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TORIES ON THE RUN! – get them out with a general strike

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THE TORY government yesterday dropped its attempt to defeat a House of Commons probe into whether Boris Johnson misled MPs about lockdown parties. With the...
Delegates applaud one of the major speeches at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting

‘RESIST CUTS & PRIVATISATION!’ Decides BMA conference in Edinburgh

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DOCTORS at the BMA conference (ARM) yesterday voted for Motion 293 from the London Regional Council ‘to resist cuts and the privatisation of the...

Rattled Labour Bails Out 28 NHS Trusts

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HEALTH unions yesterday welcomed a forced government retreat on the notorious ‘double whammy’ NHS accounting system whereby trusts have their funding cut twice if...
GPs and their supporters with their main banner showing that they are determined to fight to maintain and defend the NHS

‘GPs will have to strike to save our surgeries!’

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OVER 200 patients, health professionals, union members and campaigners marched through east London yesterday against cuts to GP surgeries which threaten the closure of...

SACK ALL THE OLD LEADERS – demand Sri Lankan workers and youth

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SECURITY around Sri Lanka’s parliament building in the capital, Colombo, has increased, with armed and masked soldiers guarding the building and roads nearby closed...

WE WANT ALL OF OUR JOBS BACK insist Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet workers are very angry that their union, the TGWU, is still urging them to sign the Compromise Agreement deal negotiated with the...

Fourteen Palestinian factions sign national unity agreement

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FOURTEEN Palestinian factions have signed a ‘national unity’ agreement aimed at maintaining Palestinian control over Gaza once Israel’s war on the enclave is ended. The...
RMT Tube workers fighting London Underground’s plans to sack 800 workers are threatened by Tory coalition plans to provide free labour for employers

Forced Labour For The Unemployed

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Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith yesterday revealed plans to force unemployed benefit claimants into slave labour. TUC senior policy officer Richard Exell said...

China Hits Back At US Trade!

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China launched countermeasures against the United States’ trade war attacks yesterday, with the Chinese People’s Daily saying that Beijing ‘will never waver in its...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers outside Hounslow Civic Centre speaking to NUT member Bob Garnett

Workers sign up for August 20th rally

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TRADE unionists and Hounslow local people yesterday supported the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers and bought tickets for their first anniversary march and rally in...

‘Unprecedented Pressure On Our Ambulance Members!’

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UNITE national officer for health Colenzo Jarrett-Thorpe said yesterday that ‘Pressures on our ambulance members are unprecedented, with the profession not currently being given...

UK Grinds To A Halt!

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THE UK economy ground to a halt in the three months to June 30, with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) up just 0.2 per...

Poorest children hit the hardest by education cuts

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NUT/CPAG research confirms that schools with the poorest children will be hit hardest by the May government’s school funding proposals The research using DfE data,...
One of the many protests against the hated ‘Bedroom Tax’ that is putting many families into poverty

FAMILIES BEING SQUEEZED! – by falling wages and rising prices

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AS parents face back-to-school costs, new research shows that they also face a growing struggle to provide a decent standard of living for their...

Sixth Forms strike today across UK

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TWENTY five Sixth Form Colleges take their second day of strike action today against savage cuts to pay, funding, courses and staff. The strikers, who...

SAVE OUR POST OFFICES – CWU announces week of actions

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday announced a week of action against the closure of Post Offices. The week of campaigning by the ‘Future for...
Members of the Jean Charles de Menezes family and supporters outside Stockwell Tube on July 22nd, the second anniversary of the  of the young Brazilian’s death

Jean Charles de Menezes – HELD DOWN AND SHOT SEVEN TIMES!

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Harrowing video clips of Jean Charles de Menezes’ body in a pool of blood, after being shot seven times in the head at point...
On November 30 over 2 million workers took strike action throughout the UK in defence of their pensions – the struggle is continuing

2012–The year for organising the working class to take power

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2012 to all our readers and to the working class...

MAY’S WAR ON MIGRANTS! – condemned by Institute of Directors

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‘WE MUST work to control immigration and put Britian first,’ Tory Home Secretary Theresa May said yesterday, stepping up her war on refugees. The economic...

‘Charge police with murder’ say family of George Floyd

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MASS uprisings have broken out in Minneapolis as hectic protests over the police killing of an unarmed black man George Floyd escalated into violent...

Wrack Condemns Backstabber Khan

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FIRE Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack yesterday responded to London mayor Sadiq Khan’s decision to backstab Corbyn and urge Labour voters to ditch...

Global Climate Change Strike

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HUNDREDS of thousands of school youth are walking out on strike today in more than 100 countries around the globe over climate change. School youth...
Demonstration in Iran in support of Marzieh Hashemi

Marzieh Hashemi Is Free

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IRAN’S Press TV English service anchor Marzieh Hashemi, 59, was freed on Wednesday from a Washington prison where she had been held by federal...

Only 2 junior doctors in charge of 436 patients!

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ONLY two junior doctors were left in charge to care for for 436 patients on a night shift which they have said was...

Covid-19 Crisis – London Moves To Tier 3!

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‘WE MUST act now to shift the curve, when the virus develops exponentially there is not a moment to spare.’ This is what Matt Hancock,...

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...

Nationalise P&O now!

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‘P&O and their paymasters in Dubai are no longer capable of running a safe service and should be stripped of the licence to operate...

ALL OUT ON THE 27th

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AT Gatwick, on Sunday morning, pickets at the South Terminal roundabout got tremendous support from passing motorists, coaches and lorries, and fellow airport workers,...
Relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes and lawyers for his family holding a press conference at the TUC in London yesterday

‘INCONCEIVABLE!’ – that Sir Ian Blair did not know that Jean Charles de Menezes...

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‘NO ONE has been held responsible for anything, no one is going to be prosecuted and the police have been allowed to get away...

Blair Says Troops To Stay In Iraq

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THE new puppet Prime Minister of Iraq, Jaffari, has just visited both Washington and London to make sure that a beleaguered President Bush and...

Mass picket at British Library

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‘What do we want? Fair Pay!’ ‘When do we want it? Now!’ chanted a mass picket of over 150 PCS strikers outside the British...

BRING DOWN COALITION! –to defend jobs, benefits, the NHS & rights

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‘The coalition has got it wrong. By only having a strategy for cuts, it has no plans for growth and recovery.’ So warned Unison general...

‘Labour won’t be able to spend its way out of the mess!’ – Starmer...

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LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer said yesterday that Labour ‘won’t be able to spend our way out’ of the ‘mess’ left by the Tories. While...
The platform at Sunday’s News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance rally

UNIONS MUST TAKE BROWN ON – says News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance rally

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All the public sector trade unions must unite for action to bring down the Brown government and replace it with a workers government and...

UK banks £60bn black hole

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THE UK’s ‘big four’ banks face a financial black hole of up to £60bn from regulatory demands, hidden losses, and potential mis-selling costs that...

POLICE KNOW BEST! – Blair’s message for House of Commons

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday attacked MPs for opposing the police demand for powers to hold people for 90 days without charge. Blair told his monthly...

Windsor criminalises homeless

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WINDSOR and Maidenhead council have made it a crime to be homeless, issuing fines of £100 criminalising destitute people in an attempt to drive...

‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!’ – tens of thousands to march through Dublin

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Hundreds of occupying Waterford Crystal workers, members of the Unite trade union, will be joining today’s national demonstration in Dublin. It has been called by...
Thousands of students took the streets of London for the National Day of Action last November against fees, education cuts and the scrapping of EMA

Students walkout today!

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TENS of thousands of students are expected to participate in a national walkout today in campuses in every part of the UK against the...

‘Make the least unsafe decision!’ – Norfolk & Norwich hospital staff told

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STAFF at Norfolk’s biggest hospital , the Norfolk and Norwich, were told to make the ‘least unsafe decision’ last week, when the hospital had...

Locked-Out Gate Gourmet Workers Picket The Tgwu

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TWENTY Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketed a meeting of TGWU sacked Gate Gourmet shop stewards at the Hillingdon regional office yesterday. Most of the shop...

Bank Given 2008 Libor Rate Warning

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US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged UK Bank of England governor Mervyn King in 2008 to reform the London interbank offered rate (Libor) process...
Libyan women, proclaiming their right to defend their country against armed rebels, picketing the recent Contact Group meeting in London

RECALL PARLIAMENT! –demand MPs angry at regime change letter

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Five MPs yesterday urged a recall of parliament after the publication of a joint letter from US President Obama, French President Sarkozy and Prime...
The E15 Campaign fights for social housing against the policy of social cleansing

‘Uprooting homeless families now the norm in London!’

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HOMELESS charity Shelter yesterday condemned the practice of ‘out-of (London)-borough placements’ as ‘unacceptable’. This came as Labour-run Luton Borough Council, Bedfordshire, is considering legal action...

‘Obsessive’ Grammars Slammed

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CHIEF Inspector of Schools Sir Michael Wilshaw has criticised Tory PM Theresa May’s ‘obsessive’ plan to approve a new wave of selective grammar schools...