Russia Is Accused Of Setting Up A Provisional Ukrainian Government

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US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met for talks in Geneva yesterday. ‘This is a critical moment,’ Blinken said...

FROST RESIGNATION A POLITICAL DISASTER! – say Tory MPs

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HEALTH Secretary Sajid Javid indicated yesterday that the Tory government is set to impose new Covid restrictions, as the Omicron variant spreads around the...

Richest are 30% better off!

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‘THIS situation cannot be allowed to continue,’ GMB national officer Sharon Holder told News Line yesterday in response to this year’s Sunday Times Rich...

DEATHS WILL RESULT – from attacks on ambulance service

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‘TINKERING with ambulance response targets could lead to unnecessary deaths,’ the GMB union, which represents ambulance drivers, warned yesterday. The union added that the government’s...
Firefighters demonstrating outside the London Fire Authority on February 11 against plans to close 12 fire stations in London

Firefighters plan to strike

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FIRE Brigades Union reps met yesterday to prepare for a national strike ballot over changes to the firefighters’ pension scheme. The FBU National Conference begins...

UN condemns school slaughter!

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ISRAEL killed at least 19 Palestinians sheltering in a school in Gaza’s biggest refugee camp early on Wednesday morning, despite repeated warnings that thousands...

58% of Junior doctors reject Hunt contract!

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JUNIOR doctors have voted to reject the latest contract by 58% on a 68% turnout, a contract which doctors rightly insist is ‘unfair’ and...

‘A Major War Crime!’

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HAMAS yesterday condemned Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza City and relocate its population as a clear violation of international law. The Palestinian resistance movement warned that...
Refugees demonstrate on Thursday evening in Athens against police raids Photo credit: NASEEM LOMANI/KIRIAKI KROK

Armed Greek riot police raid refugee centres

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GREEK armed riot police squads raided in the early morning of last Wednesday three buildings in the northern city of Thessaloniki where refugees were...

State Attack On Labour!

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MET Police chief Cressida Dick said yesterday that her officers were assessing online material and allegations of anti-Semitic hate crimes within the Labour...

11,355 Children Killed In Zionist Genocide

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THE Gaza Health Ministry has published a report detailing the name, age, gender and identification numbers of tens of thousands of people killed by...

NHS consultants take 48-hour strike ‘against savage wage cutting!’

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NHS consultants in England are on 48-hour strike today and tomorrow, with the BMA hosting a rally at its London headquarters in Tavistock Square,...
KIFA  MUNTARI (left, now deceased) and Baha Mousa’s father DAOUD MOUSA (second left) with lawyers at the High Court in London in 2004, after his son’s brutal death at the hands of British troops in southern Iraq

Baha Mousa torture inquiry conceded by Defence Secretary

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Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti and Public Interest Lawyers solicitor Phil Shiner yesterday welcomed an announcement by the Secretary of State for Defence of an...

Palestine erupts! As Pence says US embassy to open in Jerusalem next year!

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THE US ‘will open its embassy in Jerusalem next year’, US Vice-President Mike Pence said addressing the Israeli parliament (Knesset) yesterday. His announcement...

Police Arrest 523 Palestine Supporters

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THE METROPOLITAN Police arrested 523 supporters of Palestine in Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday, claiming they were showing support for a ‘proscribed...

PENSIONS ROBBERY – Rolls-Royce strike today

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ROLLS-ROYCE workers walk out on strike this morning as the struggle over the great ‘pensions robbery’ escalates. 3,500 car workers across the German car...
BA cabin crew outside the High Court last Friday, jubilant after hearing the court’s decision in favour of their strike ballot

BA–No Deal

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The five-day strike by British Airways (BA) cabin crew went ahead at midnight last night after talks between the Unite union and BA management...

Israeli terrorism widely condemned!

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HEZBOLLAH stressed yesterday that it will go ahead with its pro-Gaza strikes against the Israeli enemy, describing Tuesday’s deadly pager attacks as ‘another reckoning...

latest public meetings

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TGWU leader TONY WOODLEY surrounded by locked out Gate Gourmet workers at the May Day demonstration in London

VOLUNTARY REDUNDANCY IS REJECTED! – by Vauxhall workers

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Vauxhall Ellesmere Port workers voted unanimously at a mass meeting yesterday morning to reject the voluntary redundancy package put forward by General Motors. They were...
A big part of the 60-strong picket at Chase Farm Hospital yesterday

March to save Chase Farm today!

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YESTERDAY’S 60-strong mass picket to save Chase Farm Hospital drew big support from patients and local residents who all said they would join today’s...

Ukraine compromise offer – as right wing gunmen mass in Kiev

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UKRAINIAN President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday announced early presidential elections and a compromise agreement with the pro US-EU ‘opposition’. He said that the constitution of 2004,...
Doctors at the British Medical Association Annual Representative Meeting in June demanded their leadership oppose NHS privatisation

‘CHARGES UNDERMINE THE NHS’ – urges consultant surgeon

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Trade unions yesterday slammed Labour’s privatisation policy in response to MPs’ criticism of the system of NHS charges. MPs on the House of Commons...

‘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...
Ealing Hospital Medirest strikers on the picket line during their seven-day strike last month – they have now won a 16 per cent pay increase

Big victory for Ealing Hospital workers

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THE GMB trade union yesterday declared a massive victory for low-paid Ealing Hospital ancillary workers. The union called off strike action, due from yesterday by...

Government refuses to hand over pandemic messages & notebooks – NOW FACES LEGAL ACTION

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THE government yesterday defied the 4pm deadline for handing over unredacted messages and notebooks to the Covid inquiry. It now faces legal action over...

Vodafone workers win their strike

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THE President of the Greek Vodafone workers’ trade union Jaklin Gorou said that Tuesday’s national strike, demanding wage rises, the end of flexible working...

Oecd Issues Slump Warning

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US economic growth will slow sharply in the second half of the year and the risk of it going into a full-scale slump cannot...

Benefit Cuts Revolt!

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A TORY disability campaigner has handed in his party membership and sabotaged a Tory Party website in protest over brutal disability benefit cuts. Graeme Ellis,...

Israel Assassinates a Hezbollah Commander

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LEBANON’S Hezbollah movement reported that senior Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil, also known as ‘Jawad’, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in the south of...
A section of July’s 5,000-strong march to parliament to oppose the coalition’s Health Bill, organised by the health union Unite

Defend Our Hospitals!

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PUBLIC sector union Unison yesterday condemned former NHS Chief Executive from 2000-2006, Nigel Crisp’s call to close or merge hospitals. Now Lord Crisp, he told...

STOP SPYING ON WORKERS – demands GMB after Churchill ‘location tracking’

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Churchill Security is based in Chorley and employs more than 160 people in the UK, including Cardiff Bay, Cheltenham, Watford, Milton Keynes, Bromley, Abingdon...

Gate Gourmet has to be central question for TUC Crow tells pickets

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THE Gate Gourmet mass picket at Heathrow airport was visited yesterday by RMT general secretary Bob Crow, along with a number of RMT executive...
In Dusseldorf yesterday morning two locked-out Gate Gourmet workers from London were welcomed at a mass picket by striking local Gate Gourmet workers

‘SIMPLY NOT ENOUGH!’ – Nurses reject Brown’s 2% pay offer

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Angry nurses are ready to refuse to do unpaid overtime if they don’t get a pay rise of at least three per cent, the...
Father Christmas visits yesterday morning’s ‘Keep Chase Farm Hospital Open’ picket called by the North East London Council of Action

‘We will do everything to keep our hospital open!’

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CARS hooted and people waved to Santa Claus on the Chase Farm Christmas picket, organised by the North-East London Council of Action yesterday. There was...

Battle For Marjayoun!

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Hezbollah fighters yesterday took out two Israeli tanks, killing and wounding their crews, as they fought off an enemy attempt to take Marjayoun just...
Passengers and unions have been fighting for some time now for the renationalisation of the railways

PASSENGER FURY OVER rail fare rises!

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RAIL ticket prices will soar by up to 10% next January, in price hikes described by the RMT railworkers union yesterday as...

Scrap the Family Farm Tax! – – demands 15,000-strong Whitehall protest

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15,000 FARMERS descended on Westminster yesterday to oppose the ‘Family Farm Tax’ – Inheritance Tax (IHT) – which the government wants to levy on...
Tens of thousands marched on September 12th to welcome refugees into Britain and demand that Britain must not bomb Syria

Powers Bill to be rushed in! –as Labour shifts ground over Syria attack

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THE British state yesterday stepped up security measures in the wake of Friday night’s terror attacks in Paris. Cameron held a Cobra emergency committee meeting...
Striking BA cabin crew marching defiantly through Heathrow – are demanding that Unite names the dates for more strike actions to win their dispute

BAA MASSIVE STRIKE VOTE – as Cameron puts the boot in

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Unite union members working for British Airports Authority (BAA) have voted overwhelmingly for strike action, the union announced at a press conference yesterday afternoon. The...

6th form teachers strike today!

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TEACHERS are striking today and have announced further strike dates due to the government’s ‘failure to resolve a clear pay discrepancy’ between staff in...
Demonstrators in Karachi burn an effigy of George ‘dog’ Bush  after US forces bombed Afghanistan in September 2001

Sign deal to get hardship money says Woodley

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Gate Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) executive meeting at Transport House, central London yesterday, to demand the...
Scott (second on the right) the WRP candidate for Acton and Ealing Central, plus supporters made a big impact in Acton yesterday

Miliband Doesn’t Blame The Banks

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LABOUR leader Ed Miliband yesterday pledged a Labour government would abolish the non-domicile rule that allows some wealthy UK residents to limit the tax...
Part of the mass picket at London Met University yesterday midday – see feature in tomorrow’s News Line

London Met Mass Picket

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BOSSES of London Met University were yesterday accused of acting like ‘19th century mill owners’ at a rally outside the Holloway Road campus in...

Biden threatens to cut off military support for Israel

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AFTER widespread outrage over the United States’ continued backing of Israel’s devastating year-long genocidal assault on Gaza, several media outlets reported on Tuesday that...