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Young Socialists marching to the TUC Congress earlier this month demanding Jobs for Youth and a general strike to get the Tories out

ON THE ROAD TO RUIN! – 4.5m self employed and ‘insidious’ zero-hours contracts

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UK registered unemployment fell by 146,000 to 2.02 million in the three months to the end of July, official figures show. The figures do not...

BMA SLAMS DIRECT PAYMENTS – Healthcare as a commodity’

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The Health Bill introduced by the government yesterday ‘undermines the founding principles of the NHS’, warned Unison – while the BMA said the bill...

LIBYAN DIPLOMATS EXPELLED – by terrorist government that’s bombing Tripoli

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THE British government took petty revenge after its client ‘revolutionaries’ were driven out of Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawad by the Libyan armed forces...

Barristers Are On Indefinite Strike!

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HUNDREDS of barristers demonstrated outside courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London and Manchester yesterday, on the second day of their indefinite strike. Over 100...

PROTECT OCCUPATIONAL PENSIONS – demand unions

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Workers who lost their pensions when their firm went bust gave a cautious welcome to a second High Court victory yesterday. The court rejected an...

North Carolina State Of Emergency!

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THE GOVERNOR of North Carolina declared ‘a state of emergency’ yesterday after two nights of protests in Charlotte following the police shooting...
Tube workers on the picket line at King’s Cross during strike action last month

Unions Win Round One Of ‘Night Tube War’

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THE trade unions have won round one of the Night Tube war. London Underground announced yesterday that the launch date of London’s Night Tube is...
West Midlands delegation standing by a CWU campaign banner outside the CWU Policy Forum in central London showing their determination to stop privatisation

‘No Way Is This Industry Going To Be Privatised’

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THE Communication Workers Union Policy Forum of over 500 CWU reps in central London yesterday voted unanimously for a national strike ballot of Royal...
Doctors at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh yesterday

Darzi Rejected – Bma Conference Votes For No NHS Privatisation!

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DOCTORS at the Annual Representative Meeting of the British Medical Association in Edinburgh yesterday voted to stop the privatisation of the NHS, and voted...

NO TO 90 DAYS! – Blair and police suffer major defeat

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‘BLAIR should go’, said former Labour minister Glenda Jackson yesterday after a rebellion by 49 Labour MPs saw the government defeated by 322-291 votes...
July 2006 mass picket against the threat to extradite Babar Ahmad to the United States

POLICE BUGGING INQUIRY – Labour MP spied on as he met US extradition target

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Justice secretary Jack Straw has had to order an inquiry into claims that police bugged Tooting Labour MP Sadiq Khan as he visited a...

‘LEAVE WON’T BE ON ANY BALLOT’ says John McDonnell

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SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell spelt out yesterday that Labour wants to form a ‘caretaker government’ with the other opposition parties which would organise a...

3,000 Welsh JDs strike after 98% vote

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JUNIOR doctors across Wales began a three day strike over pay yesterday and continue until tomorrow, after almost every junior doctor (98%) who took...
RMT along with the TSSA and the National Pensioners Convention insist outside Parliament ‘We need guards on trains’

Sunday’s Tube strike in London will have ‘massive impact’

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RUTHLESS cuts on London Underground made by former mayor Boris Johnson ‘seriously threaten the safety of Londoners’, the RMT said on the eve of...
Students from ULU and their supporters marching to show their determination to defend their union

ULU students march

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AROUND 100 students from London universities and their supporters, marched from University of London Union (ULU) and lobbied a meeting of university management against...
Journalist JOHN PILGER (centre) joins HENGRIDE PERMAL (left of centre) and OLIVIER BANCOULT (third from the right, front row) in a demonstration against the House of Lords ruling yesterday

HOUSE OF LORDS RULES FOR US IMPERIALISM! – Abolishes the right to return of...

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‘WE WILL return to the Chagos Islands – it’s our right!’, ‘We will return to Diego Garcia – it’s our right!’ shouted more than...

HUGE ANGER! – in Belfast over ‘Roayal Mail bullying’

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BELFAST postal workers, in the second week of their unofficial strike, said there is ‘huge anger’ over what they described as Royal Mail ‘bullying’. Rank...

Picket Grenfell Inquiry

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TODAY!

CRISIS AT THE BANK – Division over quantitative easing

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The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was divided over its ‘quantitative easing’ policy of printing money this month. The Minutes of the last...

‘We have to keep our rights’ say Gate Gourmet workers

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GATE Gourmet workers are opposing a ‘compromise agreement’, which the company and leaders of the Transport and General Workers’ Union are negotiating and which...

ACUTE MALNUTRITION! – being suffered by one third of Gaza infants

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ONE million children in Gaza are in critical need of life-saving health services and supplies, UNICEF’s West Asia and North Africa regional director warns...
Firefighters on a national march through Liverpool in support of the struggle against cuts in the fire service in the north west

Firefighter Heroes

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East Sussex Chief Fire Officer Des Pritchard yesterday paid a moving tribute to the two fire crew who died, and the nine firefighters, one...

PRESCRIPTION CHARGES UP BY 25p

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An increase in NHS prescription charges in England of 25p, putting them up to £7.65, came into effect yesterday, despite objections from the British...

Bosses to get £1,000 for keeping workers on for 3 months after furlough!

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FEARFUL of workers’ fury at mass unemployment when furloughing ends, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled a plan to try to persuade bosses to keep...
Young Socialists marching through east London to last year’s News Line Anniversary on November 21. They had marched from  Manchester to London demanding jobs for youth and warning workers that the only way to deal with the Tory-led coalition was to bring

‘THROW COALITION OUT!’ – YS leader says angry workers will rise up

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JOSHUA Ogunleye, National Secretary of the Young Socialists, told News Line yesterday: ‘The huge rise in youth unemployment to over the one million mark...

BRING ARMY INTO SCHOOLS! – urges Chief of Defence Staff Guthrie

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Chief of Defence Staff Lord Guthrie yesterday gave his backing to a call from right wing think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, for ex-servicemen...
Seafarers’ pickets and tourists at the port of Piraeus last Wednesday

Strike Wave Mounts As Colonel Is Killed

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According to the Greek police, a powerful ‘parcel bomb’ exploded at 8.20pm on Thursday on the seventh floor of the Greek Ministry for the...
Electricians were in a determined mood when they marched at Kings Cross yesterday morning and called for Unite to organise an immediate strike ballot

Strike Ballot Now! – Demand Sparks

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MORE than 300 angry electricians marched onto the Kings Cross Station concourse in central London yesterday, where they held an impromptu public rally. Union reps...

Summary Powers!

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Civil rights groups yesterday slammed calls from police chiefs for summary powers to dish out ‘instant justice’. Surrey Police chiefs went on television and gave...

11bn euro loan to Ukraine – will mean savage cuts

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THE European Commission has offered Ukraine 11 billion euros, falling well short of the $35 billion needed to service immediate debt repayments and avoid...

US & Israel being defeated by Hamas fighters in Gaza!

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US AND Israeli officials have once again conceded the occupying regime’s failure in its months-long aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip, stressing that the...

Corbyn limits his call to Rudd’s resignation

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‘WE ARE talking about the environment created by her (PM Theresa May) as Home Secretary for six years when she knew full well of...

‘ZERO CHANCE OF TRANSPORT DEAL’ – RMT warns Johnson government

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RMT WARNS there is zero chance of agreement to government plans to increase transport services on 11th May in the current climate, as a...

World-wide youth strike March 15th

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TENS of thousands of school students around the world are set to walk out of their schools again to join the world-wide ‘Youth Strike...
Workers outside the ERT’s gate on Thursday morning who responded to the call from the occupiers that they were under attack before they were violently pushed away by riot police Photo credit: Dromographos

Riot Police Storm Ert Occupation

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AT 4.15 local time yesterday morning, hundreds of riot police forcibly entered the building of the ERT (state TV and radio corporation) which has...

BP’s PROFITS NOSEDIVE 66%

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BP PROFITS have nosedived by 66% the oil giant revealed yesterday as it published its first quarter profit. BP warned it faces an ‘exceptional level...
Midwives and nurses on the picket line at Hammersmith Hospital during the the national NHS strike over pay on October 13

£30bn MORE NHS CUTS!

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THE new NHS report released yesterday has revealed a further £30bn of NHS cuts by 2020. The report entitled the ‘Five Year Forward View’ ...

Palestinians rise up against Bahrain-UAE-Israel signing

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PALESTINIANS in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank rose up in anger to denounce the normalisation deals signed in Washington yesterday afternoon...

Murdoch targets unions & BBC

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News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch yesterday made it clear that he had taken a decision to smash the print unions when he provoked the...

Assange hearing adjourned after Covid fears for lawyer – his supporters block the street

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ON DAY four yesterday of the Old Bailey hearing deciding the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the proceedings were adjourned until Monday while...
Queen Elizabeth Hospital workers on the picket line yesterday morning, determined to win parity

‘NO TWO-TIER WORKING IN THE NHS!’ say Woolwich NHS strikers

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QUEEN Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, south east London, saw GMB members employed by privateer ISS out in force yesterday for a 24-hour strike from...

PCS condemns job cuts!

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The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement by Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to go ahead with the closure of 93 offices...

Junior Doctors Ballot For Action

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JUNIOR doctors across England are to be balloted by the BMA over industrial action in response to the government’s plans to impose a new,...
South London Mail Centre and Delivery Office CWU members picketing last Friday in their unofficial action against management imposed changes

Liverpool Stays Out – No To Imposed Flexibility

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MORE than 800 Liverpool postal workers remain on strike today against the imposition of ‘flexibility’ by Royal Mail. The action continues while the CWU Executive...