USDAW delighted at Tory defeat!

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SHOPWORKERS trade union leader John Hannett is delighted with the House of Commons vote that defeated the government and removed Sunday trading changes...

Wages Fell In Year To June

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WAGES fell by 0.2% in the year to June was the shock news released by the ONS yesterday. Britain is now a nation of the...

NHS satisfaction down! – – since Tories took office in 2010

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A KING’S Fund survey shows public satisfaction with the way the NHS is run fell from 70% in 2010 (the year that Tory...
GPs demonstrating to ‘save your surgery’ in Rugby earlier this year

Bma Launches ‘Save Your Surgery Campaign’

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The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday announced a national ‘Support your Surgery’ campaign to defend and promote NHS GP services in England. The BMA warned:...

Lebanese village ‘massacre’

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With the encouragement of Bush and Blair, Israel continued its murderous air, land and sea bombardments on Lebanon yesterday, striking central Beirut for the...

Coronavirus–10,000 troops on the streets!

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‘OPERATION Broadshare’ has been launched by the military to put 10,000 troops on the streets. The military said that it will work alongside the...
A section of the march of PCS strikers and supporters as they headed from the National Gallery’s Sainsbury wing yesterday

NO PRIVATISATION! – demand National Gallery strikers

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‘NO privatisation!’ chanted over 70 PCS strikers and their supporters yesterday as they marched off from a rally outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar...

Aslef supports PCS strikers at British Museum

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‘YOU are the finest workers in the UK. You deserve fair pay, job security and not threats,’ PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka told strikers...

Labour Health Sec Streeting launches new attack on NHS

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LABOUR Health Secretary Wes Streeting yesterday launched a new attack on the NHS. While he noted the King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust survey reveals the...

NO JOBS FOR YOUTH – a national emergency says TUC

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‘These grim figures show that unemployment is still a national emergency in this country,’ a TUC spokesman told News Line. He was responding to research...

Great support for Southall WRP candidate!

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THE Elect Hassan Zulkifal WRP Ealing Southall campaign got great support on Southall Broadway yesterday. Heathrow Airport worker and GMB member Kutesh Sashikint said: ‘I...

BLAIR ON THE ‘HIGH WIRE’ – ‘A significant number of my side are against’

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Prime Minister Blair yesterday admitted at his monthly press conference that the opposition to his schools ‘reforms’ made getting them through parliament ‘a...

‘DON’T SIGN NEW CONTRACTS! say Unite Groundstaff

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THE GMB has accused BA of bad faith. Claims of ‘significant progress’ in a leaked letter from British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz mask...

One million to strike

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OVER a million council workers and school support staff are to strike on 14 October over the government’s 1% pay ‘offer’. Unions representing over a...

A STEP TOWARDS POLICE STATE! – Tory move against anti-war movement condemned

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The Stop the War Coalition yesterday condemned amendments tabled by Monmouth Tory MP David Davies to the Policing and Crime Bill, currently going through...

UN Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide In The Gaza Strip!

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A UNITED Nations investigation has found that Israel committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip, systematically targeting reproductive healthcare facilities as part of...

Mass hospital closures! – Nuffield Trust warning

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A DRAMATIC one in three hospitals face closure, the Nuffield Trust has warned MPs. Many hospital trusts face severe and potentially unsustainable financial pressures, warns...

Israeli warplanes target civilians

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THE Israeli occupation army intensified its attacks on homes, civilian targets and shelter centres in different areas of Gaza yesterday, killing and injuring dozens...
Young Socialists lobbying the TUC demanding the abolition of zero-hours contracts – Balls refused to deal with the issue in his speech to the Labour Party Conference

Balls to means-test pensioners!

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LABOUR Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls, yesterday made it crystal clear that if elected, Labour would continue Tory policy to to make pensioners, workers,...

TUC demands recognise the state of Palestine and permanent ceasefire!

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THE TUC unanimously passed Composite Motion C17 at its Congress in Brighton yesterday, demanding: ‘Immediately recognise the State of Palestine... end licences for all...
Serco strikers on the picket line are demanding that Unite call a national demonstration in support of the strike and bring other Serco workers out to win the dispute

‘Unite needs to call a nationwide demo’ – Serco strikers

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‘OUR members are standing firm and determined to win,’ striking Royal London Hospital Unite rep Ebrima Sonko told News Line yesterday on the morning...

NO CONFIDENCE IN HUNT! BMA votes for repeal of Health & Social Care Act

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ANGRY doctors yesterday delivered a vote of No Confidence against Tory Health Secretary Hunt. Doctors at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) Annual Representative Meeting (ARM)...

‘If the doctors strikes are banned the TUC must call a general strike and...

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‘IF THEY ban the doctors strikes the British Medical Association must call on the other unions to come out with them. If doctors strikes...
GMB General Secretary PAUL KENNY (centre) at yesterday’s press conference with Marks and Spencer ‘whistleblower’ Tony Goode (left) and his representative MARIA LUDKIN (right)

UNIONS ON THE MARCH! – but General Council to oppose POA resolution

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CIVIL service union PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday announced that the union will be balloting 270,000 members across the civil and public services...
Postal workers in the front line of the strike against Brown’s privatisation policies – they are determined to defend the Royal Mail

PANIC RESHUFFLE! – while the rats continue to leave sinking ship

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Prime Minister Brown held a press conference late afternoon yesterday to announce the cabinet changes in a hurried reshuffle following the resignations of five...

‘A SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY’ – poll finds ‘we are all suspects’

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Human rights group Liberty yesterday called for stronger privacy protection as a YouGov poll revealed that a majority of UK citizens believe Britain is...

‘Britain must provide war planes for Ukraine’ says Truss

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BRITAIN and other Western powers should provide warplanes to the Ukraine, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said last night at the Mansion House banquet, as...
The raising of the pension age hits the most needy says the TUC

‘DON’T RAISE PENSION AGE’ – urges TUC leader O’Grady

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‘THE government should abandon its plan to raise the state pension age in light of the new evidence on projected life expectancies,’ TUC General...
RMT Southern rail guards and supporters lobbying parliament last November demanding that guards must be kept on the trains

RMT Calls National Protest

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THE RMT will hold a national protest outside Parliament at noon next Wednesday, 26th April, to mark the one year anniversary of RMT industrial...
Riot police attack with tear gas spray gun a protesting student outside the central Athens office of the Finance Ministry’s Secretary on Thursday. Photo courtesy left.gr

Greek Youth Unemployment Now Over 61.7%

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GREEK Statistics Authority (ELSTAT) announced catastrophic unemployment and recession figures in its monthly report on Thursday. ELSTAT stated that youth unemployment (15-24 years old) reached...

Tube Strike Brings London To A Standstill!

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POWERFUL picket lines continue outside London rail depots this morning as the RMT Tube union completes this week’s first 24-hour strike at 12noon today,...
French youth rise up against Sarkozy, now the right-wing Presidential candidate

REVOLUTIONARY MAY DAY! – News Line Editorial Board Statement

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THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings on this May Day to the insurgent workers of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. The Iraqi insurgency...
A determined picket outside Chase Farm hospital yesterday as anger mounts at the proposed closure of the A&E and maternity departments

CUTS COSTS LIVES! says Chase Farm mass picket

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Scores of health workers, youth, patients, pensioners and local residents took part in yesterday’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital, organised by North East London...

Tens Of Thousands Mourn Hamas Leader

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Hamas officials headed to Cairo for ceasefire negotiations yesterday after tens of thousands of Palestinians, many of them Hamas supporters, attended a mass funeral...
Over 40 black cabs descended on Hove Town Hall yesterday – they are demanding the end of the ‘Wild West’ app-driver companies

Black cabs challenge Uber

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‘WE WILL not have a Wild West situation,’ for drivers, Steve Garelick, GMB branch secretary for professional drivers for London, said yesterday. He spoke to...
Thousands demonstrated against the threat to close the A&E at Whittington hospital in north London in 2010 – Four A&Es in west London are facing the axe

Stop W London A&E closures! – MP Slaughter appeals

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THE government plans to close Hammersmith and Charing Cross A&Es, warns Labour MP Andy Slaughter, who is calling on everyone to demonstrate in Westminster...

Patel ratchets up enforcement

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‘THERE is still a small minority who refuse to do the right thing and to them my message is clear: if you don’t follow...

Merkel Angers Greek Parties

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s telephone call to the Greek President Karolos Papoulias last Friday, when she asked for a referendum to be held on...

Israeli warplanes hit Khan Younis & Rafah in Gaza Strip

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THE Palestinian rescue and civil defence teams yesterday removed 12 bodies of Palestinians that were buried under the rubble of two homes destroyed by...

Israel is conducting a fierce starvation campaign throughout the Gaza Strip

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THE EURO-Med Human Rights Monitor has issued a stark warning that Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, compounded by a total blockade and acute shortages...
UCU strikers fighting to defend their pensions were joined by students yesterday on a lively march through central London

Strike Until We Win! – Lecturers

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OXFORD and Cambridge lecturers joined a three thousand-strong march in central London yesterday called by the London Region UCU on the 13th day of...
A recent defend education march in Lewisham – parents will be shocked to find out that tens of thousands of children are being fingerprinted at school

Fingerprinting At Over 280 Schools

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‘Schools should hold off until there is proper guidance,’ NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates told News Line yesterday. The teachers union leader was responding to...

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...

RCN warns cuts could put patient safety at risk!

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THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) is warning that cuts to Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) could put patient safety at risk and undermine the...

‘No credible route to a zero Covid UK’ says Johnson setting out ‘road map...

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‘THERE IS no credible route to a zero Covid Britain or indeed a zero Covid world,’ Tory PM Johnson told Parliament yesterday, setting out...