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‘Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is unlawful!’ says International Court of Justice

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JOSEP BORRELL, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, yesterday commended the advisory opinion that Israel’s presence in Palestinian territory is...
Media workers demand indefinite general strike

Media workers demand indefinite general strike

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GREEKjournalists, printers, technicians and media office workers staged a 100 per cent successful national strike on Monday against wage cuts and mass sackings, demanding...
Junior doctors marching in London against the government’s NHS ‘reforms

‘A FAILURE OF DUTY’ – Surgeons president Ribeiro quits junior doctors talks

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Bernard Ribeiro, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, has announced his withdrawal from the crisis talks about the selection of junior doctors for...

Lecturers are angry

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UNIVERSITY lecturers union UCU warned yesterday that they will take any university management to court if they dock a full day’s pay from their...

Prentis Warns Labour

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UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday pledged ‘our union will bring together an alliance of all public service unions’ to defend jobs and public...

Welsh NHS Cuts!

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‘We are very concerned for our members and our communities,’ Wales UNISON head of health Dave Gallaghan told News Line yesterday. He was responding to...

Remain MPs move to block no deal Brexit

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AN AMENDMENT aimed at blocking any attempt to shut down Parliament to ensure that Brexit is carried out, was passed by a majority of...

‘I can’t breathe!’ – Kevin Clarke’s death in police custody case to be reopened

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THE MOTHER of a mentally ill black man who died after being restrained by up to nine Metropolitan Police Service officers has said she...
Midwives’ banner outside Chase Farm Hospital maternity unit at the start of the campaign by the North East London Council of Action

Decision Taken To Close Chase Farm Hospital

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NHS London has given the go-ahead for plans to close Chase Farm Hospital A&E and the consultant-led Maternity and Paediatrics departments, despite massive opposition...

‘BOMBING RAQQA WILL KILL LARGE NUMBERS OF CIVILIANS’ – warns Corbyn

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BOMBING Raqqa will see a large number of civilians killed, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn warned yesterday. He was asked by Andrew Marr: ‘What do...
Greek workers who every day have been resisting and fighting the savage austerity programme imposed on them by the EU Troika

May Day 2014 greetings – BRING DOWN THE TORIES! – Forward with the World...

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world at a time when the world capitalist...
Striking London Underground power workers on their picket line opposite Southwark tube station early yesterday morning

Power Workers Strike Extended

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‘YOU have to stand up for what you think is right. It’s all about passenger safety. All the rules are being broken on a...

Mugabe Resigns!!

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‘ROBERT Mugabe has handed me his letter of resignation,’ the speaker of Zimbabwe’s Parliament announced yesterday, sparking wild celebrations. Cheers, singing, shouting and dancing erupted...

Vote ‘yes’ RCN urges 300,000 nurses as new strike ballot opens

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‘THIS IS unfinished business,’ said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) leader Pat Cullen yesterday, urging members to vote YES as the union opened...

ENERGY PRICE RISE CONDEMNED – UNISON demands profits inquiry

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Yet another energy supplier, E.On, yesterday announced huge increases in gas and electricity prices to domestic consumers. It is hiking gas prices by 15...
2,000 Firefighters marched through Aylesbury last Tuesday to demand the reinstatement of sacked firefighter Ricky Matthews during their strike to defend their pensions

‘We will continue the fight’ – says FBU

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THE government’s plans to make firefighters in England work until they are 60 and to increase their pension contributions was backed by MPs, 313...

No Deal In Jeddah!

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The oil summit in Jeddah ended in disarray yesterday with OPEC president, Algeria’s Chakib Khelil, blaming speculators for the high oil price. Leading oil producer,...
A recent march through Enfield to keep Chase Farm Hospital open, stop the cuts and defeat the Health and Social Care Bill

‘WITHDRAW HEALTH BILL’ say 92% of GPs

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Over 92 per cent of respondents to a poll carried out by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) think that it is appropriate...

£105 profit a customer – energy companies on the make

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Almost 10p in every pound of a gas or electricity bill is now going directly into the coffers of the privatised energy companies. Gas and...
Corus workers at the front of the recent Unite march in Birmingham – almost 3,000 of them face the sack. Both Corus and GM Luton must be nationalised

MASS LOBBY OF MPs NEEDED – to demand GM nationalisation

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‘What is needed is a mass lobby of parliament to demand nationalisation,’ former GM Luton TGWU convenor Arthur Lynn told News Line yesterday. Commenting on...

‘We need a general strike’ – the Tories have to go!

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‘WE NEED collective action and a general strike. This Tory government has to go. It’s spent the last ten years looking after the bosses...

Kurds march on Downing Street

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AROUND 1,000 Kurds and their supporters marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street yesterday afternoon in protest against the police attack on the Kurdish...

RMT Strike Action!

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TUBE UNION RMT went ahead with strike action by tube drivers on Friday night. The action is over the ripping up of existing agreements and...

National Dock Strike! Warns Unite

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UNITE is warning that the refusal of the nation’s port employers to make fair pay offers to their workers could result in a national dock...

Palestine and Lebanon erupt as Bahrain conference opens ‘US conference is to plan Gaza/West...

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THE FUTURE of Palestine cannot be drawn up by the White House, Jared Kushner or anyone else, Palestinian presidential spokesman Abu Rudeineh insisted in...

27 Unis – Strike Action Monday!

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STRIKE action at 27 universities begins on Monday as a survey shows most UK university staff are considering leaving the sector. A third wave of...

16 Illegal Events Were Held In Downing St

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SENIOR civil servant Sue Gray’s anticipated report into illegal lockdown gatherings held in and around Downing Street by members of the government has been...
Teachers and junior doctors united in struggle marched through central London last month demanding ‘No privatisation of the NHS, No privatisation of education!’

Tory Forced Academies Plan Ditched

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THE TORY government has been forced to make a fundamental retreat: their plans to force all of England’s schools to become academies have been...

‘HE’S SHIFTED DEFICIT ONTO THE POOREST!’ – McDonnell condemns Hammond

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TORY chancellor Philip Hammond promised in his Spring Statement to MPs yesterday in Parliament to spend a £26.6bn Brexit war chest to boost the...

Alive! Rescue By Xmas

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‘ALL 33 of us are fine in the shelter’. This was the message read out by the President of Chile, Sebastian Pinera, on...

Tsipras Calls General Election

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called a general election for June 30 following the heavy defeat in last Sunday’s Euro elections of his...
RMT members on the second day of their strike action on the Wood Group Shell. Photo Credit: RMT

5 days of Govia strike action

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FIVE further days of strike action have been confirmed by train union RMT over the removal of all guards from Govia Thameslink trains. Driver...

‘NHS at breaking point’ – Says BMA deputy chair Dr David Wrigley

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‘FROM HEALTH to social care, everything is at breaking point,’ deputy chair of the British Medical Association Council (BMA), Dr David Wrigley warned yesterday. ‘I...
Trade union banners and placards demanding defence of the NHS and no cuts – these will be key demands on May Day

Stop NHS Cuts And Closures

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Public sector union Unison yesterday slammed a demand from foundation trust (FT) regulator, Monitor, that NHS hospitals make at least 50 per cent bigger...
Unison healthworkers from St Georges Hospital on a TUC demonstration – they demand more staff or patients will die

Nursing Staff Levels Dangerously Low!

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‘My department is running at VERY UNSAFE levels due to inadequate staffing,’ said one of almost 3,000 nurses from across the UK who took...

World Bank Halts All Its Funding For Afghanistan!

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THE WORLD BANK has halted all funding for projects in Afghanistan in a major attack on the Afghan people. It cited ‘concerns’ over how the...

Don’t implement contract urges BMA

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DO NOT implement the new junior doctors contracts, the BMA urged NHS Trusts yesterday, the day the new contracts were due to be rolled...

‘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...

Teachers fear schools still unsafe as millions return

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‘TEACHERS are concerned that the government have not taken the safety measures that they should have done,’ Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of...

TORIES WANT MASSIVE CUTS – GENERAL STRIKE NOW! – urge Euston RMT pickets

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‘THE STRIKE is going well, we’re still getting a lot of public support – this fight is important for job security and safety for...

STOP PRIVATISING THE NHS! say BMA and Unite strikers

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BMA AND UNITE strikers picketed and marched round Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel yesterday. BMA member Elizabeth Hobbs told News Line: ‘I’m showing my solidarity...

‘There will be absolutely no pay increases for doctors or nurses above 5%’ declare...

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TORY Health Secretary Steve Barclay provocatively declared yesterday that there will be absolutely no pay increase for nurses or doctors above the 5% that...

Putin launches ‘Special Military Operation’ in Donbass

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin announced a ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine’s Donbass region early yesterday morning to ‘defend people there against government forces’, stressing...
Barnet council workers and service users demand no cuts and defend all jobs

100,000 Jobs To Go After Xmas!

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‘Public sector job losses are coming thick and fast. Councils in particular are bringing forward job losses in order to cope with the deep...
The Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust campaigners on the NHS march – they successfully forced the withdrawal of a subsidiary company – now NHS Improvement has ‘paused’ the setting up of subsidiaries all over the country

‘A SIGNIFICANT VICTORY!’ – Health unions hail subsidiaries ‘pause’

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‘A SIGNIFICANT victory’ for health workers is how Unite described the decision by NHS Improvement to ‘pause’ the setting up of wholly owned subsidiary...