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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...

Bank Rate Rise Fears!

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The Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has been shaken by the ‘increase in inflationary risks’ which if...

‘THE MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS A LIAR’ says Saddam Hussein

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At his continuing show trial in Baghdad yesterday, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused Bush of lying about Iraq’s non-existent stockpiles of chemical weapons as...
Unite members rallied at St Thomas’ Hospital before marching to the meeting of the striking unions at Central Halls, Westminster

Hundreds of thousands strike to defend pensions

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ACROSS the UK, hundreds of thousands of public sector workers were on strike yesterday against government plans to make them work longer and pay...
Students battled to keep the fees and loans regime out and to keep grants

Students and youth are struggling!

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ONE in five students is living in vermin-infested homes, a new study published by the National Union of Students revealed yesterday. The shocking new research...

HUGE RISES IN COST OF LIVING – make unions fight for above inflation rises

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Retail Price Index (RPI) inflation, which includes mortgage interest payments, rose to 4.1 per cent last month, from 4 per cent in December. However even...

MI5 chief urges war on liberty! – ‘blank cheque for unlimited surveillance’

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FOR the first time ever, the serving director of MI5, Andrew Parker, yesterday gave a live BBC interview in a bid to push MPs...

FBU strike ballot on pensions

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The Fire Brigades Union says the government’s pension proposals are ‘unacceptable’ and are consulting fire crews with a recommendation there is a rapid move...

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE! – demands Stella Assange outside High Court

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‘DROP this shameful case. It is a shame on every democracy. Free Julian! I ask everyone to rally behind him,’ Stella Assange urged in...
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...
Teachers on the picket line at Copland school in Wembley during their strike against forced Academy status

Labour supporting ‘Free Schools’ and benefit cuts!

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LABOUR yesterday delivered another stab in the back to workers, when two of its newly promoted shadow ministers hit out at the working class. Shadow...
Visteon workers in a show of defiance on the roof before Unite officials got them to leave the factory at noon yesterday

UNITE END ENFIELD OCCUPATION – but Belfast stands firm

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The Unite trade union yesterday carried out its obligation to the capitalist court and at noon ended the occupation of the Visteon factory in...
Migrant workers demanding no deportations and that all migrants should have basic rights including the right to free health care

TREAT ALL ASYLUM SEEKERS – demand doctors

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A group of doctors has challenged the UK government over plans to deny GP care to failed asylum seekers, saying they breach medical ethics...

Three days of strike action at 17 further education colleges

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STAFF at 17 further education colleges across England are taking three days of strike action this week after employers refused to make improved offers...

‘END ALL FEES’ –demands YS National Secretary

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‘IT is not enough for tuition fees to be reduced they must be abolished in their entirety!’ said Joshua Ogunleye, national secretary of the...

Israeli air strikes kill 24

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ISRAELI air strikes killed at least 24 Palestinians between dawn and noon on Wednesday, with one of the biggest strikes targeting a school in...
Remploy workers lobby last year’s TUC Congress demanding their support to stop factory closures

KEEP REMPLOY OPEN! – unions slam charities

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Trade unions are furious that six leading charities have backed plans to close dozens of factories which provide jobs for disabled people, on the...

127,992 homeless kids at Christmas

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A record 127,992 children in England will wake up homeless on Christmas day, according to new government figures highlighted by Shelter. The charity turned...
Supporters of Babar Ahmad outside the High Court in London fighting his extradition to the US. They fear Babar could end up in Guantánamo Bay

Labour refusing Guantánamo Bay British residents

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The lawyer acting for ten UK residents being held at Guantánamo Bay has said the US authorities would send them home now if the...
Demonstration last June demanding the release of Binyam Mohamed from Guantanamo Bay prison

THERE MUST BE NO COVER-UP – Binyam police probe must go right to top

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Police are to investigate whether an MI5 officer was complicit in the torture of ex-Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed, it was announced yesterday. The Attorney General,...

Ireland – ‘no desire’ to delay Brexit

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IRELAND’S deputy prime minister, Simon Coveney has said his country has ‘no desire’ to delay the UK’s Brexit talks. While Ireland was not looking for...

Hamas leader is certain that the Israeli regime will be removed from all of...

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ISMAIL HANIYEH, head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ Political Bureau, has expressed certainty regarding the Israeli regime’s eventual removal from the entirety of...

Grenfell families rehoused in ‘high fire-risk’ building

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KENSINGTON and Chelsea council have re-housed Grenfell survivors and their families in a block found to have a ‘high risk’ of fire! A fire risk...
Mothers demonstrate outside the House of Commons against government benefit cuts

Food Bank donations soar 1000% after Mail attack

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FOOD bank donations have soared 1,000% in response to the ‘utterly vile’ Mail on Sunday attack on food banks, a charity revealed yesterday. The Trussell...

‘We’re here for battle with our union’

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‘WE’RE here to meet the general secretary Tony Woodley regarding the mis-handling of the dispute with an anti-union employer, ICTS UK,’ sacked Belfast International...

‘WE ARE WILLING TO NEGOTIATE WITH MAY’ says McDonnell

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LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that he is part of a movement in parliament to take Brexit ‘out of...
SPECIAL CONFERENCE – Saturday April 6th

SPECIAL CONFERENCE – Saturday April 6th

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DEFEND EVERY HOSPITAL
Greek workers who every day have been resisting and fighting the savage austerity programme imposed on them by the EU Troika

May Day 2014 greetings – BRING DOWN THE TORIES! – Forward with the World...

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world at a time when the world capitalist...
Workers on the roof of the Visteon plant in Enfield are becoming more determined to win with every hour of their occupation

Massive Support For Visteon Occupiers

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the occupied Visteon factories received massive support from workers in their areas yesterday, as workers in Belfast, Enfield and Basildon struggled to defend their...

‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!’ – tens of thousands to march through Dublin

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Hundreds of occupying Waterford Crystal workers, members of the Unite trade union, will be joining today’s national demonstration in Dublin. It has been called by...
Israeli state forces clash with Palestinian youth in the West Bank

Israel Getting Ready To Annex West Bank

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ADALAH, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, warned on Monday that the Israeli government’s response to the petition, filed to the...
The South East London Council of Action demonstrating outside Southwark Town Hall in May against the threat of eviction hanging over Heygate Estate tenants

Eviction Proceedings Denied By Southwark Council

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SOUTHWARK Council denied that it had started eviction proceedings yesterday against tenants of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, south London. A ...

Felixstowe & Merseyside dockers striking this month!

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DOCKERS at Britain’s two major ports – Merseyside and Felixstowe – are to strike together at the end of this month and the beginning...

NO MORE STALLING ON PAY! – warn physios as they launch strike ballot

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‘VOTE YES,’ the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) urged as it launched a strike ballot of the remainder of its 63,000 members in England...
Marcher with a clear message on the two million-strong demonstration in London on February 15 2003 against the war on Iraq

CHILCOT INQUIRY– ‘COME THE DAY YOU’LL BE THERE’ – Rumsfeld was sure that...

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‘NO matter how many times you said to senior American officers, and indeed Mr Rumsfeld, that we were not committing our forces until we...
Greek workers completely rejected the EU but their leaders crumbled– a lesson for British workers

Arrogant Barnier to ‘teach British a lesson!’

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EU COMMISSION chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, gave a master class in arrogance yesterday as he looked down his nose at the UK...
A section of the mass picket of the Balfour Beatty Crossrail site at Blackfriars Bridge early yesterday morning

Angry Sparks Demand Official Action

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ANGRY electricians fighting 35% pay cuts imposed by a ‘cartel’ of seven major building contractors led by Balfour Beatty, went on strike at construction...

Occupy Chase Farm Hospital To Stop Closure

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HEALTH Secretary Lansley and the coalition have decided to close Chase Farm as a District General Hospital and move out its A&E. Maternity and...

Ucl Rent Strike

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OVER 150 UCL students went on rent strike yesterday against what is one of the most expensive student accommodations in the country. They are...
A police officer threatened to arrest the small picket outside the Middle East Energy Conference in London yesterday morning. The demonstrators were urging those coming into the conference to keep their hands off Iraq’s oil and that it must not be privati

Hands Off Iraq’s Oil!

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‘Hands Off Iraqi Oil’, read the banner of protest outside the Middle East Energy Conference in London yesterday. At the conference was Iraqi puppet Oil...
BECTU picket line at the Hackney Picturehouse on Saturday

London Picturehouses strike solid!

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NOT a single film was on show at the Hackney Picturehouse on Saturday as the cinema workers escalated their strike action for a living...

Assange Must Be Freed!

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ALMOST a decade after his WikiLeaks website enraged Washington by leaking secret US documents, a London court will begin hearings on Monday to decide...
Labour Shadow Chancellor JOHN McDONNELL (right) alongside TOM WATSON supporting striking BA workers lobby of parliament

‘I want to transform Capitalism’ says John McDonnell as he disowns Marx

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LABOUR will not raise taxes for the vast majority of workers but will increase rates for those earning over £80,000, John McDonnell said yesterday. He...

Hamas slams Trump’s racist vision for Gaza

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Hamas yesterday expressed total rejection of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza relocation plans which ‘represent a continuation of the settlement plans aimed at liquidating...