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Enthusiastic striking BA cabin crew aboard their battle bus at Heathrow yesterday

‘We are fighting for our rights!’

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PICKET lines at Heathrow Airport were all manned successfully yesterday and there was a carnival atmosphere at the Bedfont Football Club, as a battle...
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...

Tories Mount Jobs Assault

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Chancellor Osborne yesterday announced the first £6.2bn of savage cuts planned by the Tory coalition. At a press conference, Osborne confined himself to generalities, then...
Striking British Airways workers at Heathrow yesterday defiant against Walsh’ and BA’s attempt to cut their working conditions

‘No To A Race To The Bottom’

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‘Walsh isn’t interested in compromise. This is our eighth day on strike and it has gone on to a different level’. British Airway’s cabin...
BA cabin crew outside the High Court last Friday, jubilant after hearing the court’s decision in favour of their strike ballot

BA–No Deal

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The five-day strike by British Airways (BA) cabin crew went ahead at midnight last night after talks between the Unite union and BA management...
PCS members demonstrate outside the High Court during their appeal to defend their conditions

PCS gearing up for massive jobs fight

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Civil servants union, the PCS, is gearing up for action to fight over 300,000 public sector job cuts, planned by the Tories. PCS NEC...

UNITE SIGNS UP FOR SAVAGE GM-VAUXHALL CUTS ‘We have to work as a team’...

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‘Vauxhall employees contribute in support of the Opel/Vauxhall turnaround plan,’ General Motors announced yesterday. The deal was struck in Rüsselsheim on Thursday. A...
Cabin crew rejoice at the good news that the judiciary had dumped the strike ban

Law Lords Retreat!

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British Airways (BA) cabin crew outside the High Court cheered and danced yesterday morning after a panel of three senior judges overturned a...
Workers marching in London last month to defend the welfare state

Cbi Calls For Two-Year Wage Freeze

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Public sector trade union Unison, yesterday condemned the bosses’ organisation, the CBI, for calling for a two year public sector pay freeze. Unison...

‘NO RIGHT TO STRIKE IN BRITAIN!’ – Brendan Barber of the TUC

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TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said yesterday that he was ‘desperately worried’ about the High Court decision to make the cabin crew strike at...

Huge Leap In The Inflation Rate!

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RPI INFLATION soared by 5.3 per cent last month, indicating that a huge cut in workers’ wages and a major hike in the cost...
Cabin crew at Heathrow in high spirits during their recent strike action

Strike Declared Illegal!

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The four five-day strikes by British Airways cabin crew were yesterday declared illegal by the High Court. The first set of strikes was due to...

Field Joins The Tories!

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Birkenhead MP Frank Field yesterday became the first Labour right winger to defect to the Tory-led coalition with the Liberal Democrats. Field, who is an...
Demonstrators outside parliament commemorate the 60th anniversary of the ‘Nakba’ (catastrophe) and demand freedom for Palestine and the lifting of the siege of Gaza

‘We will return!’

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‘Free Palestine!’ shouted over 800 protesters at a Nakba (Catastrophe) Day demonstration opposite Downing Street on Saturday. The protestors insisted that Palestinian refugees must have...

New Politics Equals Dictatorship!

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THE new Tory coalition government is facing an angry response to its plans to install itself for five years, and stay in power even...
Young students leading the WRP-Young Socialist contingent on the May Day march in London – they never had any illusions in the Liberal Democrats

Student Fury Over Lib Dem Betrayal

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THE National Union of Students (NUS) yesterday issued a warning to Liberal Democrat MPs that they must keep their promises to their constituents to...

Five Million Mortgage Holders Under Threat!

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OVER five million mortgage holders – half the mortgage holders in Britain – could face eviction if interest rates go up and current government...

‘IT’S GOING TO BE PAINFUL!’ Cuts must start this year – King to Osborne

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Bank of England governor Mervyn King yesterday warned that the next few years are ‘going to be painful’ and that ‘markets would expect a...

LABOUR-LIB DEM TALKS BREAK DOWN – Tories and Liberals get ready for coalition

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A TORY-LIB DEM savage cuts coalition government was being assembled last night, after coalition talks between the Labour Party and the Lib Dems broke...

Teachers mount SATs challenge

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THOUSANDS of head teachers boycotted SATs tests yesterday on the grounds that the tests damage children’s education. Head teachers in the National Association of...
BA strikers confident of victory on the first day of their strike action on March 20th

Cabin Crew – 20 Days Of Strike Action

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UNITE, Britain’s largest union, yesterday announced a new round of strikes over 20 days at British Airways. This follows the third overwhelming vote by Unite’s...

Brown Coalition Bid – Ready To Go

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GORDON BROWN offered the Liberals a coalition yesterday evening, and his resignation as PM by the time of the Labour Party conference. Brown, speaking outside...
Lecturers fighting Labour cuts – will do the same or more under a coalition government

Lib Dems Head For Tories

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BRITAIN remained without a government yesterday, as the Liberal Democrats prepared to dump their proportional representation policy in order to strike a dirty coalition...
Lecturers marching to defend their jobs – they will step up their fight after this general election

CAMERON DEMANDS STRONG GOVERNMENT! – as pound sterling falls

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URGENT talks began yesterday as Tory leader David Cameron demanded a ‘strong and stable government’ is formed ‘quickly’ to avoid ‘economic catastrophe’. This was after...
The giant adedy  trade union delegation in the square in front of the Parliament building. They were led away after ten minutes by their leaders – shortly afterwards the riot police attacked the remaining crowd

30,000 Workers Gather Outside Greek Parliament

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SOME thirty thousand Greek workers, youth and students held a rally on Thursday evening outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens. Inside, the Greek...

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...
ANNA ATHOW with students at the Enfield College picket line yesterday, a number pledged they would vote WRP

Vote Wrp – Keep The Tories Out

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Thousands of lecturers, supported by tens of thousands of students, were yesterday taking strike action against Labour government cuts and sackings at 11 colleges...
Local government workers on the May Day march in Athens organised by the Coalition of the Radical Left

‘Peoples Of Europe Rise Up!’

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GREEK workers in the public and private sectors are preparing for today’s 24-hour general strike which is certain to be one of the biggest...
WRP Manchester Central parliamentary candidate (right) with his team making every minute count in the last days of the campaign

WRP campaign steps up a gear

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THE campaign for Jonty Leff, the WRP candidate for Manchester Central, has stepped up a gear on the eve of Thursday’s general election. While canvassing...

HEADS WILL BOYCOTT SATs

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SATs tests are being used as a ‘big stick’ to beat state schools with, says the president of the National Association of Head Teachers...
Greek youth march towards the police lines showing their determination to resist the savage cuts

Papandreou Agrees To ‘Great Sacrifices’

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Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday that Greece has agreed the terms of a financial rescue deal with the European Union and IMF. This will...

UCU Fights Mass Sackings

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The University and College Union (UCU) has slammed Manchester College after it was revealed that it is paying its top earner almost £200,000, while...
Section of the rally in central Athens during the recent public sector national strike

MAY DAY MANIFESTO – ‘Permanent state of Revolution!’ says Greek dockers’ leader

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THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers of the world at a time of the greatest ever...
Some of the 300 demonstrators outside the Whittington Hospital yesterday lunchtime who are determined it will not be closed

Keep Whittington Open!

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Over 300 people rallied outside the Whittington Hospital, north London, yesterday lunchtime, against the closure of the hospital’s A&E and maternity departments. Organisers ‘Defend the...

KEEP NHS A&Es OPEN!

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The College of Emergency Medicine (CEM) yesterday warned that is it misguided to downgrade or close hospital Accident and Emergency departments. The college stressed that...
Workers at the Tuesday evening demonstration in Athens. The banner reads ‘The austerity measures shall not pass’

Down With The Imf Junta Say Athens Workers

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Over five thousand public sector workers marched through the Athens city centre last Tuesday evening against the government’s appeal to the IMF. Throughout the militant...
CELIA STUBBS (right) with DEBORAH COLES of Inquest and solicitor RAJU BHATT outside Scotland Yard yesterday morning

BLAIR PEACH – NO POLICE TO BE CHARGED! – after 31 years of cover-up

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‘We always said that Blair had been killed by a policeman. I feel that we’ve really been vindicated,’ Celia Stubbs, the partner of Blair...
WRP candidate (3rd from right) led a very successful picket yesterday morning to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

Vote Anna Athow To Keep Chase Farm Open

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A LIVELY North East London Council of Action monthly picket of Chase Farm Hospital won big support yesterday for its determination to keep...
WRP candidate ANNA ATHOW found that her stand to defend the NHS and keep all hospitals open is very well supported

OUR HOSPITALS MUST NOT CLOSE! – Voters tell Enfield WRP candidate Anna Athow

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Enfield North WRP election candidate Anna Athow and her campaign team received a big response on the High Street yesterday. Anna, a consultant surgeon, has...

Hamas Leader Killed

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ISRAELI forces besieged the home of a prominent Hamas fighter on Monday morning in Beit Awwa, southern Hebron, and later killed him, witnesses said. Eyewitnesses...

Richest are 30% better off!

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‘THIS situation cannot be allowed to continue,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday in response to this year’s Sunday Times Rich...
GABRIEL POLLEY being excluded from the UEA hustings on Thursday night – Charles Clarke was again looking on

WRP candidate excluded

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GABRIEL Polley, WRP candidate for Norwich South was prevented from speaking at the Election hustings at the University of East Anglia last Thursday. Gabriel...
CAROLINE CONNELLY (left) along with her daughter and grandson with Manchester Central WRP candidate JONTY LEFF

Manchester health cuts condemned

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DOCTORS, nurses, staff and patients alike are furious at the major staff cuts and proposed further funding cuts affecting the hospitals in the Manchester...
PCS national executive member ZITA HOLBOURNE letting everybody know that the PCS will not accept the government destroying their redundancy agreement

‘WE ARE DEFENDING OUR JOBS!’ – PCS pickets the High Court

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‘GORDON BROWN hear us say – our contracts are here to stay! shouted eighty Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) members and officials outside...