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Over 200,000 people demonstrated in London on Saturday to demand an immediate halt to Israel’s attacks on Gaza and the withdrawal of Israeli troops and tanks. There were demonstrations in towns and cities across Britain, from Aberdeen to Norwich

900 KILLED IN GAZA – as Israel uses phosphorous weapons

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TWENTY-THREE Gazans were killed on Sunday morning and dozens injured by illegal weapons that ensure the incineration of buildings and people hit by...
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...
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...

Defend national pay rates! –TUC must call a general strike

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‘ANY attempt to break national pay rates must be met by the TUC calling an indefinite general strike to bring down this Tory-LibDem Coalition...

GPs REFUSE TO CHARGE PATIENTS

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GPs FROM across the UK yesterday resoundingly rejected calls to introduce a charge for access to general practice. The proposal was debated and voted...

NEW ECONOMIC CRASH WILL DWARF 2008! – warn 58 economists

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A GROUP of economists issued an open letter yesterday warning that Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s planned financial deregulation bill will lead to an economic...
Teachers march during a national public sector strike in defence of pensions

The Great Pensions Robbery! Millions worse off under pension ‘reforms’

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MILLIONS of workers will be worse off under state pension reforms, the TUC warned yesterday. New research published by the TUC found that the vast...

Johnson declares sanctions war on Russia with Starmer’s support

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TORY PM Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer came together yesterday in their sanctions attack on Russia – the only disagreement being that...

Primary schools are cutting teaching assistants

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‘ALMOST a decade of Conservative education cuts has left our children’s future in a perilous state,’ says the GMB trade union. It has responded to...
Over 150 RMT members demonstrated for train safety and the ending of Driver Only Operation outside Parliament yesterday

Keep Guards On Trains

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‘DOO Has to Go!’ chanted over 150 RMT members and their supporters from around the country outside parliament yesterday. On the national demonstration to mark...

Grenfell cladding companies ‘total neglect of safety’ – QC – ‘Flammable cladding must be...

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A BARRISTER for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire told the public inquiry that a ‘total neglect of safety’ was at the heart of...
Tunisian demonstration against mass poverty

‘TODAY I START A REVOLUTION!’ ‘for those who have no means of subsistence’

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CLASHES have erupted between protesters and security forces in Kasserine city in Tunisia following the funeral of a journalist who had set himself on...

Southall Public Meeting: Quit EU on October 31! – October 24th, 2019

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News Line & Workers Revolutionary Party Public meetings: Trade unions must act to make sure we quit EU on October 31st! For a workers government and...

‘Any movement of NATO to the East is unacceptable’ says President Putin

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‘OUR actions will not depend on negotiations they will depend on the unconditional compliance with the Russian security demands in a historic context. ‘We have...

Million-man march today to expel all US troops from Iraq – ‘Banish Iraqi president’...

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IRAQIS are joining a ‘million-man march’ against the US today as anger soars over a meeting between the president of Iraq Barham Salih and...
A section of yesterday’s picket to keep open closure-threatened Chase Farm hospital in north London

Chase Farm Mass Picket

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SUPPORT for the occupation of Chase Farm Hospital is growing as more and more residents and staff support the picket against its closure. Passing motorists...

Labour will renationalise water, power & Royal Mail ‘and we’re ready to win election’...

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‘WE WILL be bringing water, energy, Royal Mail, rail back into public ownership again,’ shadow chancellor John McDonnell said to cheers during his speech...

SPRINKLER SYSTEM NOT WORKING – in gutted warehouse

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With three firefighters still missing presumed dead and one confirmed dead, it emerged yesterday that the sprinkler system was not working in the central...

GPs–‘conflict of interest!’

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MORE than a third of GPs on the boards of the new clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England have a conflict of interest resulting...

ADAMS-PAISLEY DEAL – UK devolved local government for North by May 8

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Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams yesterday agreed a May 8th date for the return of devolved local government in the north of Ireland, after...

John Roan resists! – No Academisation!

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‘JOHN Roan Resists!’ is the battle cry of 1,200 pupils, their parents and 60 teachers who are in an escalating struggle to stop their...

NHS workers immigration status victory – Home Office forced to U-turn yesterday morning!

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THE TORIES, under fire from all sides have had to make a U-turn on their policy over the immigration status of NHS workers. Until yesterday...
Kenyan Mau Mau veterans picket the law courts in the Strand as a successful legal case is brought against the UK government

Memorial to Mau Mau freedom fighters

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A MEMORIAL will be unveiled at 07:30am (GMT) on Saturday 12th September 2015, at Freedom Corner in Uhuru Park, Nairobi to remember the many...

Fearful Kiev ‘warns’ Russia

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THE SELF-STYLED Ukrainian interim President Olexander Turchynov yesterday warned Russia against any ‘military aggression’ in Crimea. He said Russia’s troops from its Black Sea Fleet...

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...

RMT OUT SOLID! – after LUL board scuppers peace formula

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‘We anticipate the London Underground strike will be solid as it was last time’, rail union RMT said yesterday. A RMT spokesman told News Line:...

UCU Strike Ballot To Fight Man Uni Sackings

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ONE hundred and forty staff working at Manchester University have been threatened with the sack prompting their union, the University and College...
A group of marchers with supporters, busworkers PHIL PEAK and RODNEY GARNER who said ‘The way that these young people are standing up for their rights is brilliant’

Marchers Win Big Support

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THE Young Socialists March for Jobs and Free State Education spent yesterday in Stockport, campaigning, recruiting and selling tickets for the Greet the March...
Doctors at the Local Medical Committees conference yesterday said exactly what they thought of Health Secretary Hunt

‘GPs – patients champions!’

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GPs at the BMA Local Medical Committees annual conference in London yesterday debated motions in relation to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and his policies. They...

PROVOCATION – AUT denounces threat to cut lecturers wages

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University of Strathclyde Association of University Teachers (AUT) representative David Blieman yesterday described as ‘provocative’ a threat to dock lecturers’ pay if they don’t...
Tamils continuing their demonstration outside Parliament yesterday against the slaughter of Tamils by the Sri Lankan armed forces

‘WE WILL NOT GIVE UP’ – say Tamil students

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‘We are not going to give up!’, declared the comrades of 23-year-old Parameswaran Subramaniyan who after 18 days on hunger strike is too weak...
Delegates at the BMA Annual meeting – they voted against privatisation of the NHS and condemned their leadership for not fighting it

PRIVATEERS OUT! – say BMA delegates in Belfast

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THE British Medical Association (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting in Belfast yesterday rejected selling-off the NHS to private corporations. It did this when it voted for...
The demonstrators in Manchester city centre were determined to defend the National Health Service, they were absolutely certain that the NHS belonged to the working class and not to Hunt and his cronies

Defend Manchester NHS!

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OVER 400 trade unionists and supporters rallied and marched in central Manchester yesterday in opposition to the Tory ‘Devo-Manc’ plan to fragment and privatise...

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS faces 430 jobs axe

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Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust yesterday announced plans to axe 430 jobs as part of a cost-cutting plan aimed at saving £84m in the...

‘UNLIMITED NHS PRIVATISATION’ – health unions must act, says consultant

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Unison head of health, Karen Jennings yesterday slammed Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt’s claim that the district general hospital is out of date and no...

STOP GM PLANTS CLOSING! – workers must occupy!

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General Motors-owned Vauxhall Ellesmere Port and GM Luton have admitted their future depends on the US government bailing out their parent company. During discussions...
RMT and TSSA Tube strikers on the picket line at King’s Cross last month

‘Outrageous discrimination’ – Tube workers strike ballot opens

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‘IT IS outrageous that London Underground have decided to discriminate against their Night Tube drivers,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said yesterday as...
A section of the half a million-strong TUC march through London on March 26. Delegates at the GMB trade union conference yesterday responded angrily to attacks on the right to strike

GMB condemns strike ban

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DELEGATES at the GMB conference in Brighton booed and jeered Business Secretary Cable yesterday as he threatened to bring in new anti-union laws to...

Truss to proceed with Budget & Benefit cuts for the poor!

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AS THE Tory Party Conference began in Birmingham yesterday PM Truss boasted that she means to proceed from last week’s huge tax cuts for...
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...

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...

Unite to take BA to court

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The Unite trade union yesterday announced it is to take legal action to stop British Airways imposing its disputed new work contracts on 14,000...

Rail Guards Strike

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RAIL UNION RMT is taking strike action today in defence of Guards’ jobs on West Midlands Trains. The union has called on the government to...

UK-UKRAINE ALLIANCE – ‘We are strategic partners’ – UK Defence Secretary

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THE UNITED Kingdom has finalised an agreement with Ukraine that allows Kiev to buy British warships and missiles to enhance its naval capabilities, a...

2,000 Out In Newham Unison Strike

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Two thousand members of Newham UNISON held a one-day strike yesterday in defence of their sacked Branch Chair, Michael Gavan. Gavan told News Line: ‘I...