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Malnutrition doubles in UK – BMJ

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THE PROPORTION of UK adults on low incomes who face hunger has almost doubled since 2004, with the unemployed and disabled particularly vulnerable, says...

‘LEGAL AID DESERTS’ half of councils have no legal aid for...

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OVER 50% of local authorities in England and Wales cannot provide publicly funded legal advice on housing issues, the Law Society warned yesterday as...

Patient DWP deemed ‘fit-for-work’ has died

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STEPHEN Smith, an extremely ill 64-year-old man, who the government’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had declared ‘fit-for-work’ has sadly died. Smith was left...

Half of England owned by less than 1% of the population!...

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THIS YEAR an estimated 4,677 people a night are sleeping rough on the streets of Britain, a figure that has increased for the past...

‘CHILD POVERTY SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASING’ – NEU survey

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Education professionals are reporting a significant increase in the visibility of child poverty in their school/college and have provided many distressing examples from daily...

ISS cleaners protest today in Manchester

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cleaners working for ISS on the Arriva Rail North contract will be holding a protest today, Wednesday 10th April, outside Manchester Victoria station between...

Welsh landlords refusing housing benefit tenants!

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a fifth of lettings advertised in Wales explicitly exclude people in receipt of housing benefit, a practice the homelessness charity Shelter Cymru has labelled...

Austerity driving up infant mortality

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THE GAP in infant mortality rates between English local authorities narrowed between 1999-2010, but that trend has been reversed since 2011 as a result of...

Head teachers up in arms – schools being cut to the...

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MORE than 7,000 heads have written a joint letter to 3.5 million families warning of the acute funding crisis in schools. The heads insist...

Tusk threatens ‘Hell on Earth’ for working class!

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WHEN Donald Tusk, the European Council President, speaking in Brussels came out with his comment that there is a ‘special place in hell’ for...

17,070 Disabled People Have Died Before Receiving One Penny In Benefits!

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IT NOW takes so long for claims to be processed that 17,070 disabled people have died before receiving a penny because they were still...

597 homeless deaths, 130,000 homeless children! Slum landlords and capitalism must...

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FIVE hundred and ninety-seven homeless people died on the streets of Britain last year, up from 482 the year before – in fact homeless...

‘HOLIDAY HUNGER HITS CHILDREN’! A NATIONAL Education Union snapshot poll of...

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A NATIONAL Education Union snapshot poll of 1,026 teachers in England paints a harrowing picture of the increase in poverty seen in our schools...

Only Socialist Revolution can end this chaotic farce in Parliament and...

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THERESA May ‘survived’ the vote of no confidence in her leadership of the Tory Party by 200 votes to 117 on Wednesday night –...

130,000 homeless children this Xmas

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MORE than 130,000 homeless children will be living in temporary accommodation this Christmas in Britain, according to estimates by the homeless charity Shelter. In...

Universal Credit Cancels Christmas

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‘PREMEDITATED cruelty,’ is how Norfolk campaigners have described Universal Credit, which they call to be immediately scrapped. They have organised a meeting at City...

May’s Britain a hostile place for workers and youth – Now...

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DESTITUTION under May’s crippled Tory government is soaring to levels not seen since the Victorian times. The roll-out of Universal Credit has created...

Landlords ban DSS tenants! End the housing crisis through putting...

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AT LEAST one in 10 landlords are ‘unlawfully’ advertising their flat for rent by saying that they do not accept tenants on housing benefit,...

Tories insist on ‘gagging orders’ to cover up for their crimes...

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IT EMERGED this week that the company hired by the Tories to test for flammable cladding on government and other public buildings in the...

‘There is revolutionary determination to smash capitalism’ –WRP General Secretary tells...

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OVER 100 workers, trade unionists and youth attended the rally at the Indian YMCA in Fitzroy Square, central London on Sunday to mark...

Grenfell survivors forced onto UC by Xmas!

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SURVIVORS of the horrific Grenfell fire are to be forced onto Universal Credit just days before Christmas. Documents released ‘quietly on Budget Day’ show...

Universal Credit is ‘here to stay’ – says Hammond

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TORY Chancellor Hammond, yesterday in his budget claimed to jeers: ‘the era of austerity is finally coming to an end.’ This is...

Austerity and Universal Credit to continue!

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TORY chancellor Philip Hammond made a climb down in his budget speech yesterday to Theresa May, but there was no climb down over continuing...

Universal Credit cannot be reformed – it must be scrapped through...

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MORE than 1.2 million people are on Universal Credit, while more than 100 new Jobcentres will be operating it by Christmas. Universal Credit is...

Smash Universal Credit by smashing the Tories

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ON WEDNESDAY this week, the Tory government whipped its MPs to vote down a motion from the Labour Party calling for the release of...

LABOUR COULD VOTE WITH MAY SAYS THORNBERRY – who helped draw...

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LABOUR’S Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry confirmed on the Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning that Labour could vote along with PM May on...

Universal Credit– Claimants Suffering

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THE PUBLIC and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday accused the government of being ‘complicit in the suffering’ of Universal Credit claimants, labelling the system...

The IMF sees the writing on the wall with second warning...

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THE International Monetary Fund’s Financial Stability Report has given its second warning in 24 hours about a new financial catastrophe that it sees coming...

Labour to scrap Universal Credit! – John McDonnell makes a pledge

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SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell pledged yesterday that Labour will scrap Universal Credit (UC). Interviewed by Sky’s Sophy Ridge, he was asked to comment on reports...

Millions of children face hunger under Tory austerity – TUC must...

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A SHOCKING study carried out by the GMB union released yesterday showed that almost one in ten school staff bring in their own food...

MPs SLAM UNIVERSAL CREDIT!

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Universal Credit (UC) is allowing ‘abusers’ to take control of family finances, an investigation by a parliamentary committee has heard. UC is paid to...

Universal Credit– McVey apologises!

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WORK and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey has apologised to Parliament for making ‘inadvertently misleading’ statements about Universal Credit. She said she had ‘mistakenly’ told...

Scrap Universal Credit and the Tory government with it!

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‘THIS IS a time for revolution not patching,’ said Anthony Painter, Director of Action & Research at the Royal Society of Arts, calling for...

Unite Day of Action against Universal Credit!

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THURSDAY was Unite’s National Day of Action against Universal Credit! There was a rally at 1pm in Old Palace Yard and a march to...

‘We are going to hound you out!’ – FBU’s message to...

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‘OUR MESSAGE to May and the Tories is: We are going to hound you out! Justice for Grenfell!’ Lucy Masood, FBU, said, to the...

Tories wage starvation war against children of immigrant families and...

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THE children of immigrant families are being deliberately starved by the Tories as part of their ‘hostile environment’ policy towards immigrant workers. Headteachers and...

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...

Smash Universal Credit by kicking out the Tories

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SINCE Universal Credit was devised over seven years ago, the Tories have gone to great lengths to keep from the public exactly how it...

Record numbers of children rely on food banks

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A RECORD number of children are being forced to rely on food banks in order to survive, with the numbers expected to surge...

Shocking homelessness & mass evictions this Xmas

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SHOCKING new figures show housing charity Shelter received a call for help every 22 seconds in the run up to Christmas last year, and...

The working class will not accept permanent austerity! Call a general...

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IN THE wake of Tory Chancellor Hammond’s budget – a budget in which he declared war on the working class, war on pensioners, war...

‘Budget does nothing to ease biggest squeeze ever!’ – unions slam...

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TODAY’S Budget is far from the ‘game-changer’ the country needs and will do little to ease the biggest squeeze in living standards the country...

Re-nationalise the energy suppliers – the only way to end preventable...

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FIGURES released this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a dramatic increase in the number of preventable deaths among the elderly...

A bankrupt Tory budget for a bankrupt Britain!

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CHANCELLOR Hammond outlined a bankrupt policy for a bankrupt Britain yesterday in the House of Commons. The paper-thin disguise for this bankruptcy was Hammond’s...

‘A Government No Longer Fit For Office!’

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TORY Chancellor Hammond kicked public sector workers in the teeth in his class war budget yesterday, refusing to lift the seven-year pay freeze which...