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JEREMY CORBYN with a number of trade union leaders at the front of a recent steelworkers demonstration in London

100% behind Jeremy Corbyn says BFAWU, RMT, ASLEF, PCS, GMB and FBU

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‘I AM absolutely 100% behind Jeremy Corbyn,’ BFAWU Bakers Union General Secretary Ronnie Draper told News Line yesterday, as the attempted coup by a...

Angry Lecturers Take Strike Action

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‘We are expecting a good turnout on the picket lines at universities and colleges of higher education across the country today,’ lecturers’ union Natfhe...

‘All NHS workers & their families must be tested!’ – demands BMA chair Dr...

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‘ALL health workers and their families must be tested immediately,’ Chair of the Council of the British Medical Association and GP Dr Chaand Nagpaul...
Junior doctors are demanding further action to defeat Hunt’s contract imposition

5-day strike actions for Junior Doctors!

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AN ESCALATING programme of five-day strikes, every month until the end of the year, has been authorised by the BMA, as junior doctors take...

Birmingham massacre of service

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BIRMINGHAM city council is selling off its community centres and youth centres with millions of pounds of public property being auctioned off to housing...
Defiant striking busworkers outside the Lea  Interchange garage in north London yesterday

London Bus Strike ‘Solid’

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‘The strike was properly solid! Only four buses went out of 142 buses,’ Unite Rep Mickey Leachman said when he spoke to News line...

Tens Of Thousands March Against Athens Riot Police

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TENS of thousands of school and university students demonstrated last Friday in Athens and in all Greek major cities against the oppression and violence...
Sacked 2 Sisters workers demonstrating outside Marks & Spencer’s ‘flagship’ store in Oxford Street. Unite assistant general secretary JACK DROMEY (centre) pledged ‘We will win the jobs back of these 59 workers’

‘2 sisters’ sacked workers picket M&S

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FIFTY-NINE sacked workers from the 2 Sisters poultry processing factory in Birmingham travelled to London yesterday, determined to win their jobs back. They demonstrated outside...

NO CHOICE BUT TO STRIKE! – teachers ready for national action

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THE two largest teachers’ unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, yesterday announced two more regional strikes, rallies and...

Israeli tank shells Gaza Hospital

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AN ISRAELI tank shell smashed into the third and fourth floor of the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza yesterday morning, killing four people and...

Ealing strikers fight ‘disgraceful’ Labour union-busting

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STRIKING Ealing civil enforcement officers are protesting outside parliament today against union-busting by the West London Labour Council, furious at the ‘disgraceful’ lack of...
GPs, patients and supporters marched through Tower Hamlets on June 5th showing their determination to keep all GP surgeries open

£1bn NHS privatisation! –Unison demands full disclosure

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UNISON has demanded a ‘full disclosure’ of moves to privatise Staffordshire cancer services and warned NHS commissioners that ‘secrecy is against the public interest’. The...

RMT joins striking barristers outside Old Bailey

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STRIKING barristers were supported by the RMT at their rally outside the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey in central London yesterday, while...

Ukraine to halt aid convoy

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UKRAINE''S coupist regime says it will stop a 280-truck Russian aid convoy containing 2,000 tons of goods including baby food and sleeping bags from...
Labour Shadow Chancellor JOHN McDONNELL (right) alongside TOM WATSON supporting striking BA workers lobby of parliament

‘I want to transform Capitalism’ says John McDonnell as he disowns Marx

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LABOUR will not raise taxes for the vast majority of workers but will increase rates for those earning over £80,000, John McDonnell said yesterday. He...

Palestinian civilians murdered by Israeli artillery and air strikes in Gaza Strip!

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AN unconfirmed number of Palestinian civilians were killed and many more were injured last night in an ongoing Israeli genocide campaign involving airstrikes and...

‘Unions must strike to release Assange!’ Protesters rally outside the Old Bailey

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‘THE TRADE unions should organise mass demonstrations and call a general strike,’ Julian Assange Defence Committee member Joe Brack told News Line yesterday. He was...

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...

STRIKE ON! – Form public sector alliance demand postal workers

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‘Everyone has to come out now, all the unions have to,’ Communication Workers Union (CWU) Hampstead Delivery Office deputy unit rep John Taylor told...

The Great Betrayal – NHS Union Leaders Surrender To Tories

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NHS trade unions suspended the industrial action planned for today following proposals put forward by the government. Unison head of health and the unions’ lead...

‘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...
Youth on the Gaza border with Israel determined to liberate the whole of Palestine

‘We Will Liberate Palestine!’

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THE HAMAS resistance movement says it will not agree to the creation of a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip, warning that US President...
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...

‘More Children Than Ever Are Homeless!’

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THE homelessness charity Crisis said yesterday that what was already an emergency now risks becoming ‘a growing catastrophe’. Chief executive Matt Downie said: ‘The Scottish...
Single mothers and disabled families lobby the High Court over benefit cuts

20 million on food banks!

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BENEFIT cuts have created a kind of famine’ one of the over twenty million people who have visited food banks this year said,...
This  Sunday – EALING CONFERENCE – No more cuts and closures!

This Sunday – EALING CONFERENCE – No more cuts and closures!

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EALING CONFERENCE GOES AHEAD: On the eve of the West London Council of Action Conference to defend Ealing Hospital, due to take place on...

UK Tax Havens Scandal

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‘The UK is responsible for one in five of the world’s tax havens – that’s more than any other country,’ stated Tax Justice Policy...
Junior doctors have not stopped battling since their strike actions – they have won a battle at the Norfolk and Norwich NHS Trust in defence of their pay banding

Junior Doctors Defend Pay Band!

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JUNIOR DOCTORS have defended their protected pay banding after a year-long struggle. The BMA supported 15 foundation doctors at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS...
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...
Students demonstrate against bankers’ bailouts – a new crash and new rescue attempt impending, says Adam Smith Institute

‘WORSE THAN USELESS!’ –Bank of England stress tests

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‘STRESS testing’ by the Bank of England (BoE) is to disguise the ‘chronic weakness’ of the UK banking system, a new report from the...

INJUSTICE! – Clarke orders Babar Ahmad extradition

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Babar Ahmad has called ‘for this injustice to be avenged’ after Home Secretary Charles Clarke ordered his extradition to America to face trumped up...
Deliveroo workers at their union meeting – have voted to join the Uber Eats, McDonald’s, TGI Friday’s and Wetherspoons strike

Uber Eats, Deliveroo, TGI Friday’s Wetherspoons and McDonald’s STRIKE TOGETHER

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UBER Eats and Deliveroo drivers are now joining McDonald’s, TGI Friday’s and Wetherspoons workers in a day of strike action tomorrow to demand a...

FOOD PRICES SET TO SOAR! – Gas privateers making huge profits

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Further heavy snowfalls are forecast today, piling more pressure on Britain’s already-stretched winter resources. Prime Minister Brown has convened the Cobra emergency committee as forecasters...
British troops firing on civilians in the north of Ireland

Prosecute army terrorists! –MRF murders in Ireland condemned

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‘MEMBERS of the “Military Reaction Force”, who murdered unarmed Irish nationalists, must be identified and prosecuted for murder,’ WRP general secretary Frank Sweeney told...

No Deal In Jeddah!

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The oil summit in Jeddah ended in disarray yesterday with OPEC president, Algeria’s Chakib Khelil, blaming speculators for the high oil price. Leading oil producer,...
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...

‘OUR FAMILY CANNOT WAIT ANY LONGER!’ says Kaba family six months after police killing

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‘OUR FAMILY cannot wait any longer, ’ said the family of Chris Kaba yesterday, the six-months anniversary of the 24-year-old black man’s fatal shooting...
PCS pickets during their recent strike action at at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square

Civil Servants Fury Over Job Cuts

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OVER 200,000 civil servants from over 200 government departments, agencies and public bodies are taking part in one-day national strike action today. The strike...

Gaza hospitals remain under siege – while ‘Intercept’ says the US is ready to...

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NASSER Medical Complex and Al-Amal Hospital remains under Israeli military siege in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip said the Palestinian Red Crescent...

Gaza residents shocked by massive price rises!

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GAZA residents have been shocked and angered over a steep rise in prices. As the sounds of war quietened with the advent of the first...
The Workers Revolutionary Party-Young Socialists contingent marching on May Day for what workers want – a general strike to bring down the government and create conditions to bring in a workers government

Tories Plot ‘Regime Change!’

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CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday said he will take the Tories’ local elections disaster ‘on the chin’, as his own MPs were calling for his and...

Jordan warns of Summer War!

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Jordan’s King Abdullah II has warned of the danger of a ‘summer war’ in the Middle East, should an upcoming Arab summit on the...
The picket line at East London Mail Centre during this month’s unofficial strike over Royal Mail’s imposition of new starting times

REJECT CWU SELL-OUT – call angry CWU members

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THE CWU (Communications Workers Union) yesterday accepted the Royal Mail offer on pay along with plans to modernise the company and reform the...

No to ‘Son of a Dog’ Trump’s deal – Abbas

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has firmly rejected President Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ the details of which were announced yesterday evening. Abbas said: ‘Trump...
Mass march through London last year where tens of thousands demanded the trade unions take action to defend the NHS

‘Nurses Treating People In Car Parks!’

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‘WE HAVE seen nurses spending their entire shifts treating people in car parks because of backed up ambulances, we know the prime minister recognises...