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STOCKPORT STRIKE – No to NHS & council merger

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A ‘NEW care model’ in Stockport, Greater Manchester, has sparked a 96% ‘YES’ vote for strike action among Unison members. The strike will take...

Vote ‘NO!’ to NHS pay offer! – 6.5% increase over 3...

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A CONSULTATION of NHS workers was launched at the Unison health conference in Brighton on Monday on the new ‘pay deal’. Unison members...

Carney fears wages and job losses driving workers to Marxism

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THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of England Mark Carney is a very worried man. Giving him sleepless nights is the spectre of a working...

Special needs children face exclusion from school!

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Children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) are not getting the support they need and are at risk of being permanently excluded from...

Nursing Loans Crisis!

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EIGHT hundred students of nursing and other health care courses were told last Friday that loan instalments expected this week will be reduced or...

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...

Teachers Vote To Strike Over Pay!

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THE ANNUAL Conferences of the two main teachers unions, the National Education Union (NEU) and the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of...

530 lifesaving cancer operations axed

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HUNDREDS of cancer operations were cancelled during the NHS winter crisis, meaning that for some patients, by the time they are treated, their cancer...

NHS Winter Crisis Pressures All Year

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A BMA analysis shows that winter pressures will extend right through summer. The NHS can expect to see performance this summer as poor as...

Academy bosses siphoning off millions! General strike to take all schools...

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MILLIONS of pounds of taxpayers’ money being stuffed into privately-run academy schools are being siphoned off to line the pockets of the academy bosses....

London NHS Rationing Plans ‘Are A Disgrace!’

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‘MASS rationing of operations to London’s patients’ is being planned under the London Choosing Wisely Programme, which was launched by the Healthy London Partnership...

US Expels Sixty Russian Diplomats

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that yesterday’s decision by western states to expel Russian diplomats was a mistake and a mirror response will be...

Israeli Jets Pound Gaza

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ISRAELI jets pounded Hamas positions in Gaza overnight after Palestinians staged a cross-border raid into southern Israel, the military said early on Sunday. ‘Israel...

NHS pay deal ‘will mean a pay cut for the most...

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THE GMB, which represents many of the lowest paid NHS workers, is recommending that its members reject the new pay deal proposed by the...

World debt crisis can only be resolved through world socialist revolution

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JEROME Powell the new chairman of the US central Bank, the Fed, will be pushing for an increase in interest rates this week with...

Eight Out Of Ten Academy Schools Are In Deficit!

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ACADEMY school budgets are in a desperate state with eight out of 10 in deficit, say their accountants. ‘Two more years like this and...

NHS winter crisis – 10,000 excess deaths

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THE NHS winter crisis was responsible for an extra 10,000 deaths in the first weeks of 2018, figures published in the British Medical Journal...

CHILDREN’S HEALTH GIVEN LOW PRIORITY – as paediatric training recruitment worst...

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THE low priority given to children and young people’s health threatens prosperity, argues an expert writing in The BMJ Today. Professor Russell Viner at University...

Workers will ignore Tory attempts to make Russia their enemy –...

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YESTERDAY’S statement by Theresa May to parliament on the range of ‘reprisals’ against Russia for the alleged involvement of the Russian state in the...

Kick out the Tories, abolish academies and free schools to defend...

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TEACHING unions yesterday published a report detailing the effects of the Tory policy of slashing public spending on schools – increased class sizes across...

Thousands Of NHS Staff Being Transferred Into Outsourcing Firms Despite Carillion...

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THOUSANDS of NHS staff are being transferred by their own trusts into outsourcing firms, risking ‘dozens of Carillion-style meltdowns’ the union Unite has warned....

Thousands of West Virginia teachers on indefinite strike

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THOUSANDS of public school teachers across West Virginia have been on strike for more than a week in protest over their pay and benefits....

Child labour, sexual abuse and cruelty Working class children treated as...

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THE ‘Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse on report into the Child Migration Programmes’ criticises UK governments over their cruel policy that was continued...

End homelessness by putting an end to the system that deliberately...

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A HOMELESS man has been found dead in a tent after sleeping rough in the snow in freezing temperatures. The man, named locally as...

Nurses sleep on wards – as hospitals hit 100% capacity

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HOSPITAL staff are sleeping on hospital wards during this extreme weather to ensure that patients get treated. They are working in extremely...

Tories offer GPs ‘cash for cuts’ to stop patients getting hospital...

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THE GP website Pulse revealed this week that in four areas in England local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have set up a ‘profit-sharing’ scheme...

Break with the EU Now! Forward to the Socialist United States...

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THE publication of the EU’s draft separation treaty with the UK has intensified the conflict between the UK and the EU ruling classes and...

100 women on hunger strike! Shut down Yarl’s Wood and...

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‘WE ARE not animals!’ women incarcerated in the notorious Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre have scrawled across their T-shirts. More than 120 women have...

Students join lecturers’ picket lines across the UK

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LECTURERS at 64 universities across the UK began 14 days of strike action on Thursday against imposed changes to their pensions. They were out...

64 Universities Pensions Strike

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‘WHAT do we want? Fair pensions! How do we get it? Strike! Strike! Strike!’ students and lecturers at Sheffield University shouted yesterday while taking...

Pm May’s Education Review Is A Fraud – Unions Must Take...

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THE National Union of Students’ verdict on PM May’s review into post-18 education and funding is that ‘she is choosing to move the deckchairs...

Localism Act 2011 Being Used To Build Up An Army Of...

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UNDER the Localism Act 2011, councils were granted greater powers to restrict access to social housing. Vulnerable people are now unable to access social...

‘Go to pharmacist, not GP or A&E’ – NHS England campaign...

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TAKE your sick children to see the pharmacist, rather than the GP or to an A&E. . . this is the message of a...

Carnage and bloodbath on world stock markets deepens – socialist revolution...

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LAST Monday, the American Dow Jones Index, which records the share prices of the top US companies and banks, recorded the biggest drop in...

Academy head earns £500,000 while over half of multi-academy chains are...

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THE TORY policy of forcing every school in England to become academies and turn the entire education system into a profit-making business has created...

Combining health & social care opens door to paying for NHS...

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‘ONCE the funding of health and social care are combined, then the door is opened for means testing and charging for healthcare,’ Anna Athow,...

Take Action To Increase Nurse Numbers!

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TORY government plans to boost the number of trainee nurses in the wake of the Francis report into Mid Staffs are failing, the Royal...

Kick Tories Out–To Defend NHS! Demand 20,000 Marchers!

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MORE than 20,000 nurses, health workers, trade unionists, workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street on Saturday afternoon to demand TUC action to...

Thousands of nurses march today to defend the NHS!

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THOUSANDS of nursing staff from across England will join tens of thousands of workers and youth on a march and demonstration in London today. Royal...

RCN: ‘Not a single unoccupied bed!’

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‘ON EVERY day except Friday last week, several hospitals across England didn’t have a single unoccupied bed,’ Donna Kinnair, Director of Nursing, Policy and...

Capita GP services ‘shambolic’ – BMA GP committee chair Richard Vautrey

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‘THIS NEWS is extremely concerning, but not altogether surprising considering the continued warnings the BMA has given over Capita’s shambolic running of backroom services...

Capita Shares Plunge 40%

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CAPITA shares plunged over 40% yesterday, provoking speculation that the huge conglomerate privateer is going the way of Carillion and is set to...

Carillion Collapse Hits Royal Liverpool Hospital!

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WHEN CARILLION collapsed last month it left the future of the new Royal Liverpool Hospital in limbo. The half-built £335 million hospital which has already...

‘Common issues between Palestine and the peoples of the African continent’...

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas told the 30th Ordinary Session of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa on Sunday that resuming the peace efforts requires...

PCS demands 5% pay rise

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CIVIL servants’ union PCS has called for urgent talks with the Cabinet Office over its 2018 pay claim which calls for a fully-funded 5%...