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North east London Council of Action demonstration in Enfield last June against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital and all cuts to the NHS budget

NHS BUDGET CUTS PLAN – condemned by UNISON trade union

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Public sector union Unison yesterday condemned government plans to incorporate donations from charities into NHS budgets. It is estimated the move will deprive cash-strapped NHS...

Shell Tanker Drivers Out Solid!

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Pickets were out at twelve fuel depots from 6am yesterday as over 600 Shell tanker drivers empl-oyed by two companies, Hoyer UK and Suckling...
Demonstration in Southall in July 2015 to stop the closure of the Maternity Department at Ealing Hospital – maternity closures have contributed to greater numbers of mothers and babies dying during childbirth

Lack of staff contributed to baby deaths

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LACK of midwives and the closure of maternity units have resulted in more babies suffering from brain damage, dying during childbirth, or dying soon...

Bank of Ireland pre-tax loss of 1.25bn euros

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BANK of Ireland has recorded a pre-tax loss of 1.25 billion euros for the first six months of the year compared to a 556m...

JOHNSON ACCUSED OF LYING! – ‘has questions to answer’ – Corbyn

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TORY Foreign Secretary Johnson was yesterday accused of having ‘lied’ and of ‘misleading the British public’ by claiming that Porton Down had identified Russia...

Hunt dissolves Mid-Staffs Trust!

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HEALTH Secretary Hunt announced yesterday that he is to dissolve the trust that runs Stafford General Hospital, with services set to be downgraded or...

TIME TO GET RID OF THE CRISIS-RIDDEN CAPITALIST SYSTEM – WRP’s MAY DAY MANIFESTO

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THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the poor of the world who are confronting a...
Workers and youth in the UK are fighting to lift the siege on Gaza and establish the state of Palestine

‘We have created a historic epic’ says Haniya

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ISMAIL Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister in Gaza, has saluted the Palestinian people for their steadfastness in the harsh battle. ‘They have become the...

Olmert Resumes Strikes At Palestinians

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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered a resumption of military strikes against Palestinian militants, and was accused of breaking the truce...
The last angry march through Enfield where 10,000 local people turned out to protest at the plan to close Chase Farm Hospital

Stop Chase Farm Closure!

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THE North East London Council of Action is organising a march through Enfield today starting from the war memorial at 1pm to Chase ...
Junior doctors rally in Westminster last Monday

Medical students support Junior Doctors

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MEDICAL students’ leaders yesterday defended final year medical students against threats to their careers if they demonstrate against the government ...

‘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...

TORIES WANT A NEW LEADER TO MEET TRUMP ON JUNE 3rd

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PM MAY’S Brexit Withdrawal Bill will not be published or debated until early June, the government said yesterday as she came under more pressure...
The body of Iraqi hotel worker, Baha Mousa after being beaten to death by British troops in Basra in September 2003

‘TORTURED, HANGED AND MUTILATED!’ Inquiry opens into UK army war crimes in Iraq

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THE Al-Sweady inquiry into allegations that more than 20 civilians were captured, tortured and unlawfully killed by British soldiers in Iraq in 2004, following...

STRIKES GOING AHEAD! says London District Chairman

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‘Unless there is a substantial breakthrough the strikes are going ahead on Thursday, Friday and Saturday,’ CWU London District Chairman John Denton told News...

Israeli settlers seize the land!

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ISRAELI military authorities yesterday handed 25 residents of al-Sawiyeh village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, demolition orders for their houses...

Israel committing horrific Gaza massacres

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IN less than 12 hours, the Israeli occupation army committed horrific massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip, killing over 100 of them, including...
A scene from the military-police civil war exercise in Kilkis, Greece

Greek Army Hold Civil War Exercise!

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THE Greek Army’s 71st airborne brigade, ‘Pontos’, carried out a large ‘civil war’ exercise code-named ‘Kallimachos’ on February 3rd and 4th at a specially...

Bank of England strike ballot

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STAFF at the Bank of England yesterday started voting in a strike ballot as Unite, the union representing staff at the bank called on...

Medvedev Meets Merkel To Back The Magna Bid

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Black Sea town of Sochi yesterday to discuss carmaker Opel and other industrial...
Thousands of postal workers and their families marched through Kingston in January to demand ‘Keep the Post Public’

9-1 Vote For Po Strike

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Post Office workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay, job security and the future of the Crown...
In the last month there have been big demonstrations up and down the country to stop local hospitals being closed. The demonstration above is defending Charing Cross Hospital in west London

BATTLE FOR BOLTON NHS – plan to sack 500 and make 1,685 reapply for...

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OVER 1,000 people joined a demonstration and rally on Saturday to protest over plans to cut up to 500 jobs at the...

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...
‘NHS Together’ lobby of parliament demanding no cuts in the NHS

‘Scrap NHS Hit Squads’

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Health campaigners, the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday accused the government of wasting millions of pounds of...
35 Years Since Orgreave

35 years since Orgreave – June 15th, 2019

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March & Rally 12 noon, Saturday June 15th 2019 Orgreave Lane, Sheffield S13 9NE Remember those who were attacked and who lost their lives in the miners...
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...

115 Gaza deaths due to man-made famine

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THE Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza run by Hamas, yesterday said that the famine is worsening in the Gaza Strip, warning against false...

‘WE ARE WINNING!’ – cabin crew in determined mood on day 3

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The British Airways cabin crew strike is gathering strength as the management fails to keep the airplanes flying through the dispute. During the Saturday of...
Unison nurses’ banners on the recent massive demonstration by 500,000 workers against the coalition government and its assault on public services

Nurses Angry Over Cuts!

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With anger over job cuts and NHS ‘reforms’ due to dominate the Royal College of Nursing’s Annual Congress in Liverpool this week,...
Museum of London strikers with Prospect members and their banner outside the Central Hall yesterday afternoon

FIGHT PAY CUTS! – call from public service rally

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GIVE us a date for strike action and we’ll do it, the leader of the Prison Officers Association (POA) – whose members are banned...

Johnson imposes local lockdowns!

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TORY PM Johnson announced severe restrictions to be imposed on Liverpool yesterday to try to tackle the coronavirus crisis. He said he supported the Metro...

Junior Doctors 72-hr walk-out on March 13th

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THE BMA yesterday announced the dates for a 72 hour walk out by Junior Doctors in England, saying that Health Secretary, Steve Barclay has...

Go North West bus drivers strike against Fire & Rehire on lower pay

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Scores of striking Go North West bus drivers massed outside the company’s Queens Road depot in Manchester yesterday, on the first day of their...
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...

GATE GOURMET IS FACING HUGE FINE – lawyers plead it had to sack first...

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GATE GOURMET has admitted at a Reading employment tribunal, hearing eight of the remaining 70 cases, that it wrongfully dismissed the eight at...
Indian NHS doctors demonstrating against the Labour Government’s policy that is taking away their jobs

D of H wants to establish 1280 Private GP practices

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Doctors’ leaders yesterday warned that GP healthcare is in danger of being taken over and monopolised by private companies. Meanwhile, the doctors’ magazine Pulse...
Midwives on the picket line at Ealing Hospital in west London during the October 13 strike

Midwives plan more strikes over pay

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HEAD of the midwives union RCM slammed the Tory government’s attack on NHS workers’ pay in her speech to the RCM conference that...
Midwives, nurses and other health workers marched in their thousands against the privatisation of the NHS last November

Labour Offers Nurses Three Years Of Wage Cutting

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The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) yesterday rejected an 8% over three years pay-cutting NHS Pay Review Body offer, which is backed by the...

Grangemouth Pensions Fight Is On!

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Sunday’s two-day strike by 1,200 workers at Grangemouth oil refinery will go ahead, said Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley yesterday. Speaking before addressing a...
Thousands of workers saluted the memory of Bob Crow as a working class fighter on yesterday’s May Day march

‘A general strike is the obvious next step’ – Trade unionists tell News Line

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MORE than 20,000 trade unionists, workers and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on London’s May Day yesterday. The march was led by...

Hospitals & Staff Under Extreme Pressures! Says NHS Boss Stevens

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‘THE FACTS are very clear and I’m not going to sugar-coat them, hospitals are under extreme pressure and staff are under extreme pressure,’ NHS...

Polio Epidemic In Gaza

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GAZA'S Health Ministry has declared a polio epidemic, blaming Israel’s genocidal military offensive for the spread of the deadly virus. In a statement yesterday, the...

‘We’ll do everything to avoid “No Deal” exit from EU’ says Corbyn

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LABOUR leader Corbyn, appearing on the Sophy Ridge show on Sunday yesterday, was asked: ‘Can you guarantee that you’ll call a confidence motion before...

Arrested for shouting ‘Intifada’

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MOTHER and daughter Azza and Haya Adam, were arrested on Wednesday evening at a pro-Palestine protest, simply for saying the word ‘intifada’. They were arrested...