25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE

25th ANNIVERSARY OF PRINTERS STRIKE

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Sunday 23rd January 2.00-6.00pm St Bride's Institute (off Fleet Street)
Greek dockworkers marching against privatisation and drastic changes in labour conditions

Greek dockers fight privatisation

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DOCKWORKERS of the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki have completed one month of strike action against privatisation and consequent dramatic change...
Grenfell resident holds up a piece of charred cladding which had fallen during the Grenfell Tower inferno

Only three towers re-clad out of 160!

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ONLY three out of 160 social housing towers have been reclad since the Grenfell fire, over seven months ago, leaving tens of thousands of...

Global Markets Total Carnage!

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THE GLOBAL economy nosedived as soon as markets opened yesterday morning with shares around the world haemorrhaging. Once more at the start of US trading,...
NHS ambulance workers picket their London HQ over wages and jobs

PROBLEMS WITH SAFETY! – CQC warns on private ambulance providers

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THE Care Quality Commission has warned all private ambulance providers that, during its inspections, it found ‘problems with the safety’ of the care they...

Bhutto Demands Exact Election Date

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In a bid to defuse a developing insurrectionary situation, Pakistan’s military ruler Pervez Musharraf said after chairing a meeting of the National Security Council...

200 days of Israeli war crimes in Gaza

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ISRAEL’S genocidal war on Gaza entered its 200th day yesterday, with the Health Ministry saying that the IOF (Israeli Occupation Force) had committed three...

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...
Young people in one of the tents in the camp discussing their activities for the day

Police Raid Climate Camp

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POLICE raided the Climate Change camp on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport on Tuesday evening, with the aim of intimidating protesters, News Line was...
Riot police confront thousands of Greek youth who marched on December 6th to remember the assassination of 15-year-old  Alexandros Grigiropoulos who was shot dead in cold blood on December 6th 2008

Greek general strike against tax hikes & labour laws

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SOME 15,000 workers, youth and students marched through the Athens city centre last Thursday morning in two different demonstrations as part of the one-day...
Striking British Airways workers at Heathrow yesterday defiant against Walsh’ and BA’s attempt to cut their working conditions

‘No To A Race To The Bottom’

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‘Walsh isn’t interested in compromise. This is our eighth day on strike and it has gone on to a different level’. British Airway’s cabin...

Mosul civilian deaths and refugee crisis – Battle for Mosul intensifies

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HUNDREDS of men, women and children are being killed in US-led air strikes on the city of Mosul in Iraq, and as the battle...

UK Current Account disaster!

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THE UK’s current account deficit was larger than expected in the final quarter of last year, official figures have shown. The deficit in the...

‘THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NHS’ – Professor Marks condemns Blair/Hewitt plans

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‘This is really the destruction of the NHS,’ Vincent Marks, professor of clinical biochemistry at the University of Surrey and a long-standing supporter of...

Osborne War On Benefits

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‘WITH this abhorrent proposal, the Chancellor is saying that some children will be marked out from birth as second class citizens with their lives...
Hospital workers march against the coalition’s NHS cuts

Cameron Pledges More Cuts!

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PM Cameron yesterday defended the government’s spending and welfare cuts, and pledged to continue them and to stop at nothing to defend British capitalism. However,...

Doctors taking on coalition!

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A group of 240 doctors are to stand ‘as many candidates as possible’ against coalition MPs in the next general election. They want to show...

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,...
Lecturers, university staff and students on the picket line outside Queen Mary University in East London during their last strike on October 31

Nationwide University Strike Today!

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UNIVERSITY and college workers are holding the most widespread strike action in Higher and Further Education (HE & FE) for years. Staff in universities have...
Striking Sheffield recycling workers lobbied the Labour council in Sheffield yesterday fighting wage and job cuts

Sheffield workers fight sackings

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THE 38 striking Sheffield recycling workers, alongside their supporters, lobbied the Labour Council at Sheffield Town Hall yesterday to demand the reversal of five...

Resident doctors begin five day strike against falling pay

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RESIDENT doctors formed a large picket outside St Thomas’ Hospital on Friday morning as they began a five-day strike over falling pay and the...

Release Marwan Barghouti!

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THE wife of Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, Fadwa Barghouti, has called on US President Donald Trump to work towards the release of her husband,...
Ritzy strikers rallying yesterday – Hackney Picture House cinema workers have voted 100% to join their strike

Ritzy strikes back!

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‘OUR strike is very effective. The cinema is completely closed down!’ BECTU rep and Ritzy cinema worker, Kelly Rogers, told News Line yesterday. Workers at...

‘AN ACT OF WAR!’ – Olmert threatens the Lebanon

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ISRAELI prime minister Ehud Olmert yesterday called the capture of two Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border by Hezbollah an ‘act of war’. Olmert threatened...

TORY ATTACK ON DISABLED – UN to launch inquiry

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The United Nations is to launch an inquiry into whether Tory attacks on the disabled have led to ‘grave or systematic violations’ of their...
3,000 tenants march on London’s City Hall to demand an end to huge rent rises and evictions. There were two marches, one from north east London, the other from south east London

‘Social Housing Is Our Right’!

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‘SOCIAL housing is our right!’ chanted over three thousand protestors on the March to Defend Council Housing on Saturday. The march began at Shoreditch Church...
Demonstrators show their determination to get wage rises that match or are bigger than the rate of inflation

‘Students and lecturers on the streets – this is just the start!’

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OVER 2,000 FE lecturers, staff and students marched through central London yesterday demanding fair funding for colleges. They demanded fair pay for FE lecturers,...
Junior doctors are demanding further action to defeat Hunt’s contract imposition

5-day strike actions for Junior Doctors!

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AN ESCALATING programme of five-day strikes, every month until the end of the year, has been authorised by the BMA, as junior doctors take...
AYSAR SHAMALLAKH (left) launching his hunger strike at 6.00pm on Tuesday 2nd May in Parliament Square under the statue of Nelson Mandela in solidarity with 1,600 Palestinian prisoners of Israel

Palestine solidarity hunger strike

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A BRITISH national of Palestinian origin, Aysar Shamallakh, who is an active and co-founder member of the ‘17 April Group’, has started an awareness...
Unite members with their banner on the ‘Save Our NHS’ march against privatisation

Unite ‘reassures members’ over NHS pay claim!

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UNITE national officer for health Sarah Carpenter said yesterday: ‘A story appeared in The Guardian today (Friday 9 March) about an impending pay deal...

Coldest Night Of The Year In Gaza

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TUESDAY night was described by meteorologists in Palestine as the coldest of the year, laid bare the scale of suffering endured by hundreds of...

NO! TO BAA BLANKET BAN – climate change camp going ahead

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The High Court yesterday refused to grant British Airports Authority (BAA) a blanket ban on protests in and around Heathrow airport that would have...
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...

Ealing strikers demand indefinite action

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EALING Parking Services workers were on the picket line outside Ealing Town Hall yesterday on the third day of three days of strike action...
Massive protest strike last Friday by McDonald’s TGI Friday’s, Uber Eats and Wetherspoon workers made a huge impact on Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell

Labour to scrap Universal Credit! – John McDonnell makes a pledge

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SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell pledged yesterday that Labour will scrap Universal Credit (UC). Interviewed by Sky’s Sophy Ridge, he was asked to comment on reports...

Starmer right-wing move causing ‘chaos’ in Labour Party – warns Unite

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THE THREE-DAY Labour Policy Forum (LPF) held in Nottingham over the weekend was ‘chaotic’, Unite said yesterday, with the Starmer party leadership seeking to...
Libyan women took part in last Saturday’s TUC demonstration and urged British workers to stop the war on their country

Savage Air Attacks On Libya!

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‘THE crusader and colonial bombing campaign targeted inhabited areas in the city of Sabha at dawn on Monday, causing the destruction of several houses,’...

‘THE STRIKE IS STRONG – PUBLIC ARE STILL BEHIND US!’ says RMT

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‘The strike is strong, the public are still behind us and members are strong and want to continue,’ striking RMT London Area Council Rep...

‘Patients treated on trolleys’ – crisis intensifies

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‘TREATING patients on corridor trolleys should belong to a bygone era. Ministers must stop us heading back there at all costs. ‘It’s undignified and less...
News Line-Atua Conference: Sunday June 19

News Line-Atua Conference: Sunday June 19

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The News Line-All Trades Union Alliance is organising this conference this Sunday, 19 June, to build a leadership to lead a struggle inside the...
The badly beaten face of Baha Mousa

AITKEN ‘WHITEWASH’ – condemned by Daoud Mousa lawyers

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The report by Brigadier Aitken on British Army abuses of Iraqi civilians is ‘a complete red herring and a whitewash’, said lawyers Phil Shiner...

Officer who shot Chris Kaba ‘standing to front of vehicle’

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THE AUDI car that Chris Kaba was driving was brought to a halt through ‘contact’ with marked police vehicles, after which: ‘An officer standing...

BA SHUT DOWN! – Walsh rejects T&G goodwill gesture

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‘We don’t want macho management or macho trade unionism, we want an honourable compromise,’ said Transport and General Workers Union general secretary Tony Woodley...

Picket Line Victory

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers won a victory yesterday, when they successfully carried out their picket at the Gate Gourmet plant front gate, despite a...

Visa Rules Will Drive Doctors Out Of NHS!

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THE BMA has warned that the Tory government’s recommendations on new visa rules from the Migrations Advisory Committee could lead to UK-trained doctors leaving...