University wages strike ballots

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UCU members at Coventry University are being balloted for industrial action in a row over pay. The ballot opened yesterday and closes on Tuesday...
Syrian students on the mass march in central London against the UK bombing of Syria – Cameron wants another vote in parliament

Cameron wants parliament to decide air strikes on Syria

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Cameron wants parliament to decide air strikes on Syria Cameron lost the parliamentary vote to bomb Syria in 2013 and has so far refused to...
Health workers marching on the NHS anniversary demonstration were determined to prevent the privatisation of the NHS

Half Acute Hospitals In London Under Threat!

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THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the requirement for all the remaining 113 hospital trusts to achieve foundation business status...

‘we Are Marching Forward To Victory’

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THE locked out Gate Gourmet workers held their mass picket of the TGWU regional office in Hillingdon yesterday, marking the deadline for signing the...

Patel approves Taser upgrades for police! – ‘Tasers kill’ warns Liberty

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‘TASERS can kill, and they are disproportionately used against people of colour,’ Rosalind Comyn of campaign group Liberty said yesterday. She was responding to Tory...

320,000 children face acute malnutrition

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ONLY 36 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday, a figure drastically lower than the 600 truckloads the UN estimates are required daily to meet...
Blacklisting protest – the police and Special Branch have been illegally making lists of workers to be blacklisted for the bosses

‘CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS!’ – Police drew up blacklists for the bosses

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GMB, the union for construction workers, has described the Metropolitan Police’s admission of their role in the blacklisting scandal as a constitutional crisis which...

Ni NHS In Crisis!

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THE financial crisis facing the North of Ireland’s Health Trusts is so severe that four out of five Trusts have failed to break even...

Charge RBKC officers & councillors! – demand Grenfell campaigners after prosecutions announced

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NEARLY nine years after the Grenfell Fire, on 14th June 2017, the Metropolitan Police only yesterday announced that up to 57 individuals and 20...
Confident pickets at the Hampstead Delivery Office on Wednesday morning said they are determined to defend their wages and conditions

London Mail Centres Out Today

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THOUSANDS of postal workers at huge mail centres across the capital are taking action today, the third day of the London postal strike. Union leaders...
The head of yesterday’s march of more than 100 youth and tenants through the Aylesbury estate in south London

Don’t privatise the Aylesbury estate

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‘DEFEND Council Housing! Kick Blair out!’ shouted more than 100 tenants, youth and trade unionists as they marched through the Aylesbury Estate in south...

Docklands strike illegal!

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THE rail union RMT yesterday called off the Docklands Light Railway 48-hour strike after it was declared illegal by the judiciary. In a message to...

GREEK BANK STRIKE – as coalition turns on immigrants

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THOUSANDS of Greek bank workers are continuing their strike against privatisation and will be joined by Postal Bank workers who are holding a one-day...

Stop Nato Exercises In Ukraine!

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STOP The War yesterday condemned the government for blocking a petition submitted to its e-petitions website which called for an end to NATO exercises...
The weekly picket of Ealing Hospital by the West London Council of Action

Don’t let West London Hospitals close!

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EALING Council is going to go to court today, 9 October in a bid to secure a full judicial review (JR) of plans...

N Ireland health workers strike!

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NURSES in the RCN union came out on strike for the first time in the union’s 103-year history in the north of Ireland yesterday,...

‘Greenland belongs to people of Greenland’ – that is a right says Starmer

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‘THE UK and the US are close allies and close partners. That relationship matters profoundly – not just to our security, but to the...
Hands off Syria’ demonstration in London in 2013 when former PM Cameron’s vote for bombing was defeated in Parliament – PM May has bypassed Parliament to authorise military action

‘PM accountable to Parliament not U.S.’ says Labour leader Corbyn

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‘THIS STATEMENT serves as a reminder that this Prime Minister is accountable to this Parliament, not to the whims of the US President,’ Labour...

ILLEGAL! – Milford Haven oil terminal strike banned by judge

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UNITE, the transport workers’ union, yesterday said it was calling a 12-hour strike at the Milford Haven oil terminal next Tuesday, after...

‘No depths to which P&O will not sink!’ says RMT’s Mick Lynch

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‘THERE are no depths to which P&O and their Dubai owners at DP World will not sink to extract the maximum profit from ferry...

CAPITALISM IS SICK – admits Mandelson

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NEW Business Secretary Peter Mandelson admitted yesterday that he had checked in with his old boss Tony Blair before he agreed to take up...
A section of yesterday’s march by students demanding free state education and condemning the £9,000 fees for students and the coalition’s huge education cuts

Students March Against Fees And Cuts

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OVER a thousand students marched from University of London Union in Malet Street, central London, to the Business, Innovation and Science Department in Victoria...

Rcm Warns Of A Worsening Crisis

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THE Royal College of Midwives is warning of a worsening maternity crisis as a senior midwife survey shows services at boiling point. ‘The maternity crisis...

‘We’re NHS workers – bring us back in-house’! – demand striking St George’s staff

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STRIKING cleaners, domestic workers and hostesses employed by the public services privateer Mitie, got great support from local people as they held a powerful...
Health workers marching through London in May 2013 – protesting against plans to cut and close A&Es

‘A&E SERVICES ARE AT BREAKING POINT!’ – due to government changes

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HEALTH Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has agreed to the relaxing of ambulance response times for some ‘Red 2’ category patients, which include those with...
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust was planning to transfer porters, cleaning and catering staff into a subsidiary company. Strike action forced Wigan Council to abandon their plans

NO OUTSOURCING! – BMA slams NHS privatisation

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DOCTORS union the BMA is ‘strongly opposed to the fragmentation and privatisation of the NHS, which is divisive to hardworking NHS staff and could...

HOTEL QUARANTINE – Pay £1,750 for ten days or fined £10,000 – Lie on...

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ANYONE who has visited one of the red list countries and who fails to quarantine in a government-designated hotel faces a fine of up...

Israeli forces intensify their bombardment!

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ISRAELI forces have intensified their military operations across the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, leaving a devastating toll in their wake. In the past...
Greek workers take to the streets during the wave of revolutionary struggle in 2007

2008 – The Year For Revolution!

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BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends its revolutionary New Year’s greetings for the year 2008 to the workers and...

NHS staff facing £845 pay cut during 2021-22 – as a result of soaring...

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AN ANALYSIS by the Health Foundation shows that soaring inflation means NHS staff face an average pay cut of £845 during 2021-22 and will...
PCS lobby outside the HMRC yesterday morning demanding that all the HMRC Enquiry Centres be kept open

All tax advice centres to close!

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PCS members held a lively protest outside HM Revenue and Customs Whitehall headquarters yesterday opposing the closure of 281 tax advice centres. Chris Baugh, PCS...
Health workers march through the centre of London to defend the National Health Service

Decide on action to defeat Tory NHS Bill – urges BMA London Regional Assembly

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London doctors have made it clear they are opposed to the government’s plan to slash and privatise the NHS – and want action to...
The battling junior doctors showed every worker that the Tories were determined to smash the NHS

Defend The NHS! Kick Tories Out!

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THE government’s hospital closure programme could be derailed if masses of people take to the streets, said Chris Hopson, the leader of NHS England’s...

The ‘Elite’ Russell Group Is Super-Exploiting Lecturers

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THE UK’s so-called ‘elite Russell Group’ universities are the worst offenders when it comes to employing academics on precarious contracts, reveals a just released...

Harland & Wolff in administration

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WORKERS vowed to continue their occupation and stop the closure of Harland and Wolff shipbuilding industry in Belfast, after the yard went into administration...

‘Time Is Running Out!’ – Unison Health Conference Warns Pm Brown

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‘OUR time and patience is running out.’ This is the warning that Unison leader Dave Prentis is due to give to Prime Minister Gordon Brown...

TORIES SET TO USE ANTI-STRIKE LAWS! – against NHS and rail workers

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THE TORIES are set to mobilise their new anti-strikes law against railway workers and their unions as further strike action takes place during the...

Israel steps up Gaza aggression – kills 9 children in UNRWA clinic

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ISRAEL expanded its ground aggression in the besieged Gaza Strip yesterday, with its minister of military affairs Israel Katz announcing plans to ‘capture extensive...

US-UK War Talk Over The Ukraine!

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LEADERS of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France will meet in Belarus’ capital Minsk on Wednesday to discuss a peace plan for eastern Ukraine,...

Fight Steel Sackings

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‘THE time for talking is over, we need action’ Paul McBean, the Community union leader exclaimed as Tata Steel announced 1,200 job losses at...
A section of the early morning mass picket which will now take place daily from 9.00am to 2.00pm to keep Chase Farm Hospital open

Chase Farm Daily Picket

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MONDAY’S launch of the daily picket of Chase Farm Hospital, in preparation to occupy the departments threatened with closure, was a roaring success. The...

SANDERS TO STAND

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US Senator Bernie Sanders announced yesterday that he will run again for president in 2020, making a second attempt to win the Democratic Party’s...

Bush And Blair Pledge ‘war On Terror’ Will Continue

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At least thirty-three people were killed and hundreds more injured after a series of explosions hit the London Underground network and a double-decker bus...

ISRAEL SET TO THUMB NOSE AT OBAMA – over settlements

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Netanyahu was yesterday set not to extend the moratorium on settlement building in the West Bank, thumbing his nose at both...

‘STOP RESTRAINING AND HANDCUFFING VULNERABLE CHILDREN!’– DEMAND MPs

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A GROUP of cross-party MPs and Peers have sent a letter to Claire Coutinho, Minister for Children Families and Wellbeing, expressing their concern about...