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Demonstration against the hated ‘Bedroom Tax’ in Norwich

Landlord seeking ‘Benefit Cap’ possession orders!

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HOMELESS charity Crisis yesterday condemned letters telling tenants in Haringey that ‘social landlord’ Genesis is starting eviction proceedings because it does not think they...

UNIONS FIGHT LAW OF THE JUNGLE BOSSES! – after scabs board ‘Isle of Inishmore’...

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Yesterday General President of the SIPTU trade union, Jack O’Connor wrote to every member of the union concerning the struggle to stop...

BA’S 2 YEAR PLAN – for £450m savings and up to 6,000 sackings

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THE new two-year business plan for British Airways was unveiled yesterday and includes provision for reducing costs by £450 million and restoring 10 per...
A section of the march in London on October 24 against the war on Afghanistan demanding troops out

More Than 20,000 Troops For Helmand Province

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Prime Minister Brown yesterday announced the UK is sending 500 extra troops to Afghanistan early this month. He revealed that, along with special forces operating...

‘This is a fight we have to win’ says UCU

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IMPERIAL College staff were boosted on their picket line yesterday morning by the support of an engineering student and a vintage bus. The nationwide strike...

CORUS SHUTDOWN OUTRAGE – 3,000 jobs threatened

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Steel union, Community, yesterday expressed ‘outrage’ at the announcement to ‘mothball’ Teesside Cast Products with a threat to 2,000 jobs. The union said that move...

Beaten To Death

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A leaked US Army Criminal Investigation Command report has revealed a catalogue of prisoner abuses, including two deaths, by the US military at Bagram...

SPECIAL BRANCH COLLUDED IN 15 MURDERS – paid £79,840 to Loyalist killer

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Collusion between Special Branch officers and a loyalist death squad was made possible by support at the ‘highest level’, Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan said...
WIL, MOHAMMED and RICARDO, three unemployed youth were fully in support of the defence of GM Luton jobs by an occupation

ANGER IN LUTON – over 20-hour week plan

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A MASSIVE anger is growing at GM Luton and throughout the town against the threatened closure of the car plant. Workers at GM Luton were...
Part of the mass picket outside the Horseferry Road Magistrates Court yesterday

Release Talhar Ahsan

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MORE than 40 people picketed Horseferry Road Magistrates’ Court yesterday to demand the release of Talha Ahsan and the repeal of the extradition treaty...
Marchers are taking place all over the country to defend the NHS!

STOP MATERNITY CLOSURE! – say Save Eastbourne Hospital Campaign

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Campaigners in Sussex yesterday said they will continue their fight to keep fully functioning district general hospitals in both Eastbourne and Hastings. This followed the...
William Westwell (fourth from left, with witch-hunt placard) demonstrating outside the school before the first hearing

Reinstate victimised steward –demand Camden Unison

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ON Thursday July 12, the Camden Unison Children, Schools and Families shop stewards committee passed the following motion unanimously condemning the victimisation of Haverstock...
The WRP-YS contingent led the call for a general strike

500,000 WILL STRIKE ON MAY 10 – says Serwotka

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Half a million workers will be taking strike action on May 10th, PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka told the mass rally at the end...

30% Wages ‘Sabbatical’ For Vauxhall Ellesmere Port

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General Motors, the owner of Vauxhall, has put forward a plan for its Merseyside workforce to ‘take a break’ from two to nine-months from...
Nora Egan being stretchered away and taken to Basildon General Hospital after being injured in the police-led raid on her home early yesterday morning

Police-led ‘ethnic cleansing’ at Dale Farm!

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HUNDREDS of riot police stormed through the rear perimeter fence into the Dale Farm compound at 7am yesterday morning, injuring female residents that they...

Tories have no plan for a second wave! – damning PAC report

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THE TORIES have no plan to deal with a second spike of the deadly coronavirus. A fresh report just released by the Public Accounts Committee...

RBS £344bn available! – and 20,000 workers to be sacked

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The Unite trade union yesterday slammed former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) boss, 50-year-old Sir Fred Goodwin’s £650,000- a-year pension as the bank...
Postal workers marched on Royal Mail head office in July demanding the resignation of Royal Mail chief executive  Adam Crozier

CWU TO LOBBY UNITE – stop managers scabbing!

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London, on Thursday. The...
A section of yesterday morning’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital

Battle On To Stop Chase Farm Closure

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‘WE’RE having a good picket today,’ said Bill Rogers, secretary of the North-East London Council of Action, outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. The Council of...
Police trying to enforce an eviction on the Heygate estate yesterday but were unsuccessful due to the opposition of residents

Defend Council Estates! Keep Homes Open!

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SOUTH-EAST London Council of Action joined with local residents to stop the eviction of young people from homes on the Heygate Estate in Elephant...
Junior doctors from Remedy UK outside the High Court yesterday before the start of their judicial review over ‘MTAS’

ABSOLUTE CHAOS! – doctors training crisis continues

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JUNIOR doctors went to the High Court yesterday in a bid to get the online Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) ruled ‘unlawful’, warning...
Sacked News International print workers marching in Fleet Street with a defiant message during their bitter 1986-87 strike

BROOKS MUST GO! – insists Miliband

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Labour leader Ed Miliband said yesterday ‘it beggars belief’ that News International chief executive ‘Rebekah Brooks is still in her post’ and, ‘The least...

5 US marines killed – near Ramadi

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Five US marines have been killed near Ramadi, western Iraq, when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb, the US military said in a statement...
National Union of Journalists protest in March against Murdoch domination of the media

Brooks Arrested! – ‘Timing Stinks’ Says Dowler Family Lawyer

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FORMER News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was yesterday arrested ‘on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications’ and on ‘suspicion of corruption allegations’. In a...

7/7 Survivors Left To Fend For Themselves

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London’s emergency plans must be changed to take into account the needs of survivors in the aftermath of a major incident, says the report...

GRENFELL INQUIRY HALTED! – no date set for reopening

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THE GRENFELL INQUIRY HAS BEEN HALTED! Hearings have been cancelled until the charman of the inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick considers a demand from lawyers representing...

Ruling class moves to try to restore order

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THE Labour government is pushing through the Houses of Parliament a bill that will make desertion and refusal to serve in an occupied country...

GOLDSMITH REFUSED TO BACK IRAQ WAR – in March 2008, 2002 letter to Hoon

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THE Chilcot Inquiry yesterday published a previously classified letter from the Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith to Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, in which he refused to...

LIBYAN DIPLOMATS EXPELLED – by terrorist government that’s bombing Tripoli

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THE British government took petty revenge after its client ‘revolutionaries’ were driven out of Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawad by the Libyan armed forces...
Demonstrators outside the Pakistan embassy yesterday demanded a UN-led investigation into Benazir Bhutto’s murder

‘CATASTROPHE IN PAKISTAN’ – say 200 demonstrators

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‘THE average, common individual can’t get anything, there is no flour, no diesel, there are only a few hours of electricity – the whole...

14 Days Strike At 74 Universities!

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THE BLAME for the disruption to students’ education by strike action starting today lays squarely at the door of vice-chancellors, said the University and...
Sacked BBC canteen workers demonstrating outside Bush House in Central London yesterday

Bbc World Service Workers Back Caterers

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‘THE BBC says it subscribes to “BBC values”, but it would appear BBC Values do not apply to contractors such as Aramark.’ BECTU General Secretary...
Chagos Islanders demonstrating outside the House of Lords demanding the right to return to Diego Garcia

Labour’s Secret Detentions On Diego Garcia

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Legal charity Reprieve yesterday demanded the British government reveal details of the secret illegal detention of ‘ghost’ prisoner Mustafa Setmariam Naser on Diego Garcia...
Youth from Forest Gate demonstrating outside New Scotland Yard yesterday afternoon

‘WE SUFFERED A NIGHTMARE’ says sister of jailed men

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,?her innocent family should be forced to go through the same nightmare we went through,’ said Humeya Kalam, the sister of brothers Abdul Kahar...

Youth Rise Up Against Capitalism

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A THOUSAND school youth walked out of classes yesterday to join the mass protest in Parliament Square, furious at how capitalism is destroying the...

Strike Shuts Dover Port

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Hundreds of Unite members working for the Dover Harbour Board began a 48-hour strike at 7am yesterday morning. Speaking from the picket line yesterday afternoon,...
Travel Safe strikers lobbying Transport for London head office yesterday

Travel Safe Action

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‘TRANSPORT for London – do the right thing!’ shouted striking London Overground Travel Safe security workers lobbying TfL head office in Victoria yesterday. ‘What do...

UBS fined for mortgage mis-selling

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UBS is paying a 700 million Swiss francs ($745 million) fine to settle a case over its mis-selling of mortgage-backed securities to Fannie Mae...
Outside the Vouli on Thursday evening – young workers stand their ground against the riot police

40,000 Workers Defy Greek ‘police Terror’

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OVER 40,000 workers and youth congregated in the central Athens square outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) on Thursday night despite the riot police terrorist...
Protest outside the US embassy in London on January 11 – five years since the first prisoners were inarcerated at Guantanamo Bay

HUNGER STRIKE – against Guantanamo Bay’s new isolation units

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A MASS hunger strike is being waged by inmates in America’s Cuban Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, against being transferred into ‘maddening’ new isolation units. Thirteen...
Hertfordshire firefighters lobbied Downing St in March over the announced closure of fire stations, rather than attend  Blair’s reception for Buncefield fire heroes

BETRAYED! – Radlett fire station closed

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ON Monday 23rd October Hertfordshire County Council gave five hours notice of closure of Radlett fire station, betraying understandings and agreements made with...
WRP candidate JONTY LEFF (right) was greeted with a lot of support from students at Hackney Community College yesterday

Vote Wrp Vote Jonty Leff In Hackney & Shoreditch!

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‘I AM voting for Jonty Leff because I am angry about the lack of jobs for young people and the amount that they are...
A section of the massive London march during the two million-strong November 30 public sector pensions strike last year

Time To Get Rid Of Capitalism

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MAY DAY STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers of the...

Tuc Condemns Attack On Single Parents

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The TUC and single parent charity Gingerbread yesterday condemned the Work and Pensions Secretary Purnell’s decision to press ahead with ‘welfare to work’ plans...

Coronavirus ‘Running Wild In Care Homes!’

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THE LATEST figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which include every community death linked to Covid-19 in England and Wales, showed a...