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Picket lines and protests from the four hour strike for health service pay

Up to 500,000 NHS workers in England struck out four hours today, Monday, in the first national health strike over pay for 32 years.

Health bosses are cooking up a frantic plan to use doctors, nurses and other medics to run ambulances during tomorrow’s NHS strike, Socialist Worker can reveal.

The planned joint strike of hundreds of thousands of local government workers in the Unison, GMB and Unite unions on Tuesday of next week has been suspended.

Alex Callinicos pays tribute to Lebanese revolutionary socialist Bassem Chit who died last week aged 34

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) vote in the by-election in the Woodside ward in Tottenham, north London, was disappointing—TUSC received 1.5 percent. However, local activists will continue to build for a serious challenge in the Tottenham seat at the general election next May.

Doncaster Care UK strikers are set to become the longest ever health strikers in Britain on their 81st strike day on Friday of this week. 

The family of Mark Duggan has raised serious questions over police conduct surrounding his shooting in August 2011 and the investigation into his death.

A group of women ended their occupation of empty council homes in Newham, east London, on Tuesday of this week.

Hundreds of thousands of local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were set to strike on Tuesday of next week.

The fascist British National Party (BNP) has expelled former leader Nick Griffin.

Two north London secondary schools—Fortis Green and Highgate Wood—have held indicative votes to ballot for action to defend Haringey divisional secretary Julie Davies.