Labour Party Conference sings ‘God save the King’

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THE LABOUR Party Conference in Liverpool opened yesterday with a minute’s silence, followed by leader Sir Keir Starmer leading the hall in singing God...
Young Socialists banner on the May Day march

PM ‘SQUATTING IN DOWNING STREET’ says Labour’s Emily Thornbury

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INTERVIEWED on BBC TV’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning, Labour leader Corbyn said of the Tories: ‘They are trying to form a government at...

‘Withdraw UK troops from Iraq immediately’ – PCS conference decides

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‘Iraqi people do not want a foreign occupation of their country,’ Paula Kennedy, Equal Opportunities Commission, Manchester Branch, told the conference of the Public...

‘We as Palestinians are ready to fight!’ – WEST BANK AND GAZA ERUPT

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‘WE as Palestinians are ready to fight!’ Hamas leader Salah al-Bardawil said as both the West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip erupted ...

TOYOTA 10% WAGE CUT – praised by Unite trade union

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Car manufacturer Toyota yesterday announced that production at its UK plants would be cut by ten per cent, with an associated cut in wages...
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...

French Pensions Strike!

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THE French transport workers’ strike against pension cuts yesterday caused huge stoppages on TGV fast rail routes, local train, metro and bus services. Only 90...
Unison Northhampton branch secretary STEVE BENNETT (second from left) with firefighters GARY MITCHELL and STEVE MASON next to him gave the YS march for Jobs a great reception

‘bring Coalition To Its Knees’

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‘THIS government will either bring the country to its knees or we will stand up and oppose them and bring them to their knees!’ That...

Labour supports key NHS role for health privateers!

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PRIVATE health trade body the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) has welcomed the cross-party consensus on the key role of the independent sector in...

Honda Swindon Plant Axed – 3,500 Car Workers’ Jobs To Go

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THREE thousand five hundred car workers’ jobs are to be axed as Japanese carmaker Honda announces this morning that it is to shut down...
May Day march!

May Day march!

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TUC call general strike to support junior doctors!
The striking Gate Gourmet workers fighting for reinstatement relaxing at the weekend. All except six pickets are being kept on a grass verge by a roundabout near to the factory

‘WE MUST WIN’ – say Gate Gourmet strikers

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‘WE’RE coming back!’ Gate Gourmet strikers shouted defiantly at the scab lorries accompanied by video surveillance vans as they drove past the mass picket...
Firefighters marching on Friday through Liverpool on a national demonstration to support Merseyside firefighters defending the service

7,000 March With Merseyside Firefighters

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Merseyside has the potential to become a national dispute,’ FBU President Ruth Winters told a mass rally at the end of a 7,000-strong demonstration...
The Friday night occupation of the Vouli (parliament) square in Athens

‘GET OUT OF HERE!’ – Athens Vouli Popular Assembly tells Papandreou

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FOR the fourth successive night, tens of thousands of youth and workers congregated in the main square of Athens outside the Vouli (Greek parliament)...

THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS STILL TRAPPED IN DANGEROUS BUILDINGS says the Fire Brigades Union

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FIREFIGHTERS yesterday slammed the government and building owners as an HCLG Committee cladding survey highlighted widespread safety failings. The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG)...

Return of rogue landlords!

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HAVOC is being wreaked on the lives of thousands of private tenants by rogue landlords, Shelter reported yesterday. New research found that over 125,000 private...

Iraqis storm US embassy

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HUNDREDS of Iraqi members of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) and their supporters stormed the US embassy in Baghdad for the second day in...

Corona care homes horror – Tories were ‘negligent’

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THE PUBLIC Accounts Committee released a damning report this morning which condemns the Tories’ ‘slow, inconsistent and at times negligent approach’ to the social...

26 FE colleges to strike – recall TUC & call a general strike urges...

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Staff at 26 Further Education (FE) colleges will take ten days of strike action starting on Monday 26 September demanding ‘a significant pay rise’,...
A section of the 220,000-strong crowd assembling for the march in Marseille yesterday

French General Strike

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PARIS – French workers are on strike again today and staging rallies to protest the government’s bid to raise the retirement age from 60...
Palestinian youth battle with Israeli troops and settlers on the West Bank

Ashrawi Denounces New Israeli Settlements Move

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HANAN ASHRAWI, a Member of the PLO Executive Committee, has strongly condemned the so-called Israeli Civil Administration’s decision to grant the approval for the...

Labour announces plans to cut public services year on year

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‘WE HAVE got to make our case, explaining our vision house by house, street by street, town by town’, Labour leader Ed Miliband...

End Croke Park talks–call a general strike!

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THE Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has warned that it will pull out of the corporatist Croke Park talks if the Government does not...

Eu-Ukrainian Deal!

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EU leaders yesterday signed an Association Agreement with the Ukrainian coupist government. It is a watered-down version of the agreement that the overthrown President...
RMT rail union members marching against government cuts and in defence of jobs

OCCUPY BOMBARDIER! – call to defend every job

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‘Bombardier must be occupied and nationalised and all 3,000 jobs at the factory must be defended,’ All Trade Unions Alliance National Secretary Dave Wiltshire...

Date called for nurses indicative strike ballot – RCN demands 12.5% pay rise

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday announced the dates for the indicative ballot for strike action demanding a 12.5% pay increase. The ballot opens on...

PCS leads May 10 pensions strike!

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HUNDREDS of thousands of public sector workers are striking in defence of their pensions on Thursday May 10th. The strike comes the day after the...

Israeli fury signals Iran’s victory

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IRAN’S President Masoud Pezeshkian says Israel’s anger over the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Iran and the United States clearly signals the success and...

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...
Part of the delegation of locked-out Gate Gourmet workers lobbying the TUC yesterday morning. The whole delegation was angry at the TGWU leaders  who would not allow them to have visitors credentials

BIG SUPPORT FOR GG LOBBY – But TGWU leaders refuse locked-out workers visitors credentials

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TRADE unionists from many unions backed the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers’ lobby of the TUC in Brighton yesterday morning. A lobby of over 100 workers...
‘We will win this dispute’ said postal workers picketing the East London Mail Centre at Bromley-by-Bow yesterday morning

CWU ‘further strike action’

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‘ROYAL MAIL is misleading the public,’ the Communication Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday at the start of the national postal strike in defence of...

UCU STRIKE BALLOT – to defend lecturers jobs

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The University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned that higher education could be brought to a standstill as the union announced that it is...
IBC banner on the Birmingham march to ‘Defend Jobs’ on May 16th – the Unite leaders are refusing  to take any action to defend their members jobs

MAGNA – NO COMMITMENT TO VAUXHALL WORKERS – Mandelson talks are a failure

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Business Secretary Mandelson yesterday admitted that he was unable to get any commitment from GM Europe’s preferred bidder Magna on saving jobs at the...
Demonstration in Crawley last September against the building of a new Immigration Removal Centre near Gatwick Airport

Seven Mothers Are On Hunger Strike!

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Seven mothers on hunger strike in the family unit in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), near Bedford, yesterday managed to get a message...
Determined Metroline pickets at Willesden garage during their stike over pay on November 20

Buses: Spring Offensive On Pay And Hours

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Bus drivers have backed a call for a major cut in their driving hours. At a conference in Eastbourne organised by the Transport and General...
UCU lecturers ‘Fair pay in FE’ lobby during their pay talks last month

Unions Go For One-Day General Strike!

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THE PCS trade union is having a consultative ballot asking members to back its ‘We all need a pay rise campaign.’ This calls for a...
PCS members on the picket line at the National Gallery – the union warned yesterday that welfare ‘reform’ will lead to more strikes

WELFARE ‘SLAP IN THE FACE’ – says CPS civil servants union

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Welfare ‘reform’ plans aimed at privatising ‘help’ for the long term unemployed drew an angry response from civil servants’ union PCS yesterday. Union leader Mark Serwotka...
From the left: Midwifery assistant MARIA SUAREZ, a young mother, and North East London Council of Action members ROSETTA REEVES  and ANNA ATHOW on yesterday’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital

‘WE WILL OCCUPY TO STOP CHASE FARM CLOSURE’ – say pickets

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OVER 100 workers, youth, pensioners and NHS staff from inside the hospital participated in the North East London Council of Action picket to...
Unite members were at the lobby in force

10,000 Lobby Against The Cuts!

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UP TO 10,000 workers and youth supported the TUC lobby of Parliament yesterday. Many told News Line that they want trade union action to put...

Blair Has Questions To Answer

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THE question and answer session with Prime Minister Blair at the GMB conference yesterday just illustrated the unbridgeable gulf between him and the working...

Trump Supporter Shot Dead In Portland

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A MAN was shot dead in Portland, Oregon as a large demonstration of supporters of President Trump clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters. The city...

CWU BT Group to ballot all members for action!

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THE Telecoms & Financial Services Conference voted yesterday to serve legal notice to BT Group of the union’s intention to ballot all appropriate members...

BMA & RCN condemn Starmer’s NHS ‘Plan for Change’

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PRIME Minister Starmer delivered a speech in a Surrey hospital yesterday morning describing his proposed transformation of the NHS into a largely digital service,...

Secret court & secret trial rejected by judiciary

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AN unprecedented attempt to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the UK has been blocked by the Court of Appeal. However the...

Museum workers strike across UK

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STAFF from top science museums around the country launched strike action yesterday to demand the Living Wage. The dispute involves tourist attractions, including London’s Science...