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Marchers demand arrests and corporate murder charges over the Grenfell Tower inferno that killed large numbers of men, women and children

Grenfell Mass Protest Tonight

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ONLY a fraction of the donated £20 million has reached the survivors and families of the victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy which claimed...

CWU WILL TAKE STRIKE ACTION – if Coventry Mail Centre is shut

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COVENTRY postal workers are preparing for strike action to defend their jobs and their mail centre, a leading CWU officer said yesterday. Royal Mail is...
Sacked Visteon workers, retirees, and a delegation of sacked Gate Gourmet workers lobbying Unite head office yesterday

UNITE LOBBIED – by sacked Visteon and Gate Gourmet workers

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Over 80 sacked Visteon workers, Visteon retirees and a delegation of sacked Gate Gourmet workers lobbied the Unite union head office in Holborn, central...

Labour hits back after Panorama attack

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‘WE COMPLETELY reject any claim that Labour is anti-Semitic,’ said a Labour Party spokesperson, responding to BBC Panorama’s programme aired on Wednesday evening, attacking...
A strong and confident picket line at the Brockley Delivery Office yesterday morning

‘OUR LEADERS MUST LEAD’ – demand London postal workers

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LONDON postal workers took 24-hour strike action yesterday, with pickets across the capital demanding that the action is stepped up and that the union...
Ex-British SAS soldier Ben Griffin addressing a ‘Troops Home’ rally in March 2006. He said UK special forces still operate in Iraq, at a London press conference hosted by the Stop the War Coalition which has called another demonstration for March 15

THOUSANDS HANDED OVER TO THE US FOR TORTURE – by the British armed forces

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THOUSANDS of people in Afghanistan and Iraq have been secretly detained by British armed forces and handed over to the United States for torture,...

Royal London SERCO strike rally

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DURING their five-day strike which concludes today, hospital staff working for SERCO gathered for a lively union rally at the Royal London Hospital at...
Nurses rally in central London on May 11 against cuts

THIRTY NURSES FACE THE SACK –UNISON threatens industrial action at North Devon NHS Trust

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Sixty health workers including thirty nurses are to lose their jobs at North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple as the NHS Trust seeks to...
North Est London Council of Action picket of Chase farm Hospital yesterday morning

‘we Won’t Let Chase Farm Close!’

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‘WE’RE not going to let Chase Farm close,’ Bill Rogers, North East London Council of Action Secretary told News Line yesterday at a lively...

FBU oppose firefighter ‘super cops’

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‘WE REMAIN opposed to any attempt to turn firefighters into law enforcement, either in Devon and Somerset, or elsewhere in the country,’ Dave Green,...

G8 WILL NOT MAKE POVERTY HISTORY – admits Blair

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‘Blair is no saviour for the African people,’ G8 Alternatives movement spokesman Mike Arnott told News Line yesterday. He was responding to Blair’s statement on...

TASERS FOR ALL OFFICERS! says East Midlands Chief Constable

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EVERY frontline police officer in Northamptonshire is to be armed with a Taser gun, the East Midlands county’s Chief Constable Nick Adderley announced yesterday. Adderley...

Students begin occupying UK universities in support of Palestinian Revolution!

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PRO-Palestinian students have occupied several university campuses in the UK, to protest against the Israeli war on Gaza. Students in Leeds, Newcastle, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester,...
Two of the students occupying SOAS yesterday in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza

BRING DOWN THE TORIES! – students marching today

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THE School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) was occupied yesterday in solidarity with the Palestinian masses of Gaza who are under murderous...

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...

Benefits Cap Hits Poorest

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THE Benefits Cap came into force nationally yesterday, setting poor families and the unemployed as its main target, capping the total amount of benefits...

Officer who shot Chris Kaba ‘standing to front of vehicle’

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THE AUDI car that Chris Kaba was driving was brought to a halt through ‘contact’ with marked police vehicles, after which: ‘An officer standing...
Sacked Visteon workers on the picket line at the Enfield plant

Woodley To Visit Visteon Plants

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Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley is due to visit the sacked workers at all three Visteon factories this week. The Unite convenor at the...

Renationalise Harland & Wolff!

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AFTER the Scottish government announced they will nationalise Ferguson Marine shipyard, trade unions are calling on the UK government to safeguard jobs and skills...
Horton Hospital campaigners from Banbury at the NHS Together lobby of Parliament on November 1st

Campaigners Reject Ippr Insult

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NHS DEFENCE campaigners were outraged yesterday at the comments by the Blairite Institute for Public Policy Research that their campaigns to defend District General...
Deon Gayle WRP candidate for Streatham got a great response campaigning with her team in the centre of Brixton yesterday

‘Lots of workers agree with us’ – says Deon

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‘PEOPLE are coming up to us in the street and telling us that they will vote WRP’, said Deon Gayle, WRP candidate for Streatham,...

70% of medical students can’t afford necessities!

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SEVEN out of 10 medical students cannot afford basic necessities, finds a BMA survey. An annual BMA poll found over two-thirds (70%) of 639 surveyed...

DEFEND NHS BEDS! – Managers confederation urges axe thousands

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The latest hospital trust to announce staff cuts, St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, has said it plans to axe up to 150 jobs. The trust,...

Brexit vote on January 14 says May

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TORY PM May would not commit to a vote on her Brexit deal yesterday before Parliament breaks up for Christmas and instead said: ‘I...

£600m public sector Amazon contract! – ‘a sick joke’ says GMB

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INTERNET retail giant Amazon being awarded a £600 million contract to provide for our public services is a ‘sick joke’ given the company’s ‘record...
GPs campaigning in east London to stop the closure and privatisation of GP surgeries

Cut emergency admissions or face elderly care cuts! – GPs told

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GPs have been told by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) they will have to hit targets for cutting emergency admission rates. If they do not they...

GRENFELL CRISIS – 88 claimants refuse to negotiate with council until it admits liability

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THE HIGH Court has ruled that the 1,000 claims against The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and its tenant management organisation (TMO)...

‘WAR ON SCHOOLS’ says teachers & lecturers union

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TEACHERS unions said yesterday that the Tory government’s academy and free school programme has failed and its privatisation agenda amounted to a ‘war...

Withdraw from Palestine now! – UN General Assembly instructs Israel

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THE United Nations General Assembly has passed a draft resolution demanding Israel withdraw from Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, and recognise...
The GMB ‘Coach and Horses’ demonstrating in Charlton yesterday morning

GMB ‘Coach and horses’ victory

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THE GMB trade union yesterday won its first victory in the battle over trade union rights at Asda, on the eve of a five-day...
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...
Rail unions demonstrating outside Euston station last October against the West Coast Mainline tendering scandal

Rail on brink of chaos! – RMT warns of rail franchising disaster

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RAIL union RMT warned yesterday that the chaotic rail franchising disaster has taken a further turn for the worse. The extension of the current First...
Pickets fighting to save Maudsley Emergency Clinic demonstrated outside the meeting of Lambeth Primary Care Trust after staging an all-night vigil

Stop Maudsley Closing!

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OVER 50 people picketed a meeting of Lambeth Primary Care Trust (PCT) yesterday, in opposition to the closure of the renowned Emergency Clinic at...

Gaza City facing urban destruction by Israeli fire power and forced displacement

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THE Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City, is facing extensive urban destruction by Israeli firepower and forced displacement of its residents. The Israeli military...
A section of the massive London march during the two million-strong November 30 public sector pensions strike last year

Time To Get Rid Of Capitalism

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MAY DAY STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers of the...

80,000 on London march for victory to Palestine!

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MORE than 80,000 workers, students and youth marched for Victory to Palestine through central London on Saturday. The London march assembled at Embankment on the...

BROWN HANDS BANKS £200bn

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The Brown government has so far this year handed over more than £200bn to cash-strapped banks, it was claimed by a leading Swiss banker...

Police demand mass stop & search powers

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HOME Secretary Sajid Javid has met police chiefs from seven forces most affected by the violent crime wave produced by the government’s decade of...
AMANI DEGHAYES

‘I’M EXCITED BUT CAUTIOUS!’ –sister of Omar Deghayes tells News Line

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‘I’m excited but cautious,’ Amani Deghayes, the sister of Libyan-born Guantánamo detainee Omar Deghayes, told News Line yesterday. She was responding to news that UK...

Bectu ‘No’ To Bnp Broadcast

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MEDIA and entertainment union, BECTU, has today insisted that the BNP should not be given airtime to promote its racist politics. The union’s statement...
Rail workers demanding that fares be cut, not rail staff, and that the rail network be nationalised

Rail fares rising three times faster than wages! – 26.6% between 2008 and 2012

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RAIL fares have risen three times faster than wages since the slump began in 2008, according to a new analysis published yesterday by the...

GPs’ anger at May’s ‘money for diverts’ scheme

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UNDER PM May’s long-term NHS plan, a new scheme is set out in which GPs are offered ‘shared savings’ for the amount of...
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...

WATERLOO DEBACLE – no compensation for delayed passengers

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RAIL union RMT yesterday slammed the government and private rail companies after it emerged that passengers facing delays and cancellations – because of the...

Rolls-Royce 94% ‘YES’ for strike! – after threat to move entire operation to Singapore

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WORKERS at the historic Rolls-Royce plant in Barnoldswick have voted 94% ‘YES’ for strike action in opposition to plans to move the site to...