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Doctors and teachers march against Hunt’s attempts to impose a contract on the junior doctors – now the teachers are under heavy attack from the May government and its attempts to bring back the eleven plus

May Brings Back 11 Plus!

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TORY PM Theresa May yesterday unveiled plans, despite all denials, to drive education back to the 1940s by allowing any school to become a...
RMT-led march on October 23 to the TUC headquarters where they called for the TUC to organise action against the coalition govenment’s just announced spending cuts

20% Vat Disaster!

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‘The VAT increase to 20 per cent, price rises and low wages are the ingredients for a disaster in the making for millions of...

Mass Executions In Sirte

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Fifty-three Muammar Gadaffi loyalists were executed by members of the counter-revolutionary NTC at a Sirte hotel last week, Human Rights Watch reported yesterday. Human...

Public ownership of energy – urges Unite

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UNITE hit out yesterday at Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s announcement that he would halt new gas and oil production in the North Sea...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaigning at Heathrow airport yesterday

Support mounting for Gate Gourmet meeting

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MANY Heathrow Airport workers, most of them Transport and General Workers Union members, bought their tickets yesterday for the Gate Gourmet locked-out workers pre-Tribunal...
Junior doctors outside the Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell where the GMB is planning to have a strike ballot for a living wage of £10 an hour and an end to a two-tier workforce

Living Wage Battle!

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GMB officers are seeking permission for a strike ballot after pay talks broke down covering 175 GMB members employed as domestics and hostesses by...

‘Free Sudanese journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ – NUJ

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‘SUDANESE generals must free journalist Sadiq Rizaigi now!’ the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland demanded yesterday joining calls from...

ALL OUT STRIKE NEEDED ACROSS PUBLIC SECTOR! – to defend wages and jobs

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‘OUR members are eager to make their feelings felt and ready to strike Friday,’ a Communication Workers Union (CWU) spokeswoman told News Line yesterday...

‘We will conclude this matter on the streets!’ say South African workers

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THE South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) in Ekurhuleni is shocked and agitated that out of the blue, the City has provoked municipal workers...
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)...

NHS IS BUCKLING BEFORE OUR EYES says RCN leader Patricia Marquis

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‘AS WE begin a new year, the NHS is buckling before our eyes. The pressures are immense with flu cases surging while staff absences...

Union Leaders Helping Bosses Say Gourmet Workers

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angry Gate Gourmet workers told News Line over the weekend that they want their union, the TGWU, to provide them with information on who...

Israeli bombers target schools

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THE Palestinian Hamas resistance movement strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s targeting of schools sheltering internally displaced people in the Gaza Strip yesterday, describing the...

‘We need a general strike’ – the Tories have to go!

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‘WE NEED collective action and a general strike. This Tory government has to go. It’s spent the last ten years looking after the bosses...

Throw out ‘new’ Junior Doctors’ contract

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JUNIOR Doctors must vote from tomorrow to throw out the junior doctor contract agreed by the BMA and the Department of Health on 27...

Amazon ‘work till you drop!’

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AMAZON workers have their toilets breaks timed, are paid as little as 7p per item they pack and are working as much as 55...

PA signs £80m Gaza reconstruction deal with UN

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WITH support from Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, the United Nations Development Programme and the Arab International Organisation for Reconstruction in Palestine...
GMB demonstration outside the London Tribunals Office yesterday morning demanding the Tribunal charges be withdrawn

Tribunal Charges Began Yesterday

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WHAT the government is doing is depriving ordinary people of their legal rights,’ GMB member Ake Achi told News Line yesterday. He was speaking on...

7/7 Survivors Left To Fend For Themselves

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London’s emergency plans must be changed to take into account the needs of survivors in the aftermath of a major incident, says the report...
Striking junior doctors say that the NHS is everyone’s fight

‘Crude, expensive and dangerous’ – scrap referral management centres

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‘CRUDE, expensive and dangerous’ warned doctors yesterday, describing the privately run ‘Referral Management Centres’. They further warned that the Referral Management Centres act as...
Junior doctors fighting Hunt’s contract imposition – now all NHS unions face the same threat and treatment

Hunt to ‘reform’ all NHS contracts!

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TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt, after attempting to impose an unsafe and unfair contract on junior doctors, now wants new contracts for one million...
BRIAN HAW (centre), a victim of Blair’s Serious Organised Crime and Police Act – His picket line outside the House of Commons was dismantled by 78 riot police – yesterday his appearance at the High Court for alleged breach of bail conditions was postponed

Prescott-Blair Fate Linked

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Pressure mounted on deputy prime minister Prescott to quit yesterday, with Labour MPs queueing up to say he should go despite warnings that if...

Renault Told: Pay Compensation Or Else!

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Workers at New Fabris, a bankrupt French car parts supplier, are ready to blow up their factory unless carmakers Renault and PSA-Peugeot pay them...

EUROSTAR NIGHTMARE CONTINUES! – passengers told to stay away

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Eurotunnel closed its shuttle car service to new arrivals yesterday, saying it was at ‘saturation point’, as travellers struggled to find alternative ways of...

Unis strike action Dec 3rd

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UNIVERSITY staff across the UK will walk out for a second day of strike action on Tuesday December 3rd, trade unions representing university...

PLO slams US-sponsored Bahrain conference

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THE PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) issued a statement slamming the US-sponsored conference in Bahrain on its second and final day yesterday: ‘The PLO Executive Committee...

Israeli forces raid occupied West Bank cities!

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ISRAELI forces have launched their most intense raids yet on cities in the occupied West Bank as they pressed on with one of the...

Over 250,000 workers and youth march for Palestine!

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More than a quarter of a million workers, students and youth participated in the National March for Palestine through central London on Saturday. Palestine flag-waving...
Some of the 300 demonstrators outside the Whittington Hospital yesterday lunchtime who are determined it will not be closed

Keep Whittington Open!

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Over 300 people rallied outside the Whittington Hospital, north London, yesterday lunchtime, against the closure of the hospital’s A&E and maternity departments. Organisers ‘Defend the...
Student nurses and midwives lobby the Department of Health demanding the restoration of bursaries

HOSPITALS USING MORE UNREGISTERED NURSES says Royal College of Nursing

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MORE than nine in ten of England’s 50 largest NHS hospital trusts are not staffed with nurses to the level planned by their own...

‘We will make Britain a defence industrial superpower’ says Reeves – NHS budget...

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‘WE WILL make Britain a defence industrial superpower,’ Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves declared in the House of Commons yesterday, as she revealed that military...
FBU General Secretary MATT WRACK and pickets having words with a scab crew at the Old Kent Road fire station

Support The Firefighters!

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Firefighters in south east London confronted Assetco scabs outside Old Kent Road fire station, determined to defeat the strike breakers and the London Fire...
The Finucane family outside 10 Downing Street in 2000 when they saw Labour Prime Minister Blair and demanded a public enquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane

Finucane Report Is A Whitewash Says Family

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‘YET another British government has engineered the repression of the truth behind the murder of my husband Pat Finucane.’ This was the response of Geraldine...

DOWNING ST LAWBREAKERS – to be named by Civil Service boss Gray

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SUE GRAY INTENDS TO NAME civil servants who broke Covid rules at lockdown parties in and around Downing Street. The senior civil servant will publish...

Syriza Caves In–But Workers Will Vote ‘No!’

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DESPITE last minute frantic efforts by the Greek government on Tuesday, an agreement with the EC, IMF and ECB for cash assistance was not...

Manchester bus strikers huge victory!

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‘THIS MUST be the end of “fire and rehire”. We now have a collectively bargained agreement,’ Unite NW-54 Branches Communities Rep Sam Harvey told...

Nightmare facing Israel pledges IRGC!

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THE commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned of the ‘nightmare’ facing Israel after the Tel Aviv...
Striking postal workers lobby Unite headquarters to demand leaders Woodley and Simpson stop Unite organised managers

Tuc Leaders Dine With Pm Brown

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Prime Minister Brown met 15 union leaders at his country residence Chequers for three hours yesterday afternoon, to discuss spending cuts ahead of next...
Morale was very high on the RMT picket line at Kings’ Cross St Pancras station

‘We’re fighting all the way!’ –RMT members tell News Line

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''WE''RE rock solid and we’re going to fight the closures and sackings all the way,’ RMT rep Sean told News Line at King’s Cross...

Ahli Hospital Massacre – Israel bears the direct responsibility!

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‘THE Israeli occupation bears direct responsibility for the Baptist Hospital massacre and that its flagrant lies will not fool anyone,’ declared Hamas yesterday. Hamas said:...

Elderly & youth under attack!

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ELDERLY and disabled passengers are losing vital bus services because of cuts in government funding, councils in England are warning. The Local Government Association (LGA)...

Israel Slaughters Gaza Women And Children!

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A PALESTINIAN mother and her three children were among the ten latest victims of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. A barrage of...

LET IN THE TRUCKS! – Israel blocking 6,000 aid trucks for Gaza

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‘LET IN THE TRUCKS’ United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) demanded yesterday. Adnan Abu Hasna, UNRWA’s media advisor, demanded that Israel...
The daily picket at Chase Farm Hospital fighting to keep the hospital open is opposed to privatisation and the £20bn of cuts brought in by the Labour government

STOP NHS SPENDING CUTS – says BMA Council member Anna Athow

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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg yesterday made it clear the coalition will press ahead with its Health and Social Care Bill, despite massive opposition...

Five and a half million families skipping meals – ‘horrendous new normal’

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MORE than five and a half million low-income households in the UK are cut ting down on or skipping meals, the Joseph Rountree Foundation...