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Letters sent to 1922 Committee calling for Johnson to go – 54 needed for...

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TWO TORY MPs, Sir Roger Gale and Douglas Ross, have publicly confirmed that they have submitted a letter of no confidence in the prime...
Engineers at Immingham successfully defended their jobs through mass action and forced the bosses and government back

Nationalisation To Defend Gm Jobs!

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GENERAL MOTORS, owned by the US government, is falling out with the German government about who is going to buy GM Europe. The...
‘Not for sale’ the ERT building in Athens now occupied and supported every day by tens of thousands of workers

‘Overthrow dictatorship!’ – say Greek workers and soldiers

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THE Greek State TV and Radio building in northern Athens has become a revolutionary centre of resistance against the parliamentary junta, imposed on Greece...

‘Passengers still being mugged’

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‘PASSENGERS are still getting mugged,’ Manuel Cortez, leader of the TSSA railworkers union said yesterday after Transport Secretary McLoughlin announced that he was capping...

JUDGE LABOUR ON CHANGE IT DELIVERS – says Corbyn

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IN a speech in Telford yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, urged that ‘his government’ should be judged on the ‘real change’...

‘Reinstatement For All – And No Victimisations’

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TALKS are taking place between Gate Gourmet management and the Transport and General Workers Union today. Locked out Gate Gourmet workers told News Line on...

ISRAELI BOMBERS FLATTEN 3-STOREY HOME – 100 feared dead, many children

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AT LEAST 40 Palestinians only just displaced from Rafah were killed when a residential building in the Nuseirat refugee camp was bombed by Israeli...

Tories are now rushing to smash & privatise NHS!

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THE TORY goverment is now rushing to privatise the NHS, by using all means that are available for the task including the use of...

ISRAELI INVASION THREAT – Lebanese army will fight alongside Hezbollah says Defence Minister

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Lebanese Defence Minister Elias Murr yesterday pledged that the Lebanese army will stand and fight against an Israeli invasion. Murr warned: ‘The Lebanese army...

Nationalise Liberty Steel

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THE GMB and Unite unions yesterday called for Liberty Steel to be nationalised after the Tory government rejected a request for £170m in financial...

UK leaders back US war drive!

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BRITISH Tory and Labour leaders fell in with their US masters’ drive to war yesterday. US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in...
Military families at the Cenotaph in London are opposed to Bush and Blair’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

AFGHAN PANIC – calls for back-up will be met says Downing Street

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DEFENCE Minister Watson was forced to make a statement in answer to an urgent question in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, after the...
Marchers in London during the 2006 Israeli attack on the Lebanon demanding ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘Don’t attack Iran’

COMPLY OR ELSE! – US, UK, France warn Iran

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‘COMPLY or face the consequences,’ was the message delivered by President Obama and his puppets Brown and Sarkozy to the Iranian government yesterday morning. Iran...
The platform at the Amnesty UK office launching the ‘Gang Matrix’ database report yesterday. Left to right Herman Ouseley, Harriet Garland, Amnesty Press Officer, Kate Allen, Director Amnesty International UK, Stafford Smith, Newham Monitoring Group

Scrap ‘racist’ Matrix database

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THE METROPOLITAN Police are using a ‘racially discriminatory’ Gangs Matrix database, Amnesty International accuses in its new report launched yesterday. Amnesty’s UK Director Kate...

11,355 Children Killed In Zionist Genocide

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THE Gaza Health Ministry has published a report detailing the name, age, gender and identification numbers of tens of thousands of people killed by...

Hounslow Council Leader To Speak At Rally

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Gate GOURMET locked out workers were yesterday campaigning for their march through Hounslow on Saturday 25th March. At Hounslow Civic Centre, where the rally is...
BMA delegates show their opposition en masse to NHS privatisation at their Annual Representative Meeting in Liverpool yesterday

‘Bring PFI into public ownership’ – BMA conference decides

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DOCTORS at the BMA conference yesterday voted for Motion 269, which stated: ‘That this meeting requests government, in view of new-found enthusiasm...
Travel Safe staff on strike against harassment and bullying of union members

We Have No Option But To Strike

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UP to a dozen travel safe officers yesterday lobbied a board meeting of Transport for London (TFL) at 197, Blackfriars Road, London. They told News...

Tories, Labour Unite To Beat The Unemployed

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The Brown government and the Tories yesterday joined forces to cane the unemployed. After Work and Pensions Secretary Purnell announced his ‘workfare’ Welfare Reform White...

BBC strike action by Xmas!

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BECTU and the NUJ yesterday warned that BBC plans to cut 2,000 jobs would provoke strikes by Xmas. The BBC intends to reshape its TV...
Greek Radio & Tv Technicians Picket Labour Ministry

Greek Radio & Tv Technicians Picket Labour Ministry

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About 100 Greek radio and TV technicians and journalists gathered outside the building of the Ministry for Labour in central Athens at midday on...
Greek dockworkers marching against privatisation and drastic changes in labour conditions

Greek dockers fight privatisation

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DOCKWORKERS of the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki have completed one month of strike action against privatisation and consequent dramatic change...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers on the picket line yesterday

LECTURERS STRIKE – NATFHE and AUT to stop tomorrow

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Universities and higher education colleges across the country will be brought to a halt tomorrow as a historic joint AUT/NATFHE pay strike hits home. Thousands...

‘Liberation of the people from France’s dictatorship’ – welcomed by the Niger trade unions

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THE UNION of Workers’ Trade Unions of Niger (USTN) has condemned the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Monetary...

Israeli military continues its massacres in the region!

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THOUSANDS of people in northern Gaza are facing an imminent massacre as the Israeli military continues its weeks-long siege and heavy bombardment of the region,...
Workers at the Nine Elms Mail Centre in south-west London in determined mood

CALL INDEFINITE POSTAL STRIKE – ‘Fight Royal Mail bullies’ say East London postal workers

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Communication Workers Union (CWU) leaders were in talks again with Royal Mail bosses yesterday while thousands of postal workers were out on a second...
Unite leader LEN McCLUSKEY addressing striking BA cabin crew earlier this year

McCLUSKEY AND CROW MISS CAMERON MEETING

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TUC general secretary Brendan Barber led a delegation of union leaders to meet with Tory-LibDem coalition prime minister Cameron yesterday midday....
Delegates applauding the demonstration by Vestas sacked workers who were demanding that the plant be nationalised

‘FIGHT FOR JOBS!’ – London Met delegate tells Congress

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THE TUC Congress in Liverpool was brought alive yesterday by a passionate call to fight for jobs with occupations by Mark Campbell of the...

Court case against Johnson dismissed!

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YESTERDAY the judge of the Court of Session, Scotland’s highest court, ruled that Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson had no case to answer and...

Ledbury tenants moved! – council fears gas explosion

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HUNDREDS of Peckham, southeast London, tenants living in tower blocks on the Southwark Council’s Ledbury Estate are being moved out after safety checks carried...
A massive demonstration in September makes it very clear that all refugees are welcome in the UK and that British workers are opposed to the bombing of Syria

2016–Year For Revolution!

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NEW YEAR’S MANIFESTO by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2016 to...

‘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...
Delegates at the TGWU biennial conference in Brighton

‘NO TO TWO TIER PAY & CONDITIONS’ – urges TGWU biennial conference

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DELEGATES at the TGWU Biennial Delegate Conference in Brighton yesterday gave their full support to Salford Council workers who will be taking more strike...

Nato ‘rats’ Reject Ceasefire

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Doctors in Tripoli said yesterday that they were ‘overwhelmed’ with casualties as the fighting in Libya continued to rage yesterday, with NATO continuing...

EU invites Syria’s Tahrir al-Sham

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THE European Commission has invited representatives of Syria’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), currently ruling Syria, to attend an official donor conference despite the group’s...

Police take action against Oxford students occupation

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SIXTEEN protesters were arrested when police intervened to take action against an occupation on Thursday in support of Palestine by ‘Oxford Action for Palestine...
BILLY HAYES (left), CWU leader said the CWU will be taking strike action in October

‘CWU to strike in October!’ – Billy Hayes

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COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) General Secretary, Billy Hayes, told his pre-Congress press conference yesterday that the CWU will be taking strike action in October. He...
Women and children demonstrate their opposition to the bombing of Libya at the recent massive TUC anti-cuts march

HALT ATTACK ON LIBYA – demands unite

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Unite, the biggest union in the UK and Ireland, yesterday called upon the governments of the UK, France and the US to halt the...

New financial year hits families hard!

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THE NEW financial year was ushered in yesterday with a series of price hikes that hit working class families hard. Council Tax went up, water...

Unite Warns On Wage & Job Cuts

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THE Unite union is warning that workers must not be expected to meet the costs of the disruption brought by the erupting Icelandic...
Confident Gate Gourmet locked-out workers lobbying the Hillingdon TGWU office on Friday

Defiant Locked Out Gate Gourmet Workers Picket Tgwu Office

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‘OUR anniversary march and rally in Southall on Sunday August 20 is very important. ‘We will show our unity and strength and we want everyone...
Greek electricians and power workers marching in Athens last June – will answer the autocratic bankers with a socialist revolution

Greek bankers call for autocratic solutions!

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GREECE will either lower its standard of living, or it will exit the euro and turn decades back.’ This was the message from the...

TUC Special Congress December 9th – call General Strike to smash Tory anti-union...

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THE TUC said yesterday it will hold a special Congress to discuss the next stage of the campaign against the Tories’ anti-strike laws. The event...
CWU strikers on the picket line at the Wimbledon Delivery Office

Cwu-Royal Mail Talks

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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has been in ‘intermittent’ talks with Royal Mail for weeks, CWU London Regional Secretary John Denton confirmed to News...