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Greek workers and youth marching in Athens against mass sackings and demanding permanent jobs

2010 – year for revolutions! NEW YEAR MANIFESTO by News Line Editorial Board

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NEWS LINE sends its revolutionary greetings for 2010 to the working class and the poor of the planet. We especially greet the insurgent masses...

FULL SUPPORT! – pledge the TUC and trade union leaders

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‘NO to redundancies!’ ‘We want our jobs!’ ‘We want justice!’ shouted over 300 locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday inside the TUC Congress in...

UK servicing Saudi jets in Yemen – admits Tory MP

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BRITAIN is providing ‘engineering support’ for UK-supplied aircraft operated by the Royal Saudi Air Force, responsible for killing innocent people in Yemen, a British...

CORBYN WELCOMED – while right wing refuses to serve

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TRADE unions yesterday welcomed the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader. This was after the explosion of working class anger inside and around...

PAY UP NOW! – demand striking healthcare assistants

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HEALTHCARE assistants whose jobs were wrongly graded are at ‘breaking point’, as managers at Epsom Hospital, St George’s in Tooting and St Helier refuse...

1.2m HUNGRY CHILDREN!

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More than half of all school children living in poverty, 1.2 million, are missing out on free school meals, reveals shocking new research by...

‘Shameful Brown’ Wants To Sack Workers On The Cheap

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‘WHAT a shameful act by a Labour prime minister as possibly his final act – opening the door to the Tories to come in...
Young Socialists marching in Cambridge last month against slave-labour wages

952,000 18-24’s OUT OF WORK

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‘AFTER falling for two successive months, today’s rise in youth unemployment is disappointing,’ said TUC leader Brendan Barber. Paul Kenny GMB General Secretary commented:...

GUAIDO SETS THE SCENE FOR US MILITARY INTERVENTION

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VENEZUELA’S self-declared interim leader Juan Guaidó has set up a confrontation over US aid by calling for Venezuelans to cross borders and bring it...

TORTURE CONTINUES! ‘IT’S NOT ALL OVER’ – states Binyam Mohamed

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‘Many remain in those torture chambers’, just-returned Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed said in a statement read out at a London press conference...

General Strike For Palestine!

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YESTERDAY, on Al- Quds Day, thousands of people took to the streets of London in a powerful march orchestrated by the Justice for Palestine...

Johnson to remove restrictions – Putting transport staff’s lives at risk – warns RMT

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‘WE KNOW that we are going to see more hospitalisations and more deaths from Covid,’ Tory PM Johnson admitted at yesterday’s 5.00pm press conference...
Locked-out Gate Gourmet pickets on Saturday morning read news of British Airways’ threats to make more sackings to boost profits

Blunkett Quits The Cabinet

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Announcing Blunkett’s resignation as Work and Pensions Secretary to MPs yesterday, Prime Minister Blair made it clear he had been ready to defy...
Thousands of workers were in the ERT ground’s last Wednesday evening defending the occupation

‘Overthrow Junta!’ Greek Workers Ready To Act

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OVER 10,000 workers and youth gathered at the occupied ERT (State TV and Radio) grounds on Wednesday evening on the 9th day and night...
Junior doctors picketing North Middlesex Hospital during their strike on February 10th – they are fighting an imposed contract for a safer NHS

A&E patients told ‘go home!’

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MANY http://www.wrp.org.uk/admin.php?op=adminStorypatients who had been waiting seven-hours in the A&E department at Edmonton’s North Middlesex Hospital were told on Friday night to go home...
The DEH Computer Centre building under occupation. Banners state ‘We resist’ and ‘We will not cut off the electricity supply to the poor even if they put us in prison’ – signed by the DEH trades union

‘POSTPONE GREEK ELECTIONS’ – demands EU dictator

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THE Greek coalition’s Finance Minister Evagelos Venizelos has said that the general election date agreed for February 19 by both the ex-Prime Minister Papandreou...

‘The entire labour movement must fully support the RMT’

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THE RMT issued the following statement on the forthcoming rail and Tube strikes yesterday. ‘In the past few weeks, discussions have been taking place at...

Mass austerity protests called in France for September 10th

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PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron gave his support to Prime Minister François Bayrou at a cabinet meeting yesterday, as France is bracing for fresh political turmoil...

Tories ask Iraq ‘let UK troops remain!’

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JOHNSON’S Tory government has urged Iraq to allow UK troops to stay in the country following the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Soleimani...

‘END THE OCCUPATION!’ urges the Hamas resistance

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HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement, has issued a call for an end to Israeli occupation and terrorism against Palestinians on the International Day of...
Demonstration outside University College London Hospitals Trust insisting that the NHS is not for sale

ACCEPT PRIVATISATION OR BE SACKED! NW London NHS pathology staff told

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THE GMB yesterday condemned the forced transfer of nearly 700 northwest London NHS pathology service staff to a private company. The service carries out blood...

Investors Dump Stocks As Capitalism Crashes!

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INVESTORS dumped stocks worldwide for a fourth day yesterday, ahead of US President Donald Trump unveiling a fresh round of tariffs, and mounting concerns...
Syrians in London show their support for President Assad

MPs QUESTION AIR STRIKES!’

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PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday claimed it is ‘in our national interest’ for the UK to launch air strikes on Syria. He made a statement to...

Hamas calls for massive demonstrations this weekend in of all the world’s cities!

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THE HAMAS Movement has called on people worldwide to go out ‘in mass demonstrations in all cities of the world and let the coming...
Palestinians in Athens climb on top of police buses and defiantly wave their flags

Nakba March In Athens

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Over 1,500 workers and youth marched through Athens on Tuesday evening to the US and Israeli embassies in commemoration of the Nakba and against...

Tax hike for workers while rich pay zero! – 1.25% NI hike bulldozed through...

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A VOTE took place last night, fast tracking the Johnson government’s 1.25% hike on National Insurance to pay for social care announced only on...
Ambulance staff taking strike action in October – they know that doubling ambulance times will cost people’s lives

Plans to double ambulance times condemned!

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DOCTORS’, nurses’, ambulance staff leaders and Labour yesterday slammed plans to more than double target times for ambulances to reach some seriously ill patients. A...

Hunt must resign–says GMB – whole government must go says ATUA

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TORY Health secretary Jeremy Hunt must resign, trade union GMB demanded yesterday, while warning that the ‘NHS is tailspinning into catastrophe.’ ‘The number of hospitals...
Lively mass picket of Ealing Hospital gave its full support to the decisive strike actions called by the junior doctors

SUPPORT JUNIOR DOCTORS! BRING DOWN TORIES! – demands Ealing mass picket

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‘VICTORY to the junior doctors!’ shouted the 50-strong mass picket of Ealing Hospital yesterday morning, adding, ‘Call a general strike!’ The picket, called by the...
A section of the students’ and workers’ march in Athens

300 University Departments Occupied!

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GREEK students are deepening and extending their fight against the government’s Education Law passed by the Greek Vouli (parliament) last month. Over 300 university...

Frontline workers demand ‘scrap Policing Bill’

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Over 660 frontline healthcare, community, social and education workers have called for the Policing Bill to be scrapped ahead of a key debate in...
NUT members marching on the April 14 ‘Defend the Welfare State’ demonstration in London

‘Free Schools’=Chaos

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‘The Government’s commitment to “free schools” will create chaos at local level,’ National Union of Teachers (NUT) General Secretary Christine Blower warned yesterday. She continued:...

Dangerous Clinicenta brought back into NHS

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THE Clinicenta private treatment centre at the Lister hospital, Stevenage, is to be brought back into the local NHS trust because of dangerous care...

Tens of thousands rally in Athens

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Tens of thousands of workers and youth participated in yet another mass rally outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens yesterday, demanding the overthrow...
Students gathered in their thousands in Trafalgar Square at midday yesterday and many took up their positions on Nelson’s Column

25,000 YOUTH IN WHITEHALL – as LibDem Cable buckles

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Students demonstrated and marched in towns and cities across Britain yesterday in the third day of protests against tuition fees, university cuts and the...
Chagos Islanders campaigning in Crawley last Saturday for today’s picket of the Court of Appeal and next Saturday’s demonstration in Crawley

‘WE HAVE RIGHT TO RETURN!’ – Chagos Islands hearing begins today

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Chagos Islanders are at the High Court in London today, where the British government is making a second appeal against the ruling that they...

Israel escalating massacres of civilians – warns Hamas

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A SENIOR official from Hamas, Basem Naim, said in a statement yesterday that Hamas is open to any initiative to end the war. ‘We affirm...

Iran begins Zolfaqar-1400 military exercises

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THE IRANIAN Army has started large-scale military exercises in an area stretching from the eastern sector of the strategic Strait of Hormuz to the...

3 MPs–CRIMINAL CHARGES!

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THREE Labour MPs and one Tory peer will face criminal charges over their expenses, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Keir Starmer announced yesterday. MPs Elliot...
Nurses demonstrating on the last TUC march on October 18th

NHS New Year’s Strike!

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AMBULANCE workers are to strike for 48 hours on January 29th 2015, across the whole of England and northern Ireland as their pay dispute...

‘WE’VE SEEN OFF THE COMPROMISE AGREEMENT’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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‘THE Compromise Agreement is dead. We have seen it off’ said Nirmal Purewal TGWU shop steward and locked out Gate Gourmet worker. ‘This dispute...

10 QUESTIONS FOR KIEV COUPISTS – from Russia’s deputy Defence Minister

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MOSCOW – Western states and Kiev have rushed to find Russian involvement in the MH17 crash having no evidence to back their claims, Russia’s...

MARCH WITH US THROUGH SOUTHALL say locked-out Gate Gourmet workers

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LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers are calling on the whole trade union movement to join them on their march through Southall on Sunday December...