Marchers demand the building of more council homes

‘Housing crisis requires building council homes’ says Labour’s shadow housing secretary Healey

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‘WE SIMPLY can’t fix the housing crisis without more council homes,’ Labour Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey told News Line yesterday, responding to...
Water authority workers at the GSEE rally in Athens during last month’s general strike on May 3rd

Greece Set For Massive General Strike

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GREEK trade unions are set for a huge one-day general strike today against the government’s ‘Double Bill’ which destroys the state pension system, allows...
London Met University lecturers on the picket line during last week’s 2-day UCU nationwide strike – now 395 more jobs are to be axed there

Lecturers demand permanent jobs

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HIGH levels of university staff on zero-hours contracts and the escalating pay dispute, where staff are being offered an insulting 1.1% ‘pay rise’...

128,000 children homeless this Christmas – says Shelter

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THE FACT that 128,000 children in Britain will wake up homeless and in temporary accommodation this Christmas Day is a ‘national scandal’, the leader...
Marchers on a TUC demonstration against austerity demand jail for the bankers

Bank admits undercover EU exit probe

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THE Bank of England was yesterday exposed as planning to deceive the public over research it is carrying out into the financial risks of...

Homeless Children Housed In Containers!

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TENS of thousands of homeless children in England are ‘temporarily’ housed in converted shipping containers and office blocks, freezing in winter, sweltering in the...
Cleaners outside the blockaded Finance Ministry building in central Athens

Athens Cleaners Defiant!

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SOME 1,500 workers marched through the Athens city centre on Thursday evening, in a militant demonstration of solidarity with the nine-month-old fight of the...
CT Plus busworkers on the picket line in East London on Friday in the second of four Friday strikes

Hackney Bus Workers Want Decent Pay!

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BUS workers were in high spirits yesterday on the second Friday out of four consecutive Fridays of strike action over low pay and management...
Thousands of teachers march through central London yesterday during their nationwide strike against savage cuts

‘We are defending education’ from massive Tory cuts!

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‘THIS demo is just the start, this strike is just the start,’ Kevin Courtney NUT acting General Secretary told a mass rally of teachers...

US-UK Backed Terrorists Bomb Damascus

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SYRIA’S deputy defence minister Assef Shawkat and security Chief General Hisham Ikhtiyar have been killed in a bomb attack on a security building in...

Iran Pledges Reprisals Against Sanctions

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad yesterday warned of ‘firm reprisals’ against any country leading the way to impose new sanctions, adding that Iran was ‘not...

‘The TUC must call strike action and show solidarity with Palestine’

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‘THE TUC must call strike action, show unity and solidarity with the people of Palestine and end the genocide,’ a Chartered Society of Physiotherapists...
The front of last November’s 3,000-strong march through Enfield against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

‘We won’t let Chase Farm close’

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ENFIELD residents told News Line yesterday: we won’t let Chase Farm close! Stuart Hasler, a young Enfield resident, who joined in the campaigning and gave...

Palestinians ready to break off all relations with the USA and to report Israel...

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Netanyahu earlier pledged to ensure the extension of Israeli sovereignty to the Jewish settlements of the Jordan Valley after US Secretary...
Armed police arrest and handcuff one of the peace protesters as they search his bag in Parliament Square yesterday morning

Armed Police Arrest Brian Haw

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The Peace Camp in Parliament Square was brutally raided by armed police with dogs at 8am yesterday morning and its leaders were arrested and...

Hunt must resign–says GMB – whole government must go says ATUA

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TORY Health secretary Jeremy Hunt must resign, trade union GMB demanded yesterday, while warning that the ‘NHS is tailspinning into catastrophe.’ ‘The number of hospitals...

BRITISH SOLDIERS LED THE ‘REBEL’ ADVANCE ON TRIPOLI – says Labour MP Gardiner

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A LABOUR MP said yesterday that British soldiers led the counter-revolutionary ‘rebel’ advance on Tripoli last week. In an interview with the Russia Today...
Relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes outside Downing Street recently to protest over his

COMMANDER DICK GAVE ‘AMBIGUOUS’ ORDERS – De Menezes inquest is told

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OPERATIONS commander, Cressida Dick, gave ‘ambiguous’ orders in the run-up to the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, the inquest into his death...

Met Chief’s Call For Troops

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‘This militarisation of the police will increase the risk that we run already, not just to our civil liberties but to our very safety,’...
Part of a mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital on Tuesday to prevent its A&E and Maternity departments being closed

Bma Debates Call For Industrial Action

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The BMA Consul-tants Conference yesterday heard a call for trade union action to defend the NHS from cuts and privatisation. Moving Motion 138 from North-East...

GMB oppose Asda merger

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THE GMB union, ‘the trade union for Asda workers’, has come out in complete opposition to the proposed Asda/Sainsbury’s merger as the Competition and...
Doctors in Rugby demanding out with polyclinics

NHS – CLOSE AND PRIVATISE SAYS CBI – as government welcomes report

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Public sector union UNISON yesterday rejected a call from the Confederation of British Industries (CBI) for ‘failing’ hospitals to be closed and replaced...

Unite Urges Tories To Avoid Petrol Clash

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Unite has sent a letter to Ed Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change yesterday, pleading with him to intervene in the...

A NATIONAL SCANDAL – Help the Aged condemns winter death figure

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‘THESE figures are nothing short of a national scandal.  It’s obscene that in this day and age more than 25,000 people aged 65 and...
The struggle of the Egyptian workers is an inspiration to the workers of the world

‘A MILLION TO MARCH TODAY’ – as Suleiman appeals for 200 days of calm

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EGYPTIAN anti-government protesters yesterday fought the regime to a standstill and pushed the supporters of President Hosni Mubarak out of the streets near...

BERNANKE READY TO ACT – to print hundreds of billions more dollars

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US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday that he is ‘ready to act’ on the US economy, hinting that the US is about...
Cameron has earned intense hostility of workers with his savage cuts policy

BRING DOWN COALITION IN 2013 – victory to World Socialist Revolution

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2013 Manifesto – STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings for the year 2013 to the...

Rolls Royce jobs massacre! – Unite calls for National Recovery Council with Tories

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THE UNITE trade union has responded to the news that Rolls Royce is to cut 9,000 jobs globally, 3,375 of them in the UK,...
No NHS privatisation!

‘Southern Cross-Style Threat’ To NHS

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Circle Health, the privateer which was handed control of Hinchingbrooke District General Hospital in Cambridgeshire last week, has admitted that patient care could suffer...
Hundreds of Chagossians rally outside the Foreign Office condemning the British government for preventing them from returning home to the Chagos Islands

Chagos Islanders Betrayed

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SOME 100 Chagossians demonstrated opposite Downing Street yesterday over their treatment by the British government. Frankie Bontemps told News Line: ‘We’re here following the decision...

Stormont Crisis – Sinn Fein, Robinson Clash

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By John Coulter, Irish Political Journalist ANOTHER Stormont crisis looms in the North, but is this latest ‘storm’ merely clever sabre rattling or the warning...
300 trade unionists and council housing campaigners descended on parliament yesterday to demand that the Housing and Planning Bill 2015 is scrapped

Kill the Housing Bill!

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‘DEFEND council housing! No social cleansing!’ shouted three hundred people demonstrating outside parliament yesterday as MPs debated the Housing and Planning Bill...
Health Secretary Hunt said that he would impose a new contract onto junior doctors which doctors said would make much more unsafe working conditions

Hunt ‘misrepresented’ weekend deaths

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FIONA GODLEE, editor of The BMJ, has written to Health Secretary Hunt, accusing him of misrepresenting an academic article on deaths of patients admitted...

Striking PCS members show their support for the Palestinian state!

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STRIKING PCS members were protesting outside the Department of Business & Trade yesterday and showing their support for Palestine. They were joined by a group...
Children of Vestas workers lead the march to the Newport Magistrates Court last Wednesday

‘Angry At The Courts!’

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Provocative actions by court officials have angered workers occupying the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight. Vestas workers said it has made...

Keep Chase Farm NHS Open

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THERE were 40 pickets outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday morning, including local residents and staff. Some had travelled from as far afield as Luton and...

Israeli Forces Massacre Palestinians

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ISRAELI occupation forces carried out 10 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, resulting in 112 fatalities and 157...

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW! – demands High Court protest

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THE ROYAL Courts of Justice in The Strand in central London were besieged by supporters of Julian Assange from early morning to late afternoon...

115,000 postal workers out today!

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115,000 postal workers are out today in a 24 hour strike for a  ‘dignified, proper pay rise’, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday. Members...

NO NHS CUTS! – says UNISON Conference

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THE UNISON National Delegate Conference voted unanimously yesterday to oppose cuts to the National Health Service and against privatisation by the Labour government. The main...

25 Colleges strike over pay

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OVER 300 striking teachers from sixth form colleges around the country demanded the government honour their £700 million funding ‘invoice’ which was signed by...

100,000 CIVIL SERVANTS OUT ON APRIL 24th

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Over 100,000 Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), working across 10 government departments and agencies will be on strike at the...
Local residents, staff, trade unionists and young people joined a march last November to oppose plans to close Chase Farm. They will march again on Saturday July 26 to save the hospital

‘Save Chase Farm – Save Lives’

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THERE was a lively campaign yesterday, as local people joined in and gave out leaflets for the North East London Council of...
Wembley anti-academy campaigners at the Easter NUT annual conference where they were given full backing by the union

Academies Out!

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‘Academies are about Blair’s obsession with privatisation’, said NUT president Baljeet Ghale yesterday during a visit to the anti-academy occupation at the sports ground...
GMM Luton shop stewards at a Unite fringe meeting at the TUC

Luton workers given 10 minutes to sign away rights

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WORKERS attending the last night shift at the GM van plant in Luton on Thursday reacted with anger when they were given individual letters...