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Unison members outside Parliament yesterday afternoon showing their determination to save the NHS

NHS Staff Face ‘intense Stress Levels’

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THE just published Unison NHS staff survey reveals the increased levels of stress being heaped on staff by a combination of government cuts, the...

Cuts To Legal Aid Deny Non-UK Residents Justice

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MP’s are voting today in parliament over controversial plans to cut legal aid which legal charity Reprieve say will see ‘torture victims denied their...

No Deal Brexit Is Only Way Forward

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LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, yesterday displayed ‘unredacted documents’ about secret US-UK government trade talks putting the NHS on the table in any future post...
Local residents joined the FBU/Justice for Grenfell march last June – soil in the area around the Grenfell Tower has been found to be toxic

Take action over toxins around Grenfell Tower – Lords

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‘WHAT steps will they take in response to concerns over the level of toxins found at the Grenfell Tower site and calls for survivors,...
Local government workers marching in London during their strike action last November 30

‘Pay Slashed To 1990’s Levels!’

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LOCAL government pay has been slashed to 1990’s levels by below inflation pay settlements, a two-year pay freeze and the employers’ failure to pay...

BLOOD MONEY! – Police offer £600,000 to Menezes family

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The Metropolitan Police confirmed yesterday that Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Yates arrived in Brazil on Sunday for talks with the family of young electrician...
Single parents outside the High Court protesting against the savage cuts in benefits

Huge Welfare cuts –Duncan Smith proposals condemned

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Unions and children’s charities yesterday condemned Work and Pensions Secretary Duncan Smith’s offer to raid the Welfare Budget by another £3 billion a year...
Picturehouse strikers on the picket line last year during their strike for a living wage

Picturehouse 9 days of strike action

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PICTUREHOUSE Cinema workers have vowed to defend the right to strike, defy the threats being made against them and proceed with their nine days...

Benefit cutter ATOS faces strike action

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ATOS, an Olympics sponsor at the centre of the government’s controversial cuts to disability benefits, faces industrial action during the Games by Public...
Unison nurses’ banners on the recent massive demonstration by 500,000 workers against the coalition government and its assault on public services

Nurses Angry Over Cuts!

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With anger over job cuts and NHS ‘reforms’ due to dominate the Royal College of Nursing’s Annual Congress in Liverpool this week,...

Strike against 30% cuts

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‘WE HAVE to take strike action where and when we can and as much as we can,’ Sharon Hutchinson, northwest regional organiser and equalities...

‘LISTEN TO US OR ELSE!’ – US & France warn Syria

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THE US and France yesterday threatened Syria with sanctions. They accused Syrian President Assad of failing to cooperate fully with the UN investigation into the...
Members of the E15 Focus Group occupying an empty property in East London demanding council housing not evictions

Millions fear eviction!

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OVER three million people fear missing rent or mortgage payments this January because of ‘sky high housing costs’, putting them at risk of...

Corbyn Pledges Another 1945

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Jeremy Corbyn, speaking at a children’s centre in Corby, Northamptonshire yesterday, announced that ‘we will do everything necessary’ to stop a No Deal Brexit...

Police Commissioner Michael has questions to answer over the death of two youths!

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DESPITE thousands of people having seen CCTV footage on the BBC of Kyrees Sullivan, aged 16, and Harvey Evans, aged 15, being chased on...

2,800 Tata steel workers will lose jobs today as blast furnaces cease!

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APPROXIMATELY 2,800 employees out of Tata’s 8,000-strong workforce will lose their jobs as Blast Furnace 5 ceases operations today. Loud noises and large plumes of...
Grenfell resident holds up a piece of charred cladding which had fallen during the Grenfell Tower inferno

Only three towers re-clad out of 160!

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ONLY three out of 160 social housing towers have been reclad since the Grenfell fire, over seven months ago, leaving tens of thousands of...
Midwives, nurses and other health workers marched in their thousands against the privatisation of the NHS last November

Labour Offers Nurses Three Years Of Wage Cutting

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The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday rejected an 8% over three years pay-cutting NHS Pay Review Body offer, which is backed by the...

Labour to win by-elections – Tories in huge NHS crisis

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VOTERS in both the Stoke-on-Trent and Copeland by-elections go to the polls today to elect new MPs for the seats held by Labour at...
Teachers marching in London on the October 20 TUC demonstration against the Coalition’s austerity cuts

1.2 million miss out on daily school meal!

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THE Children’s Society is warning that 1.2 million children living below the poverty line in England miss out on a school meal each day. Some...
Demonstrators outside the Pakistan embassy yesterday demanded a UN-led investigation into Benazir Bhutto’s murder

‘CATASTROPHE IN PAKISTAN’ – say 200 demonstrators

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‘THE average, common individual can’t get anything, there is no flour, no diesel, there are only a few hours of electricity – the whole...

200,000 on London March for Palestine!

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A HUGE rally of over 200,000 people marched from Russell Square to Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday 30th March, Palestinian Land Day, to...
Katsouris Fresh Foods workers at a GMB meeting in Alperton on health & safety following a number of workplace injuries

Katsouris – 80% Of The Workforce On The Minimum Wage

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THE GMB are calling for recognition as the independent union voice for the 2,500 mainly Asian migrant workforce producing ready meals for...

Murdoch-Thatcher Wapping Deal

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Rupert Murdoch sought assurances from prime minister Thatcher in the 1980s about policing of print union strikes, the Leveson Inquiry has been told. In a...

Disabled ‘fit for work’ assessments failure!

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THE privatised assessment tests which find sick and disabled people ‘fit for work’ are ‘failing claimants and taxpayers’ and must be ‘brought back in-house’,...
Delegates at the NUT conference show their support for action to defend wages and jobs

MILITARY OUT OF SCHOOLS! – says the NUT conference

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THE National Union of Teachers Conference in Manchester yesterday voted overwhelmingly to oppose military recruitment activities in schools. Motion 48 on War, accused the Ministry...

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...

Forces of Donetsk Peoples Republic are in full control!

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‘AS of May 27, 2022, the forces of the DPR and the LPR supported by the Russian army’s firepower, liberated and established full control...

Tories scrap 2 weeks cancer waiting times target – new boost for health...

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THE TORIES stepped up their onslaught on the NHS yesterday with the announcement of the scrapping of the requirement for patients with suspected cancer...

‘We Need Our Hardship Pay’

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‘THE TGWU leaders are doing everything they can to try to make us give up the fight and sign the Compromise Agreement but we...
Postal workers demonstrate at the Labour Party conference

CWU LEADERS REFUSE TO FIGHT – hoping for sell-out deal

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THE Communication Workers Union yesterday shocked its members when it wrote to Royal Mail offering to cancel the 76 per cent vote of...

Refugee crisis doubles

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THE number of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has doubled to 1,255,600 during 2015, figures released yesterday show. Imperialist wars in Iraq Afghanistan and...

UAE & Israel ‘normalise’ relations!

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ISRAEL and the United Arab Emirates reached a deal yesterday that will lead to a full normalisation of diplomatic relations between the two, in...
A section of yesterday’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital demanding that it should be kept open

STOP CHASE FARM CLOSING! – says picket

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THERE was a lively picket of both gates at Chase Farm Hospital yesterday morning by the North-East London Council of Action, demonstrating to stop...

BA pilots strike!

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BALPA (British Airline Pilots Association) yesterday gave notice to British Airways that it calls on its members to strike on 9th, 10th and 27th...

21st BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN

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ANOTHER British soldier has died in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed yesterday. The MoD said the soldier was ‘shot and...

RMT Pledges ‘Fierce Resistance’ To Attempt To Reduce Rights!

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‘Grant Shapps needs to stop smearing the RMT and unshackle the rail operating companies so they can come to a negotiated settlement that can...

‘THEY WANT US ALL TO BE GIG ECONOMY WORKERS!’ – 70,000 UCU members strike

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OVER 70,000 UCU members at 150 universities are striking again today in a three-day action which began yesterday and is due to conclude tomorrow,...

‘NURSING WON’T BE SILENCED!’ – as Tories attack the right to strike

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JUST PAST noon yesterday, the decision of the High Court was announced on the three-day RCN strike. This was to run from 8pm on 30th...
A section of the delegates at the Torquay  conference

Bma Row!

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AT a stormy morning session of the BMA Annual Representative Meeting yesterday, Birmingham BMA demanded the resignation of the chairman and deputy chairman...

‘Fair Pay Overdue’ Say Rcm Midwives!

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THE Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday launched its ‘Fair Pay Overdue’ campaign, demanding an end to the public sector pay cap and a...

Tuc Joint Statement With Cbi And Eu Bosses!

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AHEAD of this week’s European Council meeting, the Directors General of Business Europe and the CBI, Markus Beyrer and Carolyn Fairbairn, and the General...

‘AN ACT OF WAR!’ – Olmert threatens the Lebanon

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ISRAELI prime minister Ehud Olmert yesterday called the capture of two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border by Hezbollah an ‘act of war’. Olmert threatened...

TUC stands with Palestine – TUC statement declaring solidarity with Palestine

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THE TUC stands in solidarity with all Palestinian workers and the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) who on Tuesday took part in...

TIME TO GET RID OF THE CRISIS-RIDDEN CAPITALIST SYSTEM – WRP’s MAY DAY MANIFESTO

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THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the poor of the world who are confronting a...