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Power to shut Parliament approved if No-Deal Brexit

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LABOUR Party MPs, supported by other opposition parties and some Tory MPs, pushed through an amendment to the Finance Bill last night which gives...
Section of the rally in central Athens during the recent public sector national strike

MAY DAY MANIFESTO – ‘Permanent state of Revolution!’ says Greek dockers’ leader

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THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers of the world at a time of the greatest ever...
Patricia da Silva Armani (centre) addressing Thursday’s press conference by the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, with Vivian Figueiredo (right) – both cousins of Jean Charles

POLICE MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT – insist de Menezes family

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The family of Jean Charles de Menezes on Thursday demanded action be taken to hold individual police officers to account for the killing of...
Junior doctors picketing North Middlesex Hospital during their strike on February 10th – they are fighting an imposed contract for a safer NHS

A&E patients told ‘go home!’

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MANY http://www.wrp.org.uk/admin.php?op=adminStorypatients who had been waiting seven-hours in the A&E department at Edmonton’s North Middlesex Hospital were told on Friday night to go home...

READY FOR GENERAL ELECTION says Labour leader Corbyn

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JEREMY Corbyn has put Labour activists on ‘permanent notice’ amid rumours in Westminster of another general election. He said he would ‘absolutely welcome’ a...

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...

MOODY’s WARNS – UK WILL LOSE CREDIT RATING

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BRITAIN’S credit-worthiness has a ‘negative outlook’ Moody’s ratings agency declared late on Monday night, shortly after the markets closed in the US. In the first...

SPECIAL CONFERENCE – Defend every hospital

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Saturday April 6th

Corbyn is to demand vote on Syrian intervention!

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PRIME Minister May will go before the House of Commons today to try to explain why she ordered British cruise missile attacks on Syria...

‘NO-FAULT EVICTIONS’ WILL BE MADE ILLEGAL – pledges Corbyn

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LABOUR’S next manifesto will include a pledge to reduce eviction powers for landlords and tip housing rules back in favour of renters, party leader...

Hands off fire service says Norfolk

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THE Police and Crime Commissioner’s (PCC) proposal to take control of Norfolk fire service will put ‘public safety at risk’, a councillor has said. Norfolk...
Demonstrators – Vestas workers and supporters marching to the Magistrates Court in Newport yesterday morning

‘WE ARE MORE DETERMINED THAN EVER’ – Vestas occupiers

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‘FANTASTIC,’ was how Vestas factory occupier Chris Ash responded to the decision at Newport Magistrates Court yesterday to adjourn the wind turbine company’s attempt...

Assange to be Extradited!

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THE HIGH Court ruled yesterday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited from the UK to the US, where he faces a sentence...

‘HONOUR THE GUARD GUARANTEE!’ – RMT challenges South Western

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THE RMT has launched a direct challenge to South Western Railway to honour the guard guarantee on their trains. It wants a ‘yes or no’...

‘STOP JUSTIFYING MURDER’ – De Menezes family urges Met Chief Blair

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The family of Jean Charles de Menezes have reacted with horror at Met chief Sir Ian Blair’s attempted justification of his ‘Shoot-to-Kill’ policy. The 27...
Over 50,000 marched in London and tens of thousands marched in other cities across the UK during the November 30 pensions strike

It’s Still Pensions Robbery!

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‘The new pensions proposals will hit the pockets of thousands of nurses, paramedics, occupational therapists and other key NHS staff hard’, Unison warned yesterday. The...

Scrap The Bill!

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Public sector union Unison said yesterday that the NHS Future Forum’s report shows a Health Bill beyond repair and that it should be scrapped. The...

BA Effectively Sacks 42,000!

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UNITE yesterday welcomed a Scottish parliament motion lodged by Neil Findlay MSP drawing attention to the crisis facing BA workers. The company has served BA...

Tax hike for workers while rich pay zero! – 1.25% NI hike bulldozed through...

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A VOTE took place last night, fast tracking the Johnson government’s 1.25% hike on National Insurance to pay for social care announced only on...

BUS WORKERS TAKE STRIKE ACTION – stand to lose £2,500 a year

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DRIVERS employed by the RATP bus privateer begin strike action today against £2,500 pay cuts, with 2,200 workers striking at Edgware, Epsom, Fulwell, Harrow,...
Young students leading the WRP-Young Socialist contingent on the May Day march in London – they never had any illusions in the Liberal Democrats

Student Fury Over Lib Dem Betrayal

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THE National Union of Students (NUS) yesterday issued a warning to Liberal Democrat MPs that they must keep their promises to their constituents to...
Gate Gourmet pickets on the hill at Heathrow yesterday determined to defeat mass sackings

‘We’ve been sold out’ – say Gate Gourmet workers

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ANGRY Gate Gourmet workers were on the picket line yesterday after Wednesday’s sell-out deal between the Transport and General Workers’ Union leaders, TUC leaders...
Heathrow Airport police on March 7 refused to allow the locked-out Gate Gourmet workers to continue their picket near the Beacon roundabout and dismantle their tent

‘Great support for march’

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GATE Gourmet locked-out workers are getting great support for their march through Hounslow on Saturday. Saturday’s march assembles at 1.00pm (see advert on this...

US and Israel behind Iran riots

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IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian says the nation should not allow rioters to cause insecurity in the country, stressing that protesting is different from rioting. ‘If the people...

NHS consultants take 48-hour strike ‘against savage wage cutting!’

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NHS consultants in England are on 48-hour strike today and tomorrow, with the BMA hosting a rally at its London headquarters in Tavistock Square,...

Syria’s neighbours condemn Israel’s attacks – while ‘rebels’ use Sarin gas

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SYRIA’S neighbours condemned Sunday’s Israeli air strikes on Damascus yesterday. The United Nations confirmed that, far from the Syrian government forces using Sarin and...

May tries to convince CBI of her Brexit plan

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‘MY JOB is to get the best deal, Parliament must then examine it and do what is in the national interest,’ Tory PM Theresa...

GENOCIDE! – Six US-made bombs fired on Jabaliya Refugee Camp

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HUNDREDS of people were killed yesterday afternoon when their homes in the Jabaliya Refugee Camp, which is next to the Indonesian Hospital in north...
A packed Central Hall in Westminster on Wednesday where thousands urged TUC to call action to defend the NHS

Further Widespread Pensions Action

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THE Coalition has now published a fourth ‘final offer’ on public sector pensions, without any negotiations with the trade unions. Public and Commercial Services union...

SLUMP DEEPENS –Coalition vows to continue permanent austerity

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THE SLUMP deepened dramatically in the UK in the year’s second quarter. Official figures showed yesterday that output fell by a startling 0.7% between...

Liverpool City Council ‘in partnership’ with army! – over testing crisis

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FLANKED by Brigadier Joe Fossey, Tory PM Johnson set out the mass testing programme trialled in Liverpool in which 2,000 troops have been sent...

Hague Sued Over US Drone Attacks

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Foreign Secretary Hague is being sued over the alleged UK policy of handing over GCHQ-sourced intelligence to the CIA to aid US drone...

Crucial Tsipras-Merkel talks

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GREEK Prime Minister Tsipras is meeting German Chancellor Merkel in Berlin today, with officials in Brussels, Berlin and the ECB now openly acknowledging the...

‘PACKED LIKE SARDINES!’ – need for 250,000 pupil places says ATL

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SCHOOL students are being packed like sardines into state schools with a third of councils having to rent extra space in empty offices to...

HOME OFFICE CAN’T STARVE REFUGEES – Law Lords reject Blunkett’s law

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Homeless charity Shelter and the Refugee Council yesterday both welcomed the Law Lords’ unanimous rejection of the controversial law pushed through by former Home...
Royal Mail workers out on strike against privatisation at East London Mail Centre

PO-ROYAL MAIL SPLIT – threatens tens of thousands of jobs

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‘We must demand the TUC call a General Strike to defend public services, because that is what Royal Mail is,’ leading postal workers’ union...
Determined CWU picket line at Crawley Delivery Office on July 13th

Brown Backs Royal Mail Bosses!

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Postal workers yesterday responded angrily to Gordon Brown’s insistence at prime minister’s questions, on the eve of their 24-hour rolling strikes, that ‘pay settlements...

‘Disband Iraq’s Puppet Police Force’

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The puppet Iraqi police force is infiltrated by sectarian militias and should be disbanded and reorganised, a panel of retired US generals led by...

Israel abolishes operations of UN agency for Palestine

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SEVERAL countries told the United Nations Security Council yesterday that they deeply deplore the Israeli parliament’s decision to abolish the operations of the UN...

‘We will make Britain a defence industrial superpower’ says Reeves – NHS budget...

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‘WE WILL make Britain a defence industrial superpower,’ Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves declared in the House of Commons yesterday, as she revealed that military...

Labour Adds 10% To NHS Deficits

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From today, NHS organisations are to be charged ten per cent interest on money they borrow when they run up deficits. The NHS Bank, run...

Ambulance crisis! – caused by bed shortages

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HOSPITAL bed and staff shortages are causing suffering for patients in the West Midlands as ambulances cannot deliver patents for treatment, the area’s senior...

Police Drag Assange Out Of Embassy

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WIKILEAKS co-founder Julian Assange was forcibly arrested and dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London yesterday. In an unprecedented move the embassy allowed...

‘They flock us towards their fire’ – aid points are traps for mass killings

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The Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre on Sunday morning in southern Gaza, killing at least 31 aid seekers and injuring 120 others...

Rover–No Prosecutions!

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THE Serious Fraud Office announced yesterday that there will be no criminal charges brought over the sale and subsequent collapse of MG Rover. Bert Hill,...