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Masses assembling on the Embankment before setting off on Saturday

500,000 March For Action To Bring Down The Coalition!

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500,000 angry workers, trade unionists and youth marched in London, Glasgow and Belfast against the Tory-LibDem Coalition government and its cuts and privatisation programme...
Weary looking Blair came under fire at GMB conference

POLICE QUESTION LEVY AGAIN – Blair expected to be interviewed under caution

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Lord Levy, Prime Minister Blair’s chief fundraiser and close political ally was questioned for a second time yesterday by police investigating the ‘cash...

Private treatment centres harm NHS

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TREATMENT Centres run by the private sector are much more likely to have an adverse effect on their surrounding NHS trusts, finds new...
Shipbreakers KHALANI ISMAIL (left), DHANANJAY YADAV (centre) and (right) VIDYADHAR RANE, secretary of the Mumbai Port Trust, Dock and General Employees’ Union

Shipbreakers Demand Action

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FIFTEEN per cent of the 65,000 workers employed in scrapping ships at sites on India’s west coast are suffering from asbestosis. The shocking statistic...

TORTURE NOT OK! Law Lords defend Iraqis’ human rights

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BRITISH troops were told to hood Iraqis and use banned ‘stressing’ techniques when interrogating them, human rights lawyer Phil Shiner claimed yesterday at...
Tamils in Parliament Square on Monday demonstrate against the Sri Lankan Army genocide against the Tamil people

TAMIL LEADERS TREACHEROUSLY KILLED WHILE UNDER WHITE FLAG – Prabakaran still alive and fight...

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WHILE rejecting Colombo’s claim of the killing of LTTE leader V Prabakaran and assuring his safety and well-being, LTTE’s International Relations Head S...
A group of cheerful and determined pickets on the grass verge near the Gate Gourmet factory on Tuesday morning

‘WE WANT THE TRUTH’ – say Menezes family lawyers

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Lawyers for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday said they wanted the truth, and answers to ‘lies that have been told’ about...
Gate Gourmet strikers from Dusseldorf and Gate Gourmet locked-out workers from Heathrow marching through Hounslow on Saturday

UNITY IN ACTION – German & British Gate Gourmet workers picket Texas Pacific

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TWENTY SIX Gate Gourmet strikers and supporters from Düsseldorf, Germany, arrived in London yesterday to join Gate Gourmet locked-out workers from Heathrow. They met at...

RIFKIND VOWS TO BRING DOWN JOHNSON – admits he has no powers over China

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FORMER Tory Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind spoke out in support of bringing down the Johnson government to prevent a no-deal Brexit yesterday. Appearing on the...
Demonstrators outside Downing Street yesterday demanding ‘Justice for Congolese Asylum seekers’ with a halt to any more deportations

Release Congolese Detainees – Urge Protesters

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REFUGEES from the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) celebrated their court victory last week, as they demonstrated opposite Downing Street yesterday against deportations...

‘Chagos Two’ being held on rendition Island

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‘We call on all trade unionists and anti-war campaigners to support this good cause, Chagos Islands Community Association chairwoman, Hengride Permal, said yesterday. ‘We need...

Help The Homeless! – Urges Crisis Charity

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Crisis, the national charity for single homeless people, yesterday warned of a potential surge in homelessness in 2009 as it opened the doors of...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside Hillingdon T&G office yesterday are insisting that their union leaders pay their hardship money

Locked-Out Gg Workers To March At Tolpuddle

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‘THE Tolpuddle Martyrs were called troublemakers and were transported to Australia. ‘We were called troublemakers and sacked,’ Parmjeet Sidhu said at the Gate Gourmet locked-out...

‘MY NIIn a statement al-Rawi, a businessman from south-west London, said: ‘I am delighted...

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‘My nightmare is finally at an end,’ said British resident Bisher al-Rawi yesterday, just back in the UK after being held in Guantanamo Bay...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaigning on Southall High Street with KIRAN GILL (extreme left) and THOMAS MURPHY

Big Support For Gate Gourmet Workers Meeting!

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Gate Gourmet locked-out workers were campaigning yesterday on Southall Broadway near Heathrow Airport for their public meeting on Sunday November 5th. The meeting is being...

‘Robbing the dead and the dying’

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Relatives and widows of the thousands of men who died from asbestos-related cancer, yesterday expressed their determination to fight on after the Law Lords...

Hunt was Murdoch’s ‘cheerleader’

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RUPERT Murdoch is to be questioned by the Leveson Inquiry today and tomorrow over the ‘appropriateness’ of his relationship with prime minister Cameron and...
Angry Fenland Foods workers with their families demonstrating outside the Marks & Spencer store in Oxford Street against the threat tonearly 800 jobs

Save Fenlands Jobs

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TWO coachloads of angry Fenland Foods workers descended on Marks and Spencer’s flagship London store at Marble Arch yesterday. The ready meal workers blame M&S...
Over 100,000 Greek workers marched on April 2 during their general strike

WORLD REVOLUTION – the only answer to the capitalist crisis

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THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world. Under the conditions of the greatest...
Over 1,000 people marched through Norwich last month against the Arts Council cuts

MASSACRE OF THE ARTS! – Arts Council withdraws grants from 184 organisations

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A total of 184 arts organisations have had 100 per cent of their funding withdrawn, Arts Council England announced yesterday. While it said that 17...
Picturehouse cinema workers striking for the ‘Living Wage’ – they have had enough of austerity

Workers Demand ‘End Austerity!’

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SURVATION – who accurately predicted the hung parliament – also now shows Labour storming to a 7 per cent lead over the Conservatives. ...

BA sack BASSA branch secretary – Unite condemns bullying and intimidation

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The Unite union yesterday condemned the sacking by British Airways of a senior Unite official, BASSA branch secretary Duncan Holley, as ‘another act of...
Kenyans who were tortured by British troops, outside the High Court in London

11 Kenyans were beaten to death in Hola prison camp

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FOREIGN Office documents made public by the National Archives after more than 50 years give the fullest account yet of a massacre which took...
Striking Romec workers in Westminster yesterday

Royal Mail Engineers – Three Days Of Strike Action

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‘They are trying to destroy our home life with no discussion. It’s back to the bad old days – at the beck and call...

Blair Has Questions To Answer

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THE question and answer session with Prime Minister Blair at the GMB conference yesterday just illustrated the unbridgeable gulf between him and the working...
CWU members in Bow, east London, fighting to defend their jobs and stop the casualisation of Royal Mail

‘STRIKES WILL END’ says CWU leader Hayes

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Postal workers in delivery and collection offices around the country were out solid again on Saturday in defence of their union, the Communication Workers’...
Young Socialists on yesterday’s march with the Justice for the Sacked Gate Gourmet Workers’ banner just behind them

FORWARD TO SOCIALISM – say May Day marchers

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Four thousand workers and youth marched for socialism through central London on May Day yesterday. Led by the May Day Organising Committee banner there were...

Blair To Deport People To Face Torture

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CIVIL rights group Liberty yesterday warned that Prime Minister Blair is seeking to cross a ‘fundamental line in the sand’ by sending people to...

Stop mass deportation flight today! – demand 150 MPs and Lords

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THE MASS deportation flight due to leave today with 50 people on board who came to the UK as children must be stopped! over...
ABUL KOYAIR and his wounded brother MOHAMMED ABDUL KAHAR after giving a press conference in Forest Gate yesterday

THE POLICE ACTED LIKE ARMED ROBBERS – they will do it to another family...

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THE two brothers released without charge after the massive state terror operation in Forest Gate told a press conference yesterday how they thought they...

Government Rushes To Placate Angry Generals

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THE government has ruled that millions of pounds of compensation will be paid to British troops wounded in Iraq after May 2003, when the...

£1.90 AN HOUR ON CELTIC FERRIES – major unions lead protest

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LEADERS and officials of Britain and Ireland’s transport unions will today expose the poverty-pay shame of a ferry company operating in UK and Irish...
London postal workers along with MP Kate Hoey (right) demonstrated outside Royal Mail’s London headquarters yesterday

STRIKE ACTION WILL SPREAD – warns Dave Ward

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‘No more cuts! Sack Adam Crozier!’ shouted angry postal workers outside Royal Mail’s London headquarters yesterday, as 10,000 members of the Communication Workers Union...

‘WE ARE ALL GOING BACK TOGETHER’ – Gate Gourmet workers vow ‘no compromise’

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THE GATE GOURMET pickets were in a lively mood yesterday, full of determination that they were all going to get their jobs back in...

Britain Wants To Legalise ‘indefinite Internment’

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GOVERNMENTS around the world will be watching the House of Lords proceedings on 29-31 October which will determine whether they can...
Armed police arrest and handcuff one of the peace protesters as they search his bag in Parliament Square yesterday morning

Armed Police Arrest Brian Haw

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The Peace Camp in Parliament Square was brutally raided by armed police with dogs at 8am yesterday morning and its leaders were arrested and...

‘UNLAWFUL KILLING’ VERDICT QUASHED – Police gunmen can kill with impunity, says

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THE widow of Harry Stanley is consulting her lawyers, after a High Court judge yesterday quashed an inquest jury’s verdict of ‘unlawful killing’ over...

Corus Sacks 3,500 – Llanwern To Be In Mothballs

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TRADE unions yesterday called on the government to bail out the manufacturing bosses in the wake of steelmaker Corus’ confirmation that it is cutting...
Rally next to St Paul’s Cathedral yesterday by crowds of people camping there and supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement

‘We’re here to stay’ say London occupiers

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Over 600 people were yesterday massed at the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral, holding a popular assembly after hundreds had camped out overnight following...
‘Smash fees, restore grants, bring the government down’ shouted YS Manchester to London marchers, winning big support

100,000 Demand Smash Fees!

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OVER 100,000 students, lecturers and college youth filled the streets of Westminster yesterday, in a massive demonstration against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s announcement of...

Decanted families warehoused in office blocks

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FAMILIES are being ‘warehoused’ inside an office block in Harlow, Essex after being decanted from their local boroughs, with tenants forced to eat, drink...

Troops Out Of Iraq By Christmas Says Unison Conference

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Delegates at UNISON’s National Delegate Conference in Glasgow voted overwhelmingly yesterday to demand British and US troops are withdrawn from Iraq by the end...

Mass Executions In Sirte

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Fifty-three Muammar Gadaffi loyalists were executed by members of the counter-revolutionary NTC at a Sirte hotel last week, Human Rights Watch reported yesterday. Human...
Yesterday’s rain didn’t dampen the spirit of CWU pickets at the East London Mail Centre

POSTAL WORKERS CONDEMN BROWN – and demand to call out the whole public sector

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‘The phone call from Gordon Brown is not going to happen. That is why it is so important we step up the action and...
PCS members on the picket line outside the National Gallery yesterday, determined to defend their pay and conditions

Mass Picket At The National Gallery

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THE opening of the long-awaited Velázquez exhibition was disrupted yesterday, as 140 non-shift attendants walked out for the first one-day strike in the 200-year...