to scrap Clause 118/9 of the Care Bill which will allow health secretary Hunt to close any hospital he chooses

Stop Hunt Closing Hospitals!

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OVER 150 people lobbied the Houses of Parliament yesterday in an angry demonstration against clause 119, which if passed gives Tory Health Secretary Hunt...

‘SHOCKING ABUSE!’ – at the hands of the state

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PEOPLE who have fled to Britain, seeking help and refuge, are suffering horrifying violence at the hands of the British state, it was alleged...
Students marched from the University of London Union to Parliament yesterday demanding free state education. In Parliament Square they tore down the fences and occupied

Parliament Square Occupied!

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‘FREE Education Now!’ chanted over 10,000 students on a march through central London to Parliament yesterday. Demonstrators from all over Britain also shouted: ‘Workers and...
A big part of the 60-strong picket at Chase Farm Hospital yesterday

March to save Chase Farm today!

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YESTERDAY’S 60-strong mass picket to save Chase Farm Hospital drew big support from patients and local residents who all said they would join today’s...

Sri Lankan Troops Caught In Tiger Booby Traps

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COLOMBO – TamilNet reports that last weekend more than sixteen Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops lost their legs after being caught in...

Nissan Opens!

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NISSAN is piloting new safety measures which will see around 50 staff return to work at Britain’s biggest car plant today, with the support...
Teachers, parents and pupils demonstrate against academy schools

Academy System Abused!

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A DAMNING investigation has found that individuals who sit on the board of the south London Durand Adademy Trust were also acting...
Thousands took to the streets the last time the Tories tried to take Britain to war against Syria in 2013 – then ex-PM Cameron was defeated in Parliament. PM May however recalled her Cabinet in an attempt to join the US war effort without a parliamentary

Tory Cabinet in crisis over war

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THE TORY Cabinet was in an emergency session yesterday evening with PM May meeting resistance from fellow Tory cabinet members over joining France...
The picket outside the High Court yesterday morning demanding that a full A&E 24/7 must stay at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield

Chase Farm Judicial Review is told ‘We want a full A&E – 24 hrs...

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THE Judicial Review into the closure of Chase Farm’s Hospital A&E began yesterday morning. Enfield council is seeking the quashing of...
Teachers marching in London on Tuesday against the Coalition’s attacks on their jobs, pay and conditions

Tens of thousands of teachers strike – ‘We are defending education’

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TENS of thousands of teachers across the North West took strike action yesterday. This was a further step in the NASUWT and NUT teacher unions’...

BATTLE BUS RALLIES SUPPORT – for striking cabin crew

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A battle bus toured Heathrow Airport with megaphones, flags and banners yesterday. It was rallying support from other airport workers for the 13,000 striking BA...

EU Extension Decision Due Today!

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PM Boris Johnson pulled out of a scheduled appearance before a panel of senior MPs yesterday morning, saying he has to ‘focus on delivering...

Straw Rejects Ban On Rendition!

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THE government has rejected demands for new laws against ‘extraordinary rendition’: the practice of kidnapping and flying detainees to secret sites around the world,...