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‘Say No’ To Academies

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ONE of the largest chains of academies in England is to be stripped of the control of ten schools, the Department for Education (DfE)...

General Practice brought to its knees by funding crisis!

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MORE than 34 million patients in England will this year fail to get an appointment with their GP, when seeking treatment, because of the...

Cameron’s beat, beat, and beat again ruling class morality!

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THE Tory-led coalition's savage attack on welfare claimants and the inevitable poverty and destitution they have caused for millions of working class families ...

98 GP PRACTICES FACING CLOSURE! – says BMA

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AT LEAST 98 GP practices are threatened with closure as a direct result of Tory coalition funding cuts, doctors union the BMA warned yesterday. The...

Low paid Apex care workers ‘gagged & searched’

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UNISON on Monday condemned a range of draconian measures imposed on low-paid homecare workers by Apex Care, which include a gagging order, refusals to...

House price inflation reaches 8.4%

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RETAIL Price Index (RPI) inflation, which includes housing costs, grew by 2.8% in the year ending January 2014, up from 2.7% in December 2013. This...

Local government employers cancel wage negotiations for 1.5m staff! 1,700 Environment...

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THE GMB  has   reacted furiously to the local government employer’s announcement that they have unilaterally cancelled pay negotiations for 1.5 million staff working in...

Bedroom Taxes Leading To Mass Evictions!

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THE full effects of the coalition’s bedroom tax, which was introduced last April, have been highlighted in two reports published on Wednesday and revealed...

‘Staggering rate of evictions’

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HOMELESS charity Shelter has denounced the ‘staggering’ amount of families who are being forcibly evicted from their homes, the highest since records began. Figures released...

Carney’s ‘forward guidance’ comes a huge cropper!

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BANK of England governor Carney has dumped his forward guidance policy under which interest rates would rise once the UK unemployment rate had been...

Flooding – Call For Five Year Reconstruction Plan

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THE flood-hit South West of England needs a joined up, five year reconstruction and development plan to rebuild the economic, transport and social fabric,...

Teachers Oppose Miliband Over Parent-Run Schools

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TEACHERS’ unions on Monday rejected Labour leader Ed Miliband’s proposal for parent-run schools. They were commenting on his Hugo Young lecture where Miliband set out...

Backward British capitalism lets hundreds of homes flood

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HUNDREDS of houses have been flooded across the country over these last months, and angry residents are demanding to know why nothing has been...

CONTROL CREDIT OR FACE NEW GLOBAL COLLAPSE –warns ex-FSA chief

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RETURN to 1950s-style credit controls or face a credit-fuelled global collapse, was the stark warning given by the former stock market regulator, Jonathan Turner...

Staff are angry over pay ‘hypocrisy’ says Sally Hunt

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PICKETS were out in force at universities across the UK during Thursday’s one-day strike by University and College Union (UCU), Unison, Unite and Educational...

NUT to strike on March 26

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THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday announced a national strike across England and Wales on Wednesday 26 March. The NUT said the strike is...

UK university staff walk out tomorrow

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STAFF in UK universities are preparing to walk out for their third one-day strike tomorrow as part of a worsening pay dispute. On the eve...

Qe Tapering Leading To A Crash

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WHAT started last week as a crisis in the international capitalist stock markets is turning into a full-scale crash with Wednesday’s decision by the...

‘SYRIA IS A CIVIL STATE THAT SOME SITTING IN THIS ROOM...

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Syrian Deputy Premier, Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Walid al-Moallem, opened the Geneva 2 conference in Montreux on Wednesday by insisting on delivering the whole...

Routine NHS operations to be privatised!

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Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS medical director, has said that private companies will be asked to carry out routine operations to relieve pressure on...

‘Syrians Alone Have The Right To Choose The Government’

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‘SEATED amongst us today in this room, are representatives of countries that have the blood of Syrians on their hands, countries that have exported...

Arrogant Carney Rubbishes Miliband!

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THIS week, in an attempt to cash in on the universal hatred felt by the working class and middle classes towards banks and bankers,...

70% of NHS contracts going private

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THE NHS Support Federation yesterday revealed that almost 70% of contracts for NHS services in England between April-December 2013 were awarded to private companies. THE...

36% of ‘Right to Buy’ council homes snapped up by private...

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‘RIGHT TO BUY ‘is nothing short of Whitehall-sanctioned robbery of the taxpayer,’ Tom Copley, London Assembly Labour Housing spokesperson, said yesterday. Copley added that the...

NO ACADEMY! COPLAND 5th STRIKE

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COPLAND Community School workers took an unprecedented fifth day of strike action yesterday to stop the ARK academy chain taking over their school in...

Cameron’s Fracking Bribe Rejected!

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THE Tory Party is in an energy crisis. In 1993 in the person of Michael Heseltine it completely shut down the mining industry putting 100,000...

£11bn of council cuts!

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COUNCILS in England have been forced to cut almost £11 billion from their budgets in the first two years of the Tory coalition government,...

Duggan Family Will Fight Inquest Verdict

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THE FAMILY of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by police in August 2011, said yesterday that the family will fight the inquest decision...

‘He was executed!’ –Duggan family condemn ‘lawfully killed’ verdict

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‘POLICE MURDERERS’ was the cry that greeted the Jury’s verdict yesterday afternoon at the conclusion of the inquest into the police killing of Mark...

‘We are staring the death of justice in the face’ –Barristers...

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OVER 200 barristers, solicitors, law students, probation officers and trade union supporters demonstrated outside Westminster Magistrates Court in defence of legal aid on Monday...

No Legal Aid – No Justice!

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OVER 200 barristers, solicitors, law students, probation officers and trade union supporters yesterday morning demonstrated outside Westminster Magistrates Court in defence of legal aid. Russell...

Flu pandemic will be ‘more deadly’ – due to Health Act

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AN INDEPENDENT think tank has warned that when the next flu pandemic hits Britain, because the NHS has lost 10,000 staff, the results would...

SAVE LEGAL AID! – first ever barristers strike today

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‘Save Legal Aid!’ barristers and solicitors are demanding as they take historic strike action today, starting with a 9.30-10.30am demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court,...

How to win the firefighters struggle!

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THE six-hour strike by firefighters on New Year’s Eve was a demonstration of the solidarity and determination of FBU members across the country to...

Turning A New Page In The NHS!

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THE leaders of 10 NHS organisations have called in an open letter for a ‘new page to be turned’ in 2014. Powerful organisations including...

‘It Will Have To Go To A Strike By The Whole...

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FIREFIGHTERS marched out on a six-hour strike at 6.30pm throughout England and Wales on New Year’s Eve, seeing the New Year in on the...

BMA predicts £54bn NHS shortfall!

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THE Chair of the British Medical Association has warned of an increasing financial shortfall in NHS funding. In his New Year’s message to doctors, Dr...

‘Perilous’ Levels Of Debt

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EVEN in a ‘good growth’ scenario, the number of UK households facing a debt crisis would almost double, warns the Resolution Foundation think-tank. It said...

JOINT NATIONAL TEACHERS STRIKE BY FEB 13th–IF GOVE WON’T NEGOTIATE

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IN A ‘Protect Teachers and Defend Education’ campaign update, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) said strike action is set to go ahead in...

Cutting council funding will harm public health!

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FURTHER funding cuts to local councils will impact on long-term health outcomes, the British Medical Association (BMA) has warned. The government last week announced a...

‘We are going to continue to strike until we get what...

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AT 7pm on the dot on Christmas Eve the doors of Stoke Newington Fire station opened and the fire fighters began their seventh strike...

THREE FIRE STATIONS THAT RESCUED APOLLO THEATREGOERS ARE TO CLOSE IN...

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THREE of the eight fire stations that sent engines to the Apollo Theatre last night are set to close in less than three weeks,...

UK – Huge Trade Deficit

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BRITAIN’S trade deficit has ballooned to its biggest since 1989, shocking the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which released the data yesterday. In the three...

G4S & Serco ‘criminal investigation!’

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NOTORIOUS private security companies G4S and Serco now face criminal investigation by the Serious Fraud Office in the wake of the electronic tagging scandal. Earlier...

‘Part-time low-wage economy’

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THE UK unemployment rate fell to 7.4%, from 7.6% for the three months to September, according to figures released by the Office for National...